[inscribed by Lewis Carroll] With Forty-six Illustrations [each] by Harry Furniss. [Together, two volumes.] London: Macmillan and Co., 1889/1893. 3 pp / 5 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Editions of Carroll's rather serious fairy tales. SYLVIE AND BRUNO, with its conclusion.....
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London / Londres / Londra: Macmillan und Comp / and Co. / and Co., 1869 / 1869 / 1872. 178 pp / 196 pp / 189 pp. Original green / blue / salmon-rose cloth decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. Macmillan of London published the original (English) edition of.....
[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.....
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.....
With Selections from his Journals and Correspondence. By His Son. [in Two Volumes.] London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848. 32 pp Vol I ads dated April 29, 1848. Original blind-stamped dark purple-brown cloth. First Edition of Wilkie Collins's first book -- a memoir of his father the landscape and.....
With Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. 2 pp preliminary ads. Original grey-green cloth. First American Edition, published about eight days after Smith Elder's two-volume English edition -- and with 36 illustrations, compared to the UK edition's twenty. This is "Collins's longest novel... The complex plot combines several of.....
Fully Illustrated. Boston: Shepard and Gill, 1874. 10 pp undated ads. Original green cloth decorated in black, lettered in gilt and in orange. First Edition of this mysterious tale, actually published in late 1873 (the English edition, THE FROZEN DEEP AND OTHER STORIES, was published about nine months later --.....
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1879. Bound in three-quarter red morocco with gilt-paneled spines, red cloth boards, marbled endpapers. First Edition of this novel about "fallen leaves... the people who have drawn blanks in the lottery of life... the friendless and the lonely, the wounded and the lost." The novel follows the.....
With Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1870. 4 pp ads dated July 1870. Original dark purple-brown cloth. First American (and first illustrated) Edition -- and possibly the first edition overall. The English threedecker -- considered to be the scarcest of all of Collins's UK firsts -- was published in.....
[George Westinghouse to his wife] With Many Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868. 2 pp preliminary undated ads. Original purple-brown cloth. First American (and first illustrated) Edition of this classic of detective fiction, issued in the same year as the London three-decker. THE MOONSTONE marked the end of Collins's.....
[a handsome set] In Two Volumes. London: Sampson, Low, Son, & Co., 1863. 16 pp ads dated Nov 1863 in each volume. Original green cloth with spines stamped in gilt. First Edition of this collection of twenty-five essays, sketches and other pieces (including some fiction). All of them had initially.....
Illustrated by John McLenan. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863. 2 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped black cloth. First American (and first illustrated) Edition of "the most unjustly neglected of all Wilkie Collins's novels," initially published as an 1862 three-decker. Actually there is uncertainty in the priority between two American.....
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.....
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.....
[Conrad's son's tutor's copy] A Story Between Two Notes. London: T. Fisher Unwin, (1919). Original dark green cloth, with dust jacket. First English Edition of this novel set in 1870s Marseille, a port Conrad knew well from his earliest days as a seaman (in France 1874-1879) -- thus English was.....
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A Tale of the Forecastle. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1897. Original pictorial light blue-grey mottled cloth. First Edition, first issue, of the tale subsequently published as THE NIGGER OF THE "NARCISSUS." Conrad wrote this story with the "Nigger" title, but consented to change the title for the American.....
A Tale of the Forecastle. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1898. Original pictorial light blue-grey mottled cloth. First Edition, second issue -- with the date 1898 (rather than 1897) on the front of the title leaf. (Note: ALL copies without a date on the front of the title leaf.....
A Tale of the Forecastle. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1897. Original pictorial light blue-grey mottled cloth. First Edition, first issue, of the tale subsequently published as THE NIGGER OF THE "NARCISSUS." Conrad wrote this story with the "Nigger" title, but consented to change the title for the American.....
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[1 of 30 signed copies] London: Thirty Copies, numbered and signed by the Author, privately printed by Strangeways and Sons, January 1924. Original light brown wrappers, with glassine dust jacket. First Edition, being one of 30 copies numbered and signed by Conrad, this being No 13. Conrad wrote this as.....
An Appreciation. Canterbury: Printed for Private Circulation by H. J. Goulden, 1922. Original pale turquoise wrappers. First Edition, first printing (i.e. with no title page). Galsworthy had met Conrad in early 1893, when a passenger on board the "Torrens" -- of which ship Conrad was then first mate. This was.....
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[1 of 200 signed copies] A Play. London: [Morland Press,] 1923. Original full limp vellum, in the original green cloth box with spine label. First Edition, being one of 200 copies numbered and signed by Conrad (this being #177) -- issued as the fourth title in the Morland Press's "The.....
Two Plays. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Original navy blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition, published the year after Conrad's death. The volume is in near-fine condition (the spine lettering does not stand out, but that is because it is in green on navy blue). This copy.....
[the scarce first issue] New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1900. Original light green cloth decorated in dark green. First American Edition, first state, of what is arguably Conrad's greatest work. At the time this was being published, Doubleday & McClure was about to divide into two entities (Doubleday Page.....
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[inscribed by Conrad] New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1906. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in yellow, grey and brown. First (American) Edition, published on the same day as the London one. This was Conrad's first volume of autobiographical non-fiction. This copy is in Cagle's binding "a," with the.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1906. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in yellow, grey and brown. First (American) Edition, published on the same day as the London one. This was Conrad's first volume of autobiographical non-fiction. This copy is in Cagle's binding "a," with the smaller (17x11mm) anchor-and-rope device.....
