Search Results: Titles starting with M from Bull's Head Rare Books

Paris: Éditions du Sagittaire, [1946]. Copy D of 5 copies hors commerce on vélin blanc superieur, in addition to fifteen numbered copies. 8vo. 152, [4] pp. Unopened in publisher's printed wrappers, yapp edges; slight edgewear, small stain to front wrapper One of 5 copies hors commerce on vélin blanc superieur (of 20 total copies) of the first French edition of Miss Lonelyhearts, West's "horror-comic" (Connolly) masterpiece about a despairing agony column writer. Translated by Marcelle Sibon and with a preface by the Surrealist author Philippe Soupault in which he recounts meeting West in New York. The first edition of Miss Lonelyhears was published by Boni & Liveright in 1933.REFERENCE: Connolly 76; White A3i

Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1820. Third edition. 4 vols. 8vo. [4], xvi, 616; [4], 608; [4], 644; [4], vii, [1], 589, [1] pp., with half-titles in all vols. Contemporary speckled calf, black morocco spine labels; a few spine ends chipped, foxing and occasional light staining The expanded third edition of Brunet with more than 2,000 new entries. First published in 1810 in three volumes.

Paris, Gavarnie, Mont-Cenis, Grenoble, Fontainebleau ..., 1838-1871. 8vo. 355 pp. Holopgrah manuscript in ink in French. Contemporary half gray cloth and marbled boards. Ex-libris manuscript of "Doctor Roussel" on ffep and small book ticket ("Henry D.") on front pastedown. Some scuffing to cloth spine “Le 7 juillet 1838, à 7 heures 20 minutes du soir, je parti de Paris …”A lengthy, nearly career-spanning record of Roussel’s botanical and geological observations and studies made in his travels throughout France. The unpublished manuscript, written in a small, neat hand, documents eighteen separate trips made from July of 1838 to September of 1871. Most of the voyages originate from Paris, with destinations including Mont-Cenis, Gavarnie, Grenoble, Fontainebleau and environs, Melun, Toulouse, Auxerre, Nantes, Le Creusot and Cherbourg. The manuscript includes Roussel’s identification of plant species and his abundant and minute observations on the geological and topographic details of the French… Read More

1820-25. 12mo. Approximately 59 pp. of manuscript pen and ink on blank journal pages (journal irregularly paginated 13-191), inscribed "Lowell Clark's Book Lebanon, Connecticut" on p. 13. Contemporary sheep; extremities worn, remains of fastening straps A manuscript diary of some 3,000 words of a trip by Universalist merchant Lowell Clark (1798-1860) and companion ("E.W.") through western New York to central Ohio and back along Lake Erie, with a stop at Niagara Falls — over 1,500 miles round trip. Clark records his travels in daily entries between 19 October 1820 and 9 January 1821 as a traveling merchant selling domestic items such as suspenders, razors, and peppercorns. He faithfully records the weather (generally snowy or rainy and cold) and road conditions, comments on the general lay of the land and its prospects for investment, and notes his distance traveled and where he stayed for the night. He records seeing buffalo and wild turkey in Ohio, visits a coal mine in West Virginia, notes the… Read More

Worcester: Printed by Henry J. Howland, [ca. 1847]. First edition. Oblong 4to. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Martin by Oliver Pelton, 11 engraved plates by W.B. Emery after writing samples with flourishes by Martin, printed by A.C. Beaman, with tissue guards. [10], [6] pp. Publisher's cloth, front cover stamped in gilt "Martin's Pearls" within gilt wreath, a.e.g.; covers worn at extremities, ffep creased and torn with tissue repair, frontispiece and title offset, some foxing A handsome penmanship manual, the plates elaborately flourished with birds, fish, leaves and flowers the plates now perhaps more of interest as folk art than instructional models. Martin ran a bookkeeping and writing academy in Worcester with his three brothers. His method, which teaches a highly ornamental copperplate, reduces letters to seven component strokes. The 24 lessons, described in the letterpress text, are illustrated in the 11 engraved plates demonstrating the component strokes, instructions for composing letters… Read More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. First American edition. 8vo. [4], lxxx, 258 pp. Publisher's purple blind- and gilt-stamped cloth; short split to cloth on front joint, gathering slightly proud, light foxing throughout, in a custom burgundy cloth slipcase and chemise First American edition of the Second Series of Lowell's satire in Yankee dialect, written in support of the Union cause. First published in three parts in London in 1862 followed by one volume editions in 1864 and 1865. As in the First Series, published in 1848 and written in opposition to the Mexican-American War and the expansion of slavery, the Second Series is presented as a series of letters and verse by the New England farmer Hosea Biglow and his friend Birdofredom Sawin, and is embellished with a faux critical apparatus by editor Homer Wilbur, Pastor of the First Church of Jaalam. Includes Lowell's popular Yankee dialect poem "The Courtin'."PROVENANCE: Mrs. J. Insley Blair (Blairhame book-label)REFERENCE: BAL 13126

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. Cheapside, London, 1820. First edition. 4 vols in 2. 8vo. [v]-xii, 341, [1]; [ii], 321, [1]; [ii], 368; [ii], 453, [1] pp., bound without half-titles and without ad leaf in vol. 4. Mid-nineteenth century half calf and marbled boards, brown morocco spine labels, marbled edges; some rubbing and external repair, labels chipped, a few minor stains to text, very good Rare first edition of this late Gothic masterpiece by the Irish Protestant clergyman and author Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824): "in Frankenstein and Melmoth the Wanderer, the Romantic orgy reached its height" (Raleigh, The English Novel). Melmoth was a significant influence on Balzac (who thought it "the greatest creation of one of the greatest geniuses of Europe"), Baudelaire ("ce pâle et ennuyé Melmoth"), Poe and Wilde, (a great-nephew of Maturin, who fashioned himself "Melmoth the Wanderer" during his exile from England). Melmoth "burns to tell… Read More

Washington, [D.C.]: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1819. First edition. 6, [2 blanks] pp. Untrimmed, top edge uncut; light foxing and dusting The first petition for Missouri statehood adopted by the Missouri territorial legislature and presented to the House by Missouri delegate John Scott. It lit the fuse of sectional conflict between the North and South over the westward expansion of slavery that would only temporarily cool with the Missouri Compromise of 1820, smoldering until its ultimate eruption in the Civil War. The memorial argues for statehood on the grounds that the Missouri Territory, with some 100,000 inhabitants, was too large for effective political administration. The proposed boundaries, about 30% larger than what was ultimately adopted, include the 36'30" boundary that would establish the line between future free and slave states in the Missouri Compromise of 1820.The Memorial is signed in type by David Barton, Speaker of the Missouri House, Benjamin Emmons, President of the… Read More

London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819. First edition. Isaac Robert Cruikshank. 8vo. 3 hand-colored stched plates by Isaac Robert Cruikshank. xxiii, [1], 123, [1] pp. Publisher's grey-green wrappers, spine label with title in ms; front cover detached. Early ownership ink stamp to verso of front wrapper, bookplate of Marshall R. Anspach

London: T. Tegg and Son, 1834. First edition. George Cruikshank. 8vo. Twenty woodcuts to text by George Cruikshank. [vi], 226 pp. Full tan calf gilt, green morocco spine labels, t.e.g., by Riviere & Son; front joint rubbed REFERENCE: Cohn 97

London: Charles Tilt, 1833-36. First edition. George Cruikshank. 9 parts in 1. Oblong 8vo. Hand-colored etched general title-page and 36 hand-colored etched plates, [1] l. (note concerning publications by Kidd with illustrations by Robert Cruikshank). Later 19th-century full polished calf, spine gilt, red morocco spine labels, t.e.g., by Bartlett & Co., Boston; a few spots of foxing to the first few plates, else fine A fine complete run of all nine numbers of Cruikshank's Sketch Book, with plates in the hand-colored issues and all of the original wrappers preserved. Plate 2, part 5, is in the second stateREFERENCE: Abbey Life 275; Cohn 181