Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis Publishers, 1992. Cloth. 439 pp. With a few illustrations. A selection of prose by this noted Russian poet, including autobiographical pieces, essays on other writers, letters, etc. GOOD condition. Minor fading and edgewear to the jacket. Small circle of sticker residue on the rear cover. Minor... More about My Half Century: Selected Prose
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. Wraps. Wraps, faded from blue to gray. 32 pp. With two grainy photos of Sarah Bernhardt. A collection of aphorisms and epigrams on love, relationships and men and women by noted performer Sarah Bernhardt, who, according to the subtitle "boasted of having loved more than a.... More about Sarah Bernhardt's Philosophy of Love. Little Blue Book No. 675
London: Printed for Dorman Newman at the King's Arms in the Poulttrey, 1677. Pamphlet. Pamphlet, whole unto itself, but appearing disbound from a book at some point. [8], 32. Collated and complete. A funeral sermon accompanied by an unattributed poem titled An Elegy Upon the Death of Mr. Thomas Wadsworth... More about The Life and Death of the Godly Man, Exemplified in a Sermon Preached Nov. 12. 1676, at the...
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Wraps. UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOFS. Yellow wraps, spiral bound. 8 ½ by 11 inches. 155 pp. Printed on versos only. With a publisher's letter laid in. A collection of essays written by Andre Breton and originally published in French in 1934. These essays both reflect... More about Break of Day
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1967. First Edition. Cloth. Stated first edition. Charcoal cloth in black unclipped jacket. Square format. 167 pp. A collection of writings on various subjects, ranging from 'How to Improve the World,' work on art and artists, etc. John Cage was a noted musician and writer... More about A Year From Monday. New Lectures and Writings
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1841. First American Edition. Cloth. First American edition. Finely ribbed brown cloth, with ornamentation in blind. 283 pp, including 3 pages of ads at the end. Plus 16 pp of ads at the rear. A collection of lectures/essays reflecting on heroes in literature and... More about On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History. Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. Wraps. Wraps. 33 pp. An address by the author concerning his friend "Bagster" and his practice of biblio-therapeutics, in which he advocated the use of books and their meaning or emotional portrayals to address maladies. Originally published as an essay in the Atlantic Monthly in 1916... More about A Literary Clinic
New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1921. Original Wraps. Original wraps. 48 pages. With a few photos and illustrations. A noted and influential journal featuring stories, poetry and articles for and about African Americans. Edited by W.E.B. Du Bois. This one features a lengthy opinion column... More about The Crisis. A Record of the Darker Races. Vol 22. No. 1. May 1921
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884. Half Leather. Light brown half-leather with marbled boards and page edges. Volume 3 only of the Riverside Edition of the Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 270 pp. A collection of essays by the noted 19th century Transcendentalist, Ralph Waldo Emerson, containing: The Poet, Experience, Character... More about Essays. Second Series. New and Revised Edition
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850. Half-Leather. Perhaps the first UK edition, although as the preface by the publisher states, another publisher published an edition almost simultaneously with this, but without the author's final corrections. 143 pages. A collection of essays on men such as Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon, etc.... More about Representative Men. Seven Lectures
New York: H.M. Caldwell, 1900. Cloth. Red cloth with a color pastedown illustration on the right half of the front cover. 47 pp. A printing of Ralph Waldo Emerson's classic transcendentalist essay on the avoidance of conformity and the ideal of following one's own path. GOOD condition. Minor darkening and... More about Self-Reliance. The Character and Wisdom Series
Little, Brown and Co., 1978. First American Edition. Hard Cover. In unclipped jacket. VERY GOOD- jacket on a VERY GOOD book. Very light soiling to the jacket. Light scuffing, especially along the flap hinges. Some of the clear plastic coating that envelops the jacket is peeling off along the hinges... More about Islands
Boston: George H. Ellis, Publisher, 1901. Wraps. Printed wraps. 15 pp. A short lecture on the positive aspects of evolution in nature and in regard to man, seeking to unite the findings of science with spirituality and with the aims of God. GOOD condition. Moderate to heavy darkening/offsetting along the... More about The Man Who Tries to Rise or the Benevolence of Evolution. A Sunday Lecture
New York: John Day Company, 1942. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Stated first US edition. Hard cover. No jacket. 79 pages. A work containing the opinions and desires of Mahatma Gandhi to have the British leave India, many expressed in question and answer form. In GOOD condition. Moderate foxing to... More about My Appeal to the British
Boston: D. Lothrop Company, 1879. Hard Cover. 232 pages including illustrations. A book discussing the residences of important American poets of the nineteenth century, including Walt Whitman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joaquin Miller, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson and others. With illustrations of the homes as well as the poets... More about Poets' Homes. Pen and Pencil Sketches of American Poets and their Homes
Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. First edition with a 1 in the number line. Hardcover in unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR with a brief inscription on the ffep. No provenance can be given for this signature but it does match that which is given in the Ahearn... More about Life in a Day
No Place: Bates College, 1976. First Edition. Cloth. Orange cloth. No jacket. 36 pp. Two paintings by Hartley reproduced in color. A collection of eight poems and an essay on the art of one of his friends, by Marsden Hartley. The manuscripts had been gifted to Bates College, along with... More about Eight Poems and One Essay
Springfield, OH: Crowell-Collier publishing Company, 1944. Original Wraps. Large format magazine. In wraps with a color photo on the front cover and a cigarette advertisement on the rear. 82pp. Of note is the article by Ernest Hemingway chronicling the RAF and England's struggle with the drones of the German military... More about London Fights the Robots. In Collier's Magazine. August 19, 1944
New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1941. Cloth. Perhaps first edition, with no statement of printing. Black cloth. No jacket. 1008 pp. A collection of speeches given by Adolf Hitler, touching on a variety of topics, from economics to war. This includes the annexation of Austria, the invasion of Scandinavia and... More about My New Order
London: Calder and Boyars, 1967. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. Red cloth in unclipped jacket. 100 pp. With a few black and white photos and illustrations. A collection of reminiscences and essays honoring Samuel Beckett on his sixtieth birthday, containing work by his publishers, friends, associates, actors and artists. GOOD+... More about Beckett at Sixty. A Festschrift
Dublin: David Mallet, Publisher. P. Byrne, Printer. 1793. Leather. Full leather. 563, 515, 561, 647, 600 pp. A collection of essays and letters containing Henry St. John's writings on philosophy, history and politics, including pieces on patriotism, the history of Europe, a dissertation on parties, essays on philosophers and their... More about The Works of the Late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. In Five Volumes,...
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846. Full Leather. Full calf leather. 596 pp., plus ads. An expansive collection of various essays and pieces by James Mackintosh, reflecting on philosophy, history, law and other topics. This includes: on the philosophical genius of Lord Bacon and Mr. Locke; a discourse on the law... More about The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh. Three volumes, complete in...
New York: G.P Putnam, 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. First printing with no other printings given. Hardcover in unclipped jacket. This particular volume has TWO jackets, perhaps a mistake in the publishing process. A classic work by Mailer containing the interesting essay on cultural relations in the US titled "The... More about Advertisements for Myself
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1927. Wraps. Blue wraps. 64 pp. A short history and study of the French Revolution, arguing that it instrumental in the founding of the 'modern spirit' and taking to task (organized) religion and its failures to advocate for liberty and equality of the average person. McCabe... More about Religion and the French Revolution. Little Blue Book No 1145
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1963. Wraps. Perhaps a first edition, with no additional printings given. Wraps. 82 pp. A collection of writings by Michael McClure, the American poet associated with the Beat Movement, musing on topics such as suicide and death; the high from mushrooms; notes on drugs such... More about Meat Science Essays