London: Printed for Private Circulation (for Thomas J. Wise), 1919. Original blue wrappers. First Edition, being one of only 25 copies (so stated). This was the fourth of Thomas J. Wise's twenty very-limited-issue Conrad pamphlets produced during the twelve months between February 1919 and January 1920; being one of Wise's.....
London: Printed for Private Circulation [by Thomas J. Wise], 1919. Original dark red wrappers. First Edition, consisting of only 25 copies (so stated). This is Conrad's reminiscence of the day he heard of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand ("I was barely aware that such a man existed"), and the ensuing.....
[RLS's first book] London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878. Original light blue cloth decorated in black and gilt, beveled boards. First Edition of Stevenson's first book, which consisted of just 750 copies. It was preceded only by several tracts such as THE PENTLAND RISING and ON THE THERMAL INFLUENCE.....
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912. 2 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth. First Edition of this autobiographical work, which had initially (in 1908-1909) appeared serially in Ford Madox Ford's newly-founded English Review. Interestingly, Conrad's printed initials at the end of the Preface are "J.C.K." -- using his Polish last name.....
Edited by H.G.O. Blake. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1884. Original dark green cloth with facsimile signature in gilt, beveled. First Edition, which consisted of only 1260 copies (WALDEN, in comparison, consisted of 2000 copies). This was the second of Thoreau's four "seasons" to be posthumously published from his journal;.....
