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First UK Printing of the author's first book. Small 8vo: viii, 148; [1], 2-4 (publisher's adverts)pp. Publisher's original dark blue buckram over flexible boards bordered in blind, the spine and upper cover lettered and decorated in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. A bright, Near Fine or better copy,... more

Price: $565.00

12mo: vi,7-286pp, with an additional engraved title page, featuring a vignette of "Philip Quarll and his monkey discovered by Mr Dorrington," and an engraved frontispiece by Davenport, captioned: "The Youth who was wrecked while endeavouring to land with the implements for the purpose of seizing Quarll, suplicating his forgiveness." Signed... more

Price: $665.00

Complete in two volumes, the rare first printing of the first edition, one of only 750 copies. iii-viii, 316; iii-viii, 314pp. Original publisher's dark blue cloth, decorated in blind, the spines lettered in gilt, with yellow-coated end papers (BAL's state B, "sequence, if any, not determined," without the advertisements printed... more

Price: $18,500.00

Small, slim 8vo: [8],141,[1]pp, printed by Spottiswoode and Co, New-Street Square, London. Late nineteen-century maroon cloth, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, brown end papers, all edges marbled, bound without the final advertisement leaf (as often) for the second edition of "A Child's Garden of Verses." Fine, save for light... more

Price: $1,350.00

Early edition (printed 1879, three years after the first edition), in the original decorative cloth binding, identical to that of the first edition. Squarish (8 3/4" x 7") 8vo: xvi,17-274,[2]pp, with a frontispiece of Tom and 161 text vignettes by True Williams and others. Publisher's blue cloth blocked in gold... more

Price: $935.00

First Edition (no Library of Congress date of publication recorded, preventing any priority-of-issue determination). 8vo: xvi,17-277,[1],[8, advertisements]pp, with a frontispiece and 23 pen-and-ink illustrations by Dan Beard. Publisher's original olive-green pictorial cloth, the upper cover stamped in black (a vignette of stars and stripes, beneath which are the English lord... more

Price: $585.00

First British Edition, First Issue, with black coated end papers. 8vo; viii, 342pp, with a frontispiece and 11 further full-page illustrations by Claude Shepperson. Publisher's dark blue decorative cloth, the upper cover and spine stamped gilt (the first and primary binding state, of four). An unusually Fine, bright copy, the... more

Price: $1,685.00

First Issue of the First Boston Edition (third edition overall), with "Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry. Printed by Gorge C. Rand & Avery" on copyright page, one of just 1000 copies printed. (Not to be confused with the nearly identical later pirated edition, without the imprint information on the... more

Price: $2,650.00

8vo: xiii,[1],11-567,[1]pp, photographic portrait frontispiece with facsimile inscription and signature, three inserted facsimile manuscript leaves (two folding), engraved portrait with tissue guard inserted between p. 31 & p. 32, photo portrait and facsimile manuscript letter inserted between pp. 240 & 241. Printed on machine-made laid paper with printer's mark "Press... more

Price: $165.00

First Philadelphia Edition (seventh edition overall). 8vo: 382pp, with advertisement tipped in at front fly leaf and portrait of Whitman and protective tissue inserted following p. 28. Publisher's finely woven, diagonally ribbed mustard-yellow cloth, spine and upper cover lettered and decorated in gilt, mottled blue vein-pattern end papers. An excellent... more

Price: $465.00

A superb copy, in a Riviere binding with the half-title, of the "most famous account of drug addiction in English literature" (Norman). First Edition (following its appearance in the London magazine for October and November 1821); vi, 206pp, including the appendix which De Quincey added to this edition tabulating his... more

Price: $1,650.00