New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Original "grayish reddish brown" diagonal dot-and-ribbon grain cloth. First Edition (preceding the UK) of these adventures of Harry Clavering, beginning with Julia Brabazon jilting him in favor of a wealthy old debauchee. Trollope himself later recalled that "I consider the story as a whole.....
With Illustrations, by H. K. Browne. New York: Harper & Brothers, n.d.[1865]. 2-page terminal list of Harper's Library of Select Novels, ending with #258. Original dark blue-green honeycomb-grain cloth. First American Edition of the first of Trollope's six "Palliser" novels, published in September 1865, the month after the final UK.....
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1862. Original blind-stamped brown pebbled cloth. First Authorized American Edition, believed to have followed Harper's pirated edition by a mere four days. This work is not only a geographical description of North America; Trollope also gets into such questions as "Deficiencies in the Post Office.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. 6 pp undated ads (final three leaves of the last gathering). Original dark purple-red horizontally-ribbed morocco-grain cloth. First American Edition of this novel sited in Ireland during the famine of 1846-1847. The author later wrote of it in his autobiography, This novel... is of itself.....
London: Chapman & Hall, 1867. Original blind-stamped purple cloth. First Edition of one of George Meredith's scarcer novels, his only historical one, sited during the 1848 first war of the Risorgimento in Italy. It was published (actually in late 1866) in three volumes (for the benefit of the lending libraries).....
[in an unrecorded binding] London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. Original blind-stamped rose-brown cloth. First Edition of George Meredith's first full-length novel (preceded only by a volume of verse and two single-volume burlesques). FEVEREL is the tough tale of a father's "system" of raising his son, developed not so much out.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. 16 pp terminal ads, undated. Original blind-stamped cinnamon-brown cloth. First Edition of George Eliot's only single-volume novel ("a short and simple one, but flawlessly fashioned"). This was her third novel, following ADAM BEDE and THE MILL ON THE FLOSS (published in the.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1904. Original green cloth decorated in orange and black. First American Edition of Conrad's well-known novel involving a South American silver mine, and the corruption and dishonesty fostered by its riches. Conrad was extending his "Lord Jim" theme: that the man who slowly grows.....
[George Westinghouse to his wife] With Many Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868. 2 pp preliminary undated ads. Original purple-brown cloth. First American (and first illustrated) Edition of this classic of detective fiction, issued in the same year as the London three-decker. THE MOONSTONE marked the end of Collins's.....
In English, then in French, then clawed back into a civilized language once more by patient, unremunerated toil. Illustrated by F. Strothman. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1903. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black, green and white. First Separate Edition (thus -- considerably revised from the 1867.....
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. 7 pp undated ads. Original grey-green cloth decorated in black and olive. First Edition, first state (with patterned endpapers, and without the frontispiece portrait of Twain that is believed to have been inserted only in the last copies issued). This volume of.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873. 2 preliminary pp undated ads, plus 4+4 pp terminal ads (the former headed "Summer Book-List"). Original green cloth. Second American Edition -- barely -- of George Eliot's best-known book, and what is today regarded as one of the greatest literary accomplishments of the 19th.....
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1863. 2 pp Vol II undated ads. Original green cloth with spines decorated in gilt. First Edition, which consisted of 2,288 copies printed. Her fourth novel, ROMOLA was the author's own favorite -- and quite a departure from her first three (ADAM BEDE, THE MILL.....
Third Edition. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1859. 16 pp undated Vol I ads. Original blindstamped cinnamon brown cloth. "Third Edition" of George Eliot's first novel, preceded only by her collection of sketches, SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE (and by a couple of translations). She told her publisher that it.....
With Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. 4 pp preliminary undated ads plus 8 pp undated (but "summer") ads. Original green cloth. First American Edition of one of Trollope's six "social satire" novels, published a month after the London two-decker (and with many of the same illustrations -- which.....
With Illustrations by George H. Thomas. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1867. 2 pp undated ads. Original grey-green cloth. First Complete (which is to say, the American) Edition of the sixth and last of the Barsetshire Novels, with illustrations by the same artist as in the UK. This American edition.....
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1878. 2 pp undated ads in Vol II. Bound in full dark blue morocco, dentelles ornately gilt, blue linen endpapers. First Edition, which consisted of only 1000 copies. This is one of the four novels typically cited as constituting the peak of Hardy's oeuvre --.....
New York: The Century Co., 1897. Original light green cloth decorated in black, orange and gilt. First Edition, which according to the recent Richards bibliography preceded the London edition by about a month. This is Kipling's great novel about the cod fishing fleet of Gloucester Massachusetts, written while the newlywed.....
Edited and Compiled from their Diaries and Papers. [In Two Volumes.] Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Original black cloth with Irish Guards star in gilt and printed spine label, with dust jackets. First American Edition of this exhaustive narrative of the experience of the Irish Guards during.....
With Illustrations by F.H. Townsend. London: Macmillan and Co., 1905. Original white cloth with gilt vignette, with dust jacket. First Separate Edition (having first appeared, unillustrated, in TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES the year before). This is an allegory of a limbo of lost children tended by a blind woman, children who are.....
[inscribed by Lewis Carroll] With Forty-six Illustrations [each] by Harry Furniss. [Together, two volumes.] London: Macmillan and Co., 1889/1893. 3 pp / 5 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Editions of Carroll's rather serious fairy tales. SYLVIE AND BRUNO, with its conclusion.....
Illustrated by Ruth Gannett. New York: Covici Friede, (1935). Original tan cloth printed in blue, with dust jacket. First Edition of Steinbeck's fourth book (after CUP OF GOLD, THE PASTURES OF HEAVEN and TO A GOD UNKNOWN) -- and the first book to win him real recognition. This is the.....
With frontispiece and cover in colour by H. Weston Taylor. Boston: The Page Company, 1915. Original pale grey-green cloth with color portrait affixed to front cover. First Edition, first impression, of the third of the eight "Anne Shirley books," following ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (1908) and ANNE OF AVONLEA (1909);.....
[in 1835 boards-and-label] London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman; and Edward Moxon, 1835. 4 pp undated ads (plus terminal erratum slip). Original drab paper-covered boards, with green cloth spine and printed spine label. First Edition, of which only 1,500 copies were printed. The contents of this.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1910. Original grey printed wrappers. First (copyright) Edition, which according to the publisher consisted of only ten copies (but see below; Stewart put the number at eight, and Martindell at seven). One of nine tales featuring "Puck" that would appear in REWARDS AND FAIRIES four months.....
