Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, (1973). Second printing. Inscribed with drawings. Inscribed with drawings on the half-title by Beard to Don and Iris Hunt and extra-illustrated with an 1975 Christmas card on the front endpaper, two inscribed photographs on the half-title (one with dried insect), black-and-white photo of same..... Read More about Eyelids of Morning. The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men …

New York: Houghton Mifflin, [1946]. First edition, second printing, one of 500 copies. Bishop's first book, signed. Signed by the author on the title-page. Bishop's first book, winner of the Houghton Mifflin Poetry Award. The publishers asked Bishop to submit a manuscript for the prize after reading her "Songs for..... Read More about North & South

London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1876. First edition. Presentation copy to Browning's dear friend, "Fanny Haworth from her old & affectionate friend RB. July 18 '76."Euphrasia Fanny Haworth (1801-1883) was an artist and writer who Browning first met in 1835 at the home of the actor William Macready; she had..... Read More about Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper: With Other Poems

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First edition, first issue, with type dropped in bottom two lines on p. 110. JOHN QUINN'S COPY. John Quinn's copy of the first edition of Conrad's first novel. Conrad began this novel after an arduous command of the bark Otago. He worked on the manuscript..... Read More about Almayer's Folly A Story of an Eastern River

London: V.p. [Unwin, Heinemann, Methuen, etc.], 1894-1917. First editions or first London editions. ‘My biggest creative effort’: Conrad to his American publisher. Choice collection of the great novelist’s work, with three titles warmly inscribed to Nelson Doubleday, who in 1923 was a vice president in the family firm. His father..... Read More about Works] Uniformly bound collection of novels and tales, including Nostromo, Almayer’s Folly and...

September 11, 1894. Edison and the Birth of Film. A letter dating from the birth year of motion picture exhibition, from the inventor of the medium, Edison, to one of the first motion picture distributors and producers, Norman C. Raff, mentioning a third important figure in the history of film..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("Edison"), to Norman C. Raff, relating to the early efforts in...

Pigotts, North Dean, High Wycombe: June 9, June 17, and July 2, 1933; and May 13, 1936. To the secretary of the Men's Dress Reform Party. Three letters to Dr. Alfred Charles Jordan (1872-1956), British radiologist, co-founder of the New Heath Society, and Honorary Secretary of the Men's Dress Reform..... Read More about A group of 3 Autograph Letters Signed and 1 Typed Letter Signed ("Eric Gill"), to Dr....

London: Printed for the Author, and sold by William Cadman, et al, 1684. First English edition. The Classical Treatise of the 17th-Century French Drama. First English translation of this key treatise which codified the rules of 17th-century French dramatic classicism. It was first published in French as La pratique du..... Read More about The Whole Art of the Stage. Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, but Many Curious...

[Great Britain: c. 1850]. An extensive watercolor study of medieval German armor and heraldry, many of the drawings quite accomplished. A manuscript index and marginal captions identify the 94 drawings by family and many by specific historical person, e.g. Prince of Latour Taxis, George Fugger, Georg Pfister, Anthon Haintzlin, Hans..... Read More about Album of 96 watercolor drawings of German heraldry and armor

[New York: Vincent Fitzgerald & Co, 1987]. One of 50 numbered copies, from a total edition of 65 (including fifteen artist's proofs), signed by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke. The Weil - Van Dyke Epiphanies. A stunning visual meditation upon the texts of Joyce's epiphanies, executed in original etchings..... Read More about Epiphanies

London: J. Baskett, Assigns of T. Newcomb, H. Hills, 1714. First edition. The first publication of the Longitude Act, which encouraged the discovery of a method of quickly and accurately determining a ship's longitude. “An early example of a means adopted by a government for encouraging scientific discovery and progress”..... Read More about An Act for Providing a Publick Reward for Such Person or Persons as Shall Discover the Longitude...

Box Hill, Dorking, [Surrey]: 21 November 1901. Meredith to Gissing: ‘for you to take your place among our best’. Novelist George Meredith (1828-1909) writes his friend George Gissing (1857-1903), acknowledging his latest book, and asking about Gissing‘s health, reading (in part):“The title of your present abode indicates the open air..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed (“George Meredith”), to George Gissing, thanking him for “the...

London: Walter Scott, 1894. First edition. Inscribed Presentation Copy. Esther Waters established Moore's reputation as a novelist: 24,000 copies were sold within the year, and many still regard Moore's Zolaesque tale of a servant girl to be his finest and most characteristic novel. Esther Waters, like Moore’s earlier books, was..... Read More about Esther Waters. A Novel