Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1903. Original dark blue cloth. First Edition, first binding (some copies were put up in a green Times Book Club binding). As the Boer War wound down in 1901, Buchan received a two-year appointment to assist Lord Milner in the reconstruction of the.....
London New York Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916. Original blue-green cloth. First Edition of this wartime mystery, the second of Buchan's five featuring Richard Hannay (preceded by THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS, and succeeded by MR. STANDFAST, THE THREE HOSTAGES and ISLAND OF SHEEP). Richard Hannay is at once established in the very.....
London / New York / Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. Original light blue cloth. First Edition of the third of Buchan's five Richard Hannay mysteries (preceded by THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS and GREENMANTLE, to be followed by THE THREE HOSTAGES and ISLAND OF SHEEP). Since the first three take place during.....
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. Original green cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition. In this novel the hero, Adam Melfort, is convicted of forgery, is drummed out of his regiment, and is sentenced to two years in prison -- for a crime his wife actually had committed.....
[New York:] Privately Printed for Jerome Kern, [Christmas 1925]. Original blue-grey wrappers sewn with braided white cord. First Edition, which consisted of 93 numbered copies, this being No. 33. This was a "lost essay" by Conrad, which he wrote in 1917 -- about the strafing of the Kent coast during.....
Canterbury: Printed for private circulation by H.J. Goulden, 1922. Original pale turquoise printed wrappers. First Edition, second and usual printing. This was Conrad's tribute to the Dover Patrol, which during World War I had provided safe passage to the Continent for British troops, and generally protected Channel traffic. As with.....
Illustrations by Dan Sayre Groesbeck. New York: The McClure Company, 1908. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in white. First Separate (and First American, and First Illustrated) Edition. Earlier in 1908 this tale was published in England (as "The Duel") with five others in A SET OF SIX; it was McClure's.....
Illustrated by John Sloan. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1901. Original red cloth decorated in silver and gilt. First Edition. Crane dreamed up the idea of dramatizing great battles as a money-making scheme: "such sure quick money," he wrote his agent Pinker. Crane was very familiar with recent battles: since 1895.....
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1902. Original white wrappers. First Edition of Doyle's third piece of nonfiction, published two months before THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. He wrote this piece, drawing considerably from his THE GREAT BOER WAR (of 1900), in an effort "to stem the extraordinary outbreak of defamation".....
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.....
[a dazzling set] London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1880. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of one of Hardy's least-known novels. Written during the year 1879 and serialized in the magazine Good Words (where it was bowdlerized by its Scottish clergyman editor), it is a tale in.....
Published Weekly. Vol LII / No. 2713. New York: Thursday, November 29, 1900 ("the last Thanksgiving of the nineteenth century"). 20 pp preliminary ads (paginated i-xx), plus 16 pp terminal ads (paginated xxi-xxxvi). Original white wrappers stamped in yellow-orange. Early appearance (apparently the first outside of several Australian newspapers) of.....
Illustrated. London: Griffith & Farran, 1883. 32 pp ads dated Sept 1883. Original pictorial brown cloth. First Edition of this early Henty boys' tale taking place during the English Civil War. According to Newbolt (and to the printer's code on the title verso), 3000 copies were initially printed (in August.....
London: F.V. White & Co., 1895. 16 pp undated ads (paginated as the end of the book). Original rose-mottled cloth. First Edition. This is one of Henty's historical tales for adults, rather than for boys, which is why it is not published by his usual publisher Blackie. This is a very.....
[a Henty rarity] By Archibald Forbes, George Henty and Charles Williams. New York: Ward, Lock and Co., 1889. Printed light brown wrappers. First Edition (American issue) of "probably the rarest of all Henty items" (quote from Sotheby's, February 1972, when the last copy appeared at auction -- it sold for.....
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.....
![Item #14946 DESTROYERS AT JUTLAND [complete in four volumes]. Rudyard Kipling](https://sumnerandstillman.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14946.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1646429905)
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. [Together, four volumes.] Original light yellow wrappers lettered in green. First Editions, being the American copyright issues -- consisting of only 70 copies each, published separately between October 18th and 30th, 1916. Each volume consists of Kipling's account of specific sea warfare.....
![Item #14945 THE FRINGES OF THE FLEET [complete in six volumes]. Rudyard Kipling](https://sumnerandstillman.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14945.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1646429905)
I & II. The Auxiliary Fleet. / III & IV. Submarines. / V & VI. Patrols. [Together, six volumes.] Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. Original light yellow wrappers lettered in green. First Editions, being the American copyright issues, limited (according to DP&Co's annotated copy) to 75 copies.....
Also Letters from Julian Ralph, Charles E. Hands and Douglas Story. Santiago de Chile: Hume & Co., 1900. Original printed fawn wrappers. First Edition (unauthorized), issued as a volume in the publisher's "Libreria Inglesa." This volume published in Chile includes three poems and two stories that Kipling wrote during the.....
[one of Melville's scarcest] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Original violet cloth, beveled board edges. First Edition of Melville's first published volume of verse, about the just-concluded American Civil War -- "dedicated to the memory of the Three Hundred Thousand who in the war for the maintenance of the.....
Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., London, 1822. 8 pp preliminary ads dated June 1822 (Hurst Robinson) plus 8 pp preliminary undated ads (Constable). Original drab printed wrappers. First Edition, first issue (with no binder's mark below the text on p. 14) of.....
Translated by W.H.G. Kingston. Revised by Julius Chambers. With Ninety Full-Page Illustrations. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1877. 6 pp undated ads. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled. First American Edition of this historical tale of adventure taking place during a Siberian revolt by the.....
And particularly how Mr. Bert Smallways fared while it lasted. With Illustrations by A.C. Michael. London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this extraordinary tale of a Cockney cycle mechanic who is carried off by a drifting balloon.....
