[a handsome set] London: Macmillan and Co., 1882. 24 pp Vol III ads dated Dec 1881. Original dark blue-green cloth decorated in black. First Edition, second impression, of James's best-known work, the account of Isabel Archer and her many suitors -- of varying ages, varying wealth, and varying ethics. THE.....
[in original cloth] Fifth Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. Original wavy-grain blind-stamped violet cloth with gilt-decorated spines. "Fifth Edition," so-called on the three title pages (but technically the fifth of the five slightly-differing 1861 impressions of the first edition). GREAT EXPECTATIONS was one of the few Dickens novels that.....
[a "Palliser" novel] London: Chapman and Hall, 1873. Original terra-cotta cloth stamped in black and gilt. First English Edition (Harper's one-volume edition was published in October 1872; this three-decker came out two months later, in December). This is Trollope's tale about the adventuress Lizzie Greystock -- "the very beautiful, superficially.....
