New York: The Century Co., 1906. Original dark blue cloth pictorially decorated in light blue and black. First American Edition of this novel published during Wells's transition from his early science fiction titles to his later socialistic titles: a comet passes very close to Earth and thereby causes a "Great.....
Illustrated by Maurice Greiffenhagen. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. 4 pp undated ads. Original dark green cloth pictorially decorated in orange and grey. First Edition of Conrad's first book to be illustrated -- the famous tale about Captain MacWhirr, Jukes and the Chinamen on board the.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1909. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black and white. First Edition. This fascinating piece begins, "Well, when I had been dead about thirty years, I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, I had been whizzing through space all that time.....
Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with front cover monogram device in gilt. First Edition, first issue. The title story, one of Twain's darker themes, is "a parable about a smug all-American town whose citizens, never having been tempted, take.....
Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with front cover monogram device in gilt. First Edition, first issue. The title story, one of Twain's darker themes, is "a parable about a smug all-American town whose citizens, never having been tempted, take.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1929). Original dark blue cloth lettered in orange. First Edition of the fifth and last of Lewis's great novels of the 1920s -- preceded by MAIN STREET, BABBITT, ARROWSMITH and ELMER GANTRY. In these novels, Lewis savagely mocked the provincialism, conformism and hypocrisy he saw.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1927]. Original dark blue cloth lettered in orange. First Edition of Lewis's scathing satire about a fraudulent itinerant preacher (shades of Bakker and Swaggart!) -- since immortalized on the screen by Burt Lancaster. This was the fourth of Lewis's five great novels of the.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1925]. Original dark blue cloth lettered in orange. First Trade Edition, preceded only by a 500-copy limited edition. This was the third of Lewis's great novels of the decade, after MAIN STREET and BABBITT and before ELMER GANTRY and DODSWORTH. ARROWSMITH won the Pulitzer.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1922]. Original dark blue cloth lettered in orange. First Edition, first issue, of the second of Lewis's five great satires of the 1920s (following MAIN STREET, and followed by ARROWSMITH, ELMER GANTRY and DODSWORTH). George Follansbee Babbitt, an enterprising, moral, stereotyped, and prosperous real estate.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. Original medium-blue cloth lettered in orange. First Edition of the book that brought fame to Sinclair Lewis -- the first of his five great novels of the 1920s (followed by BABBITT, ARROWSMITH, ELMER GANTRY and DODSWORTH). Carol Milford, a girl of quick intelligence but.....
Illustrated [with photographs]. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in gilt. First Edition, third printing (the first two were in 1915 and 1916). This is the log that Charmian maintained when she and Jack cruised to the South Seas in 1907-1908. The front free endpaper.....
Illustrated. A Chronological Reference Guide. Oakland CA: Star Rover House, 1979. Original pictorial cloth. First Edition, consisting of 1000 copies, of the only Jack London bibliography to include photographs of the front cover and spine, the title page, and the copyright page of every entry. This is a fine, bright.....
Translated from the Original MS. Illustrated by Lester Ralph. London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906. Original red cloth decorated in green and black. First (American) Edition. Written as Eve's diary in the Garden of Eden, this was a companion volume to EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY (1904) -- but.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1903. Original light blue boards, with fabric dust jacket. First American Edition of the novel in which a rich Massachusetts widow sends various "ambassadors" (an admirer, a daughter, etc.) to France to bring back her son from what she presumes is an undesirable.....
[a handsome copy] With Illustrations by W.T. Benda. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. Original brown linen-grain cloth lettered in light orange. First Edition, first printing (with the date on the FRONT of the title leaf), first state (with the illustrations on coated paper, rather than on text.....
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[signed by "O. Henry"] New York: The McClure Company, 1908. Original red cloth. First Edition, first printing (with the fore-title bearing the page number 1 -- and the book's title 1-3/4" wide -- and with the error "of" for "as" on p. 226 line 2). As with all copies of.....
