Manchester: James Ainsworth, 1852-1853. First edition, issued simultaneously in 30 serialized wrappered parts and 7 serialized bound parts (complete); later issued in 3 volumes. BOUND CLOTH PARTS. First edition. A remarkable copy of an important and unusual book, written by a radical journalist from the ranks of the working class..... Read More about The Whistler at the Plough; containing travels, statistics, and descriptions of scenery &...

New York: J.B. Gibson Company, 1893. UNRECORDED CENTENNIAL HISTORY: ‘A Bulwark against Panic’. Centennial publication comprising a list of officers and committee members, a 9-page list of members, an anonymous 30-page illustrated “History of the New York Stock Exchange” from its origins in 1792 (with list of past presidents), with..... Read More about Souvenir of the New York Stock Exchange

London: Rowland Ward, 1904. Siberian Sport & Travel in 1903. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Captain H. W. Seton-Karr, who accompanied Swayne on this trip, and who has inserted 25 larger photographs, approx. 3 x 5 inches (often inserted on the blank verso of the printed plates, including..... Read More about Through the Highlands of Siberia

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992-1998. First editions of the Border Trilogy. Read More about All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain

Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1849. First edition of the author's first book. Thoreau’s First Book, With an Unrecorded Contemporary Review : ‘Rare Merits’. A notable copy of Thoreau’s first book, largely overlooked when initially published, and now a recognized classic. Emerson famously declined to review his friend’s..... Read More about A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

London: Chapman and Hall, 1877. First edition. Read More about The American Senator

London: Chapman and Hall, 1860-1884. First editions. Castle Richmond,1860, three vols. • Orley Farm,1862-two vols. • The Small House at Allington, 1864, two vols. • Can You Forgive Her?, 1864, two vols. • Hunting Sketches,1865, one vol. • The Golden Lion of Granpere,1872, one vol. • Phineas Redux, 1874, two..... Read More about Works] 21 first editions, uniformly bound

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, [1968]. First Edition. First Book, Review Copy. Read More about Once. Poems

London: John Major, 1824; 1825. Second Major edition of first title; First Major edition of second title. Read More about The Compleat Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton ... to which is added an Introductory...

London: Printed by Tho(mas) Newcomb for Richard Marriott, 1670. First collected edition. Walton on the English Poets. First collective edition of Walton’s essential biography of seventeenth century English divines and poets. The biography of Wotton was published as part of Reliquae Wottoniane (1651); Walton’s Elegy of Donne was first published..... Read More about The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert

Boston: Houghton Mifflin at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1935. First edition, COPY NO. 21 OF 200, signed and numbered by the author. Numbered and Signed by Webb. The classic, standard history of this legendary frontier institution, by the great Texas historian Webb, which originated as his master’s thesis in history..... Read More about The Texas Rangers A Century of Frontier Defense

London: Various publishers, Ca. 1900-1920. Later editions. Presentation Copies to The Prince of Wales from Viscount Esher. Best known for his novel, Under the Red Robe, Weyman, after an unsuccessful career as a lawyer, turned out a number of action-filled popular historical novels, of the sort boys like the Prince..... Read More about Group of 13 novels, most with gift inscriptions to HRH Edward, Prince of Wales, from Viscount Esher