Copenhagen: Trykt hos Andreas Seidelein, 1820. First edition in Danish, and the second complete translation in any language. The second translation of Beowulf, Very Scarce. A handsome first edition copy of N.F.S. Grundtvig's (1783-1872) Danish translation of the classic epic poem Beowulf. Grundtvig was a bishop and the first great..... Read More about Bjowulfs Drape. Et gothisk helte-digt fra forrige aar-tusinde, af angel-saxisk paa danske riim

New York: Mail and Express Job Print, 1904. First edition. Inscribed. Inscribed opposite the title “Compliments of the author J.R. Bradley” Big Game hunting by the author and his friend T.T. Reese in the Stickeen (sic) River Country. The trials of traveling consume the first 28 pp., after which are..... Read More about Hunting Big Game in Northwest British Columbia

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill, 1847. First edition, without publisher's adverts or notice for the Calcutta Review found in some copies. The rare first edition, with half-titles. The first published novel by the Brontë sisters, done in a small edition of about 500 copies. It was immensely popular, and..... Read More about Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell. In Three Volumes

London: Grant Richards, 1903. First edition. The Author’s Most Famous Book. Butler's posthumously-published semi-autobiographical novel, a satire of Victorian mores that ensured his lasting fame. A.A. Milne called it “the second-best novel in the English language” (“A Household Book”, Not That It Matters, 1919). With an elaborate mock heraldic bookplate..... Read More about The Way of All Flesh

[Rochester, NY ?]: 1899. First edition and apparently unrecorded. A manuscript slip, " 'Compliments of the 'Children,' " is tipped in before the first leaf. UNRECORDED. Illustrated diary of William B. Burke's three-week hunting and fishing trip up the Saguenay River into the country south of Chicoutimi in early October..... Read More about Memories of Chicoutimi

New York: Random House, [1965]. First edition, first printing. Inscribed for Anya and Harold Arlen. Inscribed by Capote "For Anya and Harold [Arlen]/with much love from/Truman Capote [this crossed out] (ha ha)" on the half-title. Dated below in pencil Apr 26-67. And with a Random House compliments slip laid-in "The..... Read More about In Cold Blood. A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1787-8. First Worcester editions. Gorgeous Copies of a Children’s Classic. Isaiah Thomas’ edition of History of Little Goody Two Shoes, the famed nursery classic and “the most celebrated of all the books in John Newbery’s Lilliputian library” (Rosenbach), together with A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, “one of the..... Read More about History of Little Goody Two Shoes [and:] The Juvenile Biographer; containing the Lives of Little...

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. First edition, first state binding. The first part of this work, A True Story, was first published in the Atlantic in November 1874. The story is a retelling of the experiences of Mary Ann Cord (renamed “Aunt Rachel” in the story), the African-American..... Read More about A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime. By Mark Twain

Cambridge: John Owen, 1842. First edition. "In 1799 [Cleveland] visited the northwest coast, including Alaska, and in 1803 California ... [he] was at the Old Sitka site of the first Russian establishment the day following Baranov's making a deal with Katleut, a Sitkan chief, which enabled him to start building..... Read More about A Narrative of Voyages and Commercial Enterprises

London: Smith, Elder & Co.; Cambridge, [Printed at the University Press], 1858, 1877. First editions. Original editions of the rare poems of William Johnson Cory (1823-1892), one of the precursors of the Uranian Poets, was master at Eton from 1845 to 1872. He had “not only the superficial renown of..... Read More about Ionica. [And:] Ionica II

London: Published by George Hogarth Turner, [1870-1874]. Only edition. Deerstalking in Scotland in the 1870s: Crealock’s magnum opus. A superb set of the rare deerstalking albums of career soldier Henry Hope Crealock (1831-1891), who served in Crimea, India, China, and in the war in Zululand. His sketches from the field..... Read More about Deerstalking Portfolio, comprising:] Among the Red Deer, Sketches from Nature in the Forest...

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. First edition, presumed second printing with “i” on copyright page undotted and headline on broken running head on p. 9. Read More about Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea