the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. [20 monthly serial parts in 19.] London: Bradbury & Evans, 1849-1850. Original pictorial light blue-green wrappers. First Edition in the original serial parts, issued monthly beginning in May 1849 and ending (with a double number) in November 1850; the same.....
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1853. Original greyish-pink printed wrappers. Early (first?) American edition of this the third of Dickens's nine "Extra Christmas Numbers" of his weekly periodical Household Words. This came out in London in December 1852, and then was published in America in early 1853 by several publishers.....
Comprising No Thoroughfare and [The Lazy Tour of] Two Idle Apprentices. Boston: William F. Gill & Company, 1876. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition thus (so combined into one volume). These were both collaborations between Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins (brother of Dickens's daughter's husband) -- "The Lazy.....
Brattleboro [Vermont]: published by T[homas]. P. James, 1873. Original brown cloth. First Edition of one of the earliest -- and certainly most curious -- sequels/solutions to Charles Dickens's THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, published in Vermont only three years after the mystery was left unfinished when Dickens died in June.....
His Relatives, Friends, and Enemies. Comprising all his wills and his ways; with an historical record of what he did, and what he didn't. Edited by Boz. With Illustrations by "Phiz." London: Chapman & Hall, 1843-1844. Original light blue-green pictorial wrappers. First Edition, as originally issued in 20-in-19 monthly serial.....
Containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings, and Complete Career of the Nickleby Family. Edited by "Boz." With Illustrations by "Phiz." [20-in-19 monthly serial parts.] London: Chapman & Hall, 1838-1839. Original pictorial blue-green wrappers. First Edition of Dickens's fourth book (and third to appear in serial parts).....
[our finest copy evah] or, The Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz." In Three Volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 4 pp Vol I undated ads; 2 preliminary pp Vol III undated ads. Original purplish-brown fine-diaper cloth. First Edition, first issue, of this classic novel that has also been a hit as.....
Containing a Faithful Record of the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members. Edited by "Boz." With Illustrations. [20-in-19 monthly serial parts.] London: Chapman & Hall, 1836-1837. Original light green pictorial wrappers. First Edition, in the original 20-in-19 monthly serial parts, issued from April 1836 through.....
By Boz. With Other Tales and Sketches [by other authors], from Bentley's Miscellany and The Library of Fiction. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1837. Original drab boards with rose cloth spine and printed label. First Edition of this early collection of tales by various authors -- which constitutes one of.....
illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. Being a Continuation of "Watkins Tottle, and Other Sketches." Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837. Original drab boards with rose cloth spine and printed label. First American Edition, consisting of 1,250 copies issued in February 1837. These are the twelve pieces that had.....
illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. With Twenty Illustrations by George Cruikshank. New Edition, Complete. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841. Original blind-stamped dark brown cloth with gilt spine vignette. First American Combined (and first American Illustrated) Edition -- later (1841) printing. The first and second series of SKETCHES BY.....
By Quiz [sic]. Illustrated by Phiz. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin; and 596 Broadway, New York, n.d. [1869]. 2 pp undated ads. Original bright green cloth decorated in gilt, black and red, beveled. First American Collected Edition of all three "Sketches" -- two of which actually were written by Charles.....
Dedicated to Young Ladies. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1838. Original dark green cloth with front cover label. First American Edition. Dickens wrote this as a protest against SKETCHES OF YOUNG LADIES, pseudonymously written by "Quiz" (subsequently attributed to Rev. Edward Caswall) the year before. That volume classified these "interesting.....
In: THE LIBRARY OF FICTION, or Family Story Teller; consisting of Original Tales, Essays, and Sketches of Character. With Fourteen Illustrations [in each volume]. Vol. I [& II]. London: Chapman and Hall, 1836/1837. Bound in contemporary half calf with marbled boards. First Edition in book form. Chapman & Hall's monthly.....
By Boz. To which is added The Pantomime of Life, by the same author. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837. Bound in full mottled calf with raised bands on the spine. First Edition so collected. In January 1837, Carey Lea & Blanchard published a "Library of Fiction" anthology volume titled.....
Together with Other Tales, by Distinguished Writers. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837. Original light grey-green boards with red cloth spine and printed label. First American Edition (being a volume in the "Library of Fiction"), limited to 1,000 copies issued in January 1837. The volume consists of the title tale.....
Illustrated by F.O.C. Darley and Thomas Nast. New York: James O'Kane, 1866. 2 pp undated ads. Original green cloth, beveled. First Edition of this children's classic. Hans and his sister Gretel want to win the annual ice-skating race on the canals of Holland, but cannot afford proper skates -- and.....
A Romance of the Unromantic. London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. 32 pp ads dated April 1890. Original maroon cloth decorated in black. First Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's first novel, preceded by several short tales and by the historical MICAH CLARKE. This is a highly autobiographical tale, with good descriptions.....
Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. 6 pp undated ads. Original light blue mottled cloth decorated in black. First American Edition -- which includes one case excluded from the U.K. edition. In 1892, the first twelve Sherlock Holmes cases to have appeared in The Strand Magazine were published, by.....
[In Three Volumes.] London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. 24 pp Vol I ads dated March 1893. Original pea green cloth stamped in dark green. First Edition, which consisted of 1,000 copies published on 17 May 1893. THE REFUGEES was part of Doyle's attempt to revert to "serious literature" after.....
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868. 2 pp preliminary ads. Original dark green-grey cloth. First American Edition of this novel. Charles William Shirley Brooks (1816-1874) began as a contributor to Punch Magazine, where his nom de plume was Epicurus Rotundus; in 1870 he took over as Punch editor after Mark.....
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[in four volumes] Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871 (for Vol I; 1872 for Vols II, III & IV). Bound in three-quarter calf with leather spine labels, with marbled paper boards that match the marbling of the endpapers and the (trimmed) page edges. First Edition in book form.....
In Three Volumes. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. 16 pp Vol III undated ads. Original blind-stamped cinnamon-brown cloth. First Edition. This is the sad tale of Maggie Tulliver, from the Dorlcote Mill on the Floss River -- a novel noteworthy more for its accurate depiction of rural.....
Third Edition. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1859. 16 pp undated Vol I ads. Original blindstamped cinnamon brown cloth. "Third Edition" of George Eliot's first novel, preceded only by her collection of sketches, SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE (and by a couple of translations). She told her publisher that it.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. 16 pp Vol III undated ads. Original blind-stamped cinnamon-brown cloth. First Edition. This is the sad tale of Maggie Tulliver, from the Dorlcote Mill on the Floss River -- a novel noteworthy more for its accurate depiction of rural characters than for.....
