From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. By Diedrich Knickerbocker. The whole Embellish'd by Eight Pictures from the Hand of Maxfield Parrish, Esq. New York: Published by R.H. Russell, 1900. Original cloth-backed paper-covered boards, with front cover illustration applied. First Maxfield Parrish edition. In... More

[the only appearance?] Published Weekly. Vol LII / No. 2713. New York: Thursday, November 29, 1900 ("the last Thanksgiving of the nineteenth century"). 20 pp preliminary ads (paginated i-xx), plus 16 pp terminal ads (paginated xxi-xxxvi). Original white wrappers stamped in yellow-orange. First (and only?) appearance of this four-page double-column... More

A Winter's Tale. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1889. 4 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated July 1889. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition, published on the day before Scribner's American edition. Stevenson freely acknowledged that his inspiration for this novel... More

Edited by "Boz." With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. A New Edition, with notes and additions, revised by Charles Whitehead. London: Richard Bentley, 1846. Original blind-stamped violet-grey cloth. Second Edition of this early Dickens piece, which Bentley had originally published in two volumes in 1838. This edition is paginated for two... More

[a fine copy] London: William Heinemann, 1896. 1+32 pp undated ads. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in black and red. First Edition of Wells's sardonic parable about science without ethics. The vivisectionist Moreau is driven from London because of his cruel practices, and ultimately ends up on a Pacific island... More

A Novel. London :: Toronto: William Heinemann, (1946). Original medium blue cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition, preceding the American edition by ten days. This was Maugham's Italian Renaissance novel -- "the witty and amorous story of Niccolo Machiavelli, guileful diplomat and self-confessed great lover, who is outwitted in both... More

New York: Duffield & Company, 1909. Original grey-blue cloth decorated in orange, grey and light green. First American Edition of this tale of the occult, published three months after the London one (which is dated 1908).~Among the many interesting anecdotes of his early struggles [after Maugham had left St. Thomas's... More

With Maps. Complete Edition. London: George Bell & Sons, 1903. Original bright red vertically-ribbed cloth "Complete Edition," colonial issue. This was Doyle's first volume of non-fiction: the outbreak of war occupied Doyle's mind so utterly that he could write nothing literary, so he went to South Africa as a physician... More

With Forty Full-Page Illustrations. London and Bombay: George Bell & Sons, 1898. 16 pp ads dated August 1897. Original blind-stamped bright rose cloth. First English Edition (published about a week after the Philadelphia edition titled A DESERT DRAMA), colonial issue -- No. 204 in "Bell's Indian & Colonial Library." This... More

With Illustrations. London and Bombay: George Bell & Sons, 1896. 18 pp [paginated 7-16 twice] undated ads. Original light pinkish-brown wrappers. First Edition, colonial issue, being No. 143 in Bell's Indian and Colonial Library. RODNEY STONE is a historical novel that curiously brings together Lord Nelson and the sport of... More

[inscribed to family members] In Three Volumes. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1879. 16 pp undated Vol III ads. Original brown cloth. First Edition of this novel about a homeless, mute waif.~The central character, the dumb urchin Gibbie, in reality Sir Gilbert Galbraith, is one of the most original of MacDonald's... More

Hodder & Stoughton / New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d. [1912]. Original grey paper-covered boards with spine label, with dust jacket. First American Edition of this unusual Doyle piece, having to do with a murder trial that had taken place in 1909.~Conan Doyle was approached by the defence lawyers... More

A Hill-Top Novel. London: John Lane / New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. 14 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated 1895. Original olive green cloth decorated in beige. First Edition of "this fantasy about British society and morality, seen through the eyes of a man who has... More