Tales of Three Cities.
London: Macmillan, 1884. First English edition. Edel & Laurence A24b; noted under BAL 10569. Tales set in London, Boston and New York.
London: Macmillan, 1884. First English edition. Edel & Laurence A24b; noted under BAL 10569. Tales set in London, Boston and New York.
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.....
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: 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.....
Chicago: The Stein Company, 1902. First edition. OCLC records five copies (OSU, Chicago, Stanford, Northern Illinois and Penn). One of about twelve recorded works of fiction by Chicago author William Wilson Knott, all classic examples of the pulp fiction genre that flourished during the 1890s. Little is known about Knott.....
[Chicago: n.p., n.d., 1894]. First edition. OCLC 20150325, 20150203 & 12380909 record three copies: OSU, Chicago and Stanford. One of about twelve recorded works of fiction by Chicago author William Wilson Knott, all classic examples of the pulp fiction genre that flourished during the 1890s. Little is known about Knott.....
[Chicago: n.p.], (1897). First edition. OCLC 64100281 & 71848624 record three copies: Stanford, OSU and Chicago. One of about twelve recorded works of fiction by Paul James Duff, all classic examples of the pulp fiction genre that flourished during the 1890s. Little is known about Duff, other than that he.....
[Chicago: n.p.], (1899). First edition, one of two imprints; the other was Chicago: Ross Pub. Co., issued as No. 4 in the Lyceum Series. OCLC 10244252, 64471423 and 199661009 record seven copies Chicago, Indiana, OSU (both imprints), UCLA, Penn and Stanford. One of about twelve recorded works of fiction by.....
New York: The Eagle Book Co., 1891. First edition. OCLC 57760704 & 720621672 record variant imprints with one holding each, both at Ohio State. A classic example of the pulp fiction produced at the end of the 19th century. This is the only title found in OCLC under the name.....
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.