Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. 8vo. xii, 420 pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Original burgundy cloth, ruled in blind, title, author and publisher’s device in gilt to spine, covers a bit worn, spine sunned. With the morocco bookplate of Alfred Sutro as well as a small bookseller’s label to front paste-down..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. 16mo. 100 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers; spine chipped at extremities and slightly cracked, small chip to fore-edge of top wrapper, lightly soiled; two small damp-stains to title, one affecting the upper corner at hinge of first few pages. Housed in a quarter morocco..... More
Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1847. 8vo. 38 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, spine chipped, top wrapper detached. Ink stamp of the Rhode Island Historical Society to top wrapper and title. Presentation inscription from Usher Parsons on wrapper. First edition, second or third state of wrapper, with the..... More
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. 4to. vii, [i], 278 pp. Engraved frontispiece. Original beveled brown cloth, title and author’s name in gilt to top cover and spine, slightly worn at edges, corners and extremities of spine. Presentation inscription from Motley’s son, Edwin, and morocco bookplate of Alfred Sutro. First..... More
Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, 1895. 12mo. [ii], 55, [1] pp. With frontispiece, 22 plates and text illustrations throughout. Original decorated two-tone cloth, title and author in gilt to top cover and spine; aside from a few small spots to covers, a fine copy. Holiday edition. Contains the first printing..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1871. 8vo. 101 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original maroon cloth, rebacked with the original back-strip laid down; back fly-leaf and paste-down worn. Ownership inscription to fly-leaf. From the library of Charles Ricksher, with his bookplate. More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885. 8vo. [vi], 307 pp., plus 13- page publisher’s catalogue. FIRST EDITION. Original green beveled cloth, front hinge slightly cracked, else a fine copy. First edition, second printing. More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, [1894]. 12mo. [ccxviii] pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece. Original green cloth, decorated in gilt; an exceptionally fine, clean copy with the small ownership inscription of Eliz. L. Gould dated Christmas, 1894, to the fly-leaf. First edition of this posthumously printed work. Contains a...... More
London: Gay and Bird, [1891]. 8vo. 80 ff. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Frontispiece, 11 plates and text illustrations throughout. Each poem with separate title. Full decorated reversed suede. Contemporary inscription dated February, 1892, on fly-leaf. First English edition of this work. “One Hoss Shay” was first published in an 1878 five-leaf..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. 8vo. 80 ff. Coloured title, each poem with separate coloured half-title, frontispiece, 13 plates and numerous text illustrations, all in colour. Green cloth, decorated in blind with a horse-and-carriage pattern; an absolutely fantastic copy. First colour-illustrated edition. The black and white..... More
Boston: J.E. Farwell and Company, 1863. 4to. 75 pp. FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. Original green morocco, decorated in blind, with city seal in gilt to top cover, publisher’s device in blind to bottom cover, marbled end-papers, edges gilt. An excellent copy. First published edition, a large paper copy (otherwise known as..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1887. 12mo. vi, 308 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original red beveled cloth. An excellent uncut copy from the library of Alfred Sutro, with his morocco bookplate. First edition, printed shortly before the first American edition. C&T, 214; BAL, 9005; Ives, 194. More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891. 8vo. 319 pp. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Original green illustrated cloth; some soiling to right edge of top cover, small damp-stain affecting lower right corner of title. Uncut. First edition, first printing, second state, binding C. After a break of fifteen..... More
Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, 1887. 8vo. 379 pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece plus 3 plates. Original red cloth, spine sunned and spotted; interior uncut. From the library of Alfred Heacock Whittaker with his bookplate on the front paste-down. First edition. Contains Holmes’ Poem. C&T, p. 579. More
Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1849. 12mo. x, [iv], 272 pp. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Full calf, spine gilt in compartments with red label, gilt rule borders to covers and gilt dentelles, edges gilt. With contemporary ownership inscription to front free end-paper dated Dec., 1848. ONE OF FIVE COPIES..... More
Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1849. 8vo. [iv], x, [ii], 272 pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. With 4 pages publisher’s advertisements between fly-leaf and paste-down. Original brown cloth, worn, chip at head of spine; interior spotting and browning. Presentation inscription from the author to Mr. Charles G...... More
London: William Paterson & Co., [n.d.]. 8vo. 320 pp. Blue cloth, decorated in blind. Inscription to title-page dated July, 1892, bookplate of the Longos. Later English reprint. Not in BAL or C&T. More
[Cambridge]: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891. Two volumes. 8vo. viii, [i], 246; 247-503 pp. Each volume with half-title and woodcut title page. Original red cloth, paper spine labels. An excellent uncut set, each volume with the bookplate of Mary Josephine Mayer. Birthday edition. Includes the poems Homesick in Heaven, Fantasia..... More
Boston: n.p., 1850. 8vo. pp. 482-500. FIRST EDITION. Disbound. A bright, clean copy. First edition. Contains the first appearance of this article which was later re-printed as a separate pamphlet. While the authorship is usually attributed to Holmes, some believe that the author was in fact Jacob Bigelow, as every..... More
Boston and Philadelphia: Ticknor and Fields; J.B. Lippincott, 1860. 12mo. [iv], 410 pp. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Original pebbled brown cloth, decorated in blind. Aside from a loose gathering, a lovely copy, with a clean binding and interior. First edition in book form. With the rare double imprint. This..... More
London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1860. 8vo. 286 pp. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. With 2 pages publisher’s advertisements dated November, 1860, and a 16-page publisher’s catalogue dated June, 1863, bound into the back (different leaf size). Original blue pebbled cloth, decorated in blind. Morocco bookplate of Alfred Sutro, small bookbinders..... More
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. 4to. 79 pp. FIRST EDITION. With engraved frontispiece, 25 cuts, and 4 engraved plates. Original decorated cloth over beveled boards, with decorated pictorial end-papers, lightly rubbed at corners, as well as head and foot of spine, small tear to top right corner of top..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. 8vo. [vi], 468 pp., plus 22-page publisher’s catalogue dated November, 1863. FIRST EDITION. Title in red and black. Full green morocco, gilt spine and dentelles, with maroon glazed end-papers. An excellent copy from the library of Jonas Bikoff with his bookplate. More
Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1867. 8vo. 45 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers. An excellent copy with presentation inscription from Mr. B.B. Kent Jr. To Dr. Sinclair on the front wrapper, and a small duplicate stamp on title. First edition of Holmes’ famous lecture. It was announced in The..... More
Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1846. 8vo. 31, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. Original blue printed front wrapper. Inscribed by Holmes on front wrapper to J.A. Lowell Esq. Preserved in a cloth folding case. INSCRIBED BY HOLMES. First edition of this lively poem. BAL, 8745; C&T, p. 38; Ives, 125..... More
