A Comic Opera. In Two Acts. The Music by John Hullah. London: Richard Bentley, 1836. Bound in full tan calf with gilt paneled spine and leather labels, all page edges gilt. First Edition of Dickens's first play to be published (produced on the stage about two months after his "The... More
Comprising No Thoroughfare and [The Lazy Tour of] Two Idle Apprentices. Boston: William F. Gill & Company, 1876. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition thus (so combined into one volume). These were both collaborations between Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins (brother of Dickens's daughter's husband) -- "The Lazy... More
Private Correspondence. Edited by George Pierce Baker. Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1908. Original grey paper boards with parchment spine and corners, in original two-piece slipcase with spine label. First Edition, limited to 493 copies for Bibliophile Society members only (preceding the so-called "Bixby Edition" of the same year). Maria Beadnell... More
[our finest copy evah] or, The Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz." In Three Volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 4 pp Vol I undated ads; 2 preliminary pp Vol III undated ads. Original purplish-brown fine-diaper cloth. First Edition, first issue, of this classic novel that has also been a hit as... More
In: THE LIBRARY OF FICTION, or Family Story Teller; consisting of Original Tales, Essays, and Sketches of Character. With Fourteen Illustrations [in each volume]. Vol. I [& II]. London: Chapman and Hall, 1836/1837. Bound in contemporary half calf with marbled boards. First Edition in book form. Chapman & Hall's monthly... More
Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896. Original white cloth decorated in gilt with green cloth spine, all page edges gilt. First Edition, which consisted of only 1,000 copies.~Emily [1830-1886] attended Amherst Academy; spent one year (1847-48) at South Hadley Female Seminary (ancestress of Mount Holyoke College); visited... More
London: George Allen & Unwin, (1920). Original blue cloth stamped in black, with dust jacket. First Edition of Dos Passos's first book -- a novel of soldier life during the Great War. After graduation from Harvard in 1916, he volunteered for an American ambulance corps (along with his college friend... More
Two pages, on "Undershaw, Hindhead, Haslemere" stationery. No date, but "Rec'd 10 Mar 1902" is penciled in. The text of the letter reads:~I will call about quarter to 11 on Tuesday morning if that will not be too early. If you should be a little late I can no doubt... More
Two pages, front and back of "Undershaw, Hindhead, Surrey" mourning stationery. No date, but July 1906. The text of this letter (headed by "Private & Confidential") reads:~You may have heard of my great sorrow. My wife passed away this week.~Her illness and death have naturally turned my thoughts from business... More
![Autograph Letter Signed, addressed to "Dear Mr. [Samuel Harden] Church" A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/14063.jpg?v=1527789868)
One page, dated by Doyle "Sept 21 / 94" on stationery on which he wrote "Reform Club." The text of this letter reads:~Among the pleasures which I hope for in the New World is that of making your acquaintance. I trust that my way (which depends upon my agent) may... More
![THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLESTAR and Other Tales [signed by Doyle]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/13932.jpg?v=1509133275)
[inscribed by A. Conan Doyle] Fourth Edition. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892. 24 pp ads dated "6/92". Original maroon cloth lettered on the spine in silver. "Fourth Edition," which is to say the fourth printing of the first edition, issued with its silver stamping (and a frontispiece plate) as... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1927). Original grey cloth lettered in red, with dust jacket. First American Edition of the fifth and last collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures -- twelve cases including those of "the Illustrious Client," "the Mazarin Stone," "the Three Garidebs" and "the Veiled Lodger." After each... More
London New York Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1912]. Original light grey wrappers. First Edition of this unusual Doyle piece, having to do with a murder trial that had taken place in 1909.~Conan Doyle was approached by the defence lawyers who had acted for Oscar Slater, shortly after the trial... More
A Romance of the Unromantic. London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. 32 pp ads dated April 1890. Original maroon cloth decorated in black. First Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's first novel, preceded by several short tales and by the historical MICAH CLARKE. This is a highly autobiographical tale, with good descriptions... More
![THE GREAT BOER WAR [inscribed by Doyle, plus letter]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/14016.jpg?v=1519760215)
[inscribed plus autograph letter] Revised and Enlarged Edition. New York: McClure, Phillips & Company, 1902. Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt. "Revised and Enlarged Edition," which consisted of only 1,005 copies. This was Doyle's first volume of non-fiction: the outbreak of war occupied Doyle's mind so utterly that he... More
[in original glassine] Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1914. Original rose paper-covered boards pictorially decorated in black, with original plain glassine wrapper. First Edition (there was no British edition). Doyle wrote this in 1913 (at which time it appeared in the Fortnightly Review), but it was not published in book... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1926). Original yellow-green cloth, with dust jacket. First American Edition, published two months after the English. This is Doyle's psychic novel, for which he resurrected Professor Challenger (who had journeyed to the land of the dinosaurs in THE LOST WORLD and had faced the... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1926). Original yellow-green cloth, with dust jacket. First American Edition, published two months after the English. This is Doyle's psychic novel, for which he resurrected Professor Challenger (who had journeyed to the land of the dinosaurs in THE LOST WORLD and had faced the... More
![THE LAST GALLEY [colonial]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/14028.jpg?v=1521658427)
Impressions and Tales. With Illustrations. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1911. 6 pp undated ads + 8 pp (printed in brown) undated ads + 12 pp ads dated Jan 1911. Original blind-stamped blue-grey cloth. First Edition, colonial issue, issued as No. 1000 of "Bell's Indian and Colonial Library." This is... More
[in 1911 pictorial jacket - as ne] Impressions and Tales. With Illustrations. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in yellow and black, with dust jacket. First American Edition of this collection of eighteen tales, including several of a science fiction vein. The color... More
![THE LOST WORLD [colonial edition]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/13953.jpg?v=1512587302)
Being an account of the recent amazing adventures of Professor George E. Challenger... London New York Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1912]. Original bright red cloth decorated in gilt and white. First Edition, colonial issue, of Doyle's first Professor Challenger science fiction tale. The exploring party ventures to a lost... More
![THE MARACOT DEEP and Other Stories [colonial edition]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/13955.jpg?v=1512587302)
[a colonial copy, fine in jacket] London: John Murray, (1929). 10 pp undated ads (John Murray), plus 12 pp ads dated January 1929 (Murray's Imperial Library). Original light grey cloth lettered in black, with pictorial dust jacket. First Edition, colonial issue, of the last volume of fiction to be published... More
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. Original black cloth decorated in yellow, with dust jacket. First American Edition of the last volume of fiction to be published during Doyle's lifetime. The title tale is Doyle's great science fiction adventure in which Professor Maracot leads an expedition to the... More
As made to his Three Grandchildren Joseph, Gervas, & Reuben during the Hard Winter of 1734... London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. 2 pp undated ads + 16 pp ads dated January 1889. Original very dark blue cloth, beveled edges. First Edition, consisting of only 1000 copies. This historical novel... More
[in the scarce wrappers] Westminster: A. Constable and Co., 1894. Original grey wrappers lettered in dark blue. First Edition, being the first volume in the publisher's ill-fated "Acme Library" (also issued in blue cloth). This is a suspenseful tale involving mesmeric trances and mind control; as G&G points out, Doyle's... More
