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.....
With an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a Map of Wessex. (London:) James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., (1896 -- actually 1895). Original dark blue-green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First Edition, earliest state, of Hardy's last great novel, issued as Vol. VIII of "The Wessex Novels." Titled HEARTS.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1896. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of this collection of seven tales dealing with British soldier life in India (each of which had previously been published). Included are 21 full-page plates by A.S. Hartrick. A curiosity of the.....
Decorated by J. Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E. [Together, two volumes.] New York: The Century Co., 1894/1895. Original olive green cloth decorated in gilt / salmon cloth decorated in orange. First (American) Edition of THE JUNGLE BOOK (published on the same day as the London edition), and First Edition of THE SECOND.....
Described for "Harper's Young People". Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. Original blue-green cloth elaborately decorated in silver and lettered in gilt First Edition, first state, of Howells's tale of his own Ohio boyhood. The first state has the caption for the plate facing p. 110 erroneously describing the.....
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886. 32 pp ads dated Oct 1885. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in black, white and gilt, board edges beveled, all page edges gilt. First British Edition of one of Verne's longest -- and scarcest -- tales: The mysterious Dr. Antekirtt and his companions.....
[a handsome copy] London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original light brown cloth decorated in dark brown. First Edition of this collection of five fantastic tales: "The Crystal Egg," "The Star," "A Story of the Stone Age," "A Story of the Days to Come".....
New York: J.S. Ogilvie, n.d. [1890]. 1 page preliminary ads plus 2 pp terminal ads. Original dark blue-green cloth. First American Edition (and first edition in the English language). This is the sequel to Verne's "Moon" books of many years earlier: quoting from the preliminary ad leaf, this is the.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. 2 pp undated ads. Original red-orange cloth decorated in black. First Edition. "The Monster" is a tense tale about a black man who, rescuing a white boy from a fire, in effect loses his face to the flames -- becoming a "monster".....
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Told for Children by Russell Thorndike. London & New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, n.d.[1930s?]. Original color pictorial wrappers. Each of these is a pocket-sized abridgement, for children, of a Charles Dickens novel or character -- condensed into a booklet of just 16 leaves (the title page is on the.....
As Condensed by Himself, for his Readings. With an Illustration [each] by S. Eytinge Jr. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Original pale blue printed wrappers. This wrappered volume contains two of the "readings" condensed by Dickens for his second American tour; each has its own title page and frontispiece plate.....
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New York: published respectively by H.G. Daggers, 1845 | Harper & Brothers, n.d. | D. Appleton and Company, 1868 | Hurst & Co., [1889]. The first is in later grey wrappers; the second is without wrappers; the final two are in the original printed wrappers. Generally very good condition. Housed.....
Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: And a Trip Round It. Translated from the French by Louis Mercier, M.A. (Oxon) and Eleanor E. King. With Eighty Full Page Illustrations. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1874. Original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled boards. First American.....
[the fine Currie / Sendak copy] London: Macmillan and Co., 1885. 2 pp undated Vol III ads. Original dark blue-green cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 500 copies. These three volumes consist of fourteen tales here "revived," that James had written some years earlier -- most from the 1870s.....
["Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!"] New York: Dix & Edwards, 1856. 7 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First Edition of Melville's only collection of short stories. Included are the well-known "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby [the Scrivener]", as well as "The Lightning-Rod Man, "The Encantadas" and two others. "Bartleby" has.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859. Original blind-stamped purple-brown morocco-grain cloth. First American (and first one-volume) Edition. This was not generally regarded as one of Trollope's better efforts; the author himself remarked in his autobiography, I do not know that I have ever heard it well spoken of by my friends.....
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, n.d.[1865]. 10 pp Vol II ads, undated (though one page cites 1866 as a future date). Original blind-stamped black cloth with gilt vignette on spines. Second American Edition, which is to say Peterson's two-volume "Uniform Duodecimo Edition." Harper paid for advance rights to serialize this.....
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, n.d.[1865]. 6 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped purple cloth. First American Edition, "Peterson sub-edition" [all quotes from Smith]. Having paid 1,000 for advance rights, Harper serialized this novel in Harper's New Monthly Magazine and, to protect their investment, published the first American edition, both in.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865. 2 pp undated ads. Original purple cloth. First Complete American Edition. Harper paid for the advance rights to issue OUR MUTUAL FRIEND serially in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, and then issued it in several book forms. One format was in two wrappered volumes, beginning.....
With Illustrations by I.W. Taber. London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First English Edition, published about a month after the American. This is Kipling's great novel about the cod fishing fleet of Gloucester Massachusetts, written while.....
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the fourth of Dickens's five illustrated Christmas books -- following A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE CHIMES, and THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, and preceding THE HAUNTED MAN. This.....
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[first tales in UK book form] [Together, three volumes.] London: George Redway, n.d. [1887 / 1888]. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in red and lettered in red and gilt. First Edition, second (separately published) issue -- of the supernatural anthology containing six stories that "are the first by Conan Doyle.....
Westminster: A. Constable and Co., 1894. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition, being the first volume in the publisher's short-lived "Acme Library" (also issued in wrappers). This is a suspenseful tale involving mesmeric trances and mind control; as G&G points out, Doyle's interest in the subject dated back.....
[the tale of a horse, BY a horse] London: Jarrold and Sons, n.d.[1877]. 8 pp undated ads. Original green cloth decorated in black and gilt. First Edition of this classic tale, told in the first person by Black Beauty himself. He encounters masters both kind and cruel, and as a......
London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1862. Original blind-stamped pebbled orange cloth with gilt-decorated spines. First Edition of "the most unjustly neglected of all Wilkie Collins's novels" [Robinson]. Written at the peak of Collins's career just after THE WOMAN IN WHITE, Sampson Low paid Collins 3,000 for NO NAME, and.....
