Washington: [Privately printed at the Press of J. H. Furst Co., Baltimore.], 1910. First edition. Signed by Adams at the end of the introductory letter, as it seems that most copies were.Adams, historian and a direct descendant of John Quincy Adams, published and disseminated widely this present work. It is..... Read More about A Letter to American Teachers of History

London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1843. First Edition in English, with half-titles. Read More about The Burgomaster of Berlin. Translated from the German...[by William Atkinson Gardner

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

New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871. First edition. First Book. Read More about Wake Robin

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...

London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1828. First edition. Read More about Notions of the Americans: Picked up by a Travelling Bachelor