New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. Original tan cloth decorated in brown and black. First Edition, published five days before the English one. This collection consists of "The Beach at Falesa," "The Bottle Imp" and "The Isle of Voices"; the middle one is one of Stevenson's weirdest tales -- a....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1916. Original grey boards with violet cloth spine, with dust jacket. First Edition of this "folk tale of old Iceland, in the author's best manner, which has lately been discovered among the papers of the late Mrs. Stevenson, and is now for the first time issued...
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London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. 16 pp ads dated Jan 1889. Original red cloth. AND: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. Original ochre cloth with front cover labels. Together, two volumes. First Editions (English and American) of this dark comedy which is also an early detective story; precedence between...
London: Methuen & Co., 1903. 40 pp (38 pp printed) ads dated July 1903. Original red cloth. First Edition of the novel in which a rich Massachusetts widow sends various "ambassadors" (an admirer, a daughter, etc.) to France to bring home her son from what she presumes must be an...
[In Two Volumes.] New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. Original light brown ("biscuit") sateen cloth. First Edition of James's tragic novel about Milly Theale, a young American caught up in the social circles of London and Venice. The London edition (issued in only one volume) was published nine days later. [THE...
Illustrated by John McLenan. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863. 2 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped violet cloth. First American (and first illustrated) Edition of "the most unjustly neglected of all Wilkie Collins's novels," initially published as an 1862 three-decker. Actually there is uncertainty in the priority between two American...
London: William Heinemann, (1930). Original blue cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition of perhaps his best novel, a witty and delicious comedy of literary England in the early decades of the 20th century, told in the first person by a novelist, Ashenden. The pushing and self-advertising novelist Alroy Kear wants to...
and Some Uncollected Pieces. With Illustrations. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. Original green cloth. First American Edition, second issue with new material -- of the tale left unfinished at the time of Dickens's death in June 1870. In addition to DROOD, this second issue adds James T. Fields's introductory...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. 1 preliminary page + 4 pp undated ads. Original red cloth. First Edition of Edith Wharton's best-known book, a grim novella sited on a bleak Massachusetts farm. "As in THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, the central problem is that of the barriers imposed by local...
London: Chatto & Windus, 1929. Original olive brown cloth with spine label, with dust jacket. First English Edition (the play was performed, in 1927-1928, and was published, in New York before London). And here we have our theme, ladies and gentleman: the gap between perception and reality, what people desire to...
What the Children Saw and Heard there. Illustrated by Oliver Herford. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in green and dark brown. First Edition of this curious volume of tales: three little children -- Buster John, Sweetest Susan and Drusilla -- journey...
Done into English from the French of Frederic Ortoli. Authorized Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black and silver. First Edition of this collection of Uncle Remus-like animal stories by the French author Ortoli, "done into English" by Harris. The first one, "A French...
![THE DOINGS OF RAFFLES HAW [signed by Doyle]. A. Conan Doyle](/pictures/thumb/14299.jpg?v=1559416283)
London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1892. 8 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth. First Edition of this early Doyle venture into the field of science fiction, largely concerned with alchemy. Doyle wrote this mainly to finance a trip to Vienna where he planned to establish himself as...
With Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. 2 pp preliminary ads. Original grey-green cloth. First American Edition, published about eight days after Smith Elder's two-volume English edition -- and with 36 illustrations, compared to the UK edition's twenty. This is "Collins's longest novel... The complex plot combines several of...
A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year out and a New Year in. With Illustrations. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845. Original blue-grey cloth decorated in gilt. First hardbound and fully-illustrated American edition -- preceded (by only three days) by E. Winchester's edition and by Harper's edition...
[the suppressed edition] Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde. Pictured by Aubrey Beardsley. London: Melmoth & Co. [vere Leonard Smithers], 1904. Original blue-grey cloth on beveled boards. Limited (Pirated) Edition, which consisted of just 250 copies on handmade paper, this being No. 51 -- the first edition since the...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. Original red cloth. First Edition of this novel sited in France during the Great War. Edith Wharton lived in France when war broke out, and rather than flee, remained there to help the French effort -- even traveling to the front in order to...
Illustrated [with photographs]. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915. Original red cloth First and Only Edition, first printing, first (American) issue -- the rest of the first printing formed the Canadian edition, and the second and last printing formed the UK edition, all in 1915. After Wharton's 1913 divorce, she...
Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: Charles Tilt, 1839. 4 pp undated ads. Original dark green cloth wrappers pictorially decorated in gilt. First Edition, first issue, of this unusual collaboration between Thackeray, Dickens and Cruikshank. The volume consists of 31 quatrains of amusing verse, illustrated with Cruikshank's eleven full-page etchings (as...
With Twenty-Four Illustrations. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1874. Original green cloth decorated in black and gilt (continuously paginated). First Edition, second impression -- also the first one-volume edition -- and a highly unusual publishing situation, since the first and second impressions were by two different publishers...
In Three Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. First English Edition, which consisted of only 500 copies, published a week or two after the two-volume Boston edition. This was the last Henry James three-decker; 1894 is generally considered the year in which that format...
In Two Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. 2 pp undated Vol I ads. Original dark blue-green cloth with gilt lines. First Edition, which consisted of only 500 copies. THE REVERBERATOR illustrates the contrast between democracy and autocracy, between provincial and urban spirit... Like Newman [of THE AMERICAN], the Dossons are...
In Two Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co., 1879. Original royal blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. First English Edition (of the first two tales, both of which had just appeared in Harper's "Half-Hour Series" in America; first edition in book form of the third tale). This is one of...
Pictures in Color Reproduced from Paintings by Maxfield Parrish. New York: Duffield & Co., 1911. Original very dark blue cloth with applied color illustration on the front cover. First Maxfield Parrish Edition of one of the most famous and oft-reprinted anthologies in the English language. A minor poet, Palgrave published...
![EAST OF EDEN [inscribed by Steinbeck]. John Steinbeck](/pictures/thumb/14268.jpg?v=1557344632)
[inscribed by Steinbeck] Melbourne :: London :: Toronto: William Heinemann, (1952). Original green cloth, with dust jacket. First English Edition, published the same year as the American. This is Steinbeck's tale of the Trask family in the Salinas Valley -- and of the two brothers Cal and Aron (for whom...
