Boston: James Redpath, 1863. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 102pp. followed by 2pp. publisher's catalog. Original purple patterned cloth. Pale yellow endpapers. Gilt spine title. Spine tips worn and small hole in hinge, spine evenly sunned to tan. While serving as a nurse in the Civil War, Alcott wrote several letters... More
Leipzig: Bruder & Hofman, 1814. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. (4 x 7'). xxiv, 160pp. Early, perhaps original, binding of marbled paper over boards and with the title pasted-on to the upperboard: a square of cloth, gilt. Large (7 x 7-1/2') hand-colored frontispiece caricature showing Napoleon cornered ('in Klemme') by five soldiers... More
New-York: Printed and Sold by S. Wood at the Juvenile Book-store, 1812. First edition. Wraps. 16mo. (2½ x 4 inches.) 26,(2)pp. The final 2pp are publisher's advertisements. Printed wraps, string binding. Illustrated with woodcuts. Four alphabets printed inside front cover: Roman capitals and lower case; Italic capitals and lower case... More
Philadelphia: Pub. by James P. Parke, 1809. Hardcover. 12mo. Original half leather, gilt spine title and rules, marbled paper boards. 26 engraved plates (of 36) with descriptive text. This was first written in 1801 by William Darton, who also drew and engraved the copper plates. In 1806 it was revised... More
Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1931. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. 65 wood-engraved sub-titles, pictorial headlines and initials by Eric Gill. Original half white pigskin by Sangorski and Sutcliff. Finely printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings. One of 488 numbered copies (from a total edition of 500) , this... More
London: G. Kearsley, (1800?). Hardcover. A New Edition; to which are now added, Considerable Improvements and Additions. Small 8vo. iv, 190pp. Contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards. Nicely rebacked to style. Boards worn at edges and rubbed, text spotted else a good copy. Reissue of the [1799] edition with only... More
Londini: C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, et al. 1783. Hardcover. Editio Decima Quarta. 8vo. (20),631,(125)pp. Contemporary calf; spine in six compartments with raised bands, red leather lettering label, gilt. Title page in red and black. Hinges, corners and edges nicely repaired; leather and lettering label, including gilt, rubbed;some contemporary notes; some... More
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1871. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Three volumes. 12mo. Original sand-grain violet cloth, gilt titles. Line engraved title pages. Sheridan Le Fanu was unquestionably the Victorian master of ghost and supernatural stories. This collection of tales came to LeFanu at the inn in Golden Friars... More
Richmond: Peter Cotton, 1825. Hardcover. The third edition, enlarged and improved. 12mo. vii,(8)-228pp. Contemporary full calf. Illustrated. Lacks front free endpaper and lettering label; spine and head of spine worn; dampstain on the upper third of the first half of the text block, but a presentable copy of a scarce..... More
London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxv,(1),27-84pp. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones' Third Issue. Half-title is present. The 'Extract', pp. 73-84, is present. Both Extracts are sometimes attributed to John Mitford. Nicely bound to style in quarter calf, spine gilt; leather lettering label, gilt; marbled..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Asbury edition. Hardcover. 8vo. li,(3),169,(1)pp. Yellow cloth printed in Aquatone by the Edward Stern Co. Top edge stained green. Illustrated. Index. This is the first cocktail recipe book published in the United States, first appearing in 1862. The 1928 edition is the... More
