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.....
[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.....
London [sic]: Macmillan and Co., 1889. 2 pp undated ads (priced in dollars). Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt. First American Edition -- actually the American issue of the second (first one-volume) English edition, printed in England for the American market. In May 1889 Macmillan published this title in.....
This is a complete set Dickens's annual "Extra Christmas Numbers" -- all nine of HOUSEHOLD WORDS, followed by all nine of ALL THE YEAR ROUND. London: Dec. 1850 - Dec. 1858 and Dec. 1859 - Dec. 1867. Original self-wrappers (first 13 numbers) and original blue printed wrappers (last five numbers).....
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[a handsome set] [Together, three volumes.] Translated from the French by W.H.G. Kingston. Second Edition. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1876. 3 pp undated ads in Part III. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First English Edition, second impression, of all three volumes that were.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1882. Original antique-rose cloth. First Edition of one of the strangest of all of Trollope's novels, about the imaginary, dystopian, former British colony of Britannula in the mid-20th Century... On an imaginary island near Australia over which the English had renounced their sovereignty, a......
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. Original blind-stamped dark green cloth. First Edition. According to Trollope's autobiography, he wrote this novel with a desire to prove that a novel may be produced without any love... In order that I might be strong in my purpose, I took for my heroine a very.....
With Thirty-two Illustrations by George H. Thomas. In Two Volumes. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition in book form of the last title in Trollope's Barsetshire series. The tale, which the author later claimed was "the best novel I have written," revolves.....
And particularly how Mr. Bert Smallways fared while it lasted. With Illustrations by A.C. Michael. London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this extraordinary tale of a Cockney cycle mechanic who is carried off by a drifting balloon.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. 6 pp undated ads plus 8 pp ads dated "20.8.06." Original blind-stamped olive-green cloth. First Edition of this tale typical of Wells's transition from his early science fiction to his later socialism: a comet passes very close to Earth, emanating a gas that changes people's.....
illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. With Twenty Illustrations by George Cruikshank. New Edition, Complete. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841. Original blind-stamped dark brown cloth with gilt spine vignette. First American Combined (and first American Illustrated) Edition -- later (1841) printing. The first and second series of SKETCHES BY.....
By Boz. To which is added The Pantomime of Life, by the same author. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837. Bound in full mottled calf with raised bands on the spine. First Edition so collected. In January 1837, Carey Lea & Blanchard published a "Library of Fiction" anthology volume titled.....
illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. Being a Continuation of "Watkins Tottle, and Other Sketches." Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837. Original drab boards with rose cloth spine and printed label. First American Edition, consisting of 1,250 copies issued in February 1837. These are the twelve pieces that had.....
London: Office of All The Year Round / Chapman & Hall, 1859-1867. [In nine volumes.] Original self-wrappers (first four) and blue printed wrappers (last five) -- as issued. First Editions of all nine "Extra Christmas Numbers" of this periodical that Charles Dickens founded, and edited for its nine years of.....
[in original boards] London: Printed and Published by R. Carlile, 1822. Original drab paper-covered boards. First Published Edition, second issue -- which is to say, the sheets of William Clark's 1821 pirated edition, with the 1822 cancel title leaf of radical publisher Richard Carlile. "Queen Mab, a Philosophical Poem [in.....
[the Abel Berland copy] London: Printed for John Murray, 1815. 2 pp undated ads, 4 leaves of preliminary titles, and 4 pp ads dated June 1815. Original unprinted drab wrappers. First Edition of this collection of verse, best known for "She Walks in Beauty." HEBREW MELODIES was published during the.....
[inscribed by Scott] The Second Edition. London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and A. Constable and Co., Edinburgh, by James Ballantyne, Edinburgh, 1805. Original blue paper-covered boards, with later (but period-style) white cloth or vellum, with printed spine label. "The Second Edition," which consisted of 1500 copies, issued.....
With Marginal Illustrations. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1894. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black. First American Edition, first printing (of "Pudd'nhead Wilson," which had appeared a few weeks earlier in Britain; first edition of "Those Extraordinary Twins," which had not yet been published in the U.K.). PUDD'NHEAD is a......
With a Portrait of the Author by James Mapes Dodge and Six Illustrations by Louis Loeb. London: Chatto & Windus, 1894. 32 pp ads dated Sep 1894. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition, issued a few weeks before the American edition (which was titled THE TRAGEDY OF........
London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. 32 pp ads dated May 1882. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of tales, which preceded the American edition by about a week (Blanck) or by four days (Johnson). The title tale is Mark Twain's jab at detectives, both.....
