Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, second state (see details below), octavo size, 320 pp. Samuel L. Clemens, better known to the world as "Mark Twain", (1835-1910) created some of the best-loved characters of American fiction, including Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. In addition to..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 191 pp., signed by Robert B. Parker on a bookplate. The second "Spenser" novel, by Robert Brown Parker (1932-2010), who bequeathed to us many of our favourite mystery/detective stories; forty novels written about Spenser, the "the wise-cracking, street-smart..... More

New York: The Viking Press, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of the "Narrative Portion" (see details below), first printing, octavo size, 352 pp., in variant sea blue-green binding. Nobel Prize-wining author John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (1902-1968) is considered today to be one of the greatest American writers of the..... More

London: The Cresset Press Ltd. [printed by the University Press, Oxford], 1928. Rutherston, Albert. Limited Edition. Vellum. No. 369 of 750 sets, four volumes (complete), duodecimo size, 717 pp. Robert Herrick (bapt. 1591-1674) wrote just at the end of the Elizabethan period; best known for the collection of 1200 poems..... More

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 390 pp. Annie Smith Peck (1850-1935) was a woman far ahead of her time; at a time when women were just beginning to be admitted to the halls of higher education, she not only earned a...... More

n.p. The Private Press of Alvin S. Fick, 1977. Limited Edition. Stiff wraps. One of 70 copies (not stated), miniature book, [20] pp., letterpress printed. A perfect Christmas keepsake, which is how this was presented, as set forth in the introduction Alma and Al Fick wrote, beginning with: "When Christmas..... More

London: Jonathan Cape, (1963). First Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition, first printing, octavo size, 288 pp., inscribed by George Lazenby. The character of "James Bond" has entered our culture with the image of a man's man, one who loves martinis and women, fights for Queen and country, and, at the..... More

New York: White, Stokes, & Allen, 1885. Hardcover. Octavo size, 128 pp. A delightful volume of poetry paired with lovely floral chromolithographs, in a gorgeous publisher's decorate trade binding. Susie Barstow Skelding (1857-1934) selected the poems and produced the illustrations, this volume one of a series she produced with flowers..... More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1862. First Edition. Leather bound. First printing, duodecimo size, 216 pp., in a custom Riviere binding, from the collection of Natalie Knowlton Blair. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, member of the Pre-Raphaelites, was hailed at the death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning..... More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. Thomson, Hugh. First Edition. Leather. First trade edition with Hugh Thomson illustrations, duodecimo size, 316 pp., in a custom binding by Worsfold. Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855) earned her living as a writer in the early half of the nineteenth century, somewhat unusual for the day..... More

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., (1923). Wheelwright, Rowland. Hardcover. Octavo size, 793 pp. Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) is best known for his novels of high adventure and intrigue such as "The Three Musketeers", "The Count of Monte Cristo", and "The Man in the Iron Mask". One of the most..... More

London: Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. First printing, no. 133 of 1000 copies, octavo size, 168 pp., with acrylic slipcase. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), known for his lively wit and fashionable dress, became one of the best-known personalities in London, and his works are still read..... More

New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. First printing, no. 65 of 375 copies, octavo size, 160 pp., signed by Robinson Jeffers, with glassine and slipcase. American poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) was a prolific writer of the twentieth century; his bleak and uncompromising style of poetry was..... More