A Paris: Chez Cuchet, Libraire, rue & hôtel Serpente, M. DCC. LXXXIV [1784]. Quarter-Calf. First Edition in French, First Issue (with errata, not found in second issue) of the author's free translation (adding a second volume) of his Letters from an American Farmer, "as literature, unexcelled by any American work..... more

New York: Harper & Brothers, Mcmxxvii [1927]. Two binding variants (one a later issue) of the poet's second collection. Crown 8vo (190 x 127mm): xi,[1],89,[1]pp, illustrated throughout. First Printing (with "first edition" and "G-B" on copyright page): Publisher's black cloth over brown and black marbled paper-covered boards, beige paper labels..... more

Mexico City: n.p. [Joaquin Ausiro, printer], 1951. Limited Edition. Card Covers. Unnumbered review copy from an edition of 500 numbered copies. Foolscap 8vo (179 x 119mm): 196,[4]pp, with three hand-colored linoleum blocks (linocuts ) by Jose Paredes and Edward Owensby. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers, fore-edge untrimmed (according to colophon..... more

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. Square demy 8vo (213 x 213mm): [78]pp, with numerous color and black-and-white full- and partial-page illustrations, including double-page world map. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards, tangerine end papers, illustrated title page; matching dust jacket priced $1.60. Tips barely worn, top..... more

London: John Murray, 1880. Second Edition. Decorative Cloth. Second Edition of one of the scarcer Darwin titles, one of only 1,250 copies, with a new preface, in which Darwin states that "the text has been left as it originally appeared excepting that a few errors have been corrected." According to..... more

London: John Murray, 1862. First Edition. Three-Quarter Calf. 8vo: vi,365,[1]pp, with one folding plate and 33 woodcuts in text. Rebound, without the advertisements, in three-quarter chocolate-brown calf over marbled boards, flat spine in five compartments divided by double gilt fillets, compartments two and four lettered in gilt, end papers renewed..... more

New York: D. Appleton, 1892. Early Reprint. Decorative Cloth. A virtually pristine example of one of Darwin's scarcer titles. 8vo: xvi,300,[8]pp, with 38 text woodcuts. Publisher's terra-cotta cloth, upper cover stamped in black and lower cover in blind with edge roll and trailing vine device, spine ruled and lettered in..... more

London: John Lehmann [from 1951], 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Impression of this wildly influential guide to the preparation of the dishes of rural France. Crown 8vo (196 x 124mm): 247,[1]pp, with frontispiece, illustrated title page, and nine full page plates by John Minton. Publisher's coarsely woven oatmeal-colored cloth, spine..... more

New York: Rinehart, [1952]. First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition (preceding the English edition) of the author's first novel, the opening installment of the Salterton Trilogy (followed by Leaven of Malice and A Mixture of Frailtie). 8vo (135 x 207mm): [6],307,[1]pp. Publisher's green cloth-effect paper-covered boards, spine stamped in red..... more

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and T. Cadell, Strand, London, MDCCCXXXII [1832]. Original Boards. First Edition of de Quincey's only novel, a Gothic romance set in Swabia during the Thirty Years' War. 12mo (173 x 98mm): [4]305,[3]pp (half-titles both precede and follow title page). Original brown paper-covered boards, later..... more

London: printed for E. Curll: and sold by W. Mears and T. Jauncy without Temple Bar, W. Meadows in Cornhill, A. Bettesworth in Pater-Noster-Row, W. Lewis in Covent Garden, and W. Graves in St. James’s Street, M.DCC.XX [1720]. Paneled Calf. First Edition of this purported autobiography of the notorous London..... more

London: printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lyon, in Pater-Noster-Row ; and W. Mears, at the Lamb, without Temple-Bar, M.DCC.XXV [but 1724]. Full Calf. First Edition, in two parts, of "perhaps Defoe's best travel book," an imaginary voyage of circumnavigation, intending to discover uncharted lands in the South Pacific. (Earle)..... more

New York: Karma and Glenn Horowitz, Bookseller, 2014. Hardcover. Limited Edition of this previously unpublished one-act play inspired by global climate change, with seven full-page color plates from photographs by Richard Prince, from his "Upstate" series. One of only 125 copies bound in cloth from an edition of 1000 copies..... more