New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. First edition. A Gideon Fell mystery. Bright and fine in equally bright, very good dust jacket with rubbed edge creasing and tears. A scarce book, especially so in the jacket. Item #54756 More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1872. First Italian edition, first issue. Translated from the English by T. Pietrocola Rossetti. Preceded only by the rare, unissued first state with title page mistakenly dated 1871. In variant binding of smooth red cloth with covers bordered in blind and only top edge gilt. [Williams..... Item #72777 More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1866 and 1872. First UK edition to be regularly published of ALICE IN WONDERLAND (after the suppressed 1865 edition) with inverted "S" in last line of contents page; and first edition of THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS with correct first-issue/printing point present on p.21, "wade" for "wabe" [Williams..... Item #72399 More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869. First edition to be entirely printed in the U.S., though technically the second American edition [Lovetts 12; Williams, Madan 357]. Preceded in the U.S. by the 1866 edition published from first-printing British sheets by Appleton. Small 8vo dark red gilt-stamped pebble cloth boards; all edges..... Item #72775 More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First edition. In lovely polished red calf binding by Root with original buff-colored covers and spine bound in at rear. 12mo full red leather with covers triple ruled in gilt; gilt decorated raised spine bands, 4 floral design gilt-stamped spine compartments and 3 brown leather..... Item #72447 More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First edition. INSCRIBED BY CARROLL on half-title page, "Mrs. Bell/ from the Author./ Mar. 29, 1876." Rebound in early 20th century binding by Roycrofter Lorenz Schwartz of 12mo full blue leather with gilt-stamped nautical designs on both covers; gilt-ruled turn ins; marbled endpapers; all edges..... Item #72400 More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1889 and 1893. First edition of each book. With illustrations by Harry Furniss. An unnamed narrator bridges the world of Victorian-era England and the fantasy realm of “Outland” and “Fairyland,” home of the sibling sprites Sylvie and Bruno. Considered an early example of time travel fiction..... Item #72782 More
(London): Folio Society, 2016. First edition thus. Number 923 of 1,000 copies numbered and SIGNED BY VAN SANDWYK on original copperplate etching tipped in at front (from a total edition of 1,030). Issued to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first edition. Text follows the revised edition of 1897 with..... Item #72713 More
Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1920. First Canadian edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK and first to feature Belgian private detective Hercule Poirot. Issued from sheets of the true first edition (NY; John Lane, 1920) and preceding the London edition (Bodley Head, 1921). We record only one other copy offered for..... Item #52258 More
(New York): Viking, (1985). First edition. National Book Award winner and basis for the 2022 movie starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, et al. INSCRIBED on half-title page, "To Barbara [underlined]/ Don DeLillo," Near fine with black page opposite the title page showing few light spots (appears they occurred..... Item #72137 More
Isaac Robert Cruikshank. London: John Lowndes, 1822. Two volumes. (VOLUME 1) FIRST EDITION: Folding hand-colored frontispiece etching, "Mr. Wilkinson, Mr. Burroughs & Mr. Wrench, As Logic, Jerry & Corinthian Tom...," by Robert Cruikshank. Bound (together with Songs, Parodies etc below) in 8vo gilt-stamped polished calf by Riviere & Son with..... Item #54607 More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition of his first novel. Mixed state, presumably bound from the original parts. Vignette title page in the first state ("Veller" vs. "Weller" in sign); pp. 25-6 in the 3rd issue; and earliest issue of Parts 8, 12 (pp. 341-2 variant "A" with correct..... Item #72420 More
![Item #72395 LADY FREEDOM AMONG US; [signed by author and artist]. Rita Dove](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72395.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727567705)
(West Burke, VT: Janus Press, 1994). First edition, and only edition. Just 110 copies in total. The thought-provoking poem written (and read) by Dove in commemoration of the return of the repaired and refurbished "Freedom" statue to its perch atop the then-newly restored Dome of the United States Capitol, October..... Item #72395 More
Edinburgh: W. Sutherland, 1823. First edition. Although this particular edition issued for the Caledonian is not listed in Albert M. Cohn's bibliography of Cruikshank's works, this is Cohn's own copy with his bookplate on front pastedown and penciled note, "of the greatest rarity/ have seen no other copy/ AMC." Cohn..... Item #54555 More
![Item #72404 MIDDLEMARCH: A Study of Provincial Life; [an enduring classic, finely bound]. George...](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72404.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733275061)
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871 - 1872. First edition. Four volumes. Her most famous book, a classic of English literature. Bound in modern quarter black leather with leather corners and marbled paper sides; raised spine bands, gilt lettering and ruling at spines; all edges speckled. Presumed earliest..... Item #72404 More
London: Collins, 1979. First edition. Winner of the 1979 Booker Prize. Based on her real-life experiences living on a houseboat. INSCRIBED BY FITZGERALD on title page, "Rolland Comstock -/ best wishes, July 1989/ Penelope." Fine in bright, nearly fine dust jacket with few tiny tears to upper flap edges and..... Item #72313 More
New York / London: John Lane / Bodley Head, 1915. First edition, American issue. One of his more famous works, a novel set before World War I chronicling the tragic lives of two couples using intricate flashbacks. Critic and poet R.P. Blackmur's copy with his blindstamp to endpaper and half-title..... Item #53152 More
[London]: Michael Joseph, (1937). First edition. First book in his Hornblower series. Only 12,000 copies printed. SIGNED BY FORESTER on the half-title page. 8vo green cloth boards stamped in silver on spine; 287 pages. Very good with spine mellowed but lettering still bright, light foxing to page edges, and spine..... Item #72351 More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., (1924). First U.S. edition. One of his best-known novels. Winner of the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, selected as one of the 100 great works of English literature by the Modern Library, and included on Time Magazine's "100 Best English-language Novels..... Item #72349 More
Kiel | Altona | Hamburg: Royal School Book Printing Office | J. G. Salomon | J. H. Krogmann, 1819 [and circa early 1800s]. Three books bound in one. Includes a HYMNAL (1819, 24th edition), PRAYER BOOK, and book of EPISTLES AND GOSPELS. (The latter two are undated without statement of..... Item #72740 More
New York: H. R. Russell and Son, 1894. First edition. INSCRIBED TO THE ARTIST DANIEL BEARD on the dedication page, "To Dan Beard whose advice and friendship is of the greatest value to his friend C. D. Gibson, Dec. 1894." Beard was an illustrator, author, youth leader and social reformer..... Item #71535 More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1881. First edition. First issue with "presumptive" in last line page 9 (versus "presumptuous"). An enduring though controversial Southern classic illustrated by Frederick S. Church & James H. Moser. Small 8vo brown cloth boards; gilt-stamped spine; front cover stamped in black with pictorial of..... Item #72010 More
Seattle: Winn Books, 1986. First edition. Number 38 of 350 numbered copies SIGNED BY HARRISON and the illustrator, RUSSELL CHATHAM. Together with a suite of FIVE 14 x 18" PRINTS, EACH SIGNED BY CHATHAM. The prints are all designated "AP" (i.e., Artist's Proof") and numbered "31/40." A separate colophon sheet..... Item #52697 More
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. First edition of his first book. [Clarkson p.17, Blanck 16270]. The title was taken from Lewis Carroll's poem, "The Walrus and the Carpenter," which, along with situations encountered by O. Henry himself in Honduras in the late 1890s, provided inspiration for characters and..... Item #72345 More
![Item #71575 SOME SOLDIERS OF THE WORLD WAR [who are] DESCENDANTS OF HEROES OF FORMER WARS:...](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/71575.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1631159660)
[No-place: no-publisher, no-date] circa 1920s. First edition. 197-page manuscript of an unpublished work. Horton’s stated intent was to “record the names of many soldiers of the World War and show their descent from soldiers of former wars”; and, in doing so, she brought together numerous “sketches” (brief biographies) of Tennesseans..... Item #71575 More