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 in 20-in-19 monthly serial.....
Containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings, and Complete Career of the Nickleby Family. Edited by "Boz." With Illustrations by "Phiz." [20-in-19 monthly serial parts.] London: Chapman & Hall, 1838-1839. Original pictorial blue-green wrappers. First Edition of Dickens's fourth book (and third to appear in serial parts).....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850. 6 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First American Edition, first printing, first binding -- published about two months after Bentley's London edition. Based on Melville's experience of service on board the man-of-war "United States" in 1843-1844, the narrative covers a voyage from.....
By Currer Bell, author of "Jane Eyre." New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850. 4 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped purple-brown cloth. First American Edition, hardbound (cloth) printing. This was Charlotte Brontë's second published novel, following JANE EYRE -- still under the pseudonym of "Currer Bell." The tale takes place in.....
With Illustrations by Launcelot Speed. London: Chapman and Hall, 1901. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of Gissing's last novel to be published during his lifetime. He had a tough time writing it: he began it as THE COMING MAN, then laid it aside to write AMONG.....
[the copy of Gissing's agent] London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1892. Original olive-green cloth. First Edition. This was Gissing's only one-volume novel published during the three-decker era (which ended in 1894). Gissing would have liked to write shorter, more-concise fiction, but the lending libraries demanded three volumes; after 1894 Gissing tried.....
Arranged with Comment by Albert Bigelow Paine. Two Volumes. Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, (1917). Original red cloth, top edge gilt and other edges uncut, front and rear covers undecorated. First Edition, first printing, in the publisher's "Library" binding -- of the first collected edition of Twain's.....
[1 of 350 copies] Arranged with Comment by Albert Bigelow Paine. Two Volumes. Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, (1917). Bound in contemporary dark green morocco and marbled boards, spines with raised bands and gilt-paneled compartments. First Edition, first printing, one of 350 copies of the Limited issue.....
(New York:) A New Directions Book, (1955). Original light brown cloth lettered in black, with dust jacket. First Edition, first issue, of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a dying southern patriarch, Big Daddy Pollitt, and the greed of his would-be heirs -- spiced up by the presence of Maggie the.....
[FINE, with carte-de-visite] With Illustrations by S. Eytinge, Jr. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. Original green cloth, beveled. First Enlarged Edition of Bret Harte's first book. CONDENSED NOVELS was initially published by Carleton in 1867, as a volume of 15 parodies of novels by such authors as Ch-r-s.....
[with original early photograph] Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 [actually late 1891]. Original mauve cloth decorated in both glossy and matte gilt. First Edition of the first book by Frank Norris, a romantic narrative poem of medieval chivalry, written when he was a freshman student at the University of California.....
[an early anti-Catholic diatribe] "Cambridge (Mass), Jany 8, 1871." Seven pages of text, written on both sides of four 8-1/4" x 10-1/2" leaves (approx. 500 words). Signed "Henry James". Written to Theodore Roosevelt Sr. (father of the president-to-be), when Henry James was 27 and four years before his first book.....
[Melville's first fiction - fine] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. 8 pp Vol II undated ads. Original blind-stamped green-grey cloth. First American Edition of Melville's first novel, an allegorical romance that was preceded only by the nonfictional TYPEE (1846) and OMOO (1847). As Melville indicates in his Preface, ".......
[a beautiful copy of the true fir] (Tom Sawyer's Comrade.) With 174 Illustrations. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. 32 pp ads dated Oct 1884. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition, first state (with the October 1884 ad catalogue). With all of the attention given to the many.....
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.....
With 26 Illustrations by Dan Beard. London: Chatto & Windus, 1894. 32 pp ads dated Feb 1894. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First English Edition, apparently published one day after the American one (though this is far from certain). In this tale Tom, Huck and Jim travel about.....
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New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. 9 pp undated ads. Original tan cloth decorated in brown, black and gilt. First Edition of this collection of nine pieces -- some fiction and some non-fiction. The title tale speculates what would happen if a perfectly honest American chap were turned.....
Decorated by J. Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E. [Together, two volumes.] New York: The Century Co., 1894/1895. Original olive green cloth decorated in gilt / salmon cloth decorated in orange. First (American) Edition of THE JUNGLE BOOK (published on the same day as the London edition), and First Edition of THE SECOND.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. 4+8 pp terminal ads, undated. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black. First Edition of this schoolbook written by Trollope, issued as the fourth volume in the "Ancient Classics for English Readers" series. As Trollope explains: since this book was often reprinted without.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. Original rose cloth, beveled. First Edition of this collection of pieces such as "The Family that Goes Abroad because it's the thing to do," "The Unprotected Female Tourist," and "Tourists who don't like their Travels." This book was issued as a companion volume to HUNTING.....
Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1870 2 pp preliminary undated ads, plus 8 pp terminal ads dated June 1870. Original green cloth. First American (and first illustrated) Edition, by the author best known for THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH. The scene is laid in Hillsborough, an English manufacturing city; and.....
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868. 2 pp preliminary ads. Original dark green-grey cloth. First American Edition of this novel. Charles William Shirley Brooks (1816-1874) began as a contributor to Punch Magazine, where his nom de plume was Epicurus Rotundus; in 1870 he took over as Punch editor after Mark.....
With Sixteen Illustrations. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1907. 6 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with cover vignette in gilt. First Edition of this group of literary essays, written as wanderings about the library in the Doyle home (which is shown in the frontispiece photograph). "Through the Magic Door" gives.....
Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. Original dark green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First American (and first illustrated) Edition of Hardy's last novel, actually issued in November 1895. The English edition, published a week or two earlier, was unillustrated except for a frontispiece; the American edition, however.....
With an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a Map of Wessex. (London:) James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., (1896). Original dark blue-green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First Edition of Hardy's last great novel, issued as Vol. VIII of "The Wessex Novels." Titled HEARTS INSURGENT at the time of.....
