London: Printed for T. Cadell and C. Elliott, Edinburgh, 1784. First edition. Garside, Raven & Schöwerling 1784:12; ESTC N4372, recording six copies (BL, OX, Harvard, McMaster, Az, Penn). A story of unrequited love with a gloomy ending by novelist, playwright and poet George Monck Berkeley (1763-1792), grandson of the philosopher.....
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London: Sands & Company, 1900. First edition. Conrad's story "An Outpost of Progress," which first appeared in Cosmopolis magazine in 1897 and was collected in Tales of Unrest (1898), is included here in an anthology published to raise funds for the besieged citizens of the town of Ladysmith, South Africa.....
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1754. First separate edition. Cross, vol. 3, page 325; Rothschild 856. One of the great works in the literature of roguery - a satirical novel written under the guise of the biography of a famous criminal. Fielding's account first appeared in Miscellanies (1743) and is.....
London: Trübner & Co., 1880. First edition. Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy, page 96; not in Wolff, who had but one novel by Greg. A major work of Victorian science fiction, the story of "a flight, in a huge spacecraft powered by a force called apergy, to Mars, which is found.....
London: Printed [for Edmund Curll], 1714. First edition. NCBEL II, 987; Straus, The Unspeakable Curll, page 227; ESTC T65369. The fictionalized memoirs of novelist, playwright and journalist Delarivier Manley (c.1670-1724). The story, written under the guise of a translation and in part a roman à clef about contemporary characters, scandals.....