New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852. First Edition. A large part of the first edition was destroyed in the fire at Harper’s in 1853. Read More about Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

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...

Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1832. First edition. Rare Proto-Transcendentalist Work. Baron De Gerando's important study of benevolent activity, first published in French in 1820 and here translated into English by Peabody, greatly influenced Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and especially Ralph Waldo Emerson, who used this philosophical framework..... Read More about The Visitor of the Poor; Translated from the French of the Baron Degerando, By a Lady of Boston....

New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. First editions of both titles. Raven with half title, "Wiley and Putnam's Library of American Books", name of stereotyper T. B. Smith on the title verso; Tales, third printing with three-line copyright. Students all over the world know of the title poem, and many..... Read More about The Raven and Other Poems [and:] Tales

London: Printed for C.G. and J. Robinson, 1794. First edition. The Essence of the Gothic. Nice copy of the original edition of one of the most famous and best-selling gothic romances of the last 200 years, reprinted, translated, adapted, and dramatized innumerable times during the nineteenth century and of perennial..... Read More about The Mysteries of Udolpho. A Romance; Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry

[Boston]: [Printed by T. & J. Fleet and Edes & Gill], [1771]. Paul Revere. Colonial Almanac with Revere Engravings. The cuts include portraits of the dwarf Emma Leach, "The Patriotic American Farmer" John Dickinson and Catharine M'Caulay. The unsigned cuts are attributed to Revere based on the style and charges..... Read More about An Astronomical Diary; or Almanack for the Year of our Lord Christ 1772

London: Sold by J. Barker, Russell-Street, Covent Garden, [n.d., 1820s]. Second edition, originally published circa 1760. The Bay Arabian. Beautiful engraved book of portraits of noted British race horses active in the first half of the eighteenth century. The final plate shows the Bay Arabian, now known as the Godolphin..... Read More about The Sportsman's Companion: or Portraitures, pedigrees and performances, of the most eminent Race...

London: Printed for J. Payne and J.Bouguet, 1752. First Edition. Robson's famous work is among the earliest substantial accounts of the Hudson's Bay Company and region. Robson served as the Surveyor and Supervisor of Buildings to the Company, and this work, based on six years worth of intimate inside knowledge..... Read More about An Account of Six Years Residence in Hudson's-Bay. From 1733 to 1736, and 1744 to 1747

New York: Robert O. Ballou, [1934]. First edition in first state jacket. Variant binding in red cloth (as opposed to light blue cloth), possible trial binding, in jacket that is slightly longer at bottom (~6mm extended from usual jacket). Inscribed to his sister, an important figure in the book's history..... Read More about Call it Sleep

[New York]: [Multiples, Inc.], 1970. First edition, one of 1200. Read More about Babycakes with Weights