Category: First Editions

View Categories / First Editions

Sort

Showing 21-40 of 1056

Linnet: A Romance (1898)

By: Allen, Grant

Price: £40.00

Publisher: New York, New Amsterdam Book Company: 1900

Seller ID: 82004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

First American Edition. Frontispiece portrait of author. Original fine-ribbed scarlet cloth, lettered in black and illustrated in gilt on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Small (and ancient) repair to cloth at foot of spine, undated signature on front free endpaper, otherwise a very clean, bright copy, good. A superior American edition of one of Allen's scarce late novels.
View More...

Below the Surface; or, Down in the Slums (1885)

By: Alsop, Alfred ["A. Delver"]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Manchester, John Heywood: 1885

Seller ID: 92156

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original red cloth, lettered and illustrated in black end gilt; yellow endpapers. Rubbed on hinges, signature (1887) on front free endpaper, good. Alsop was Superintendent of The Home for Neglected Boys in Manchester's Deansgate, and wrote and edited a number of works telling the stories of the poor, of reformed criminals etc. The second story here -- Experience of a Convict -- is largely set in Gibraltar. The last story -- Life Below the Surface; or, Child Life in the Slums is by Eleanor Grundy.
View More...

The Strange Adventure of Roger Wilkins and Other Stories (1895)

By: Andom, R [ie Alfred Walter Barrett]

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Tylston & Edwards: 1895

Seller ID: 84052

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original yellow cloth, lettered and decorated in brown. Spine a little darkened, small nick in cloth at head of spine, endpapers lightly tanned, inscription (1906) on front pastedown, good. The title piece is a fantasy of exchanged souls. The other stories are: The Gratitude of an Outcast, Industry and Sloth, Myrtle Farm, A Commonplace Tragedy, Mr Jordan's Reparation, Johnson's Little Spec, The Plot That Failed & In a Moment of Madness.
View More...

Three Men -- and Troddles Being Some Further Exploits of a Well-Known Quartette (1916)

By: Andom, R. [ie Alfred Walter Barrett]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, George Newnes: 1916

Seller ID: VN2032

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original pinky-orange cloth with figures in silhouette, lettered in black. Lightly scuffed/grazed, a little foxing, very good. A war-time entry in the series of Troddles' stories: perhaps consequently, one of the scarcer titles in the series.
View More...

Troddles & Us and Others (1901)

By: Andom, R. [ie Alfred Walter Barrett]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Jarrold & Sons: 1901

Seller ID: VN2486

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original yellow cloth, lettered and illustrated in red and black. Lightly soiled, light foxing, undated signature on front pastedown, good+. One of Andom's numerous comic novels featuring the eponymous Troddles.
View More...

Scenes and Sketches

By: Anonymous

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Published for the Proprietor: 1850

Seller ID: 01913

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Undated, c1850. Engraved frontispiece and title page. Original blindstamped crimson cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers; all edges gilt. Spine relaid, corners rubbed, now good. I can find no record of this title, or its author(s), anywhere. A collection of 9 short stories, with varying settings (Deptford, Blackheath, Cornwall, France), giving few clues to the identity of the writer(s): Mad Collins, Sally Grey, Isidore, Practical Jokes, Master and Man, The Wrecker's Daughter, The Rejected Lover, The Fair Day, A Workhouse Man's Tale.
View More...

The History of a Man. By the Man (1898)

By: Anonymous

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Thomas Burleigh: 1898

Seller ID: VN0981

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original crimson cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine lightly sunned, a little browning on endpapers, otherwise very good. The life struggles of an ordinary man: "I have been fighting against circumstances now for full fifteen years". The novel treats the various phases of the anonymous hero's working life: periods of unemployment and mixed employment, starting with clerkship in a bank, then a substantial period working in the police at Scotland Yard ("The Force") and finally training to be a barrister.
View More...

The History of a Man. By the Man (1898)

By: Anonymous

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Thomas Burleigh: 1898

Seller ID: VN1477

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original crimson cloth, lettered in gilt.Rubbed at head of spine, edges of front free endpaper chipped, otherwise good. The life struggles of an ordinary man: "I have been fighting against circumstances now for full fifteen years". The novel treats the various phases of the anonymous hero's working life: periods of unemployment and mixed employment, starting with clerkship in a bank, then a substantial period working in the police at Scotland Yard ("The Force") and finally training to be a barrister.
View More...

Basil St John. An Autumn Tale (1865)

By: Anonymous

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Edmonton & Douglas: 1865

Seller ID: 04425

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Illustrated. Original lilac cloth, with blindstamped framing on front board, lettered in gilt on spine, yellow endpapers. Spine sunned, corners rubbed, short split to cloth at foot of lower hinge, undated signature on front free endpaper, otherwise good. A romance, set largely in the Western Highlands, and issued by a Scottish publisher. The unknown author produced at least two further novels: Love and Duty (1866) and Arthur Clifford (1869).
View More...

A Picture Book of Merry Tales (1860)

By: Anonymous

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Bosworth & Harrison: 1860

Seller ID: 96001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

[First Edition?]: Bosworth & Harrison, nd (1860?). Numerous full-page monochrome illustrations. Original red cloth with blindstamped and gilt decorations on boards, lettered in gilt on spine, yellow endpapers; all edges gilt. Lightly scuffed, lacks half-title/frontispiece, good. The first half of the book is a retelling of German folk-tales about the prankster Tyll Eulenspiegel (translated as "Tyll Owlglass"), followed by a number of separate fairy stories from different sources.
View More...

The Battle Worth Fighting and Other Stories (1865)

By: Anonymous, None Given

Price: £9.00

Publisher: S. P. C. K. {Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge]: 0

Seller ID: VN3157

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; deep yellow endpapers. Corners rubbed, , inner joint papers lightly cracked, inscription (1866) on front pastedown, good. Four stories (all anonymous): The Battle Worth Fighting, Lena's Offering, The Quiet Witness & Thorns in the Way. 0
View More...

The Manoeuvres of Celeste (1912)

By: Anonymous/Unidentified: "M E-G."

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Evelyn Benmar & Co: 1912

Seller ID: VN2699

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original cream boards, lettered and decorated in black. Spine blank. Chip at foot of spine, boards lightly soiled, front inner joint papers lightly cracked, good. A short novel by an unidentified author.
View More...

Many Years After; with Other Tales and Sketches (1876)

By: Anonymous: "A Revenue Officer"

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, The Civil Service Printing and Publishing Company: 1876

Seller ID: VN2440

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated first edition [1876]. Original dark green cloth, framed in black; lettered in gilt on spine; dark brown endpapers. Corners and hinges rubbed, inner joint papers lightly cracked (but joints tight), inscription in pencil (1878) on title page, good. Tales and sketches of the Civil Service (especially the Inland Revenue) and other miscellaneous subjects, by a Civil Servant and published by the Civil Service. A quirky and scarce piece of Victoriana.
View More...

Image for An Arm-Chair in the Smoking Room: or Fiction, Anecdote, Humour, and Fancy for Dreamy Half-Hours with Notes on Cigars, Meerschaums, and Smoking, from Various Pens (1870)

An Arm-Chair in the Smoking Room: or Fiction, Anecdote, Humour, and Fancy for Dreamy Half-Hours with Notes on Cigars, Meerschaums, and Smoking, from Various Pens (1870)

By: Anonymous; Various

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Stanley Rivers & Co.: 1870

Seller ID: VN2590

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated first edition [1870]. Original purple-black cloth on bevelled boards, lettered in gilt; blue-black endpapers. 2 mm loss to cloth head and foot of spine, inner joint papers lightly cracked, foxing (quite heavy on early pages), otherwise good.
View More...

Lyre and Lancet. A Story in Scenes (1895)

By: Anstey, F. [ie Thomas Anstey Guthrie]

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1895

Seller ID: 02219

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The Novel Series. Original fine-ribbed grey-blue cloth. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown otherwise very good.
View More...

The Travelling Companions. A Story in Scenes. [Reprinted from Punch] (1892)

By: Anstey, F. [ie Thomas Anstey Guthrie]

Price: £14.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co.: 1892

Seller ID: 02319

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original red-brown cloth spine, with brown boards, illustrated and lettered in black; chocolate brown endpapers. Minor scuffing, inscription (1938) on recto on frontispiece, bookplate on front pastedown, very good.
View More...

The Last Load. Stories and Essays (1925)

By: Anstey, F. [ie Thomas Anstey Guthrie]

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1925

Seller ID: 03591

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original grey cloth. Lightly scuffed, a little light foxing, very good. Wolff [160], with "undated" publisher's catalogue:. Wolff apparently overlooked the code dating at foot on last leaf. Originally issued in blue cloth, with the code date "625" (June 1925) and later issued in as a remainder/reissue in grey cloth, dated "1029" (October 1929). Anstey's final and uncommon collection of 17 humorous short stories and essays. This copy is the late remainder issue with the later code dating.
View More...

Lyre and Lancet. A Story in Scenes (1895)

By: Anstey, F. [ie Thomas Anstey Guthrie]

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1895

Seller ID: VN1869

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

The Novel Series. Original fine-ribbed grey-blue cloth. A little scuffed, good.
View More...

Percy and Others. Sketches Mainly Reprinted from Punch (1915)

By: Anstey, F. [ie Thomas Anstey Guthrie]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1915

Seller ID: 85013

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition. Undated [1915]. Original red cloth, blindstamped on front board, elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt on spine. A few tiny marks, publisher's circular "Presentation Copy" stamp on title page, otherwise near fine. One of Anstey's least common titles. Publisher's catalogue, dated 25/9/14 on final page, bound in at end.
View More...

In Brief Authority (1915)

By: Anstey, F. [ie Thomas Anstey Guthrie]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1915

Seller ID: 95059

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original light blue cloth, lettered in black on front board, in gilt on spine. A number of small marks on boards, front free endpaper tipped in, spine tips scuffed, light foxing, good. Wolff [159]. A satirical fantasy in which the ghastly Mr and Mrs Wibberley-Stimpson are unexpectedly installed as the King and Queen of Fairyland.
View More...

£0.00 (0 Items)

Category: First Editions

This website uses cookies