Peter L. Stern

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853. First Edition; original cloth. Front hinge weak; back hinge split; some cloth fraying and a little chipping at the extremities; some foxing; overall a very good copy. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Dickens’ complex novel of the law. If any lawyer hasn’t referred to it themselves (or the.....

More info about Bleak House

No place of publication: no publisher, 1945. First Edition. Publisher’s wrappers; gift inscription on the first blank; very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

More info about Wind Blown and Dripping: A Book of Aleutian Cartoons. With an Introduction by Dashiell Hammett

London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. First Edition; as issued in six parts; some chips, tears, splitting and spots, restoration of spines and extremities with added paper; the “cork” ad is in the second part; a good to very good set in a custom cloth clamshell box. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. All.....

More info about The Mystery of Edwin Drood

London: Faber & Faber, 1960. First Edition. Fine in dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

More info about Clea

London: Methuen, 1899. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth; pages yellowed as is inevitable in such a cheaply produced book; overall very good, and very uncommon. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

More info about Jennie Baxter - Journalist

New York: Hillman-Curl, 1938. First Edition in English; first American edition. Translated from the German by Desmond I. Vesey. Verses translated by Christopher Isherwood. Inscribed by the author in 1946 to Saul Bellow’s especially close friend and attorney (as well as the model for Harvey Simkin in Herzog), “for Sam.....

More info about A Penny For The Poor

London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894. First Edition. 600 copies were printed for England; bookplate; very good; spine ends a little chipped. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

More info about The Lower Slopes

London: The Idler, 1892. Volume I of this magazine; bound in contemporary half-leather; owner’s inscription; the shabby binding is worn. One of the earliest Sherlockian parodies and illustrated by George Hutchinson, who had recently illustrated the 1891 Ward, Lock edition of A Study in Scarlet. These issues were originally published.....

More info about Detective Stories Gone Wrong: The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs by Luke Sharp

London: Grant Allen, 1897. First Edition. Queen’s Quorum. Enjoyable short pieces, episodic, but each stands on its own. His nephew, the publisher, found himself in the book trade at his uncle’s urging. Allen was a Canadian much of whose education and life was in Britain. Very good. All books described.....

More info about An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay

New York: Candlelight Press, 1963. First Edition. Very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

More info about Finch's Final Fling

New York: C.S. Francis, 1860. First American Edition of Poems Before Congress. Publisher’s cloth; spine ends worn; bookplate; very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

More info about Napoleon III in Italy

New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1898. First American Edition; some foxing; very good. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author in the month after publication, “With A Conan Doyle’s kindest remembrances of old days. Oct. 1898.” All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

More info about Songs of Action