Handsomely rebound Edwardian edition of this invaluable 19th century dictionary of French slang, defined in English.

Inscribed first printing of Brown's second novel, exploring the collision of of art, racism, and violence in 19th-century minstrel performance.

First edition, second issue, of the most influential piece of war fiction in American literature, with the armorial engraved bookplate of Theodore Roosevelt on the front pastedown, and Roosevelt's clipped signature additionally tipped onto the front free endpaper.

First edition in English of the Njals Saga, one of the most popular tales of medieval Iceland.

First edition in English, introducing Dostoevsky to British readers on a large scale for the first time, a gorgeous copy.

Inscribed first edition, first issue, second printing (before publication) of this transcendentalist approach to the Great Man theory of history — an important copy, early among Emerson's inscriptions.

First edition of the first modern Western novel featuring a time machine, published eight years before THE TIME MACHINE by H.G. Wells.

First edition, first issue of this enormously influential Lost World work, formative in its genre.

Gilded Age edition in an elaborately constructed vernacular dust jacket, with an original watercolor painted onto the front panel, and incorporating silk ribbons.

First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the profound influence of the institution of slavery, on cultural and deeply personal levels.

Scarce first edition of poetry by the fairy-tale specialist arranged in categories like "Science," "Cameos," and "Rhymes a la mode."

Special cloth-bound edition, the first hardcover edition, of this sensation novel by one of the most popular women writers of dime novels, who specialized in romances and dramas for working-class girls and women.

First editions of two volumes of the Edinburgh detective's tales of Victorian crime and punishment.