New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. Preface: "For two women to start upon a camping trip in the desert, with only an Arab retinue to protect them seems to some of our friends to show a high sense of adventure..." The two women are our author and her co-author Lady..... Read More about Wayfarers in the Libyan Desert

Francofurti Ad Moenum: [Paul Reffeler], 1576. Attractive dated example of a later sixteenth-century German binding. The book is the second part (only) of the four-part Examinis Concilii Tridentini of Lutheran theologian Martin Chemnitz, a consideration of the decrees of the Council of Trent from a Lutheran perspective. Read More about Secunda pars Examinis decretorum Concilii Tridentini, Complectens Explicationem Locorum, De...

Marburg und Frankfurt: Brönner, 1771. Read More about Neu vermehrt und vollständiges Gesang-Buch, worinnen sowohl die Psalmen Davids nach Ambrosii...

Florence: Fratelli Alinari, 1909-1915. First edition thus. Read More about Il Decamerone di Messer Giobvanni Boccacio

London: Published by George Emmett, at the Office, Hogarth House, St. Bride’s Avenue, [ca. 1885]. Early edition. James & Smith tentatively attributed this boys’ adventure to George Emmett, who appears here as the publisher. The illustrations, at least one of which is signed “Phiz,” have been attribited to Hablot Knight..... Read More about Young Tom Wildrake’s Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America

London: [Edwin J. Brett] “Boys of England” Office, n.d [ca. 1880]. E.J. Brett edition (Harkaway Series no. 6 & 7), bound from 23 parts. Author’s Copy. With a note in the author’s hand beneath the title, “by Philip Richards.” Bracebridge Hemyng wrote most of the Jack Harkaway series and this..... Read More about Jack Harkaway Among the Brigands … Volume I & II [complete

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. First edition. Read More about Bird and Bough

New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc, [1951]. First edition. Read More about Atlantic City Cantata

New York: Harpers Magazine, 1871. First edition in parts. De Mille, a Canadian (1837-1880), was a very popular writer of the period covering the last quarter of the nineteenth century. One of his best known works, "The Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder," is rather reminiscent of Poe's "Narrative..... Read More about The American Baron

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. First Edition, one of 950 copies. Derrydale Binder’s Dummy. The published book was bound in a deep maroon cloth with the upper board decorated with the woodcock by Edgar Burke, in the same manner as this trial binding. Uncommon. Read More about Firelight. [Trial Binding

London: Chapman and Hall, December, 1864 - Nov. 1865. Stone, Marcus. First Edition, in the original parts; first issue text, “pricipal” in no. 14. Our Mutual Friend contains the greatest number of inserted ads of all of Dickens' books in parts. The present copy is a made up set, and..... Read More about Our Mutual Friend. The original 19/20 monthly parts

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1908. First edition (by this publisher), publisher's salesman's sample; salesman's sample for the 'Large Paper Edition of the Works of George Eliot' (including salesman's blank order form for subscribers). Laid into the salesman's sample is an original (blank) order form, for use..... Read More about THE WRITINGS OF GEORGE ELIOT. Scenes of Clerical Life I. [Cover Title]: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF...

London: William Heinemann, [1915]. First edition. In dust jacket. Read More about The Little Man. and Other Satires