As Told by Huck Finn. And Other Tales. With a Portrait. London: Chatto & Windus, 1897. 32 pp ads dated Nov 1896. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt. First English Edition (actually published in late 1896) of this tale of Tom Sawyer as a detective. Having seen the soaring... More
A Novel. London: Richard Bentley, 1859. Original blind-stamped red cloth with spine decorated and lettered in gilt.. First one-volume edition (and second printing overall) of Trollope's sixth book -- immediately following THE WARDEN (1855) and BARCHESTER TOWERS (1857). Three civil servants (one of them modeled after junior post office clerk... More
An Agony, in Eight Fits. With Nine Illustrations by Henry Holiday. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. Original buff cloth pictorially decorated in black, all page edges gilt. First Edition of this poetical nonsense tale, both funny and subtle, that "describes with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew... More
[a handsome copy] A Tale of the Seaboard. London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1904. Original dark blue cloth decorated in light blue. First Edition of Conrad's great novel involving a South American silver mine, and the corruption and dishonesty fostered by its riches.~Conrad was extending his "Lord Jim"... More
In Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. Twelfth Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in gilt. "Twelfth Edition," first (Chapman & Hall) issue -- the last C&H edition, still adorned with the hand-colored John Leech plates... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1926). Original yellow-green cloth, with dust jacket. First American Edition, published two months after the English. This is Doyle's psychic novel, for which he resurrected Professor Challenger (who had journeyed to the land of the dinosaurs in THE LOST WORLD and had faced the... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. Original orange-brown cloth decorated in grey, with dust jacket. First Edition of Willa Cather's last book, a posthumous 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 --... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. Original light yellow-green boards decorated in blue, with black cloth spine, with dust jacket. First Edition, trade issue (there were also 220 signed copies) of this "work of tragic passion" (per the jacket). This is a fine copy in a near-fine jacket (about 3/16"... More
[her first novel] Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. 4 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth. First Edition of Willa Cather's first novel, about world-renowned bridge-builder Bartley Alexander, his mid-life crisis, and a new bridge with a flaw; the novel was published near the end of Cather's stint... More
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905. Original blind-stamped red cloth. First Edition, first binding state, of Willa Cather's first volume of prose. It was her second book -- a collection of seven short stories; two years earlier had been published her first book, a volume of verse titled APRIL... More
[a landmark work] Studies among the Tenements of New York. With Illustrations chiefly from Photographs taken by the Author. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Original pictorial paper-covered boards with dark blue cloth spine. First Edition of this landmark work. Born in Denmark in 1849, Riis emigrated to New York... More
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[complete in Household Words] By the Author of Mary Barton. In: Household Words. A Weekly Journal conducted by Charles Dickens. London: Office [of Household Words], in 22 weekly issues dated 2 September 1854 through 27 January 1855, bound into the five monthly Parts dated September through January. Original blue paper... More
[Oxford: Oxford University Press,] July 1931. Original grey printed wrappers. First Edition, being "Pamphlet No. 79" of The English Association. This was Buchan's "presidential address" delivered to the association on November 22, 1930. He touches upon such writers as George Eliot, Dickens, Thackeray and Coleridge. A very good-plus copy (two... More
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A Collector's Bibliography. [By:] Robert G. Blanchard. (Hamden CT:) Archon Books, 1981. Original green cloth. First Edition of what is still today the standard bibliography of the first editions of John Buchan -- a comprehensive work covering Buchan's books and pamphlets, his edited works, and his contributions to periodicals. This... More
Illustrated. London [etc.]: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1936). Original blue-grey cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition. This volume is a selection of extracts from Buchan's monumental A HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR (four volumes, 1921-1922) -- published at a time when Britain was bracing for the next war. Included are... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1935). Original beige cloth printed in red and blue, with dust jacket. First Edition (trade issue) of this "picture -- and some slight interpretation" of the reign of King George V, upon the occasion of his Silver Jubilee. Though Buchan observes that the time for an... More
Pictures by Morton Sale. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1932. Original dark blue cloth with walking-stick in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of Buchan's highly unusual juvenile fantasy. Young Bill is given a walking-stick by a "wizened old man," and promptly sets off on a series of magical adventures --... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1941). Original green cloth, with dust jacket. First English Edition (published simultaneously with Musson's Canadian edition, three weeks after the American edition titled MOUNTAIN MEADOW).~Canada gave [Buchan]... the inspiration and the setting for his last novel, SICK HEART RIVER, where he transcends the limit of the... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1936). Original green cloth, with dust jacket. First British Edition, published two days after the American edition which was titled THE MAN FROM THE NORLANDS. This was the fifth and last of Buchan's Richard Hannay mysteries, following THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS (1915), GREENMANTLE (1916), MR STANDFAST (1919)... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1935). Original green cloth, with dust jacket. First English Edition, published two days after the American. This is the third and last mystery featuring Dickson McCunn; the two previous ones had been HUNTINGTOWER (1922) and CASTLE GAY (1930). This suspenseful tale takes place in the imaginary... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. Original aqua cloth, with dust jacket. First American Edition of this mysterious tale of a secret brotherhood --~of honest men with remarkable powers of communication -- 'We've our ain canny ways and our ain private lines set.' They are seamen from the..... More
[the third UK edition] With One Hundred and Twelve Illustrations. Third Edition. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1873. 8 pp ads dated "for the season 1872-73." Original blue cloth decorated in black and gilt, beveled, all edges gilt. "Third Edition" -- i.e. the third printing of the first... More
during a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas; the Revised Edition, with a Sequel. New York: Harper & Brothers | London: John Murray, 1849. 9 pp undated ads (primarily for OMOO). Original blind-stamped dark blue-green cloth. "The Revised Edition, with a Sequel," first Harper printing. TYPEE was... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. Original green cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition. In this novel the hero, Adam Melfort, is convicted of forgery, is drummed out of his regiment, and is sentenced to two years in prison -- for a crime his wife actually had committed... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1932. Original green cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition, published twenty days before the American, of the fourth of the five novels featuring Buchan's protagonist Sir Edward Leithen (he was introduced in THE POWER-HOUSE (1916), and the fifth and last would be SICK HEART RIVER (1941))... More
