[inscribed by Lewis Carroll] With Forty-six Illustrations [each] by Harry Furniss. [Together, two volumes.] London: Macmillan and Co., 1889/1893. 3 pp / 5 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Editions of Carroll's rather serious fairy tales. SYLVIE AND BRUNO, with its conclusion.....
[in 1835 boards-and-label] London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman; and Edward Moxon, 1835. 4 pp undated ads (plus terminal erratum slip). Original drab paper-covered boards, with green cloth spine and printed spine label. First Edition, of which only 1,500 copies were printed. The contents of this.....
London: Edward Moxon, 1855. 1 page undated ads. Original blind-stamped green cloth. First Edition of this collection of verse that includes the first book appearance of "The Charge of the Light Brigade," commemorating the costly allied victory the previous October at Balaklava in the Crimean War: you know these lines!.....
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1892. 8 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth with front cover vignette in gilt. First (American) Edition, published nine days before the English edition which was titled BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS and Other Verses. Included in "Barrack-Room Ballads" are such well-known verses as "Danny Deever," "Tommy,".....
New York: United States Book Company. Successors to John W. Lovell Company, n.d. [1890]. Original maroon cloth, on beveled boards. First (though pirated) Edition of both the "Barrack-Room Ballads" and the "Other Verses" (not published in England until 1892); first American edition of "Departmental Ditties." The "Barrack-Room Ballads" include some.....
[with tipped-in signature] Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. 4 pp preliminary ads dated December 1849. Original drab paper-covered boards with printed spine label. First Edition of this collection of verse best known for the trochaic ode "The Building of the Ship," which concludes with the famous apostrophe to the.....
