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...
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...
New York: Random House, (1955). Edition: First edition. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
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...
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...
London: Faber and Faber, (1962). Edition: First collected edition, limited issue, number 390 of 500 numbered copies, signed by Durrell. Durrell's famous masterpiece of fiction, here in its first collected, limited edition, the text of which was slightly revised by Durrell.
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.
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...
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...
London: Printed by Malachi****, for Edith Bates, Relict of the Aforesaid Mr. Bates, and sold by W. Owen, 1756. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: ESTC T77673; Block, The English Novel, page 140. A forerunner to Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, with numerous parallels in style and...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1930. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Roberts A36. ¶ From the library of Burton Weiss.
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.
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...
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...
Manchester: J. Gadsby, 1845. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Sadleir 1631; Wolff 4599; NCBEL III, 949. A South-Sea tale about a utopian tropical island which Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) wrote on behalf of the Anti-Corn Law League.
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