London: Richard Bentley, 1843. First English edition and first edition in book form. BAL 3903; Spiller, page 122; OCLC records 14 copies, to which JISC adds four. One of Cooper’s lesser known works, a venture into the popular 18th and 19th century genre of fiction narrated by an inanimate object.....
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.....
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 of.....
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.....
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883. First edition. BAL 9610; Wright III, 2835. One of the major realistic domestic novels from William Dean Howells.
Paris: Chez Ponthieu, 1822. One of two French translations of The Sketch Book that were issued in 1822, its first year of publication in France; priority between the two is not known. Langfeld & Blackburn, page 67. One of the earliest examples of an important work of American literature translated.....
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: Henry Holt, 1938. First edition. Baird & Greenwood, California Fiction, 2355. "A novel of California from 1837 to 1861 . . . unique among novels dealing with this period and setting in having a serious and philosophical point of view. Regional history is given considerable detail. Montery and.....
New York: McClure, Phillips, 1901. First edition. Stewart Edward White's second book, and like his first and many to follow, a novel of rugged Western life. Inscribed twice by White: on the front paste-down is the presentation inscription: “My dear Colonel McClure: I want you to have this book, not.....