[two volumes, original wrappers] A Novel. By the Author of "Jane Eyre" [sic]. [In Two Volumes.] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848. Original light brown printed wrappers. First American Edition of one of the greatest novels of the Nineteenth Century. Emily Brontë's ("Ellis Bell's") WUTHERING HEIGHTS was published in England... More
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915. Original blue-black cloth with printed spine label. First Edition, which consisted of 1000 copies. Included is the first book appearance of his best-known poem, "The Soldier," which begins~If I should die, think only this of me:--That there's some corner of a foreign field~That is for... More
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
![THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. [First AND Second Phases.]. John Buchan.](/pictures/thumb/14129.jpg?v=1536949401)
[Together, two volumes.] London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, n.d. [1916 & 1917]. Original paper-covered boards and original wrappers, respectively. First Editions of Buchan's account of the war effort. Buchan had joined the Nelson publishing firm as literary adviser in 1905 (due in large part to his friendship with Oxford classmate... More
With Illustrations. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in black, green, and red. First American Edition. This is a retelling of a dozen true historical events that involved "escapes and hurried journeys" all over the world (Scotland, South Africa, Turkestan, Australia...), illustrated with... 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 New York Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916. Original dark green cloth. First Edition of this wartime mystery, the second of Buchan's five featuring Richard Hannay (preceded by THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS, and succeeded by MR. STANDFAST, THE THREE HOSTAGES and ISLAND OF SHEEP).~Richard Hannay is at once established in the... 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
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1922). Original light blue cloth lettered in dark blue. First Edition of Buchan's first mystery to feature Dickson McCunn -- a retired Glasgow grocer who hopes to get a little relaxation and exercise with a walking holiday in Galloway... The other two McCunn mysteries would be... More
London, Edinburgh, and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1923). Original light olive-brown cloth pictorially decorated in white, red, blue and black. First Edition, first impression, of this volume of exploration to remote corners of the world, such as the North Pole, the South Pole, Mounts Everest and McKinley (Denali)... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d. [1923]. Original grey cloth decorated in green. First Edition, preceding Hodder & Stoughton's London edition by about a week. This novel is a mysterious tale taking place in the Scottish Highlands -- presented as a newly-discovered manuscript written by James Boswell and thus... More
London / New York / Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. Original light blue cloth. First Edition of the third of Buchan's five Richard Hannay mysteries (preceded by THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS and GREENMANTLE, to be followed by THE THREE HOSTAGES and ISLAND OF SHEEP). Since the first three take place during... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1916. Original rose cloth. First Edition of this mysterious tale of international intrigue, featuring Edward Leithen (who would reappear in other Buchan tales). The Power-House is a secret anarchist organization, led by a wealthy Englishman, which aims to destroy Western civilization. Buchan had... 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
London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, n.d. [1915]. Original olive cloth, printed in white on the front cover and in gilt on the spine. First Edition of this tale sited in the 1680s -- with young Andrew Garvald starting out in Scotland, but winding up "in... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. 2 pp undated ads. Original light blue cloth. First Edition of Buchan's best-known book, the classic mystery that has withstood the test of time both as a book and as a film. This was the first of Buchan's five mysteries to feature... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Original grey cloth decorated in red. First Edition, published eleven days before the London one. (This was the first of Buchan's many American editions to be published by Houghton Mifflin -- due to Ferris Greenslet, a fellow-fisherman and wartime friend of Buchan... 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
