London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. 1 page preliminary ads plus 8 pp ads, all undated. Original dark green cloth. First English Edition, which consisted of only 2000 copies, issued about a month after the Boston edition. Following LIZA OF LAMBETH, this was the second book by Maugham, who "described this... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1936. Original tan cloth lettered in red, with dust jacket. First Edition, trade issue (there were also 200 signed copies that were issued without a jacket). With the title borrowed from Samson Agonistes, this was Huxley's best-selling novel about Anthony Beavis -- with non-chronological glimpses of... More
With Fifty-Two Illustrations by Riou. Sold Only By Subscription. New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co., n.d. [1874]. 6 pp undated ads. Original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled. "Deluxe Edition" of Jules Verne's second book. The original French edition came out in 1864, and the British edition... More
In Three Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. 2 pp undated Vol I ads. Original dark green cloth. First Edition, first binding state, of this novel involving a faithful suitor, a flashy rival, and a heroine who makes a fatal choice -- reminiscent of FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD a.... More
Concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. 2 pp undated ads. Original dark green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First Edition of this collection of (to quote Hardy's prefatory note) "for what they may be worth, a dozen minor novels" that had previously... More
With Engravings by Baker from Designs by Billings. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. Original grey-green blind-stamped cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First Edition, first printing, of this collection of six children's tales adapted from Greek myths. The tales are "The Gorgon's Head," "The Golden Touch," "The Paradise of Children," "The... More
Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1902. Original red cloth decorated in gilt and black. First Edition of Doyle's famous full-length Sherlock Holmes novel, illustrated by Sidney Paget -- a tale Doyle himself termed "a real creeper." This was the first Sherlockian tale since Doyle had apparently killed... More
["On the shores of Gitche-Gumee..] Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. 12 pp ads dated November 1855. Original blind-stamped chocolate-brown cloth lettered on the spine in gilt. First American Edition of Longfellow's well-known "Indian Edda" in unrhymed trochaic tetrameter, sited among the Ojibwa along the southern shore of Lake Superior (their... More
["I shot an arrow into the air"] Cambridge: Published by John Owen, 1846. Original white wrappers decoratively lithographed in gold. First Edition of this early collection of poems -- only nine of which are appearing in book form for the first time here, but notably, one of the nine is... More
With Introductions and Biographical Notices. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845. Original full dark brown morocco elaborately decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition, first printing (with the imprint of Metcalf and Company on the copyright page, rather than that of T.K. & P.G. Collins). This is Longfellow's massive... More
[1845 in original wrappers] Cambridge: Published by John Owen, 1845. Original illuminated cream wrappers (with decoration in gold, blue and red). First Edition of this early book by Longfellow, actually published at the end of 1844. It is actually an anthology of various poets' verse, edited by Longfellow, but importantly... More
Edited by H.G.O. Blake. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. Original dark green cloth with facsimile signature in gilt, beveled. First Edition, which consisted of only 1020 copies (Borst says there were only 500, but Blanck's figure is more likely). This was the last of Thoreau's four... More
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903. Original maroon paper-covered boards with cover pictorial onlay. First Trade Edition of Beatrix Potter's second book. PETER RABBIT first came out in two private printings in 1901, followed by its trade edition in 1902; a privately-printed edition of THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER came out... More
London: Cassell and Company, (1924). Original medium-red cloth lettered in black, with pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. Of the eighteen "Scarlet Pimpernel" titles written by Baroness "Emmuska" Orczy, this was about in the middle in order of publication (from THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL in 1905 to MAM'ZELLE GUILLOTINE in 1940) --... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1924]. Original navy blue cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 2,000 copies (priced at a steep 20 shillings). MEMORIES AND ADVENTURES consists of 32 autobiographical musings -- from memories of Doyle's boyhood, to "Sidelights on Sherlock Holmes," to wartime recollections, to "The Psychic Quest" --... More
With Twelve Illustrations by S.L. Fildes, and a Portrait. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. 2 pp undated ads plus 32 pp ads dated Aug. 31, 1870. Original green cloth decorated in black and gilt. First Edition in book form. This remains one of the great unfinished and unsolved literary mysteries... More
A Smile of Fortune | The Secret Sharer | Freya of the Seven Isles. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1912. Original olive green cloth. First Edition, second binding state (of three). This collection of three tales is known primarily for the middle one, "The Secret Sharer" -- Conrad's best-known... More
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[original drawings by Rockwell] [In Two Volumes, boxed.] New York: The Heritage Press, 1936 | 1940. Original green | orange cloth lettered on the spine in gilt, with front cover portrait, in original paper-covered board box with integral wraparound slip. Heritage Press editions, each with eight color plates tipped onto... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d. [1922]. Original orange paper-covered boards with yellow cloth spine, with red dust jacket. First Edition, consisting of 2000 copies published one month earlier than Heinemann's London edition. These are sketches resulting from Maugham's 1919-1920 trip up the Yangtze River in China; they are... More
By D. Torbett. A Novelization of W. Somerset Maugham's Play. Illustrated with Photographs of the Play. New York: Edward J. Clode, (1914). Original red cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. Maugham wrote this play upon the suggestion by impresario Charles Frohman that he write a modern version of "The Taming... More
London: William Heinemann, 1904. Original dark blue-green cloth with mauresque design in gilt. First Edition of what is today, in our opinion, the scarcest of Maugham's trade editions. It was an experiment by Maugham, telling three independent stories within one novel, loosely-connected by the character Miss Ley, a hardheaded spinster... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918. Original black cloth with color plate affixed to front cover, with pictorial dust jacket. First N.C. Wyeth edition, being a volume in "Scribner's Illustrated Classics for Young Readers" (though not so stated). In addition to fourteen magnificent color plates inserted within the text, there... More
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1873. 1 page undated ads. Original dark green cloth decorated in black and lettered in gilt. First English Edition, 1500 copies published in January 1873. After this novella had appeared in the Christmas 1871 London Graphic, Librairie Hachette took the liberty of producing an 1872... More
One page, dated (by RLS) June 30th 1893. N.p. [but at Vailima Plantation, Apia, Samoa]. This letter is hand-addressed by Stevenson to: "John B. Day Esq. | 5 Blythwood Villas | Stroud Green | London N.", and reads as follows:~Dear Sir, I am unfortunately confined to the house by influenza... More
One page, on grey stationery lettered in red "34, De Vere Gardens, W." Dated "Mch 24th" [no year]. The text of the letter reads:~On Monday 31st at 7:30 with great pleasure. Kind regards to your colleagues, & yours most truly [signed] Henry James~Juliet Creed (1819-1899) in 1844 married William Frederick... More
