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... More
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... More
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... More
Written by "Jo" and "Meg" and acted by The "Little Women". Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893. 2 pp preliminary undated ads + 2 pp terminal undated ads. Original mustard cloth decorated in black and gilt. First Edition of this collection of six plays, written and performed by the Alcott sisters when... More
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... More
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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... More
A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice." The Second Edition. London: printed for the Author, by C. Roworth... and published by T. Egerton, 1813. Original light reddish-brown muslin cloth with printed spine labels. "Second Edition" of Jane Austen's first published work, which like the first... More
Or The Last of the Crew. With Illustrations. London: James Nisbet & Co., 1886. 24 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled. First Edition of this boys' tale sited in the Arctic. Per Ballantyne's Preface,~We are too much accustomed to think of Eskimos as... More
Or The Lonely Man of Rakata. A Tale of the Malay Archipelago. With Illustrations by the Author. London: James Nisbet & Co., 1889. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in black, red and gilt, beveled. First Edition of this boys' maritime adventure tale revolving about the violent... More
Or The Refuge of the Mutineers. With Illustrations. London: James Nisbet & Co., 1880. [2]+16 pp undated ads. Original green cloth decorated in black and gilt, beveled. First Edition of this boys' adventure tale sited on Pitcairn Island, subsequent to the mutiny of the Bounty. Beginning with the Ballantyne book... More
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... More
[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... More
New York: Lovell, Coryell & Company, n.d.[1893] (spine of wrapper dated March 1893). Original light brown wrappers decorated in dark brown. First Edition, first state (with the East Tenth Street address on the title page, as opposed to the later 16th Street address). A TILLYLOSS SCANDAL is an unauthorized collection... More
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... More
An Electrical Fairy Tale. Illustrations by F. Y. Cory. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, n.d. [1901]. Original olive green cloth with color plate affixed to front cover. First Edition of this early Baum title, published the year after THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ. The protagonist Rob Joslyn is in fact the... More
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... More
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... More
Illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1902. 12 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth decorated in red, beveled. First Edition of this mystery by the immensely popular Australian writer best known for his dark "Doctor Nikola" tales. This is a bright, near-fine copy. Quayle (Detective... More
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... More
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.... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
[two volumes, original cloth] A Tale. By Currer Bell. In Two Volumes. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1857. 2 pp undated Vol I ads; 8 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated June 1857 Vol II ads. Original blind-stamped greyish-purple cloth. First Edition of Charlotte Brontë's first novel written... More
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... More
