A Comedy in Chapters. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1876. Endpaper ads dated May 9, 1876. Original cream cloth decorated in black. First American Edition, issued as a volume in Henry Holt's "Leisure Hour Series." This was Hardy's fifth novel -- following FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD and preceding.....
A Novel. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1874. Endpaper ads dated June 5th, 1875. Original cream cloth decorated in black. First American Edition of Hardy's first book, being a volume in the "Leisure Hour Series" of Henry Holt. Though this was his first book published in England (anonymously, in.....
London: William Heinemann, 1897. Original aqua blue cloth blind-stamped with nine tulips. First one-volume English edition, which consisted of 1500 copies. James began THE OTHER HOUSE as a play called "The Promise," but the theatres didn't want it -- perhaps because it deals with the murder of a child and.....
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this historical romance sited around and about Hamilton House, the author's home in South Berwick, Maine. It concerns "a young American officer during the Revolution and his conflicting duty to his king.....
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881. 1 page preliminary ads, undated. Original dark green cloth, beveled boards. First Edition, which consisted of 2000 copies. This is "early Jewett" -- her fourth book, after DEEPHAVEN (1877), PLAY DAYS (1878) and OLD FRIENDS AND NEW (1879). It is a collection of eight.....
[20-in-19 serial parts] With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. [Complete in the 20-in-19 monthly serial parts.] London: Bradbury and Evans, 1852-1853. Original light blue-green pictorial wrappers. First Edition, in the original 20-in-19 monthly serial parts that were issued from March 1852 through September 1853 (at the end of which time the.....
Translated by Frank Lee Benedict. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874. 2 pp preliminary ads + 4 pp terminal ads, undated. Original kelly green moiré cloth. First American Edition of this tale sited during the 1793 insurrection of La Vendée. The original French edition, QUATRE-VINGT-TREIZE, plus the London three-decker by.....
Illustrated by Phiz. London: Chapman & Hall, 1845. Original olive-green cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First Edition of this children's book about Irish peasants during a cholera epidemic in County Clare -- modeled on the Christmas books of Charles Dickens, at that time coming out annually, and quite the rage. Included.....
By Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1846. Original blind-stamped olive green cloth. First Edition, second (and usual) issue. This first book by any of the Brontë sisters was published by Aylott & Jones in May 1846, the edition consisting of 1000 copies. Only two copies.....
Fully Illustrated. Boston: Shepard and Gill, 1874. 10 pp undated ads. Original green cloth decorated in black, lettered in gilt and in orange. First Edition of this mysterious tale, actually published in late 1873 (the English edition, THE FROZEN DEEP AND OTHER STORIES, was published about nine months later --.....
With Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1870. 4 pp ads dated July 1870. Original dark purple-brown cloth. First American (and first illustrated) Edition -- and possibly the first edition overall. The English threedecker -- considered to be the scarcest of all of Collins's UK firsts -- was published in.....
[a bright copy] With Many Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868. 4 pp preliminary undated ads. Original blue-green cloth. First American (and first illustrated) Edition of this classic of detective fiction, issued in the same year as the London three-decker. THE MOONSTONE marked the end of Collins's peak period.....
Illustrated by John McLenan. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. 2 preliminary pp ads dated Aug 1860 plus 4 terminal pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped terra-cotta cloth, with (tarnished) silver woman on spine. First American Edition (possibly preceding the English three-decker by a few days, though Gasson observes that it.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1948. Original grey and antique-rose cloth, with dust jacket. First American Edition of Greene's first post-war novel, portraying the moral crisis of a good man "increasingly enmeshed in love, in intrigue, and in evil" (per the jacket), while serving as a wartime British colonial police.....
[the third UK printing, fine] With One Hundred and Twelve Illustrations. Third Edition. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1873. 8 pp ads dated "for the season 1872-73." Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black and gilt, beveled, all page edges gilt. "Third Edition" -- i.e. the third printing of.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1873. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in blind and gilt. First Edition of Alcott's first full-fledged novel for adults, in which she portrays the difficulties and rewards of 21-year-old Christie Devon leaving home to make her own way (and WORK) in the real world. The book "describes in.....
San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1909. Original brown cloth decorated in black, with dust jacket. First Edition. Per the author's note, "It was expected that this book would be included in my 'Collected works' now in course of publication, but unforeseen delay in the date of publication has made this impossible.".....
San Francisco | New York: Western Authors Publishing Company, 1892. Original blind-stamped light grey cloth, beveled. First Edition of Bierce's first volume of verse, published the year after his most famous book, TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS. There are about 150 short poems (which he terms "beetles"), mostly gleaned from.....
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One page, on stationery imprinted in red with 39, Montagu Square, dated by hand "27 Oct. 1873". This brief letter reads: I am very sorry to say that I have an engagement for Saturday the 15th which makes it incumbent upon me to be in town on Friday night. Yours very.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Original medium-brown paper boards with blue-grey cloth spine and printed spine and front cover labels. Limited American Edition, consisting of only 250 numbered copies signed by Yeats -- this being #183. Included in this volume are "The Countess Cathleen," "The Land of Heart's Desire,".....
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1890. Original patterned paper-covered boards with brown cloth spines. First Edition, which consisted of 1,000 copies (of which, according to the publisher, only 492 were sold -- but that may have been Bentley's ruse to avoid paying Gissing "bonuses" that would kick in if 850.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1877. Original terra-cotta cloth with front cover and spine decorated in black, spine stamped in gilt and black. First Edition, published at the end of this novel's serialization in Temple Bar magazine. "THE AMERICAN SENATOR will be read for the sake of its opening chapters, which set.....
[the first Barsetshire novel] London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. Bound in three-quarter light brown calf with leather spine labels, with patterned paper-covered boards. First Edition of Trollope's fourth novel, preceded only by THE MACDERMOTS of BALLYCLORAN [1847], THE KELLYS AND THE O'KELLYS [1848] and LA VENDÉE [1850]. THE.....
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. One page undated ads. Original salmon cloth. First English Edition, which according to McKay was published on 9 January 1886 -- four days after the American one (Longmans had intended to publish it in December 1885, but the bookstalls were already so full of.....
London, Paris & New York: Cassell & Company, 1883. 4 pp ads dated July 1883. Original forest green cloth. First Edition, earliest date of ads, of this classic. In late 1881 Stevenson wrote this tale, titled THE SEA COOK, merely as an amusement for his 12-year-old stepson. It was accepted.....
