With Engravings by Baker from Designs by Billings. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. Original grey-green blind-stamped cloth with gilt-decorated spine. First Edition, first printing, of this collection of six children's tales adapted from Greek myths. The tales are "The Gorgon's Head," "The Golden Touch," "The Paradise of Children," "The.....
A Christmas and New Year's Present. Edited by S. G. Goodrich. Boston: Carter and Hendee, 1830. Original red watered silk lettered in gilt, all page edges gilt. One of the very earliest appearances in print of Nathaniel Hawthorne -- if it truly is by Hawthorne. His first book, FANSHAWE, had.....
A Memory of Last Island. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889. 4 pp undated ads. Original salmon cloth decorated in brown and black. First Edition of Hearn's third book, following STRAY LEAVES (1884) and SOME CHINESE GHOSTS (1887). During the summer of 1884, while living in New Orleans, Hearn had.....
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.....
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1900. 4 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth pictorially decorated in light blue and lighter blue. First Edition of this collection of nine tales from Japan, written by Hearn when he was "Lecturer on English Literature in The Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan" (per the.....
Stories. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884. Original dark royal blue cloth decorated in black. First Edition of Hearn's first book (other than an 1882 translation of Gautier). This was Hearn's attempt to reconstruct "fantastically beautiful stories from the exotic literature which fascinated him" [OCAL]. Born in the Ionian Islands.....
The Story of a West-Indian Slave. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. 2 pp undated ads. Original white cloth decorated in blue, with cover and spine label. First Edition of this novel, Hearn's fifth book. Both YOUMA and his fourth, TWO YEARS IN THE FRENCH WEST INDIES (also 1890), were.....
Further Stories of the Four Million. New York: The McClure Company, 1908. 1 page undated ads. Original red cloth. First Edition, first printing (with only the endpaper following the ad leaf), first binding (with "McClure" rather than "Doubleday, Page & Co." at the foot of the spine). This was O......
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. Early appearance (apparently the first outside of several.....
A Tale of the Civil War. Illustrated. London: Griffith & Farran, 1883. 32 pp ads dated Sept 1883. Original pictorial brown cloth. First Edition of this early Henty boys' tale taking place during the English Civil War. According to Newbolt (and to the printer's code on the title verso), 3000.....
London: Ernest Nister, n.d. [1912]. Original color-pictorial paper-covered boards with blue-grey cloth spine. Early appearance of this Henty tale, in this Nister book for children, printed in Bavaria. Nister had already included "Little Mistress Valentia" in his IN THE CHIMNEY CORNER of 1899 and in his Holiday Annual of 1905;.....
London: Gall and Inglis, n.d. [1911]. Original green cloth with pictorial spine, with front cover illustration onlay. Second (and first one-volume) Edition of Henty's first book. Agnes Ashleigh is unexpectedly bequeathed a fortune -- but the two sisters of her benefactor have other ideas... A SEARCH FOR A SECRET was.....
A Series of New and Original Tales for Boys and Girls from Six to Fourteen Years Old. London: Skeffington & Son, 1889. 3 pp undated ads. Original light green cloth pictorially decorated in green, black and pale yellow. First Edition. This is an anthology of nineteen "new and original" children's.....
A Tale of Two Sieges of Paris. London: F. V. White & Co., 1895. 16 pp undated ads (paginated as the end of the book). Original rose-mottled cloth. First Edition. This is one of Henty's historical tales for adults, rather than for boys, which is why it is not published.....
A Tale of the Peninsular War. With Eight Illustrations by John Proctor and Eleven Plans of Battles. London: Griffith Farran & Co., n.d. Original aqua blue cloth pictorially decorated in black, green and red, all page edges gilt. Early edition of Henty's third book for boys -- an edition not.....
From "Orange and Green." [Dublin/Belfast?:] The Educational Company of Ireland, n.d. Original rose paper-covered boards lettered in black. First Edition, later issue, of the last "book written by Henty" to be cited in Newbolt -- though actually it is a section of his earlier historical novel sited in Ireland, ORANGE.....
Being a Set of Twelve Stories by [twelve different authors] with Twelve Illustrations by [twelve different illustrators]. London: Blackie and Son, 1894. Original dark blue cloth decorated in orange and green. First Edition of this anthology of twelve original tales (for adults) accompanied by twelve illustrations. Henty's contribution is "A.....
A Collection of Short Original Stories for Children. London: Skeffington and Son, 1893. Original light blue paper-covered boards decorated in white, pink, green and black. First Edition of this anthology of 18 "short original stories for children" by 13 different authors of the day -- including G. A. Henty ("The.....
[a Henty rarity] By Archibald Forbes, George Henty and Charles Williams. New York: Ward, Lock and Co., 1889. Printed light brown wrappers. First Edition (American issue) of "probably the rarest of all Henty items" (quote from Sotheby's, February 1972, when the last copy appeared at auction -- it sold for.....
Three pages (of a four-page folded leaf), with the handwritten heading "Artillery Mansions | Victoria Street S.W.", dated Oct 24, 1900. The text of this letter reads: Thanks for yr. kind letter. I should very much like to write something for "The Anglo-Saxon," but I am so overwhelmed with work this.....
With Photogravure Frontispiece by S. W. van Schaick. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. 12 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth decorated in silver and gilt. First American Edition of this collection of eight loosely-connected tales of adventure ("Count Antonio and the Wizard's Drug," "Count Antonio and the.....
London: Methuen and Co., 1895. 32 pp ads dated Sept 1895. Original blue-grey cloth. First Edition of this collection of eight loosely-connected tales of adventure ("Count Antonio and the Wizard's Drug," "Count Antonio and the Sacred Bones," etc.). This is a fine copy (corners slightly bumped), with the cover gilt.....
London: Methuen & Co., 1899. 40 pp ads dated Sept 1899. Original blue-grey cloth. First Edition of this novel, told in the first person by the king himself. This is a remarkably fine copy -- a few little bumps to the edges but unusually clean and bright. NCBEL III 1059.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. Original brown cloth blocked in white. First American Edition of this early Hornung collection of eleven imaginative tales, including "The Widow of Piper's Point," "The Magic Cigar" and "A Spin of the Coin." This book came out the year before Hornung created his most.....
