Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1902. Original blind-stamped dark blue cloth. First English Edition, published nine days after the two-volume New York one. This is the memorably tragic tale of Millie Theale, an American girl caught up in the social circles of London and Venice. One of Henry James's better-known.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. Original orange cloth with dark blue cloth spine, with dust jacket. First Edition (trade copy; there were also 225 limited-signed copies). Along with her two Nebraska masterpieces and DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP, this novel is often cited as one of Cather's greatest works.....
A Story of Chicago. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903. Original red cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition, first printing (with the J.J. Little device and "First Edition" on the copyright page). This was the second volume in Norris's planned trilogy on human suffering and sacrifice, "The Epic of.....
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. 4 pp undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in white. First Edition (with the title page in a three-panel single line border, and with "moment." the last word on p. 106; copies of the revised second printing unfortunately get mistaken as first editions).....
(Together, two volumes.) London: Printed for Distribution amongst Private Subscribers Only, 1894/1897. Original blind-stamped green/maroon cloth. These two collections of ribald verse were clandestine publications by the London publisher Leonard Smithers -- who at the turn of the century was the publisher of choice (often the only choice) for writers.....
Decorated by J. Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E. New York: The Century Co., 1894. Original olive green cloth decorated in gilt. First American Edition, published in the same year as the English edition. Many of the illustrations are by John Lockwood Kipling, Rudyard's father. This book and THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK, along.....
[illustrated by Kate Greenaway] Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. London: Chatto and Windus, n.d. [1886]. Original olive linen with color pictorial covers, all page edges red. First Edition of this 58-page children's fantasy tale that includes 28 color illustrations by Kate Greenaway. There is a very similar American edition, actually printed.....
With an Introduction and Notes by Richard Curle. London: One Hundred Copies, Privately Printed [by Strangeways], January 1926. Original green cloth with printed spine label. First Edition, limited to 100 copies. This was the diary that Conrad kept while on his 1890 journey up the Congo River -- a trip.....
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company 1915. Original navy blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition (published six months before the London edition) of Conrad's sad tale of Axel Heyst and the evil (for which read "Germanic") Schomberg. Due to the six-month delay of Methuen's edition, with the Great.....
A Tale in Two Parts. London: Methuen & Co., (1914). 8 pp ads dated Autumn 1913 plus 32 pp ads dated July 1913. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of the novel that revived Conrad's career, a popular smash after about a decade without one. Conrad had been.....
[a fine copy] London: Methuen & Co., (1911). 32 pp ads dated Sept 1911. Original red cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition, which consisted of 2,250 domestic copies (plus 750 colonial). This is a tale of Russian revolutionaries, centered about the character Razumov (whose name was Conrad's working title of.....
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London: Methuen and Co., 1896. Original dark red buckram with pictorial vignette in gilt. First English Edition, containing three poems not in the slightly earlier American edition. This volume of verse (largely nautical) includes "A Song of the English" and "Hymn Before Action." This is one of 150 large-paper copies.....
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Rectorial Address delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923. London: Macmillan and Co., 1923. Two copies: one in grey wrappers printed in dark blue, and one "large paper" in red cloth printed in gilt. First Editions, preceding even the American copyright issue. This was the speech that Kipling gave on.....
[Together, three volumes.] London: Macmillan and Co., 1915 (all three). Original pale yellow wrappers (latter two volumes: cream wrappers) stamped in red (and for the latter two, dark blue). Two pages of undated ads in the latter two volumes; in the first volume, the cover serves as title page. First.....
[the dedicatee's copy] London: George Allen, 1907. Original deep reddish-brown cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition, first issue (with top edge gilt and other edges untrimmed) of this collection of 26 poems -- the poet's first book, published when he was 26. Hodgson (1871-1962) was a reclusive man who avoided.....
A Novel. London / Toronto: William Heinemann, (1944). Original dark blue cloth, with dust jacket. First English Edition (about four months after the American) of one of Maugham's major novels. It is the story of a former American World War I fighter pilot who, suffering from what we would today.....
London: William Heinemann, (1931). Original blue cloth, with dust jacket. First English Edition (published a month after the American one) of this collection of six tales. They were set in England and on the Continent. Maugham meant to show that his countrymen could misbehave at home just as well as in.....
[the Publisher to Major Pond] Toronto: George N. Morang & Co., 1899. Original dark green cloth with Viking longboat design in black. First Canadian Edition -- technically, the Canadian issue of the first American edition, which was published in this binding by Doubleday & McClure ten days before Macmillan's UK.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1919. Original blue cloth geometrically decorated in gilt (in orange on the spine), with dust jacket. First English Edition of this collection of essays, which consisted of 1500 copies -- slightly changed from the 1912 American edition (one essay dropped, another added, new Preface). He writes.....
Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1902. Original red cloth decorated in gilt and black. First Edition of Doyle's famous full-length Sherlock Holmes novel, illustrated by Sidney Paget -- a tale Doyle himself termed "a real creeper." This was the first Sherlockian tale since Doyle had apparently killed.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. Original tan cloth decorated in red, black and gilt. First Edition of Crane's sixth book, a romance about young impoverished artists. It was not long after he finished writing this, and before it was published, that Crane was shipwrecked near Jacksonville, as he.....
Works of Charles Dickens. Household Edition. [In Two Volumes.] Illustrated from Drawings by F.O.C. Darley and John Gilbert. New York: James G. Gregory, 1861. Original dark green cloth. Very early American Edition -- the first to deposit copies at the Library of Congress -- of one of Dickens's most-loved novels.....
or, Something Singular. A Comic Burletta in One Act. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. Original green cloth decorated in black. First "Collectible" Edition, being a volume in Osgood's diminutive "Vest-Pocket Series." We say first "collectible" edition of this play first performed in 1837, because the only known copy.....
[London: St. Luke's Hospital, 1860.] Original pale pink wrappers. First Edition, second and usual issue -- with the final paragraph in bold (not like the rest of the text), with the wrapper pink (not mauve -- though all are today faded), with the front cover title followed by a comma.....
[the very scarce first issue] [London: St. Luke's Hospital, 1860.] Original pale mauve wrappers. First Edition, first issue -- with the final paragraph in the same type as the rest of the text (and not in bold type), with the wrapper mauve (and not pink -- though all are today.....
