Second Edition. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. 1 page preliminary undated ads. Original green-blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, beveled. First Edition, second printing, of Stevenson's third book, following AN INLAND VOYAGE and EDINBURGH PICTURESQUE NOTES; like the former two, this is something of a travelogue, describing his.....
London: William Heinemann, (1931). Original blue cloth, with dust jacket. First English Edition (published a month after the American one) of this collection of six tales. They were set in England and on the Continent. Maugham meant to show that his countrymen could misbehave at home just as well as in.....
With Illustrations by I.W. Taber. London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First English Edition, published about a month after the American. This is Kipling's great novel about the cod fishing fleet of Gloucester Massachusetts, written while.....
![Item #15199 POEMS ["Ninth Edition"]. Emily Dickinson](/pictures/thumb/15199.jpg?v=1678750742)
[a fine copy] Edited by Two of Her Friends Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Original grey cloth with Indian pipes in gilt, edges beveled. "Ninth Edition," so identified on the copyright page (but actually the tenth printing of the first edition) -- of the first.....
Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, Year 85 of the States (1860-61) [actually May 1860]. Original blind-stamped orange-brown cloth, beveled. Third Edition, first impression -- greatly expanded from the two earlier editions (both of which had been self-published). The first edition (Brooklyn 1855) had consisted of only 12 poems; the second (Brooklyn.....
With More Than 300 Illustrations. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. Original brown cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First American Edition, first issue, 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 early.....
![Item #15194 THE POETICAL WORKS. Illustrated. [In Two Volumes.]. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow](/pictures/thumb/15194.jpg?v=1678477860)
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879 (Vol I) and Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1880 (Vol II). Original full brown morocco elaborately stamped in black, front covers with harp design and lettering in gilt, spines lettered in gilt, decorative gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all page edges gilt. The sumptuous "Subscription.....
A Smile of Fortune | The Secret Sharer | Freya of the Seven Isles. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1912. Original olive-green cloth. First Edition, second binding state (of three) -- the first generally-obtainable binding state. This collection of three tales is known primarily for the middle one, "The.....
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the fourth of Dickens's five illustrated Christmas books -- following A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE CHIMES, and THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, and preceding THE HAUNTED MAN. This.....
London...: Cassell and Company, (1935). Original dark blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of this collection of eight cases solved by Father Brown, the diminutive Roman Catholic priest / amateur detective. This was the fifth and last collection of Father Brown cases, preceded by.....
Illustrated by Howard Pyle. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. 8 pp undated ads. Original grey cloth decorated in gilt. First American (and first illustrated) Edition. This is a suspenseful tale involving mesmeric trances and mind control. As G&G points out, Doyle's interest in this subject can be traced back.....
Westminster: A. Constable and Co., 1894. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition, being the first volume in the publisher's short-lived "Acme Library" (also issued in wrappers). This is a suspenseful tale involving mesmeric trances and mind control; as G&G points out, Doyle's interest in the subject dated back.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902. 32 pp ads dated "2/02". Original blue cloth lettered in white and pictorially decorated in orange, black and white. First Edition, first printing, first state -- of one of Buchan's earliest and scarcest fiction titles, and one of his creepiest. It is.....
[the tale of a horse, BY a horse] London: Jarrold and Sons, n.d.[1877]. 8 pp undated ads. Original green cloth decorated in black and gilt. First Edition of this classic tale, told in the first person by Black Beauty himself. He encounters masters both kind and cruel, and as a......
London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1862. Original blind-stamped pebbled orange cloth with gilt-decorated spines. First Edition of "the most unjustly neglected of all Wilkie Collins's novels" [Robinson]. Written at the peak of Collins's career just after THE WOMAN IN WHITE, Sampson Low paid Collins 3,000 for NO NAME, and.....
Received from her brother Isaac (surviving Trustee). Single half-leaf, scant 5" x 8". N.p., June 1880. The signature on this receipt -- Mary Ann Cross -- tells us that this was from the incredible final half-year of George Eliot's life. The text of the receipt is written in black ink.....
[in light brown boards] Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. 2 pp undated ads. Original light brown paper-covered boards with yapped edges, printed in black. First (Colonial) Edition of Buchan's best-known book, the classic mystery that has withstood the test of time both as a book and as.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. 1 preliminary page + 4 pp undated ads. Original red cloth. First Edition of Edith Wharton's best-known book, a grim novella sited on a bleak Massachusetts farm. "As in THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, the central problem is that of the barriers imposed by local.....
[in 1907 dust jacket] With Illustrations by Alonzo Kimball. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. 4 pp undated ads. Original red cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition of this novel set against the background of American industry, published in the year the author left America for Europe. This little-known novel... was.....
With Illustrations by A.B. Wenzell. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. Original red cloth. First Edition, early printing, of Edith Wharton's first major novel -- which had "the most rapid sale of any book ever published by Scribner" at the time. The novel "covers the last seventeen months in the.....
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903. Original grey boards with printed spine label. First Edition, first issue (with the J.J. Little device and "First Edition" on the copyright page). This was the second volume in Norris's planned trilogy on human suffering and sacrifice, "The Epic of the Wheat." THE.....
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903. Original red cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition, first printing (with the J.J. Little device and "First Edition" on the copyright page). This copy is in the first state, with integral title leaf. This was the second volume in Norris's planned trilogy on human.....
London: Printed for Private Circulation (for Thomas J. Wise), 1919. Original blue wrappers. First Edition, being one of only 25 copies (so stated). This was the fourth of Thomas J. Wise's twenty very-limited-issue Conrad pamphlets produced during the twelve months between February 1919 and January 1920; being one of Wise's.....
London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1910). 10 pp ads dated 1910. Original green cloth with white spine panel. First Edition (English). Polly is a complete comic miracle... Traditions are smashed in the book, with some of the funnier writing in English literature skewering the rites of.....
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" and "The.....
