[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.....
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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......
London: Chapman and Hall, 1894. Original olive green cloth decorated in black. First Edition of Meredith's last three-decker novel, which consisted of 1,500 copies -- published, in fact, in the final year of the three-volume format, as the lending libraries had finally lost their decades-long control over the publishing of.....
[an amazingly fine set] London: Chapman and Hall, 1891. Original royal blue cloth decorated in black. First Edition of what is "generally considered the most stylistically opaque and tortured of his [Meredith's] novels" [Williams]. Victor Radnor, Nataly Dreighton and their daughter Nesta have been supremely happy for twenty years; but.....
[in an unrecorded binding] London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. Original blind-stamped rose-brown cloth. First Edition of George Meredith's first full-length novel (preceded only by a volume of verse and two single-volume burlesques). FEVEREL is the tough tale of a father's "system" of raising his son, developed not so much out.....
London: Chapman & Hall, 1867. Original blind-stamped purple cloth. First Edition of one of George Meredith's scarcer novels, his only historical one, sited during the 1848 first war of the Risorgimento in Italy. It was published (actually in late 1866) in three volumes (for the benefit of the lending libraries).....
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 --.....
Edinburgh: William Blackwood / London: T. Cadell, 1833. Original dark green cloth stamped in gilt on the spines. First Edition of Michael Scott's first book (of only two). Born and raised near Glasgow, at age 17 (in 1806) Scott went to try his fortunes in Jamaica. After marrying the daughter.....
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.....
Collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham. In Four Volumes. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1818. 12 pp Vol IV ads dated June 1818. Original blue-grey paper-covered boards with white paper spines and printed spine labels. First Edition, probable second issue (of three) of the first printing. The entire four volumes.....
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.....
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......
