[Published in London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1839]. Manuscript Fragment from Radcliffe’s NOBLE SCIENCE. The passage represented here in manuscript corresponds to a passage in The Noble Science: A Few General Ideas on Fox-Hunting, Radcliffe’s 1839 classic, at pp. 323-324, “A Biographical Sketch” of Loraine Smith, M.P., artist, and participant in the..... Read More about Manuscript fragment, possiby Autograph, from his THE NOBLE SCIENCE

London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinsons, and J. Cottle, Bookseller, Bristol, 1796. First Edition of Coleridge's first book of poems, with half-title and ads. First edition of Coleridge's first book of poems, including Charles Lamb's first appearance in print. Complete with half-title, errata and advertisements. "Like Spenser he is..... Read More about Poems on Various Subjects

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1844. First edition. Thomas De Quincey, 1775-1859. Pursuing ever more transgressive excursions after his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) and his On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts (1827), De Quincey turned his attention to the concepts of value, wages..... Read More about The Logic of Political Economy

[Medellin, Colombia: 1992]. Proof of the law's inability to constrain Escobar, surely comes in no stranger format than this self-published collection of political cartoons concerning the Colombian drug trade while serving time in his luxury prison, La Catedral.  Escobar is quite serious about the value of this work and states..... Read More about Pablo Escobar Gaviria en Caricaturas 1983-1991

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1898. Cambridge Edition. From the library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., decorated naval officer of WWII, and royal of Hollywood's Golden Era, credited in more than 50 films (including the starring role in GUNGA DIN) -- with his bookplate on..... Read More about The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson

Paris: Chez Cuchet, rue & hôtel Serpente, 1783. First edition. The first standard work of an aerostation, UNCUT. Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741-1819), was a very successful lawyer whose interest in natural history led him to become a geologist. He developed his own theory of volcanoes in the massive folio..... Read More about Description des Expériences de la Machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier et de celles...

ca.1962. SIGNED BY THE FIRST FOUR COSMONAUTS. A photograph of the first four Russians in space, signed by each of the cosmonauts; from left to right: Gherman Titov, Andriyan Nikolayev, Pavel Popovich, and Yuri Gagarin. Gagarin became the first human to travel in outer space on April 12, 1961, when..... Read More about Group photograph signed by the first four Russian cosmonauts

Boston: William Crosby and Company, 1842. First edition. “It is not easy for a man to speak of his own books. I dare say that few persons have been more interested in mine than I …” An account of this dinner celebrating Dickens’ appearance in New York, by two reporters..... Read More about Report of the Dinner given to Charles Dickens, in Boston, February 1, 1842 … most of the...

London: Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman, 1670. First edition. "As a poet Greville has always been admired for the difficulty of his writing, but his reputation was never higher than in the twentieth century, especially in the United States, where his standing as a poet of the plain style..... Read More about The Remains of Sir Fulk Grevill Lord Brooke: being Poems of Monarchy and Religion. Never Before...

New York: Duffield and Company, 1929. INSCRIBED FROM JOAN CRAWFORD TO HUSBAND DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR. From the library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., decorated naval officer of WWII, and royal of Hollywood's Golden Era, credited in more than 50 films (including the starring role in GUNGA DIN) It is inscribed to..... Read More about Memoirs of Napoleon I, Compiled from His Own Writings

Boston: James R. Osgood, 1871. First American edition. The American edition is much scarcer than the first English of the same year. Read More about Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1940. First edition. Source for The Sting. Read More about The Big Con. The Story of the Confidence Man and the Confidence Game

London: J. F. and C. Rivington,...[et al.], 1790. First edition. The most significant work on suicide of the eighteenth century. Together with dueling, the author devotes a separate treatise to suicide’s relationship to gambling. A “most frequent source of suicide,” writes the author, gambling is “often the last stage and..... Read More about Full Inquiry into the Subject of Suicide. To Which are Added (as Being Closely Connected with the...