Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. One preliminary page undated ads. Original terra-cotta cloth, beveled. First Edition of Henry James's second book, which consisted of either 1500 (per E&L) or 1578 (per Blanck) copies. Published in the same year as his first (A PASSIONATE PILGRIM), this is a collection.....
Edited and Compiled from their Diaries and Papers. [In Two Volumes.] Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Original black cloth with Irish Guards star in gilt and printed spine label, with dust jackets. First American Edition of this exhaustive narrative of the experience of the Irish Guards during.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. 3 pp undated ads. Original maroon cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 2,530 copies -- fewer copies than any known printing of all earlier Jack London books except his first book, THE SON OF THE WOLF (2,028 copies). (By contrast, THE CALL OF.....
Edited by J. Middleton Murry. London: Constable & Co., 1930. Original grey cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition. These are the book reviews Katherine Mansfield wrote for "The Athenaeum" during the years 1919-1920, published here seven years after her death by her widower. This is a fine copy in a......
during a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas; the Revised Edition, with a Sequel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1876. 7 pp undated ads (primarily for OMOO). Original blind-stamped green cloth. "The Revised Edition, with a Sequel," later Harper printing. TYPEE was Melville's first book, first published.....
An Account of the Historic Surrender of Santiago to General Shafter, July 17, 1898. San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1917. Original tan wrappers pictorially decorated in black and orange. First Edition in book form (having originally appeared in The Sun); included is a frontispiece portrait of "Pecos Bill" Shafter.....
being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1857. Original light olive cloth printed with a facsimile of the title page. First Edition. This title was issued as a volume in Smith Elder's "New Cheap Series," and.....
London: Martin Secker, n.d.[1917]. 8 pp undated ads. Original grey paper-covered boards with brown cloth spine and printed spine label. First Edition. This was the first of Sabatini's three series of fictionalized historical events -- followed by other series in 1919 and in 1938. The thirteen episodes all have "The.....
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[inscribed by Sabatini] A History and Some Criticisms. With a Coloured Frontispiece and Sixteen Other Illustrations in Half-tone. London: Stanley Paul & Co., n.d.[1912]. 32 pp ads, undated (but with this title listed second in the list of new announcements, and with 1910 and 1911 cited elsewhere). Original black cloth.....
With Other Memories and Essays. London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. Original very dark blue cloth, beveled. First Edition (English -- published on the same day as the American). This volume consists largely of Stevenson's thoughts as he journeyed by train in 1879 from New York to San Francisco, in pursuit.....
An Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu. London: Chatto and Windus, 1890. Original brown wrappers. First Trade Edition, consisting of 1,000 copies (preceded only by 25 copies issued in Sydney and 30 issued in Edinburgh). On the Stevensons' voyage to the South Pacific they had visited the.....
London: Chatto and Windus, 1887. Original very dark blue cloth, beveled. First Edition of these "memories of childhood and youth, portraits of those who have gone before us in the battle." The edition is believed to have consisted of 2000 copies. A near-fine copy (cloth worn at the top of.....
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[1/100, in unbound signatures] Being Correspondence addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin. November 1890 - October 1894. In Two Volumes. Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1895. Original folded unbound signatures. First Edition, Large Paper Issue, consisting of 100 numbered copies on John Dickinson & Co. paper -- this copy.....
Being Correspondence addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin November 1890 - October 1894. London: Methuen & Co., 1895. Original pinkish-tan buckram decorated in gilt. First English Edition, domestic issue (with title page in red and black), published about a week after the two-volume Chicago edition. "Vailima" ("five rivers").....
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881. 32 pp ads dated July 1881. Original orange cloth decorated in black, beveled. First Edition, first issue, of Stevenson's first volume of collected essays (which had appeared in periodicals such as The Cornhill during the late 1870s). These essays epitomize Stevenson's early expository.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. 24 pp ads dated Dec 1864. Original blind-stamped violet-blue cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 2,000 copies (of which some were sent to England where they were issued with a cancel title page) -- printed in December 1864, but not actually published until March.....
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881 / 1884 / 1888 / 1892. [Together, four volumes.] Original dark green cloth with facsimile signature in gilt, beveled. First Edition, first printing, of each of Thoreau's "four seasons" edited from his journal by H.G.O. Blake. (It is curious that the four seasons were.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. 24 pp ads dated April 1864. Original green zigzag-grain cloth. First Edition of Thoreau's fourth book, which consisted of only 1450 copies (per Borst; Blanck says 1650). Thoreau's three earlier books had been A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS, WALDEN, and (after his.....
["Civil Disobedience" -- fine] Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. Original green cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. First Edition, which consisted of only 1500 (Borst) or 1546 (Blanck) copies. This is a posthumous collection of essays, edited by William Ellery Channing and Sophia Thoreau (the author's sister). Its best-known.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1883. 4+24 pp undated ads in Vol II. Original dark rose cloth. First Edition of Trollope's autobiography, published in October 1883, less than a year after his death. The editor of these papers, who also wrote the Preface, was the author's son Henry.....
1868. London: Virtue & Co., 1868. Original bright green cloth. First Edition of this collection of eight pieces on outdoor "sports and pastimes" -- namely horse-racing, hunting, shooting (birds), fishing, yachting, rowing, alpine climbing and cricket. All had appeared, between December 1867 and August 1868, in Saint Paul's Magazine, of.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. 4+8 pp terminal ads, undated. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black. First Edition of this schoolbook written by Trollope, issued as the fourth volume in the "Ancient Classics for English Readers" series. As Trollope explains: since this book was often reprinted without.....
London: Wm. Isbister, 1882. Original terra-cotta cloth on flexible boards. First Edition, first state -- dated 1882, in smooth cloth and black endpapers (later copies, dated 1883, were in a grained cloth, with white endpapers). This was the second volume in Isbister's ill-fated "English Political Leaders" series, modeled after Macmillan's.....
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1862. Original blind-stamped brown pebbled cloth. First Authorized American Edition, believed to have followed Harper's pirated edition by a mere four days. This work is not only a geographical description of North America; Trollope also gets into such questions as "Deficiencies in the Post Office.....
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[inscribed to Cardinal Manning] London: Macmillan and Co., 1879. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in black. First Edition, being the ninth volume in the "English Men of Letters" series edited by John Morley. This copy has the ad leaf in the earliest state, listing nine of the.....
