50 variant-colored volumes of 25 titles (of 29). Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893-1896. Original terra-cotta or light blue or light green cloth, decoratively stamped in dark green. Beginning with "George Egerton's" 1893 novel KEYNOTES, for which the series would be named, John Lane of London published, over the course of five.....
With Twenty-Four [Photographic] Illustrations and a Map. London: Methuen & Co., (1913). 32 pp ads Dated July 1912. Original blue-green cloth. First Edition of this early account of traveling through the Lake District by way of that new-fangled contraption, the motorcar. Fourteen sightseeing routes are described in detail -- including.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1873. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in blind and gilt. First Edition of Alcott's first full-fledged novel for adults, in which she portrays the difficulties and rewards of 21-year-old Christie Devon leaving home to make her own way (and WORK) in the real world. The book "describes in.....
[first book, written at age 16] Boston: George W. Briggs & Co., 1855. Original blind-stamped medium-brown cloth with front cover pictorial vignette in gilt. First Edition of Louisa May Alcott's first book, actually published at the end of 1854. Illustrated with a total of six plates (including frontispiece), this is.....
Illustrated. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, n.d. [1899]. Original yellow cloth pictorially decorated in black and green, with pictorial dust jacket. First Separate Edition. This is the first of eleven Alcott stories for girls that Little Brown published (with illustrations) during the years 1899-1904, more than a decade after her.....
Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. 4 pp preliminary undated ads. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. First American Edition, published about two weeks after the London one. This is Louisa May Alcott's sequel to her vastly-successful book for children LITTLE WOMEN (two volumes, 1868-1869), in.....
Illustrated. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, n.d. [1899]. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and yellow, with pictorial dust jacket. First Separate Edition. This is the second of eleven Alcott stories for girls that Little Brown published (with illustrations) during the years 1899-1904, more than a decade after her.....
New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1859. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First Edition of this very early Aldrich volume, his fourth -- after THE BELLS (1855), DAISY'S NECKLACE (1857) and THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE (1858). The title verse is "the poem of a little life that was but three Aprils.....
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A Hill-Top Novel. London: John Lane / New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. 14 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated 1895. Original olive green cloth decorated in beige. First Edition of "this fantasy about British society and morality, seen through the eyes of a man who has.....
An Awful Warning to Bad Babas. By the Author of "Little Black Mingo" and "Little Black Quibba." London: James Nisbet & Co., 1903. Original light olive cloth illustrated in black and printed in red. First Edition of the most unusual, and one of the least-known, of Helen Bannerman's eight small-format.....
[with letter from Cynthia Asquith] London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1928. Original blue-grey cloth with cover and spine labels, with dust jacket. First Edition of Barrie's famous play featuring Peter Pan and Tinker Bell, the Darling children and Nana, and of course Captain Hook and Smee. "Peter Pan" first turned up.....
With an Introduction by Al. G. Spalding of the Chicago Base Ball Club. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1884. 1 page undated ads (for Spalding baseball goods). Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled. First Edition of "the first novel devoted exclusively to baseball" [Grobani.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, n.d.[1896]. [Twenty posters, each 7-3/4" x 5-5/8", plus a slightly larger title panel (probably the front panel of what was originally an envelope).] Beginning with "George Egerton's" 1893 novel KEYNOTES, for which the series would be named, John Lane of London published, over the course of five.....
An Impressionist Novel. Frontispiece by Aubrey Beadsley. London: Elkin Mathews, 1896. 20 pp ads dated 1895-96. Original dark blue cloth decorated in light blue and lettered in bronze. First Edition, which consisted of 1000 copies. This copy is of the second and usual issue, with the so-called "Portrait of the.....
San Francisco | New York: Western Authors Publishing Company, 1892. Original blind-stamped light grey cloth, beveled. First Edition of Bierce's first volume of verse, published the year after his most famous book, TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS. There are about 150 short poems (which he terms "beetles"), mostly gleaned from.....
San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1909. Original brown cloth decorated in black, with dust jacket. First Edition. Per the author's note, "It was expected that this book would be included in my 'Collected works' now in course of publication, but unforeseen delay in the date of publication has made this impossible.".....
San Francisco: Henry Keller & Co., 1877. Original green cloth, beveled. First Trade (and generally the first obtainable) Edition of this very early (and very amusing) Bierce piece, which was preceded only by the three 1873-1874 titles written by "Dod Grile." The "dance of death" is none other than the.....
Illustrated by Theodor Hampe. Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Company, 1892. 2 pp undated ads. Original mottled light brown cloth stamped in black. First Edition of this tale purportedly derived from an old German manuscript -- a tale involving an illicit relationship between a monk Ambrosius and a local girl Benedicta.....
Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1899. Original red cloth decorated in black and white, First Edition of this collection of 21 tales, some of a fantastical nature. This book is today collected primarily for its binding, designed by Will Bradley; its second strongest appeal is as.....
A Drama in a Mixed Manner. London: Edward Bumpus, 1890. Original grey wrappers lettered in black. First Edition of this drama in verse form, issued as "No. v" in Bumpus's series "Plays by Robert Bridges." This copy is in wrappers, with all edges untrimmed. It is in fine condition, with.....
A Tragedy in Five Acts in a Mixed Manner. London: Edward Bumpus, 1890. Original grey wrappers lettered in black. First Edition of this drama in verse form, issued as "No. iv" in Bumpus's series of Bridges's plays. This copy is bound in wrappers, with all edges untrimmed; Colbeck cites a......
A Comedy in Three Acts. London: George Bell & Sons, and J. & E. Bumpus, n.d. [1893]. Original grey wrappers lettered in black. First Edition of this play in verse form, issued as "No. vi" in Bumpus's series "Plays by Robert Bridges." The first one had been issued in 1885.....
A Romantic Drama in Five Acts in the Elizabethan Manner. London: Edward Bumpus, 1890. Original grey-tan wrappers printed in black. First Edition, issued as "No. ii" in Bumpus's series of plays by Bridges (the first play had been NERO Part I, in 1885). This copy is in wrappers, with all.....
A Drama in Five Acts in a Mixed Manner. London: Edward Bumpus, 1890. Original grey wrappers printed in black. First Edition of this play in verse form, issued as "No. iii" in Bumpus's series of Bridges's plays. This copy is in wrappers, with all edges untrimmed (Colbeck cites a copy.....
By Currer Bell. In Three Volumes. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1853. 16 pp Vol I ads dated March 1854. Original blind-stamped olive-brown cloth. First Edition of Charlotte Brontë's last novel written (THE PROFESSOR was published later, posthumously, but had been her first novel written -- rejected by the publisher.....
