London: Jonathan Cape, (1923). Original mottled grey boards with blue cloth spine and printed spine label. First Edition of this novel -- actually "a humorously fictionalized account of an Englishman's visit to Rome" [jrank] -- by this writer who was primarily a critic and editor. Very good-plus condition (spine cloth.....
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head / New York: John Lane Company, 1907. 2 pp undated ads. Original green-grey cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of this "motorised detective story" [Quayle]. All of Colonel Mauleverer's sons are being murdered, each a month apart, and each left with a noose.....
[first book, "From the Author"] By John Sinjohn. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. Original olive green cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of John Galsworthy's first book, a collection of ten tales. Only 500 copies were printed -- on a commission basis, with Galsworthy paying for the printing; in order.....
[boldy inscribed by Galsworthy] By John Sinjohn. London: Duckworth & Co., 1898. 2 pp ads dated Easter 1898. Original olive green cloth. First Edition of Galsworthy's first novel (and his second book -- the first, FROM THE FOUR WINDS, having been a collection of stories). As with his first book.....
By John Sinjohn. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1901. 2 pp undated ads plus 32 pp ads dated April 1901. Original blue-grey cloth. First Edition of Galsworthy's fourth book, which consisted of only 1,050 copies. This is a collection of four tales -- the last book to be.....
included in "Round the Sofa." London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1861. 2 pp ads dated July 1861 (last leaf of final gathering). Original blind-stamped green cloth with spine decorated in gilt. First English Edition, so titled, of this collection of six short stories (the title one, at 164 pages.....
Much Sound and Little Sense. With Illustrations by the Author. London: John Camden Hotten, 1869. 4 pp undated (Routledge) ads. With: MORE "BAB" BALLADS... George Routledge and Sons, n.d.[1872]. 4 pp undated ads. Original green cloth decorated in gilt, beveled, all page edges gilt. First Editions of these collections of.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1907. 1 preliminary page ads plus 32 pp undated ads. Original blue-green cloth. First Edition of this novel by the younger brother of novelist George Gissing. Having been unsuccessful in a legal career, Algernon tried his hand at writing -- and though he wrote and published.....
[a handsome copy] A Novel. In Three Volumes. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1890. Original patterned paper-covered boards with brown cloth spines. First Edition, which consisted of 1,000 copies (of which, according to the publisher, only 492 were sold -- but that may have been Bentley's ruse to avoid paying.....
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1890. Original patterned paper-covered boards with brown cloth spines. First Edition, which consisted of 1,000 copies (of which, according to the publisher, only 492 were sold -- but that may have been Bentley's ruse to avoid paying Gissing "bonuses" that would kick in if 850.....
London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1895. 4 pp ads dated March 1896. Original mustard yellow cloth decorated in red. First Edition of this novella, being a volume in "Cassell's Pocket Library," which was edited by Max Pemberton. With the 1894 demise of the three-decker format and the lengthy.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1898). Original olive green cloth pictorially decorated in light green, black and red. First American Edition, first state, issued in late September 1898 -- about a month after Methuen's London edition. Quite different from his earlier grim novels of social realism, this has been.....
With Illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1904. Original red cloth. First Edition of this tale of the Reconstruction Era -- the author's fifth book, and the concluding volume in a trilogy (following VOICE OF THE PEOPLE of 1900 and THE BATTLE-GROUND of 1902) that.....
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900. Original tan cloth decorated in dark green. First Edition of Ellen Glasgow's third book -- a tale of the Reconstruction Era -- the first volume in a trilogy (followed by BATTLE-GROUND in 1902 and THE DELIVERANCE in 1904) that deals with life in.....
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, n.d. [1905]. Original tan cloth decorated in green and red. First Edition of this mystery, issued as a volume in Bobbs-Merrill's "Pocket Book" series. The narrator stops to spend the night on "a dark and stormy night," in a big house in rural western Pennsylvania --.....
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1901. 3 pp undated ads. Original maroon cloth with facsimile typed letter affixed to the front cover. First Edition of this mystery. The narrator is walking along a Manhattan street when a young girl rushes out of a door to say that.....
With Illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, n.d. [1906]. Original yellow-brown cloth decorated in brown and blue. First Edition of this mystery. At a glamorous ball a handsome stranger suddenly asks the narrator to marry him -- but then appears to be even more interested in the.....
London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d.[1882]. Original glazed pictorial boards with yellow cloth spine. This was the first of Kate Greenaway's fourteen little almanacks -- probably published actually in late 1882. There are 23 pages of charming illustrations in color. This is a very good-plus copy (minor cover soil and.....
London: George Routledge & Sons, n.d.[1885]. Original white morocco-grain boards pictorially decorated in gilt and bordered in dark blue, all edges gilt. This was the fourth of the fourteen Greenaway almanacks, and inÂcludes 23 pages bearing her color illustrations. This copy is in the special binding of imitation-morocco white boards.....
[London:] George Routledge & Sons, n.d.[1890]. Original white pictorial boards with yellow cloth spine. This was the ninth of the fourteen almanacks by Kate Greenaway, in the standard binding of white pictorial boards showing a woman with three children, within a border of leaves. There are 22 pages bearing Greenaway.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1948. Original grey and antique-rose cloth, with dust jacket. First American Edition of Greene's first post-war novel, portraying the moral crisis of a good man "increasingly enmeshed in love, in intrigue, and in evil" (per the jacket), while serving as a wartime British colonial police.....
[inscribed by Greene] London: William Heinemann Ltd, (1955). Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of this novella about a man who devises a scheme to win big at Monte Carlo -- but his obsession causes him to lose his girl (whom he planned to.....
[the Penzler copy] Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Original wheat cloth stamped on the spine in green, top page edge green, with dust jacket. First Edition, preceding the UK edition which was titled A GUN FOR SALE. It is the tale of the assassin Raven, a hitman.....
Two pages (of four pages on one folded leaf). On Haggard's personal stationery ("Ditchingham House, Norfolk"), dated by hand "26.Oct:1900". The text of this letter reads: It is most kind of Mrs Cornwallis West & yourself to think of me. I should much like to have the honour of making my.....
Being His Commonplace Book for 1898. With 2 Maps and 36 Illustrations by G. Leon Little. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. 32 pp ads dated Sep 1898. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition, which consisted of 3000 copies. This was Haggard's second volume of non-fiction (his.....
