“My sakes alive — the turkey is burnt on one side, and the kettles have biled over so the pies I put to warm are all ashes!” Aunt Jo’s Scrap-bag: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, etc. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1882 First edition PS1017 A8 1882 “Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag” is...
“Look at me! I’m the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam’d by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the small-pox on the mother’s side! Look at me! I take nineteen alligators and a bar’l of...
He only earns both freedom and existence Who must reconquer them each day.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust FAUST Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Tolz: Bremer Press, 1920 PT1916 A1 1920 Printed using a proprietary type (an Antiqua) designed for Bremer Press by the director of the press, Dr. Willy Wiegand....
“The record of the phenomenal growth and expansion of our country is resplendent with the contributory and glorious achievements of its Army. From the pioneer days when our forefathers carved their way into wilds and dangers of the west to the present, the Army has...
“…senseless atoms, playing and toying up and down, without any care or thought, and from eternity trying all manner of tricks, conclusions and experiments, were at length (they know not how) taught, and by the necessity of things themselves, as it were, driven…so that though...
1831 edition illustrations by Theodor von Holst “The day of my departure at length arrived.” Title: Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus Author: Mary W. Shelley The National Library (Third) Edition; First Illustrated Edition Published: London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831 Pages: 200; Introduction and Preface included. Call Number: PR5397 F7 1831 Mary...
A Black, E white, I red, U green, O blue: vowels, I will someday speak of your unseen births: A, black corset bristling with glittering flies That buzz around cruel smells, Gulfs of shadow; E, innocent vapours and tents, Lances of proud glaciers, white kings, frissons of an inflorescence; I, crimsons,...
Past cure I am, now Reason is past care, And frantic-mad with evermore unrest; My thoughts and my discourse as madmen’s are, At random from the truth vainly expressed; For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. Duet Marie C....
“A catt may look on a king” Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish… James Howell (1594? – 1666) London: Printed by J.G. for Samuel Thompson, 1660 First and only edition James Howell, born in Wales and educated at Oxford, began his literary career in 1640 with the political allegory, Dendrologia: Dodona’s...
“Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before” THE RAVEN Edgar Allan Poe (1909-1949) Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1980 This is the first book from Alan James Robinson and his Cheloniidae Press. Text is hand-set and printed by Harold McGrath in Bruce Rogers’ 24pt. Centaur type in...