[Chicago:] The Chicago Little Theatre, 1915. Original pictorial wrappers. First Edition of Rupert Brooke's only play, considered (by Keynes among others) to have consisted of only 200 copies. Before the war young Brooke wrote this play, never expecting it to be performed (a stranger gets lost in rural Lithuania and.....
!["1914." Five Sonnets [with original envelope]. Rupert Brooke](/pictures/thumb/14540.JPG?v=1594233603)
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915. Original grey printed wrappers, with original S&J mailing envelope. First Separate Edition, published five months after 1914 AND OTHER POEMS (which included these sonnets). Included is "The Soldier," beginning with Brooke's famous lines If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of.....
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915. Original blue-black cloth with printed spine label. First Edition of Rupert Brooke's second and last volume of verse, which consisted of 1000 copies. Included is the first book appearance of his best-known poem, "The Soldier," which begins If I should die, think only this of me: That.....
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. Original very dark blue cloth with paper spine label. First Edition of Rupert Brooke's first book, which consisted of only 500 copies; Frank Sidgwick, a fellow Rugby graduate, had agreed to publish it but only at Brooke's financial risk. POEMS was preceded only by several.....
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. Original very dark blue cloth with paper spine label. First Edition of Rupert Brooke's first book, which consisted of only 500 copies; Frank Sidgwick, a fellow Rugby graduate, had agreed to publish it but only at Brooke's financial risk. POEMS was preceded only by several.....
![LOSER TAKES ALL [inscribed copy]. Graham Greene](/pictures/thumb/14535.JPG?v=1593711122)
London: William Heinemann Ltd, (1955). Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of this novella about a man who devises a scheme to win big at Monte Carlo -- but his obsession causes him to lose his girl (whom he planned to marry there) in.....
With Numerous Illustrations by H.J. Ford. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. 2 pp undated ads. Original yellow cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the fourth of Lang's fairy books (following the Blue, Red and Green); there were twelve in all, published from 1889.....
With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel. Eleventh Thousand. London: Macmillan and Co., 1868. Original red cloth with cover vignettes in gilt, all page edges gilt. Early Edition (fourth printing overall), of one of the landmark books of the 19th Century. The book was initially published in London in 1865, so.....
50 variant-colored volumes of 25 titles (of 29). Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893-1896. Original terra-cotta or light blue or light green cloth, decoratively stamped in dark green. Beginning with "George Egerton's" 1893 novel KEYNOTES, for which the series would be named, John Lane of London published, over the course of five.....
With Illustrations by Cyrus Cuneo. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. 4 pp undated ads. Original black cloth decorated in white, red and yellow. First American Edition of the third collection of adventures of Raffles, the gentleman crook. The first two collections had been THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN of 1898 and.....
Illustrated by F. C. Yohn. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. Original olive green cloth decorated in gilt. First American Edition of eight further adventures that constitute the second "Raffles" book, following 1898's THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN. One of the few fictional characters to rival Holmes in popularity was Raffles, a celebrated.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. 4 pp undated ads. Original olive green cloth decorated in gilt. First American Edition of this collection of eight tales that introduced to the public the remarkable gentleman-cricketer-thief Arthur J. Raffles. Raffles... is one of the most fascinating rascals of modern fiction. Born and bred.....
London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1891. Original yellow-green cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this group of four essays on literature, art, society and criticism -- which consisted of 900 copies (plus 600 printed for America with the Dodd, Mead imprint). Published just a week after Wilde's.....
(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: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. (18th volume: Macmillan and Co.), 1895-1913. [Together, 18 volumes.] All in matching original dark blue-green cloth with front cover monogram device in gilt. First Uniform and Complete Edition of Hardy's prose -- including three first editions. Osgood McIlvaine produced the original sixteen volumes, containing all.....
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1933). Original light blue cloth, in dust jacket. First Edition. Baroness Orczy wrote a total of 18 titles featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, aka the masked Scarlet Pimpernel, during the Reign of Terror in France -- published over the years 1905-1940. This was the tenth title published.....
London: Cassell and Company, (1924). Original medium-red cloth lettered in black, with (slightly later) pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. Of the eighteen "Scarlet Pimpernel" titles written by Baroness "Emmuska" Orczy, this was about in the middle in order of publication (from THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL in 1905 to MAM'ZELLE GUILLOTINE in.....
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1922]. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of this tale about Sir Percy Blakeney aka The Scarlet Pimpernel that takes place in 1794, during the Reign of Terror -- 14th among the 18 titles in plot chronology. Robespierre becomes paranoid about the Pimpernel.....
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.....
Illustrated by H.M. Brock. London: Greening & Co., 1909. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in red, black and peach. First Edition of this loosely-connected collection of murder mysteries. The unnamed old man in the corner was the world's first "armchair detective," precursor to Nero Wolfe, who solved mysteries without ever.....
![THE ROVER [1/377 signed copies]. Joseph Conrad](/pictures/thumb/14514.jpg?v=1585064942)
[1/377 copies signed] Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Original white parchment over blue boards, with both the tissue dust jacket and the blue-grey paper printed dust jacket. First Edition, limited to 377 copies numbered and signed by Conrad -- this being copy #70 (there was no English.....
With 200 original illustrations by F.A. Fraser. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black and lettered in gilt. First Combined UK Edition of this very early Twain title. In February 1872, Routledge published two fragile "yellow-back" Twain volumes -- "ROUGHING IT" (244 pages) around.....
Colonial Edition. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. Original olive green cloth. First Edition, colonial issue, of Maugham's third book -- following LIZA OF LAMBETH and THE MAKING OF A SAINT. It is his first collection of short stories (six), one of which ("The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian") had been his.....
Or The Castle of the De Stancys. A Tale of To-Day. Illustrated by Du Maurier. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1881. Undated endpaper ads. Original mustard yellow cloth decorated in black. First Authorized American Edition. Henry Holt was Hardy's authorized American publisher, but in the case of A LAODICEAN.....
![Autograph Letter Signed, to "Dear Sir" [the editor of Harper's New Monthly Magazine]. Walt Whitman](/pictures/thumb/14507.jpg?v=1584377770)
[Whitman writes his own epitaph] One page, "Camden New Jersey: Aug: 29 '89" [so handwritten by Whitman]. The text of this letter reads: Yr's of yesterday rec'd with picture suggesting piece (illustration in text). Will this do? I shall want proof (wh- don't forget) -- the price is $25. -- Respectfully.....
