A Tale of the Two Roses. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1888. 4 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated July 1888. Original red cloth decorated in black. First English Edition of this historical tale of adventure and romance, published about six weeks after the.....
A Tale of the Two Roses. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1888. 4 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated July 1888. Original red cloth decorated in black. First English Edition of this historical tale of adventure and romance, published about six weeks after the.....
Consisting of The Beach of Falesa / The Bottle Imp / The Isle of Voices. With Illustrations by Gordon Browne and W. Hatherell. London Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1893. 16 pp ads dated Mar 1893. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in gilt. First English Edition, published five days.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. Original tan cloth decorated in brown and black. First Edition, published five days before the English one. This collection consists of "The Beach at Falesa," "The Bottle Imp" and "The Isle of Voices"; the middle one is one of Stevenson's weirdest tales -- a......
A Winter's Tale. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1889. 4 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated July 1889. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition (published on the day before the Scribner's one), with the proper July ads. Stevenson freely acknowledged that.....
A Winter's Tale. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1889. 4 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated July 1889. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition, published on the day before Scribner's American edition. Stevenson freely acknowledged that his inspiration for this novel.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. 4 pp undated ads. Original printed yellow wrappers. First American Edition of this collection of tales, some of which (like "Thrawn Janet" and "Markham") are along the same vein as JEKYLL AND HYDE - Stevenson called such stories his "creepers." This copy is in.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1882. Undated endpaper ads. Original mustard yellow cloth decorated in black. First American hardbound edition, issued as No. 141 in the Leisure Hour Series; George Munro's pirated "Seaside Library" edition, with triple-column text in a magazine-sized format, was listed in Publisher's Weekly a week.....
Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. 4 pp undated ads. Original brown cloth decorated in gilt and green. First Edition, which consisted of 2,675 copies, preceding the 1898 English edition. Stevenson wrote this at intervals between January 1893 and October 1894.....
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. One page undated ads. Original salmon cloth. First English Edition, which according to McKay was published on 9 January 1886 -- four days after the American one (Longmans had intended to publish it in December 1885, but the bookstalls were already so full of.....
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New York: George Munro's Sons, n.d. (March 13, 1896 at the top of the front wrapper). 18 pp ads, some dated June 1900. Original tan paper wrappers printed in black. First American edition to consist solely of these two groups of mysterious detective tales, which had originally constituted the first.....
London, Paris & New York: Cassell & Company, 1883. 4 pp ads dated July 1883. Original forest green cloth. First Edition, earliest date of ads, of this classic. In late 1881 Stevenson wrote this tale, titled THE SEA COOK, merely as an amusement for his 12-year-old stepson. It was accepted.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1916. Original grey boards with violet cloth spine, with dust jacket. First Edition of this "folk tale of old Iceland, in the author's best manner, which has lately been discovered among the papers of the late Mrs. Stevenson, and is now for the first time issued.....
An Unfinished Romance. London: Chatto and Windus, 1896. 32 pp ads dated Mar 1896. Original very dark blue cloth, beveled. First Edition of Stevenson's last fiction, left unfinished at his death. Stevenson began writing this book in 1892 (he called it THE JUSTICE-CLERK), but kept putting it aside to write.....
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A Novel. Illustrated by Alfred Brennan. In: six consecutive monthly issues of McClure's Magazine. New York: S.S. McClure, February - July 1894. Original orange wrappers printed in white and black. First Appearance of this novel. Stevenson and his stepson had contracted to write this in 1888, and Osbourne began it.....
[in unbound gatherings] A Trio & Quartette. Chicago & Cambridge: Stone & Kimball, 1895. Original unbound folded signatures. First Edition, fourth printing, published on October 5, 1895 (the publishing history is itemized on the copyright page). This copy is still in its printed but unbound state -- in fourteen folded gatherings.....
London: William Heinemann, 1894. 20 pp ads dated August 1894. Original (smooth) bronze cloth pictorially decorated in black. First English Edition (published two months after the Chicago one) of this novel Stevenson co-wrote with his stepson. A down-on-his-luck sea captain accepts an assignment on a rickety boat with a mysterious cargo.....
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. 16 pp ads dated Jan 1889. Original red cloth. First Edition (English) of this dark comedy which is also an early detective story; precedence between this and the American edition is uncertain. This was the first of three collaborations between Stevenson and his stepson.....
[the first English edition] Reprinted verbatim from the tenth American edition. London: Clarke and Co., 1852. Original blind-stamped grey-green cloth with gilt vignettes on the front cover and spine. First English Edition, which includes a four-page Preface "introducing this good book to British readers" -- signed simply by "G". Jewett's.....
On his Way through the World; shewing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him By. In Three Volumes. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. Original violet-blue cloth. First Edition of this Thackeray's last completed novel -- involving a sham marriage, blackmail by a clergyman, a family fortune.....
Montpelier [VT]: E.P. Walton and Son, 1835. Original tan muslin embossed with dots. First Edition of Pierce's second book, a tale of romance and buried treasure in the hills of Vermont. Pierce (1795-1868) was an 1820 graduate of Middlebury College who became first a lawyer and then an author, in.....
From the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Authorised Translation. London: Walter Scott, n.d. [circa 1889]. 4 pp undated ads in each volume. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt (Vols I-III pebbled cloth, Vol IV smooth cloth). First British Edition of one of the classics of literature. Originally published (in.....
In Three Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1877. Original pinkish-ochre cloth decorated in black. First Edition, published at the end of this novel's serialization in Temple Bar magazine. THE AMERICAN SENATOR will be read for the sake of its opening chapters, which set before the reader in a few pages the.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1877. Original terra-cotta cloth with front cover and spine decorated in black, spine stamped in gilt and black. First Edition, published at the end of this novel's serialization in Temple Bar magazine. "THE AMERICAN SENATOR will be read for the sake of its opening chapters, which set.....
In Three Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1881. Original light orange cloth decorated in black. First Edition of "possibly the most unjustly neglected of all Trollope's novels... What vigour of scene and creation, what vitality of action and dialogue it contains" [Walpole]. Carefree Ayala Dormer, left with no means of.....
