Halifax, [Nova Scotia] and London: published by John B. Strong ... and Day & Son, 1860. First edition. A rare color-plate view book and authoritative fishing guide. This beautifully illustrated work is a record of a six week fishing and camping trip by the author from Bathurst, New Brunswick, along..... Read More about Sketches on the Nipisaguit, a river of New Brunswick, B.[ritish] N.[orth] America

London: Longmans, Green, 1890. First edition, no. 22 of 250 copies of the large-paper edition. Deluxe copy from the Badminton Library series, edited by one of the foremost writers on golf history, with contributions by Lord Wellwood, Sir Walter Simpson, A.J. Balfour, Andrew Lang, H.S.C. Everard, etc. Read More about Golf. [Series title: The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes

Paris: Mercure de France, 1897. First edition. Inscribed to Hugh Rebell. A choice novel in which dream and reality alternate, published in the year after the controversies of Ubu roi, much praised by Marcel Schwob and by Stéphane Mallarmé, who wrote “everything is infinitely transposed in dream.” Inscribed by Alfred..... Read More about Les Jours et les Nuits. Roman d’un déserteur

New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916. First edition. First edition. First edition of Joyce's autobiographical novel, recounting the schooldays and emerging artistic consciousness of his alter-ego Stephen Dedalus. The novel was refused by Grant Richards (publisher of Dubliners), Secker, and Edward Garnett for Duckworth. Finally B.W. Huebsch agreed to take on..... Read More about A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Lawrence, Kansas: December 27, 1857. On the Lecompton Constitution and Bleeding Kansas. The author of this letter, Charles W. Pollard, came to Kansas as an anti-slavery Free Stater in 1854 and was said to be an associate of John Brown. He writes: "...there has been a convention in Lawrence which..... Read More about Autograph letter signed, from a Free State settler, on the political situation in Kansas, the...

New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923. First edition. The first serious literary study of American literature, notable for Lawrence’s assessment of Melville. A minor landmark from Lawrence’s most fertile years, and a striking Twenties dust jacket. Read More about Studies in Classic American Literature

London: Printed for W. Johnston [and others], 1769. Second and best edition including her correspondence with Benjamin Rush. Catharine Macaulay (1731-1791), sometimes referred to as the "Celebrated Mrs. Macaulay" and described as the first English female historian, proved an influential Whig political theorist, best remembered for her multi-volume History of..... Read More about Loose Remarks on Certain Positions to be Found in Mr. Hobbes’ Philosophical Rudiments of...

[Likely Boston]: February 12, 1629 [but circa 1660s-1680s]. The Saco Patent. In 1629, less than a decade after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the Council of New England, an English joint stock company founded to establish colonial settlements in America, issued a series of grants subdividing their royal charter..... Read More about Manuscript document, early true copy of the grant by the Council of New England to Thomas Lewis...

Boston: David R. Godine, 1970. Hidy, Lance. First edition, one of 100 copies, of which this copy is signed by the artist and numbered 25. Beautiful Early Godine Printing. “The source of the text is the Harvard University Press reprint of the unique 1681 copy in the British Museum of..... Read More about The Garden

London: Day and Son, 1855. First edition. One of the Rarest Arctic Plate Books. A most handsome series of lithographic plates, depicting scenes in the high Arctic made during one of the primary expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin and the missing crews of H.M.Ss. Erebus and Terror. Walter..... Read More about A Series of Fourteen Sketches Made During the Voyage Up Wellington Channel in Search of Sir John...