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 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 time of.....
Collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham. In Four Volumes. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1818. 12 pp Vol IV ads dated June 1818. Original blue-grey paper-covered boards with white paper spines and printed spine labels. First Edition, probable second issue (of three) of the first printing. The entire four volumes.....
London: Methuen & Co., (1905). 40 pp ads dated February 1905. Original blue cloth. First Edition, first state, of this piece written by Wilde in early 1897, toward the end of his two years' imprisonment for gross indecency in Reading Gaol (1895-1897). It is primarily a letter to "Bosie," Lord.....
[inscribed by Conrad] Illustrations by Dan Sayre Groesbeck. New York: The McClure Company, 1908. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in white. First Separate (and First American) Edition. Earlier in 1908 this tale was published in England (as "The Duel") with five others in A SET OF SIX; it was McClure's.....
[the scarce first issue] New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1900. Original light green cloth decorated in dark green. First American Edition, first state, of what is arguably Conrad's greatest work. At the time this was being published, Doubleday & McClure was about to divide into two entities (Doubleday Page.....
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1879. Bound in three-quarter red morocco with gilt-paneled spines, red cloth boards, marbled endpapers. First Edition of this novel about "fallen leaves... the people who have drawn blanks in the lottery of life... the friendless and the lonely, the wounded and the lost." The novel follows the.....
[inscribed to Lady Lytton] As related in her Letters and Journals. Arranged and Edited by her Husband J.W. Cross. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885. Three-volume errata slip at the end of Vol III. Original mauve-grey cloth decorated in black. First Edition, published five years after "George Eliot"'s.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. 16 pp Vol III undated ads. Original blind-stamped cinnamon-brown cloth. First Edition. This is the sad tale of Maggie Tulliver, from the Dorlcote Mill on the Floss River -- a novel noteworthy more for its accurate depiction of rural characters than for.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Original "grayish reddish brown" diagonal dot-and-ribbon grain cloth. First Edition (preceding the UK) of these adventures of Harry Clavering, beginning with Julia Brabazon jilting him in favor of a wealthy old debauchee. Trollope himself later recalled that "I consider the story as a whole.....
With Illustrations, by H. K. Browne. New York: Harper & Brothers, n.d.[1865]. 2-page terminal list of Harper's Library of Select Novels, ending with #258. Original dark blue-green honeycomb-grain cloth. First American Edition of the first of Trollope's six "Palliser" novels, published in September 1865, the month after the final UK.....
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1862. Original blind-stamped brown pebbled cloth. First Authorized American Edition, believed to have followed Harper's pirated edition by a mere four days. This work is not only a geographical description of North America; Trollope also gets into such questions as "Deficiencies in the Post Office.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. 6 pp undated ads (final three leaves of the last gathering). Original dark purple-red horizontally-ribbed morocco-grain cloth. First American Edition of this novel sited in Ireland during the famine of 1846-1847. The author later wrote of it in his autobiography, This novel... is of itself.....
London: Chapman & Hall, 1867. Original blind-stamped purple cloth. First Edition of one of George Meredith's scarcer novels, his only historical one, sited during the 1848 first war of the Risorgimento in Italy. It was published (actually in late 1866) in three volumes (for the benefit of the lending libraries).....
[in an unrecorded binding] London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. Original blind-stamped rose-brown cloth. First Edition of George Meredith's first full-length novel (preceded only by a volume of verse and two single-volume burlesques). FEVEREL is the tough tale of a father's "system" of raising his son, developed not so much out.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. 16 pp terminal ads, undated. Original blind-stamped cinnamon-brown cloth. First Edition of George Eliot's only single-volume novel ("a short and simple one, but flawlessly fashioned"). This was her third novel, following ADAM BEDE and THE MILL ON THE FLOSS (published in the.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1904. Original green cloth decorated in orange and black. First American Edition of Conrad's well-known novel involving a South American silver mine, and the corruption and dishonesty fostered by its riches. Conrad was extending his "Lord Jim" theme: that the man who slowly grows.....
[George Westinghouse to his wife] With Many Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868. 2 pp preliminary undated ads. Original purple-brown cloth. First American (and first illustrated) Edition of this classic of detective fiction, issued in the same year as the London three-decker. THE MOONSTONE marked the end of Collins's.....
In English, then in French, then clawed back into a civilized language once more by patient, unremunerated toil. Illustrated by F. Strothman. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1903. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black, green and white. First Separate Edition (thus -- considerably revised from the 1867.....
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. 7 pp undated ads. Original grey-green cloth decorated in black and olive. First Edition, first state (with patterned endpapers, and without the frontispiece portrait of Twain that is believed to have been inserted only in the last copies issued). This volume of.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866. 4 pp undated Vol III ads. Original reddish-brown cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of what must certainly be considered the author's least memorable novel. Her husband first approached Smith, Elder, who had just published ROMOLA, but they refused it; he then.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873. 2 preliminary pp undated ads, plus 4+4 pp terminal ads (the former headed "Summer Book-List"). Original green cloth. Second American Edition -- barely -- of George Eliot's best-known book, and what is today regarded as one of the greatest literary accomplishments of the 19th.....
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1863. 2 pp Vol II undated ads. Original green cloth with spines decorated in gilt. First Edition, which consisted of 2,288 copies printed. Her fourth novel, ROMOLA was the author's own favorite -- and quite a departure from her first three (ADAM BEDE, THE MILL.....
Third Edition. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1859. 16 pp undated Vol I ads. Original blindstamped cinnamon brown cloth. "Third Edition" of George Eliot's first novel, preceded only by her collection of sketches, SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE (and by a couple of translations). She told her publisher that it.....
With Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. 4 pp preliminary undated ads plus 8 pp undated (but "summer") ads. Original green cloth. First American Edition of one of Trollope's six "social satire" novels, published a month after the London two-decker (and with many of the same illustrations -- which.....
With Illustrations by George H. Thomas. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1867. 2 pp undated ads. Original grey-green cloth. First Complete (which is to say, the American) Edition of the sixth and last of the Barsetshire Novels, with illustrations by the same artist as in the UK. This American edition.....
