London, Paris & New York: Cassell & Company, 1883. 4 pp ads dated July 1883. Original forest green cloth. First Edition, earliest date of ads, of this classic. In late 1881 Stevenson wrote this tale, titled THE SEA COOK, merely as an amusement for his 12-year-old stepson. It was accepted.....
An Unfinished Romance. London: Chatto and Windus, 1896. 32 pp ads dated Mar 1896. Original very dark blue cloth, beveled. First Edition of Stevenson's last fiction, left unfinished at his death. Stevenson began writing this book in 1892 (he called it THE JUSTICE-CLERK), but kept putting it aside to write.....
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A Novel. Illustrated by Alfred Brennan. In: six consecutive monthly issues of McClure's Magazine. New York: S.S. McClure, February - July 1894. Original orange wrappers printed in white and black. First Appearance of this novel. Stevenson and his stepson had contracted to write this in 1888, and Osbourne began it.....
[in unbound gatherings] A Trio & Quartette. Chicago & Cambridge: Stone & Kimball, 1895. Original unbound folded signatures. First Edition, fourth printing, published on October 5, 1895 (the publishing history is itemized on the copyright page). This copy is still in its printed but unbound state -- in fourteen folded gatherings.....
London: William Heinemann, 1894. 20 pp ads dated August 1894. Original (smooth) bronze cloth pictorially decorated in black. First English Edition (published two months after the Chicago one) of this novel Stevenson co-wrote with his stepson. A down-on-his-luck sea captain accepts an assignment on a rickety boat with a mysterious cargo.....
On his Way through the World; shewing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him By. In Three Volumes. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. Original violet-blue cloth. First Edition of this Thackeray's last completed novel -- involving a sham marriage, blackmail by a clergyman, a family fortune.....
Montpelier [VT]: E.P. Walton and Son, 1835. Original tan muslin embossed with dots. First Edition of Pierce's second book, a tale of romance and buried treasure in the hills of Vermont. Pierce (1795-1868) was an 1820 graduate of Middlebury College who became first a lawyer and then an author, in.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1877. Original terra-cotta cloth with front cover and spine decorated in black, spine stamped in gilt and black. First Edition, published at the end of this novel's serialization in Temple Bar magazine. "THE AMERICAN SENATOR will be read for the sake of its opening chapters, which set.....
[in original wrappers] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Original light brown printed wrappers (dated Nov. 1866 on the rear wrapper). First Edition printed in America, issued as No. 263 of Harper's "Library of Select Novels." As Smith describes in great detail, in preparing the UK edition for publication, Chapman.....
With Illustrations, by H. K. Browne. New York: Harper & Brothers, n.d.[1865]. 2-page terminal list of Harper's Library of Select Novels, ending with #258. Original dark blue-green honeycomb-grain cloth. First American Edition of the first of Trollope's six "Palliser" novels, published in September 1865, the month after the final UK.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. 6 pp undated ads (final three leaves of the last gathering). Original dark purple-red horizontally-ribbed morocco-grain cloth. First American Edition of this novel sited in Ireland during the famine of 1846-1847. The author later wrote of it in his autobiography, This novel... is of itself.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Original "grayish reddish brown" diagonal dot-and-ribbon grain cloth. First Edition (preceding the UK) of these adventures of Harry Clavering, beginning with Julia Brabazon jilting him in favor of a wealthy old debauchee. Trollope himself later recalled that "I consider the story as a whole.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1880. 24 pp Vol III undated ads. Original blue-green cloth decorated in black. First Edition of the sixth and last Palliser novel. Since the end of THE PRIME MINISTER, the Duchess of Omnium has died, leaving to the Duke the care of their three children; just.....
A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. 4 pp preliminary undated ads. Original dark green cloth. First Edition (Harper's one-volume edition was published in October 1872; the London three-decker, dated 1873, came out two months later, in December 1872). This is Trollope's tale about the adventuress Lizzie Greystock --.....
A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873. 4 pp preliminary undated ads. Original printed buff wrappers. Early edition in wrappers, being No. 577 in Harper's "Library of Select Novels." Harper's first edition (published a few days earlier than the 1873-dated London three-decker) came out in October 1872 and was.....
A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. 4 pp preliminary undated ads. Original medium-green cloth. First Edition (Harper's one-volume edition was published in October 1872; the London three-decker, dated 1873, came out two months later, in December 1872). This is Trollope's tale about the adventuress Lizzie Greystock -- "the.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1882. Original antique-rose cloth. First Edition of one of the strangest of all of Trollope's novels, about the imaginary, dystopian, former British colony of Britannula in the mid-20th Century... On an imaginary island near Australia over which the English had renounced their sovereignty, a......
With Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. 4 pp preliminary ads plus 4 pp at rear, undated. Original light brown printed wrappers. First American (and first illustrated) Edition, later issue, being No. 579 in Harper's Library of Select Novels. This tale takes place at the Lion d'Or, the only.....
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1879. Original scarlet cloth decorated in black. First Edition, third binding state (three-volumes-in-one), of this adventurous tale. "The plot is one of his most interesting, ingenious, elaborate, and unexpected" [Walpole]. John Caldigate goes to Australia to seek his fortune in the gold mines, and winds up.....
With Thirty-two Illustrations by George H. Thomas. In Two Volumes. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition in book form of the last title in Trollope's Barsetshire series. The tale, which the author later claimed was "the best novel I have written," revolves.....
With Illustrations by George H. Thomas. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1867. 2 pp undated ads. Original grey-green cloth. First Complete (which is to say, the American) Edition of the sixth and last of the Barsetshire Novels, with illustrations by the same artist as in the UK. This American edition.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. Original blind-stamped dark green cloth. First Edition. According to Trollope's autobiography, he wrote this novel with a desire to prove that a novel may be produced without any love... In order that I might be strong in my purpose, I took for my heroine a very.....
In Three Volumes. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. 32 pp Vol I ads dated March 1883. Original blue-green cloth decorated in reddish-brown. First Edition of this novel about a man who valued his estate above his honor, and who accordingly tried to have his cake and eat it too... "He.....
With Illustrations by J.E. Millais. London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. Original blind-stamped purple-brown cloth with gilt-decorated spines. First Edition in book form (the two volumes were issued nine months apart during serialization of the twenty monthly parts). Included are forty full-page plates by the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais. "While.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. Original rose cloth, beveled. First Edition of this collection of pieces such as "The Family that Goes Abroad because it's the thing to do," "The Unprotected Female Tourist," and "Tourists who don't like their Travels." This book was issued as a companion volume to HUNTING.....
