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

London: Macmillan & Co., MDCCCXC [1890]. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. Preface by Austin Dobson. Crown 8vo (179 x 115mm): xxiv,[2],305,[7]pp, with 182 illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Publisher's forest green cloth and end papers, gilt lettering and vignettes to spine and upper cover, all edges gilt. Book label of Wiston..... 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

London: J. Shiells, MDCCCXCV [1895]. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. First Illustrated Edition and first complete edition (uncensored) under this title of this "macabre and highly original tale," reinstating Hogg's text from the virtually unobtainable issue of 1824. (Oxford English Literature) Crown 8vo (188 x 123mm): [6],266 pp, with tissue-guarded..... more

Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone, MDCCCXCVIII [1898]. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing of this novella centering on an unnamed London telegraphist, who deciphers clues to her clients's personal lives from the often cryptic telegrams they submit to her as she sits in the "cage" at the post..... more

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. Hardcover. Limited Edition (one of 300 copies) of Lowes's most famous work, examining the sources of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan." Signed and dated (1929) by Lowes to fly leaf. Royal 8vo (239 x 160mm): xvii,639,[1]pp, with..... more

London: Constable, 1923. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. Limited Edition (one of only 750 copies printed) of Melville's massive narrative poem, comprising more than eighteen thousand lines (the length of Paradise Lost) of iambic tetrameter. The poem is divided into four parts: the first volume contains parts I and II..... more

London: Constable [through 1924], 1922. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. Limited Edition (one of only 750 copies printed) of Melville's second novel, first published by John Murray, in London, on March 30, 1847. Royal 8vo (226 x 142mm): xiv,375,[1]pp. Publisher's slate-blue cloth, spine and covers paneled in blind, spine lettered..... 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