A joint catalogue with James Cummins Bookseller.
London & New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. 8vo. [10], 95, [1] pages. Original black quarter cloth, decorated boards, gilt-lettered on spine, edges untrimmed. FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf in the year of publication: "To John Trounstine, With the good wishes of his friend, /.....
New York: George Dearborn, 1835. 8vo (23.8 x 15 cm). vi, 84 pages. Half-title. Engraved portrait frontispiece by T. Kelly after Rogers, engraved title with a vignette of Cro' Nest above West Point by James Smillie after Robert Weir (dampstained), with tissue guard. Original purple blind-ruled cloth, gilt-decorated at center.....
London: R. Cobden-Sanderson, 1926. 8vo. xv, [1], 99 pages. Original black cloth, printed paper spine label; printed dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of this play in verse by T. S. Eliot’s mother, one of 300 copies printed. Laid-in is a signed calling card from “Mrs Henry W. Eliot” inscribed “Compliments of.....
Boston: Tappan and Dennet, 1842. 12mo (14.5 x 9 cm). 160 pages. Disbound, with calf spine. FIRST EDITION, first printing, first issue. "One of the unobtainables. Chamberlain's brought twice as much as his Scarlet Letter" (Carroll Wilson). A rare Hawthorne juvenile work, framed around a blind father telling his son.....
Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841. 16mo (12 x 8 cm) 158 pages. Original plum cloth, embossed with a basket weave pattern. Provenance: Herschel V. Jones (bookplate; his sale Anderson Galleries, 20 November 1916, lot 278). FIRST EDITION. The second title in Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair series for children: stories on American.....
Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841. 16mo (12.4 x 7.8 cm). vii, 140 pages. Original bluish plum basket-weave embossed cloth, black paper label on front cover (gilt lettering oxidized to invisibility); green cloth chemise; green morocco pull of case by Bradstreet's (one joint split). FIRST EDITION of the first of three.....
Boston: Tappan and Dennet, 1842. 12mo (15.5 x 9 cm). 139 pages, 5-page advertisements at end. Frontispiece, one full-page illustration in text. Original brown ribbed cloth, covers blindstamped with a floral frame, gilt chair at center of front cover, gilt-lettered on spine, cream coated endpapers. Provenance: William Harvey (booklabel). Second.....
Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841. 16mo (12.4 x 7.8 cm). vii, 140 pages. Original bluish plum basket-weave embossed cloth, black paper label on front cover (gilt lettering faded but readable); green cloth chemise; green morocco pull of case by Bradstreet's (one joint split). FIRST EDITION of the first of three.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. 8vo (18 x 11 cm). [viii], 344 pages. 4-page advertisements inserted between front endpapers. Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Christmas 1853 gift ink inscription from B. Frost to his niece Mary B. S. Fuller on front flyleaf. FIRST EDITION, fifth printing.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1852. 12mo (18 x 11.3 cm). 144 pages. 4-page advertisements dated July 1852 inserted between front endpages. Frontispiece with tissue guard (foxed). Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION, with the earliest ads and in BAL's earliest state of the binding. Hawthorne and Pierce were.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. Two volumes, 12mo (18.2 x 11.5 cm). Half-titles, 16-page advertisements dated March 1860 at end of vol. 1. Original brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spines. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, second printing. BAL 7621; Clark A23.3.b.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. 8vo (18 x 11 cm). xi, 398 pages. Half-title, 1-page advertisements at end. Original brown blind-embossed cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, first printing, with ads at end. BAL 7626; Clark A24.1.a.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. 8vo (17.5 x 11 cm). 229 pages. Half-title, 1-page advertisements at end. Original green decorated cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, first issue with "t" for "It" on page 42, line 18. BAL 7638; Clark A29.2.a.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. 8vo (17.9 x 10.8 cm). 273 pages, 4-page advertisements dated January 1852 inserted before front endpapers. Original brown ribbed blind embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Though the US and UK editions were intended for simultaneous publication, the American publication probably.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. 12mo (16.5 x 9.8 cm). viii, 335 pages. 4-page advertisements at end. Frontispiece and three plates. Original red blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION, only printing, BAL's first impression, which Clark calls "probable second state" of the preface. Collects Grandfather's Chair, Famous Old.....
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. 8vo (21.3 x 15 cm). 79 pages. Frontispiece, illustrations in text. Printed on rectos only. Original decorated beveled cloth, decorated endpapers, edges gilt. FIRST TRADE EDITION, first issued privately without a title-page nor identification of the author. Holmes read this poem on 6 June.....
Boston: S. G. Goodrich and Co., 1829. Three volumes, 8vo (19.9 x 12 cm). Original muslin-backed boards, printed paper spine labels, uncut. Provenance: Samuel Wagner (contemporary ownership signatures on flyleaves). FIRST EDITION of the first comprehensive anthology of American poetry, euphemistically called "Goodrich's Kettle of Poetry." This important and thorough.....
London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1919. 8vo. xiii, 159, [1] pages. Title printed in red-and-black. Original quarter vellum, cream buckram boards, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Provenance: Edward B. King (bookplate). DELUXE LIMITED ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, one of 30 copies on Japanese vellum. The title.....
Paris: Contact Editions, Three Mountains Press, 1926. 8vo. 98, [1] pages. Original French-folded printed wrappers, entirely uncut and unopened. FIRST EDITION, one of 200 copies (of which 10 were on Vergé d'Arches), printed by Dijon printer Maurice Darantiere who issued books for McAlmon's own Contact Editions and its stable of.....
New York: Viking, 1959. 8vo. 37 pages. Original two-toned cloth; printed dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Robert. J. H. Kiphuth / Whose goodness seems to parallel his good advice in enabling others to triumph. Marianne Moore. October 5 1959." Moore has.....
Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1932. 8vo. [10], 146, [2] pages. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine, unopened; printed dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of the author's first book, number 491 of 500 copies, numbered on the colophon and with publisher's stamped slip with number (from an edition of.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. 8vo (19 x 13 cm). [x], 189 pages. Half-title. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Barney Corey (presentation inscription from the author). FIRST EDITION of Parson's first book, second issue, with leaves [1].6/7 cancels (the first issue is known only as a set of.....
Philadelphia: Published for the Author by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1839. 12mo (17 x 10.5 cm). 156 pages. 12 lithographed plates after P. S. Duval. Original red roan-backed printed boards dated 1840. FIRST EDITION, in boards unrecorded by BAL or Heartman & Canny. The upper board on this copy notes.....
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1839. 8vo (17 x 11 cm). vii, 175 pages. Publisher's green cloth, printed paper spine label, the Essays almost entirely unopened (BAL binding A). FIRST EDITION of Very's first full book (after single-leaf poems and an offprint from Christian Examiner), edited anonymously by.....
Philadelphia: Joseph Healy, 1840. 12mo (14.7 x 9.6 cm). 44 pages. Original printed wrappers. An unauthorized reprint, but the first complete book appearance of "The Minstrel Girl," though most of the piece had appeared previously in 'The American Common-Place Book,' 1831. "Moll Pitcher" was first published anonymously in 1832 (see.....
