With Nine Illustrations by Henry Holiday. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. Original buff cloth pictorially decorated in black, all page edges gilt. First Edition of this poetical nonsense tale, both funny and subtle, that "describes with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature".....
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black. First "Collectible" Edition of this play first performed in 1851. We say first "collectible" because there are only four known copies of the original 1851 pamphlet; supposedly a fifth, from which Osgood printed this edition, was destroyed.....
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in black. First "Collectible" Edition of this play first performed in 1851. We say first "collectible" because there are only four known copies of the original 1851 pamphlet; supposedly a fifth, from which Osgood printed this edition, was destroyed.....
[1/150 numbered copies] New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. [In Two Volumes.] Original pale blue-grey paper-covered boards with white parchment spine and fore-tips. Large-Paper Edition, consisting of 150 copies on Holland paper, this being copy #96. This is a posthumous collection of often-humorous sketches and poems that Field wrote for.....
Presented by Enoch Morgan's Sons Co., New York. Five Points NY: Donaldson Brothers, n.d. [1877]. Original light blue wrappers decorated in black and sepia. First Edition of this illustrated poem -- quite possibly an earlier state than either of those documented by Blanck. Written as hack-work at a time when.....
[13 serial parts, FINE] An Unfashionable Novel. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. [In thirteen monthly serial parts.] London: Chapman and Hall, March 1857 - March 1858. Original cream-colored printed wrappers. First Edition, complete in the 13 monthly serial parts. Per the sub-title, this is a novel of the London streets.....
Illustrated by F. Opper, of "Puck." New York and Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1884. Original light brown wrappers stamped in black. First Edition of this volume of humor, by a 19th-Century master of that genre. Nye (1850-1896) was born in very rural Maine, he grew up and was educated.....
Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1905. Original red cloth decorated in white and black. First Edition of this volume containing "several of Mark Twain's funniest sketches, all narrating various journalistic experiences of his youth." As noted on the copyright page, each of these tales had appeared earlier.....
New York: Sheldon & Company, n.d. [1871]. Original printed wrappers. First Edition, second state (with the Ball Black & Co. ad on the inside front cover) of this comically-illustrated burlesque. This title was also issued in cloth. This is a near-fine copy (very little wear other than one small corner chip.....
Now First Published in Complete Form. Sold only by Subscription. Hartford, Conn., and Chicago, Ill.: The American Publishing Company, 1875. Original three-quarter morocco with paneled spine and brown cloth boards, all page edges gilt. First Edition, second and usual issue, of this collection of amusing sketches. These sketches are quite.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1897. 32 pp ads dated Sep 1897. Original blind-stamped maroon cloth. First English Edition of the book published in America as FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR ("there is a possibility that this London edition was issued a few days prior to the American edition but the record is.....
London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1891. Original salmon paper-covered flexible boards decorated in dark red. First Edition of this collection of four dark, semi-comic mystery tales. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" is an amusing but macabre tale (if there can be such a thing) about a young man who.....
By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan. London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. Original mauve cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition, consisting of 1000 regular copies (so stated; there were also 100 signed copies on Van Gelder paper, plus twelve signed copies on Japan vellum). This was the fourth and.....
