Two pages (first and third pages of one folded leaf of stationery printed with the address "20, Carlton House Terrace, S.W." Dated by hand "5th May '99". The text of this letter reads as follows: Herewith I send you a programme of tonight's affair. You will witness that your name is.....
![Autograph Letter Signed, to "My dear Mr [John] Lane." Thomas Nelson Page](/pictures/thumb/14489.jpg?v=1581607925)
Two pages of stationery printed with the address "17 R Street, Corner | New Hampshire Avenue" [Washington DC]. Dated by hand "June 4, 1899". The text of this letter reads as follows: I have waited to answer your letter of a week or two ago. I refer to its receipt [?].....
One page, on stationery of "The Schuyler" at 59-61 West 45th Street, New York. Dated December 3, 1901. With accompanying Schuyler envelope, addressed by Le Gallienne. The text of this letter reads: Dear Madam: In answer to your letter, for which I thank you, I write to ask you to have.....
One 5"x8" printed receipt form, with the date, amount and applicable poems entered by secretarial hand, then signed in full by Stevenson. London: Cassell & Company, 23 December 1885. This receipt acknowledges payment of two guineas to Stevenson for "the use of my Poem entitled 'A Song of the Road'.....
One 5"x8" printed receipt form, with the date, amount and applicable poems entered by secretarial hand, then signed in full by Stevenson. London: Cassell & Company, 27 August 1884. This receipt acknowledges payment of four guineas to Stevenson for "the Use of my Poems entitled 'A Child's Fancies' IV &.....
Three pages (three of four sides of one folded leaf), on stationery headed "Burwash | Etchingham" and "Bateman's | Burwash | Sussex". Dated September 4, 1917. The text of this letter reads: Thank you ever so much for the letters and still more for the good news about Gerald. The little.....
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Both sides of a card, which bears the heading "The Elms | Rottingdean, | nr Brighton." Dated Dec 12, 1898. In its original envelope, which provides the recipent's address "The Cottage, Clifton," with both Rottingdean and Brighton postmarks. With accompanying sepia photographic portrait of Kipling standing on a sailing vessel.....
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881 / 1884 / 1888 / 1892. [Together, four volumes.] Original dark green cloth with facsimile signature in gilt, beveled. First Edition, first printing, of each of Thoreau's "four seasons" edited from his journal by H.G.O. Blake. (It is curious that the four seasons were.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. 24 pp ads dated April 1864. Original green zigzag-grain cloth. First Edition of Thoreau's fourth book, which consisted of only 1450 copies (per Borst; Blanck says 1650). Thoreau's three earlier books had been A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS, WALDEN, and (after his.....
![THE DAY'S WORK. [signed by Kipling]. Rudyard Kipling](/pictures/thumb/14480.jpg?v=1581607925)
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of twelve tales, illustrated with eight plates -- preceding the London edition by a week. Included are "The Devil and the Deep Sea," "An Error in the Fourth Dimension" and "The.....
![THE SEVEN SEAS. [with presentation note signed]. Rudyard Kipling](/pictures/thumb/14479.jpg?v=1581607925)
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. 6 pp undated ads. Original coarse mottled light-brown buckram cloth decorated in gilt, with dust jacket. First (American) Edition, published on 30 October 1896, the same day as Methuen's English edition. This volume of verse includes two of Kipling's better-known poems, "A Song.....
New York: F.M. Lupton, March 15, 1890. Original self-wrappers. Early American edition (pirated), of the tale originally published as "The Pavilion on the Links" -- in Cornhill Magazine in 1880, and then in the two-volume NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS in 1882. (By some, including Arthur Conan Doyle, it was considered to.....
![WHEN THE WORLD SHOOK. [inscribed by Haggard]. H. Rider Haggard](/pictures/thumb/14477.jpg?v=1581607925)
Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot. London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, (1919). Original light brown cloth on semi-flexible boards, lettered in gilt and blind. First Edition of "the most original story he [Haggard] had written for many years... his last.....
![THE YELLOW GOD. An Idol of Africa. [inscribed by Haggard]. H. Rider Haggard](/pictures/thumb/14475_2.jpg?v=1581607925)
With Three Illustrations by A.C. Michael. London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1909. 8 pp ads dated Oct 1908. Original blue-grey cloth. First English Edition of this tale involving "crooked finance in England, thwarted romance, effectively functioning [tribal] fetishes, and erotic captivity in darkest Africa." Alan Vernon's.....
With Over 300 Illustrations. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. 32 pp ads dated December 1883. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition, which was published five days before the American one (and is considerably scarcer: although the number of English copies is not known, we would surmise that.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with Ganesha device in gilt. 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 Empire" [CGEL]. It follows the adventures of.....
included in "Round the Sofa." London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1861. 2 pp ads dated July 1861 (last leaf of final gathering). Original blind-stamped green cloth with spine decorated in gilt. First English Edition, so titled, of this collection of six short stories (the title one, at 164 pages.....
San Francisco: W.E. Wood, 1903. Original dark blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in gilt and purple. First Edition, first issue, of this volume of verse, much of it ironic and/or satirical; some of the poems had appeared in Bierce's 1892 collection, BLACK BEETLES IN AMBER. This copy is in the presumed.....
[the Bancroft / Groves copy] New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899. 4 pp undated ads. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in red, black, blue and gilt. First Edition of this collection of about 240 very brief (less than one page each) fables. "[Bierce's] 1899 publication of FANTASTIC FABLES.....
San Francisco: E.L.G. Steele, 1891. Original grey cloth. First Edition of Bierce's best-known work, a collection of 19 intense supernatural tales. As Bierce points out in his dedicatory note, "Denied existence by the chief publishing houses of the country, this book owes itself to Mr. E.L.G. Steele, merchant, of this.....
Illustrated by Theodor Hampe. Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Company, 1892. 2 pp undated ads. Original mottled light brown cloth stamped in black. First Edition of this tale purportedly derived from an old German manuscript -- a tale involving an illicit relationship between a monk Ambrosius and a local girl Benedicta.....
San Francisco: Henry Keller & Co., 1877. Original green cloth, beveled. First Trade (and generally the first obtainable) Edition of this very early (and very amusing) Bierce piece, which was preceded only by the three 1873-1874 titles written by "Dod Grile." The "dance of death" is none other than the.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. 24 pp ads dated Dec 1864. Original blind-stamped violet-blue cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 2,000 copies (of which some were sent to England where they were issued with a cancel title page) -- printed in December 1864, but not actually published until March.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. 1 preliminary page undated ads. Original blind-stamped blue-green cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First Edition, which consisted of only 1558 copies. This posthumous collection of naturalist essays (including "A Winter Walk," "Autumnal Tints," "Night and Moonlight" and "Walking") was Thoreau's third book, preceded only by A......
In Three Volumes. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1878. 2 pp undated ads in Vol II. Original brown cloth decorated in black and gilt. First Edition, which consisted of only 1000 copies. This is Hardy's famous tale of Damon Wildeve of Egdon Heath and the two women who love him.....
