Authorized Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. 2 pp undated ads. Original yellow wrappers printed in black. First American Edition of this mystery by the noted Scottish novelist, poet and literary critic -- perhaps now best known for the twelve "Fairy Books" for children (1889-1910) that he adapted and.....
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922. Original blue-grey cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of this novel, published about two months before Secker's UK edition. It is the picaresque tale of Aaron Sisson, a flute-playing coal miner -- who abandons his wife and the mines to try to.....
London: Martin Secker, (1923). 6 pp undated ads. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First (English) Edition, which consisted of 3,000 copies. KANGAROO is Lawrence's Australian novel; at one time he expressed the desire to write a novel for each of the world's continents, and he might have.....
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923. Original blue-grey cloth lettered in gilt, with pictorial dust jacket. First (American) Edition, published in the same month as Secker's UK edition, with priority uncertain. KANGAROO is Lawrence's Australian novel; at one time he expressed the desire to write a novel for each of the world's.....
London: Martin Secker, (1923). Original brown cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of this collection of three novellas, published eight months before Seltzer's American edition that was titled THE CAPTAIN'S DOLL: Three Novelettes. All three involve relationships during (and affected by) the waning months of the Great.....
London: Martin Secker, (1926). 4 pp undated ads. Original chocolate brown cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition of this 476-page novel sited in Mexico. Lawrence began it in 1923 when he and Frieda lived on Lake Chapala near Guadalajara; they returned to Oaxaca in 1924-1925 so that he could complete.....
London: Martin Secker, (1925). Original brown cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition, in the usual primary state (chocolate-brown cloth, with the error on the Contents page); Knopf's American edition, published two weeks later, did not include "The Princess." The heroine of ST. MAWR abandons her husband and post-war England and.....
Florence: G. Orioli, 1930. Original cream paper boards decorated in orange-red, with printed spine label, with dust jacket. First Edition (issued as No. 4 in the publisher's "Lungarno Series"), consisting of 810 numbered copies -- of which this is No. 743. Lawrence had actually written this back in late 1925.....
New York: Duffield & Company, 1911. Original light blue-grey cloth decorated in white and black and with lettering in white. First Edition of D.H. Lawrence's first book, which he began in 1906 (at age 20) and rewrote several times; it is the tale of a love triangle, between Laetitia (DHL's.....
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[800 pages -- fine] With a Memoir by Alfred Perceval Graves. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1880. Original royal blue cloth decorated in black and lettered in gilt. First Edition. Although this is a posthumous collection (Le Fanu died in 1873), these are actually some of his earliest writings, written.....
With Illustrations by Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall, 1852. Front endpaper of Vol II printed with Chapman & Hall ads. Original blind-stamped rose-brown cloth. First Edition in book form of this tale of "the downside of an irresponsible lifestyle when one enters middle age. The picaresque hero has now become.....
With Illustrations by "Phiz." London: Chapman and Hall, 1856. Original blind-stamped green cloth. First Edition in book form, following publication in monthly serial parts. [This novel] depicts the fall of a Connemara estate in the period between Catholic Emancipation (1829) and the Great Famine (1845-1849)... Even as he asserts that the.....
Edited by Charles Lever (Harry Lorrequer). With Numerous Illustrations on Steel by Phiz. [In Two Volumes.] Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Co. [etc.], 1844. Original light grey-green paper-covered boards with red cloth spines, with printed spine labels. First Edition in book form (after serial parts) of this early Charles Lever.....
Illustrated by Phiz. London: Chapman & Hall, 1845. Original grey-green cloth decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of this children's book -- "It was on the 16th of March, the eve of St. Patrick, not quite twenty years ago..." -- modeled on the Christmas books of Charles.....
Illustrations by W. Herbert Dunton and J. N. Marchand. New York: G. W. Dillingham Company, (1913). 4 pp undated ads. Original red cloth. First Edition of the sixth and last volume of Southwestern tales sited in Lewis's fictional town of "Wolfville" -- following WOLFVILLE (1897), SANDBURRS (1900), WOLFVILLE DAYS (1902).....
[in the 1808 original boards] London: Printed by D.N. Shury... for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. Original grey-brown paper-covered boards with purple cloth spines and printed spine labels. First Edition of this collection of Gothic tales of the macabre, which Matthew Gregory Lewis adapted from original German, French and.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1925]. Original dark blue cloth lettered in orange. First Trade Edition, preceded only by a 500-copy limited edition. This was the third of Lewis's great novels of the decade, after MAIN STREET and BABBITT and before ELMER GANTRY and DODSWORTH. ARROWSMITH won the Pulitzer.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1922]. Original dark blue cloth lettered in orange. First Edition, first issue, of the second of Lewis's five great satires of the 1920s (following MAIN STREET, and followed by ARROWSMITH, ELMER GANTRY and DODSWORTH). George Follansbee Babbitt, an enterprising, moral, stereotyped, and prosperous real estate.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1929). Original dark blue cloth lettered in orange. First Edition of the fifth and last of Lewis's great novels of the 1920s -- preceded by MAIN STREET, BABBITT, ARROWSMITH and ELMER GANTRY. In these novels, Lewis savagely mocked the provincialism, conformism and hypocrisy he saw.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1927]. Original dark blue cloth lettered in orange. First Edition of Lewis's scathing satire about a fraudulent itinerant preacher (shades of Bakker and Swaggart!) -- since immortalized on the screen by Burt Lancaster. This was the fourth of Lewis's five great novels of the.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. Original medium-blue cloth lettered in orange. First Edition of the book that brought fame to Sinclair Lewis -- the first of his five great novels of the 1920s (followed by BABBITT, ARROWSMITH, ELMER GANTRY and DODSWORTH). Carol Milford, a girl of quick intelligence but.....
Illustrated [with photographs]. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in gilt. First Edition, third printing (the first two were in 1915 and 1916). This is the log that Charmian maintained when she and Jack cruised to the South Seas in 1907-1908. The front free endpaper.....
New York: The Century Company, 1913. 1 page undated ads. Original light green cloth decorated in dark green and black, with dust jacket. First Edition of London's prizefighting tale about "a white backwoods giant who would rather read Browning than slug his opponents" [Sinclair], prompted by his coverage of the.....
With Numerous Illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. 4 pp undated ads. Original light brown cloth decorated in brown and lettered in red and white. First Edition of this odd novel written several years earlier, not long after THE CALL OF THE WILD, during London's.....
As Chosen by Franklin K. Mathiews, Chief Scout Librarian, Boy Scouts of America. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. Original light green-grey cloth. First Edition of this selection of a dozen earlier-published Jack London tales, published four years after his death -- chosen for their appropriateness for reading by boy.....
