[with the earliest ads] London: William Heinemann, 1898. 16 pp ads dated Autumn 1897. Original grey cloth. First Edition of Wells's classic science fiction tale of the invasion of the Martians, immortalized forty years later in Orson Welles's Hallowe'en radio broadcast. Wells (spurred on by his brother Frank, to whom... More
[a bright copy] London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1897. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with invisible man in black. First Edition of Wells's classic tale (he later pointed out that the title is a misnomer: the protagonist is actually The Transparent Man). As with THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1885. Original light blue boards with blue-grey cloth spine. First American Edition, published a month after the London one. The number of copies printed is not known; however, in our experience the American edition is considerably scarcer than the London one, and the London edition... More
With Over 300 Illustrations. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. 32 pp ads dated March 1883. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition, which was published five days before the American one (and is considerably scarcer: although the number of English copies is not known, we would surmise that... More
With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel. Sixty-Ninth Thousand. London: Macmillan and Co., 1882. 1 page undated ads. Original red cloth with cover vignettes in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition, later printing, of one of the landmark books of the 19th Century. The book was initially published in London... More
[with Buchan's signature] Being some Account of an Episode in the Life of the Sieur de Rohaine. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. 4 pp undated ads. Original black cloth decorated in red, green, pink and yellow. First Edition of John Buchan's first book. Buchan wrote this romance when he was... More
A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. 4 pp preliminary undated ads. Original medium-green cloth. First Edition (Harper's one-volume edition was published in October 1872; the London three-decker, dated 1873, came out two months later, in December 1872). This is Trollope's tale about the adventuress Lizzie Greystock -- "the... More
[with October 1864 ads] London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. 36 pp ads dated October 1864. Original red cloth, beveled. First Edition of this collection of eight sketches about hunting, such as "The Man who Hunts and doesn't Like it" and "The Man who Hunts and does Like it." Trollope frequently... More
By John Sinjohn. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1901. 2 pp undated ads plus 32 pp ads dated April 1901. Original blue-grey cloth. First Edition of Galsworthy's fourth book, which consisted of only 1,050 copies. This is a collection of four tales -- the last book to be... More
[boldy inscribed by Galsworthy] By John Sinjohn. London: Duckworth & Co., 1898. 2 pp ads dated Easter 1898. Original olive green cloth. First Edition of Galsworthy's first novel (and his second book -- the first, FROM THE FOUR WINDS, having been a collection of stories). As with his first book... More
[first book, "From the Author"] By John Sinjohn. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. Original olive green cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of John Galsworthy's first book, a collection of ten tales. Only 500 copies were printed -- on a commission basis, with Galsworthy paying for the printing; in order... More
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1895. Original red cloth. First Edition of this novel, which immediately preceded the one for which Stoker is known today -- DRACULA. Curiously for this Irish writer, it takes place in the American West -- hence the title, referring to the mountain in California. The... More
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1908. 32 pp ads dated Autumn 1908. Original blue cloth. First Edition of "these further exciting incidents in the life of the Scarlet Pimpernel during the French Revolution after the King's death" -- the sequel to Baroness Orczy's THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (play 1903, novel 1905) and... More
[1905 in dust jacket] With Illustrations by F H. Townsend. London: Macmillan and Co., 1905. Original white cloth with gilt vignette, with dust jacket. First Separate Edition (having first appeared, unillustrated, in TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES the year before). This is~an allegory of a limbo of lost children tended by a.... More
In Two Volumes. London: John W. Parker and Son, 1853. 6 pp Vol II undated ads. Original brown cloth. First Edition of Kingsley's fictionalization of the 5th-Century life of Hypatia, the female Greek mathematician and astronomer turned pagan philosopher -- someone who relied upon facts rather than upon beliefs, caught... More
[a fine copy] London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, n.d.[1888]. Original blue-green cloth pictorially decorated in orange-to-maroon, board edges beveled. First Edition, published posthumously. As detailed in the tipped-in "Publisher's Introduction," "Dicky Doyle" (1824-1883) created this manuscript -- color illustrations accompanying cursive text -- in 1842, when he was a lad of... More
or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. Sixth Edition, with Additions and Corrections. (Eleventh Thousand.) London: John Murray, 1872. Original green cloth. "Sixth Edition (Eleventh Thousand)" -- with important material that had not been in the earlier editions. This is, of course, "certainly the most important... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. Original yellow-orange boards with white cloth spine, with dust jacket. First Edition, being the fifth volume in Boni & Liveright's "Penguin Series." Published nine years after his death, this is one of Twain's few books that appeared under his real name, without mention of... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1893. 2 pp preliminary ads plus 32 pp ads dated March 1893. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First English Edition of this collection of nine pieces -- some fiction and some non-fiction. The title tale speculates what would happen if a perfectly honest chap... More
London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, & Co., 1888. Original pictorial stiff wrappers. First Edition of James M. Barrie's first book (preceded only by "The Scotch Student's Dream" in an 1886 Edinburgh University student book). BETTER DEAD is an amusing satire about the S.D.W.S.P. -- the Society for Doing Without Some People... More
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A Novel. Illustrated by Alfred Brennan. In: six consecutive monthly issues of McClure's Magazine. New York: S.S. McClure, February - July 1894. Original orange wrappers printed in white and black. First Appearance of this novel. Stevenson and his stepson had contracted to write this in 1888, and Osbourne began it... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. 1 page preliminary ads plus 8 pp ads, all undated. Original dark green cloth. First English Edition, which consisted of only 2000 copies, issued about a month after the Boston edition. Following LIZA OF LAMBETH, this was the second book by Maugham, who "described this... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1936. Original tan cloth lettered in red, with dust jacket. First Edition, trade issue (there were also 200 signed copies that were issued without a jacket). With the title borrowed from Samson Agonistes, this was Huxley's best-selling novel about Anthony Beavis -- with non-chronological glimpses of... More
With Fifty-Two Illustrations by Riou. Sold Only By Subscription. New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co., n.d. [1874]. 6 pp undated ads. Original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled. "Deluxe Edition" of Jules Verne's second book. The original French edition came out in 1864, and the British edition... More
In Three Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. 2 pp undated Vol I ads. Original dark green cloth. First Edition, first binding state, of this novel involving a faithful suitor, a flashy rival, and a heroine who makes a fatal choice -- reminiscent of FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD a.... More
