London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1931. 8vo. 637 pp. FIRST EDITION. Black publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering to spine, in original dust-jacket. HIS FIRST NOVEL. First edition of Cronin’s first novel, the story of an arrogant and cruel hat-maker who struggles for social acceptance. It was made into a motion picture in..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1940. 8vo. [vi], 160 pp. FIRST EDITION. Blue publisher’s cloth with paper spine label, in original gray, red and blue dust-jacket (dust-jacket slightly sunned at spine and edges, a tiny chip at head of spine, else fine). First edition of Cronin’s foray into drama. This..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. 8vo. [iv], 263 pp. FIRST EDITION. Red and black publisher’s cloth decorated in gilt, in original illustrated dust-jacket. Ownership inscription to fly-leaf. First edition. The tale of an overbearing father and the liberation his son finds with the help of the gardener. This novel..... More
NY: Greenberg, [1935]. 8vo. 288 pp. First edition in English. Tipped in errata leaf typed on blue scratch paper. Publisher’s brown cloth, no dust-jacket. Inscribed by the author on the fly-leaf, “To the great Miss Mary Pickford, who is becoming as famous in the American literary field as insuperable she..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., [1962]. 8vo. [x], 246 pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION. Tan cloth; though without a dust-jacket, an excellent, uncut copy. First edition. A memoir written after the death of his second wife, Rhea, for whom De Kruif abandoned his first wife and two children..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1912]. 8vo. 319, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece and 5 plates. Original pictorial blue cloth, stamped and gilt, a bit faded, corners and edges worn; minor foxing in text. Ownership inscriptions on fly-leaf. THE ORIGINAL “LOST WORLD”. First edition. The present work is the first..... More
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Ltd., [1926]. Two volumes. 8vo. xiii, [i], 342; vii, [i], 342, [2] pp. FIRST EDITION. Each volume with half-title, frontispiece and 7 plates. Original blue publisher’s cloth, sunned and lightly worn at spines, with some small tears in cloth at extremities..... More
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1900. 8vo. [vi], 348 pp., plus 4 pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece. Rebound in red cloth, original upper cover laid down, sunned at spine and edges of lower cover. Ownership inscription to recto of frontispiece, small bookseller’s label to front paste-down. First edition of..... More
Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1924. 12mo. [ii], x, [ii], 118 pp. Blue morocco over boards, worn and rubbed at edges; very minor intermittent spotting. Ownership inscription on flyleaf. The present work is a compilation of Drummond’s best poems including The Habitant, Johnnie Courteau, The Voyageur, and the Great Fight, all..... More
London & New York: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co.; Harper Bros. 1892; 1895; 1898. Three volumes. 8vo. FIRST EDITION IN SINGLE BOOK FORM; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE MARTIAN. With hundreds of illustrations. Uniform bindings by Bayntum in blue polished calf, covers with gilt double-ruled around edges and inner dentelles, spine..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928. 8vo. [vi], 304 pp., including half-title. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Original green decorated cloth with green printed end-papers; an excellent uncut copy. THE PHYSICIAN-SLEUTH. First American edition of this story of an enigmatic jewel heist. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1933. 8vo. v, [iii], 344 pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Publisher’s orange cloth, no dust-jacket; an excellent, uncut copy. First American edition. The only one of the Thorndyke novels to be based on an actual case, in which a Mr. Druce claimed to be the..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1934. 8vo. 319 pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION. Original blue cloth, bottom cover spotted, otherwise a fine copy. First edition. The story of a man who witnesses a murder, is convinced by his wife to say nothing, and ends up a suspect in the murder case..... More
London: Noel Douglas, 1927. 4to. [iv], viii, [i], 23 pp., including half-title. Original boards; light scattered foxing. Small bookseller’s stamp to rear paste-down. Facsimile of the British Museum’s copy of the first edition. NCBEL, II, 1198. More
London: John Van Voorst, 1843. 4to. xv, [i], 306 pp., including half-title. With 32 text engravings. Full red morocco, boards gilt-ruled, gilt edges and dentelles, with white and gold patterned end-papers; an exquisite copy from the library of James Anderson Rose (see below) with his armorial bookplate. ENGRAVINGS BY WILLIAM..... More
London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1914. Folio. xvi, 345 pp. With colour frontispiece and 60 plates (12 colour). Half-morocco and cloth; a lovely untrimmed copy. First edition containing the illustrations of Edmund J. Sullivan. A limited printing, this copy is number 53 of 500 signed by the illustrator. More
New York: Scribners, 1929. 8vo. 355 pp. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE WITHOUT THE LEGAL DISCLAIMER. Original black cloth, gold labels, in the dust jacket. An exceptional copy, light dust spots on top edge, the binding mint, the dust jacket bright and near fine. First edition, first issue, without the legal..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. 8vo. [viii], 118, [2] pp. FIRST EDITION. Original publisher's cloth, gilt-stamped title to spine and blind-stamped to upper board, with dust jacket (torn), otherwise a very good copy. First edition in book form of Hersey's classic story of six people who survived the atom..... More
London: William Paterson & Co., [n.d.]. 8vo. 320 pp. Blue cloth, decorated in blind. Inscription to title-page dated July, 1892, bookplate of the Longos. Later English reprint. Not in BAL or C&T. More
[London]: [Headley Brothers], [n.d. (ca. 1960’s)]. 8vo. [viii], 56 pp. FIRST EDITION. Blue cloth, title and author in gilt to top cover . Small stain affecting area at foot of spine. Inscription to fly-leaf. First edition. Poems related to the medical profession and doctors, some of which had previously appeared..... More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1969. 8vo. xix, [i], 213, 3 pp. FIRST EDITION. Black publisher’s cloth in original dust-jacket. Aside from some small spots to back of dust-jacket, a bright, clean copy. First edition of this posthumously printed work. Contains many of his more famous tales, such as The thing..... More
Philadelphia: Prime Press, 1949. 8vo. [viii], 160 pp. FIRST EDITION. Green publisher’s cloth, in original dust-jacket. A fine copy. First edition of this bizarre tale of a male virgin birth. Wishing to convey the idea that “a man can do anything he wants to if he thinks he can and..... More
[Ann Arbor]: [Edwards Brothers, Inc.], [1948]. 4to. 166 pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Original green publisher’s cloth in original dust jacket. Signed by the author on fly-leaf. First American edition of this collection of tales of Louisiana. Originally printed in France, this edition contains a new after-word by the author. This..... More
Philadelphia: New Era Publishers, 1948. 8vo. 265 pp. FIRST EDITION. with 2 plates. A fine copy in the original dust-jacket. Inscribed by author to fly-leaf. First edition. The tale of a group of men condemned to death by being thrown into a volcano, The solitary hunters originally appeared in Weird..... More
New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, [1952]. 8vo. [ix], [i], 322 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original peach publisher’s cloth, title in gilt to spine. Very fine, in original dust-jacket. First edition of this collection of stories. Divided into three sections, the first made up of science-fictions stories, the second of “weird fiction”..... More
