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First US edition of Austen's third published novel, centering on the comedic neighborhood drama caused by the amateur production of a play, with the specter of the slave trade hovering beneath the plot.
First US edition of Austen's third published novel, centering on the comedic neighborhood drama caused by the amateur production of a play, with the specter of the slave trade hovering beneath the plot.
Handsome complete seven-volume set of Smith & Elder's New Editions of the novels and poems of the Brontë sisters, with Gaskell's Life of Elizabeth Brontë.
First US edition of the wild Gothic tale of romance and betrayal, published only a few months after the nearly unobtainable London first, bound with another novel, NOW & THEN by Samuel Warren, published by Harper the same year.
Inscribed first printing of Brown's second novel, exploring the collision of of art, racism, and violence in 19th-century minstrel performance.
First edition of this sweeping history of Paris, from Gallo-Roman Lutèce to the imagined future of 1987 — featuring transmission screens and flying swan-boats, the latter depicted in a stellar full-page image by Robida.
Signed first edition, first printing of this western-framed exploration of mob mentality and justice, adapted into an Oscar-nominated western-noir film starring Henry Fonda.
Lovely Victorian edition in pictorial cloth of this popular comedic poem, executed in reverse order — caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson drew the illustrations before William Combe wrote the text.
First printing, first issue of this classic of US literature, a major influence on the development of the Western, American Romanticism, and North American-set historical fiction.
Rare first edition in English of this investigation of life after death, seeking to explain scientifically phantoms, lycanthropes, vampires, and Doubles by reference to "magnetic fluid" and the mesmeric ether.
Beautifully bound first edition of Zotti's annotated DIVINE COMEDY, primarily designed for British women learning Italian and dedicated by the editor to three aristocratic women patrons.
Remarkably beautiful first issue of the first edition in book form of OLIVER TWIST, with the rare suppressed "Fireside" plate.
First edition in book form of this classic story of love and the weight of family history set during the French Revolution, one of Dickens's best-known works.
Over 80 volumes from the personal library of author and influential editor Mary Mapes Dodge, with many of the volumes inscribed to Dodge by the authors.
The first appearance in print of this Sherlock Holmes story with a rather gruesome catalyst: a cardboard box containing severed human ears.
First US edition of Doyle's historical novel, a thrilling story of boys, blacksmithing, bare-knuckle boxing, and beaux Brummel, set around the turn of the 19th century and featuring several cameos by famous Regency personages of interest.
Rare first complete English edition of the classic swashbuckling adventure.
First edition of Eliot's third novel, a fable in realist dress, praised by some as the greatest of her works.
Beautifully bound Edwardian edition of Emerson's celebrated essays, including "Self-Reliance."
First edition of this Regency comedy of manners, an important landmark in the history of the Scottish novel and in popular romance.
Beautiful drafted set of partial sheets for the creation of cards used in the traditional game on classical Japanese poetry.
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 of Gittings's commentary on the five odes of Keats published in 1820, with facsimile reproductions and transcriptions of the earliest known manuscripts.
First edition, first issue of this enormously influential Lost World work, formative in its genre.
Scarce first edition of this etymological textbook of English affixes.
Gilded Age edition in an elaborately constructed vernacular dust jacket, with an original watercolor painted onto the front panel, and incorporating silk ribbons.