New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1850 [actually published November, 1849]. First American edition, Harper & Brothers' 'Library of Select Novels' issue ("octavo edition in wrappers" printed in two columns), in publisher's boards. "SHIRLEY": 'LIBRARY OF SELECT NOVELS' ISSUE, IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. An elusive title in this Library of Select..... Read More about Shirley. A Tale. By Currer Bell. Author of "Jane Eyre."

Circa 1865. Located on the James River in Chesterfield County, Virginia, the canal's 1864-65 construction was initiated by Union forces during the American Civil War to bypass a meander loop of the river around a peninsula known as Farrar's Island which was controlled by Confederate artillery. Miller reproduces this image..... Read More about Dutch Gap Canal and group of soldiers including an African American solider at the left holding a...

London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition, mixed issue, with "S. Veller" at p. 342, but "his friends" at p. 400, engraved title in first state, with "Tony Veller" on signboard. A Dickens Classic. Read More about The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. First edition, second impression; (one of 3500 copies), without "First American Edition" on copyright page and without publisher's codes in brackets present in later impressions, with two later edition dustjackets with prices of $2.25 and nine titles on back panel, and $2.50 with..... Read More about Four Quartets

London: David Bogue, 1852. First edition. Choice English adaptation of the beast-headed people of French master J.J. Grandville, here in the light of the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace. The illustrations are wood-engravings, mainly drawn by H.G. Hine and engraved by various hands,including S. & A. Slader, H. Vizetelly..... Read More about Comical People. Illustrated with Sixteen Pictures taken from the Embroidered Tapestry contributed...

Montreal, P.Q., Canada: J.C. Hackett, 1932. Second edition. Who killed the Broadway Butterfly? In 1922 John Kearsley Mitchell, III, a millionaire and the president of the Philadelphia Rubber Works who was married to the daughter of Edward T. Stotesbury (a Philadelphia partner of J .P. Morgan) met Dorothy "Dot" King..... Read More about John Kearsley Mitchell, III. Millionaire Muderer- The Tragedy of the Big Rubber Man and the...

Boston: J. Buffum, 1856. INSCRIBED TO HELEN HAY (WHITNEY) FROM HER BROTHER. inscribed on the front free endpaper by John Hay "Ellie Hay/from her Brother/John/1857" and on the following page the signature of "Miss Helen J.[ulia] Hay, 1857 June 1." Helen Hay Whitney was named after her. Likely first edition..... Read More about The Little Esop

London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition. Huxley's most celebrated work, a dystopian vision of the future and a classic of twentieth-century literature, in the striking dust-jacket. Read More about Brave New World

New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1941]. First edition, stamped on front free endpaper: “Review Copy / Publication Date / April 3 1941.”. Weldon Kees’ Copy. Weldon Kees’ copy with his ownership inscription (name and New York / 1941) on front free endpaper. Presentation copy, inscribed by Gregory also on the front..... Read More about Poems 1930-1940

Chicago: Carbury and Reed, 1919. First and only edition, privately printed and subscription only, in an unknown limitation. Scarce, privately printed, Ring Lardner illustrated book. A collection of caricatures of friends and associates of Lardner accompanied with limericks. Includes notable Chicago figures; Charles Comiskey, the sports writer, golfer "Chick" Evans..... Read More about Regular Fellows I Have Met

Paris: Pierre Husson, 1706. From the collection of John Waldie (b.1781 - d.1862), who was the administrator of Hendersyde Park at Kelso, Roxburgshire, Scotland. Read More about Méthode abrégée et facile pour apprendre la géographie… avec un abrege de la sphere…

New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1945]. First edition. His First Book, Inscribed with a Sketch. Inscribed on the flyleaf beneath a pen-and-ink portrait of himself waving to the recipient: “For Maury with regards from a friend Bill Mauldin” UP FRONT was Mauldin's Pulitzer Prize-winning first book, featuring his immortal..... Read More about Up Front. Text and Pictures by

Boston: Reprinted for Nicholas Boone, 1721. Second edition. The Brinley Copy. The Brinley copy of the second edition of one of the most important New England books, possibly rarer than the first of 1669.  First issued in a very rare 1669 Boston edition, this second American edition includes a supplement..... Read More about New England's Memorial: or, A Brief Relation of the most Memorable and Remarkable Passages of the...