Boston / New York: Crosby and Ainsworth / Oliver Felt, 1865. Decorative Cloth. Early printing of this work on sport fishing, charting a voyage during the summer of 1858, when the author was Washington correspondent for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune. Foolscap 8vo (176 x 105mm): viii,261,[1]pp. Original green pebbled..... more

Chicago: Caxton Club, 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tall, slim 8vo: [4],12,[6]pp, including full-page reproductions from photographs, plus the Bewick wood-block print. Decorated gold-and-tan paper-backed boards, black linen spine, printed paper label, medium-brown laid end papers. Pristine. One of five variant bindings (collect them all!) deposited in the Newberry Library. Limited..... more

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: R. H. Russell, 1900. First Edition. Quarter-Cloth. First State (RHR monogram on front cover, the R's having short tails) of this photo documentary, several decades after Reconstruction, of African Americans still on plantations in the old South. Royal 8vo (361 x 232mm): [4]pp, with 46 illustrations (many full-page)..... more

Boston: Little, Brown, 1875. First Edition. Original Wraps. Scarce printing of Frothingham's final publication. ABPC lists no copies at auction, Rare Book Hub lists seven, most recently in 1915. Small 8vo (176 x 118 mm): [8],136pp. with half-title, 15 panel-map (and 2-panel overlay) frontispiece, six-panel view of Charlestown in 1775..... more

St. Paul: [Published by the state] for gratuitous circulation, by Girart Hewitt, 1869. Wrappers. Third Edition (originally published in 1867) of this guidebook intended to attract settlers to the state. "Notice. This pamphlet, published in January of each year, (this being its third year) is designed to keep up with..... more

Victor, Colo. Copyrighted . . . by Mrs. Emma F. Langdon, 1904. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. True First Printing (Great Western Publishing Co. editions are reprints) with "unanimous endorsement of the Colorado State Federation of Labor" on p. [5]. Demy 8vo (198 x 150mm): [12],248pp, with tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece of..... more

Philadelphia: Judah Dobson, 1830. Original Cloth. First Edition of this early history of America's oldest angling society, Second Issue, with portrait of Gouvernor Morris by St. Memin inserted after Introduction. Bound with the first American book on fox hunting. 8vo (220 x 140mm): viii,127,[1]; [ii],56,[2,errata]pp, with lithographic frontispiece to each..... more

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931. First Edition thus. Hardcover. First Printing of this edition with numerous illustrations by James Daugherty of Parkman's classic account of a summer tour, in 1846, of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas, "with a view of studying the manners and character of Indians in their..... more

Boston: Allen and Ticknor, 1833. First Edition. Quarter-Cloth. First Printing of this "landmark, for Smith was the first American writer to make fishing the subject of even a short treatise." (Goodspeed) Small 8vo: vii,[1],399[p. 365 misnumbered 265],[1]pp, with title-page vignette, divisional title-page vignette, and numerous woodcuts throughout. Probably the Brinley..... more

Boston / Cleveland, Ohio: Published by John P. Jewett & Co. / Jewett, Proctor & Worthington [from 1852], 1853. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. A striking set of this early printing ("Two Hundred and Sixty-Third Thousand") in original bindings, published one year after the first edition, offered with a First Edition..... more

Boston: Laurens Maynard, MDCCCXCVII [1897]. First Edition. Cloth. First American Issue of the only edition, with spine imprint Maynard and title page "Published by Laurens Maynard" (later Small, Maynard). Edited, with an introduction, by Richard Maurice Bucke, M.D., one of Whitman's literary executors. Small 8vo: viii,173pp, with two inserted leaves..... more

Boston: [printed by Samuel N. Dickinson, Washington Street] / Published by Luther Stevens, 186 Washington Street, 1843 / [n.d., but 1848-1861]. Two works documenting the first public obelisk in the United States and the technology developed to create it. First (and only) Edition of the Willard, quite scarce. Royal 8vo..... more