New and Cheaper Edition. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, n.d. [1893]. 2 pp undated ads plus 32 pp ads dated 1893. Original pictorial pea-green cloth. "New and Cheaper Edition" of one of Verne's scarcest tales, a story of adventure during the revolt of Quebec in 1837 -- one of...
[a fine copy] Illustrations by Sidney Paget. In The Strand Magazine. London: George Newnes, February 1892. 16 pp preliminary ads + Brooke's Soap leaf + 4 pp [xvii-xx] terminal ads. Original light blue wrappers pictorially decorated in dark blue. First Appearance of the eighth Sherlock Holmes case, and possibly the...
London: W. Collins Sons & Co., (1917). Original blue-black cloth. First Edition of this unfinished, posthumously-published novel -- about America's Gilded Age, and specifically about two dying millionaires and the corruption in their wake. "It was composed during the summer of 1914... [and] had reached the point where it breaks...
["Presentation Copy"] London: Methuen & Co., (1911). 32 pp ads dated August 1911. Original green cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First Edition (English), issued simultaneously with the American. According to James himself, "The Outcry" deals with a question sharply brought home of late to the conscience of English Society -- that of...
["Presentation Copy"] London: Methuen & Co., (1910). 32 pp ads dated Sep 1910. Original rust-brown cloth with spine decorated in gilt. First English Edition (1500 copies published on 13 October 1910, one week after the American) of this collection of five tales. The tales are "The Velvet Glove," "Mora Montravers,"...
Illustrated by W.T. Smedley. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1909. Original red cloth. First Separate Edition. JULIA BRIDE's first appearance in book form had been in Vol. XVII of the New York Edition of James's works, published earlier the same year; there was no separate English edition. Per...
[In Two Volumes.] New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Original light brown-rose cloth. First Edition, published on 12 November 1904, three months earlier than the one-volume 1905 London edition by Methuen. When penniless Charlotte Stant's former lover, Prince Amerigo, marries her wealthy friend Maggie Verver, Charlotte considers as a gift...
[a handsome copy] Translated from the French. With Numerous Illustrations. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1873. 32 pp ads dated October 1872. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled, all edges gilt. First British Edition, also the first edition in the English language. Three Englishmen... and...
Edited by H.G.O. Blake. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. Original dark green cloth with facsimile signature in gilt, beveled. First Edition, which consisted of only 1020 copies (Borst says there were only 500, but Blanck's figure is more likely). This was the last of Thoreau's four...
Edited by H.G.O. Blake. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888. 14 pp undated ads. Original dark green cloth with facsimile signature in gilt, beveled. First Edition, which consisted of 1550 copies published actually in late 1887. This was the third of Thoreau's "four seasons," following EARLY SPRING...
Edited by H.G.O. Blake. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1884. Original green cloth with facsimile signature in gilt, beveled. First Edition, which consisted of only 1260 copies (WALDEN, in comparison, consisted of 2000 copies). This was the second of Thoreau's four "seasons" to be posthumously published from his journal; EARLY...
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881. Original dark green cloth with facsimile signature in gilt, beveled. First Edition of the first of Thoreau's "four seasons," edited from his journal by H.G.O. Blake (this is the only one of the four in which Blake is unnamed). The other three seasons would.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. Original light brown cloth. First Edition (published nine days before the London edition). This is a strange novel in which an unnamed narrator goes to a weekend gathering in the English countryside, where he tries to figure out -- learn the truth about the...
London: William Heinemann, 1899. 2 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped blue cloth. First Edition of this novel, written almost entirely in dialogue, of Nanda Brookenham's "awkward age" of transition away from her mother's marriage-marketing and toward taking charge of her own life. This appears to have been a colonial copy that...
London: Duckworth and Co., 1898. 16 pp undated ads. Original light buff cloth with telegraph lines in black. First Edition (which consisted of only 1,500 copies), issued a month before the considerably more common Chicago one. This is a short novel about a telegraph girl ("in the cage"), who willingly...
[an association copy] Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897. Original olive green cloth decorated in gilt. First American Edition, consisting of 1,500 copies, issued about a week after Heinemann's London edition. This is James's short novel in which one spineless man and the contents ("spoils") of his...
The Figure in the Carpet ... Glasses ... The Next Time ... The Way It Came. London: William Heinemann, 1896. 32 pp undated ads. Original aqua blue cloth blind-stamped with four irises. First Edition of this self-deprecatingly-titled collection of four tales, each of which occupies about 65 pages. This first...
The Death of the Lion | The Coxon Fund | The Middle Years | The Altar of the Dead. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. 6 pp undated ads. Original light green cloth decorated in dark green and gilt. First American Edition of this collection of four tales, published a....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. 2 pp undated Vol I ads. Original dark blue-green cloth with gilt lines. First Edition, which consisted of a mere 500 copies. George Flack is the Paris correspondent for an American scandal sheet called The Reverberator. Francie Dosson, a pretty but not always tactful American girl...
With frontispiece and cover in colour by H. Weston Taylor. Boston: The Page Company, 1915. Original light 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);...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Original oatmeal cloth with red bands, with dust jacket. First Edition of what is often considered to be Hemingway's masterpiece, sited during the Spanish Civil War -- also his longest work. The 1943 film starred Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman as Robert Jordan and...
Works of Charles Dickens. Household Edition. [In Two Volumes.] Illustrated from Drawings by F.O.C. Darley and John Gilbert. New York: James G. Gregory, 1861. Original dark green cloth. Very early American Edition -- the first to deposit copies at the Library of Congress -- of one of Dickens's most-loved novels.....
[inscribed by Curle] With a Preface by Joseph Conrad. London: Macmillan and Co., 1923. Original mottled red cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition of this volume of travel notes on what were then called Burma and Malaya, by this Scotsman who was a good friend of Joseph Conrad. Conrad, whose...
Allahabad: Published by Messrs. A.H. Wheeler & Co., n.d.[1889]. 2 preliminary pp + 7 pp undated ads. Original decorated cream wrappers. First Edition of this collection of eight early Indian tales by Kipling -- one of only 1,500 copies published as No. 3 in Wheeler's Indian Railway Library, priced at...
["Civil Disobedience" -- fine] Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. Original green cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. First Edition, which consisted of only 1500 (Borst) or 1546 (Blanck) copies. This is a posthumous collection of essays, edited by William Ellery Channing and Sophia Thoreau (the author's sister). Its best-known...
