New York: Appletons, [June], 1911. First American edition. Judith Blunt-Lytton was daughter of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Her grandmother was Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace. This is her first published book She later beacame Lady Wentworth and published her famous book on Arabian Horses under that name. Read More about Toy Dogs and Their Ancestors. Including the History and Management of Toy Spaniels, Pekingese,...

Paris: Les Éditions des "Meileurs Livres" 1926. Second edition. Read More about Cat in Literature and in Art

London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd, 1899. First Edition. Read More about Animals in Motion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal...

New York: August 17, 1842. Wilkes writes: " ... I regret that I do not find myself at liberty to afford you the information you desire. In a very few months I hope that the information you desire will be given to the public not only in charts but in..... Read More about Autograph letter signed, just a couple months after returning from the U.S. Exploring Expedition...

London: Hodder and Stoughton, [November, 1908]. Second Armour edition. Read More about Hunts with Jorrocks from Handley Cross

London: James Duncan, 1830. Read More about The Modern Traveller... [Peru

London: Collins, [1945]. First edition. AUTHOR INSCRIBED TO HIS WIFE. Inscribed to his wife on ffep "For My Mary from A.H.H. with much love & many for her help." and signed on the verso of the title-page by the authorThe famous American sportsman writes of the American woman and undoubtedly..... Read More about The Hill Vixen

Seguin, TX: Smith & Moore, 1896. First edition, first issue. Autobiography of one of the most famous Texas outlaws. In the first issue, a woodcut of Hardin's brother, Joe, appears on page three, misidentified as John Wesley Hardin; in later issues, a full-page portrait of Hardin has been inserted in..... Read More about The Life of John Wesley Hardin, From The Original Manuscript, as Written by Himself

New York: New Directions, [1948]. First edition, in first issue dust jacket with 3 plays by Williams on back flap. Read More about Summer and Smoke

New York: Charles Scribner's, 1937. First edition. From Preface: "Bahr is a fine honest writer with a talent which is both sturdy and delicate... Mr. Bahr, I am sure, will write a fine novel eventually - maybe he's planned it already... In the meantime, he writes good stories full of..... Read More about All Good Americans. Preface by Ernest Hemingway

Sydney: [Privately printed], 1890. First edition, issued (according to Edmund Gosse) in an edition of 25 copies. The Rare Sydney Printing. Father Damien, Damien de Veuster (1840-1889) was a Belgian missionary from Belgium who worked at the leper settlement at Molokai from 1873; he eventually contracted leprosy and died of..... Read More about Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu

Edinburgh: Printed by Neill and Company, 1871. First edition, one of about 50 copies. Presentation Copy. One of the earliest publications of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94), who grew up in a family of lighthouse engineers. Beginning in 1867, Stevenson studied civil engineering at the University of Edinburgh and spent three..... Read More about Notice of a New Form of Intermittent Light for Lighthouses … From the Transactions of the Royal...

[New York]: Winchester Press, [1973]. First edition, #209 of 750. Inscribed to Barry Brooks on the colophon page by both editors in 1974. INSCRIBED. Read More about Fishing Moments of Truth