[the copy of an attendee] April 19, 1865. [Concord Mass.: no printer shown, no date but April 16-19.] Four-page bifolium. This is the "Order of Services" for the memorial service for Abraham Lincoln, who had died just four days earlier. It was held at the First Parish Church of Concord.....
[her first book] New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Original marbled (white, dark pink, light greyish-olive, dark greenish-blue) paper-covered boards and spine, with printed spine label. First (and only) Edition, first printing -- of Edith Wharton's first book (other than her "Verses" printed almost twenty years earlier when she was.....
London: Methuen & Co., (1907). 40 pp ads dated October 1906. Original light blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in white and black. First English Edition of Jack London's famous tale about a savage half-wolf/half-dog in the Yukon, who becomes domesticated -- a complementary volume to THE CALL OF THE WILD (1903).....
With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First English Edition (published three days after the American) of the sequel to THE JUNGLE BOOK, which had been published the year before.....
[the first Hornblower tale] [London:] Michael Joseph, (1937). Original sage-green cloth lettered in silver, with dust jacket. First Edition of the first Horatio Hornblower tale to be published, set off the western coast of Nicaragua in mid-1808. There would ultimately be a dozen titles describing the exploits of Captain Hornblower.....
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the fourth of Dickens's five illustrated Christmas books -- following A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE CHIMES, and THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, and preceding THE HAUNTED MAN. This.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1922. 4 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with front cover MT monogram in gilt. First Edition, first printing (with Harper's date code D-W, signifying April 1922); copies without this date code are reprints, even if still dated 1922. Twain's tale "The Mysterious.....
With Notes Containing Corrections to Date. Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1907. Original red cloth with monogram device in gilt. First Edition, first issue, of one of Twain's more controversial works, in which he takes to task Mary Baker Eddy and her sect. The genesis of Twain's.....
An Illustrated Monthly Magazine. Irvington-on-the-Hudson NY: J.B.Walker, October 1899. Original tan wrappers printed in red and blue. First Appearance of Twain's opening salvo in his scathing attack on Mary Baker Eddy and her quickly-growing Christian Science Church. There would be more pieces in subsequent issues of Cosmopolitan, all of which.....
By The Sieur Louis de Conte (her page and secretary). Freely Translated... by Jean François Alden. Illustrated from Original Drawings by F.V. du Mond. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth stamped in gold and silver. First Edition, first issue, of Mark Twain's last.....
[a fine 3-in-1 copy] Translated from the French by W.H.G. Kingston. Complete in Three Parts. I. Dropped from the Clouds. II. Abandoned. III. The Secret of the Island. 145 Illustrations. New York: Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., 1876. 4 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt.....
["With the Publisher's Compliments"] His Relatives, Friends, and Enemies. Comprising all his wills and his ways; with an historical record of what he did, and what he didn't. Edited by Boz. With Illustrations by "Phiz." London: Chapman & Hall, 1843-1844. Original light blue-green pictorial wrappers. First Edition, as originally issued.....
![Item #15889 LORD JIM. A Tale. [largely unopened]. Joseph Conrad](https://sumnerandstillman.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15889.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779903680)
[a FINE, mostly-unopened copy] Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. Original light green linen decorated in black. First Edition, first and only issue, of Conrad's fifth (and most would say his greatest) book, the psychological study of a mariner trying to recover his lost honor. Conrad planned to.....
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898. Original olive-green cloth decorated in silver and dark green. First Edition of Crane's seventh book, believed to have consisted of only 1500 copies. Next to THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE, the title story is Crane's best-known work: it is a tale based upon.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. 2 pp undated ads. Original red-orange cloth decorated in black. First Edition. "The Monster" is a tense tale about a black man who, rescuing a white boy from a fire, in effect loses his face to the flames -- becoming a "monster".....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. 12 pp undated ads. Original tan cloth decorated in red and black. First Published Edition of Crane's first book -- the sad tale of Maggie Johnson growing up (and forced into prostitution) in the Bowery slums of New York City; two years later.....
From The Times, March 15, 1900. Published by the Imperial South African Association. London: Printed by George Edward Wright, The Times Office, 1901. First Edition, following its appearance in March 1900 both in The Times of London and in The Mail of Cape Town. The Imperial South African Association was.....
![Item #15876 THE KIPLING CALENDAR [three] | 1914 | 1915 | 1916. Rudyard Kipling](https://sumnerandstillman.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15876.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1777660741)
New York: Sully & Kleinteich, n.d. Three consecutive annual calendars, each consisting of 52-53 weekly leaves (each page with an aphorism from a Kipling work), within a heavy paper wrapper bound at the top with rawhide. Leaves and wrappers printed in orange and green (1914 & 1915) or orange and.....
With Nine Illustrations by Henry Holiday. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. Original buff cloth pictorially decorated in black, all page edges gilt. First Edition of this poetical nonsense tale, both funny and subtle, that "describes with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature".....
Written for Young People. [In Three Volumes.] London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1841/1842/1842. 16 pp preliminary Vol I and Vol II ads dated April 1842; 32 pp terminal Vol III ads dated Oct 1842. Original pictorially-blindstamped blue-violet cloth. First Edition of the first of Marryat's seafaring tales that.....
London: Grant Richards, 1899. Original light green cloth decorated in dark green. First Edition, issued as the fourth volume in Grant Richards's diminutive series "The Dumpy Books for Children" -- of which the first three are long-forgotten. The Preface briefly describes how the Scotswoman Helen Bannerman (1863-1946), who married an.....
["The Little Match Girl"] Translated by Charles Boner. With Four Illustrations drawn by Count Pocci, of Munich. London: Grant and Griffith, successors to J. Harris, 1848. 16 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped olive-green horizontally-ribbed cloth, all page edges gilt. First Edition in the English language of this collection of seven.....
["The Emperor's New Clothes"] Translated by Charles Boner with Numerous Illustrations by the Count Pocci. London: Joseph Cundall, 1846. Original blind-stamped blue morocco-grain cloth. First Edition in English of this group of fairy tales -- one of three different groups of Andersen tales accomplished in 1846 by three different translators.....
![Item #15866 MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK [In Three Volumes]. Charles Dickens](https://sumnerandstillman.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15866.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1775758742)
With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840/-41/-41. Original blind-stamped purple-brown cloth with gilt-decorated spines and front covers. First Editions in book form of THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP (all of Vol I plus pp 1-223 of Vol II), and of BARNABY RUDGE (pp 229-306 of.....
[signed twice] One-page black-bordered card, with the printed date "Florence, Italy June 1904", accompanied by the black-bordered envelope bearing the postmark "Tyringham Mass. Jul 26 1904". This letter is from one of the very darkest periods of Mark Twain's life -- as his ten-years-younger wife Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens had.....
