New York: Derby & Jackson; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1857. First edition. BAL 249; Wright II, 35. ¶ The second book by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907), a novel about the mystery behind a stolen necklace and the life of a struggling writer in New York. There are numerous references to.....
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1885. First edition. BAL 2339, printing 2; Wright III, 867. Cable’s third work of fiction, an interesting realistic novel set in ante-bellum and wartime New Orleans about the fortunes of a wealthy but generous physician, a struggling family he encounters in his practice and the consequences.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937. Salesman's dummy of the first volume of The Autograph Edition of the Novels and Stories of Willa Cather. See Crane AA1. The contents consists of a frontis portrait, title, dedication, contents pages and four pages of text, followed by a blank book. Prospectus laid in. This.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition, limited issue, number 502 of 520 numbered copies, signed by Cather. Crane A22.a.i.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1957). First edition. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, (1931). First trade edition. Petersen A9.2a. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839. First edition. BAL 5696; Wright I, 941; American Imprints 55631. A picaresque tale about a young man who becomes peripherally involved in a number of crimes and misdeeds in New York and London in the early 19th century. Sydney Clifton, one of several novels.....
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1896. First edition. BAL 6282; Kramer 69; Wright III, 2013. One of the great American realistic novels to emerge from the 1890s. Harold Frederic (1856-1898) traces the fall of a contemporary upstate New York Methodist minister without the brutality found in more naturalism-driven works of the.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. First edition. BAL 6465, state 1, binding 1; Wright III, 2077. The first American novel to take a serious look at life in that uniquely American urban innovation, the skyscraper, and “the first important American novel with city life at its theme” - Andrews.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889. First edition. BAL 7918; Wright III, 2620. ¶ Hearn’s first novel and his only major work of fiction set in Louisiana, where he resided for almost ten years. Chita is set on idyllic Last Island in the Gulf of Mexico and tells the tragic.....
Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1887. First edition, American issue, using the same plates as the English edition of 1886, with a new title-page. BAL 9627; Wright III, 2822. ¶ The Minister’s Charge, like many of Howells' works of fiction, probes the structure of the city’s social classes through the life.....
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1885. First edition. BAL 9619, state 1; Wright III, 2829. ¶ Howells’ most famous novel, and one of the cornerstone works of American realistic fiction, the story of the newly rich businessman, Silas Lapham, his frustrations in dealing with Boston brahmins and his rise and eventual.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. First edition. BAL 9685; Wright III, 2833. Howells' famous utopian novel about the guest from world of Altruria.
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883. First edition. BAL 9610; Wright III, 2835. One of the major realistic domestic novels from William Dean Howells.
London: Macmillan, 1884. First English edition. Edel & Laurence A24b; noted under BAL 10569. Tales set in London, Boston and New York.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842. First English edition. Noted under BAL 11143. ¶ The second book by Caroline Kirkland (1801-1865), a collection of sketches about the life of raising a family on the Michigan frontier, where she moved to from New York in 1837.
New York: C. S. Francis; Boston: J. H. Francis, 1839. First edition. BAL 11139; Wright I, 1583; Sabin 37991. ¶ The first book by Caroline Kirkland, an interesting realistic novel based on her first-hand experience of pioneer life with her husband and six children in a remote Michigan village. She.....
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867. First edition. BAL 11241, state A with the title leaf a cancel; Wright II, 1507. The first book and only work of fiction by poet and musician Sidney Lanier (1842-1881), a novel set in Tennessee before and during the Civil War, which uses the.....
New York: The Century Co., 1913. First edition. BAL 11946, printing 1; Smith, American Fiction 1901-1925; L-445. Jack London's autobiographical novel, whose main character is named for the famous English folk song - "John Barleycorn" - and like his English namesake, struggles with alcohol.
Chicago, New York and San Francisco: Belford, Clarke, (1889). First edition. OCLC 20927090 records five copies (HEH, Chicago, Harvard, NYPL and Brown). A collection of 22 short comedies by Frances Aymar Mathews (c.1865-1925), New York novelist and playwright. See Wright III, 3641-43 for three other work by Mathews.
Pawlet: The Banyan Press, 1954. First edition, number 192 of of 210 numbered copies. Hagstrom & Bixby A5.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First edition, one of 125 specially bound copies, signed by Morris and with an original photograph by him used as the frontispiece. ¶ From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
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Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1894. First edition. BAL 14808, first printing; Wright III, 3888. A local color novel set in the moutains of Tennessee by the prolific and popular middle Tennessee author, Mary Noailles Murfree (1850-1922), who wrote the majority of her work under the pseudonym Charles Egbert.....
New York: Random House, (1969). First edition, limited issue, number 75 of 200 numbered copies signed by O'Hara. ¶ From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
Trenton: Published by D. Fenton . . . L. Deare, Printer, N. Brunswick, 1811. First edition, one of two issues. American Bibliography 51124; Sabin 56732; Clark, Travels in the Old South, II: 110; Felcone, Printing in New Jersey 1786-1876, 1188. The wildly fantastic autobiographical narrative of Andrew Oehler, who writes.....