Paris: Chez Camille Bloch, 1921. Limited Edition. Wrappers. Copy No. 534 of 575 copies, "Réimprimée selon l'édition originale," with the final state of the engravings. Demy 8vo (226 x 140mm): ix,[1],152,[4]pp, printed on on Arches vergé, with six full-page burin engravings (including frontispiece), woodcut initials and chapter heading, and inserted..... more

London: printed at the Shakespeare Press, by W. Nicol, for John Major, Fleet Street, 1831. First Edition thus. Original Cloth. First Edition with Cruikshank's illustrations and introductory verses by Bernard Barton, complete in two volumes. 8vo (173 x 105mm): [8],xvi,434,[2]; [4],406,[2]pp, with engraved steel frontispiece depicting Friday kneeling to Crusoe..... more

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1911. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing of Forster's first collection of stories, designed by Roger Fry, one of only 1000 copies published, and the first of Bloomsbury's literary works to include Bloomsbury art. Crown 8vo (184 x 131mm) [8],164,[4]pp. Publisher's pale brown cloth, front cover..... more

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing ("1897" on the copyright page and title page), issued simultaneously with the London edition, of this late Jack Hamlin novel, set in the California Gold Rush. Small 8vo: [4],342pp. Publisher's brown S cloth (also issued in red V cloth, no priority..... more

Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1879 [but 1878]. First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition, published less than one month after the London edition, one of only 1500 copies. 8vo: [2],281,[1]pp. Publisher's dark green finely woven dotted-line-grain cloth (Kelly green and terra-cotta were also used, no priority known) over beveled boards, spine stamped..... more

Allahabad / London: Published by Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ld., St. Dunstan's House Fetter Lane [from 1888], [1890]. Pictorial Wrappers. First English Edition (third overall) of this collection of short stories. Indian Railway Library Number 4. Demy 8vo (214 x 135mm)..... more

London: Constable [through 1924], 1923. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. Limited Edition (one of only 750 copies printed) of Melville's eighth book, first published in serial form in Putnam's Monthly magazine between July 1854 and March 1855, then in book form by G. P. Putnam & Co., in March, 1855..... more

New York: J. S. Redfield, Clinton Hall, Nassau-Street, 1850. Decorative Cloth. Three First Editions (second printings of volumes 1 and 2, per BAL; first printing of volume 3) of the first collection of Poe's poetry and prose, edited by N. P. Willis, J. R. Lowell, and R. W. Griswold. Crown..... more

London: printed by J. Hughs, near Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, for J. Brindley, bookseller to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at the King’s-Arms in New-Bond-Street; and C. Corbett, at Addison’s Head, against St. Dunstan’s Church, Fleet-street, MDCCXXXVII [1737]. First Edition thus. Full Calf. A gorgeous set of the first complete, scholarly..... more

Boston / Cleveland, Ohio: Published by John P. Jewett & Co. / Jewett, Proctor & Worthington [from 1852], 1853. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. A striking set of this early printing ("Two Hundred and Sixty-Third Thousand") in original bindings, published one year after the first edition, offered with a First Edition..... more

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1872. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Scarce First American (and first illustrated) Edition of Trollope's "very best shorter book." (Walpole) Royal 8vo (231 x 142mm): 124,[4]pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece and twenty-three further wood-engraved illustrations by Dalziel after Francis Authur Fraser (eight full-page, eight half-page, and eight..... more

Paris: from the press of François Bernouard, 71, Rue des Saints-Pères, 1919. Limited Edition. Stiff Wrappers. First Separate Edition of one of the three major poems of 1855 (with "I Sing the Body Electric" and "Song of Myself") merged in the first edition of Leaves of Grass, with plates designed..... more