ARGOT AND SLANG: A New French and English Dictionary
Handsomely rebound Edwardian edition of this invaluable 19th century dictionary of French slang, defined in English.
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.
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 US edition of Joseph Conrad's second novel, an adventure of steamers and the African jungle published three years before his HEART OF DARKNESS.
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.
Lovely 78-card set of the famously evocative "Year 2000" illustrated cards, prepared for the 1900 Paris Exposition, featuring scenes with atomic energy, electric trains, and a device very like Zoom.
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.
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.
First edition in English of the Njals Saga, one of the most popular tales of medieval Iceland.
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.
First edition in English of Dostoyevsky's first book, in beautifully sinister pictorial cloth designed by Aubrey Beardsley.
Handsome copy of the first complete English-language edition in book form — and still the mostly widely read English translation — of the classic tale of vengeance delayed, but never denied.
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.
Beautiful drafted set of partial sheets for the creation of cards used in the traditional game on classical Japanese poetry.
First edition of this rare feminist novel by an abolitionist and temperance crusader.
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.
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.
Inscribed first printing of Heffernan's study of landscape in the arts of four English Romantic painters and poets, recipient of the Brown University Press First Book Prize Award.
First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the profound influence of the institution of slavery, on cultural and deeply personal levels.