JUNKETS ON A SAD PLANET: Scenes From the Life of John Keats
First printing of Clark's biography in verse, poetic novel, or "historical oratorio" on the life of Keats.
First printing of Clark's biography in verse, poetic novel, or "historical oratorio" on the life of Keats.
Late Georgian edition of Johnson's landmark collection of essays on 52 poets, a major work in English canon formation.
Scarce American edition of the bookseller's Confessions, with one of the earliest Brooklyn imprints.
First edition of the first installment of this long-running cultural institution, containing the biographies of 8,602 prominent 19th-century Americans.
First edition of the final African journals of Scottish missionary, abolitionist, and explorer David Livingstone, including his own account of the famous meeting with Stanley.
First edition of this classic biography of the first president of the United States, including the scarce atlas volume.
Uncommon account of the life of a South African ostrich farmer near the turn of the twentieth century.
Important edition of the monumental visual record of Native American leaders, including an extensive account of the original 1836-44 folio edition, biography of the original authors, and the infamous Smithsonian fire — all new to this edition.
Rare first separate edition of this journal by a Donner Party survivor, edited by a member of the rescue party, one of only 65 copies signed by the publisher.
First edition of the first known book-length Japanese American autobiography, chronicling the author's "wandering life" to the United States, including his education at the Hampton Institute, Howard University, and Yale.
Inscribed first edition of this personal history of the abolitionist movement in New England.
Rare Victorian guide to the principles of detection, as practiced in British-administrated India by an investigator of the Calcutta Police Detective Department.
First printing of the collected papers from the 1995 John Keats Bicentennial Conference, inscribed by editor Ronald Sharp to poet Stanley Plumly (author of the later POSTHUMOUS KEATS), with Plumly's own annotations.
Modern scholarly edition of Severn's letters and memoirs, published as part of Ashgate's Nineteenth Century Series.
First edition of this controversial biography of Jesse James, "giving full particulars of each and every dark and desperate deed in the career of this most noted outlaw of any time or nation."
First edition of the first volume of Twain's autobiography, assembled by the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library and first published on the 100th anniversary of the author's death in accordance with his wishes.