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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1849. First Edition. First printing, first issue. 12mo (20.5cm). Blindstamped brown AR cloth, titled in gilt (BAL trade binding); pale yellow endpapers; 413,[3]pp; ad leaf for Walden at rear, unopened. 1855 pencil ownership inscription to front free endpaper; ink ownership inscription and 1904 bookplate of..... More
Moral Culture of Infancy, and Kindergarten Guide, with Music for the Plays
New York: J. W. Schemerhorn & Co., 1874. Stated fifth edition. Octavo (19cm). Blindstamped brown cloth, titled in gilt, top edge stained grey; [i]-[viii] [9]-206,10pp; publisher's ads to endleaves; 10pp of music at rear. Bookplate of the Sondley Reference Library. Straight and sound, though lightly rubbed and bumped, with occasional..... More
Cape Cod
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19cm). Blindstamped brown BD cloth, titled in gilt on spine (BAL binding A); chocolate brown endpapers; [vi],252,24pp; 24-page publisher's catalogue dated December 1864. Bookplate of Theodore Woodman Gore. Straight, with mild wear, spine sunned, with skilful repairs to upper joints..... More
Ric's Progress: A Poem
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 1996. First, Limited Edition. One of seventy-five copies (the total edition), signed by Donald Hall and Carol J. Blinn, illustrator and binder. 12mo; linen-backed paper-covered boards; [31]pp; illus. As-new, with publisher's prospectus laid-in. More
To The Loud Wind and Other Poems [Inscribed Copy]
Boston: Pegasus Publications Series / The Harvard Advocate, 1955. First Edition. Inscribed on title page: "for Ben Lewis / a few years later!," signed and dated in 1984. First printing. Issued as Vol. 1 no. 1 of the Pegasus Publications Series. Octavo; printed plain card wrappers in pictorial dustwrapper; 26pp..... More
The Complete Poems of Heinrich Heine. A Modern English Version by Hal Draper
Boston: Suhrkamp / Insel, 1982. First Edition. First printing, wrappered issue (simultaneously issued in cloth). Octavo; pictorial card wrappers (softcover); xvii,1032pp. Mild curling to wrapper edges; still a tight, clean, unmarked copy, Very Good to Near Fine. A monumental work of translation, completed over three decades. A surprisingly hard book..... More
Vaudeville from the Honky Tonks to the Palace
New York: Henry Holt, 1953. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; light red top-stain; (x),561pp. Slight dust-soil to the canary-yellow cloth, else a sound, tight and unmarked copy, easily Very Good. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, with some fading to lettering on spine panel, Very..... More
The Town of Hill
Boston: David R. Godine, 1975. First Edition. Wittily inscribed by Hall on title page, to the North Carolina literary critic Julian Mason, dated 1980. First printing. Octavo; patterned paper-covered boards; 44pp. Fine. A volume in the Second Series of Godine Poetry Chapbooks. More
The Hills Beyond
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1941. First Edition. First printing, with "H-Q" code on copyright page. Octavo (21cm). Original dark blue cloth, titled in gilt on green panels, in original dust jacket; plain endpapers; [viii],386pp. Some trivial dusting to upper edge of text block, else a tight, straight fine copy..... More
Great Day in the Cows' House
Mt. Carmel, CT: Ives Street Press, 1984. First Edition. No. 85 of 130 signed copies (the whole edition). Tall, narrow quarto (28.25cm); string-tied accordion-style sheets, bound into maroon cloth boards, with title label mounted to upper front cover; with two photographic illustrations and accompanying tissue guards. A Fine copy, with..... More
My Friends at Brook Farm
New York: Desmond Fitzgerald, 1912. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm). Green cloth, titled in gilt; [viii],172pp; frontispiece and 7 halftone plates. 1014 ownership inscription of Dr. H. T. Boutwell, Santa Barbara; newspaper clipping about Sears' visit to Santa Barbara laid down on dedication verso. Sound and bright, with mild soil to..... More
BROADSIDE: Stoves & Kettles
Concord: William B Ewert, 1990. First Edition. Number 18 of 36 deluxe copies on special paper signed by the author (of a total edition of 286). Broadside; small quarto (27cm); printed in red and black on hand-made paper. Fine. Printed at Firefly Press "for private distribution." More
The Professor's House
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); red-orange boards quarterbound in purple, stamped in gilt on the spine with red-orange topstain; 284pp. Spine gilt is dulled as usual, slight rubbing to spine ends and board corners; still a solidly Very Good copy, lacking the dustwrapper..... More
A White Heron [with signature]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1886. First Edition. First printing, second "issue" (per BAL). 16mo (16cm). Three-piece binding in green cloth and white paper, stamped in green, top edge gilt; [x],254,[4]pp. With Jewett's signature, clipped from a letter, pasted onto front free endpaper. 1886 ownership inscription of Mary E. Bayter. Sturdy and..... More
Complete Poems of Frances E.W. Harper
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (16cm). Blue cloth hardcover; lx; 232pp. With a scholarly foreword by series editor Henry Louis Gates and introduction by Maryemma Graham. Also includes an Appendix with a chronological list of the poems and the volumes in which they appeared..... More
A Daughter of the Middle Border
New York: Macmillan, 1921. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Black cloth stamped in gilt, red, and grey; [xvi],405,[1]pp; 8 halftone plates. A straight, sound copy, lightly rubbed with one or two small marks to cloth, internally clean: Very Good. Winner of the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Biography in. One..... More
Behind the Scenes. Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Reprint. First printing of the Schomburg Library edition. 12mo (16cm). Blue cloth hardcover; xxxvi; 371pp. Photographic facsimile of the 1868 edition, preceded by a scholarly foreword by series editor Henry Louis Gates and introduction by James Olney. Also includes a brief preface by Howard..... More
Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Reprint. First printing of the Schomburg Library edition. 12mo (16cm). Blue cloth hardcover; xxxix; 280pp. Photographic facsimile of the 1893 Second Edition, preceded by a scholarly foreword by series editor Henry Louis Gates and introduction by Frances Smith Foster. Neat ownership signature to front..... More
Six Women's Slave Narratives
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Reprint. Second printing of the Schomburg Library edition. 12mo (16cm). Blue cloth hardcover; xli; variously paginated. Photographic facsimile of six nineteenth-century women's slave narratives, including: The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831); The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (1866); The Memoir..... More
Balaam and His Master, And Other Sketches and Stories
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1891. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (18cm). Beige cloth, stamped in brown; plain endpapers; 293,[1]pp; list of titles opposite t.p. Sound and tight, lightly cocked, gently rubbed, endpapers foxed: around Very Good. Short stories. BAL 7122, printing 1. WRIGHT III, 2485. More
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Reprint. First printing of the Schomburg Library edition. 12mo (16cm). Blue cloth hardcover; xl; 306pp. Photographic facsimile of the 1862 edition, preceded by a substantial introductory essay by series editor Henry Louis Gates and introductin by Valerie Smith. Fine copy. In the publisher's series..... More
Bayou Folk
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1894. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (18cm). Green publisher's cloth titled in gilt on front and spine; grey coated endpapers; [iv],313,[3]pp. Contemporary pencil inscription of Bernard Moses to flyleaf, contemporary bookseller's ticket at rear, and twentieth-century bookplate to front pastedown. Straight, lightly rubbed, heavily sunned at spine..... More
The Country of the Pointed Firs
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1896]. First Edition. Later printing, with no date on title page. Original green publisher's cloth stamped in gold on front and spine; plain endpapers; [viii],213,[1]pp; one page of publisher's ads facing t.p. Straight and sound, lightly rubbed and faded, with minor marks to rear board, internally clean..... More