London: Mills & Boon, (1914). [4]+32 pp ads. Original dark green cloth. First English Edition. This tale, serialized as "Sea Gangsters," involves a mutinous voyage around Cape Horn. London hoped to explain his own "Snark" voyage's failure by laying the blame on Anglo-Saxons' problems with the tropics (per the theories.....
New York: The Century Company, 1913. 1 page undated ads. Original blue-grey cloth decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of ten short stories. In addition to the title story, the volume includes "The Madness of John Harned," "Bunches of Knuckles" and "To Kill a Man." This was the.....
New York: The Century Company, 1913. 1 page undated ads. Original blue-grey cloth decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of ten short stories. In addition to the title story, the volume includes "The Madness of John Harned," "Bunches of Knuckles" and "To Kill a Man." This was the.....
Illustrated by Gordon Grant. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915. 6 pp undated ads. Original maroon cloth decorated in orange and yellow. First Edition of this unusual tale actually written some time earlier, at about the same time as SMOKE BELLEW and THE NIGHT-BORN. He had just abandoned a book.....
Illustrated by P. J. Monahan. New York: The Century Co, 1912. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in black and cream. First Edition of this loosely-connected series of tales about a tenderfoot journalist who goes to the Klondike in search of gold and, in his efforts to prove himself to the.....
With Frontispiece. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. 6 pp undated ads. Original light blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this collection of seven socialistic tales. Two of them, "The Dream of Debs" and "South of the Slot," he had written years earlier just after the San Francisco.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. 5 pp undated ads. Original mauve cloth pictorially decorated in black and orange. First Edition, which consisted of 5914 copies -- far fewer than many of London's earlier works. Jack spent most of 1915 and early 1916 on two extended trips to Hawaii, and.....
An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. Selected from Twenty-Five Languages Covering a Period of Five Thousand Years. Edited by Upton Sinclair. With an Introduction by Jack London. Illustrated with Reproductions of Social Protest in Art. New York City and Pasadena California: published by Upton Sinclair, n.d.[1937?]. Original maroon.....
With an Introduction by Jack London. Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1911. 12 pp undated ads. Original tan cloth decorated in red and black. First Edition, first impression (so stated). "The Black Cat" was a periodical, headed by Umbstaetter, to which unknown writers were invited to submit anonymous stories. To.....
and Other Stories. London: Constable & Co., (1924). Original grey cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition, second and usual issue (a very few copies, once pegged at 34 in number, were first issued without the "First Published, 1924" on the title page verso). This posthumous collection of 25 stories includes.....
Or The Skeleton in the Cupboard. London: William Heinemann, (1930). Original blue cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition of perhaps his [Maugham's] best novel, a witty and delicious comedy of literary England in the early decades of the 20th century, told in the first person by a novelist, Ashenden. The pushing.....
London: William Heinemann, (1930). Original blue cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition of perhaps his best novel, a witty and delicious comedy of literary England in the early decades of the 20th century, told in the first person by a novelist, Ashenden. The pushing and self-advertising novelist Alroy Kear wants to.....
A Romance. London: William Heinemann, (1948). Original red cloth lettered in silver, with dust jacket. First Edition of Maugham's last novel, published two months before the American one. Set in Spain during the Inquisition, it told of a crippled girl to whom the Blessed Virgin appears in a vision. She will.....
A Novel. London / Toronto: William Heinemann, (1944). Original dark blue cloth, with dust jacket. First English Edition of one of Maugham's major novels. W. Somerset Maugham turns to a religious theme and tells the story of a young American's quest for a faith. In Larry Darnell he has created one.....
A Novel. London / Toronto: William Heinemann, (1944). Original dark blue cloth, with dust jacket. First English Edition (about four months after the American) of one of Maugham's major novels. It is the story of a former American World War I fighter pilot who, suffering from what we would today.....
London: William Heinemann, (1931). Original blue cloth, with dust jacket. First English Edition (published a month after the American one) of this collection of six tales. They were set in England and on the Continent. Maugham meant to show that his countrymen could misbehave at home just as well as in.....
London: Methuen & Co., (1931). Original oatmeal cloth with green panels, with dust jacket. First Edition (of Milne's first attempt at seriously tackling the novel form, according to the jacket). It is a study, almost stream-of-consciousness style, of a marriage between two people who have virtually nothing in common, other.....
Stories of a Case of Tokay. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1904. Original blue cloth pictorially stamped in white and light green. First Edition of this tale of murder and intrigue in India -- featuring detective Harvey Crook and the theft of the Eye of Deccan, the green diamond belonging to the.....
Being some further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt: Investigator. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1903. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in red, white and black. First Edition of these six "further chronicles" of cases solved by Martin Hewitt, Investigator -- the fourth and final such volume. These are the cases "of Samuel's Diamonds,".....
A Story of Chicago. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903. Original red cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition, first printing (with the J.J. Little device and "First Edition" on the copyright page). This was the second volume in Norris's planned trilogy on human suffering and sacrifice, "The Epic of.....
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1908. 32 pp ads dated Autumn 1908. Original blue cloth. First Edition of "these further exciting incidents in the life of the Scarlet Pimpernel during the French Revolution after the King's death" -- the sequel to Baroness Orczy's THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (play 1903, novel 1905) and.....
Illustrated by H.M. Brock. London: Greening & Co., 1909. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in red, black and peach. First Edition of this loosely-connected collection of murder mysteries. The unnamed old man in the corner was the world's first "armchair detective," precursor to Nero Wolfe, who solved mysteries without ever.....
London: Cassell and Company, (1924). Original medium-red cloth lettered in black, with (slightly later) pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. Of the eighteen "Scarlet Pimpernel" titles written by Baroness "Emmuska" Orczy, this was about in the middle in order of publication (from THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL in 1905 to MAM'ZELLE GUILLOTINE in.....
His Memoirs, by his Confidential Clerk. London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1928]. Original light blue cloth. First Edition of this collection of twelve murder mysteries, featuring detective Patrick Mulligan (aka "Skin o' My Tooth"). In this volume, the Baroness is clearly trying the path blazed by Conan Doyle, as the.....
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1922]. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of this tale about Sir Percy Blakeney aka The Scarlet Pimpernel that takes place in 1794, during the Reign of Terror -- 14th among the 18 titles in plot chronology. Robespierre becomes paranoid about the Pimpernel.....
