DICKENS, Charles. Barnaby Rudge; a Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty. Original blindstamped cloth, housed in custom green morocco backed cloth slipcase, inner cloth chemise. London: Chapman and Hall, 1841. First separate edition. Smith I:6B. Eckel p. 67. A fine copy.
DICKENS, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. Original blindstamped cloth. London: Chapman and Hall, [1841]. First separate edition. Smith I: 6A, note 4 (with Piccadilly address). Smith's secondary binding. Eckel p. 67. Spine ends and corners worn, spine slightly darkened, slightly shaken, light foxing to exterior leaves, else very.....
DICKENS, Charles. The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas Time. Original gilt-pictorial cloth, A.e.g. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition. Smith II: 9. Eckel p. 124. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper, near fine.
DICKENS, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. Original gilt-pictorial cloth, A.e.g. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition, second state ad sheet headed "New Edition of Oliver Twist." Smith II: 6. Eckel p. 119. Bookplate on front pastedown. A fine copy.
DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. Original gilt-pictorial cloth, A.e.g. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition, 2nd state pictorial titlepage. Smith II: 8. Eckel p. 121. Minor rubbing to head of spine, else fine.
DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. Original gilt-pictorial cloth, A.e.g. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition, 4th state pictorial titlepage. Smith II: 8. Eckel p. 121. Spine sunned, some wear to spine ends, ownership signature on front free endpaper, else very good.
DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. Original gilt-pictorial cloth, A.e.g. London: Printed and Published for the Author, by Bradbury and Evans, 1846. "Eleventh edition." Smith II: 4A. Eckel p. 110. First Bradbury and Evans issue. Laid in is the Chapman and Hall titlepage.....
DICKENS, Charles. A Child's History of England. Original gilt-pictorial cloth, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852-53-54. 3 Vols. First edition. Smith II: 10. Eckel p. 128. With the red leather bookplate of noted collector Barton Currie. An unusually fine set.
DICKENS, Charles. Pictures from Italy. Original cloth, housed in custom cloth folding box. London: Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition, first issue. Smith II: 7. Eckel p. 126. A fine copy.
DICKENS, Charles. The Uncommercial Traveller. Original blindstamped cloth, housed in custom cloth folding box. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861 [1860]. First edition. Smith II: 11. Eckel p.132. Catalogue dated December 1860. Spine very slightly sunned, minor rubbing to head of spine, else very good or better.
DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Original blindstamped cloth, housed in custom cloth slipcase. London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. First edition. Smith I: 7. Eckel p.71. With pictorial title page showing reward notice reading "100?"(Smith state 1). Errata in second state as usual. Bookplate of David Bruce.....
ELIOT, George. The Writings of George Eliot Together with the Life by J.W. Cross. Original gilt-ruled 3/4 blue crushed morocco, raised spine bands, compartments gilt, T.e.g. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1908. 25 Vols. $2250.00 One of 750 numbered sets of the large paper edition. Illustrated with engraved plates, frontispieces.....
(IRVING, WASHINGTON). CRAYON, Geoffrey, Gent. Tales of a Traveller. 2 vols. Orig. gray boards, with printed paper labels on spines. London: John Murray, 1824. First edition, first state. Preceeds the American edition, and includes five pieces that were omitted in the American edition. BAL 10115. A fine untrimmed set in.....
BIRGE, William S. Senhor Antone: A Tale of the Portuguese Colony. Original cloth. Chicago: F. Tennyson Neely Co., [1901]. First edition. Presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper: "Mrs Joseph Baker, Compliments of the Author. July 13th 1904." Light speckling to cloth, lights scattered foxing, else very good.....
STEELE, Wilbur Daniel. The Terrible Woman and Other One Act Plays. Introduction by Frank Shay. Original cloth. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1925. First edition. Presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper: "Dear Bruce & Frank: I know this book will have a good time being in.....
GREEN, Anna Katherine. X.Y.Z.: A Detective Story. Original printed wrappers. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1883. First edition. Wright III:4665. Ellery Queen, The Detective Short Story p.47. Barzun & Taylor 1030. Signed by the author on the title page: "Anna Katherine Green Rohlfs." Small chip to spine and rear wrapper.....
(CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA L.). LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. Aftermath. Original gilt-pictorial cloth, blind embossed rear board. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873. First edition. BAL 12164 states that the Boston and London editions were issued simultaneously. With the ownership signature of "J.L. chamberlain" on the head of the title page. Joshua.....
FORSTER, E. M. Pharos and Pharillon. Original cloth-backed fancy boards, printed paper spine label. Richmond, Surrey: Printed and Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1923. First edition, first state. Kirkpatrick A9a. Woolmer 29. One of 900 copies. Light shelfwear, light scattered foxing to pastedowns and exterior.....
BOSWELL, James. An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. Contemporary full speckled calf, gilt-ruled raised spine bands, red morocco spine label. Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768. First edition. Pottle 24. With ?-title.....
FORSTER, E.M. A Passage to India. Orig. red cloth. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924. First edition. A near fine copy.
FORSTER, E.M. The Longest Journey. Orig. cloth. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1907. First edition. Kirkpatrick A2a. One of 1,587 copies printed. A very good copy of Forster's scarce second book.
NORDHOFF, Charles. Cape Cod and All along Shore: Stories. Original cloth. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868. First edition. Wright II: 1798. Dedicated "To the Stupid Reader." Spine lightly sunned, minor rubbing to spine ends, else very good.
KEMP, Harry. The Cry of Youth. Original cloth. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1914. First edition of the author's second book. Boice 1914.44. Presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper and front pastedown: "For Berkley Tobay from Harry Kemp. Life-It is made to be lived, that's all! To fall.....
KEMP. Harry. Judas. Original cloth. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. First edition of the author's first book. Boice 1913.9. Presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper: "To the Damned Old Jesuit Dick Wright from the Unconscious Hypocrite Harry Kemp. P.S. book bought not given." Light rubbing to spine.....
KEMP, Harry. Where Now Green Gardens? (Harry Answers Omar). Original printed wrappers. [Provincetown, MA: Provincetown Publishers, 1945]. Second edition in the same year as the first. Presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper: "For Jim-From the Poet of The Dunes-This refutation of The Rubaiyat-which is nevertheless one of.....