![Autograph Letter Signed, addressed to "Dear Mr. [Samuel Harden] Church" A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/14063.jpg?v=1527789868)
One page, dated by Doyle "Sept 21 / 94" on stationery on which he wrote "Reform Club." The text of this letter reads:~Among the pleasures which I hope for in the New World is that of making your acquaintance. I trust that my way (which depends upon my agent) may... More
New Edition, with Additions. London: Bell & Daldy, 1866. Bound in full green morocco, with gilt-paneled spine, all page edges gilt. "New Edition, with Additions" of Adelaide Anne Procter's volume of verse, profusely illustrated with plates by thirteen artists listed on the title page (including Tenniel, DuMaurier and Millais). Miss... More
or The New Pilgrims' Progress;... With Two Hundred and Thirty-Four Illustrations. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [plus six others], 1869. 5 pp undated ads. Original very dark brown cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition of Twain's second book, published in July 1869, preceded only by THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF... More
Devoted to the Development of the Country. Volume I / Volume II. San Francisco: A. Roman & Company, 1868 / 1869. Original morocco-grain green cloth decorated in gilt. These two volumes contain the pre-book publication appearances of parts of Mark Twain's INNOCENTS ABROAD and also, in their entirety, of two... More
A Story of the Present Time. In Three Volumes. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. 32 pp Vol III ads dated March 1883. Original violet-grey cloth decorated in black. First Edition of what was labeled in a contemporary review as Collins's "anti-vivisection manifesto."~Swinburne later called it 'a childish and harmless onslaught... More
With an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a Map of Wessex. (London:) James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., (1896). Original dark blue-green cloth with front cover monogram device in gilt. First Edition of Hardy's last great novel, issued as Vol. VIII of "The Wessex Novels." Titled HEARTS INSURGENT at the... More
A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873. 4 pp preliminary undated ads. Original printed buff wrappers. Early edition in wrappers, being No. 577 in Harper's "Library of Select Novels." Harper's first edition (published a few days earlier than the 1873-dated London three-decker) came out in October 1872 and was... More
[one of Meredith's scarcest] In Three Vols. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1871. Original deep red cloth decorated in black and lettered in gilt on the spines. First Edition of the second-scarcest Meredith novel, "bested" only by RHODA FLEMING -- according to Michael Sadleir, whose copy this once was. (Our... More
[the scarcest Meredith novel] In Three Volumes. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1865. Original green cloth. First Edition of this early novel by Meredith --~one of the most profound Victorian studies of living death after sexual fall. Dahlia and Rhoda are the two flower-like daughters of a dead, garden-loving mother. Beautiful, moral... More
[his first and scarcest novel] Reprinted, with corrections and additions, from Fraser's Magazine. London: John W. Parker, 1851. 8 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped rose-brown wavy-grain cloth. First Edition of Charles Kingsley's first-written (and today his scarcest) novel. It first appeared serially in Fraser's Magazine during the latter half of... More
From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. By Diedrich Knickerbocker. The whole Embellish'd by Eight Pictures from the Hand of Maxfield Parrish, Esq. New York: Published by R.H. Russell, 1900. Original cloth-backed paper-covered boards, with front cover illustration applied. First Maxfield Parrish edition. In... More
From "Orange and Green." [Dublin/Belfast?:] The Educational Company of Ireland, n.d. Original rose paper-covered boards lettered in black. First Edition, later issue, of the last "book written by Henty" to be cited in Newbolt -- though actually it is a section of his earlier historical novel sited in Ireland, ORANGE... More
[a Henty rarity] By Archibald Forbes, George Henty and Charles Williams. New York: Ward, Lock and Co., 1889. Printed light brown wrappers. First Edition (American issue) of "probably the rarest of all Henty items" (quote from Sotheby's, February 1972, when the last copy appeared at auction -- it sold for... More
A Winter's Tale. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1889. 4 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated July 1889. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition, published on the day before Scribner's American edition. Stevenson freely acknowledged that his inspiration for this novel... More
Edited by "Boz." With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. A New Edition, with notes and additions, revised by Charles Whitehead. London: Richard Bentley, 1846. Original blind-stamped violet-grey cloth. Second Edition of this early Dickens piece, which Bentley had originally published in two volumes in 1838. This edition is paginated for two... More
[a fine copy] London: William Heinemann, 1896. 1+32 pp undated ads. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in black and red. First Edition of Wells's sardonic parable about science without ethics. The vivisectionist Moreau is driven from London because of his cruel practices, and ultimately ends up on a Pacific island... More
[one of 25 copies] London: Privately Printed by Clement Shorter, April 1919. Original red wrappers. First Separate Edition, being one of only 25 numbered copies (this being No. 6). This was the sixth and last of Shorter's very-limited-issue productions of Conrad's writings. This homage to the Thames River had originally... More
A Novel. London :: Toronto: William Heinemann, (1946). Original medium blue cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition, preceding the American edition by ten days. This was Maugham's Italian Renaissance novel -- "the witty and amorous story of Niccolo Machiavelli, guileful diplomat and self-confessed great lover, who is outwitted in both... More
![THE LAST GALLEY [colonial]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/14028.jpg?v=1521658427)
Impressions and Tales. With Illustrations. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1911. 6 pp undated ads + 8 pp (printed in brown) undated ads + 12 pp ads dated Jan 1911. Original blind-stamped blue-grey cloth. First Edition, colonial issue, issued as No. 1000 of "Bell's Indian and Colonial Library." This is... More
![THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR [colonial]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/14026.jpg?v=1521658390)
With Sixteen Illustrations. London: George Bell & Sons, 1907. 16 pp ads dated Nov 1907. Original red cloth stamped in blind. First Edition, colonial issue -- No. 768 in "Bell's Indian & Colonial Library." This is a group of literary essays, written as wanderings about the library in the Doyle... More
![THE TRAGEDY OF THE KOROSKO [colonial]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/14025.jpg?v=1521658390)
With Forty Full-Page Illustrations. London and Bombay: George Bell & Sons, 1898. 16 pp ads dated August 1897. Original blind-stamped bright rose cloth. First English Edition (published about a week after the Philadelphia edition titled A DESERT DRAMA), colonial issue -- No. 204 in "Bell's Indian & Colonial Library." This... More
![UNCLE BERNAC. A Memory of the Empire [colonial]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/14024.jpg?v=1521658390)
London: George Bell & Sons, 1897. 16 pp ads dated Nov 1896. Original maroon cloth stamped in gilt. First Colonial Edition, issued as No. 168 of Bell's Indian and Colonial Library. This was one of several fictional historical works that Doyle wrote during the last five years of the century... More
![RODNEY STONE [colonial]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/14022.jpg?v=1521658390)
With Illustrations. London and Bombay: George Bell & Sons, 1896. 10 pp [paginated 7-16] undated ads. Original mottled light pink cloth. First Edition, colonial issue, being No. 143 in Bell's Indian and Colonial Library. RODNEY STONE is a historical novel that curiously brings together Lord Nelson and the sport of... More
![THE GREAT BOER WAR [inscribed by Doyle, plus letter]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/14016.jpg?v=1519760215)
[inscribed plus autograph letter] Revised and Enlarged Edition. New York: McClure, Phillips & Company, 1902. Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt. "Revised and Enlarged Edition," which consisted of only 1,005 copies. This was Doyle's first volume of non-fiction: the outbreak of war occupied Doyle's mind so utterly that he... More
Hodder & Stoughton / New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d. [1912]. Original grey paper-covered boards with spine label, with dust jacket. First American Edition of this unusual Doyle piece, having to do with a murder trial that had taken place in 1909.~Conan Doyle was approached by the defence lawyers... More
