New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. First Edition. Very good in a splitting dust jacket with tears and chips. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author (as Boucher) in 1941. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
New York: R.H. Russell, 1901. First Edition. Ownership stamp on endpaper; slight offsetting from the dust jacket onto endpapers, else a fine bright copy in a professionally restored dust jacket with its price changed in print by the publisher. The sage of Ar-rchey Road gives his views on a variety.....
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: Raphael Tuck, n.d. [1894]. First Edition. Publisher’s stiff wraps; the front cover of which is a chromolithograph as is one of the illustrations. Some spotting and foxing; very good. In the “Breezy Library.” Allen was born and spent his early years in Ontario and is generally accepted to be.....
London: Macmillan, 1882. First English Edition; issued anonymously. Previous owner’s name at the top of the title page; some foxing; very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
No place of publication: privately printed, 1897. First Edition. Publisher’s wrappers; BAL 733 (locating a single copy), noting that 100 copies were “Issued as a souvenir of a picnic given by Harper & Brothers for their employees.” Inscribed inside the front wrapper by an executive or editor at the publishing.....
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. First Edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket. As usual, the binding lettering is in silver; a small number were issued in yellow. Widely panned, this is a weak effort from an author that so much was expected of. For all that, while it suffers.....
Boston: Samuel Ward Company, 1903. Introduction by Margaret E. Sangster. Bound in white leather with gilt rules and title. The album, entirely unused, features spaces to fill in various occasions, many of them illustrated, such as vacations, weddings, Thanksgivings, school, moving, etc. Aside from trivial wear and foxing, a fine.....
More info about Happenings in Our Home. Illustrated by L.J. Bridgman
London: Chatto & Windus, 1895. First Edition. Some foxing; very good plus. Presentation copy; with the author’s lengthy inscription on the half-title, “Dear Edith [Watson. likely a cousin]; I intended you to have my new book ‘Over the Border’ to take with you to America, but it will not be.....
New York: Smith & Haas, 1935. First Edition. One of 310 numbered and signed copies. Spine faded, else minor wear; very good in a stained and broken slipcase. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
London: Elkin Mathews, 1895. First Edition; deluxe issue. Minor foxing; small owner’s signature; covers slightly bowed; a nearly fine copy in publisher’s vellum; printed in gold on the spine and covers; one of 25 copies; a signed, holograph Blackmore letter is laid in. An especially handsome book illustrated in Pre-Raphaelite.....
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.....