Literature and Fiction
SMIRE. AN ACCEPTANCE IN THE THIRD PERSON.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937. Hard Cover. First Edition. Some toning to the endpapers. Silverfishing to the binding. Some creasing, tears, and slight chips. Beginning of separation to the front joint. Blue cloth. More
A HOLIDAY BY THE SEA
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961. Hard Cover. First Edition. First English edition of this novel by this English expatriate and friend of the Bloomsbury group (and sometime lover of Dora Carrington). The dustjacket has no chips or tears. It is not..... More
NEW BURLESQUES. CONDENSED NOVELS, SECOND SERIES.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Edition of Bret Harte’s New Burlesques. The second series of his ‘Condensed Novels’. Library plate on the rear pastedown, else no marks. Some sunning to the..... More
AMERICAN SON
NY: Norton, 2001. Soft Cover. First Edition. This copy signed by author Brian Roley on the title page. More
DAYS OF A HIRELING
Philadelphia; New York: J. B. Lipincott Company, 1951. Hard Cover. First Edition. No pencil or ink markings in text. Blue cloth binding. Very small closed tears at top and bottom of dj spine. Small closed tears at top of front..... More
KITTY DIXON, BELLE OF THE SOUTH ANNA [A WEE BIT OF LOVE AND WAR]
Richmond: The “Southern Clinic” Press, 1907. Frist Edition. A bright copy, in royal blue and pale blue cloth, with titling and decoration stamped in gilt. Short inscription (not authorial) to the front endpaper. All edges gilt. More
CAUSERIES DE LUNDI (8 VOLUMES; COMPLETE SET)
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1909 [?]. Hard Cover. The complete set of the Routledge edition; there is a previous owner name pencilled on the front pastedown. More
THE SOUTHERN LITERARY MAGAZINE: NOVEMBER, 1923 VOLUME I NUMBER V
Atlanta: Southern Literary Magazine Company, 1923. Quarto. Soft Cover. No markings in text; digital images available upon request. More
MESSAGES FROM MY FATHER (Signed; Review Copy)
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996. Hard Cover. First Edition. Signed. A First Edition copy signed by Calvin Trillin on the half-title page. Review materials, including a publicity photograph of Mr. Trillin, are laid in. More
DOCTOR MOON.
New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1935]. Hard Cover. First U.S. Edition. Based on the Crippen murder case, in which the homeopathic Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen murdered his adulterous wife, and fled with his mistress aboard a steam liner to..... More
IN THE DUTCH MOUNTAINS.
Viking, 1987. Hard Cover. First English Edition. With no marks. Orange cloth. Minor wear to the edges of the dustjacket. More
THE TRAGICALL HISTORY OF D. FAUSTUS (THE TUDOR FACSIMILE TEXTS)
AMS Press, 1970. Hard Cover. This is #102 in the facsimile text series. There is no writing in the book, previous owner names or underlining. There is light and scattered foxing to the endpapers and the edges of the textblock..... More
THE GIRL IN THE HOUSE OF HATE
Gold Medal Book, 1953. Soft Cover. First Printing. The spine appears to have been reglued, just a little bit awkwardly. No marks in the book. More
A COPIOUS AND CRITICAL ENGLISH-LATIN LEXICON FOUNDED ON THE GERMAN-LATIN DICTIONARY OF DR. CHARLES ERNEST GEORGES [Archer Anderson’s Copy]
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. Full Leather. First American Edition. A First American Edition copy of this significant Greek-English lexicon, with the bookplate of Confederate soldier and president of the Tredegar Company Archer Anderson, and the name label of..... More
MARK WILTON, The Merchant’s Clerk
New York: Stanford and Swords, 1850. 12mo. Hard Cover. 214pp. Light scattered foxing in text but no pencil or ink markings evident other than gift note written on front paste-down; green embossed cloth binding with light edge wear to extremities;..... More
DETECTIVE DUPIN READS WILLIAM FAULKNER. SOLUTIONS TO SIX YOKNAPATAWPHA MYSTERIES.
San Francisco; London; Bethesda: International Scholars Publications, 1997. Soft Cover. Signed. Charles Chappell’s Detective Dupin Reads William Faulkner: Solutions to Six Yoknapatawpha Mysteries. Signed by the author on the title page; signed with a personal inscription by the author on..... More
THE GLORIOUS ADVENTURES OF TYL ULENSPIEGL.
The Limited Editions Club, 1934. Hard Cover. Numbered 347 of 1500 copies, and signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. With a bookplate on the front pastedown and rear flyleaf. Bound in gray cloth with gilt lettering against red..... More
CHRISTMAS BOOKS
London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. Hard Cover. An inexpensive edition of the five Christmas Books, in the publisher’s green cloth binding. The boards are embossed and the spine is stamped in gilt. A clipping about the “Religious Character of Dickens”..... More
A CHRISTMAS CAROL: THE STORY OF A SALE
Chicago, IL: The Dartnell Corporation, 1927. Full Leather. In gray limp suede with titling and decoration in gilt to the upper board. Patterned endpapers in a metallic silver paper. With rubricated “Marginal Notes for Salesmen” on every page. 110 numbered..... More
PEARL-FISHING. CHOICE STORIES, FROM DICKENS’ HOUSEHOLD WORDS. SECOND SERIES.
Auburn | Rochester: Alden, Beardsley & Co. | Wanzer, Beardsley & Co., 1854. Hard Cover. Pearl-Fishing, a collection of stories by Charles Dickens. Engraved frontispiece. Foxing throughout. Blindstamp. Sunning to the spine, surface loss and wear to the extremities, and..... More
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Franklin Library | Oxford University Press, 1985. Full Leather. Limited to 7500 copies exclusively for subscribers to The Oxford Library of Charles Dickens. In publisher’s crimson leather with a blue leather onlay, and with elaborate decorations in gold, all edges..... More
THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS (70 PARTS IN 38 VOLUMES) | THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB; THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY; DOMBEY AND SON; THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP; THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD; THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT; LITTLE DORRIT; BLEAK HOUSE; THE ADVENTURES OF OLIVER TWIST; BARNABY RUDGE; A TALE OF TWO CITIES.
New York: New York Book Concern, 1873-1875. Illustrated by: Thomas Nast; C. S. Reinhart; W. L. Sheppard; Thoma. Soft Cover. The Harper & Brothers editions of most of the major works of Charles Dickens, from the Pickwick Papers to A...... More
SKETCHES BY BOZ: ILLUSTRATIVE OF EVERY-DAY LIFE, AND EVERY-DAY PEOPLE. THE SECOND SERIES. COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.
London: John Macrone, 1837. Quarter Leather. Second Series. First Edition, Second Issue of Charles Dickens’ first published book. Lacking the half title, ‘Contents’ leaf, and publisher’s advertisement at the rear. With frontispiece; additional title page, engraved; and eight additional plates..... More