With Two Designs by D.G. Rossetti. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1862. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt and blind. First Edition of Christina Rossetti's first volume of verse (other than her 1847 one, privately printed by her grandfather when she was only 17). "Goblin Market" is an intensely erotic...
[first novel, later disowned] Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878. Original blind-stamped green cloth decorated in gilt, page edges red. First Edition, first impression, of the first novel written by Henry James, having appeared in Atlantic Monthly in 1871. (It was not his first novel published in book form, however...
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. Original terra-cotta cloth, beveled. First Edition of Henry James's first book, which consisted of only 1,500 copies. This is a collection of six tales that had appeared in American periodicals (mostly the Atlantic Monthly) over the preceding years. In 1873 James's father wrote...
