![THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. Complete [in] Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Oscar Wilde](/pictures/thumb/14267.jpg?v=1554996729)
[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...
A Novel. In Two Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1881. 28 pp Vol II ads dated Nov 1880. Original grey cloth decorated in black. First English Edition of one of Trollope's best short novels. Mr. Peacocke goes to America for a position as vice-president of a college in St. Louis...
In Two Volumes. Third Edition. London: Chatto & Windus, 1880. 32 pp Vol II ads dated April 1880. Original brown-ochre cloth decorated in black. First English Edition, third printing (with "Third Edition" on the title pages). This was Twain's only "two decker" work, which in our experience is one of...
[still in the original muslin] A Tale. By the Author of "The Last of the Mohicans," "The Pathfinder," "The Pioneers" and "The Prairie." In Two Volumes. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841. Original purple muslin with paper spine labels. First Edition, published eleven days before Bentley's English edition. THE DEERSLAYER was...
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881. Undated endpaper ads. Original yellow-ochre cloth with hanging sword in black. First Edition of Anna Katharine Green's third book, a romantic mystery following THE LEAVENWORTH CASE (1878) and A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE (1880). Green is often credited with being the first female detective novelist (not...
[signed by the author] New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881. Undated endpaper ads. Original terra-cotta cloth with hanging sword in black. First Edition of Anna Katharine Green's third book, a romantic mystery following THE LEAVENWORTH CASE (1878) and A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE (1880). Green is often credited with being the first...
On his Way through the World; shewing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him By. In Three Volumes. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. Original violet-blue cloth. First Edition of this Thackeray's last completed novel -- involving a sham marriage, blackmail by a clergyman, a family fortune...
London: Cassell & Company, 1885. 16 pp ads dated Aug 1885. Original red cloth decorated in black. First Edition, first printing, first state of ads -- of Haggard's famous first adventure tale to feature the adventurer Allan Quatermain. This was Haggard's masterpiece, the book that made his reputation; it was...
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1906. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in yellow, grey and brown. First (American) Edition, published on the same day as the London one. This was Conrad's first volume of autobiographical non-fiction. This copy is in Cagle's binding "a," with the smaller (17x11mm) anchor-and-rope device.....
[in the original 1848 wrappers] Edited by Currer Bell [pseudonym]. New York: Harper & Brothers, n.d. [1848?]. Original orange-brown wrappers printed in black. First American Edition, later issue (printing?), of one of the greatest novels of the Nineteenth Century. The first American edition of JANE EYRE was published, in wrappers...
A Novel. London: Richard Bentley, 1859. Original blind-stamped red cloth with spine decorated and lettered in gilt.. First one-volume edition (and second printing overall) of Trollope's sixth book -- immediately following THE WARDEN (1855) and BARCHESTER TOWERS (1857). Three civil servants (one of them modeled after junior post office clerk...
An Agony, in Eight Fits. With Nine Illustrations by Henry Holiday. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. Original buff cloth pictorially decorated in black, all page edges gilt. First Edition of this poetical nonsense tale, both funny and subtle, that "describes with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew...
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1926). Original yellow-green cloth, with dust jacket. First American Edition, published two months after the English. This is Doyle's psychic novel, for which he resurrected Professor Challenger (who had journeyed to the land of the dinosaurs in THE LOST WORLD and had faced the...
[Oxford: Oxford University Press,] July 1931. Original grey printed wrappers. First Edition, being "Pamphlet No. 79" of The English Association. This was Buchan's "presidential address" delivered to the association on November 22, 1930. He touches upon such writers as George Eliot, Dickens, Thackeray and Coleridge. A very good-plus copy (two...
![THE FIRST EDITIONS OF JOHN BUCHAN [by Blanchard]. John Buchan](/pictures/thumb/14186.jpg?v=1544726519)
A Collector's Bibliography. [By:] Robert G. Blanchard. (Hamden CT:) Archon Books, 1981. Original green cloth. First Edition of what is still today the standard bibliography of the first editions of John Buchan -- a comprehensive work covering Buchan's books and pamphlets, his edited works, and his contributions to periodicals. This...
Illustrated. London [etc.]: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1936). Original blue-grey cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition. This volume is a selection of extracts from Buchan's monumental A HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR (four volumes, 1921-1922) -- published at a time when Britain was bracing for the next war. Included are...
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1935). Original beige cloth printed in red and blue, with dust jacket. First Edition (trade issue) of this "picture -- and some slight interpretation" of the reign of King George V, upon the occasion of his Silver Jubilee. Though Buchan observes that the time for an...
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1941). Original green cloth, with dust jacket. First English Edition (published simultaneously with Musson's Canadian edition, three weeks after the American edition titled MOUNTAIN MEADOW). Canada gave [Buchan]... the inspiration and the setting for his last novel, SICK HEART RIVER, where he transcends the limit of the...
