London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. 32 pp Vol II ads dated May 1882. Original olive-green cloth decorated in brown and black. First Edition, first printing (consisting of only 500 copies) of Stevenson's first serious attempt at fiction -- and the only Stevenson title to have initially appeared in more than.....
[RLS's first book] London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878. Original light blue cloth decorated in black and gilt, beveled boards. First Edition of Stevenson's first book, which consisted of just 750 copies. It was preceded only by several wrappered tracts such as THE PENTLAND RISING and ON THE THERMAL.....
[London: St. Luke's Hospital, 1860.] Original pale pink wrappers, with original narrow "one penny" envelope. First Edition, second and usual issue. Dickens describes the wretched conditions inside St. Luke's Hospital ("established in 1751, for the treatment and care of lunatics"), and in particular the "very sad and touching spectacle" of.....
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1900. Original light green cloth decorated in dark green. First American Edition of what is arguably Conrad's greatest work. This copy has the title page in the second and usual (cancelled) state: at the time this was being published, Doubleday & McClure was dividing.....
London: Grant Richards, 1903. 12 pp undated ads. Original red cloth. First Edition of this classic English novel, the tale of Ernest Pontifex and his upbringing within a stiflingly pious family. Butler himself, the son and grandson of eminent clergymen, had refused to be ordained and had fled to New.....
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates and Co., 1897. 2 pp undated ads (for the other two volumes) in each volume. Original light green cloth decorated in brown and printed in gilt. First Edition so collected -- of these 24 tales of mystery, horror and the supernatural (i.e. creepy stories for telling.....
London: Methuen & Co., (1907). 40 pp ads dated Sept 1907. Original deep red cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First Edition of this tale of espionage sited in Russia. The idea for the story came from an actual 1890s revolutionary attempt to blow up the Observatory at Greenwich. Conrad initially planned.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. Original black cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of this book-length ballad for which (per the preliminary "Acknowledgement") "The author's thanks and acknowledgements are gratefully tendered to John Steinbeck, author of "Cup of Gold," for his generous permission to use certain.....
A Study in the Origins of a Great Family. London: Chapman and Hall, 1906. Original rose linen-grain cloth. First Edition, believed to have consisted of no more than 1500 copies. In 1900 Punch Magazine had asked Maugham to contribute a couple of stories, one of which was "Cupid and the.....
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Being an account of the recent amazing adventures of Professor George E. Challenger... New Edition. London: Henry Frowde | Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1912 -- but actually 1914 or later]. Original light brown cloth blind-stamped with dinosaur footprints, beveled edges. First Edition, large paper issue, later state (one of 810.....
London: William Heinemann, (1925). Original brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine, with dust jacket. First English Edition, published two months after Knopf's American edition. Along with her two Nebraska masterpieces and DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP, this novel is often cited as one of Cather's greatest works. It tells the tale.....
With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co., (1928). Original salmon-pink cloth pictorially decorated in gilt. First Edition of this the fourth and last Milne/Shepard collaboration (and the second of them in prose, after WINNIE THE POOH). This is also the book in which Tigger first makes an.....
New York: The Century Co., 1906. Original dark blue cloth pictorially decorated in light blue and black. First American Edition of this novel published during Wells's transition from his early science fiction titles to his later socialistic titles: a comet passes very close to Earth and thereby causes a "Great.....
(London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902.) Original dark green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First Edition of Hardy's second volume of verse, which (like the first, WESSEX POEMS), consisted of only 500 copies. None of Hardy's exceedingly scarce multi-volume novels consisted of fewer copies; for example, FAR.....
London: Virtue & Co., 1868. Original bright green cloth. First Edition of this collection of eight pieces on outdoor "sports and pastimes" -- namely horse-racing, hunting, shooting (birds), fishing, yachting, rowing, alpine climbing and cricket. All had appeared, between December 1867 and August 1868, in Saint Paul's Magazine, of which.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First American (and first one-volume) Edition. This was not generally regarded as one of Trollope's better efforts; the author himself remarked in his autobiography, I do not know that I have ever heard it well spoken of by my friends, and.....
[first Trollope novel in America] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858. 8 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First American Edition of the first Trollope novel published in America. Published in the same year as the London three-decker, this was the third of the six "Barsetshire Novels," centering upon.....
Illustrated by Maurice Greiffenhagen. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. 4 pp undated ads. Original dark green cloth pictorially decorated in orange and grey. First Edition of Conrad's first book to be illustrated -- the famous tale about Captain MacWhirr, Jukes and the Chinamen on board the.....
With an Introduction by William Dean Howells. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1910. Original red cloth with front cover monogram in gilt. First Edition of the first collection of Twain's speeches -- 104 of them, spanning his entire career -- published two months after he died. These speeches.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1909. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black and white. First Edition. This fascinating piece begins, "Well, when I had been dead about thirty years, I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, I had been whizzing through space all that time.....
Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with front cover monogram device in gilt. First Edition, first issue. The title story, one of Twain's darker themes, is "a parable about a smug all-American town whose citizens, never having been tempted, take.....
Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with front cover monogram device in gilt. First Edition, first issue. The title story, one of Twain's darker themes, is "a parable about a smug all-American town whose citizens, never having been tempted, take.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in gilt and lettered in black. First Edition of this collection of eight essays, such as "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences" and "Private History of the 'Jumping Frog' Story." It is believed that this edition consisted of.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. 32 pp ads dated May 1882. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of tales, which preceded the American edition by about a week (Blanck) or by four days (Johnson). The title tale is Mark Twain's jab at detectives, both.....
With Marginal Illustrations. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1894. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black. First Edition, first printing, of "Those Extraordinary Twins," which had not yet been published in the U.K.; First American Edition, first printing, of "Pudd'nhead Wilson," which had appeared a few weeks earlier in Britain. PUDD'NHEAD.....
