London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915. Original grey printed wrappers. First Separate Edition, published five months after 1914 AND OTHER POEMS (which included these sonnets). Included is "The Soldier," beginning with Brooke's famous lines~If I should die, think only this of me:~That there's some corner of a foreign field~ That is... More
["From the Author's Father"] Edited by William M. Rossetti and F. Hueffer. With a Memoir and Two Portraits. [In Two Volumes.] London: Tinsley Brothers, 1876. Original rose-brown cloth on beveled boards. First Edition -- of the second and final title by "Nolly" Brown, who died of pyæmia (blood-poisoning) at the... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1930. Original green cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition of this tale of mystery and adventure, published a month before the American. As Buchan points out in a brief prefatory note, this tale contains further exploits of Dickson McCunn and several other characters whom he had... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1935). Original green cloth, with dust jacket. First English Edition, published two days after the American. This is the third and last mystery featuring Dickson McCunn (the two previous ones had been HUNTINGTOWER (1922) and CASTLE GAY (1930). This suspenseful tale takes place in the imaginary... More
Yesterday, To-Day, and Tomorrow. By Lord Tweedsmuir. Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen: Church of Scotland Committee on Publications, (1938). Original orange wrappers. First Edition with this title. Buchan delivered this address in June 1937 to the General Council of the Alliance of Reformed Churches, right after which it was issued as... More
![CHIMES FROM A JESTER'S BELLS [inscribed by Burdette]. Robert J. Burdette.](/pictures/thumb/5115.jpg?v=1507051273)
[inscribed by the author] Part I. The Story of Rollo. Part II. Stories and Sketches. With Illustrations by Louis Braunhold. Cover Design by Robert J. Burdette, Jr. Indianapolis and Kansas City: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1897. 6 pp undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in black, white and gilt. First Edition... More
[original boards, leaves uncut] Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, and Sold by William Creech, 1787. Original blue-grey paper-covered boards with cream paper spine and printed label, page edges uncut. The Edinburgh edition, which is to say the second edition overall, following the rare Kilmarnock edition of 1786 (and containing 22... More
[original boards, leaves uncut] The Third Edition. London: Printed for A. Strahan; T. Cadell in The Strand; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1787. Original blue-grey paper-covered boards with cream paper spine and printed label, page edges uncut. "The London edition," which is to say the third edition overall (so stated, unlike... More
London: Printed for J. Murray by T. Davison, 1814. 6 pp undated ads. Original drab paper-covered boards with printed spine label. First Edition of LARA; JACQUELINE, which is by Samuel Rogers, had previously been privately printed. LARA was the fourth of Byron's Levantine tales, following THE SIEGE OF CORINTH, THE... More
According to Sir Roger L'Estrange. With Fifty Drawings by Alexander Calder. [Paris:] Harrison of Paris | New York: Minton, Balch and Company, (1931). Original beige paper-covered boards with unlettered beige cloth spine, with dust jacket. First Edition, printed in France, of which this is one of twenty copies on Auvergne... More
An Agony, in Eight Fits. With Nine Illustrations by Henry Holiday. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. Original buff cloth pictorially decorated in black, all page edges gilt. First Edition of this poetical nonsense tale, both funny and subtle, that "describes with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1869. Original royal blue cloth decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of this early volume of verse, published just four years after ALICE. The volume consists of 13 amusing poems in Part I, and 13 serious poems in Part II.~The title-poem... is well... More
With Sixty-five Illustrations by Arthur B. Frost and Nine by Henry Holiday. London: Macmillan and Co., 1883. 1 page undated ads. Original light green cloth pictorially decorated in gilt. First Edition of Lewis Carroll's first major collection of verse (though some of the material had appeared earlier, in PHANTASMAGORIA and... More
[with 1893 dust jacket] With Forty-six Illustrations by Harry Furniss. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. 5 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of Carroll's conclusion to his 1889 novel/fairy tale, written with an even more serious tone than... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. Original orange-brown cloth decorated in grey. First Edition of Willa Cather's last book, a collection of three tales. She had intended for a fourth (longer) tale to be included as well, but she died in 1947 without finishing it -- so that manuscript was... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. Original brown cloth decorated in black, white and orange. First Edition of this Afro-American writer's first book, a series of seven dialect stories about incidents of slavery, told as reminiscences by an old black gardener. Examples are "Po' Sandy," "Mars Jeem's... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901. Original yellow-orange cloth decorated in black and silver. First Edition of this landmark novel in the history of American race relations. Chesnutt was a mixed-race American born in 1858 to two free Afro-Americans in Cleveland; after the Civil War they returned... More
[Vincent Starrett's copy] containing All the Melodies the Old Lady Ever Wrote. Edited by Dame Goslin. Embellished with an exact likeness of the veritable Mother Goose, and Numerous Engravings from Original Designs. New York: Leavitt & Allen, n.d. [1854?]. Original blind-stamped dark green cloth with gilt-decorated spine. This is one... More
or, Vladimir the Monk. New York: Robert Bonner's Sons, 1888. Original buff wrappers. First Edition in book form, published in the year following the death of this prodigious New England writer (born in Maine). This tale had first appeared in the New York Ledger in 1856, the year in which... More
A Story of the Present Time. In Three Volumes. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. 32 pp Vol III ads dated March 1883. Original violet-grey cloth decorated in black. First Edition of what was labeled in a contemporary review as Collins's "anti-vivisection manifesto."~Swinburne later called it 'a childish and harmless onslaught... More
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1873. 1 page undated ads. Original dark green cloth decorated in black and lettered in gilt. First English Edition, 1500 copies published in January 1873. After this novella had appeared in the Christmas 1871 London Graphic, Librairie Hachette took the liberty of producing an 1872... More
Translated from the Italian by M[ary]. A[lice]. Murray. Illustrated by C.[sic] Mazzanti. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. Original cream cloth decorated in blue, with endpapers and page edges to match. First Edition in English, issued as a volume in Unwin's "The Children's Library." Lorenzini (1826-1890 -- he used his mother's... More
![ALMAYER'S FOLLY [Edward Garnett's copy]. Joseph Conrad.](/pictures/thumb/13421.jpg?v=1507051288)
[Edward Garnett's copy] A Story of an Eastern River. Second Edition. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. Original dark green cloth. First Edition, early but not first printing, of Conrad's first book. The first printing came out in 1895 (bearing that date on the title page) -- some domestic copies and... More
A Story of an Eastern River. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1895. 3 pp undated ads. Original black cloth. First American Edition of Conrad's first book, with a text that varies considerably from the English edition (because it was typeset from uncorrected proofs). We find the American edition to be... More
A Story of an Eastern River. Second Edition. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. Original dark green cloth. First Edition, early printing -- of Conrad's first book. Though labeled "Second Edition" on the title page, this is actually a reprint of the first edition; all copies of this printing seem to... More
