Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852. First edition, first issue with no ads. A lovely copy of Hawthorne's most famous children's book, with "The Gorgon's Head," "Three Golden Apples," etc. Read More about A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page [later Doran] & Company, 1910-1944. First American copyright editions, generally published in editions of 50-75 copies. Publisher's Copies. A substantial collection of Kipling American copyright editions, comprising 57 of the 74 such editions published from 1910-1944. All of the multi-part issues — The New..... Read More about Collection of 57 first American copyright editions in 76 volumes

London: Methuen, 1915. First edition. A spectacular copy of the first edition. "Methuen published The Rainbow in September 1915, but it got savage reviews, most of which attacked what was understood as the book's overt sexuality, and it was withdrawn from sale. At Bow Street magistrates' court on 13 November..... Read More about The Rainbow

Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1814. First edition. First edition of the definitive account of the Lewis and Clark expedition. First edition of the first authorized and complete account of the Lewis and Clark expedition, possibly the most important western expedition undertaken in U.S. history, demonstrating as it did the feasibility..... Read More about History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the...

1826. Unpublished manuscript on the ancient Egyptian and Greek roots of medicine by the early American physician Charles Alfred Lee (1801-1872). Lee graduated from Williams College in 1822 and received his M.D. at Berkshire Medical College. He was connected with the Northern Dispensary of New York City, chair of materia..... Read More about "Observations on the State of Medicine & Surgery among the Ancients by Charles S. Lee....

Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1734. "Réaumur’s greatest work in natural history ... He seemed fascinated about all with insect behavior, obviously admiring the industry, dilligence, ingenuity, organization, and skill of those small creatures ... Réaumur, in short, was a pioneer in applied entomological research ... His descriptions were minute and exacting..... Read More about Memoires pour servir a l'Historie des Insectes

Most n.p. and n.d. [but Versailles]: ca. 1914. A content-rich collection of letters from the French painter and illustrator Georges Rouault (1871-1958) to the Czech publisher Josef Florian (1873-1941), who in 1914 published the first color reproductions of Rouault’s work. Regarding those reproductions Rouault gratefully writes to Florian in one..... Read More about A group of 9 Autograph letters signed (variously "Georges Rouault," "G....

Random House, [1957]. Illustrated throughout by Dr. Seuss. First Edition, First Printing, with jacket priced "200/200" on front flap; flat, unglazed covers; rear cover of book and jacket lists educators' reviews with no mention of the Beginner Books series. Seuss’s most famous creation and one of his most desirable books..... Read More about The Cat in the Hat

[London: 1862-4]. Broadside circular advertising the services of "Sibyle medium" Mrs. Duke Saunders, who "has the extraordinary gift of holding communions and conversation, for any length of time, and anywhere, with the departed in the Spirit World" and has claimed to have had communion with a host of religious, historical..... Read More about The Greatest Discovery Ever Made, is the Mediation Writing Direct to, and from, the Spirit World,...

[Paris: Printed by Crapelet for Silvestre, 1841]. First printed edition, one of 4 copies on vellum. Hoe Copy, Printed on Vellum. A fine example of vellum printing by Crapelet, being volume 11 in the series, published by Silvestre, titled "Collection de poésies, romans, chroniques etc. publiée d'après d'anciens manuscrits et..... Read More about Miracle de Nostre Dame de la Marquise de la Gaudine

Paris: Les Bijoux Typographiques, La Connaissance, 9, Galerie de la Madeleine, [1926]. Bijoux typographiques, no. 7. Out-of-series copy, edition of 150 printed on Canson-Montgolfier by Ducros & Colas. Signed by Wells. The H.G. Wells story, “The Pearl of Love,” translated by the “amusing & interesting Levantine writer” Odette Keun, at..... Read More about La perle de l’amour

York: Printed by J. Kendrew, N.d. [1830s]. First separate edition. This poem first appeared in “Lyrical Ballads” in 1798, and then for the first time, separately, here, in the Kendrew Chap-book series. Read More about The Little Maid and the Gentleman: or, We Are Seven

London: Macmillan, 1933. First trade edition, one of 2,000. An attractive copy of this important collection of late-career Yeats, gathering together some of his finest work from the period, including "Byzantium," "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop" and other Crazy Jane poems, "Coole Park, 1929," "Colle and Ballylee, 1931," "For..... Read More about The Winding Stair