London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 2 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped blue cloth. First Edition of Dickens's account of his 1844 tour of Italy. His description of the coaching trips which took him from place to place for five months is full of wonderful observations of his fellow-men... His account of.....
With Vignette Illustrations on Wood by Samuel Palmer. London: Published for the Author by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 2 pp undated preliminary ads plus 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth. First Edition of Dickens's account of his 1844 tour of Italy. His description of the coaching trips which took him.....
New-York: Wiley & Putnam, 1846. Original blind-stamped red cloth. First Complete American Edition, issued as No. LXIII in Wiley & Putnam's "Library of Choice Reading" -- available either in wrappers on its own, or bound in red cloth together with Mrs. Jameson's MEMOIRS AND ESSAYS, as here. During 1846 seven.....
at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Wednesday, June 27, 1855. London: Effingham Wilson, 1855. Original printed self-wrappers. First Edition of this speech Dickens gave to the Administrative Reform Association. Dickens was a founding member of this organization that lambasted the government for its indifference to the plight of the common.....
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, n.d. [1861]. Without original wrappers. First American Edition of THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELER. "A Message from the Sea" was the All The Year Round Extra Christmas Number at the end of 1860; the pieces that formed THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER (so spelled in England) appeared there too.....
Private Correspondence. Edited by George Pierce Baker. Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1908. Original grey paper boards with parchment spine and corners, in original two-piece slipcase with spine label. First Edition, limited to 493 copies for Bibliophile Society members only (preceding the so-called "Bixby Edition" of the same year). Maria Beadnell.....
Edited by "Boz." With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. In Two Volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 36 pp undated Vol II ads. Original pink cloth embossed with flowers, with gilt-decorated spines. First Edition of this early Dickens piece, worked on after OLIVER TWIST and before NICHOLAS NICKLEBY -- during the time.....
[in original glassine] Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1914. Original rose paper-covered boards pictorially decorated in black, with original plain glassine wrapper. First Edition (there was no British edition). Doyle wrote this in 1913 (at which time it appeared in the Fortnightly Review), but it was not published in book.....
With Sixteen Illustrations. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1907. 6 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with cover vignette in gilt. First Edition of this group of literary essays, written as wanderings about the library in the Doyle home (which is shown in the frontispiece photograph). "Through the Magic Door" gives.....
New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d. [1919]. Original grey-green cloth printed in black, with dust jacket. First American Edition of this sequel of sorts to THE NEW REVELATION, on the subject of spiritualism -- "one sees more clearly and broadly what our new relations with the Unseen may be,".....
London: Central Committee for National Patriotic Organizations, n.d. [1915]. Original light brown wrappers. First Edition. This propaganda pamphlet, describing the Germans' treatment of British prisoners of war, was circulated in an effort to win over countries remaining neutral. Included are many specific examples. Doyle observes in his Foreword, Never again in.....
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1924]. Original navy blue cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 2,000 copies (priced at a steep 20 shillings). MEMORIES AND ADVENTURES consists of 32 autobiographical musings -- from memories of Doyle's boyhood, to "Sidelights on Sherlock Holmes," to wartime recollections, to "The Psychic Quest" --.....
The Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture. Harvard University. November 21, 1950. London: Faber & Faber, (1951). Original red cloth, with dust jacket. First English Edition, published about six months after the one by the Harvard University Press. This is a fine copy, in a dust jacket that is very good (one.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. [In Two Volumes.] Original pale blue paper-covered boards with white parchment spine and fore-tips. Large-Paper Edition, consisting of 150 copies on Holland paper, this being copy #96. This is a posthumous collection of generally-humorous pieces Field wrote for the Chicago Daily News, in his.....
Being His Commonplace Book for 1898. With 2 Maps and 36 Illustrations by G. Leon Little. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. 32 pp ads dated Sep 1898. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition, which consisted of 3000 copies. This was Haggard's second volume of non-fiction (his.....
Reveries and Studies in New Japan. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. 2 pp undated ads. Original yellow cloth decorated in silver. First Edition, first printing (with the leaves bulking 1-1/8 inches, and with the preliminary and terminal ads as indicated by Blanck). This is a collection.....
Literary Reminiscences, Methods of Work, and Advice to Young Beginners, personally contributed by Leading Authors of the Day. Compiled and Edited by George Bainton. London: James Clarke & Co., 1890. 8 pp ads dated "1/6/90". Original royal blue cloth decorated in black and gilt. First Edition of this compendium of.....
[the only appearance?] Published Weekly. Vol LII / No. 2713. New York: Thursday, November 29, 1900 ("the last Thanksgiving of the nineteenth century"). 20 pp preliminary ads (paginated i-xx), plus 16 pp terminal ads (paginated xxi-xxxvi). Original white wrappers stamped in yellow-orange. Early appearance (apparently the first outside of several.....
and Other Papers, Now First Collected. New York: G. P. Putnam & Co., 1855. 12 pp ads dated Feb 1855. Original grey-green cloth with front cover vignette in gilt. First American Edition, issued several weeks after the London one. This collection of papers includes Irving's observations on the Seminoles, the.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. Original olive-brown cloth. First American Edition, which consisted of 2000 copies and was published one day after Dent's London edition. Novelists covered by James include Robert Louis Stevenson, Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Honore de Balzac and George Sand. This was one of several James.....
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1893. Original dark green cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this collection of seven literary essays, issued as a volume in the "Harper's American Essayists" series. There was no corresponding English edition. This copy is in the primary, elaborately-gilt binding (there were also four.....
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884. Original chocolate brown cloth. First American Edition, which consisted of 1500 copies printed from the plates of Macmillan's London edition, issued a month earlier. The "places" portrayed are on the Continent, in England and in North America. This copy is in chocolate brown cloth.....
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. One preliminary page undated ads. Original green cloth, beveled. First Edition of Henry James's second book, which consisted of either 1500 (per E&L) or 1578 (per Blanck) copies. Published in the same year as his first (A PASSIONATE PILGRIM), this is a collection.....
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. One preliminary page undated ads. Original terra-cotta cloth, beveled. First Edition of Henry James's second book, which consisted of either 1500 (per E&L) or 1578 (per Blanck) copies. Published in the same year as his first (A PASSIONATE PILGRIM), this is a collection.....
Edited and Compiled from their Diaries and Papers. [In Two Volumes.] Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Original black cloth with Irish Guards star in gilt and printed spine label, with dust jackets. First American Edition of this exhaustive narrative of the experience of the Irish Guards during.....
