Illustrated by W.T. Smedley. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1904. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black and white. First Edition in book form (preceded only by a wrappered tract published earlier in 1904 by the National Anti-Vivisection Society in London) This illustrated tale of a dog is.....
Illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Original red cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this mystery parodying those of Sherlock Holmes (published the same year as THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES). Holmes, visiting his nephew Fetlock Jones at a California silver mining camp.....
Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with front cover monogram device in gilt. First Edition, first issue. The title story, one of Twain's darker themes, is "a parable about a smug all-American town whose citizens, never having been tempted, take.....
Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with front cover monogram device in gilt. First Edition, first issue. The title story, one of Twain's darker themes, is "a parable about a smug all-American town whose citizens, never having been tempted, take.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in gilt and lettered in black. First Edition of this collection of eight essays, such as "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences" and "Private History of the 'Jumping Frog' Story." It is believed that this edition consisted of.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. 32 pp ads dated May 1882. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of tales, which preceded the American edition by about a week (Blanck) or by four days (Johnson). The title tale is Mark Twain's jab at detectives, both.....
With Marginal Illustrations. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1894. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black. First Edition, first printing, of "Those Extraordinary Twins," which had not yet been published in the U.K.; First American Edition, first printing, of "Pudd'nhead Wilson," which had appeared a few weeks earlier in Britain. PUDD'NHEAD.....
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. Original olive-green cloth pictorially decorated in black and dark green. First Edition of this novel in which Twain tried, unsuccessfully, to recreate the character of Colonel Sellers from THE GILDED AGE. This American edition came out in late March or early April.....
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With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Bradbury & Evans, December 1855 - June 1857. Original light blue-green pictorial wrappers. First Edition, in the original 20-in-19 monthly serial parts (the final one being a double number), issued beginning December 1855 and ending June 1857. LITTLE DORRIT was published right after BLEAK.....
From Letters, Diaries, and Recollections. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1903. Original dark green cloth. First American Edition, first state, of this bibliographically-complex biography by James. William Wetmore Story (1819-1895) graduated from Harvard College in 1838 and Harvard Law School in 1840, but after practicing under his father for a......
![BLEAK HOUSE. [Complete in 20-in-19 monthly serial parts.]. Charles Dickens](/pictures/thumb/15017.JPG?v=1654107585)
[20-in-19 serial parts] With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. 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 novel was published in book form). Written.....
![THE CHRONICLES OF AUNT MINERVY ANN. [inscribed by Harris]. Joel Chandler Harris](/pictures/thumb/15016.JPG?v=1655231882)
[inscribed and signed by Harris] Illustrated by A.B. Frost. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in white and red. First Edition of this loosely-connected collection of eight tales of black Americans; the first is titled "An Evening with the Ku-Klux." Aunt Minervy Ann had been.....
Fully Illustrated by Eminent Artists. (Issued by Subscription Only, and Not For Sale in Bookstores...) Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [etc.], 1872. 1 page undated ads. Original black cloth decorated in gilt. First American Edition, mixed issue, of this very early Twain title -- his fourth major book. In July.....
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. Original yellow-orange boards with white cloth spine, with dust jacket. First Edition, being the fifth volume in Boni & Liveright's "Penguin Series." Published nine years after his death, this is one of Twain's few books that appeared under his real name, without mention of.....
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.....
... With Two Hundred and Thirty-Four Illustrations. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [plus six others], 1869. 5 pp undated ads. Original very dark brown cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition of Twain's second book, published in July 1869, preceded only by THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY. This is.....
New York / London: Edward Arnold, 1896. 8 pp undated ads. Original tan cloth. First Edition of Crane's fourth book (just after THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE). This is a tale of a church-going mother and her idealistic expectations for her saloon-going son (Crane's mother and brother are much in.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. Original tan cloth decorated in red, black and gilt. First Edition of Crane's sixth book, a romance about young impoverished artists. It was not long after he finished writing this, and before it was published, that Crane was shipwrecked near Jacksonville, as he.....
Works of Charles Dickens. Household Edition. [In Two Volumes.] Illustrated from Drawings by F.O.C. Darley and John Gilbert. New York: James G. Gregory, 1861. Original dark green cloth. Very early American Edition -- the first to deposit copies at the Library of Congress -- of one of Dickens's most-loved novels.....
London: John Murray, 1876. Original green cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First Edition, which consisted of only 1,500 copies. After dealing with evolution in humans in earlier books, Darwin here turns to evolution in the plant world -- specifically, the advantages of cross-fertilization and the disadvantages of self-fertilization in the outlook.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880. 12 pp undated ads. Original light blue-grey cloth florally decorated in red, light blue, green and black. First Edition of one of the American bestsellers of the Nineteenth Century. Lew Wallace, a Hoosier, was a prominent military man in the Mexican War and in.....
or, The Parish Boy's Progress. With Twenty-four Illustrations on Steel, by George Cruikshank. A New Edition, Revised and Corrected. London: Published for the Author by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. Original blind-stamped violet-grey cloth with spine pictorially decorated in gilt. First English One-Volume Edition, and the first with the text substantially.....
Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: Charles Tilt, 1839. 8 pp undated ads. Original dark green cloth wrappers pictorially decorated in gilt. First Edition, first issue, of this unusual collaboration between Thackeray, Dickens and Cruikshank. The volume consists of 31 quatrains of amusing verse, illustrated with Cruikshank's eleven full-page etchings (as.....
![TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY IN THE CEVENNES. [inscribed from The Author]. Robert Louis Stevenson](/pictures/thumb/14998.JPG?v=1653071078)
[Stevenson's 3rd book, inscribed] London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. 1 page preliminary undated ads. Original green-blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, beveled. First Edition, first printing, which consisted of only 750 copies. This was Stevenson's third book, following AN INLAND VOYAGE and EDINBURGH PICTURESQUE NOTES; like the former.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1929). Original dark blue cloth lettered in orange. First Edition of the fifth and last of Lewis's great novels of the 1920s -- preceded by MAIN STREET, BABBITT, ARROWSMITH and ELMER GANTRY. In these novels, Lewis savagely mocked the provincialism, conformism and hypocrisy he saw.....
