New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1880. First Edition, B printing (BAL). Ads dated April 15, 1880, but signature mark F lacking on page 65. Democracy is an intimate picture of official Washington whose authorship was not discovered until after Adams’ death. “He will never be a popular writer, but..... Read More about Democracy. An American Novel

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. First edition. Read More about A Walk on the Wild Side

New York: Weltdemokratische Vereinigong, 1939. Read More about Adolf Hitler. Der letzte 'grosse' Antisemit

[New York]: September 17, 1928. Benêt on John Brown: “I tried to do my best with him…”. Fascinating letter, written soon after the publication of Benêt’s most enduring poem, JOHN BROWN’S BODY (1928), to America’s most eminent literary agent of the day, Major Pond.   “Thank you very much..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed, to the literary agent, Major Pond, on Benêt’s “John Brown’s...

Leipzig, Berlin: Insel-Verlag, etc, 1928-1936. First editions of the first four titles, later editions of the last two titles. He Created the Myth of Nietzsche. Ernst Bertram (1884-1957), Germanist and poet, was appointed professor of German literature and philology at the University of Cologne in 1921. His friends included Stefan..... Read More about Collection of six books inscribed to the author's brother Hans Georg, including: Deutsche...

Seal Harbor, Maine: Printed & Sold at High Loft, (1982). Number 122 of copies 51 to 200 of the regular edition. Printed in 16 pt. Blado, on Gutenberg paper at High Loft, the printing office of August Heckscher; by Tom Coleman and Karen MacDonald, printers. Read More about The Shyp of Fooles. Translated by Alexander Barclay, 1509. Edited by Phyllis C. Robinson

New York: Printed for Random House [by the Bremer Presse], [1929]. Number LXXIII of 530 copies on Zanders hand-made paper (250 done for Random House). Initial designed by Anna Simons. Read More about Nature

Leipzig: Im Insel-verlag [Boeschel & Trepte], 1920. Number 455 of 520 copies of this the first separate edition of this tragedy. It was from this work that the Austrian composer Alban Berg composed his very successful opera “Wozzeck” (1925). These fragments were first published posthumously in 1850 as “Wozzeck”... Read More about Wozzeck

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1914. First edition, first state, with printer’s name set in two lines of Old English type. The first edition of the first Tarzan novel — a brighter than usual copy.The child of Lord and Lady Greystoke who were marooned in West Africa, Tarzan ("White Skin"..... Read More about Tarzan of the Apes

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. Shinn, Florence. Number 40 of 100 copies of this special edition on Japanese were printed June, 1906, of which sixty are for sale. With TLS laid in mentioning working on this book and his regets that he cannot come to ABA dinner honoring him..... Read More about Coniston

New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885. First American edition. Fine in Publisher's Deluxe Morocco Binding. A stunningly fine first edition of Twain's enduring classic of boyhood, in the deluxe publisher's half morocco binding — at the time of publication the rarest and most expensive of the various publisher's bindings. The..... Read More about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn … By Mark Twain

Altdorf, Weingarten, etc. [Germany]: 1852-1862. Charming and decorative mind-nineteenth-century German album of sentiments, most dated variously between 1852 and 1854. On the verso of a poem headed Trennung (Separation) and inscribed “Tobis seiner liebsten Anna” is a portait of a pensive young man and the caption “Jetzt bin ich’s nicht..... Read More about Collection of Autograph Sentiments in German, including Love Poems with drawings, preserved in a...