Price: $375

New York: printed and published by I. Riley, 1811. "Next to Defoe’s original version, the most popular adaptation was Campe’s New Robinson Crusoe … published in two volumes at Hamburgh in 1779. It was in the form of a dialogue between a parent and his children. To make Robinson Crusoe’s.....  Read More Item Details for An Abridgment of the New Robinson Crusoe; An Instructive and Entertaining History, for the Use of Children of Both Sexes. Translated from the French Add to Wish List

Item #311060

Price: $1,750

"Porteous's Lodgings, 18 Duncan Street" [Edinburgh]: Sat. December 29, [1830]. A short, poignant note from the great essayist, memoirist, and biographer of the Lake Poets, begging to be excused from an engagement as his wife and daughter are sick. The small scrap of paper, without wax seal, suggest the author's.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed ("Thos. De Quincey"), to "My Dear Sir" Add to Wish List

Item #311132

Price: $1,200

[Arnhem/Amsterdam: Jan Janssonius/Dirk Pietersz Pers, ca. 1610]. Jode, Geerhardt de. Third edition. Compelling emblem book featuring half-page woodcuts by Jode with a biblical text beneath and facing commentary. The third edition of a work first published in 1579. Lacking final leaf of text but with all illustrations. Read More Item Details for Mikrokosmos [Greek]. Parvus Mundus Add to Wish List

Item #310617

Price: $500

New Orleans: n.p, 1943. Unrecorded. An unrecorded item, authorship unknown. The spurious association of Constance Garnett (as translator) and George Saintsbury (whose name is applied to the end of the introduction dated 1927) with this volume is an amusing provocation, as is the publisher's note found on p 6: "This.....  Read More Item Details for The Amusements of a Fortnight ... Translated from the Unpublished Ms. by Constance Garnett. With a Critical Appreciations by Prof. Saintsbury Add to Wish List

Item #311050

Price: $350

Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1980. First edition, one of a limited edition of 330 copies signed by the author. A presentation copy of Merrill's poem, here published in book form after first appearing in The New Yorker the previous year. Inscribed at the poet's home in Key West "from.....  Read More Item Details for Samos Add to Wish List

Item #310973

Price: $450

London: James Ridgway, 1799. First edition, fine paper issue. First edition, fine paper issue, of Sheridan's adaptation of August von Kotzebue's Die Spanien in Peru. The play opened on 24 May 1799 and was an immense success; it ran for 31 nights and was published in 15 editions in the.....  Read More Item Details for Pizarro: a Tragedy in Five Acts; as Performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane: Taken from the German Drama of Kotzebue; and Adapted to the English Stage … A Superior Edition, on Fine Wove Paper, Hot-Pressed, Price 5s Add to Wish List

Item #310534

Price: $750

[Salt Lake City: 1849. The Earliest Utah Printing: A Great Salt Lake Valley Note. This small piece of paper money printed by the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City is an example of the earliest recorded printing done in Utah.  Called a "Valley Note" by Alvin E. Rust, this form.....  Read More Item Details for [Printed "Valley Note" Currency in Denomination of $2.00, with Printed Heading: "G.S.L. City, Jan, 20, 1849"] Add to Wish List

Item #311851

Price: $350

New York: Putnam's, [1978]. First edition, marked "out of series" of 250 copies, signed by Williams and Leavitt. INSCRIBED. Inscribed opposite the title-page "To Roslyn Targ ever Tennessee Williams." and below by Leavitt. Read More Item Details for The World of Tennessee Williams. Edited by Richard F. Leavitt. With an Introduction by Tewnnessee Williams Add to Wish List

Item #311822

Price: $100

Tokyo: Seibunsha, 1943. Illustrated album from the “Greater East Asia War,” the Pacific theater of World War II. Read More Item Details for [Dai Toa Kessen Gashuu] [Greater East Asia Showdown Pictorial] Add to Wish List

Item #310621