Being The Extra Christmas Number of All The Year Round. London: Chapman & Hall, Christmas 1867. Original blue wrappers. First Edition, being the last of Dickens's nine extra Christmas numbers of his periodical All The Year Round. Dickens himself wrote The Overture, Act III, and portions of Acts I and.....
the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. [20 monthly serial parts in 19.] London: Bradbury & Evans, 1849-1850. Original pictorial light blue-green wrappers. First Edition in the original serial parts, issued monthly beginning in May 1849 and ending (with a double number) in November 1850; the same.....
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1853. Original greyish-pink printed wrappers. Early (first?) American edition of this the third of Dickens's nine "Extra Christmas Numbers" of his weekly periodical Household Words. This came out in London in December 1852, and then was published in America in early 1853 by several publishers.....
Comprising No Thoroughfare and [The Lazy Tour of] Two Idle Apprentices. Boston: William F. Gill & Company, 1876. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition thus (so combined into one volume). These were both collaborations between Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins (brother of Dickens's daughter's husband) -- "The Lazy.....
Brattleboro [Vermont]: published by T[homas]. P. James, 1873. Original brown cloth. First Edition of one of the earliest -- and certainly most curious -- sequels/solutions to Charles Dickens's THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, published in Vermont only three years after the mystery was left unfinished when Dickens died in June.....
[our finest copy evah] or, The Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz." In Three Volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 4 pp Vol I undated ads; 2 preliminary pp Vol III undated ads. Original purplish-brown fine-diaper cloth. First Edition, first issue, of this classic novel that has also been a hit as.....
Containing a Faithful Record of the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members. Edited by "Boz." With Illustrations. [20-in-19 monthly serial parts.] London: Chapman & Hall, 1836-1837. Original light green pictorial wrappers. First Edition, in the original 20-in-19 monthly serial parts, issued from April 1836 through.....
By Boz. With Other Tales and Sketches [by other authors], from Bentley's Miscellany and The Library of Fiction. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1837. Original drab boards with rose cloth spine and printed label. First Edition of this early collection of tales by various authors -- which constitutes one of.....
illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. Being a Continuation of "Watkins Tottle, and Other Sketches." Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837. Original drab boards with rose cloth spine and printed label. First American Edition, consisting of 1,250 copies issued in February 1837. These are the twelve pieces that had.....
illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. With Twenty Illustrations by George Cruikshank. New Edition, Complete. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841. Original blind-stamped dark brown cloth with gilt spine vignette. First American Combined (and first American Illustrated) Edition -- later (1841) printing. The first and second series of SKETCHES BY.....
By Quiz [sic]. Illustrated by Phiz. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin; and 596 Broadway, New York, n.d. [1869]. 2 pp undated ads. Original bright green cloth decorated in gilt, black and red, beveled. First American Collected Edition of all three "Sketches" -- two of which actually were written by Charles.....
Dedicated to Young Ladies. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1838. Original dark green cloth with front cover label. First American Edition. Dickens wrote this as a protest against SKETCHES OF YOUNG LADIES, pseudonymously written by "Quiz" (subsequently attributed to Rev. Edward Caswall) the year before. That volume classified these "interesting.....
In: THE LIBRARY OF FICTION, or Family Story Teller; consisting of Original Tales, Essays, and Sketches of Character. With Fourteen Illustrations [in each volume]. Vol. I [& II]. London: Chapman and Hall, 1836/1837. Bound in contemporary half calf with marbled boards. First Edition in book form. Chapman & Hall's monthly.....
By Boz. To which is added The Pantomime of Life, by the same author. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837. Bound in full mottled calf with raised bands on the spine. First Edition so collected. In January 1837, Carey Lea & Blanchard published a "Library of Fiction" anthology volume titled.....
Together with Other Tales, by Distinguished Writers. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837. Original light grey-green boards with red cloth spine and printed label. First American Edition (being a volume in the "Library of Fiction"), limited to 1,000 copies issued in January 1837. The volume consists of the title tale.....
Illustrated by F.O.C. Darley and Thomas Nast. New York: James O'Kane, 1866. 2 pp undated ads. Original green cloth, beveled. First Edition of this children's classic. Hans and his sister Gretel want to win the annual ice-skating race on the canals of Holland, but cannot afford proper skates -- and.....
A Romance of the Unromantic. London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. 32 pp ads dated April 1890. Original maroon cloth decorated in black. First Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's first novel, preceded by several short tales and by the historical MICAH CLARKE. This is a highly autobiographical tale, with good descriptions.....
Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. 6 pp undated ads. Original light blue mottled cloth decorated in black. First American Edition -- which includes one case excluded from the U.K. edition. In 1892, the first twelve Sherlock Holmes cases to have appeared in The Strand Magazine were published, by.....
[in the scarce wrappers] Westminster: A. Constable and Co., 1894. Original grey wrappers lettered in dark blue. First Edition, being the first volume in the publisher's ill-fated "Acme Library" (also issued in blue cloth). This is a suspenseful tale involving mesmeric trances and mind control; as G&G points out, Doyle's.....
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With Illustrations. London and Bombay: George Bell & Sons, 1896. 10 pp [paginated 7-16] undated ads. Original mottled light pink cloth. First Edition, colonial issue, being No. 143 in Bell's Indian and Colonial Library. RODNEY STONE is a historical novel that curiously brings together Lord Nelson and the sport of.....
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[signed by "George Egerton"] By Ola Hansson. Translated from the Swedish by George Egerton. London: John Lane / Boston: Roberts Bros., 1895. 16 pp ads dated 1895. Original blind-stamped red cloth. First Edition in English, translated by "George Egerton" (pseudonym of Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright). This book is often collected.....
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[in four volumes] Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871 (for Vol I; 1872 for Vols II, III & IV). Bound in three-quarter calf with leather spine labels, with marbled paper boards that match the marbling of the endpapers and the (trimmed) page edges. First Edition in book form.....
In Three Volumes. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. 16 pp Vol III undated ads. Original blind-stamped cinnamon-brown cloth. First Edition. This is the sad tale of Maggie Tulliver, from the Dorlcote Mill on the Floss River -- a novel noteworthy more for its accurate depiction of rural.....
and What People Thought of Him. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1894. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in black and gilt. First Edition of the author's first novel, based on his own abortive efforts to enter politics in his hometown of Brooklyn. The semi-realistic PETER STIRLING is.....
[first book, "From the Author"] By John Sinjohn. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. Original olive green cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of John Galsworthy's first book, a collection of ten tales. Only 500 copies were printed -- on a commission basis, with Galsworthy paying for the printing; in order.....
