[signed by the author] New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881. Undated endpaper ads. Original terra-cotta cloth with hanging sword in black. First Edition of Anna Katharine Green's third book, a romantic mystery following THE LEAVENWORTH CASE (1878) and A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE (1880). Green is often credited with being the first.....
[the dedicatee's copy] London: George Allen, 1907. Original deep reddish-brown cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition, first issue (with top edge gilt and other edges untrimmed) of this collection of 26 poems -- the poet's first book, published when he was 26. Hodgson (1871-1962) was a reclusive man who avoided.....
![PRUNELLA [inscribed by Housman]. Laurence Housman, H. Granville Barker](/pictures/thumb/8678.jpg?v=1564065586)
[inscribed by Housman] Or Love in a Dutch Garden. London: A. H. Bullen, 1906. 1 page undated ads. Original mauve cloth. First Edition of this play, largely for mummers. It was issued both in cloth and, less seldom seen, in purple wrappers. According to the last page of text, the.....
One page, on grey stationery lettered in red "34, De Vere Gardens, W." Dated "Mch 24th" [no year]. The text of the letter reads: On Monday 31st at 7:30 with great pleasure. Kind regards to your colleagues, & yours most truly [signed] Henry James Juliet Creed (1819-1899) in 1844 married William Frederick.....
To "My dear Mrs. Wood." 4 pages (all sides of a bifolium). South Berwick [Maine]: 13 August 1878. Signed "Sarah O. Jewett." The text of this letter reads: Here is the Boat song for you, and it was very good of you to care for it. And I am very glad.....
![THE SEABOARD PARISH [signed by MacDonald]. George MacDonald](/pictures/thumb/14105.jpg?v=1576082767)
[signed by George MacDonald] In Three Volumes. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1868. Original maroon cloth decorated in gilt (portraying medieval-style external book hinges). First Edition. This is the second novel in MacDonald's "Marshmallows Trilogy" -- the other two being ANNALS OF A QUIET NEIGHBOURHOOD (Hurst & Blackett 1867) and THE VICAR'S.....
![THE ORDEAL OF RICHARD FEVEREL [signed by Meredith]. George Meredith](/pictures/thumb/11317.jpg?v=1564065591)
[signed by Meredith] A History of Father and Son. In Three Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. Original blind-stamped greenish-brown cloth. First Edition of Meredith's first full-length novel (preceded only by a volume of verse and two single-volume burlesques). FEVEREL is the tough tale of a father's "system" of raising.....
![POEMS [inscribed by Meredith]. George Meredith](/pictures/thumb/11316.jpg?v=1564065591)
[inscribed by Meredith] London: John W. Parker and Son, n.d.[1851]. Original blind-stamped purple cloth. First Edition of George Meredith's first book, a volume of verse published when he was only 23 (and including many poems written at the age of 18 and earlier). Meredith had just married the widowed daughter.....
![THE LIFE OF CESARE BORGIA [inscribed]. Rafael Sabatini](/pictures/thumb/13505.jpg?v=1564065611)
[inscribed by Sabatini] A History and Some Criticisms. With a Coloured Frontispiece and Sixteen Other Illustrations in Half-tone. London: Stanley Paul & Co., n.d.[1912]. 32 pp ads, undated (but with this title listed second in the list of new announcements, and with 1910 and 1911 cited elsewhere). Original black cloth.....
Two pages (both sides of one leaf), folded into thirds to fit inside a handwritten folded envelope (with red wax seal). "Castle Street [Edinburgh], Friday." The letter reads: Sir I am honourd with your card & much obliged by the polite expressions which it contains and am very happy you have found.....
![THE SISTERS [inscribed by Swinburne]. Algernon Charles Swinburne](/pictures/thumb/8753.jpg?v=1564065586)
[from Swinburne to Meredith] A Tragedy. London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. 1 preliminary page ads plus 32 pp ads dated Oct 1891. Original dark blue-green cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 1250 copies, of Swinburne's only verse play in contemporary speech. This copy is inscribed by Swinburne on the half-title.....
![THACKERAY [inscribed by Trollope]. Anthony Trollope](/pictures/thumb/10054.jpg?v=1564065587)
[inscribed to Cardinal Manning] London: Macmillan and Co., 1879. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in black. First Edition, being the ninth volume in the "English Men of Letters" series edited by John Morley. This copy has the ad leaf in the earliest state, listing nine of the.....
![AUTOBIOGRAPHIES [1/250 copies signed]:. W. B. Yeats](/pictures/thumb/12646.jpg?v=1564065604)
[signed by Yeats] Reveries over Childhood and Youth and The Trembling of the Veil. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. Original light brown paper-covered boards with aqua cloth spine and printed labels. First American Edition, this being #174 of the 250 limited issue copies numbered and signed by Yeats. The.....
