Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1889. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine, Superior, tight (and apparently unread) copy of the first edition, first printing, of this collection of African-American stories by a female author, with illustrations by E. W. Kemble [who also illustrated Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Harriet Beecher..... More
![Item #2779 Youma: The Story of a West-Indian Slave [in the RARE 19th Century DUST JACKET]....](https://allingtonbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2779.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1650131883)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original decorated cloth with the title label applied to the front board and the title and author label applied to the spine panel (the spine shows some minor..... More
![Item #3601 The Mother and the Father [In the Rare Dust Jacket]. William Dean Howells, W. D. Howells](https://allingtonbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3601.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1668277983)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing of this long Poem by William Dean Howells bound in the Publisher's original green cloth with the front board lettered in gilt and decorated in blind and the spine lettered..... More
![Item #3407 Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud? [IN THE RARE DUST JACKET]. John Andrew,...](https://allingtonbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3407.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692811561)
Boston; New York: Lee and Shepard; Charles T. Dillingham, Presumed 1877. Humphrey, L. B. Unstated. Hardcover. A Very Good or better copy of this unstated edition, bound in the Publisher's original purple cloth and wearing the RARE DUST JACKET, with the title page dated 1877 and the copyright dated 1876..... More
London: H. Grevel and Co., 1906. Third Edition. Hardcover. An essentially Fine copy of the third and best edition, and the first edition to have been translated into English (with foxing to the boards as is usual with this title and with the closed page block's top edge in gilt)..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1914. Later Printing. Hardcover. A Fine copy of this early printing in the Publisher's original red cloth in a less than Very Good example of the RARE DUST JACKET, being [along with "Call of the Wild" (1903) and "White Fang" (1906)], one of London's famed Alaskan novels..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1902. First Edition [possible second issue or printing]. Hardcover. A Near Fine to Fine copy of the first edition, apparently otherwise unknown, second issue or printing, with an updated title page not showing the publication date but with the colophon to the title page verso..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1966. RARE ADVANCE COPY in the Dust Jacket. Bound Galleys in the Dust Jacket. AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE ADVANCE COPY (likely prepared for the Publisher's in-house review and without any Table of Contents) consisting of what appear to be trimmed signatures (perhaps the final Galleys) bolted..... More
Rostock: J. G. Tiedemann, 1842. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A Very Good or better copy of the first edition, first printing, of this notable German Almanac of the Rulers of Europe with Gender Tables and Descriptions of the Coat of Arms, issued for 1842, complete with fifty-four (54) black..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [no date per Hodder's practice at the time]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $250. NOW $95. A Fine copy of the first UK edition, first printing (showing some modest discoloration on the title page and some modest rubbing to the spine ends and..... More
Berlin: Hermann Freises, 1912 and 1914. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A Fine set of this First German Edition of Rembrandt's Drawings: issued in two volumes, Volume I presents 56 tipped-in illustrations and Volume II presents 176 tipped-in illustrations. The text is in German. Each Volume is in Near Fine..... More
Edinburgh: George Allen & Sons, 1910. John Tavenor-Perry. First Edition. Hardcover. An EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, of "Dinanderie A History and Description of Mediaeval Art Work in Copper Brass and Bronze" by the British architect, architectural historian, and specialist on medieval architecture John Tavenor-Perry..... More
![Item #2983 Whitman's Print-Collector's Handbook; [Print Collector's Handbook]; Sixth Edition,...](https://allingtonbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2983.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1596199325)
London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912. First Thus. Hardcover. A Fine copy of the First Edition thus, being the Sixth Edition which has been revised and enlarged with additional chapters (foxing to the closed page block's bottom and front edges, top edge gilt, in a Fine dust jacket (some..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. First Edition. Hardcover. A Very Good copy in the Publisher's original green boards with the front panel and spine lettered and decorated in gilt showing some rubbing the the spine ends and board corners, in a near Very Good example of a later..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. (Ernest Benn Ltd.), 1927. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (a bit of pushing to the spine ends, offsetting to the free endpapers, bookseller's sticker to the front pastedown's lower right corner), in an Essentially Fine example..... More