London: Frederick Warne and Co., n.d. [1917]. Original green-grey boards lettered in red, with front cover pictorial onlay. First Edition, first or second printing (indistinguishable from each other) -- but in later-state binding. Most of these rhymes are Beatrix Potter's own, but also included is "You know the old woman.....
London: Frederick Warne and Co., n.d. [1917]. Original green-grey boards lettered in red, with front cover pictorial onlay. First Edition, first or second printing (indistinguishable from each other). Most of these rhymes are Beatrix Potter's own, but also included is "You know the old woman who lived in a shoe?".....
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1913. Original grey-green paper-covered boards with cover pictorial onlay. First Edition of the author's nineteenth book, her second title (after THE TALE OF MR. TOD) to appear in the "New Series" that was unfortunately issued in a binding almost as fragile as the earlier titles. THE.....
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1913. Original grey-green paper-covered boards with cover pictorial onlay. First Edition of the author's nineteenth book, her second title (after THE TALE OF MR. TOD) to appear in the "New Series" that was unfortunately issued in a binding almost as fragile as the earlier titles. THE.....
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1912. Original light grey paper-covered boards with front cover color plate. First Edition of Beatrix Potter's eighteenth book, and the first title to appear in the "New Series" that was unfortunately issued in a binding almost as fragile as the earlier titles. Unlike Beatrix Potter's earlier.....
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1912. Original light grey paper-covered boards with front cover color plate. First Edition of Beatrix Potter's eighteenth book, and the first title to appear in the "New Series" that was unfortunately issued in a binding almost as fragile as the earlier titles. Unlike Beatrix Potter's earlier.....
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911. Original dark green paper boards with arched pictorial onlay. First Edition of these adventures of Timmy Tiptoes (and his wife Goody), grey squirrels trying to get nuts collected and stored up for the oncoming winter. Timmy is wrongly accused of stealing other squirrels' nuts.....
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911. Original dark green paper boards with arched pictorial onlay. First Edition of these adventures of Timmy Tiptoes (and his wife Goody), grey squirrels trying to get nuts collected and stored up for the oncoming winter. Timmy is wrongly accused of stealing other squirrels' nuts.....
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1909. Original pale olive-green boards decorated in dark green, with color pictorial onlay. First Edition of this tale about a country village store, run by a tom-cat named Ginger and a terrier named Pickles. Ginger and Pickles do very well -- sort of: sales are.....
London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1909. Original light brown boards with cover pictorial onlay. First Edition, first state, of the author's fourteenth book, which like her first includes Peter Rabbit and Mr. McGregor. Copies were available to the public in green or light brown paper-covered boards at.....
London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., (1906). Original grey-green concertina-wallet style booklet with cover pictorial onlay. First Edition, first printing, of Beatrix Potter's ninth tale, one with a fair amount of violence (as the "fierce bad rabbit" winds up losing his tail and whiskers). This is one of.....
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1905. Original brown-green paper-covered boards with cover pictorial onlay. First Edition, first or second printing (indistinguishable), of this much-loved tale of the hedgehog washerwoman (in which Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny make a cameo appearance). "Although THE TALE OF MRS. TIGGY-WINKLE was the sixth of.....
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903. Original dark green paper-covered boards with cover pictorial onlay. First Trade Edition, first printing, of Beatrix Potter's second (third?) book. PETER RABBIT first came out in two private printings in 1901, followed by its trade edition in 1902; a privately-printed edition of THE TAILOR.....
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903. Original dark green paper-covered boards with cover pictorial onlay. First Edition, first state, of Beatrix Potter's third (second?) book -- it came out after Potter's self-printed edition of THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER, but preceded that book's trade edition. On September 25th 1901... she sent a......
London: Frederick Warne and Co., n.d.[1902]. Original grey boards with cover pictorial onlay. First Trade Edition of Beatrix Potter's first and best-known book, featuring Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, Peter -- and Mr. McGregor. Potter wrote the story in 1893 for the five-year-old son of her former governess; for almost a decade.....
With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co., (1928). Original salmon-pink cloth pictorially decorated in gilt. First Edition of this the fourth and last Milne/Shepard collaboration (and the second of them in prose, after WINNIE THE POOH). This is also the book in which Tigger first makes an.....
New York: The Century Co., 1906. Original dark blue cloth pictorially decorated in light blue and black. First American Edition of this novel published during Wells's transition from his early science fiction titles to his later socialistic titles: a comet passes very close to Earth and thereby causes a "Great.....
(London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902.) Original dark green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First Edition of Hardy's second volume of verse, which (like the first, WESSEX POEMS), consisted of only 500 copies. None of Hardy's exceedingly scarce multi-volume novels consisted of fewer copies; for example, FAR.....
London: Virtue & Co., 1868. Original bright green cloth. First Edition of this collection of eight pieces on outdoor "sports and pastimes" -- namely horse-racing, hunting, shooting (birds), fishing, yachting, rowing, alpine climbing and cricket. All had appeared, between December 1867 and August 1868, in Saint Paul's Magazine, of which.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First American (and first one-volume) Edition. This was not generally regarded as one of Trollope's better efforts; the author himself remarked in his autobiography, I do not know that I have ever heard it well spoken of by my friends, and.....
[first Trollope novel in America] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858. 8 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First American Edition of the first Trollope novel published in America. Published in the same year as the London three-decker, this was the third of the six "Barsetshire Novels," centering upon.....
Illustrated by Maurice Greiffenhagen. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. 4 pp undated ads. Original dark green cloth pictorially decorated in orange and grey. First Edition of Conrad's first book to be illustrated -- the famous tale about Captain MacWhirr, Jukes and the Chinamen on board the.....
Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with front cover monogram device in gilt. First Edition, first issue. The title story, one of Twain's darker themes, is "a parable about a smug all-American town whose citizens, never having been tempted, take.....
Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with front cover monogram device in gilt. First Edition, first issue. The title story, one of Twain's darker themes, is "a parable about a smug all-American town whose citizens, never having been tempted, take.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. 32 pp ads dated May 1882. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of tales, which preceded the American edition by about a week (Blanck) or by four days (Johnson). The title tale is Mark Twain's jab at detectives, both.....
