Edited with an Introduction by G.M. Young. London: Macmillan and Co., 1940. Original blue cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition so collected, and first edition with G.M. Young's 26-page Introduction. Young grouped the 108 poems chosen for this selection into "Poems of Place and Incident," "Poems of Memory and Reflection".....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1928. 2 pp undated ads. Original maroon cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition so collected, first impression, published 72 days after Hardy's death in January 1928. This is a 1084-page volume, printed on India paper, containing all of the short stories that had appeared in Hardy's.....
[in dust jacket] With Portrait and Title Page Engraved on Wood by William Nicholson. London, Liverpool and Boston: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, 1921. Original blue-grey paper-covered boards with natural linen spine with cover and spine labels, with dust jacket. Riccardi Press Edition, being copy #663 of.....
Chosen and Edited with a Preface and Glossarial Notes by Thomas Hardy. London: Henry Frowde, 1908. Original dark green flexible cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition, first (1908 Frowde) printing, which consisted of 2,000 copies. Hardy reluctantly agreed to choose, edit, and write a Preface for this selection of verse.....
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[the scarce first US edition] Nineteen Acts, & One Hundred and Thirty Scenes. Part First. New York: The Macmillan Campany, 1904. With: Part Second. London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. With: Part Third. London: Macmillan and Co., 1908. Together, three volumes. 3 pp Vol I undated ads. Original green cloth. First.....
With Numerous Illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. 4 pp undated ads. Original light brown cloth decorated in brown and lettered in red and white. First Edition of this odd novel written several years earlier, not long after THE CALL OF THE WILD, during London's.....
With Frontispiece. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. 8 pp undated ads. Original orange cloth decorated in blue and grey. First Edition. This tale, serialized as "Sea Gangsters," involves a mutinous voyage around Cape Horn. London hoped to explain his own "Snark" voyage's failure by laying the blame on Anglo-Saxons'.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. 5 pp undated ads. Original mauve cloth pictorially decorated in dark grey and orange. First Edition, which consisted of 5914 copies -- far fewer than many of London's earlier works. Jack spent most of 1915 and early 1916 on two extended trips to Hawaii.....
With Frontispiece. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. 6 pp undated ads. Original light blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this collection of seven socialistic tales. Two of them, "The Dream of Debs" and "South of the Slot," he had written years earlier just after the San Francisco.....
Illustrated by P.J. Monahan. New York: The Century Co, 1912. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in black and cream. First Edition of this loosely-connected series of tales about the tenderfoot Harvard-graduate journalist Christopher "Smoke" Bellew, who tries to prove himself by going to the Klondike in search of gold and.....
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. 6 pp undated ads. Original blue-grey cloth with affixed front cover illustration. First Edition, which consisted of only 4,265 copies. Jack had planned for his and Charmian's voyage on this 45-foot ketch (costing him at least $30,000) to be a seven-year one -- but.....
["To Build a Fire"] Illustrated. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. 4 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth decorated in light green, white and orange. First Edition of this collection of seven tales, which consisted of fewer than 7,000 copies (compared to over 70,000 copies of THE CALL OF.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1908. 4 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth decorated in light blue and gilt. First Edition of this futuristic (and socialistic) fantasy written in 1906. Discovered hundreds of years in the future, a 1932 manuscript details the 1912-1918 events leading to the fascist totalitarian.....
With Illustrations by George Varian. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. 3 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth pictorially decorated in yellow and green. First Edition of these seven tales, originally written as a serial for boys in "Youth's Companion." As a teenager, London had been an oyster thief.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth decorated in black, light blue and silver. First Edition, which consisted of 6,802 copies. Jack was a man who had forced his talent into mining a single, almost exhausted, vein for the market. The publication in 1903 [sic].....
With Illustrations and Decorations by Henry Hutt and T.C. Lawrence. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. 6 pp undated ads. Original grey-green cloth pictorially decorated in white and brown. First Edition, which consisted of 26,420 copies. In this prizefighting tale, Joe Fleming tries to convince his fiancée to accept his.....
With Illustrations by W.J. Aylward. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. 3 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in dark blue, red and white. First Edition of Jack London's great maritime tale, in emulation of Joseph Conrad: in need of the taste of salt air to stimulate him.....
[the handsome Ulizio set] London and Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1892. 2 pp Vol III undated ads. Original brownish-mauve cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 500 copies. BORN IN EXILE... is one of Gissing's most sustained pieces of fictional autobiography and among his most fascinating performances.... It brings together.....
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1853. Bound in three-quarter dark blue morocco with blue cloth covers, gilt-paneled spines. First Edition of Charlotte Brontë's last novel written (THE PROFESSOR was published later, posthumously, but had been her first novel written -- rejected by the publisher who accepted her sisters' WUTHERING HEIGHTS.....
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. 14 pp undated ads. Original dark green cloth. First English Edition of Conrad's fourth book -- his first collection of short stories (including "An Outpost of Progress," a Congo tale anticipating his later "Heart of Darkness"). The American edition by Scribner's is believed to have.....
Translated from the French by Mary de Hauteville. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. 32 pp ads dated September 1883. Original mauve-grey cloth pictorially decorated in brown, black and (for the ray) green. First British Edition (and first edition in the English language). This tale is a bit.....
London: John Lane / New York: Macmillan & Co., 1896. 16 pp ads dated 1896. Original light brown cloth decorated in dark brown, with dark brown cloth spine decorated in gilt. First Edition of Buchan's second book, a collection of essays, preceded only by his SIR QUIXOTE OF THE MOORS.....
![THE ROVER [1/377 signed copies]. Joseph Conrad](/pictures/thumb/14895.JPG?v=1641323288)
[1/377 copies signed] Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Original white parchment over blue boards. First Edition, limited to 377 copies numbered and signed by Conrad -- this being copy #363 (there was no English limited edition). The American trade edition was published a day later, and the.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1885. 2 pp undated Vol III ads. Original dark blue-green cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 500 copies. These three volumes consist of fourteen tales here "revived," that James had written some years earlier -- most from the 1870s, with some from the 1860s. Eight.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1894. Original olive green cloth decorated in black. First Edition of Meredith's last three-decker novel, which consisted of 1,500 copies -- published, in fact, in the final year of the three-volume format, as the lending libraries had finally lost their decades-long control over the publishing of.....
