New York: The Viking Press, 1948. Original grey and antique-rose cloth, with dust jacket. First American Edition of Greene's first post-war novel, portraying the moral crisis of a good man "increasingly enmeshed in love, in intrigue, and in evil" (per the jacket), while serving as a wartime British colonial police.....
[the third UK printing, fine] With One Hundred and Twelve Illustrations. Third Edition. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1873. 8 pp ads dated "for the season 1872-73." Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black and gilt, beveled, all page edges gilt. "Third Edition" -- i.e. the third printing of.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1873. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in blind and gilt. First Edition of Alcott's first full-fledged novel for adults, in which she portrays the difficulties and rewards of 21-year-old Christie Devon leaving home to make her own way (and WORK) in the real world. The book "describes in.....
San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1909. Original brown cloth decorated in black, with dust jacket. First Edition. Per the author's note, "It was expected that this book would be included in my 'Collected works' now in course of publication, but unforeseen delay in the date of publication has made this impossible.".....
San Francisco | New York: Western Authors Publishing Company, 1892. Original blind-stamped light grey cloth, beveled. First Edition of Bierce's first volume of verse, published the year after his most famous book, TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS. There are about 150 short poems (which he terms "beetles"), mostly gleaned from.....
![Autograph Letter Signed, to "My dear Bannery [?]. Anthony Trollope](/pictures/thumb/14567.JPG?v=1599074764)
One page, on stationery imprinted in red with 39, Montagu Square, dated by hand "27 Oct. 1873". This brief letter reads: I am very sorry to say that I have an engagement for Saturday the 15th which makes it incumbent upon me to be in town on Friday night. Yours very.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Original medium-brown paper boards with blue-grey cloth spine and printed spine and front cover labels. Limited American Edition, consisting of only 250 numbered copies signed by Yeats -- this being #183. Included in this volume are "The Countess Cathleen," "The Land of Heart's Desire,".....
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1890. Original patterned paper-covered boards with brown cloth spines. First Edition, which consisted of 1,000 copies (of which, according to the publisher, only 492 were sold -- but that may have been Bentley's ruse to avoid paying Gissing "bonuses" that would kick in if 850.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1877. Original terra-cotta cloth with front cover and spine decorated in black, spine stamped in gilt and black. First Edition, published at the end of this novel's serialization in Temple Bar magazine. "THE AMERICAN SENATOR will be read for the sake of its opening chapters, which set.....
[the first Barsetshire novel] London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. Bound in three-quarter light brown calf with leather spine labels, with patterned paper-covered boards. First Edition of Trollope's fourth novel, preceded only by THE MACDERMOTS of BALLYCLORAN [1847], THE KELLYS AND THE O'KELLYS [1848] and LA VENDÉE [1850]. THE.....
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. One page undated ads. Original salmon cloth. First English Edition, which according to McKay was published on 9 January 1886 -- four days after the American one (Longmans had intended to publish it in December 1885, but the bookstalls were already so full of.....
London, Paris & New York: Cassell & Company, 1883. 4 pp ads dated July 1883. Original forest green cloth. First Edition, earliest date of ads, of this classic. In late 1881 Stevenson wrote this tale, titled THE SEA COOK, merely as an amusement for his 12-year-old stepson. It was accepted.....
[in original cloth] Second Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. Original wavy-grain blind-stamped violet cloth with gilt-decorated spines. "Second Edition," so-called on the three title pages (technically the second of the five slightly-differing 1861 impressions of the first edition). GREAT EXPECTATIONS was one of the few Dickens novels that did.....
[in the primary cloth binding] With Illustrations by H[ablot]. K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. Original blind-stamped olive green cloth, all page edges gilt. First Edition in book form (following issuance in 20-in-19 monthly parts), of Dickens's famous novel that attacks Chancery, the London legal system. Included are forty.....
the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. [20 monthly serial parts in 19.] London: Bradbury & Evans, 1849-1850. Original pictorial light blue-green wrappers. First Edition in the original serial parts, issued monthly beginning in May 1849 and ending (with a double number) in November 1850; the same.....
Containing a Faithful Record of the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members. Edited by "Boz." With Illustrations. [20-in-19 monthly serial parts.] London: Chapman & Hall, 1836-1837. Original light green pictorial wrappers. First Edition, in the original 20-in-19 monthly serial parts, issued from April 1836 through.....
Drafts and fair copies in the author's hand with a Foreword and Introductions by Geoffrey Keynes Kt. (Ilkley, Yorkshire:) The Scolar Press, 1974. Original dark blue linen with Brooke signature in gilt, with quarter vellum spine lettered in gilt. First Edition of these four famous poems so collected and presented.....
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1916. Original black cloth with spine label, with dust jacket. First English Edition (the American edition was issued four days earlier). This was Brooke's thesis written in 1911-1912 for his fellowship at King's College, here published posthumously by his Rugby classmate Frank Sidgwick. The volume is.....
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1916. Original black cloth with printed spine label, with dust jacket. First English Edition, published about five weeks after the American (for copyright reasons). After Brooke suffered a mental breakdown in 1913, he traveled extensively -- from May 1913 to June 1914 -- to America, Canada.....
[Chicago:] The Chicago Little Theatre, 1915. Original pictorial wrappers. First Edition of Rupert Brooke's only play, considered (by Keynes among others) to have consisted of only 200 copies. Before the war young Brooke wrote this play, never expecting it to be performed (a stranger gets lost in rural Lithuania and.....
!["1914." Five Sonnets [with original envelope]. Rupert Brooke](/pictures/thumb/14540.JPG?v=1594233603)
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915. Original grey printed wrappers, with original S&J mailing envelope. First Separate Edition, published five months after 1914 AND OTHER POEMS (which included these sonnets). Included is "The Soldier," beginning with Brooke's famous lines If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of.....
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915. Original blue-black cloth with printed spine label. First Edition of Rupert Brooke's second and last volume of verse, which consisted of 1000 copies. Included is the first book appearance of his best-known poem, "The Soldier," which begins If I should die, think only this of me: That.....
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. Original very dark blue cloth with paper spine label. First Edition of Rupert Brooke's first book, which consisted of only 500 copies; Frank Sidgwick, a fellow Rugby graduate, had agreed to publish it but only at Brooke's financial risk. POEMS was preceded only by several.....
![LOSER TAKES ALL [inscribed copy]. Graham Greene](/pictures/thumb/14535.JPG?v=1593711122)
London: William Heinemann Ltd, (1955). Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of this novella about a man who devises a scheme to win big at Monte Carlo -- but his obsession causes him to lose his girl (whom he planned to marry there) in.....
With Numerous Illustrations by H.J. Ford. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. 2 pp undated ads. Original yellow cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the fourth of Lang's fairy books (following the Blue, Red and Green); there were twelve in all, published from 1889.....
