With Illustrations by Launcelot Speed. London: Chapman and Hall, 1901. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of Gissing's last novel to be published during his lifetime. He had a tough time writing it: he began it as THE COMING MAN, then laid it aside to write AMONG.....
[inscribed by Conrad] Illustrations by Dan Sayre Groesbeck. New York: The McClure Company, 1908. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in white. First Separate (and First American) Edition. Earlier in 1908 this tale was published in England (as "The Duel") with five others in A SET OF SIX; it was McClure's.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1904. Original green cloth decorated in orange and black. First American Edition of Conrad's well-known novel involving a South American silver mine, and the corruption and dishonesty fostered by its riches. Conrad was extending his "Lord Jim" theme: that the man who slowly grows.....
In English, then in French, then clawed back into a civilized language once more by patient, unremunerated toil. Illustrated by F. Strothman. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1903. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black, green and white. First Separate Edition (thus -- considerably revised from the 1867.....
With Illustrations by F.H. Townsend. London: Macmillan and Co., 1905. Original white cloth with gilt vignette, with dust jacket. First Separate Edition (having first appeared, unillustrated, in TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES the year before). This is an allegory of a limbo of lost children tended by a blind woman, children who are.....
Illustrated by Ruth Gannett. New York: Covici Friede, (1935). Original tan cloth printed in blue, with dust jacket. First Edition of Steinbeck's fourth book (after CUP OF GOLD, THE PASTURES OF HEAVEN and TO A GOD UNKNOWN) -- and the first book to win him real recognition. This is the.....
With frontispiece and cover in colour by H. Weston Taylor. Boston: The Page Company, 1915. Original pale grey-green cloth with color portrait affixed to front cover. First Edition, first impression, of the third of the eight "Anne Shirley books," following ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (1908) and ANNE OF AVONLEA (1909);.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1910. Original grey printed wrappers. First (copyright) Edition, which according to the publisher consisted of only ten copies (but see below; Stewart put the number at eight, and Martindell at seven). One of nine tales featuring "Puck" that would appear in REWARDS AND FAIRIES four months.....
