(Flemington, NJ: St. Teresa's Press, 1966). Small quarto. 14pp. One of 150 copies. With a lovely hand-painted title page and decorative initials modeled after the Book of Kells. Letterpress printed in Solemnis and Palatino Italic on handmade English paper. A short-lived and very fine small press, St. Teresa's flourished in... More about The Dream of the Rood: Taken from the Ninth Century Anglo-Saxon

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., (1932). First edition, in second issue dust wrapper from 1933. Told by the same “last man” who related the history of humanity’s future in Last and First Men, this work describes the last man’s exploration of the consciousness of present-day Englishman Paul. The advanced being..... More about Last Men in London

London: Methuen, (1935). First edition, first issue, with ads at rear dated “535” (i.e., May, 1935); later issues bear an August date. One of 3096 copies printed. A novel that explores the idea of a Nietzschean “Super-man” with great mental prowess living among ordinary human beings. John Wainwright, the titular..... More about Odd John

NY: Knopf, 1931. Second edition, third binding. This edition contains fourteen new poems, while dropping three from the original edition. The complete printing of the second edition consisted of 1,500 copies, which were bound over a period of thirteen years. This copy is inscribed by Stevens on a preliminary blank... More about Harmonium

N.p. Prime Press, 1948. First deluxe edition. One of 100 copies, signed by the author and the illustrator L. Robert Tschirky. Sturgeon’s first book, this copy has been inscribed by Sturgeon to “Onkl J” Stanton. Limitation notice hand-written by a member of the Prime Press on front paste-down, which certifies..... More about Without Sorcery

Alpignano, Italy: Alberto Tallone, 1978. Folio. 220pp. From an edition of 525 copies, this is one of 160 printed on handmade Amatruda paper. The text, edited by Claudio Gorlier, is brightly printed in twelve-point Tallone type, while Gorlier's Afterword appears in ten-point Garamond. An exceptionally crisp edition of one of... More about Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Boston: Riverside Press, 1929. Seven octavo volumes. One of 500 large paper copies. Includes illustrations from photographs of Tennyson's country by Charles S. Olcott, as well as a portrait of the author. Introduction by Henry Van Dyke. ALs by Tennyson tipped-in to preliminary leaf. A lovely set bound in full... More about The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson

1925. A humorous cartoon measuring 10 by 8 1/2 inches. Celebrated playwright Henrik Ibsen, shown in caricature with a wild beard and hair, is depicted surrounded by four of his heroines, including Hedda Gabler and Nora from A Doll's House. Not all seem very happy to see him: Hedda points... More about Original Watercolor of Henrik Ibsen and Four of his Heroines

(c. 1849). Single sheet measuring 7 1/2 inches by 9 3/4 inches. In brown ink with pencil annotations and strikethroughs. This is a section of Thoreau's working notes from his visit to Cape Cod in 1849, and the text touches on a comparison of land transportation to the expediency of... More about Manuscript leaf from Cape Cod

(Elder Mfg. Co., c. 1950). A notepad in which each sheet is printed with a different quote from Mark Twain at the top. The base of each page is printed with "Buy by name - buy... Mark Twain shirts by Elder." Twain gave permission to Miller and Bingham Company to... More about Mark Twain Shirts by Elder notepad

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1946. First edition of the author’s first book. One of the most popular science fiction novels ever, Slan was first published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1940. The plot revolves around the classic science fiction motif: the struggle between mutants and humans in a period... More about Slan

London: Asprey & Co., 1979. Small octavo. (160)pp. One of 350 copies. Woodcut frontispiece, title-page vignette, and tail-piece by John Lawrence. Decorative initials in blue, red, and green. Printed for Asprey & Co. by the Whittington Press. A simple and supple edition, bound in full gray Nigerian morocco by Sangorski... More about Shakespeare's Sonnets

London: John Lane the Bodley Head, (1936). Octavo. xiii, (766)pp. First edition printed in England. From an edition of 1,000 copies, this is one of 900 printed on Japon vellum. Text follows the second Odyssey Press edition. Includes a bibliography by Peter Pertzoff that had been sent to Joyce and... More about Ulysses