London: Gall and Inglis, n.d. [1911]. Original green cloth with pictorial spine, with front cover illustration onlay. Second (and first one-volume) Edition of Henty's first book. Agnes Ashleigh is unexpectedly bequeathed a fortune -- but the two sisters of her benefactor have other ideas... A SEARCH FOR A SECRET was.....
With Illustrations by Cyrus Cuneo. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. 4 pp undated ads. Original black cloth decorated in white, red and yellow. First American Edition of the third collection of adventures of Raffles, the gentleman crook. The first two collections had been THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN of 1898 and.....
Illustrated by W.T. Smedley. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1909. Original red cloth. First Separate Edition. JULIA BRIDE's first appearance in book form had been in Vol. XVII of the New York Edition of James's works, published earlier the same year; there was no separate English edition. Per.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. Original olive brown cloth. First Edition (American), issued simultaneously with the English. According to James himself: "The Outcry" deals with a question sharply brought home of late to the conscience of English society -- that of the degree in which the fortunate owners of precious.....
["Presentation Copy"] London: Methuen & Co., (1911). 32 pp ads dated August 1911. Original green cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First Edition (English), issued simultaneously with the American. According to James himself, "The Outcry" deals with a question sharply brought home of late to the conscience of English Society -- that of.....
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1902. Original blind-stamped dark blue cloth. First English Edition, published nine days after the two-volume New York one. This is the memorably tragic tale of Millie Theale, an American girl caught up in the social circles of London and Venice. One of Henry James's better-known.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. 4 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with Ganesha device (elephant-and-swastika) in gilt. First Edition. This is Kipling's version, in prose and verse, of the adventures of the mischievous sprite Robin Goodfellow (later continued in REWARDS AND FAIRIES). Though the American edition is highly sought.....
[1905 in dust jacket] With Illustrations by F H. Townsend. London: Macmillan and Co., 1905. Original white cloth with gilt vignette, with dust jacket. First Separate Edition (having first appeared, unillustrated, in TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES the year before). This is an allegory of a limbo of lost children tended by a......
A Novel. New York: Duffield & Company, 1911. Original light blue-grey cloth decorated in white and black and with lettering in white. First Edition of D.H. Lawrence's first book, which he began in 1906 (at age 20) and rewrote several times; it is the tale of a love triangle, between.....
Illustrations by W. Herbert Dunton and J. N. Marchand. New York: G. W. Dillingham Company, (1913). 4 pp undated ads. Original red cloth. First Edition of the sixth and last volume of Southwestern tales sited in Lewis's fictional town of "Wolfville" -- following WOLFVILLE (1897), SANDBURRS (1900), WOLFVILLE DAYS (1902).....
New York: The Century Company, 1913. 1 page undated ads. Original light green cloth decorated in dark green and black, with dust jacket. First Edition of London's prizefighting tale about "a white backwoods giant who would rather read Browning than slug his opponents" [Sinclair], prompted by his coverage of the.....
New York: The Century Company, 1913. 2 pp undated ads. Original olive green cloth decorated in yellow-orange and dark green. First Edition, first binding state (stamped in yellow-orange). This is London's prizefighting tale about "a white backwoods giant who would rather read Browning than slug his opponents," believed to have.....
As Chosen by Franklin K. Mathiews, Chief Scout Librarian, Boy Scouts of America. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. Original light green-grey cloth. First Edition of this selection of a dozen earlier-published Jack London tales, published four years after his death -- chosen for their appropriateness for reading by boy.....
With Illustrations and Decorations by Henry Hutt and T. C. Lawrence. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. 6 pp undated ads. Original grey-green cloth pictorially decorated in white and brown. First Edition, which consisted of 26,420 copies. In this prizefighting tale, Joe Fleming tries to convince his fiancée to accept.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. Original maroon cloth. First American Edition, which consisted of only 4,990 copies. HEARTS OF THREE was published four years after London's death (and two years after it was published in England). Like his two late books about dogs, this was hackwork necessary to raise.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. 8 pp undated ads. Original orange-brown cloth with dog silhouettes in black. First Edition of this posthumously-published book about a dog, written by the author while stretched out on Waikiki Beach. In early 1915 Jack and Charmian left California for Hawaii, plagued by financial.....
Illustrated by H.T. Dunn. New York: The Century Co., 1913. Original very dark green cloth. First Edition, first issue (with only one blank leaf at the rear other than the endpaper). This was London's "confessional book," a fictional but quite autobiographical tale that Jack wrote to exorcise his shame --.....
With a Dedicatory Poem by George Sterling. Collected by the Book Committee of the Spinners' Club. San Francisco and New York: Paul Elder and Company, n.d.[1907]. Original coarse unbleached linen decorated in dark green with front cover applied illustration, top page edges gilded. First Edition of this volume of stories.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. 6 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in black, white and orange. First Edition of this tale about a love triangle on a large ranch. Though not published until the year of Jack's death, he had written this during his bad year.....
["To Build a Fire"] Illustrated. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. 4 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth decorated in light green, white and orange. First Edition of this collection of seven tales, which consisted of fewer than 7,000 copies (compared to over 70,000 copies of THE CALL OF.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. 4 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt and cream. First Edition, consisting of 7,973 copies, of this collection of eight tales. He needed the money badly, for he had overspent his income to satisfy his various desires. As well as paying.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. 4 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt and cream. First Edition, consisting of 7,973 copies, of this collection of eight tales. He needed the money badly, for he had overspent his income to satisfy his various desires. As well as paying.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. 10 pp undated ads. Original red-brown cloth with dog silhouettes in black. First Edition of this posthumously-published book, published about six months after JERRY OF THE ISLANDS. Though both books were written by Jack in Honolulu as cash-raising hackwork, MICHAEL, BROTHER OF JERRY was a......
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. 4 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth decorated in white, green and gilt. First Edition, consisting of 8,400 copies (preceded only by a pre-publication copyright issue). Probably the best-known story in this collection is "Planchette" -- in which the spirit of a woman's dead.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. 4 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth decorated in white, green and gilt. First Edition, consisting of 8,400 copies (preceded only by a pre-publication copyright issue). Probably the best-known story in this collection is "Planchette" -- in which the spirit of a woman's dead.....
