[in 1909 dust jacket] London: William Heinemann, 1909. Original olive-green cloth with cover medallion in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of this hefty volume of Henry James sketches and Joseph Pennell plates. This London edition includes 32 color plates (tipped in, with printed tissue), plus 32 in sepia tone.....
Illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock. London: Chatto & Windus, 1902. 4 pp undated ads plus 32 pp ads dated March 1902. Original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. First English Edition (published about two months after the American) of this mystery parodying those of Sherlock Holmes -- who was appearing that.....
With a Portrait of the Author by James Mapes Dodge and Six Illustrations by Louis Loeb. London: Chatto & Windus, 1894. 32 pp ads dated September 1900. Original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition, issued a few weeks before the American edition (which was titled THE TRAGEDY OF........
With a Portrait. London: Chatto & Windus, 1897. 32 pp ads dated November 1896. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt. First English Edition (actually published in late 1896) of this tale of Tom Sawyer as a detective. Having seen the soaring popularity of Sherlock Holmes across the Atlantic, Twain.....
[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.....
London: T. Cautley Newby, 1873. Preliminary ad leaf in all three volumes, terminal ad leaf in Vols I & II. Original Celtic interlace blind-stamped royal blue cloth with spines stamped in gilt. First Edition of Eleanor Stredder's second and last novel -- following THE RAVEN OF REDRUTH, published by Newby.....
Authorized Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. Original red cloth. First Edition, early (probable second) printing, of this horror classic -- dated one year after the first, and in the same binding as the first but in red rather than olive-green cloth. (Also, on the title page "Dr Jekyll.....
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.....
By the Author of "Lady Audley's Secret," "Vixen," "Ishmael," etc. London: John and Robert Maxwell, [1886]. Original dark green cloth with spine lettered in gilt. First Edition (after serialization in Belgravia) of this novel by the founder of the intricately plotted sensation novel, particularly known for her transgressive heroines. It.....
By the Author of "Lady Audley's Secret." London: John Maxwell and Co., 1875. Original green cloth with spine lettered in gilt. First Edition of this novel by the founder of the intricately plotted sensation novel, particularly known for her transgressive heroines. It is no coincidence that her early novels were.....
[the first English edition] Reprinted verbatim from the tenth American edition. London: Clarke and Co., 1852. Original blind-stamped grey-green cloth with gilt vignettes on the front cover and spine. First English Edition, which includes a four-page Preface "introducing this good book to British readers" -- signed simply by "G". Jewett's.....
London: Jonathan Cape, (1923). Original mottled grey boards with blue cloth spine and printed spine label. First Edition of this novel -- actually "a humorously fictionalized account of an Englishman's visit to Rome" [jrank] -- by this writer who was primarily a critic and editor. Very good-plus condition (spine cloth.....
[inscribed by Greene] London | Sydney | Toronto: The Bodley Head, (1975). Original navy blue paper-covered boards, with dust jacket. First Edition of this volume of "memories" of Elisabeth Moor (1885-1975), who in 1926 arrived with two children on the Isle of Capri, to practice as a doctor for the.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1880. 24 pp Vol III undated ads. Original blue-green cloth decorated in black. First Edition of the sixth and last Palliser novel. Since the end of THE PRIME MINISTER, the Duchess of Omnium has died, leaving to the Duke the care of their three children; just.....
With Illustrations by J.E. Millais. London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. Original blind-stamped purple-brown cloth with gilt-decorated spines. First Edition in book form (the two volumes were issued nine months apart during serialization of the twenty monthly parts). Included are forty full-page plates by the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais. "While.....
London: Martin Secker, 1911. 4 pp undated ads. Original rose-orange cloth decorated in gilt, top edge of the pages stained orange. First Edition of this highly-collected, and quite scarce, collection of nine ghost stories. It includes what Algernon Blackwood cited as "the most horrible and beautiful ever written..." -- the.....
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1922. Original orange cloth. First Edition of this strange supernatural tale, by the author who earlier had written GHOST-STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY (1904) and MORE GHOST STORIES... (1911). There are seven full-page plates by Gilbert James. Quoting at length from Bleiler... The narrator falls asleep in.....
With Four Illustrations by the late James McBryde. London: Edward Arnold, 1904. 16 pp ads dated Nov 1904. Original oatmeal burlap with yapped fore-edge. First Edition of M.R. James's first book, consisting of eight tales of the supernatural. James was Provost of King's College, Cambridge, where he also directed the.....
[TESS in original cloth] A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented. [London:] James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., (1892). Original ochre-tan cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition, second or third impression (dated 1892 rather than 1891 on the title versos). This is today Hardy's best-known novel, thanks in part to its appearances.....
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Translated from the Original French, by Chas. E. Wilbour. [In Five Volumes, subtitled "Fantine," "Cosette," "Marius," "Saint Denis" and "Jean Valjean."] New York: Carleton, Publisher (late Rudd & Carleton), 1862. 4 pp ads in Vols I & II, 2 pp ads in Vols III & V, all undated. Original blind-stamped.....
[a fine copy] By Count Lyof N. Tolstoï. Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, n.d.[c1886]. Original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. First American Edition (and first edition in the English language) -- early if not first issue. This is Tolstoy's great tragedy of.....
[W.B. Yeats and Rupert Brooke] London: Elkin Mathews, 1904. 4 pp undated ads. Original blue wrappers decoratively printed in black. First Published Edition, issued in wrappers by Elkin Mathews as No. 17 in the "Vigo Cabinet Series." This pair of very early Yeats tales had been privately printed in 1897.....
