Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1912. 4 pp undated ads plus 64 pp ads dated March 1912. Original dark grey cloth. First Edition of this collection of ten "tales and fancies," each preceded by an original poem; some of the tales are supernatural -- of which two, "Space".....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902. 32 pp ads dated "2/02". Original blue cloth lettered in white and pictorially decorated in orange, black and white. First Edition, first printing, first state -- of one of Buchan's earliest and scarcest fiction titles, and one of his creepiest. It is.....
[one of only about five copies] With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel. Sixtieth Thousand. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. 4 pages undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. This is one of only a handful of known copies of the suppressed 1893 "Sixtieth Thousand" printing.....
["To Boys & Christina"] New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in black, orange and gilt. First Edition, pre-publication state, of the first collaboration between Conrad and Hueffer -- a tale that combines science fiction with political satire, somewhat in the same vein as had.....
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in black, orange and gilt. First Edition of the first collaboration between Conrad and Hueffer -- a tale that combines science fiction with political satire, somewhat in the same vein as had recently been popularized by H. G......
["Early Copy for Review"] London: William Heinemann, 1901. 32 pp undated ads. Original yellow cloth decorated in black. First English Edition, first issue, first binding state. The UK edition was issued a month after the American one, and consisted of 1,500 copies in two issues and three bindings. This was.....
London: William Heinemann, 1901. 32 pp undated ads. Original yellow cloth decorated in black. First English Edition, second issue (with the dedication leaf present), first binding state. This was Conrad's only science fiction title, involving people from The Fourth Dimension -- though the work is largely Hueffer's. The "I" narrator is.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. 8 pp undated ads. Original grey cloth decorated in gilt. First American (and first illustrated) Edition. This is a suspenseful tale involving mesmeric trances and mind control. As G&G points out, Doyle's interest in this subject can be traced back to the time when.....
New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d.[1919]. Original grey-green cloth, with dust jacket. First American Edition of this sequel of sorts to THE NEW REVELATION, on the subject of spiritualism -- Doyle's new focal point after losing his son Kingsley in 1918 and his brother Innes earlier in 1919; "one.....
[1 of 250 copies signed] With Ten Illustrations in Photogravure by S.H. Sime. London & New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. Original orange-ochre cloth with vellum spine and orange suede spine label. Limited Signed Edition, this being copy #90 of 250 -- signed by Dunsany at the end of his.....
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1894. Original apple-green cloth pictorially decorated in dark green and gilt. First Edition of Laurence Housman's first book, a collection of twelve fairy tales he wrote and illustrated. He subsequently produced three similar collections of fairy tales (the illustrations of which were engraved.....
[H.M. Brock's copy] Engraved by Clemence Housman. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1898. 6+ pp undated ads. Original apple-green cloth pictorially decorated in dark green and gilt. First Edition. This was the third of Laurence Housman's four books of original fairy tales; the two earlier ones (same publisher.....
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1895. Original apple-green cloth pictorially decorated in dark green and gilt. First Edition of Housman's second book -- following his similar-content and similarly-bound A FARM IN FAIRYLAND of 1894 -- a collection of eight fairy tales written and illustrated by him, and with.....
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1847. 4+32+1 pp Vol I ads dated January 1847. Original drab boards with purple ribbed cloth spines and printed spine labels, title pages printed in black and red. First Edition of this supernatural tale about the goings-on in a haunted castle -- with the opening.....
Illustrated by the Author. London: Tower Publishing Company, 1895. 2 pp undated ads. Original grey-green cloth pictorially decorated in black and orange. First Edition of the first of Jane's scientific romances -- visions of future war, fought with future ships and aircraft. Not only is the book by Jane, but.....
[tattoos and flying machines!] Authorized Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. 2 pp undated ads. Original yellow wrappers printed in black. First American Edition of this mystery by the noted Scottish novelist, poet and literary critic -- perhaps now best known for the twelve "Fairy Books" for children (1889-1910).....
[the first Fairy Book] With Numerous Illustrations by H.J. Ford and G.P. Jacomb Hood. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. 16 pp ads dated August 1889. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the first of the twelve "fairy books" put together by.....
With Eight Coloured Plates and Numerous Illustrations by H.J. Ford. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904. Original brown cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the ninth "Fairy Book," organized and edited by Andrew Lang. There were twelve "Fairy Books" in all, each a different.....
[in the 1808 original boards] London: Printed by D.N. Shury... for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. Original grey-brown paper-covered boards with purple cloth spines and printed spine labels. First Edition of this collection of Gothic tales of the macabre, which Matthew Gregory Lewis adapted from original German, French and.....
Edited by Miss Leslie. Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, [1839]. Original maroon morocco elaborately stamped in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Appearance of Poe's intense psychological tale involving the title character being haunted by a whispering doppelgänger -- who leads the narrator to insanity, and a duel to the death.....
With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Margaret Armour. London: William Heinemann | New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1910. Original light brown buckram pictorially decorated in gilt, with dust jacket. First Arthur Rackham edition, trade issue (there were also 1150 signed copies bound in white parchment). A year later.....
Consisting of The Beach of Falesa / The Bottle Imp / The Isle of Voices. With Illustrations by Gordon Browne and W. Hatherell. London Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1893. 16 pp ads dated Mar 1893. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in gilt. First English Edition, published five days.....
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[inscribed by a dedicatee] Consisting of The Beach of Falesa / The Bottle Imp / The Isle of Voices. With Illustrations by Gordon Browne and W. Hatherell. London Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1893. 16 pp ads dated September 1892 ("7G-9.92"). Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in gilt. First.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1909. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black and white. First Edition. This fascinating piece begins, "Well, when I had been dead about thirty years, I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, I had been whizzing through space all that time.....
Translated from the Original MS. Illustrated by F. Strothmann. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1904. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in grey, green, white and black. First Separate Edition. Twain wrote a series of manuscripts, most not published during his lifetime, on the theme of Adam and Eve.....
