[Tennyson's masterpiece -- fine] London: Edward Moxon, 1850. Original blind-stamped purple-brown cloth. First Edition -- of what is "widely considered to be one of the greatest poems of the 19th century" [Oxford p. 607]. As indicated on the dedication (but not title) page, this volume is in memory of "A.H.H."...
Illustrated by George du Maurier. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. 6 pp undated ads. Original dark olive cloth pictorially decorated in brown and gilt. First Edition, published actually in December 1880, a month before the two-volume London edition that included two additional pieces. WASHINGTON SQUARE, a rare example of...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880. 4 pp preliminary ads plus 8 pp ads, all undated. Original pale buff wrappers decorated in black and red. First American Edition of the first title, and First Authorized Edition of the latter one. "The Diary of a Man of Fifty," after first appearing...
With Two Designs by D.G. Rossetti. London: Macmillan and Co., 1866. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of Christina Rossetti's second book, published four years after GOBLIN MARKET. The title verse is a romantic allegory on the "Sleeping Beauty" theme, only in this case the Prince arrives too...
With Two Designs by D.G. Rossetti. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1862. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt and blind. First Edition of Christina Rossetti's first volume of verse (other than her 1847 one, privately printed by her grandfather when she was only 17). "Goblin Market" is an intensely erotic...
Boston: E.P. Peabody, 1841. Original green-grey pebble-grain cloth with front cover black paper label printed in gilt. First Edition of this early Hawthorne title, written as a grandfather's presentation to his grandchildren of the events in an around Boston during the Revolutionary War. Published in March 1841 (with the Preface...
![HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT [in 32 weekly parts]. Anthony Trollope](/pictures/thumb/14343.jpg?v=1564065647)
[32 weekly parts, near-fine] With Illustrations by Marcus Stone. London: Virtue & Company, October 17 [1868] - May 22 [1869]. Original grey-green pictorial wrappers printed in red and black. First Edition, in 32 weekly parts (serialization was also available in eight monthly parts, and at the end the novel was...
![APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA [in 8 parts -- plus 3 related pamphlets]:. John Henry Newman](/pictures/thumb/14342.jpg?v=1564065646)
[in original parts, + others] being A Reply to a Pamphlet entitled "What, then, does Dr. Newman mean?". [Complete in eight serial parts -- I through VII plus the Appendix.] London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864. Original buff wrappers printed in black. **With:** Kingsley, Rev. Charles. "WHAT, THEN...
[in the 1808 original boards] In Four Volumes. London: Printed by D.N. Shury... for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. Original grey-brown paper-covered boards with purple cloth spines and printed spine labels. First Edition of this collection of Gothic tales of the macabre, which Lewis adapted from original German, French...
![THE VICAR OF BULLHAMPTON [in 11 monthly parts]. Anthony Trollope](/pictures/thumb/14337.jpg?v=1564065646)
[the Hatton / Jackson set] With Thirty Illustrations by H. Woods. [In eleven monthly serial parts.] London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co., 1869-1870. Original blue-grey wrappers printed in black and orange. First Edition, in the original eleven serial parts, of this novel "written chiefly with the idea of exciting not only...
A Weekly Journal. With which is incorporated Household Words. [In Eleven Volumes.] London: [Office of "All The Year Round"], 1859-1864. Original blind-stamped olive green or olive brown cloth. First Appearance in Print of these two major novels. This is a set of the first eleven volumes (comprised of the weekly...
London: Macmillan and Co., 1884. 2 pp undated ads. Original dark green cloth. First English Edition, which consisted of only 1500 copies -- published a month after the Boston edition (in which the tales appeared in a different order). The book consists of a tale of London ("Lady Barberina"), a....
Boston: James R. Osgood & Company, 1883. Original royal blue cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 1500 copies (1528 according to Blanck). There was no comparable British edition of this book: "The Pension Beaurépas" had appeared in the 1881 UK edition of WASHINGTON SQUARE, but the other two tales...
Boston: Loring, Publisher, n.d.[1880]. Original cream printed wrappers. First Edition. Loring gleaned these pieces from an English-language weekly in Paris and, since James had not copyrighted them, published them without authorization. James wrote to his father, "[Loring] has no moral right, & his doing so without asking my assent or.....
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. Original dark green cloth, beveled. First American Edition, first impression, which consisted of only about 1500 copies. This was actually published in October 1878, less than a month after the two-volume London edition (which is now decidedly rare). One of James's earliest novels (published...
New York: Harper & Brothers, n.d. [1880?]. 4 pp preliminary ads plus 12 pp ads, all undated. Original flexible green cloth stamped in black and red. First Edition, issued as No. 82 in Harper's "Half-Hour Series." This is the tale of Daisy and her newly-rich mother, from Schenectady New York...
[first novel, later disowned] Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878. Original blind-stamped green cloth decorated in gilt, page edges red. First Edition, first impression, of the first novel written by Henry James, having appeared in Atlantic Monthly in 1871. (It was not his first novel published in book form, however...
[a handsome set] In Two Volumes. London: Sampson, Low, Son, & Co., 1863. 16 pp ads dated Nov 1863 in each volume. Original green cloth with spines stamped in gilt. First Edition of this collection of twenty-five essays, sketches and other pieces (including some fiction). All of them had initially...
London: Macmillan and Co., 1878. Original dark blue-green cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 1,250 copies (there was no American edition of these pieces until 1964). These essays about Baudelaire, Balzac, Flaubert, Mérimée, Sand and others are very "early James," initially published in periodicals between 1875 and 1877. This copy...
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. One preliminary page undated ads. Original terra-cotta cloth, beveled. First Edition of Henry James's second book, which consisted of either 1500 (per E&L) or 1578 (per Blanck) copies. Published in the same year as his first (A PASSIONATE PILGRIM), this is a collection...
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. Original terra-cotta cloth, beveled. First Edition of Henry James's first book, which consisted of only 1,500 copies. This is a collection of six tales that had appeared in American periodicals (mostly the Atlantic Monthly) over the preceding years. In 1873 James's father wrote...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. Original tan cloth decorated in brown and black. First Edition, published five days before the English one. This collection consists of "The Beach at Falesa," "The Bottle Imp" and "The Isle of Voices"; the middle one is one of Stevenson's weirdest tales -- a....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1916. Original grey boards with violet cloth spine, with dust jacket. First Edition of this "folk tale of old Iceland, in the author's best manner, which has lately been discovered among the papers of the late Mrs. Stevenson, and is now for the first time issued...
![THE WRONG BOX [1st UK and 1st US editions]. Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne](/pictures/thumb/14321.jpg?v=1564065645)
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. 16 pp ads dated Jan 1889. Original red cloth. AND: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. Original ochre cloth with front cover labels. Together, two volumes. First Editions (English and American) of this dark comedy which is also an early detective story; precedence between...
[In Two Volumes.] New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. Original light brown ("biscuit") sateen cloth. First Edition of James's tragic novel about Milly Theale, a young American caught up in the social circles of London and Venice. The London edition (issued in only one volume) was published nine days later. [THE...
