New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first American edition of "La Peste" translated by Stuart Gilbert. From the jacket: "When in the spring of 1947 "La Peste" was published in Paris, it created an immediate sensation. Camus was recognized all over Europe as having realized to.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. A gift inscription on the free endpaper from a previous owner acknowledges that Plath's novel might be an incongruous mother's day gift: "This is not a 'happy' book, but if you liked Zelda, you'll enjoy Sylvia". Very slight.....
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The first American addition, first printing, of Nabokov's controversial work. Unclipped jacket with $5.00 price. Jacket has moderate toning and wear, with loss to the lower front corner and top edge, and is now protected by a plastic cover. Wear to.....
Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition in clipped dust jacket of the thirteenth Doctor Dolittle book, in which the doctor and his animal friends travel to Africa to save an ancient turtle. Wear and minor loss to the top edge and corners.....
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1837. Soft cover. The first appearance of Oliver Twist in America. The first two chapters of Oliver Twist were published in Bentley's Miscellany in February 1837. By April of the same year the American publisher Carey, Lea and Blanchard, eager for new Dickens material, published.....
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1940. Hardcover. Stated first edition in unclipped dust jacket, number 964 of 1,795. Some darkening of edges of pages, loss to head of spine of jacket. Top edge dyed blue. Collects for the first time sketches written by Twain for the San Francisco "Alta California".....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1931. Hardcover. Stated first edition, blue cloth covers with bumping of corners and wear to head and tail of spine. Label of "The Palo Alto Bookshop" on rear endpaper. [xii], 1-292 pp . 9.5" x 6.5"
Privately Printed, 1926. Soft cover. With an introduction by Charles. J. Finger. Stapled paper wrappers. John Mayfield's account of Twain's conflict with the Metropolitan Street Railway Company over the overcharging of his daughters' fares. With reproductions of Twain's letters and a humorous narrative of Mayfield's discovery of the letters while.....
London: Printed for the National Anti-Vivisection Society, 1903. Soft cover. First separate edition in yellow paper covers of Twain's heart-wrenching story. Octavo, 16 leaves with sub-title, 9 pages of text, three pages of illustrations by W.T. Smedley, and an advertisement for the Anti-Vivisection Society, outlining their policy of amelioration rather.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition in an unclipped jacket. Minor wear to the upper edge of the jacket. A horizontal stripe of soiling (likely from an earlier protective cover) extends across all panels of jacket with corresponding marks to free endpapers. See photos. The.....
Boston: Mutual Book Company, 1900. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First American edition, first state, with 'fivc' for 'five' on page 16, in paper wrappers. Minor loss to spine. BAL 3465. Very Good.
Buffalo: Underhill and Nichols, 1893. Soft cover. Paper covers, fifth printing as described in BAL 3437, copyright notice in two lines, with page 226 imprinted 'Advertisements'. Slight loss to head and tail of spine and darkening of covers. Contains the first appearance of 'Extracts from Adam's Diary'. Very Good. $225.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Paper wrappers with loss to upper third of spine and lower corner of front cover. Contains Twain's "The Story of the good Little Boy who did not Prosper"
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1871. Soft cover. Paper wrappers with wear to spine and 1 cm tear to front cover. Contains two contributions by Twain: "The Late Benjamin Franklin", pp. 26-27 and "Advice to Little Girls", p. 47. The Bibliography of American Literature notes two printings, with no sequence.....
Hartford, Conn. American Publishing Company, 1869. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first issue in publisher's cloth of Twain's humorous travelogue. Pp. xvii-xviii of the table of contents lack reference numbers; p.129 lacks an illustration; p.642 has the incorrect 'Chapter XLI'. Wear to covers, with loss of cloth to the corners.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, Bayntun binding. Two volumes. Does not contain the slip addressing the choice of title, called for by Eckel, nor any advertisements. [i]-xi [1]-320; [i]-[viii], [1]-309 pp. Three quarter red morocco with marbled paper. Raised bands, six panels on the spine.....
Paris: Société Artistique Du Livre Illustré, 1901. Hardcover. Limited edition (31 of 500) illustrated by Georges Scott, with laid in letter signed by Alfred de Vigny. Ornate full morocco binding with elaborate gilt and tooling, doublure and silk endpapers, all edges gilt, large paper, with felt-lined slipcase. Shelf wear to.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. Vierge, Daniel. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Four volume limited set, one of eight hundred and forty-five copies on deckle-edged paper (no. 809). Translated by Thomas Shelton, illustrations by Daniel Vierge, introduction by Royal Cortissoz. A lavishly illustrated, beautifully printed edition, combining Shelton's spirited seventeenth-century translation.....
Fleet-Street: Bernard Lintott, 1710. Hardcover. The first volume of Lintott's Collection of Poems in Two Volumes collects, for the first time, "Venus and Adonis", "The Rape of Lucrece", "The Passionate Pilgrim" and "Some Sonnets Set to Sundry Notes of Musick". The second adds the most accurate early edition of all.....
London: John Murray; John Hunt; James Cawthorn. Hardcover. Three volume 'set' of Byron's works assembled by the nineteenth-century English politician John Hodgetts Hodgetts Foley. Having acquired the third volume of John Murray's 1819 three volume 'Works of Lord Byron' he bound later works (and one earlier) to almost match. While.....
New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., 1878. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Second state of Twain's collection of sketches. The original brick-red paper wrappers are bound in a sturdy early hardcover binding, and so remain remarkably bright and clean. Collated with Johnson's 'Bibliography of Mark Twain'. Twain's name on the title.....