New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. 1 preliminary page + 4 pp undated ads. Original red cloth. First Edition of Edith Wharton's best-known book, a grim novella sited on a bleak Massachusetts farm. "As in THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, the central problem is that of the barriers imposed by local...
London: Chatto & Windus, 1929. Original olive brown cloth with spine label, with dust jacket. First English Edition (the play was performed, in 1927-1928, and was published, in New York before London). And here we have our theme, ladies and gentleman: the gap between perception and reality, what people desire to...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919. Original blue-green cloth pictorially decorated in orange and dark blue. First Edition, which consisted of only 4,972 copies. This was London's last collection of short stories, published posthumously: the seven tales, all sited in Hawaii, were written in 1916 (the year of his death)...
What the Children Saw and Heard there. Illustrated by Oliver Herford. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in green and dark brown. First Edition of this curious volume of tales: three little children -- Buster John, Sweetest Susan and Drusilla -- journey...
Done into English from the French of Frederic Ortoli. Authorized Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black and silver. First Edition of this collection of Uncle Remus-like animal stories by the French author Ortoli, "done into English" by Harris. The first one, "A French...
London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1892. 8 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth. First Edition of this early Doyle venture into the field of science fiction, largely concerned with alchemy. Doyle wrote this mainly to finance a trip to Vienna where he planned to establish himself as...
With Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. 2 pp preliminary ads. Original grey-green cloth. First American Edition, published about eight days after Smith Elder's two-volume English edition -- and with 36 illustrations, compared to the UK edition's twenty. This is "Collins's longest novel... The complex plot combines several of...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. Original red cloth. First Edition of this novel sited in France during the Great War. Edith Wharton lived in France when war broke out, and rather than flee, remained there to help the French effort -- even traveling to the front in order to...
Illustrated [with photographs]. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915. Original red cloth First and Only Edition, first printing, first (American) issue -- the rest of the first printing formed the Canadian edition, and the second and last printing formed the UK edition, all in 1915. After Wharton's 1913 divorce, she...
Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: Charles Tilt, 1839. 4 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...
With Twenty-Four Illustrations. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1874. Original green cloth decorated in black and gilt (continuously paginated). First Edition, second impression -- also the first one-volume edition -- and a highly unusual publishing situation, since the first and second impressions were by two different publishers...
Illustrations by Sidney Paget. London: George Newnes, 1894. Original royal blue cloth decorated in black and gilt, beveled, all page edges gilt. First Edition in book form of these eleven Sherlock Holmes cases, ending with his apparent death in a struggle with Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls in "The Adventure...
In Three Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. First English Edition, which consisted of only 500 copies, published a week or two after the two-volume Boston edition. This was the last Henry James three-decker; 1894 is generally considered the year in which that format...
In Two Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. 2 pp undated Vol I ads. Original dark blue-green cloth with gilt lines. First Edition, which consisted of only 500 copies. THE REVERBERATOR illustrates the contrast between democracy and autocracy, between provincial and urban spirit... Like Newman [of THE AMERICAN], the Dossons are...
In Two Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co., 1879. Original royal blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. First English Edition (of the first two tales, both of which had just appeared in Harper's "Half-Hour Series" in America; first edition in book form of the third tale). This is one of...
Pictures in Color Reproduced from Paintings by Maxfield Parrish. New York: Duffield & Co., 1911. Original very dark blue cloth with applied color illustration on the front cover. First Maxfield Parrish Edition of one of the most famous and oft-reprinted anthologies in the English language. A minor poet, Palgrave published...
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[inscribed by Steinbeck] Melbourne :: London :: Toronto: William Heinemann, (1952). Original green cloth, with dust jacket. First English Edition, published the same year as the American. This is Steinbeck's tale of the Trask family in the Salinas Valley -- and of the two brothers Cal and Aron (for whom...
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[near-fine in original wrappers] Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., July 1890. 24 pp preliminary ads, plus 26 pp terminal ads [paginated 25-50], interspersed with other sample text leaves. Original printed wrappers. First (American) Appearance of Oscar Wilde's only novel -- about a man who wills his corruption and evil to appear...
With Illustrations by "Phiz." London: Chapman and Hall, 1856. Original blind-stamped green cloth. First Edition in book form, following publication in monthly serial parts. [This novel] depicts the fall of a Connemara estate in the period between Catholic Emancipation (1829) and the Great Famine (1845-1849)... Even as he asserts that the...
With Illustrations by Phiz. In Two Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1852. Front endpaper of Vol II printed with Chapman & Hall ads. Original blind-stamped rose-brown cloth. First Edition in book form of this tale of "the downside of an irresponsible lifestyle when one enters middle age. The picaresque hero...
With Illustrations on Wood and Steel, by Hablot K. Browne. [In Two Volumes.] London: W.S. Orr and Co., n.d. [1849]. 2 pp Vol II ads. Original bright red cloth with spines pictorially decorated in gilt. First Edition in book form of this novel, following the 14-in-13 monthly serial parts. CON...
Illustrated by Phiz. London: Chapman & Hall, 1845. Original grey-green cloth decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of this children's book -- "It was on the 16th of March, the eve of St. Patrick, not quite twenty years ago..." -- modeled on the Christmas books of Charles...
Edited by Charles Lever (Harry Lorrequer). With Numerous Illustrations on Steel by Phiz. [In Two Volumes.] Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Co. [etc.], 1844. Original light grey-green paper-covered boards with red cloth spines, with printed spine labels. First Edition in book form (after serial parts) of this early Charles Lever...
In Three Volumes. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. 32 pp Vol III ads dated Dec 1883. Original dark green cloth decorated in yellow-ochre. First Edition of this novel left unfinished at the time of Trollope's death in December 1882; Trollope had written 49 of his planned 60 chapters, and the...
[near-fine in original wrappers] A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, March 31, 1882. 5 pp ads. Original printed wrappers, including outer wrapper promoting an Ignatius Donnelly title. First American Edition of one of the strangest of all of Trollope's novels... On an imaginary island near Australia over which the English...
