New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909. Original red cloth. First Edition of this gathering of 22 short stories, all delving into the question of fate vs free will -- how chance encounters and offhanded decisions shape the course of one's life, for better or for worse. As with all.....
Frontispiece by Alice Barber Stephens. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1907. Original red cloth. First Edition of "O. Henry"'s third book, following CABBAGES AND KINGS (1904) and THE FOUR MILLION (1906). Like his preceding volume, these are short stories and vignettes (often ending with "a twist") about the people.....
New York: The McClure Company, 1908. 1 page undated ads. Original red cloth. First Edition, first printing (with only the endpaper following the ad leaf), first binding (with "McClure" rather than "Doubleday, Page & Co." at the foot of the spine). This was O. Henry's third volume of 25 very.....
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910. Original red cloth. First Edition. This was O. Henry's fourth volume of tales about the "four million" people of New York City; he had settled there in 1902, after his three-year imprisonment in Texas for bank embezzlement. This is a bright copy, fine except.....
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910. Original red cloth. First Edition of this collection of 24 short stories, many of them ending with classic "I did not see that coming" twists. Included is one of his best-known, "The Ransom of Red Chief." WHIRLIGIGS was published in September 1910, three.....
