London: Grant Richards, 1899. Original light green cloth decorated in dark green. First Edition, issued as the fourth volume in Grant Richards's diminutive series "The Dumpy Books for Children" -- of which the first three are long-forgotten. The Preface briefly describes how the Scotswoman Helen Bannerman (1863-1946), who married an.....
An Awful Warning to Bad Babas. By the Author of "Little Black Mingo" and "Little Black Quibba." London: James Nisbet & Co., 1903. Original light olive cloth illustrated in black and printed in red. First Edition of the most unusual, and one of the least-known, of Helen Bannerman's eight small-format.....
![Item #15888 LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY. [signed by the author]. Frances Hodgson Burnett](https://sumnerandstillman.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15888.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779903680)
[signed, also with an A.L.s.] New-York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. 14 pp undated ads. Original medium-brown cloth pictorially decorated in red, black and gilt. First Edition, first issue, of this classic tale for children. Though not mentioned on the title page, the book is profusely illustrated by Reginald Birch. The.....
![Item #15766 SHADOWS ON THE ROCK. [1/199 on Japan vellum, signed]. Willa Cather](https://sumnerandstillman.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15766.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1755627095)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Original orange vellum stamped in gilt, edges beveled, with original French-fold cream printed dust jacket. First Edition, limited issue, being #135 of 199 copies signed by Cather, printed on Shidzuoka Japan vellum and bound in orange vellum -- of her historical novel sited in.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. 4 pp undated ads. Original purple cloth. First Edition of Willa Cather's first novel, published near the end of Cather's stint as managing editor of McClure's Magazine. It is about world-renowned bridge-builder Bartley Alexander, his mid-life crisis, and a new bridge with.....
With Many Illustrations. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1915]. Original maroon cloth lettered in gilt with pictorial panel on the front cover, with dust jacket. First Edition, second printing (the first to have a dust jacket) -- of the autobiography of the Irish-American investigative publisher Samuel Sidney McClure --.....
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. 2 pp undated ads. Original olive green cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of Kate Chopin's second (but first obtainable) book, a collection of 23 stories and anecdotes of Louisiana local color. A native of St. Louis, Katherine O'Flaherty (1850-1904) married.....
Chicago: Way & Williams, 1897. Original very dark blue cloth pictorially decorated in green and silver. First Edition of the author's third book, which, like her second book BAYOU FOLK (1894), is a collection of short stories sited in Louisiana bayou country. Katherine O'Flaherty (1850-1904) actually was born and died.....
[the "A" binding, fine] Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. 16 pp undated ads + 4 pp (Carlyle) ads bearing January 1861 reviews. Original blind-stamped cinnamon-brown cloth. First Edition of George Eliot's only single-volume novel ("a short and simple one, but flawlessly fashioned"). SILAS MARNER is a novel of.....
![Item #15858 Autograph Letter Signed ("M E Lewes") to publisher [Nicholas] Trübner, asking for...](https://sumnerandstillman.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15858.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1775586076)
"The Elms | Rickmansworth | July 23 - 75". In purple ink, one page of a bifolium. In 1875, "George Eliot" was Marian (or Mary Ann) Evans Lewes -- Evans being her maiden last name, and Lewes being the last name of the married man she had been living with.....
Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1862. Original blind-stamped dark green cloth, illustrated on the spine in gilt. First Edition of this novel set in, and written during, the American Civil War. It is the best-known, if not only, novel by "Florence Erwin" -- about whom virtually nothing is known. In fact.....
With Illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1904. Original red cloth. First Edition of this tale of the Reconstruction Era -- the author's fifth book, and the concluding volume in a trilogy (following VOICE OF THE PEOPLE of 1900 and THE BATTLE-GROUND of 1902) that.....
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900. Original tan cloth decorated in dark green. First Edition of Ellen Glasgow's third book -- a tale of the Reconstruction Era -- the first volume in a trilogy (followed by BATTLE-GROUND in 1902 and THE DELIVERANCE in 1904) that deals with life in.....
London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d.[1882]. Original glazed pictorial boards with yellow cloth spine. This was the first of Kate Greenaway's fourteen little almanacks -- probably published actually in late 1882. There are 23 pages of charming illustrations in color. This is a very good-plus copy (minor cover soil and.....
London: George Routledge & Sons, n.d.[1885]. Original white morocco-grain boards pictorially decorated in gilt and bordered in dark blue, all edges gilt. This was the fourth of the fourteen Greenaway almanacks, and includes 23 pages bearing her color illustrations. This copy is in the special binding of imitation-morocco white boards.....
[London:] George Routledge & Sons, n.d.[1890]. Original white pictorial boards with yellow cloth spine. This was the ninth of the fourteen almanacks by Kate Greenaway, in the standard binding of white pictorial boards showing a woman with three children, within a border of leaves. There are 22 pages bearing Greenaway.....
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this historical romance sited around and about Hamilton House, the author's home in South Berwick, Maine. It concerns "a young American officer during the Revolution and his conflicting duty to his king.....
London: Constable & Co., (1923). Original brown paper boards with buff cloth spine and red leather spine label, with dust jacket. First Edition of Katherine Mansfield's verse, collected by her husband John Middleton Murry and published just ten months after her death by tuberculosis at age 34. The verse is.....
London and New York: Frederick Warne, (1971). Original white cloth pictorially decorated in color, with matching dust jacket. First Edition, published 28 years after the author / illustrator's death. The Foreword by Leslie Linder explains that Potter wrote this in 1906, and the plan was for it to be a......
Or The Roly-Poly Pudding. London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., n.d. [1926]. Original light red paper-covered boards with front cover pictorial onlay. First Edition so titled (THE ROLY-POLY PUDDING, in a format larger than this, had first come out in 1908). This is Beatrix Potter's sequel to THE TALE OF.....
New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Inc, (1956). Original beige cloth lettered in blue, with dust jacket. First trade edition, first printing, following a 100-copy UK printing in 1955 for copyright purposes. Written in early 1907, this is a story about two pigeons, Mr. Vidler and his wife Amabella --.....
London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1909. Original light brown boards with cover pictorial onlay. First Edition, first state, of the author's fourteenth book, which like her first includes Peter Rabbit and Mr. McGregor. Copies were available to the public in green or light brown paper-covered boards at.....
With Decorations by J.J. Lankes. Boston: The Horn Book, 1944. Original light brown buckram printed in red, with front cover plate, with dust jacket. First American Edition. This edition, and Warne's UK edition, were published shortly after this tale's first appearance in the 20th Anniversary Number of The Horn Book.....
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.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Original red cloth. First Edition of the author's third collection of short stories. The title story is quite appropriate more than a century later: an eminent scientist decides to have a bit of a joke on the general public by publishing a perfect parody of.....
