Bournemouth. Sheets Archivally Mounted. RARE: ORIGINAL PLANS FOR MIDDLE ROAD WHICH LEADS TO SKERRYVORE, Robert Louis Stevenson's home in Bournemouth where John Singer Sargent painted Stevenson and his wife and where Stevenson had the famous dream which inspired his great work "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", which..... More

London: 1899. No Binding. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $135. An about Very Good copy of a theatre program of the Prince of Wales Theatre hand-dated "January 16th 1900". The Play is titled "THE ONLY WAY; A TALE OF TWO CITIES". The Program states that the Play is to be presented on..... More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $25. A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original blue cloth with the spine and the front board both lettered and decorated in gilt [such gilt being brighter..... More

New York: Broadway Magazine Incorporated, 1911. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $225. A Near Fine copy of this issue of Hampton's Magazine for March, 1911, a monthly magazine. This issue contains works by Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Owen Johnson and others, and most importantly, presents the first..... More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1902. Later Edition. Hardcover. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $65. A Very Good copy of this "New Edition" from Chatto & Windus [who also published the first UK Edition in 1892] bound in the original blue cloth with gilt lettering surrounded by some decoration in blind, and with..... More

London: Chapman & Hall, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $60. A Very Good + copy of the first English edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original dark blue cloth which, but for two small pushes to the front board's top edge, in a Very Good dust..... More

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $80. A Fine, Superior, tight and unread Advance copy of the first edtion, first printing, with the Original Publisher's letter loosely laid in. While a struggling young writer, Miller began writing the novel in 1929 while living..... More

Paris: Goupil and Cie, 1918. First Thus. Wrappers. A presumably Near Fine to Fine copy of this beautifully illustrated biography of the Rococo French painter and printmaker, Fragonard, one of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Regime. This copy remains bound in its original..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, Undated [1866]. First Edition, later impression. Wrappers. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $2,850. A Very Good copy of this VARIANT, LATER IMPRESSION, OF THE RARE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION [at least of the wrappers], in the Publisher's original wrappers housing the FIRST EDITION STATE (perhaps, and we think..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. First Edition. Wrappers. "...not only Trollope's best shorter book, but one of the most charming idylls in English Literature....It has all the colour and richness and cohesion of something done irresistibly." [Hugh Walpole, 1904.] A Very Good set of the first American Edition, first..... More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine copy of the First Edition, first printing (some shelf soil to the closed page block's bottom leading edge, in a Fine dust jacket with some wrinkling to the rear panel's upper left corner (corner-clipped by the publisher, but..... More

New York: I. S. Platt (for the first above item); Wiley and Putnam (for the second item, an expansion of the first), 1844 and 1846, respectively. First Editions, First Printings. No binding and Hardcover. Good to Very Good or better copies of two works, the first having been disbound (presumably..... More

New York: Hyperion, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket, being an Anthology wherein women authors write about the joys, trials, and exhilarations of their first year of mothehood, SIGNED BY MONA SIMPSON at her contribution. More