[with 1906 dust jacket] London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. 4 pp ads dated "15.8.06". Original red cloth with Ganesha device (elephant-and-swastika) in gilt, with dust jacket. First (English) Edition, published on the same day as the American. This is Kipling's version, in prose and verse, of the adventures of the.....
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1879. Original scarlet cloth decorated in black. First Edition, third binding state (three-volumes-in-one), of this adventurous tale. "The plot is one of his most interesting, ingenious, elaborate, and unexpected" [Walpole]. John Caldigate goes to Australia to seek his fortune in the gold mines, and winds up.....
[a handsome copy] London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original light brown cloth decorated in dark brown. First Edition of this collection of five fantastic tales: "The Crystal Egg," "The Star," "A Story of the Stone Age," "A Story of the Days to Come".....
London: Constable & Co., (1924). Original grey cloth stamped in violet, with dust jacket. First Edition, second and usual issue (a very few copies, once pegged at 34 in number, were first issued without the "First Published, 1924" on the title page verso). Knopf's American edition, published the same year.....
being a description of the Leading Business Houses, Manufactories, Inventions, Etc. of the Pacific Coast, together with Copious and Readable Selections, chiefly from California Writers. Compiled by J. Price and C.S. Haley. San Francisco: Francis & Valentine..., 1872. Original dark olive cloth, with "Tales, Sketches, Poetry and Music" in gilt.....
With More Than 300 Illustrations. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. Original brown cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, all edges gilt. First American Edition, published five days after Chatto & Windus's London edition. LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI is really two books combined. The first twenty-one chapters are his.....
Hartford [etc.]: The American Publishing Company, 1876. 4 pp ads dated 1 Dec 1876. Original publisher's brown half-morocco, spine decorated in darker brown, with brown cloth boards, all page edges gilt. First American Edition, third printing, in the uncommon half-morocco binding offered by the publisher at extra cost. There were.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. Original light brown printed wrappers. First American Edition of this epistolary novel, presented by Lever as 74 letters written by and to various people of the cast. Lever portrays an Irish family seeking to economize by living on the Continent, specifically in Italy --.....
With Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. 4 pp preliminary ads plus 4 pp at rear, undated. Original light brown printed wrappers. First American (and first illustrated) Edition, later issue, being No. 579 in Harper's Library of Select Novels. This tale takes place at the Lion d'Or, the only.....
[in original wrappers] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Original light brown printed wrappers (dated Nov. 1866 on the rear wrapper). First Edition printed in America, issued as No. 263 of Harper's "Library of Select Novels." As Smith describes in great detail, in preparing the UK edition for publication, Chapman.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865. 4 pp undated terminal ads (with Novels list ending with #258). Original light brown printed wrappers. First American Edition, issued as No. 253 of Harper's "Library of Select Novels." According to Trollope's autobiography, he wrote this novel with a desire to prove that a novel.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1900). Original very dark green cloth decorated in gilt. First (American) Edition of this collection of eleven fictional tales, based upon Crane's experience as a war correspondent in Cuba. Of all war correspondents who published their Cuban War reminiscences only he achieved a unity in.....
New York / London: Edward Arnold, 1896. 8 pp undated ads. Original tan cloth. First Edition of Crane's fourth book (just after THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE). This is a tale of a church-going mother and her idealistic expectations for her saloon-going son (Crane's mother and brother are much in.....
In Three Volumes. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. 16 pp Vol III undated ads. Original blind-stamped cinnamon-brown cloth. First Edition. This is the sad tale of Maggie Tulliver, from the Dorlcote Mill on the Floss River -- a novel noteworthy more for its accurate depiction of rural.....
With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First English Edition (published three days after the American) of the sequel to THE JUNGLE BOOK, which had been published the year before.....
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1892. 8 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth with front cover vignette in gilt. First (American) Edition, published nine days before the English edition which was titled BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS and Other Verses. Included in "Barrack-Room Ballads" are such well-known verses as "Danny Deever," "Tommy,".....
New York: United States Book Company. Successors to John W. Lovell Company, n.d. [1890]. Original maroon cloth, on beveled boards. First (though pirated) Edition of both the "Barrack-Room Ballads" and the "Other Verses" (not published in England until 1892); first American edition of "Departmental Ditties." The "Barrack-Room Ballads" include some.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. 2 pp undated ads. Original brown cloth. First American Edition, which consisted of only 1,000 copies (half as many as the English edition published a few weeks earlier). Nanda Brookenham's "awkward age" begins when her mother enters her into the marriage market.....
London: William Heinemann, 1897. 1+32 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped aqua-blue cloth. First Edition, first (domestic) issue, first binding state. This is James's short novel in which one spineless man and the contents ("spoils") of his estate are pulled in opposite directions by two conniving women: Owen Gereth's mother does.....
[the John Quinn copy] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. 4 pp undated ads. Original blue-grey cloth decorated in silver and gilt. First American Edition, primary binding state (with the elaborate silver grille-work on front cover and spine, and with the leaves' top edge stained ochre). This primary binding also.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt. First American Edition of this novel concerning American travelers on the Continent -- "innocence abroad," a common theme of James. Technically, since it was printed in England for America, this is the American issue of the second (first.....
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884. Original chocolate brown cloth. First American Edition, which consisted of 1500 copies printed from the plates of Macmillan's London edition, issued a month earlier. The "places" portrayed are on the Continent, in England and in North America. This copy is in chocolate brown cloth.....
By the Author of "Waverley,["] ["]Peveril of the Peak," &c. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. London, 1823. Original textured grey-green cloth, with printed spine labels. First Edition, first issue, of Scott's well-known adventure tale sited in Fifteenth Century France, amidst the conflict.....
[with tipped-in signature] Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. 4 pp preliminary ads dated December 1849. Original drab paper-covered boards with printed spine label. First Edition of this collection of verse best known for the trochaic ode "The Building of the Ship," which concludes with the famous apostrophe to the.....
Illustrated by F.O.C. Darley and Thomas Nast. New York: James O'Kane, 1866. 2 pp undated ads. Original green cloth, beveled. First Edition of this children's classic. Hans and his sister Gretel want to win the annual ice-skating race on the canals of Holland, but cannot afford proper skates -- and.....
