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.....
London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1898. Original maroon cloth. First Edition of Gissing's first book of short stories, actually published in October 1897. At Clement Shorter's request (for the periodical the "Sketch"), Gissing began writing these 29 stories of lower-class life in 1893; as he wrote in a letter, "I am.....
[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.....
[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.....
[FINE, with clipped autograph] Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871. 1 preliminary page undated ads. Original green cloth, beveled. First Edition, first issue of this very early Harte title. POEMS includes some of Harte's best-known verse, some of which appeared separately at about the same time -- for example "Plain.....
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, 1883. 4+24 pp undated ads in Vol II. Original dark rose cloth. First Edition of Trollope's autobiography, published in October 1883, less than a year after his death. The editor of these papers, who also wrote the Preface, was the author's son Henry.....
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.....
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Collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham. In Four Volumes. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1818. 12 pp Vol IV ads dated June 1818. Original blue-grey paper-covered boards with white paper spines and printed spine labels. First Edition, probable second issue (of three) of the first printing. The entire four volumes.....
[In Three Volumes.] London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. 24 pp Vol I ads dated March 1893. Original pea green cloth stamped in dark green. First Edition, which consisted of 1,000 copies published on 17 May 1893. THE REFUGEES was part of Doyle's attempt to revert to "serious literature" after.....
London: Methuen & Co., (1905). 40 pp ads dated February 1905. Original blue cloth. First Edition, first state, of this piece written by Wilde in early 1897, toward the end of his two years' imprisonment for gross indecency in Reading Gaol (1895-1897). It is primarily a letter to "Bosie," Lord.....
[inscribed by Conrad] Illustrations by Dan Sayre Groesbeck. New York: The McClure Company, 1908. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in white. First Separate (and First American) Edition. Earlier in 1908 this tale was published in England (as "The Duel") with five others in A SET OF SIX; it was McClure's.....
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1879. Bound in three-quarter red morocco with gilt-paneled spines, red cloth boards, marbled endpapers. First Edition of this novel about "fallen leaves... the people who have drawn blanks in the lottery of life... the friendless and the lonely, the wounded and the lost." The novel follows the.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. 16 pp Vol III undated ads. Original blind-stamped cinnamon-brown cloth. First Edition. This is the sad tale of Maggie Tulliver, from the Dorlcote Mill on the Floss River -- a novel noteworthy more for its accurate depiction of rural characters than for.....
