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
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902. 32 pp ads dated Oct 1902. Original light green cloth decorated in black. First Edition, with the ad catalogue in the first state (some copies have ads dated November). This book is prized principally as the first book appearance of one of... More
[a fine copy] A Tale. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. Original light green cloth decorated in black. First Edition of Conrad's fifth (and many would say his greatest) book, the psychological study of a mariner trying to recover his lost honor. Conrad planned to write only a.... More
[the Adrian Goldstone copy] London: Methuen & Co., 1895. 32 pp ads dated September 1895. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this collection of fifteen tales, along a science fiction vein -- Wells's first book of short stories and his second volume of science fiction (after... More
[inscribed by Bosanquet] London: Printed and published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1924. Original cream wrappers printed in green. First Edition, being No. 3 in (the first series of) "The Hogarth Essays" -- and which is in fact, "the only book in the Hogarth Essays series... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889. 2 pp undated ads. Original olive green cloth decorated in gilt, black and grey. First Edition of Twain's satirical time-traveling fantasy -- probably preceding the English edition titled A YANKEE AT THE COURT OF KING ARTHUR (both editions were issued in early... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. 7 pp undated ads. Original grey-green cloth decorated in black and olive. First Edition, mixed state (with the earlier patterned endpapers, but also with the frontispiece portrait of Twain that is considered to have been inserted only in the later copies issued)... More
Stories & Sketches from the San Francisco Weekly, 1893 to 1897. Foreword by Charles G. Norris. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. San Francisco: The Westgate Press, 1931. Original patterned boards with brown cloth spine and printed spine label. First Edition, consisting of 500 numbered copies printed at The Grabhorn Press (this... More
An Account of the Historic Surrender of Santiago to General Shafter, July 17, 1898. San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1917. Original tan wrappers pictorially decorated in black and orange. First Edition in book form (having originally appeared in The Sun); included is a frontispiece portrait of "Pecos Bill" Shafter... More
A Story of Chicago. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903. Original red cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition, first printing (with the J.J. Little device and "First Edition" on the copyright page). This was the second volume in Norris's planned trilogy on human suffering and sacrifice, "The Epic of... More
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1900. 1 page undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in light grey and gilt. First Edition of one of Norris's less-known (and scarcer) novels, taking place upon a voyage to the polar ice-cap. The first printing, as here, is identifiable by its cancel title... More
A Story of Adventure off the California Coast. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898. Original dark green cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of Frank Norris's first novel (preceded only by his romantic poem YVERNELLE, 1892). This is an unusual romance involving a proper San Franciscan shanghaied aboard a.... More
A Story of San Francisco. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. 4 pp undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in white. First Edition (with the title page in a three-panel single line border, and with "moment." the last word on p. 106; copies of the revised second printing unfortunately... More
Illustrations by W. Herbert Dunton and J. N. Marchand. New York: G. W. Dillingham Company, (1913). 4 pp undated ads. Original red cloth. First Edition of the sixth and last volume of Southwestern tales sited in Lewis's fictional town of "Wolfville" -- following WOLFVILLE (1897), SANDBURRS (1900), WOLFVILLE DAYS (1902)... More
[a Henty tale's only appearance] An Illustrated Monthly Magazine. London: A.G. Dawson, (November) 1887. Bound with the ten preceeding issues into the publisher's original orange cloth decorated in terra-cotta and lettered in gilt. This is, according to Newbolt, the first and ONLY appearance in print of this short story by... More
![CAPTAIN ANTIFER [complete serialization in THE BOY'S OWN PAPER];. Jules Verne.](/pictures/thumb/13807.jpg?v=1495116903)
or, His Excellency's Millions. A Story of Buried Treasure. [London:] The Boy's Own Paper, No. 841 (February 23, 1895) through No. 872 (September 28, 1895). [In all, 32 consecutive weekly issues.] Original pictorial self-wrappers. Serial Appearance of this tale of buried treasure by Verne, with Roux illustrations taken from the... More
A Sketch of a Temperament. With an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a Map of Wessex. (London:) James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., (1897). Original dark blue-green cloth with monogram in gilt. First Edition, issued as Vol XVII in Hardy's "The Wessex Novels." Although this was Hardy's last novel to... More
A Set of Tales. With Some Colloquial Sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters. (London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1894.) Original olive green cloth decorated in brown. First Edition. This collection (eight tales plus nine "crusted characters," most of which were written in 1890-1891) was published a few years after TESS... More
(London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co., 1891.) Original light brown cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this loosely-connected collection of ten stories of "dames," published just before TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES. One of them, "Barbara of the House of Grebe," is considered to represent Hardy at his most... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1900. 4 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth pictorially decorated in light blue and lighter blue. First Edition of this collection of nine tales from Japan, written by Hearn when he was "Lecturer on English Literature in The Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan" (per the... More
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915. Original grey printed wrappers. First Separate Edition, published five months after 1914 AND OTHER POEMS (which included these sonnets). Included is "The Soldier," beginning with Brooke's famous lines~If I should die, think only this of me:~That there's some corner of a foreign field~ That is... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1869. Original royal blue cloth decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of this early volume of verse, published just four years after ALICE. The volume consists of 13 amusing poems in Part I, and 13 serious poems in Part II.~The title-poem... is well... More
[with the leaves still unopened] With Illustrations [by Luke Fildes]. London: Chapman & Hall, April-September 1870. Six monthly serial parts [all that were issued] in original blue-green pictorial wrappers. First Edition, in the monthly serial parts. EDWIN DROOD remains one of the great unfinished and unsolved literary mysteries: Dickens had... More
With Frontispiece. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. 6 pp undated ads. Original light blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this collection of seven socialistic tales. Two of them, "The Dream of Debs" and "South of the Slot," he had written years earlier just after the San Francisco... More
![THE PRIVATE LIFE... | [plus] THE WHEEL OF TIME. Henry James.](/pictures/thumb/13790.jpg?v=1493841038)
[Together, two volumes.] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. 4 pp undated ads in the former volume. Original blue-grey cloth elaborately decorated in silver and gilt. First American Editions, published a month apart, both as volumes in Harper's "American Story Teller" series. THE PRIVATE LIFE also includes "Lord Beaupré" and... More
