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.....
[inscribed by the author] London: Hurst and Blackett, 1867. 16 pp Vol III ads dated November 1866. Original blind-stamped blue-violet cloth with spines stamped in gilt. First Edition of this collection of tales: Vol I consists entirely of "Leyton Hall," Vol II consists of "Hearts are Trumps," "Mind Your Own.....
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.....
[in the 1808 original boards] In Four Volumes. London: Printed by D.N. Shury... for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. Original grey-brown paper-covered boards with purple cloth spines and printed spine labels. First Edition of this collection of Gothic tales of the macabre, which Matthew Gregory Lewis adapted from original.....
[large-paper copy] Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. Original green cloth decorated in gilt, beveled, all page edges gilt. First Edition, large-paper copy. This play-in-verse-form is actually what Longfellow considered to be Part I of a trilogy, the other two parts of which had already been published. It had.....
[original full leather binding] I. John Endicott. II. Giles Corey of the Salem Farms. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Original full brown morocco decoratively stamped in black, marbled endpapers, all page edges gilt. First Edition (issued simultaneously with the London and the Leipzig editions) of this pair of "New England.....
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[signed by George MacDonald] In Three Volumes. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1868. Original maroon cloth decorated in gilt (portraying medieval-style external book hinges). First Edition. This is the second novel in MacDonald's "Marshmallows Trilogy" -- the other two being ANNALS OF A QUIET NEIGHBOURHOOD (Hurst & Blackett 1867) and THE VICAR'S.....
Third Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. 8 pp undated ads (in addition to the 9 pp integral "Publishers' Advertisement" ads, numbered [xv]-xxiii). Original blind-stamped black cloth with gilt-decorated spine. "Third Edition," which is to say, the third printing of the First American Edition (which came out about a......
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852. Original blind-stamped purple cloth. First Edition. This was Melville's first novel to be published after MOBY DICK, and one of his few not taking place upon the sea. It is a curious, but tragic, menage-a-trois: Pierre is engaged to marry Lucy, but then happens.....
Cambridge & Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1893. Original grey cloth decorated in gilt, beveled. First Edition, which consisted of only 500 copies (so stated). This tale, by the Hoosier who migrated to the Pacific Northwest, takes place in Jerusalem and the Holy Lands at the time of Christ. It is.....
being A Narrative of Certain Events in the Life of an Orthodox Minister of Connecticut. By the Author of "My Farm of Edgewood." In Two Volumes. New York: Charles Scribner and Company, 1866. Original green cloth. First Edition of this "delicate and leisurely story of New England village life in.....
An Old-Fashioned Love Story. By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." London: Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1877. 7 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth decorated in black. First Edition (following serialization in Good Words in the latter half of 1876). This tale involves a governess who must wait seventeen years.....
An Old Governess's Tale. By the Author of 'John Halifax, Gentleman.' With Prefatory Letter by the Author. London and Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1897. 2+32 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this collection of six contributions that had appeared in Chambers's Journal.....
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. 4 pp undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in white. First Edition (with the title page in a three-panel single line border, and with "moment." the last word on p. 106; copies of the revised second printing unfortunately get mistaken as first editions).....
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... by N.P. Willis, J.R. Lowell, and R.W. Griswold. New York: J.S. Redfield, 1850 (Vol IV in 1856). 4 pp Vol I ads; 8 pp Vol IV ads. Original blind-stamped purple (and blue-grey) cloth. First Collected Edition of Poe's writings, published beginning in the year following his sudden death at.....
By Q. London: Cassell & Company, 1888. 16 pp ads dated July 1888. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of Quiller-Couch's second novel, which like his first and third (DEAD MAN'S ROCK, 1887, and THE SPLENDID SPUR, 1889) were published under the pseudonym "Q". Much of the.....
With Illustrations by E.A. Abbey, Percy MacQuoid and Joseph Nash. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. 32 pp ads dated Sept 1884. Original red cloth decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of fourteen short "good stories" -- about twenty pages each, on average. One of the more amusing --.....
By the Author of "Waverley,["] ["]Peveril of the Peak," &c. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. London, 1823. Original textured grey-green cloth, with printed spine labels. First Edition, first issue, of Scott's well-known adventure tale sited in Fifteenth Century France, amidst the conflict.....
London: Grant Richards, 1899. 2 pp undated ads plus 12 pp ads dated 1899. Original purple cloth. First Edition of this largely autobiographical novel, documenting the tension between the protagonist's poetic self and his bourgeois parents. Sharp had grown up in the Scottish Highlands, where at an early stage he.....
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[Goldilocks before Goldilocks] London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman (Vols I-V), 1834 | 1834 | 1835 | 1837 | 1838, and London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans (Vols VI-VII), 1847 | 1847. 12 pp Vol I preliminary ads dated January 1835; 16 pp Vol IV preliminary ads dated.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. 8 pp undated ads. Original printed yellow wrappers. First Edition, published about six weeks before the London edition. Unlike the English one, the American edition is illustrated (twelve plates); it was also issued, at a higher price, in red cloth (no precedence). Stevenson wrote.....
