Being Heretofore Uncollected Sketches published in the Golden Era in the Sixties... With Many Drawings by Lloyd Hoff. Collected and Edited, with an Introduction by Franklin Walker. San Francisco: George Fields, 1938. Original green paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and green spine label, with dust jacket. First Edition of.....
![Item #14856 THE £1,000,000 [MILLION POUND] BANK-NOTE and Other New Stories. Mark Twain](https://sumnerandstillman.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14856.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1634236021)
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. 9 pp undated ads. Original tan cloth decorated in brown, black and gilt. First Edition of this collection of nine pieces -- some fiction and some non-fiction. The title tale speculates what would happen if a perfectly honest American chap were turned.....
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. Original yellow-orange boards with white cloth spine, with dust jacket. First Edition, being the fifth volume in Boni & Liveright's "Penguin Series." Published nine years after his death, this is one of Twain's few books that appeared under his real name, without mention of.....
New York: George Munro, 1878. 2 pp undated ads. Original green cloth. First Edition in English of this new and brilliant narrative of adventures by sea and land, embracing exciting incidents of the whale fishery in the Southern Ocean, and the African Slave Trade, all told in the inimitable graphic manner.....
[a handsome copy] With Numerous Illustrations. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled. First American fully-illustrated edition, from the sheets of the first British edition. These four tales include three that are among Jules Verne's earliest: "A Drama in the.....
New York: W.L. Allison Company, n.d. [1897]. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in brown and white. First American Edition of this remarkable tale of "an enormous ship built by the Yanks, that has a great city on it, and is navigated about the world, playing ducks and drakes with geography.....
Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: And a Trip Round It. Translated from the French by Louis Mercier, M.A. (Oxon) and Eleanor E. King. With Eighty Full Page Illustrations. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1874. Original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled boards. First American.....
Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. With Numerous Illustrations. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1878. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt and black, beveled. First complete American hardbound edition -- also the first authorized American edition. A collision with the errant comet "Gallia" rips out.....
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886. 32 pp ads dated Oct 1885. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in black, white and gilt, board edges beveled, all page edges gilt. First British Edition of one of Verne's longest -- and scarcest -- tales: The mysterious Dr. Antekirtt and his companions.....
[a handsome copy] Translated from the French. With Numerous Illustrations. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1873. 32 pp ads dated October 1872. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled, all edges gilt. First British Edition, also the first edition in the English language. Three Englishmen... and.....
The Courier of the Czar. Translated by W. H. G. Kingston. Revised by Julius Chambers. With Ninety Full-Page Illustrations. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1877. 6 pp undated ads. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled. First Illustrated (and first hard-bound) American Edition of this historical.....
Verne, Jules. MICHAEL STROGOFF. Translated by W.H.G. Kingston. Revised by Julius Chambers. With Ninety Full-Page Illustrations. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1877. 6 pp undated ads. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled. First American Edition of this historical tale of adventure taking place during a......
With Numerous Illustrations. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1888. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in black and red, all page edges gilt. First British Edition of this adventure tale taking place during the American Civil War. This is the tale of the antagonism between Burbank (an anti-slavery Northerner.....
85 Illustrations par L. Benett. 12 Grandes Gravures en Chromotypographie. 1 Carte en couleurs. Paris: J. Hetzel et Cie., n.d. [1893]. 8 pp ads dated 1893-1894. Original red cloth decorated in many colors, all edges gilt. First Illustrated Edition of the tale translated into English as FOUNDLING MICK (published by.....
[complete in Boy's Own issues] Complete in six monthly issues (26 weekly issues) of: THE BOY'S OWN PAPER. London: The "Leisure Hour" Office, November 1884 - April 1885. Original orange printed wrappers. First Appearance in serial form of one of Jules Verne's less-known tales -- published in book form as.....
Diary of J.R. Kazallon, Passenger. Translated from the French by Ellen Frewer. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled. First American Illustrated Edition, actually printed in London. In mid-1875 Osgood published the first edition in English, unillustrated, as a little.....
New York: J.S. Ogilvie, n.d. [1890]. 1 page preliminary ads plus 2 pp terminal ads. Original dark blue-green cloth. First American Edition (and first edition in the English language). This is the sequel to Verne's "Moon" books of many years earlier: quoting from the preliminary ad leaf, this is the.....
Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. Illustrated by L. Benett. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1881. 1 page undated ads (with prices in sterling). Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First Illustrated Edition of this curious tale about a Chinaman, Kin-Fo, who is convinced he needs to.....
Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. Illustrated by L. Benett. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1881. 1 page undated ads (with prices in sterling). Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First Illustrated Edition of this curious tale... Wealthy Chinaman hears that his fortune is lost. Opts for.....
![Item #15091 A Voyage Round the World. [In Three Volumes:] SOUTH AMERICA | AUSTRALIA | NEW...](https://sumnerandstillman.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15091.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1661355481)
With 71 / 48 / 46 Illustrations by Riou. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1876 / 1877 / 1877. 16 pp undated ads in third volume. Original terra-cotta / green / terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First fully-illustrated (and first hardbound) British edition of.....
[a handsome copy] London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original light brown cloth decorated in dark brown. First Edition of this collection of five fantastic tales: "The Crystal Egg," "The Star," "A Story of the Stone Age," "A Story of the Days to Come".....
London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head, 1894. 16 pp ads dated March 1894. Original violet cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of Wilde's satirical play about upper-class social scandal, which consisted of 500 copies (so stated -- half as many copies as the following year's THE.....
With a Frontispiece by Jack B. Yeats. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1893. 1 page preliminary undated ads. Original pea green cloth. First Edition of this very early work by Yeats (his fifth), a volume of Irish country tales often with supernatural aspects -- Yeats's "most creative attempt to render his.....
With Illustrations. London: Macmillan and Co., 1870. 44 pp ads dated January 1870. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this historical novel, loosely based upon King Henry V of England and his "caged lion," James I of Scotland. This is a very good copy, perhaps near-fine, slightly.....
