[inscribed by Lewis Carroll] With Forty-six Illustrations [each] by Harry Furniss. [Together, two volumes.] London: Macmillan and Co., 1889/1893. 3 pp / 5 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Editions of Carroll's rather serious fairy tales. SYLVIE AND BRUNO, with its conclusion.....
With Illustrations [by F. Church]. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. 1 page preliminary undated ads. Original chocolate-brown cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of Joel Chandler Harris's second book, a collection of 51 further "myths and legends" such as the 34 that had appeared in UNCLE REMUS.....
The FolkLore of the Old Plantation. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. 8 pp undated ads. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First Edition, first printing, of Joel Chandler Harris's first and most beloved book, featuring.....
Illustrated by Ruth Gannett. New York: Covici Friede, (1935). Original tan cloth printed in blue, with dust jacket. First Edition of Steinbeck's fourth book (after CUP OF GOLD, THE PASTURES OF HEAVEN and TO A GOD UNKNOWN) -- and the first book to win him real recognition. This is the.....
With frontispiece and cover in colour by H. Weston Taylor. Boston: The Page Company, 1915. Original pale grey-green cloth with color portrait affixed to front cover. First Edition, first impression, of the third of the eight "Anne Shirley books," following ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (1908) and ANNE OF AVONLEA (1909);.....
[in 1835 boards-and-label] London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman; and Edward Moxon, 1835. 4 pp undated ads (plus terminal erratum slip). Original drab paper-covered boards, with green cloth spine and printed spine label. First Edition, of which only 1,500 copies were printed. The contents of this.....
London: Edward Moxon, 1855. 1 page undated ads. Original blind-stamped green cloth. First Edition of this collection of verse that includes the first book appearance of "The Charge of the Light Brigade," commemorating the costly allied victory the previous October at Balaklava in the Crimean War: you know these lines!.....
Edinburgh: William Blackwood / London: T. Cadell, 1833. Original dark green cloth stamped in gilt on the spines. First Edition of Michael Scott's first book (of only two). Born and raised near Glasgow, at age 17 (in 1806) Scott went to try his fortunes in Jamaica. After marrying the daughter.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1910. Original grey printed wrappers. First (copyright) Edition, which according to the publisher consisted of only ten copies (but see below; Stewart put the number at eight, and Martindell at seven). One of nine tales featuring "Puck" that would appear in REWARDS AND FAIRIES four months.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1910. Original grey printed wrappers. First (copyright) Edition, which according to the publisher consisted of only ten copies (but see below; Stewart put the number at eight, and Martindell at seven). One of nine tales featuring "Puck" that would appear in REWARDS AND FAIRIES five months.....
![A BOY'S ADVENTURE [The Whipping Boy's Story]. Mark Twain](/pictures/thumb/14784.JPG?v=1625755264)
From the Bazaar Budget, Hartford, June 4, 1880. [No place: privately printed for Merle Johnson, 1928.] Original folded leaf forming four pages. First Edition. Twain originally wrote this chapter, "The Whipping Boy's Story" -- the tale of a boy trying to ride an unrideable bull -- as part of THE.....
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the fourth of Dickens's five illustrated Christmas books -- following A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE CHIMES, and THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, and preceding THE HAUNTED MAN. This.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. 1 page preliminary undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition, first state, of Dickens's second Christmas book, the fantasy tale of old "Trotty" Veck the message-porter and his daughter Meg -- with origins from Dickens's year in Italy.....
[an amazingly fine copy] Translated from the French Édition Définitive by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. London: Vizetelly & Co., 1886. Original aqua-blue cloth decorated in gilt, black and dark grey. First Edition in the English language of Flaubert's masterpiece, which was destined to become one of the great classics of world literature.....
Illustrated. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1902. 12 pp undated ads. Original light olive-green cloth decorated in black, lighter green and gilt. First American (and first illustrated) Edition of this fantasy tale about a sensuous mermaid who comes ashore, and the man who must choose between her and his.....
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.....
Illustrated by John Sloan. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1901. Original red cloth decorated in silver and gilt. First Edition. Crane dreamed up the idea of dramatizing great battles as a money-making scheme: "such sure quick money," he wrote his agent Pinker. Crane was very familiar with recent battles: since 1895.....
Illustrated by John Sloan. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1901. Original blue-green cloth decorated in silver and gilt. First Edition. Crane dreamed up the idea of dramatizing great battles as a money-making scheme: "such sure quick money," he wrote his agent Pinker. Crane was very familiar with recent battles: since 1895.....
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.....
By Hermann Sudermann. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. Original dark grey-green paper-covered boards decorated in gilt. First (and only) Edition in English, first (American) issue, of one of Edith Wharton's earlier literary endeavors. She agreed to translate this play only reluctantly, perhaps drawn by a topic she would later.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1894. Original olive green cloth decorated in black. First Edition of Meredith's last three-decker novel, which consisted of 1,500 copies -- published, in fact, in the final year of the three-volume format, as the lending libraries had finally lost their decades-long control over the publishing of.....
[an amazingly fine set] London: Chapman and Hall, 1891. Original royal blue cloth decorated in black. First Edition of what is "generally considered the most stylistically opaque and tortured of his [Meredith's] novels" [Williams]. Victor Radnor, Nataly Dreighton and their daughter Nesta have been supremely happy for twenty years; but.....
New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d. [1919]. Original grey-green cloth printed in black, with dust jacket. First American Edition of this sequel of sorts to THE NEW REVELATION, on the subject of spiritualism -- "one sees more clearly and broadly what our new relations with the Unseen may be,".....
[in 1901 dust jacket] London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with Ganesha device in gilt, with dust jacket. First English Edition of the book that "is acknowledged as Kipling's masterpiece in fiction... The novel is the finest written about the India of the British.....
![FROM SEA TO SEA. Letters of Travel. [In Two Volumes.]. Rudyard Kipling](/pictures/thumb/14764.JPG?v=1624475169)
[in jackets and original case] New York: Doubleday & McClure Company, 1899. Original blind-stamped sea green cloth, with dust jackets and with publisher's printed paperboard slipcase. First Edition (published eight months before the 1900-dated English edition) of this collection of pieces that had appeared in Indian periodicals prior to 1890.....
