In Two Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co., 1879. Original royal blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. First English Edition (of the first two tales, both of which had just appeared in Harper's "Half-Hour Series" in America; first edition in book form of the third tale). This is one of.....
The Figure in the Carpet...Glasses...The Next Time...The Way It Came. London: William Heinemann, 1896. 32 pp undated ads. Original aqua blue cloth blind-stamped with four irises. First Edition of this self-deprecatingly-titled collection of four tales, each of which occupies about 65 pages. This first printing on laid paper consisted of.....
Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1898. Original dark grey-green cloth decorated in gilt. First American Edition, issued a month after the London one -- of this distinctly-bound production by Herbert Stone of Chicago (in the same binding he used the prior year for James's WHAT MAISIE.....
London: Duckworth and Co., 1898. 16 pp undated ads. Original light buff cloth with telegraph lines in black. First Edition (which consisted of only 1,500 copies), issued a month before the considerably more common Chicago one. This is a short novel about a telegraph girl ("in the cage"), who willingly.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. 4 pp undated ads. Original blue-grey cloth decorated in silver and gilt. First American Edition, primary binding state (with the elaborate silver grille-work on front cover and spine, and with the leaves' top edge stained ochre). This primary binding also appears, less commonly, in.....
In Two Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. 2 pp undated Vol I ads. Original dark blue-green cloth with gilt lines. First Edition, which consisted of only 500 copies. THE REVERBERATOR illustrates the contrast between democracy and autocracy, between provincial and urban spirit... Like Newman [of THE AMERICAN], the Dossons are.....
In Three Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co., 1885. 2 pp undated Vol III ads. Original dark blue-green cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 500 copies. These three volumes consist of fourteen tales that James had written some years earlier -- most from the 1870s, with some from the 1860s.....
The Death of the Lion | The Coxon Fund | The Middle Years | The Altar of the Dead. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. 6 pp undated ads. Original pale green cloth decorated in dark green and gilt. First American Edition of this collection of four tales, published a......
The Death of the Lion | The Coxon Fund | The Middle Years | The Altar of the Dead. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. 6 pp undated ads. Original pale green cloth decorated in dark green and gilt. First American Edition of this collection of four tales, published a......
In Three Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. First English Edition, which consisted of only 500 copies, published a week or two after the two-volume Boston edition. This was the last Henry James three-decker; 1894 is generally considered the year in which that format.....
Illustrated by George du Maurier. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. 6 pp undated ads. Original dark olive cloth pictorially decorated in brown and gilt. First Edition, published actually in December 1880, a month before the two-volume London edition that included two additional pieces. WASHINGTON SQUARE, a rare example of.....
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. Original terra-cotta cloth, beveled. First Edition of Henry James's first book, which consisted of only 1,500 copies. This is a collection of six tales that had appeared in American periodicals (mostly the Atlantic Monthly) over the preceding years. In 1873 James's father wrote.....
Boston: James R. Osgood & Company, 1883. Original royal blue cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 1500 copies (1528 according to Blanck). There was no comparable British edition of this book: "The Pension Beaurépas" had appeared in the 1881 UK edition of WASHINGTON SQUARE, but the other two tales.....
[his first and scarcest novel] Reprinted, with corrections and additions, from Fraser's Magazine. London: John W. Parker, 1851. 8 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped rose-brown wavy-grain cloth. First Edition of Charles Kingsley's first-written (and today his scarcest) novel. It first appeared serially in Fraser's Magazine during the latter half of.....
A Story of the Grand Banks. With Illustrations by I. W. Taber. London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all edges gilt. First English Edition, published about a month after the American. This is Kipling's great novel about the cod fishing.....
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New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of twelve tales, illustrated with eight plates -- preceding the London edition by a week. Included are "The Devil and the Deep Sea," "An Error in the Fourth Dimension" and "The.....
Letters of Travel. [In Two Volumes.] New York: Doubleday & McClure Company, 1899. Original blind-stamped sea green cloth. First Edition (the English edition is dated 1900). These volumes include the first authorized edition of "American Notes," "Letters of Marque," "The City of Dreadful Night" and "The Smith Administration"; according to.....
[the Publisher to Major Pond] Toronto: George N. Morang & Co., 1899. Original dark green cloth with Viking longboat design in black. First Canadian Edition -- technically, the Canadian issue of the first American edition, which was published in this binding by Doubleday & McClure ten days before Macmillan's UK.....
Authorized Edition. New York: Lovell, Coryell & Company, n.d. [1892]. Original maroon cloth, beveled. First Combined Edition, later issue (with Lovell Coryell, rather than United States Book Co., as the publisher). These two pieces first appeared in 1888 as the second and fourth numbers in the Indian Railway Series, Allahabad;.....
With Numerous Illustrations by H.J. Ford. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. 2 pp undated ads. Original yellow cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the fourth of Lang's fairy books (following the Blue, Red and Green); there were twelve in all, published from 1889.....
With Illustrations by Phiz. In Two Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1852. Front endpaper of Vol II printed with Chapman & Hall ads. Original blind-stamped rose-brown cloth. First Edition in book form of this tale of "the downside of an irresponsible lifestyle when one enters middle age. The picaresque hero.....
With Illustrations by "Phiz." London: Chapman and Hall, 1856. Original blind-stamped green cloth. First Edition in book form, following publication in monthly serial parts. [This novel] depicts the fall of a Connemara estate in the period between Catholic Emancipation (1829) and the Great Famine (1845-1849)... Even as he asserts that the.....
Edited by Charles Lever (Harry Lorrequer). With Numerous Illustrations on Steel by Phiz. [In Two Volumes.] Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Co. [etc.], 1844. Original light grey-green paper-covered boards with red cloth spines, with printed spine labels. First Edition in book form (after serial parts) of this early Charles Lever.....
Illustrated by Phiz. London: Chapman & Hall, 1845. Original grey-green cloth decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of this children's book -- "It was on the 16th of March, the eve of St. Patrick, not quite twenty years ago..." -- modeled on the Christmas books of Charles.....
With Illustrations on Wood and Steel, by Hablot K. Browne. [In Two Volumes.] London: W.S. Orr and Co., n.d. [1849]. 2 pp Vol II ads. Original bright red cloth with spines pictorially decorated in gilt. First Edition in book form of this novel, following the 14-in-13 monthly serial parts. CON.....
