One 5"x8" printed receipt form, with the date, amount and applicable poems entered by secretarial hand, then signed in full by Stevenson. London: Cassell & Company, 23 December 1885. This receipt acknowledges payment of two guineas to Stevenson for "the use of my Poem entitled 'A Song of the Road'.....
![Item #13968 THE SUICIDE CLUB [and THE RAJAH'S DIAMOND]. Robert Louis Stevenson](/pictures/thumb/13968.jpg?v=1564065626)
New York: George Munro's Sons, n.d. (March 13, 1896 at the top of the front wrapper). 18 pp ads, some dated June 1900. Original tan paper wrappers printed in black. First American edition to consist solely of these two groups of mysterious detective tales, which had originally constituted the first.....
Second Edition. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. 1 page preliminary undated ads. Original green-blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, beveled. First Edition, second printing, of Stevenson's third book, following AN INLAND VOYAGE and EDINBURGH PICTURESQUE NOTES; like the former two, this is something of a travelogue, describing his.....
![Item #14998 TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY IN THE CEVENNES. [inscribed by RLS's mother]. Robert Louis...](/pictures/thumb/14998.jpg?v=1653071078)
[inscribed by Stevenson's mother] London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. 1 page preliminary undated ads. Original green-blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, beveled. First Edition, first printing, which consisted of only 750 copies. This was Stevenson's third book, following AN INLAND VOYAGE and EDINBURGH PICTURESQUE NOTES; like the former.....
![Item #13922 VAILIMA LETTERS [in unbound signatures]. Robert Louis Stevenson](/pictures/thumb/13922.jpg?v=1564065624)
[1/100, in unbound signatures] Being Correspondence addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin. November 1890 - October 1894. In Two Volumes. Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1895. Original folded unbound signatures. First Edition, Large Paper Issue, consisting of 100 numbered copies on John Dickinson & Co. paper -- this copy.....
Being Correspondence addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin November 1890 - October 1894. London: Methuen & Co., 1895. Original pinkish-tan buckram decorated in gilt. First English Edition, domestic issue (with title page in red and black), published about a week after the two-volume Chicago edition. "Vailima" ("five rivers").....
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881. 32 pp ads dated July 1881. Original orange cloth decorated in black, beveled. First Edition, first issue, of Stevenson's first volume of collected essays (which had appeared in periodicals such as The Cornhill during the late 1870s). These essays epitomize Stevenson's early expository.....
London: Chatto and Windus, 1896. 32 pp ads dated Mar 1896. Original very dark blue cloth, beveled. First Edition of Stevenson's last fiction, left unfinished at his death. Stevenson began writing this book in 1892 (he called it THE JUSTICE-CLERK), but kept putting it aside to write others -- notably.....
![Item #13925 THE EBB TIDE [in unbound signatures]. Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne](/pictures/thumb/13925.jpg?v=1564065624)
[in unbound gatherings] A Trio & Quartette. Chicago & Cambridge: Stone & Kimball, 1895. Original unbound folded signatures. First Edition, fourth printing, published on October 5, 1895 (the publishing history is itemized on the copyright page). This copy is still in its printed but unbound state -- in fourteen folded gatherings.....
![Item #13646 MACAIRE [in Stone & Kimball's Chap-Books]. Robert Louis Stevenson, William Ernest Henley](/pictures/thumb/13646.jpg?v=1564065615)
A Melodramatic Farce in Three Acts. In: [two issues of] The Chap-Book Semi-Monthly. Chicago: Stone and Kimball, June 1 & June 15, 1895. Original cream wrappers printed in red and black.. First Trade Appearance (? -- a London appearance came out the same month). The play "Robert Macaire" had been.....
London: H.G. Bohn, 1852. Endpaper ads printed in blue. Original blind-stamped olive-green cloth. Very early English Edition, which is (per the spine gilt) "illustrated by Leech, Gilbert &c" and was priced at "3/6" -- possibly the first UK illustrated edition in book form. Bohn issued a presumably-earlier-in-1852 unillustrated edition, plus.....
[the first English edition] Reprinted verbatim from the tenth American edition. London: Clarke and Co., 1852. Original blind-stamped grey-green cloth with gilt vignettes on the front cover and spine. First English Edition, which includes a four-page Preface "introducing this good book to British readers" -- signed simply by "G". Jewett's.....
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. Original violet-blue cloth. First Edition of Thackeray's last completed novel -- involving a sham marriage, blackmail by a clergyman, a family fortune lost by Philip's father who then fled to America, a fiancée therefore opting for a wealthier rival, and of course, the finding.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1895. Original light green cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of this collection of juvenile tales and verse, published the year after Celia Thaxter's death, and edited (with a brief Preface by) Sarah Orne Jewett. Of the.....
["another unprocurable"] London: J. M. Dent & Sons, (1936). Original grey boards, with dust jacket. First Edition of Thomas's second book, which consisted of only 730 copies. His only earlier book had been EIGHTEEN POEMS, a 1934 issue of 250 copies by the Sunday Referee & Parton Bookshop. After the variously.....
Montpelier [VT]: E.P. Walton and Son, 1835. Original tan muslin embossed with dots. First Edition of Pierce's second book, a tale of romance and buried treasure in the hills of Vermont. Pierce (1795-1868) was an 1820 graduate of Middlebury College who became first a lawyer and then an author, in.....
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881 / 1884 / 1888 / 1892. [Together, four volumes.] Original dark green cloth with facsimile signature in gilt, beveled. First Edition, first printing, of each of Thoreau's "four seasons" edited from his journal by H.G.O. Blake. (It is curious that the four seasons were.....
Edited by H.G.O. Blake. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1884. Original dark green cloth with facsimile signature in gilt, beveled. First Edition, which consisted of only 1260 copies (WALDEN, in comparison, consisted of 2000 copies). This was the second of Thoreau's four "seasons" to be posthumously published from his journal;.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First American (and first one-volume) Edition. This was not generally regarded as one of Trollope's better efforts; the author himself remarked in his autobiography, I do not know that I have ever heard it well spoken of by my friends, and.....
With Illustrations, by H. K. Browne. New York: Harper & Brothers, n.d.[1865]. 2-page terminal list of Harper's Library of Select Novels, ending with #258. Original dark blue-green honeycomb-grain cloth. First American Edition of the first of Trollope's six "Palliser" novels, published in September 1865, the month after the final UK.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. 6 pp undated ads (final three leaves of the last gathering). Original dark purple-red horizontally-ribbed morocco-grain cloth. First American Edition of this novel sited in Ireland during the famine of 1846-1847. The author later wrote of it in his autobiography, This novel... is of itself.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Original "grayish reddish brown" diagonal dot-and-ribbon grain cloth. First Edition (preceding the UK) of these adventures of Harry Clavering, beginning with Julia Brabazon jilting him in favor of a wealthy old debauchee. Trollope himself later recalled that "I consider the story as a whole.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. 4+8 pp terminal ads, undated. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black. First Edition of this schoolbook written by Trollope, issued as the fourth volume in the "Ancient Classics for English Readers" series. As Sadleir explains: since this book was often reprinted without.....
[first Trollope novel in America] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858. 8 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First American Edition of the first Trollope novel published in America. Published in the same year as the London three-decker, this was the third of the six "Barsetshire Novels," centering upon.....
A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. 4 pp preliminary undated ads. Original dark green cloth. First Edition (Harper's one-volume edition was published in October 1872; the London three-decker, dated 1873, came out two months later, in December 1872). This is Trollope's tale about the adventuress Lizzie Greystock --.....
