New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900. Original tan cloth decorated in dark green. First Edition of this tale of the Reconstruction Era -- the first volume in a trilogy (followed by BATTLE-GROUND in 1902 and THE DELIVERANCE in 1904) that deals with life in Virginia from the end of... More
![THE SHOUT [1/530 copies signed]. Robert Graves.](/pictures/thumb/13187.jpg?v=1507051287)
being Number Sixteen of The Woburn Books. London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1929. Original grey paper-covered boards decorated in purple, with dust jacket. First Edition, this being copy #167 of the 530 numbered copies SIGNED by Robert Graves. This book in the "Woburn Books" series is a dark, bizarre, mysterious... More
New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1899. 4 pp undated ads. Original blue-grey cloth decorated in gilt, white and black. First Edition of this mystery. As a convivial group leaves a dance one night, a young man rushes by, muttering "Thank God, this night of horror is over"..... More
New York: McClure, Phillips & Cp., 1900. 6 pp undated ads. Original green cloth decorated in black. First Edition of this mystery by the writer who (beginning with THE LEAVENWORTH CASE in 1878) did so much to establish the popularity of the detective novel in the United States. A wealthy... More
A Novel. New York: Robert Bonner's Sons, n.d. [1890]. 2 pp undated ads. Original light brown cloth decorated in darker brown. First Edition of this mystery, one of Anna Katharine Green's earliest. The narrator is forced by a furious rainstorm to stop and spend the night along the road between... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, n.d. [1905]. Original tan cloth decorated in green and red. First Edition of this mystery, issued as a volume in Bobbs-Merrill's "Pocket Book" series. The narrator stops to spend the night on "a dark and stormy night," in a big house in rural western Pennsylvania --... More
New York / London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893. Original dark blue cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First Edition of this mystery, one of Anna Katharine Green's earlier ones. It starts off:~On the evening of July 13, 1863, two men left their homes, one in Washington and one in Buffalo, under... More
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1901. 3 pp undated ads. Original maroon cloth with facsimile typed letter affixed to the front cover. First Edition of this mystery. The narrator is walking along a Manhattan street when a young girl rushes out of a door to say that... More
With Illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, n.d. [1906]. Original yellow-brown cloth decorated in brown and blue. First Edition of this mystery. At a glamorous ball a handsome stranger suddenly asks the narrator to marry him -- but then appears to be even more interested in the... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d.[1882]. Original glazed pictorial boards with yellow cloth spine. This was the first of Kate Greenaway's fourteen little almanacks -- probably published actually in late 1882. There are 23 pages of charming illustrations in color. This is a very good-plus copy (minor cover soil and... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, n.d.[1885]. Original white morocco-grain boards pictorially decorated in gilt and bordered in dark blue, all edges gilt. This was the fourth of the fourteen Greenaway almanacks, and includes 23 pages bearing her color illustrations. This copy is in the special binding of imitation-morocco white boards... More
[London:] George Routledge & Sons, n.d.[1890]. Original white pictorial boards with yellow cloth spine. This was the ninth of the fourteen almanacks by Kate Greenaway, in the standard binding of white pictorial boards showing a woman with three children, within a border of leaves. There are 22 pages bearing Greenaway... More
London, Paris, New York and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1904. 2 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated Sep 1904. Original red cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this chivalrous romance taking place in the Holy Land at the time of the Crusades. The book is dedicated to... More
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... More
With 20 Illustrations by F. S. Wilson. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895. 24 pp ads dated Aug 1895. Original dark blue-green cloth, beveled. First Edition of this novel about a "shopgirl with a past." It was serialized as THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR, but its title was changed when... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. Original pinkish-brown wrappers. First Edition of this wartime story that had first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863, and would later be collected in Hale's book IF, YES, AND PERHAPS (1868). "Written to inspire patriotism during the Civil War, it was suggested by the... More
![Autograph Letter Signed [to novelist George Manville Fenn]. Thomas Hardy.](/pictures/thumb/13000.jpg?v=1507051285)
[an early literary letter] One leaf folded, with Hardy's own address in his hand "Trinity Road, Upper Tooting S.W." Two pages of text, addressed to "My dear Sir," signed "Yours very truly Thomas Hardy," and dated "Sept. 2" [no year but 1880]. The purpose of this early Hardy letter is... More
![Autograph Letter Signed [to novelist Mrs. Humphry Ward]. Thomas Hardy.](/pictures/thumb/13001.jpg?v=1507051285)
[a lengthy literary letter] One leaf folded, on mourning stationery headed "Max Gate, Dorchester." Four pages of text, addressed to "My Dear Mrs Ward," signed "Yours sincerely, Thomas Hardy," and dated 24 March 1905. This long letter is Hardy's response to his receipt, from Mrs. Humphry Ward, of a copy... More
Concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, (1913). Original dark green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First (American) Edition, published simultaneously with the English one. To quote from Hardy's prefatory note, this is a collection of "for what they may be... More
Concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. 2 pp undated ads. Original dark green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First Edition of this collection of (to quote Hardy's prefatory note) "for what they may be worth, a dozen minor novels" that had previously... More
A Novel. With an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a Map of Wessex. (London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898.) Original dark green cloth with monogram device in gilt. "Wessex Novels" edition, American issue. DESPERATE REMEDIES was Hardy's first novel, first published in 1871 in three volumes; here it... More
A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, in Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, & One Hundred and Thirty Scenes. [In Three Volumes.] London: Macmillan and Co., 1903/1906/1908. Original green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First Editions. During the 1890s Hardy had turned away from fiction, never to return (reeling from the... More
(London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co., 1891.) Original light brown cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this loosely-connected collection of ten stories of "dames," published just before TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES. One of them, "Barbara of the House of Grebe," is considered to represent Hardy at his most... More
A Comedy in Chapters. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1876. Endpaper ads dated May 9, 1876. Original cream cloth decorated in black. First American Edition, issued as a volume in Henry Holt's "Leisure Hour Series." This was Hardy's fifth novel -- following FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD and preceding... More
With an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a Map of Wessex. (London:) James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., (1896). Original dark blue-green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First Edition of Hardy's last great novel, issued as Vol. VIII of "The Wessex Novels." Titled HEARTS INSURGENT at the time of... More
