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 paper). This was.....
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt, with dust jacket. First Trade Edition, first issue, of Conrad's last (unfinished) novel, posthumously published three months after DP&Co's 377-copy limited edition -- but one day before Dent's London edition. This first issue has no.....
Florence: G. Orioli, 1930. Original cream paper boards decorated in orange-red, with printed spine label, with dust jacket. First Edition (issued as No. 4 in the publisher's "Lungarno Series"), consisting of 810 numbered copies -- of which this is No. 743. Lawrence had actually written this back in late 1925.....
London: Martin Secker, (1926). 4 pp undated ads. Original chocolate brown cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition of this 476-page novel sited in Mexico. Lawrence began it in 1923 when he and Frieda lived on Lake Chapala near Guadalajara; they returned to Oaxaca in 1924-1925 so that he could complete.....
London: Martin Secker, (1925). Original brown cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition, in the usual primary state (chocolate-brown cloth, with the error on the Contents page); Knopf's American edition, published two weeks later, did not include "The Princess." The heroine of ST. MAWR abandons her husband and post-war England and.....
London: Martin Secker, (1923). Original brown cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of this collection of three novellas, published eight months before Seltzer's American edition that was titled THE CAPTAIN'S DOLL: Three Novelettes. All three involve relationships during (and affected by) the waning months of the Great.....
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923. Original blue-grey cloth lettered in gilt, with pictorial dust jacket. First (American) Edition, published in the same month as Secker's UK edition, with priority uncertain. KANGAROO is Lawrence's Australian novel; at one time he expressed the desire to write a novel for each of the world's.....
London: Martin Secker, (1923). 6 pp undated ads. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First (English) Edition, which consisted of 3,000 copies. KANGAROO is Lawrence's Australian novel; at one time he expressed the desire to write a novel for each of the world's continents, and he might have.....
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922. Original blue-grey cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of this novel, published about two months before Secker's UK edition. It is the picaresque tale of Aaron Sisson, a flute-playing coal miner -- who abandons his wife and the mines to try to.....
Hodder & Stoughton / New York / George H. Doran Company, n.d. [1912]. Original red cloth. First American Edition of this three-tale collection best known for "The Secret Sharer" -- Conrad's most famous short story other than "Heart of Darkness." This was Doran's first and only printing of this book.....
A Smile of Fortune | The Secret Sharer | Freya of the Seven Isles. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1912. Original olive green cloth. First Edition, third and final (correct) binding state. This collection of three tales is known primarily for the middle one, "The Secret Sharer" -- Conrad's best-known.....
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 steamship.....
With Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1900. Original brown cloth pictorially decorated in black, white and gilt. First Edition of this collection of twenty short stories and sketches of turn-of-the-century Afro-American life -- with illustrations by E. W. Kemble. This was Dunbar's second collection of.....
London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1920. Original green cloth stamped in gilt, with dust jacket. First English Trade Edition (issued after the American edition and also after a 40-copy private issue of the English galley proofs). Begun in 1896, and in effect completing the trilogy begun with ALMAYER'S.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. Original black cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of this book-length ballad for which (per the preliminary "Acknowledgement") "The author's thanks and acknowledgements are gratefully tendered to John Steinbeck, author of "Cup of Gold," for his generous permission to use certain.....
A Study in the Origins of a Great Family. London: Chapman and Hall, 1906. Original rose linen-grain cloth. First Edition, believed to have consisted of no more than 1500 copies. In 1900 Punch Magazine had asked Maugham to contribute a couple of stories, one of which was "Cupid and the.....
