Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884. Original light grey-green cloth decorated in black. First Edition of Harris's third book, preceded only by UNCLE REMUS and NIGHTS WITH UNCLE REMUS. This volume consists of four tales, of which "Mingo" actually is the shortest; the longest is "At Teague Poteet's." Though...
Illustrated by E. Boyd Smith. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1899. Original olive green cloth pictorially decorated in black and red. First Edition, English issue, of this collection of fourteen tales -- including a few about Brer Rabbit and friends. This is a children's story book in the same general...
Or, The Adventures of a Young Gentleman in Search of a Religion. By Mr. Benjamins (Bret Harte...). London: John Camden Hotten, n.d. [1871]. 2 pp preliminary ads plus 8 pp terminal ads dated "for 1872." Original glazed printed wrappers. First Separate Edition of this parody of Benjamin Disraeli's 1870 novel...
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876. Original blind-stamped green cloth with gilt-decorated spine. Second Edition of Hawthorne's first book FANSHAWE (the first had been in 1828), plus the first appearance in book form of the other pieces -- the five "biographical sketches." This title was published as a twin...
Boston: E.P. Peabody, 1841. Original green-grey pebble-grain cloth with front cover black paper label printed in gilt. First Edition of this early Hawthorne title, written as a grandfather's presentation to his grandchildren of the events in an around Boston during the Revolutionary War. Published in March 1841 (with the Preface...
A Christmas and New Year's Present. Edited by S. G. Goodrich. Boston: Carter and Hendee, 1830. Original red watered silk lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. One of the very earliest appearances in print of Nathaniel Hawthorne -- if it truly is by Hawthorne. His first book, FANSHAWE, had come...
A Memory of Last Island. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889. 4 pp undated ads. Original salmon cloth decorated in brown and black. First Edition of Hearn's third book, following STRAY LEAVES (1884) and SOME CHINESE GHOSTS (1887). During the summer of 1884, while living in New Orleans, Hearn had...
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. Original bright red cloth decorated in brown. First Edition of Hearn's second book -- but his first book of "original" work (since his earliest, STRAY LEAVES FROM STRAY LITERATURE (1884), was a collection of folk tales he had "reconstructed"). This volume presents as a similar volume...
Stories. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884. Original dark royal blue cloth decorated in black. First Edition of Hearn's first book (other than an 1882 translation of Gautier). This was Hearn's attempt to reconstruct "fantastically beautiful stories from the exotic literature which fascinated him" [OCAL]. Born in the Ionian Islands...
Stories. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884. Original dark royal blue cloth decorated in black. First Edition of Hearn's first book (other than an 1882 translation of Gautier). This was Hearn's attempt to reconstruct "fantastically beautiful stories from the exotic literature which fascinated him" [OCAL]. Born in the Ionian Islands...
The Story of a West-Indian Slave. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. 2 pp undated ads. Original white cloth decorated in blue, with cover and spine label. First Edition of this novel, Hearn's fifth book. Both YOUMA and his fourth, TWO YEARS IN THE FRENCH WEST INDIES (also 1890), were...
A Tale of the Civil War. Illustrated. London: Griffith & Farran, 1883. 32 pp ads dated Sept 1883. Original pictorial brown cloth. First Edition of this early Henty boys' tale taking place during the English Civil War. According to Newbolt (and to the printer's code on the title verso), 3000...
A Tale of Two Sieges of Paris. London: F. V. White & Co., 1895. 16 pp undated ads (paginated as the end of the book). Original rose-mottled cloth. First Edition. This is one of Henty's historical tales for adults, rather than for boys, which is why it is not published...
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...
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...
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...
