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
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
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[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
[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... More
[one of only 51 copies] A Tale in Two Parts. London: Methuen & Co., (1913). 8 pp ads dated Autumn 1913. Original green cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First Edition, first (pre-publication) state, with the INTEGRAL title page reading "First Published in 1913" on the verso. CHANCE is not one of... More
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... More
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... More
[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... More
An Extravagant Story. London: William Heinemann, 1901. Original yellow cloth. First English Edition of what is regarded as Conrad's only science fiction tale (though the work is largely Hueffer's), involving people from the Fourth Dimension -- a dystopian society without feeling, intent upon inheriting the earth.~This copy is in the... More
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... More
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... More
With an Introduction by Richard Curle. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Original dark blue cloth, with dust jacket. First American Edition of this posthumous collection of twenty essays, most of which had previously appeared in England in limited pamphlet form. In our experience the American edition of... More
London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1926. Original green cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition of this posthumous collection of twenty essays, most of which had previously appeared in limited pamphlet form. Not mentioned on the title page (but noted on the dust jacket) is the fact that... More
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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... More
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... More
[one of 25 copies] London: Privately Printed by Clement Shorter, April 1919. Original red wrappers. First Separate Edition, being one of only 25 numbered copies (this being No. 6). This was the sixth and last of Shorter's very-limited-issue productions of Conrad's writings. This homage to the Thames River had originally... More
