THE SIGN OF FOUR
1890
First edition in book form, first issue, of the second ever Sherlock Holmes story, in which Watson meets his future wife.
19th century
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EL ANACRONÓPETE [The Time Ship]
1887
First edition of the first modern Western novel featuring a time machine, published 8 years before THE TIME MACHINE by H.G. Wells.
Sammelband of Railway Book Mysteries Including BELGRAVE SQUARE
[1889], 1889, 1890, [1889]
A collection of early editions of four Victorian mysteries, written just before and during Sherlock Holmes' elevation of the genre, bound together after publication.
HER DOUBLE LIFE
(1888)
First edition in book form of this suspenseful romance with an active, adventurous heroine, the drama turning on questions of power and property.
A FORBIDDEN MARRIAGE
[circa 1912]
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.
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CURIOSITIES OF CRIME IN EDINBURGH [with] THE SLIDING SCALE OF LIFE; Or, Thirty Years' Observations of Falling Men and Women in Edinburgh
1861
First editions (both) of this two-volume set of the Edinburgh detective's tales of Victorian crime and punishment.
HISTOIRES EXTRAORDINAIRES
1856
First edition in book form of the first of Baudelaire's highly influential French translations of Edgar Allan Poe.
FRANKENSTEIN
1833
First American edition, in the original boards, of the book many consider the beginning of modern science fiction, a vengeful tale of a scientist's artificial human creation gone wrong.
THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
1886
First issue of the Gothic thriller, in the scarce original wrappers.
THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
(1941)
First edition thus of the striking movie-tie in edition, in beautiful condition.
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT
1889
First edition, first issue of the satirical time travel fantasy, composed after Twain had read Malory's famous version of the legends of the knights of the Round Table.
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