![THE TURQUOISE CUP and THE DESERT [Vincent Starrett copy]. Arthur Cosslett Smith.](/pictures/thumb/13883.jpg?v=1502312466)
[inscr to and by Vincent Starrett] Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. Original marbled boards with tan cloth spine. First Edition of this volume of two tales; the color frontispiece, plus two monochrome head-pieces, are by Maxfield Parrish. About this author Vincent Starrett (as quoted in the April 1919... More
Being Memoirs of his Adventures at Home and Abroad... Written by Himself. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. 4 pp undated ads. Original light brown cloth decorated in terra-cotta and silver. First Edition (American), published on the same day as the English edition titled CATRIONA. Stevenson wrote this sequel to... More
A Sequel to "Kidnapped". Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad. London Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1893. 2 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated Aug 1893. Original dark blue cloth. First Edition (English) of this tale that is a sequel... More
Consisting of The Beach of Falesa / The Bottle Imp / The Isle of Voices. With Illustrations by Gordon Browne and W. Hatherell. London Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1893. 16 pp ads dated Mar 1893. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in gilt. First English Edition, published five days... More
Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa. London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1892. 16 pp ads dated May 1892. Original dark green cloth. First Edition (English -- published on the same day as the American) of this account of "eight years of trouble" between the natives and the foreigners... More
![ULYSSES [first Odyssey Press Edition]. James Joyce.](/pictures/thumb/13877.jpg?v=1502312527)
[In Two Volumes.] Hamburg Paris Bologna: The Odyssey Press, (1932). Original grey wrappers printed in dark red. First Odyssey Press Edition. "The present edition may be regarded as the definitive standard edition, as it has been specially revised, at the author's request" (per the title verso); "generally considered to be... More
![ULYSSES ["9th Printing"]. James Joyce.](/pictures/thumb/13876.jpg?v=1502312527)
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. Bound in full maroon morocco with gilt-paneled spine and leaf-patterned endpapers. "9th Printing," so identified on the leaf following the title leaf; since the 8th printing of 1926 constituted the first time the type was entirely re-set since the first edition in 1922, this "9th"... More
London: William Heinemann, 1929. Original full limp vellum. First Edition so combined and titled, limited to 1030 copies numbered and signed by Galsworthy (this being copy #185); there would also be a trade edition (cloth, with dust jacket) that same year. This is Galsworthy's second trilogy of the Forsyte family... More
As Chosen by Franklin K. Mathiews, Chief Scout Librarian, Boy Scouts of America. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. Original light green-grey cloth. First Edition of this selection of a dozen earlier-published Jack London tales, published four years after his death -- chosen for their appropriateness for reading by boy... More
An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. Selected from Twenty-Five Languages Covering a Period of Five Thousand Years. Edited by Upton Sinclair. With an Introduction by Jack London. Illustrated with Reproductions of Social Protest in Art. New York City and Pasadena California: published by Upton Sinclair, n.d.[1937?]. Original maroon... More
With an Introduction by Jack London. Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1911. 12 pp undated ads. Original tan cloth decorated in red and black. First Edition, first impression (so stated). "The Black Cat" was a periodical, headed by Umbstaetter, to which unknown writers were invited to submit anonymous stories. To... More
With a Dedicatory Poem by George Sterling. Collected by the Book Committee of the Spinners' Club. San Francisco and New York: Paul Elder and Company, n.d.[1907]. Original coarse unbleached linen decorated in dark green with front cover applied illustration, top page edges gilded. First Edition of this volume of stories... More
A Journey around the World. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1897. Original blue cloth with front cover plate and gilt-decorated spine. First Edition, with the title page in the first and usual state (with no mention of McClure). This was Twain's travel narrative (beginning in Vancouver and ending in Cape... More
With Marginal Illustrations. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1894. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black. First American Edition (of "Pudd'nhead Wilson," which had appeared a few weeks earlier in Britain; first edition of "Those Extraordinary Twins," which had not yet been published in the U.K.). PUDD'NHEAD is a fascinating antebellum... More
Now First Published in Complete Form. Sold only by Subscription. Hartford, Conn., and Chicago, Ill.: The American Publishing Company, 1875. Original blue cloth decorated in black and gilt. First Edition, second issue (without "From Hospital Days" on p. 299, a brief piece that appeared in the first issue, then was... More
By Currer Bell. In Three Volumes. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1853. 16 pp Vol I ads dated March 1854. Original blind-stamped olive-brown cloth. First Edition of Charlotte Brontë's last novel written (THE PROFESSOR was published later, posthumously, but had been her first novel written -- rejected by the publisher... More
A Tale of Manchester Life. In Two Volumes. Third Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1849. 2 pp preliminary ads in Vol I. Original blind-stamped rose-brown cloth. "Third Edition" (i.e. third printing of the first edition) of Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, issued on Feb. 24, 1849 -- seven weeks after the... More
or, The Child of the Cavern. Translated by W. H. G. Kingston. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, n.d.[by 1883]. Original brown cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First American hardbound edition of this supernatural tale sited deep in a Scottish mine. Per Kingston's introduction, Verne~has called into existence a mine... More
Two pages (both sides of one leaf), folded into thirds to fit inside a handwritten folded envelope (with red wax seal). "Castle Street [Edinburgh], Friday." The letter reads:~Sir~I am honoured with your card & much obliged by the polite [----------?] which it contains and am very happy you have found... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, (1923). Original dark green cloth, with dust jacket. First English Edition, published two days after the American trade edition.~In December [1921], Conrad began The Rover as a short story. It was clearly an outgrowth of his stay in Corsica... [which] triggered a whole series of memories... More
![THE ROVER [inscribed by Conrad]. Joseph Conrad.](/pictures/thumb/13859.jpg?v=1500057501)
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Original blue cloth, with dust jacket. First Trade Edition (preceded one day earlier by a 377-copy special edition), published before the English edition.~This volume is in fine condition, and the jacket is just about fine as well (very slightly tanned, as usual)... More
A Novel. By Opie Read. Chicago: Printed for Way & Williams, 1897. Original mottled tan cloth pictorially decorated in black, yellow and white. First Edition of this southern novel which today is most collected for being Maxfield Parrish's very first book cover illustration, and for being a magnificent book designed... More
Bournemouth: Bonallie Towers, Branksome Park, Nov 10th [1884]. Three-page letter (bifolium, creating four pages), signed "Robert Louis Stevenson." This letter to "My dear Coggie" reads as follows:~Many thanks for your letter. Please tell Campbell I got his letter and photos which now decorate my room. The wild woman of the... More
![THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET [in 32 weekly parts]. Anthony Trollope.](/pictures/thumb/13855.jpg?v=1500057501)
With Illustrations by George H. Thomas. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1866-1867. [In 32 weekly serial parts.] Original cream wrappers decorated in black, orange and blue. First Edition, in 32 weekly serial parts, of the sixth and last of the Barsetshire Novels. Trollope observed in his autobiography, ~I regard this... More
A Journey around the World. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1897. Original blue cloth with front cover plate and gilt-decorated spine. First Edition, with the title page in the first and usual state (with no mention of McClure). This was Twain's travel narrative (beginning in Vancouver and ending in Cape... More
