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.
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.
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.
First edition in English of the Njals Saga, one of the most popular tales of medieval Iceland.
First edition of this major novel by Dickens, a critical turning point in his career.
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 unabridged English-language edition — and still the mostly widely read English translation — of the classic tale of vengeance delayed, but never denied.
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, 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 English edition of Victor Hugo's iconic novel, published in the same year as the French.
First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the profound influence of the institution of slavery, on cultural and deeply personal levels.
Limited edition, signed by the illustrator, of Lamb's diverting and digressive essay on the Pig, for whom he has much appetitive affection but no pity whatever.
First edition in book form of this suspenseful romance with an active, adventurous heroine, the drama turning on questions of power and property.
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.