![THE WANDERINGS OF A SPIRITUALIST [inscribed plus three letters]. A. Conan Doyle](/pictures/thumb/13970.jpg?v=1564065626)
[FOUR signatures of A. Conan Doyl] Illustrated. New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d. [1921]. Original green cloth. First American Edition, issued in the same month as the English edition, and consisting of only 1500 copies. This is Doyle's account of his 1920-1921 missionary tour of Australia and New Zealand.....
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.....
[the leaves still unopened] [In Two Volumes.] London: Strahan & Co., 1871. 4 pp undated Vol I terminal ads; ad slip tipped onto Vol I and Vol II front free endpapers, advertising works by George MacDonald and Robert Buchanan respectively. Original royal blue cloth decorated in black and gilt. First.....
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. First (and only?) appearance of this four-page double-column.....
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.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. Original blue cloth with gilt-decorated spine, with dust jacket. First English Edition, preceded only by the American copyright edition that was issued earlier that year in two wrappered leaflets, and a Paris edition translated into French. The standard binding for this English edition was this.....
[signed by his daughter] New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. 6 pp undated ads. Original reddish-brown cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 3,056 copies -- one of the smallest Jack London first editions. This is a collection of eight pieces, mostly nonfiction, some of which were written as early.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. 3 pp undated ads. Original maroon cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 2,530 copies -- fewer copies than any known printing of all earlier Jack London books except his first book, THE SON OF THE WOLF (2,028 copies). (By contrast, THE CALL OF.....
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.....
Edited by J. Middleton Murry. London: Constable & Co., 1930. Original grey cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition. These are the book reviews Katherine Mansfield wrote for "The Athenaeum" during the years 1919-1920, published here seven years after her death by her widower. This is a fine copy in a......
![APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA [in 8 parts -- plus 3 related pamphlets]:. John Henry Newman](/pictures/thumb/14342.jpg?v=1564065646)
[in original parts, + others] being A Reply to a Pamphlet entitled "What, then, does Dr. Newman mean?". [Complete in eight serial parts -- I through VII plus the Appendix.] London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864. Original buff wrappers printed in black. **With:** Kingsley, Rev. Charles. "WHAT, THEN.....
An Account of the Historic Surrender of Santiago to General Shafter, July 17, 1898. San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1917. Original tan wrappers pictorially decorated in black and orange. First Edition in book form (having originally appeared in The Sun); included is a frontispiece portrait of "Pecos Bill" Shafter.....
being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1857. Original light olive cloth printed with a facsimile of the title page. First Edition. This title was issued as a volume in Smith Elder's "New Cheap Series," and.....
London: Martin Secker, n.d.[1917]. 8 pp undated ads. Original grey paper-covered boards with brown cloth spine and printed spine label. First Edition. This was the first of Sabatini's three series of fictionalized historical events -- followed by other series in 1919 and in 1938. The thirteen episodes all have "The.....
