Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde. Pictured by Aubrey Beardsley. London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane / Boston: Copeland & Day, 1894. 16 pp ads dated Jan 1894. Original blue-grey cloth decorated in gilt. "Not only the first edition with Beardsley's drawings but also the first English edition, the.....
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1880. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of one of Hardy's least-known novels. Written during the year 1879 and serialized in the magazine Good Words (where it was bowdlerized by its Scottish clergyman editor), it is a tale in which Hardy combined.....
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 front cover 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.....
![Item #15362 THREE PARTNERS. Or The Big Strike on Heavy Tree Hill. [inscribed]. Bret Harte](https://sumnerandstillman.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15362.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696272192)
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897. Original terra-cotta cloth stamped in black and gilt. First American Edition (which according to Blanck was probably published simultaneously with the London one). This is a tale of intrigue and treachery involving gold miners working an old claim: almost twenty years.....
![Item #15361 A WAIF OF THE PLAINS. [inscribed]. Bret Harte](https://sumnerandstillman.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15361.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696272192)
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890. Original royal blue cloth decorated in black, page edges stained orange. First American Edition, published about two months after the edition in London (where Harte was then living). This copy is from the first printing, with (across from the title page).....
"Beardsley" (photography studio?) printed on verso. No place, no date (but June 2, 1875 in inscription). 4-1/4" x 6-1/2" on gold-bordered card with rounded corners. This is a photograph of a youngish Bret Harte (on the date of his 1875 inscription, he was 39) -- on which he inscribed in.....
Illustrated by Theodor Hampe. Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Company, 1892. 2 pp undated ads. Original pale yellow wrappers. First Edition of this tale involving an illicit relationship between a monk Ambrosius and a local girl Benedicta who is shunned because she is, yes, the hangman's daughter. Per an introductory note.....
Illustrated by Theodor Hampe. Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Company, 1892. 2 pp undated ads. Original mottled light brown cloth stamped in black. First Edition of this tale involving an illicit relationship between a monk Ambrosius and a local girl Benedicta who is shunned because she is, yes, the hangman's daughter.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. 6 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped red ribbed-morocco grain cloth with spine lettered in gilt. First American Edition of this early Trollope novel, which had first come out in late 1857 (three volumes, London post-dated 1858). This was his sixth novel, following the initial.....
With Illustrations. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1896. 10 pp undated ads. Original black (very dark purple?) cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this novel that curiously combines the sport of boxing and the Regency period. The eponymous narrator is a country boy who wishes to go to sea.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1891. Original royal blue cloth decorated in black. First Edition of what is "generally considered the most stylistically opaque and tortured of his [Meredith's] novels" [Williams]. Victor Radnor, Nataly Dreighton and their daughter Nesta have been supremely happy for twenty years; but now that Nesta is.....
![Item #15324 Dealings with the Firm of DOMBEY AND SON [20 parts in 19]. Charles Dickens](https://sumnerandstillman.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15324.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692804842)
[a handsome set] Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. [In 20-in-19 monthly serial parts.] London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846-1848. Original light blue-green pictorial wrappers. First Edition, as issued in 20-in-19 monthly serial parts beginning in October 1846 and ending in April 1848. The serialization of this.....
[in the original cloth] With Illustrations by Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. Original blind-stamped diagonally-ribbed blue cloth. First Edition in book form, published immediately at the conclusion of the 20-in-19 monthly serial parts (issued from January 1843 through July 1844). MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT marks Dickens's return to conventional serial parts.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. 16 pp undated ads (in addition to the 9 pp integral "Publishers' Advertisement" ads for TYPEE, paginated [xv]-xxiii). Original blind-stamped grey-green cloth with front cover gilt vignette and with gilt-decorated spine. First American Edition, issued about a week or two after Murray's edition in.....
[the fine Beverly Chew copy] being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751. [London:] Cassell & Company, 1886. 16 pp ads dated July 1886. Original bright red cloth. First Edition, first issue. In mid-18th Century Scotland, 17-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his inheritance by.....
being A Second Wonder-Book. With [Six] Fine Illustrations. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853. 8 pp preliminary ads dated August 1853. Original blind-stamped blue cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First American Edition, first printing, published in the month following the English edition. This is Hawthorne's collection of mythological tales (the Golden.....
being A Second Wonder-Book. With [Six] Fine Illustrations. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853. 8 pp preliminary ads dated July 1853. Original blind-stamped green cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First American Edition, first printing, published in the month following the English edition. This is Hawthorne's collection of mythological tales (the Golden.....
being A Second Wonder-Book. With [Six] Fine Illustrations. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853. 8 pp preliminary ads dated July 1853. Original blind-stamped red cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First American Edition, first printing, published in the month following the English edition. This is Hawthorne's collection of mythological tales (the Golden.....
[her first book, FINE] Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black and gilt, all page edges red. First Edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's first book -- of which this is a copy in the first state (with "was" at page 65 line 16, later.....
[Melville's first fiction] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. 8 pp Vol II undated ads. Original blind-stamped green cloth. First American Edition of Melville's first novel, an allegorical romance that was preceded only by the nonfictional TYPEE (1846) and OMOO (1847); "Mardi" means "the world" in Polynesian. As Melville indicates.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872. 2 preliminary pp undated ads. Original green cloth with spine decorated in gilt. First Edition of this collection of 14 juvenile tales and sketches, issued actually for the Christmas 1871 season. This was the first of half a dozen AUNT JO'S SCRAP BAG volumes issued over.....
![Item #15254 HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT [24 of 32 weekly parts]. Anthony Trollope](https://sumnerandstillman.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15254.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687805822)
With Illustrations by Marcus Stone. London: Virtue & Company, October 17 [1868] - May 22 [1869]. Original grey-green pictorial wrappers printed in red and black. An incomplete set of the First Edition, 24 of the 32 weekly parts (serialization was also available in eight monthly parts, and at the end.....
London: Charles Tilt, 1839. 8 pp undated ads. Original dark green cloth wrappers pictorially decorated in gilt. First Edition, first issue, of this unusual collaboration between Thackeray, Dickens and Cruikshank. The volume consists of 31 quatrains of amusing verse, illustrated with Cruikshank's eleven full-page etchings (as well as the front.....
Illustrated. New York: The Merriam Company, n.d. [1895]. 3 pp undated ads. Original violet cloth decorated in dark violet. First Edition, issued as the second volume in Merriam's "Violet Series." This is Stevenson's famous tale about the anatomist "K---" and his need for cadavres (based undoubtedly upon the career of.....
