London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with Ganesha device in gilt. First English Edition of the book that "is acknowledged as Kipling's masterpiece in fiction... The novel is the finest written about the India of the British Empire" [CGEL]. It follows the adventures of... More
[1896 in dust jacket] New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. 12 pp undated ads. Original tan cloth decorated in red and black, with dust jacket. First Published Edition of Crane's first book -- the true first having been Crane's exceedingly scarce 1893 self-published edition, in wrappers, under the pseudonym... More
With Illustrations by Marcus Stone. [In 20-in-19 monthly serial parts.] London: Chapman and Hall, 1864-1865. Original light blue-green wrappers. First Edition of Dickens's last complete novel, in which Greed and The River Thames are two of the principal characters. OUR MUTUAL FRIEND first appeared in these twenty monthly serial parts... More
London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1891. Original salmon paper-covered boards decorated in dark red. First Edition. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" is an amusing but macabre tale (if there can be such a thing) about a young man who, convinced by Lady Windermere's cheiromantist that he is doomed to... More
London: William Heinemann, 1903. 2 pp preliminary ads + 32 pp terminal ads, undated. Original dark grey cloth with front-cover life preserver in gilt. First Edition, first (i.e. non-Colonial) issue, limited to 1,500 copies. In addition to the title tale, the "other stories" are "Amy Foster," "Falk" and "To-morrow" ("Falk"... More
Illustrated. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, n.d. [1899]. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and yellow, with pictorial dust jacket. First Separate Edition. This is the second of eleven Alcott stories for girls that Little Brown published (with illustrations) during the years 1899-1904, more than a decade after her... More
Illustrated. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, n.d. [1899]. Original yellow cloth pictorially decorated in black and green, with pictorial dust jacket. First Separate Edition. This is the first of eleven Alcott stories for girls that Little Brown published (with illustrations) during the years 1899-1904, more than a decade after her... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Original grey cloth decorated in red. First Edition, published eleven days before the London one. (This was the first of Buchan's many American editions to be published by Houghton Mifflin -- due to Ferris Greenslet, a fellow-fisherman and wartime friend of Buchan... More
London, Edinburgh, and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1923). Original light olive-brown cloth pictorially decorated in white, red, blue and black. First Edition, first impression, of this volume of exploration to remote corners of the world, such as the North Pole, the South Pole, Mounts Everest and McKinley (Denali)... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d. [1923]. Original grey cloth decorated in green. First Edition, preceding Hodder & Stoughton's London edition by about a week. This novel is a mysterious tale taking place in the Scottish Highlands -- presented as a newly-discovered manuscript written by James Boswell and thus... More
With Illustrations. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in black, green, and red. First American Edition. This is a retelling of a dozen true historical events that involved "escapes and hurried journeys" all over the world (Scotland, South Africa, Turkestan, Australia...), illustrated with... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1922). Original light blue cloth lettered in dark blue. First Edition of Buchan's first mystery to feature Dickson McCunn -- a retired Glasgow grocer who hopes to get a little relaxation and exercise with a walking holiday in Galloway... The other two McCunn mysteries would be... More
With Illustrations by Phiz. New-York: published by Harper & Brothers, 1844. 2 preliminary pages of undated ads. Original vertically-ribbed blind-stamped purple-brown cloth. Very early American edition (second, by five days). While the UK edition was being published in 20-in-19 monthly serial parts, Harper published the novel in seven serial parts... More
London / New York / Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. Original light blue cloth. First Edition of the third of Buchan's five Richard Hannay mysteries (preceded by THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS and GREENMANTLE, to be followed by THE THREE HOSTAGES and ISLAND OF SHEEP). Since the first three take place during... More
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[Together, two volumes.] London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, n.d. [1916 & 1917]. Original paper-covered boards and original wrappers, respectively. First Editions of Buchan's account of the war effort. Buchan had joined the Nelson publishing firm as literary adviser in 1905 (due in large part to his friendship with Oxford classmate... More
London New York Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916. Original dark green cloth. First Edition of this wartime mystery, the second of Buchan's five featuring Richard Hannay (preceded by THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS, and succeeded by MR. STANDFAST, THE THREE HOSTAGES and ISLAND OF SHEEP).~Richard Hannay is at once established in the... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1916. Original rose cloth. First Edition of this mysterious tale of international intrigue, featuring Edward Leithen (who would reappear in other Buchan tales). The Power-House is a secret anarchist organization, led by a wealthy Englishman, which aims to destroy Western civilization. Buchan had... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. 2 pp undated ads. Original light blue cloth. First Edition of Buchan's best-known book, the classic mystery that has withstood the test of time both as a book and as a film. This was the first of Buchan's five mysteries to feature... More
London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, n.d. [1915]. Original olive cloth, printed in white on the front cover and in gilt on the spine. First Edition of this tale sited in the 1680s -- with young Andrew Garvald starting out in Scotland, but winding up "in... More
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1904. Original light brown boards with cover pictorial onlay. First Edition of the author's fourth book, following PETER RABBIT, SQUIRREL NUTKIN and THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER. Here, Peter Rabbit returns with his cousin Benjamin to Mr. McGregor's garden -- to retrieve the clothes he left... More
[with the earliest ads] London: William Heinemann, 1898. 16 pp ads dated Autumn 1897. Original grey cloth. First Edition of Wells's classic science fiction tale of the invasion of the Martians, immortalized forty years later in Orson Welles's Hallowe'en radio broadcast. Wells (spurred on by his brother Frank, to whom... More
[a bright copy] London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1897. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with invisible man in black. First Edition of Wells's classic tale (he later pointed out that the title is a misnomer: the protagonist is actually The Transparent Man). As with THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU... More
With Over 300 Illustrations. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. 32 pp ads dated March 1883. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition, which was published five days before the American one (and is considerably scarcer: although the number of English copies is not known, we would surmise that... More
A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. 4 pp preliminary undated ads. Original medium-green cloth. First Edition (Harper's one-volume edition was published in October 1872; the London three-decker, dated 1873, came out two months later, in December 1872). This is Trollope's tale about the adventuress Lizzie Greystock -- "the... More
[with October 1864 ads] London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. 36 pp ads dated October 1864. Original red cloth, beveled. First Edition of this collection of eight sketches about hunting, such as "The Man who Hunts and doesn't Like it" and "The Man who Hunts and does Like it." Trollope frequently... More
