The Companion to 'Sketches of Young Ladies.' By "Quiz," Junior. The whole interspersed with various friendly hints and useful suggestions. London: published for the author by William Kidd, n.d. [1838]. 8 pp undated ads. Original dark grey-green embossed cloth, with printed front cover label. First Edition of this very scarce.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Original very dark grey-green ribbed cloth decorated in gilt. First and only Edition, first printing (the only other printing was 250 copies printed three months later for Macmillan's London edition). This was Edith Wharton's second volume of verse, preceded only by her rare first.....
Illustrated by Theodor Hampe. Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Company, 1892. 2 pp undated ads. Original pale yellow wrappers. First Edition of this tale involving an illicit relationship between a monk Ambrosius and a local girl Benedicta who is shunned because she is, yes, the hangman's daughter. Per an introductory note.....
Illustrated by Theodor Hampe. Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Company, 1892. 2 pp undated ads. Original mottled light brown cloth stamped in black. First Edition of this tale involving an illicit relationship between a monk Ambrosius and a local girl Benedicta who is shunned because she is, yes, the hangman's daughter.....
["Owl Creek Bridge"] San Francisco: E.L.G. Steele, 1891. Original brown cloth. First Edition of Bierce's best-known work, a collection of 19 intense supernatural tales. Ten of the 19 tales are set in the Civil War, and many have credited Bierce with being the first writer to portray that war realistically.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. 6 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped red ribbed-morocco grain cloth with spine lettered in gilt. First American Edition of this early Trollope novel, which had first come out in late 1857 (three volumes, London post-dated 1858). This was his sixth novel, following the initial.....
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, n.d. [1870]. 22 pp ads paginated [11]-12, 1-16, [1-4] -- undated but referring to the year 1870. Original blind-stamped black cloth with spine decorated and lettered in gilt. First American Edition of Trollope's first book. This tale was first published in three volumes, in 1847.....
With Illustrations. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1911. 14 pp undated ads. Original deep red cloth with cover vignette in gilt. First Edition of this collection of eighteen tales, including several of a science fiction vein. The color frontispiece (for "The Coming of the Huns") is by N.C. Wyeth --.....
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1907. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in black, white and green. First Separate Edition (being one of the "other stories" that had been published with THE GREEN FLAG in 1900); before that (in October-December 1899), it had appeared in The Strand Magazine with 16.....
London: George Newnes, n.d. [1903]. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of these eight additional tales of the Napoleonic soldier Étienne Gerard, the sequel to his EXPLOITS published in 1896. During the decade between Sherlock Holmes's death in 1893 ("The Final Problem" in The Strand Magazine of.....
With Illustrations. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1896. 10 pp undated ads. Original black (very dark purple?) cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this novel that curiously combines the sport of boxing and the Regency period. The eponymous narrator is a country boy who wishes to go to sea.....
London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1892. 8 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth. First Edition of this early Doyle venture into the field of science fiction, largely concerned with alchemy. Raffles Haw, a mysterious millionaire who secretly has learned the process for turning lead into gold, builds.....
As made to his Three Grandchildren Joseph, Gervas, & Reuben during the Hard Winter of 1734... London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. 2 pp undated ads + 16 pp ads dated June 1888. Original very dark blue cloth, beveled edges. First Edition, consisting of only 1000 copies. This historical novel.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1891. Original royal blue cloth decorated in black. First Edition of what is "generally considered the most stylistically opaque and tortured of his [Meredith's] novels" [Williams]. Victor Radnor, Nataly Dreighton and their daughter Nesta have been supremely happy for twenty years; but now that Nesta is.....
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[a handsome set] Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. [In 20-in-19 monthly serial parts.] London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846-1848. Original light blue-green pictorial wrappers. First Edition, as issued in 20-in-19 monthly serial parts beginning in October 1846 and ending in April 1848. The serialization of this.....
[in the original cloth] With Illustrations by Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. Original blind-stamped diagonally-ribbed blue cloth. First Edition in book form, published immediately at the conclusion of the 20-in-19 monthly serial parts (issued from January 1843 through July 1844). MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT marks Dickens's return to conventional serial parts.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. 16 pp undated ads (in addition to the 9 pp integral "Publishers' Advertisement" ads for TYPEE, paginated [xv]-xxiii). Original blind-stamped grey-green cloth with front cover gilt vignette and with gilt-decorated spine. First American Edition, issued about a week or two after Murray's edition in.....
[the fine Beverly Chew copy] being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751. [London:] Cassell & Company, 1886. 16 pp ads dated July 1886. Original bright red cloth. First Edition, first issue. In mid-18th Century Scotland, 17-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his inheritance by.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. Original rose cloth, beveled. First Edition of this collection of pieces such as "The Family that Goes Abroad because it's the thing to do," "The Unprotected Female Tourist," and "Tourists who don't like their Travels." This book was issued as a companion volume to HUNTING.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1950. Original pale aqua cloth printed in purplish-red, with dust jacket. Second British Edition of Orwell's last, and many would say greatest, novel. It is a nightmare story of totalitarianism of the future and one man's hopeless struggle against it and final defeat by acceptance. Winston Smith.....
With a Foreword by Victor Gollancz. London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. Original orange cloth wrappers. First Edition ("Left Book Club Edition / Not for Sale to the Public"). Part I of this book describes the living conditions of the coal miners in the industrial north of England, illustrated with photographs; Part.....
With Nine Illustrations by Henry Holiday. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. 1 page undated ads. Original deep red cloth pictorially decorated in black, all page edges gilt. First Edition, special dark-red binding, which consisted of 100 copies. This is a poetical nonsense tale, both funny and subtle, that "describes with.....
being A Second Wonder-Book. With [Six] Fine Illustrations. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853. 8 pp preliminary ads dated August 1853. Original blind-stamped blue cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First American Edition, first printing, published in the month following the English edition. This is Hawthorne's collection of mythological tales (the Golden.....
being A Second Wonder-Book. With [Six] Fine Illustrations. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853. 8 pp preliminary ads dated July 1853. Original blind-stamped green cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First American Edition, first printing, published in the month following the English edition. This is Hawthorne's collection of mythological tales (the Golden.....
being A Second Wonder-Book. With [Six] Fine Illustrations. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853. 8 pp preliminary ads dated July 1853. Original blind-stamped red cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First American Edition, first printing, published in the month following the English edition. This is Hawthorne's collection of mythological tales (the Golden.....
