BLEAK HOUSE
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. The first issue, with the correct points on page 19, 209, and 275, respectively. With an original cheque, handwritten and signed by Charles Dickens, bound in at..... More
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THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND
London: Published at the Punch Office, 1847-1848. First Edition. Wraps. Original twenty parts in nineteen, published from July 1946 to February 1848. Octavo: xii, 320; xii, 304 p. Twenty colored steel-engravings after designs by John..... More
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. With Illustrations by Phiz.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition in book form, mixed state, with the corrected text, "sister" instead of "visiter" on p.123, line 17, but with the uncorrected text, "latter" for "letter"..... More
FIGHTING CARAVANS
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First Edition. First edition, first printing the "H-D" code on the copyright page. In this action-packed adventure of the American West, 28 wagons loaded with families, supplies..... More
THE MAN OF THE FOREST
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. The first printing, with the code "A-U" on the copyright page. In this classic Western, a lone camper in the forest overhears a conversation..... More
1001 AFTERNOONS IN NEW YORK
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. A follow-up to the author's A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago (1922), featuring 86 stories set in "the addle-headed city of New York - the..... More
A CHILD OF THE CENTURY
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. The author recounts his childhood, education, and career as journalist, playwright, and screenwriter, describes famous political and literary acquaintances, and examines U.S. efforts to aid Jews..... More
DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. The first printing, with "Published May, 1936" on the copyright page. Historical novel about settlers in the central Mohawk Valley of the New York frontier during..... More
THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated, with a small sketch, by John Nichols on the title page, with a handwritten postcard from Nichols laid in. A quixotic effort..... More
CARDBOARD CASTLE
London: John Murray, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Novel of intrigue concening a woman, reputedly widowed when her husband was officially declared dead, encounters him alive many years later and suddenly finds her new life threatened..... More
THE BAR 20 RIDES AGAIN
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. The seventeenth book in the Hopalong Cassidy series, this novel served as the basis for the 1935 Howard Bretherton film starring William Boyd..... More
THE FOX OF PEAPACK AND OTHER POEMS
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. The first printing, with the "H-N" code on the copyright page. White's second collection of poems, including many from the pages of The New Yorker. Octavo..... More
SON OF RHUBARB
New York: Trident Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by H. Allen Smith on the front flyleaf. In this sequel to "Rhubarb" (1946), The Tiger attempts to secure his inheritance, leading to frenetic litigation and..... More
THE BALLAD OF CAT BALLOU
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. This "lusty, picaresque novel of Old Wyoming" served as the basis for the 1965 western comedy film starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin, who won an..... More
THE LIVELY LADY: A Chronicle of Certain Men of Arundel in Maine, of Privateering During the War of Impressments, and of the Circular Prison on Dartmoor
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Kenneth Roberts on a leaf tipped in after the front flyleaf. A novel about the War of 1812, telling the..... More
MASTER-AT-ARMS
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. "A story of the French Revolution that will stand besides 'Scaramouche' for its strong, gallant hero, Quentin de Morlaix, fencing master and best swordsman of all London."..... More
A PECULIAR SERVICE
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Corey Ford on a prefatory blank leaf. Recounts the story of the secret Culper Spy Ring during the Revolutionary War and how daring patriots..... More
HERE ARE MY LECTURES AND STORIES
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Delightful talks delivered by the Canadian humorist during his popular lecture tours of the English-speaking world. Octavo: 251 p. Original red cloth binding, with gilt..... More
IN THE WORST POSSIBLE TASTE
New York: The John Day Company, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. The third and final collection of Corey Ford's popular John Riddell parodies for Vanity Fair. Essentially playful, these parodies vary in approach - some are..... More
TRIMALCHIO: A Facsimile Edition of the Original Galley Proofs for The Great Gatsby
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press in cooperation with the Thomas Cooper Library, 2000. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies, this is stamped "review copy" on the limitation page. Includes both the original copyright page..... More
“Tres Cartas de Zeta” in CON SAFOS, Number 6
Los Angeles: Con Safos, Inc., 1970. Wraps. The sixth issue of this important Chicano literary magazine, with three letters from Oscar “Zeta” Acosta, a Mexican-American lawyer who was immortalized as the heavyweight Samoan attorney, Dr..... More
ALLAN QUATERMAIN CLASSICS: King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quatermain, Maiwa's Revenge, Allan's Wife, Marie, [and] Child of Storm
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2005. Hardcover. Collector's Edition. The classic Victorian adventure stories featuring Allan Quatermain, an English-born professional big game hunter and occasional trader living in South Africa. Octavo, six volumes. Full leather..... More
SAY, DARLING
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Richard Bissell on the title page. Semi-autobiographical novel about Bissell's efforts to adapt his novel 7 1/2 Cents (1953) into the Broadway musical The..... More