From "Orange and Green." [Dublin/Belfast?:] The Educational Company of Ireland, n.d. Original rose paper-covered boards lettered in black. First Edition, later issue, of the last "book written by Henty" to be cited in Newbolt -- though actually it is a section of his earlier historical novel sited in Ireland, ORANGE.....
Being a Set of Twelve Stories by [twelve different authors] with Twelve Illustrations by [twelve different illustrators]. London: Blackie and Son, 1894. Original dark blue cloth decorated in orange and green. First Edition of this anthology of twelve original tales (for adults) accompanied by twelve illustrations. Henty's contribution is "A.....
[a Henty rarity] By Archibald Forbes, George Henty and Charles Williams. New York: Ward, Lock and Co., 1889. Printed light brown wrappers. First Edition (American issue) of "probably the rarest of all Henty items" (quote from Sotheby's, February 1972, when the last copy appeared at auction -- it sold for.....
London: Methuen & Co., 1899. 40 pp ads dated Sept 1899. Original blue-grey cloth. First Edition of this novel, told in the first person by the king himself. This is a remarkably fine copy -- a few little bumps to the edges but unusually clean and bright. NCBEL III 1059.....
By the Author of "Tom Brown's School Days." In Three Volumes. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1861. 1 page Vol II undated ads, 24 pp Vol III ads dated "15.10.61." Original royal blue cloth. First English Edition. This was Hughes's sequel to TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS, which had appeared in 1857.....
A Story. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. 4 pp undated ads. Original mustard yellow cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition. Helen Fiske was born and raised in Amherst Massachusetts, where she was a close friend of Emily Dickinson; in 1852 she married a Capt. Hunt, but by 1865 he and their.....
London: William Heinemann, 1899. 2 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped blue cloth. First Edition of this novel, written almost entirely in dialogue, of Nanda Brookenham's "awkward age" of transition away from her mother's marriage-marketing and toward taking charge of her own life. This appears to have been a colonial copy that.....
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.....
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[Together, two volumes.] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. 4 pp undated ads in the former volume. Original blue-grey cloth elaborately decorated in silver and gilt. First American Editions, published a month apart, both as volumes in Harper's "American Story Teller" series. THE PRIVATE LIFE also includes "Lord Beaupré" and.....
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 light 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: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. Original dark green cloth, beveled. First American Edition, first impression, which consisted of only about 1500 copies. This was actually published in October 1878, less than a month after the two-volume London edition (which is now decidedly rare). One of James's earliest novels (published.....
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.....
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. Original mauve cloth decorated in black and gilt, all page edges red. First Edition, first state (with "was" at the end of the 16th line on p. 65, later changed to "so"), of Sarah Orne Jewett's first book. In addition to so-stated "fourth".....
[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.....
