Collection of Volumes from the Personal Library of Mary Mapes Dodge
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.
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.
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 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.
Remarkably beautiful first issue of the first edition in book form of OLIVER TWIST, with the rare suppressed "Fireside" plate.
First edition of Eliot's third novel, a fable in realist dress, praised by some as the greatest of her works.
First editions of two volumes of the Edinburgh detective's tales of Victorian crime and punishment.
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.
Handsome first printing of Fowles's postmodern evocation of the Victorian novel.
First edition of this nostalgic series of snapshots of Victorian England, as experienced by Mundy, son of a groom – in the scarce and vivid original dust jacket.
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.
The first appearance in print of this Sherlock Holmes story with a rather gruesome catalyst: a cardboard box containing severed human ears.
Limited critical edition of this pseudonymous 1842 response to Charles Dickens, here attributed to Poe by Dickens collector Joseph Jackson but later reclassified as the work of poet Nathaniel Wheeler Coffin.
First edition thus of the striking movie-tie in edition, in beautiful condition.
First printing of this study of the Victorian reception of Romantic writers, with a warm note from the author to contemporary poet and Keats biographer Stanley Plumly.
Inscribed first edition of Perry's eighteenth late-Victorian mystery featuring husband-and-wife detectives Charlotte and William Pitt, here investigating Darwinism, Catholicism, and their respective influences on a murder.