London: Oxford University Press, 2003. 1st edition. xxviii, 408 pp (including index). Frontis. 8vo. Dark blue cloth binding. Light blue dust jacket. More
Anderson, Indiana: Published by Warner Press, (1952). 1st printing (presumed). Not found in the Cotsen catalogue. Storybook unpaginated, though 20 pp, including covers. Pictures by Dorothy Handsaker Scott. 4to. 11" x 8-3/8". Box, landscape format: 9" x 11-3/8". Booklet spiral bound, red. Uncommon, mid-20th C publication celebrating the Christmas Story;..... More
(n. p.): Designed and printed by Richard Bigus during the fall of 1978 for Neville & Yellin as a celebration of the poet, 1978. 1st printing thus. SIGNED by Rosenberg. LIMITED to 200 copies. Broadside, printed recto only. 21" x 14-3/4". Orange and black ink printed on stiff beige paper..... More
London: John C. Nimmo, 1888. 1st Edition. Copy #27 of 500 total copies. x, [2], 384 pp. 1887 publisher catalogue follows text. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-7/8". Dark blue cloth binding with gilt title lettering stamped to spine. Bevelled edges. More
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1957. 1st edition, SIGNED by both Authors, and dated in the year of publication. xvi, [2], 302, [2] pp (including Index). 8vo. Grey cloth binding. Red, white & black dust jacket. More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1967. 1st UK, and 1st hardback, edition. 156, [4] pp. Crown 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". Red cloth binding with gilt title lettering stamped to spine. Yellow dust jacket with red and black title lettering printed to front panel and black title lettering printed to spine... More
London: John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, [1869]. 1st edition thus. 225, [3] pp. One page publisher advert at rear. Illustrated with b/w drawings by de Roussy. Oblong 12mo. 5-3/4" x 6-3/4". Original blue publishers cloth with red and gilt decorations, bevelled boards, AEG. More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1935. 1st trade edition (Large paper edition - Hanna 94). 285 pp (including Index). Color frontis. Illustrated from photographs (at rear). Royal 8vo. 10-1/8" x 6-3/4". Creme-colored buckram with gilt lettering. Buff printed dust jacket. More
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1877. 1st Edition. x, [2], 249, [7] pp. Adverts last 6 pages. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. TEG. More
Dundee: Printed at the Advertiser Office, Bank Street, 1875. 1st edition. viii, 92 pp. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 5". Original publisher's pebbled red cloth binding with gilt stamping to front board. Now protected by a custom-cut clear mylar wrapper. More
Toledo Ohio: Locke Publishing Co., 1880. 1st published in 1872, cf. BAL 11826. This edition: Zinman 1190. Specimen pages & plates. Broadside description of volume & prices, followed by lined, horizontally-oriented subscriber pages. Illustrations by Thomas Nast. 8vo. 9" x 6". Blindstamped purple cloth binding. Sample spine to front paste-down..... More
San Francisco: C. A. Murdock & Co., Printers, 1889. 1st printing (presumed). INSCRIBED with "Compliments of Compilers" 78, [4 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 7" x 5-1/2". Quarter- bound beige cloth spine over gilt/blue patterned paper-covered boards. Gilt stamped lettering to front board over beige spine. Book of short sayings and excerpts..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1875. 1st edition. 241, [1 (blank)], 8, [2 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 6-5/8" x 4-3/4". Modern marbled paper wrappers, with printed paper title label to front wrapper. More
London: The De La More Press, 52 High Holborn, W.C, [1902]. 1st Edition. [6], 36 pp. Frontispiece. 12mo. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt & dark green stamping. The title poem was first printed in Ballads and Poems (1899); the seven others are here collected for the first time..... More
Melbourne: Clarson, Massina & Co., 72 Little Collins Street, 1876. Later edition, first published in 1870. [4], 108 pp. 12mo. 7-1/8" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's flexible green cloth binding with gilt stamping to front cover. Deep blue-green paper eps. More
San Francisco: San Francisco Examiner, 1937. 1st printing thus. 15, [1] pp. Text 4 column. Illustrated in color. Folio. 15-1/2" x 10-3/4". Printed self wrappers, newspaper format. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
Nashua: Published by David Marshall, 1842. 1st edition (American Imprints 42-1865]. 10, [2], [13] - 391, [3 (blank)] pp. Errata tipped-in to p. 391. 12mo. 7-3/4" x 4-7/8". Publisher's brown vertically-ribbed cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & front board. Yellow eps. Now protected by a custom-cut clear mylar..... More
New York: Samuel A. Tannenbaum, 1940. Limited edition of 300 cc. x, 101, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4". Original publisher's brown paper boards with red cloth spine. Printed paper title label to front board. More
London: William Pickering, 1831. 1st edition thus (Keynes, p. 48). vi, lxviii, 239, [5] pp. 4 page publisher catalogue concludes volume. Frontispiece portrait of Beattie. 12mo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/4". Original publisher's blue cloth binding with printed paper spine label. Now protected by a custom-cut clear mylar wrapper. Beattie "became the..... More
London & NY: John Lane. The Bodley Head. 1896. 1st edition (Colbeck Collection, 18; NCBEL III, 620). 101, [3 (blank)] pp. 16 pp '1895' publisher catalogue at rear. 12mo. 7" x 4-1/2". Blue linen cloth binding with gilt lettering/designs. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. 1st edition (BAL, v 4, p. 35). [12], 339, [1] pp (including Index). Illustrated with plates & facsimiles. 8vo. Original publisher's green vertically-ribbed cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering & decorations. TEG. More
New York: E. B. Treat & Co., 654 Broadway, 1870. 1st edition. 623, [3 (blank)] pp. Numerous Illustrations, from Original Designs by A. L. Rawson. Thick 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamping. Bevelled boards. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. 1st US edition. xviii, 153, [1 (blank)] pp. Crown 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Printed red paper dust jacket. "The strange story of a war hero who read his own obituaries and sat down in protest to write the naked truth about..... More
New York: Children's High Level Group, (2008). 1st printing. 111, [1] pp. Last page credits. 15 text and interior illustrations by J.K. Rowling. Cover art by Mary GrandPre'. 8-1/2" x 5-5/8". Pictorial hardback. More
London: Dalau & Co., 1925. 1st edition. vii, [1], 180 pp. Crown 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Blue dust jacket. A collection of essays on divers literary & bookish topics, with the first 2 chapters on Dickens. More
