[a landmark work] Studies among the Tenements of New York. With Illustrations chiefly from Photographs taken by the Author. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Original pictorial paper-covered boards with dark blue cloth spine. First Edition of this landmark work. Born in Denmark in 1849, Riis emigrated to New York... More
[Oxford: Oxford University Press,] July 1931. Original grey printed wrappers. First Edition, being "Pamphlet No. 79" of The English Association. This was Buchan's "presidential address" delivered to the association on November 22, 1930. He touches upon such writers as George Eliot, Dickens, Thackeray and Coleridge. A very good-plus copy (two... More
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A Collector's Bibliography. [By:] Robert G. Blanchard. (Hamden CT:) Archon Books, 1981. Original green cloth. First Edition of what is still today the standard bibliography of the first editions of John Buchan -- a comprehensive work covering Buchan's books and pamphlets, his edited works, and his contributions to periodicals. This... More
Illustrated. London [etc.]: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1936). Original blue-grey cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition. This volume is a selection of extracts from Buchan's monumental A HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR (four volumes, 1921-1922) -- published at a time when Britain was bracing for the next war. Included are... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1935). Original beige cloth printed in red and blue, with dust jacket. First Edition (trade issue) of this "picture -- and some slight interpretation" of the reign of King George V, upon the occasion of his Silver Jubilee. Though Buchan observes that the time for an... More
during a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas; the Revised Edition, with a Sequel. New York: Harper & Brothers | London: John Murray, 1849. 9 pp undated ads (primarily for OMOO). Original blind-stamped dark blue-green cloth. "The Revised Edition, with a Sequel," first Harper printing. TYPEE was... More
Boz' Works -- No. 21. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1842. Original self-wrapper (serving as title page); lacking the rear wrapper. Fourth American Edition (just two days after the first!) -- second issue. As first put forth in a 1975 article by Peter Bracher and soon to be confirmed in Walter... More
New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1842. 4 pp ads dated Nov 2, 1842. Original brown printed wrappers. Third American Edition (just one day after the first!) of this book that resulted from Dickens's 1842 tour of America. As first put forth in a 1975 article by Peter Bracher and soon to... More
[with the RARE outer wrapper] First American Edition. New-York: J. Winchester, Publisher, November 1842. Original self-wrappers, with additional outer wrapper. "First American Edition" -- second impression. As confirmed first in a 1975 article by Peter Bracher and (soon) in Walter Smith's upcoming bibliography), this edition (12-1/2 cents) was published at... More
First American Edition. New-York: J. Winchester, Publisher, November 1842. Original self-wrappers, bound into very early plain blue wrappers. "First American Edition" -- second impression. As first put forth in a 1975 article by Peter Bracher and (soon) to be confirmed in Walter Smith's upcoming bibliography, this edition (12-1/2 cents) was... More
With Illustrations by Henry C. Brandling. London: Richard Bentley, 1851. Original blind-stamped light ochre-brown cloth. First Edition of Wilkie Collins's third book -- following his 1848 memoir of his father, and his 1850 Fifth-Century romance ANTONINA. RAMBLES is Collins's account of his 1850 walking tour with his artist friend Henry... More
With Selections from his Journals and Correspondence. By His Son. [in Two Volumes.] London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848. 32 pp Vol I ads dated April 29, 1848. Original blind-stamped dark purple-brown cloth. First Edition of Wilkie Collins's first book -- a memoir of his father the landscape and... More
London, Edinburgh, and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1923). Original light olive-brown cloth pictorially decorated in white, red, blue and black. First Edition, first impression, of this volume of exploration to remote corners of the world, such as the North Pole, the South Pole, Mounts Everest and McKinley (Denali)... More
With Illustrations. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in black, green, and red. First American Edition. This is a retelling of a dozen true historical events that involved "escapes and hurried journeys" all over the world (Scotland, South Africa, Turkestan, Australia...), illustrated with... More
