The history of the English novel.
New York: Barnes & Noble, [1950]. 10 volumes, 8vo, very good, sound set in the dust-jackets, spines of jackets a little faded. Reprint of the set originally published 1924-39. More
New York: Barnes & Noble, [1950]. 10 volumes, 8vo, very good, sound set in the dust-jackets, spines of jackets a little faded. Reprint of the set originally published 1924-39. More
London: Eric Partridge at the Scholartis Press, 1931. Edition limited to 600 copies, 8vo, pp. [24], 158, [2]; blue publisher's cloth, gilt title on spine, top edge stained blue, text starting to tone, else very good, dust jacket fractured into five pieces and chipped, held together by a mylar protector..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931. First American edition, small 8vo, pp. [10], 349, [1]; brown cloth, black title with gold embelishments on upper cover and spine; bookseller's stamp on front paste down, else fine in a chipped and price-clipped dust jacket. More
London [et al.]: Richard Bentley [et al.], 1833. 12mo, pp.[iii]-vii, [1], 490; engraved frontispiece and title-p.; bound without the series title in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, gilt lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine. First published in 3 volumes in 1831 and here issued in Bentley's Standard Novels series, with a new..... More
London: James Phillips and Son, 1797. 8vo, pp. [3], iv-xii, 170, [2] errata; contemporary full calf; marbled endpapers; spine quite rubbed and gilt worn away; diamond-pattern staining on covers; front board starting, rear joint cracked; headcaps missing; lightly foxed; otherwise good and sound. Bookplate of Samuel Elam of Rhode Island..... More
London: for J.F. and C. Rivington [et al.], 1790. First edition to come under outside editorship, 4to, 2 vols. in 1, pp. [3], vi-xxxiv, plus unpaginated lexicon; [4], xxxix, [1], plus unpaginated lexicon; possibly lacking a half-title; the English title bound before the Italian, the Italian before the English; occasional..... More
London: Extracted from Bentley's Miscellany, 1837-1848. 8vo, with a frontispiece of Ingoldsby (i.e. Barham), 12 etched plates by George Cruikshank, John Leech, and R. Buss, a sample wrapper from Bentley's Miscellany is bound in at the back, and a separately printed title-p. presumably done on the occasion of rebinding inserted..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1852. Fifth edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt decorated spines; a fine, bright set, with engraved title pages and 19 engraved plates after George Cruikshank and John Leech. See Cohn 50 for a description of the first edition of each series, issued in 1840, 1842..... More
London: published by James Robins and Co. Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; and Joseph Robins, Jun. and Co. Lower Ormand Quay, Dublin, 1826. First edition; 4to, pp. [4], 200; 12 engraved plates by Cruikshank, each in 2 states (hand-colored and plain), plus other vignette illustrations in the text; later three-quarter blue..... More
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1956]. First edition, 4to, pp. vii, [1], 1167; as new and virtually untouched in dustjacket and publisher's box. More
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1956]. First edition, 4to, pp. vii, [1], 1167; as new and virtually untouched in dustjacket and publisher's box. More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1930. First edition, slim 12mo, pp. 22; a very good copy in a slightly chipped dust jacket. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1992. 11" x 15" prose broadside excerpt from Peter Pan accompanied by a relief print, artist unknown. More
London: Constable and Co., n.d., [1909]. First edition, 16mo (13.5 x 9 cm), pp. 15, [1]; full-page wood-engraved illustration; uncut and unopened; original cream cloth ruled in red and with gilt lettering on the upper cover; near perfect glassine wrapper printed in red. Fine throughout and unusual thus. Contained in..... More
[Portland, ME: printed for Thomas Bird Mosher, 1919]. 24mo, pp. [31]; frontis. port.; original light blue paper printed in red and grey over flexible boards, green slipcase; some light stains to the covers, dampstain and some splitting of the slipcase; overall a good copy. More
n.p., n.d. [London? ca. 1880s]. 18mo; pp. 18; front wrapper preserved, rear wrapper wanting; old tape repairs on spine, the whole loosening; a good copy of a scarce title. Not found in OCLC. More
London: The Unicorn Press, 1931. First edition limited to 1000 copies, this one of 950 on antique laid paper, thin 8vo, pp. 78, [2]; original red cloth stamped in blind and gilt, lettered in gilt on spine, the boards very slightly bowed, the spine a little faded, and a few..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1936]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 477, [1]; mild staining from binding glue along hinges, previous owner's bookplate, else a very good copy in an unclipped, very good dust jacket (shallow chips at top of spine). This a presentation copy inscribed by..... More
London: Houlston and Sons, Paternoster Row; Birmingham: Houghton and Hammond, Scotland Passage, 1879. 4to, pp. [4], 94, [2]; frontispiece portrait, 17 plates, other illustrations in the text; original pictorial brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine and upper cover; top of spine chipped, light dampstaining along the fore-edge of the boards; still, in..... More
New York: Macmillan; Cambridge: University Press, 1941. First American edition, 4 vols., 8vo, dust-jackets slightly chipped at spine extremities, else very good. Outstanding compilation, indispensable, and including material left out of The New Cambridge Bibliography which was published in 1974. More
Rutherford: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, [1980]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 282; original cloth in pale purple pictorial dust jacket; jacket spine faded, top edge a bit chipped and shelf-worn, else very good and sound. Author inscription to Gwin Kolb signed "Jim" on front free endpaper. More
Chicago: Walter M. Hill, 1920. Edition limited to 500 copies printed on ordinary paper of an edition limited to 515; 12mo, pp. 93, [1]; portrait frontispiece of Stevenson, 2 plates of facsimiles at the back, decorative title page and vignettes by Axel T. Bay; original tan cloth-backed blue boards, paper..... More
Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1938. Edition limited to 250 copies printed at the Merrymount Press, 8vo, pp. [4], 28, [4]; pictorial title-page, 4 plates; orig. red cloth, gilt-titled spine, t.e.g., negligible wear, generally a fine copy. This copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "Mr. Roy J...... More
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1911. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 230; rear free endpaper with a bizarre paper flaw, otherwise a very good, sound copy in original maroon cloth, gilt lettering on spine. This copy with an inscription by the author on the front fre endpaper: "Greater love hath..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 669; publisher's navy cloth (a bit soiled), gilt-lettered spine; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, else a very good copy. More