London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1781. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: ESTC T32385 records six copies in the British Isles and three in the US (Getty, HRC & Yale). A satirical review of an imaginary exhibition by real artists at the Royal Academy, dedicated to Joshua Reynolds, a founder and... More
Alexandria: Printed by Cottom and Stewart, Booksellers, 1802. Edition: First American edition. Bibliographical References: American Bibliography 1860; cf. Garside & Schöwerling 1801:15 for the English edition. The first American edition of the only novel by Thomas Bellamy, the picaresque tale of a young boy, Alfred, who is abandoned by his... More
London: Printed for T. Cadell and C. Elliott, Edinburgh, 1784. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: 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... More
New York: Random House, (1955). Edition: First edition. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller. More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1879. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Wolff 1351; Parrish, pages 110-111; not in Sadleir. One of Collins’ scarcest novels, an exploration of the lives of “those who have drawn blanks in the lottery of life . . . the friendless and the lonely, and the wounded... More
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London: Sands & Company, 1900. Edition: 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... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846-48. Edition: First edition, parts issue. Bibliographical References: Hatton & Cleaver, pages 227-250. This set agrees with Hatton and Cleaver's description, except that in part 11 there is no ad for Letts & Son, and the ad for Kaye’s Pills in part 12 varies slightly from... More
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1806. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Sadleir 773; NCBEL III, 667. An epistolary novel about a young English woman, Leonora, her marriage and friendship with another English woman, Olivia, who lived in France and was considered a coquette. More
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1754. Edition: First separate edition. Bibliographical References: 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... More
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1910. Edition: First American edition. Bibliographical References: Kirkpatrick A4b, first issue; NCBEL IV, 437. The scarce first edition of the first novel by Forster to be published in the U.S. More
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 728; not in Wolff or Sadleir, both of whom had other titles by Grattan. ¶ The final installment in Grattan's Irvingesque tales of France, sketches that were in fact inspired by Washington Irving; the first series was dedicated to... More
London: Trübner & Co., 1880. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: 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... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1891. Edition: First American edition. Bibliographical References: Purdy, page 67, Subsequent Editions; NCBEL III, 982. ¶ Purdy does not note variants on the American edition, but there are at least two. This one is printed on thicker paper and the decorations on the spine are... More
London: Osgood, McIlvaine, (1892). Edition: First one-volume edition, called the "Fifth Edition," with a new preface by Hardy, dated July 1892. Bibliographical References: Purdy, page 77, Subsequent Editions; NCBEL III, 982. More
London: Printed for T. Hookham, 1825. Edition: First edition, second issue with the title-page a cancel, replacing the original 1813 title-page and preface. Bibliographical References: Block, The English Novel, page 111; Noted under Garside & Schöwerling 1813:30; OCLC and Copac together record three copies of this second issue (BL, Leeds... More
London: Printed for T. Astley; and B. Collins, Salisbury, 1742. Edition: First edition in English. Bibliographical References: Gove, Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction, pages 303-305; ESTC T91064. ¶ The famous satirical work of science fiction by Norwegian-Danish philosopher, playwright and miscellaneous writer Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754). Journey to the World Under-Ground... More
London: William H. Ainsworth, 1827. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 359; not in Wolff. ¶ A series of short sketches modeled on the popular tales by Washington Irving and others of that style, and an early work by Thomas Hood (1799-1845), published by the future novelist, William Harrison Ainsworth. More
London: George Routledge, 1852. Edition: Second edition, preceded by the three decker published by T. C. Newby in 1849. Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 738; cf. Wolff 3506 for the 1849 edition; OCLC records only one copy of this second edition. ¶ Historical fiction about evil deeds committed by man. More
London: Published at the Punch Office, 1849. Edition: First edition, probably bound from the parts issue, which preceded the issue in cloth. Bibliographical References: Wolff 3667b; NCBEL III, 1150. ¶ A classic example of Victorian humor written by one the founders of Punch. More
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1930. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Roberts A36. ¶ From the library of Burton Weiss. More
London: Duckworth & Co., 1914. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Roberts A6, variant 2 with 16 pages of publisher’s ads at the rear; NCBEL IV, 482. ¶ Lawrence’s first collection of short stories. ¶ From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller. More
London: James Nisbet, 1844. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Sadleir 1450; Wolff 4180. A novel with a contemporary religious theme aimed at the Tractarian movement - or Oxford Movement - of which Catharine Long (1797-1867), a rare evangelical from the upper classes, did not approve. See Robert Lee Wolff, Gains... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1877. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Sadleir 1527; NCBEL III, 1066; cf. Wolff 4415, who had the third edition. The first novel by William Hurrell Mallock, a famous Peacockian roman à clef, written while Mallock was an undergraduate at Oxford, which brings together under one roof... More
London: Printed [for Edmund Curll], 1714. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: 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... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. Edition: Second edition, published the same year as the first. Bibliographical References: Cf. Garside, Raven & Schöwerling 1817: 49 & Wolff 5606. ¶ A historical romance that begins in Lindisfarne shortly after the first Jacobite uprising. Porter’s popular novels served as one... More