[Hawthorne's second book] Boston: American Stationers Co. / John B. Russell, 1837. 4 pp preliminary ads plus 16 pp ads, all undated. Original grey-green coarse-ribbed morocco-grain cloth. First Edition of Hawthorne's second book -- and the first to bear his name on its title page. 1,000 copies were printed, priced.....
[the Bancroft / Groves copy] New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899. 4 pp undated ads. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in red, black, blue and gilt. First Edition of this collection of about 240 very brief (less than one page each) fables. "[Bierce's] 1899 publication of FANTASTIC FABLES.....
San Francisco: E.L.G. Steele, 1891. Original grey cloth. First Edition of Bierce's best-known work, a collection of 19 intense supernatural tales. As Bierce points out in his dedicatory note, "Denied existence by the chief publishing houses of the country, this book owes itself to Mr. E.L.G. Steele, merchant, of this.....
Brattleboro [Vermont]: published by T[homas]. P. James, 1873. Original brown cloth. First Edition of one of the earliest -- and certainly most curious -- sequels/solutions to Charles Dickens's THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, published in Vermont only three years after the mystery was left unfinished when Dickens died in June.....
