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.
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The Minister’s Charge or The Apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker.
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.....
The Damnation of Theron Ware.
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.....
Daisy’s Necklace: and What Came of It. (A Literary Episode).
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.....
The Adventuress or, A Tale of Parisian Life. A Romance with a Moral - The Acme of Realistic Fiction. From the French of Charles Aubert.
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.....
His Fatal Wager: A Highly Sensational and Realistic Novel. By William Wilson Knott. Author of "Stolen Sweets," "Forbidden Fruit," "Amy Belue," Etc.
[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.....
Rosa's Confession, A Realistic Romance of Love and Adventure. By Paul James Duff, Author of Tessie's Temptation, Etc.
[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.....
A Siren's Wiles: A Realistic Reflex of Life in Gayest New York. By Paul James Duff. Author of "Side Lights on Darkest Chicago," Etc.
[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.....
Her Private Character: A Story of Man's Crime and Woman's Folly, and the Retribution with Follows Both. By Dyer Montross.
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.....
To-night at Eight: Comedies and Comediettas.
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.
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