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
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
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
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1931. Original green cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition. As with Buchan's MIDWINTER (1923), this is a tale sited in Buchan's adopted home of Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds. Taking place during the reign of Henry VIII, a country boy is convinced by three self-serving men that... More
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[with post-card from Buchan] London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1930. Original green cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition of this tale of mystery and adventure, published a month before the American. As Buchan points out in a brief prefatory note, this tale contains further exploits of Dickson McCunn and several other... More
[London:] Hodder and Stoughton, (1929). 8 pp undated ads. Original light blue cloth, with dust jacket. First British Edition, published about a month after the American one. This is a fantastical military tale sited in the imaginary South American domain of "Olifa" (of which a map occupies the front endpaper)... More
A Novel. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1880. Undated endpaper ads. Original mustard yellow cloth decorated in black. First American Edition (it is uncertain whether this or Munro's "Seaside Library" edition preceded; Holt's was, however, the authorized one, and also it was listed in Publishers' Weekly a week earlier)... More
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" theme: that the... More
[32 parts in great condition] With Illustrations by George H. Thomas. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1866-1867. [In 32 weekly serial parts.] Original cream wrappers decorated in black, orange and blue. First Edition, in 32 weekly serial parts, of the sixth and last of the Barsetshire Novels. Trollope observed in... More
[original cloth, near-fine] A Romance. In Three Volumes. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882. Original green cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition, which consisted of only 1000 copies -- most of which were bought up (at half-price) by the lending libraries. This is Hardy's tale about a young... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. 1 page preliminary undated ads. Original dark green cloth. First Edition of Conrad's second book, preceded only by (and containing many of the same characters as) ALMAYER'S FOLLY. After Edward Garnett (then a reader at Unwin's) had "discovered" Conrad and helped him get his first... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1899. Original olive green cloth decorated and embossed in gilt. First Edition of this early title by this African-American poet whose parents, before they met, had both been Kentucky slaves; his father escaped to Canada, and wound up fighting in the Civil War for... More
Boz' Works -- No. 21. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1842. Original self-wrapper (serving as title page); lacking the rear wrapper. Fourth American Edition (just two days after the first!) -- second issue. As first put forth in a 1975 article by Peter Bracher and soon to be confirmed in Walter... More
