[the true first edition] London: Mills & Boon, (1915). 2 pp undated ads plus 32 pp undated ads. Original green-blue cloth. First Edition (preceding the American THE STAR ROVER by about two-plus months) -- of this science fiction tale, involving both reincarnation and astral projection. It tells the story of San.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1908. 4 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth decorated in grey and gilt. First Edition of this futuristic (and socialistic) novel written in 1906 -- considered to be the earliest of modern dystopian fiction, with a strong influence on BRAVE NEW WORLD (1932) and.....
With an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a Map of Wessex. (London:) James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., (1896 [vere 1895]). Original dark blue-green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First Edition of Hardy's last great novel, issued as Vol. VIII of "The Wessex Novels." Titled HEARTS INSURGENT at the.....
Illustrated by H.T. Dunn. New York: The Century Co., 1913. Original very dark green cloth. First Edition, first issue (with only one blank leaf at the rear other than the endpaper). This was London's "confessional book," a fictional but quite autobiographical tale that Jack wrote to exorcise his shame... JOHN BARLEYCORN.....
New York: The Century Company, 1913. 1 page undated ads. Original blue-grey cloth decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of ten short stories. In addition to the title story, the volume includes "The Madness of John Harned," "Bunches of Knuckles" and "To Kill a Man." This was the.....
![Item #15929 THE CRUISE OF THE SNARK. Illustrated [with photographs]. Jack London](https://sumnerandstillman.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15929.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1786375201)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. 6 pp undated ads. Original blue-grey cloth with affixed front cover (frontispiece) color illustration. First Edition, which consisted of only 4,265 copies -- a very small printing for London's books (as this was, after all, non-fiction for which Macmillan had modest expectations). Jack had.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. 8 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in dark blue and yellow. First Edition, first printing, of London's "novel of transition from his Klondike myth to his Californian dream." The almost super-human character is pitted first against the most powerful men of.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909. 10 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth decorated in light green. First Edition of this autobiographical tale of the sea, written while Jack and Charmian cruised to Hawaii and Tahiti on board their boat the "Snark." The printing consisted of 17,309 copies, considerably fewer.....
With Illustrations by W.J. Aylward. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. 3 pp undated ads. Original aqua blue cloth pictorially decorated in dark blue, red and white. First Edition of Jack London's great maritime tale, in emulation of Joseph Conrad: in need of the taste of salt air to stimulate.....
[from Maugham to an early lover] London: William Heinemann, 1905. Original blue paper-covered boards with parchment spine. First Edition, which consisted of only 1,250 copies -- about half of which were remaindered. In 1898, the year after Maugham finished medical school (and wrote LIZA OF LAMBETH), he lived in Seville.....
New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d. [1920]. Original "Mortlake brown" cloth lettered in dark brown, with dust jacket. First American Edition of Maugham's fifth book -- published eighteen years after the 1902 London edition, which itself was withheld from publication for three years, trying to find a publisher who.....
[referring to two of his books] Two pages, on the first and third page of bifolium stationery engraved "Albany Chambers, Queen Anne's Gate S.W." Dated by Maugham "June 14", and bearing a "Received" ink-stamp dated "15 Jun 99". In this letter Maugham refers to, without naming, his third book (ORIENTATIONS).....
[inscribed in June 1899] London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. Original dark green cloth. First Edition of Maugham's third book, following LIZA OF LAMBETH and THE MAKING OF A SAINT. It is his first collection of short stories (six) -- two of which ("A Bad Example" and "Daisy") were his first.....
Illustrated by Gilbert James. Boston: L.C. Page and Company, 1898. 8 pp undated ads. Original grey cloth pictorially decorated in green, white, dark grey and gilt. First Edition, second issue, later binding state -- of Maugham's second book (preceded only by LIZA OF LAMBETH, published the preceding year). L.C. Page's.....
[as new] Illustrated by Gilbert James. Boston: L.C. Page and Company, 1898. 8 pp undated ads. Original grey cloth pictorially decorated in green, white, dark grey and gilt. First Edition, first issue, first obtainable binding state -- of Maugham's second book (preceded only by LIZA OF LAMBETH, published the preceding.....
[in original jacket and box] Oriental Edition. With Original Illustrations by L.J. Bridgman and others. New York: Dodge Publishing Company, n.d. (but ca. 1910). Original red cloth decorated in black, green and cream, with original dust jacket and original decorative slipcase. "Oriental Edition," perhaps referring to the magnificent brightly-colored binding.....
[with dust jacket] Oriental Edition. With original illustrations by Victor A. Searles. New York and Boston: H.M. Caldwell Company, (1899). Original red cloth decorated in gilt, green and blue, with textured dust jacket. "Oriental Edition" of this pirated collection of verses from DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES and from OTHER VERSES -- equipped.....
Illustrated by Donald Maxwell. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. Original light blue-grey paper-covered boards with vellum spine. First American Edition, of which this is one of 150 large-paper copies signed by Kipling (this being copy #6); there was also a UK signed edition, but it consisted of.....
Illustrated by Donald Maxwell. With an Introductory Poem by Rudyard Kipling. London: Macmillan and Co., 1926. Original light blue-grey paper-covered boards with vellum spine, with dust jacket. First (English) Edition, published on the same day as the American -- of which this is one of 500 large-paper copies signed by.....
Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co., 1891. 4 pp preliminary plus 9 pp terminal ads, undated (with prices in rupees). Original grey-green pictorial wrappers First Published Edition (technically the second Indian edition), following the suppressed 1890 edition, which had considerably different contents and of which only six copies are known. This.....
[the copy of an attendee] April 19, 1865. [Concord Mass.: no printer shown, no date but April 16-19.] Four-page bifolium. This is the "Order of Services" for the memorial service for Abraham Lincoln, who had died just four days earlier. It was held at the First Parish Church of Concord.....
[her first book] New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Original marbled (white, dark pink, light greyish-olive, dark greenish-blue) paper-covered boards and spine, with printed spine label. First (and only) Edition, first printing -- of Edith Wharton's first book (other than her "Verses" printed almost twenty years earlier when she was.....
London: Methuen & Co., (1907). 40 pp ads dated October 1906. Original light blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in white and black. First English Edition of Jack London's famous tale about a savage half-wolf/half-dog in the Yukon, who becomes domesticated -- a complementary volume to THE CALL OF THE WILD (1903).....
With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First English Edition (published three days after the American) of the sequel to THE JUNGLE BOOK, which had been published the year before.....
[the first Hornblower tale] [London:] Michael Joseph, (1937). Original sage-green cloth lettered in silver, with dust jacket. First Edition of the first Horatio Hornblower tale to be published, set off the western coast of Nicaragua in mid-1808. There would ultimately be a dozen titles describing the exploits of Captain Hornblower.....
