London: William Heinemann, 1902. 32 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth decorated in light green and gilt. First English Edition of this mysterious tale with supernatural elements, sited at Cruden Bay on the coast of Scotland. It includes "second sight," a gun battle at sea, a castle with secret.....

[Sendak copy in 1914 dj] New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. Original olive-brown cloth, with dust jacket. First American Edition, which consisted of 2000 copies and was published one day after Dent's London edition. Novelists covered by James include Robert Louis Stevenson, Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Honoré de Balzac and.....

With Many Illustrations. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1915]. Original maroon cloth lettered in gilt with pictorial panel on the front cover, with dust jacket. First Edition, second printing (the first to have a dust jacket) -- of the autobiography of the Irish-American investigative publisher Samuel Sidney McClure --.....

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black. First (American) Edition, published on the very same day (2 October 1906) as the British edition. This is Kipling's version, in prose and verse, of the adventures of the mischievious sprite Robin Goodfellow. The American edition.....

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.....

Described for "Harper's Young People". Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. Original blue-green cloth elaborately decorated in silver and lettered in gilt First Edition, first state, of Howells's tale of his own Ohio boyhood. The first state has the caption for the plate facing p. 110 erroneously describing the.....

[a handsome copy] London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original light brown cloth decorated in dark brown. First Edition of this collection of five fantastic tales: "The Crystal Egg," "The Star," "A Story of the Stone Age," "A Story of the Days to Come".....

[with letter from Theodore Dreise] New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d. [1915]. Original green cloth. First Edition, published one day earlier than Heinemann's edition in London. This was Maugham's famed autobiographical novel about Philip Carey, who has a club foot and who attends King's School, Tercanbury [Maugham had a stammer.....

[fine in fine jacket] New York: The Century Company, 1913. 1 page undated ads. Original light green cloth decorated in dark green and black, with dust jacket. First Edition of London's prizefighting tale about "a white backwoods giant who would rather read Browning than slug his opponents" [Sinclair], prompted by.....

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. 2 pp undated ads. Original red-orange cloth decorated in black. First Edition. "The Monster" is a tense tale about a black man who, rescuing a white boy from a fire, in effect loses his face to the flames -- becoming a "monster".....

As Condensed by Himself, for his Readings. With an Illustration [each] by S. Eytinge Jr. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Original pale blue printed wrappers. This wrappered volume contains two of the "readings" condensed by Dickens for his second American tour; each has its own title page and frontispiece plate.....

New York: published respectively by H.G. Daggers, 1845 | Harper & Brothers, n.d. | D. Appleton and Company, 1868 | Hurst & Co., [1889]. The first is in later grey wrappers; the second is without wrappers; the final two are in the original printed wrappers. Generally very good condition. Housed.....

[inscribed by Conrad] London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1921. Original green cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition (preceded by a 35-copy privately-printed issue). This is a collection of pieces that had appeared, over the prior two years, as 25-copy pamphlets produced by Clement Shorter and by T.J. Wise.....