London: Methuen & Co., (1906). 40 pp ads dated October 1906. Original green cloth with spine decorated in gilt. First Edition of Conrad's first volume of nonfiction, a rambling discourse about life on the sea. Though originally planned as a collection of sketches, during preparation for publication Conrad converted it.....
One page, dated by Gissing "23 East Ascent | St Leonard's on Sea | March 6th 94." Date-stamped (by the recipient) "Received | 7 Mar 94". The text of this brief letter reads, I shall probably be here for another ten days, & it will give me pleasure to hear from.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1898. 3 pp undated ads. Original dark red cloth. First American Edition, which consisted of 2250 copies (and which may have preceded, or at least been published simultaneously with, the English edition). The first of the two "magics" is one of James's best-known tales --.....
[one of only 500 copies] London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1888. 2 pp Vol III undated ads. Original mixed-grain terra-cotta cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 500 copies published on 15 November 1888. Although A LIFE'S MORNING was Gissing's sixth novel published, it was his fourth written (before DEMOS.....
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1873. 6 pp undated ads. Original green cloth stamped in black and gilt, beveled. First Edition (English -- this and the American edition came out simultaneously on September 6, 1873). Quoting from William Dean Howells's review in the November 1873 Atlantic Magazine, In Aftermath, we have.....
[large-paper copy] Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. Original green cloth decorated in gilt, beveled, all page edges gilt. First Edition, large-paper copy. This play-in-verse-form is actually what Longfellow considered to be Part I of a trilogy, the other two parts of which had already been published. It had.....
[original full leather binding] I. John Endicott. II. Giles Corey of the Salem Farms. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Original full brown morocco decoratively stamped in black, marbled endpapers, all page edges gilt. First Edition (issued simultaneously with the London and the Leipzig editions) of this pair of "New England.....
[trading in the Solomons] One page, on "Harbor Rest" stationery, dated by ink-stamp July 9, 1911. With London's name and address ("Glen Ellen, Calif.") in holograph, plus his signature at the end of the letter. The text of this letter (we apologize for repeating Jack's language!) is: Dear sir:- In reply to.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. 12 pp ads dated October 1858. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First American Edition, first printing (the only one with the title page dated 1858). The title verse is one of Longfellow's better-known poems (over 100 pages long), sited in the Plymouth Colony of the Mayflower.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First Edition, first printing. This is a book-length narrative poem based on a Middle High German romance by Hartmann von Aue [c.1170 - c.1210]; Longfellow's version was soon adapted as a cantata by Sir Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert & Sullivan). The.....
[in the gift binding] Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. Original brown cloth elaborately stamped in gilt on the spine and both covers, all page edges gilt. First Edition, special gift binding, of this collection of verse best known for the trochaic ode "The Building of the Ship," which concludes.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. Original red cloth. First Edition of Edith Wharton's ninth novel, about the rural Midwestern divorcée Undine Spragg first in New York City and then in Paris -- written just after the author had finalized her divorce and moved permanently to France. ...Still considered an indecent.....
London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Leeds and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, n.d. [1911]. Original blind-stamped blue cloth. First Edition of this collection of tales of fantasy, science fiction and the supernatural. According to Wells's introduction, these constitute "all the short stories by me that I care for any one to.....
New York (and London): Macmillan and Co., 1895. Original olive green cloth elaborately decorated in white and lettered in gilt. First American Edition of Wells's second novel, a strange tale that "originated in a remark attributed to John Ruskin, that if an angel came to earth most Englishmen would simply.....
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1934). Original light blue cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition. Although Baroness Orczy is best known for her 18 titles featuring Sir Percy Blakeney (aka the masked Scarlet Pimpernel) during the Reign of Terror in France, she wrote more than 18 other historical romances not featuring.....
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[Goldilocks before Goldilocks] London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman (Vols I-V), 1834 | 1834 | 1835 | 1837 | 1838, and London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans (Vols VI-VII), 1847 | 1847. 12 pp Vol I preliminary ads dated January 1835; 16 pp Vol IV preliminary ads dated.....
[a handsome copy] The FolkLore of the Old Plantation. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. 8 pp undated ads. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First Edition, first printing, of Joel Chandler Harris's first and most.....
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One page, on Gads Hill Place stationery, dated 21 May 1868. The text of this letter reads: I am deeply gratified by your praises of Harry; and I dearly hope that in his future career he will do us both justice. | Nothing will occur, I trust, to prevent my having.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First Edition, only printing, of one of the greatest works of American literature -- "the old story of the girl who loved not wisely but too well, set in the stark background of Puritan New England" [Johnson]. While the Rev.....
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[in four volumes] Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871 (for Vol I; 1872 for Vols II, III & IV). Bound in three-quarter calf with leather spine labels, with marbled paper boards that match the marbling of the endpapers and the (trimmed) page edges. First Edition in book form.....
[inscribed by the author] London: Hurst and Blackett, 1867. 16 pp Vol III ads dated November 1866. Original blind-stamped blue-violet cloth with spines stamped in gilt. First Edition of this collection of tales: Vol I consists entirely of "Leyton Hall," Vol II consists of "Hearts are Trumps," "Mind Your Own.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1882. Undated endpaper ads. Original mustard yellow cloth decorated in black. First American hardbound edition, issued as No. 141 in the Leisure Hour Series; George Munro's pirated "Seaside Library" edition, with triple-column text in a magazine-sized format, was listed in Publisher's Weekly a week.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. 8 pp undated ads. Original yellow printed wrappers. First Edition of Davis's first book (other than an 1884 wrappered piece written while he was a student at Lehigh). It was his newspaper story "Gallegher" that earned Davis the newspaper writer immediate fame; three of.....
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1915). Original red cloth. First American Edition of Buchan's best-known book, the classic mystery that has withstood the test of time both as a book and as a film. This was the first of Buchan's five mysteries to feature the detective Richard Hannay (the.....
By the Author of "Lady Audley's Secret," "Vixen," "Ishmael," "The Day Will Come," etc. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1890. Original dark green cloth with spines lettered in gilt. First Edition of this novel by the founder of the intricately plotted sensation novel, particularly known for her transgressive.....
