New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. 4 pp undated ads. Original blue-grey cloth decorated in silver and gilt. First American Edition, primary binding state (with the elaborate silver grille-work on front cover and spine, and with the leaves' top edge stained ochre). This primary binding also appears, less commonly, in.....
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884. Original chocolate brown cloth. First American Edition, which consisted of 1500 copies printed from the plates of Macmillan's London edition, issued a month earlier. The "places" portrayed are on the Continent, in England and in North America. This copy is in chocolate brown cloth.....
By the Author of "Waverley,["] ["]Peveril of the Peak," &c. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. London, 1823. Original textured grey-green cloth, with printed spine labels. First Edition, first issue, of Scott's well-known adventure tale sited in Fifteenth Century France, amidst the conflict.....
[with tipped-in signature] Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. 4 pp preliminary ads dated December 1849. Original drab paper-covered boards with printed spine label. First Edition of this collection of verse best known for the trochaic ode "The Building of the Ship," which concludes with the famous apostrophe to the.....
Illustrated by F.O.C. Darley and Thomas Nast. New York: James O'Kane, 1866. 2 pp undated ads. Original green cloth, beveled. First Edition of this children's classic. Hans and his sister Gretel want to win the annual ice-skating race on the canals of Holland, but cannot afford proper skates -- and.....
New York: John Lane Company | London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1916. Original orange-brown cloth decorated in black and gilt. First Edition of Sherwood Anderson's first (and most autobiographical) novel -- a rags-to-riches-to-unhappiness tale of an Ohio newsboy, complete with alcoholic father and martyr mother who in trying to.....
during a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas; the Revised Edition, with a Sequel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1876. 7 pp undated ads (primarily for OMOO). Original blind-stamped green cloth. "The Revised Edition, with a Sequel," later Harper printing. TYPEE was Melville's first book, first published.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852. Original blind-stamped purple cloth. First Edition. This was Melville's first novel to be published after MOBY DICK, and one of his few not taking place upon the sea. It is a curious, but tragic, menage-a-trois: Pierre is engaged to marry Lucy, but then happens.....
Third Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. 8 pp undated ads (in addition to the 9 pp integral "Publishers' Advertisement" ads, numbered [xv]-xxiii). Original blind-stamped black cloth with gilt-decorated spine. "Third Edition," which is to say, the third printing of the First American Edition (which came out about a......
From the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Authorised Translation. London: Walter Scott, n.d. [circa 1889]. 4 pp undated ads in each volume. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt (Vols I-III pebbled cloth, Vol IV smooth cloth). First British Edition of one of the classics of literature. Originally published (in.....
London: Methuen & Co., 1897. 40 pp ads dated March 1897. Original red cloth. First Edition of this collection of seventeen strange stories, mostly along a science fiction vein. The title story involves a schoolteacher who disappears in an explosion in the school's chemistry lab, has a nine-day out-of-body experience.....
London: Methuen & Co., (1906). 40 pp ads dated October 1906. Original green cloth with spine decorated in gilt. First Edition of Conrad's first volume of nonfiction, a rambling discourse about life on the sea. Though originally planned as a collection of sketches, during preparation for publication Conrad converted it.....
One page, dated by Gissing "23 East Ascent | St Leonard's on Sea | March 6th 94." Date-stamped (by the recipient) "Received | 7 Mar 94". The text of this brief letter reads, I shall probably be here for another ten days, & it will give me pleasure to hear from.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1898. 3 pp undated ads. Original dark red cloth. First American Edition, which consisted of 2250 copies (and which may have preceded, or at least been published simultaneously with, the English edition). The first of the two "magics" is one of James's best-known tales --.....
[one of only 500 copies] London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1888. 2 pp Vol III undated ads. Original mixed-grain terra-cotta cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 500 copies published on 15 November 1888. Although A LIFE'S MORNING was Gissing's sixth novel published, it was his fourth written (before DEMOS.....
With 197 Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. 32 pp ads dated Apr 1888. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First (English) Edition, apparently preceding the American edition. According to Blanck, the English edition was listed (in the Athenæum) on April 28th, while the American edition.....
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1873. 6 pp undated ads. Original green cloth stamped in black and gilt, beveled. First Edition (English -- this and the American edition came out simultaneously on September 6, 1873). Quoting from William Dean Howells's review in the November 1873 Atlantic Magazine, In Aftermath, we have.....
[large-paper copy] Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. Original green cloth decorated in gilt, beveled, all page edges gilt. First Edition, large-paper copy. This play-in-verse-form is actually what Longfellow considered to be Part I of a trilogy, the other two parts of which had already been published. It had.....
[original full leather binding] I. John Endicott. II. Giles Corey of the Salem Farms. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Original full brown morocco decoratively stamped in black, marbled endpapers, all page edges gilt. First Edition (issued simultaneously with the London and the Leipzig editions) of this pair of "New England.....
[trading in the Solomons] One page, on "Harbor Rest" stationery, dated by ink-stamp July 9, 1911. With London's name and address ("Glen Ellen, Calif.") in holograph, plus his signature at the end of the letter. The text of this letter (we apologize for repeating Jack's language!) is: Dear sir:- In reply to.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. 12 pp ads dated October 1858. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First American Edition, first printing (the only one with the title page dated 1858). The title verse is one of Longfellow's better-known poems (over 100 pages long), sited in the Plymouth Colony of the Mayflower.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First Edition, first printing. This is a book-length narrative poem based on a Middle High German romance by Hartmann von Aue [c.1170 - c.1210]; Longfellow's version was soon adapted as a cantata by Sir Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert & Sullivan). The.....
[in the gift binding] Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. Original brown cloth elaborately stamped in gilt on the spine and both covers, all page edges gilt. First Edition, special gift binding, of this collection of verse best known for the trochaic ode "The Building of the Ship," which concludes.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. Original red cloth. First Edition of Edith Wharton's ninth novel, about the rural Midwestern divorcée Undine Spragg first in New York City and then in Paris -- written just after the author had finalized her divorce and moved permanently to France. ...Still considered an indecent.....
London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Leeds and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, n.d. [1911]. Original blind-stamped blue cloth. First Edition of this collection of tales of fantasy, science fiction and the supernatural. According to Wells's introduction, these constitute "all the short stories by me that I care for any one to.....
