![Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old [spine title: "Sketches Old and New"]. Mark Twain, Samuel L....](/pictures/thumb/20100703_1.JPG?v=1605895023)
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
London: Constable & Company Limited, 1923. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. First printing, one of 500 copies (unnumbered), octavo size, 205 pp. Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) has delighted generations with his depictions of 19th-century British life; no one can describe his characters with such precision, allowing us to not only visualize..... More
n.p. Privately Published, 1936. Limited Edition. Wraps. No. 432 of 500 copies, octavo size, 18 printed pp. An interesting piece of Twainiana, with supposed "recollections" as told by one Frank Edward Kelsey to a certain "Laurel O'Connor" who, in the opinion of one writer (see Citation below), is believed to..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., ca. 1910. Scott, Sep E. Leather bound. "Burlington Library" edition, duodecimo size, 396 pp., in a custom binding by Riviere. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) needs no introduction. "A Tale of Two Cities" is known and loved by many of us, with the famous opening paragraph which..... 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
![Gabriel [Gavrilliad]; A Poem in One Song. Alexander Pushkin, Max Eastman, Rockwell Kent,...](/pictures/thumb/20082933_1.JPG?v=1602529564)
New York: Covici-Friede, 1929. Kent, Rockwell. Limited Edition. Parchment. No. 341 of 750 copies, octavo size, 44 pp., with parchment wrapper and slipcase. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837) was an esteemed Russian poet and novelist, who is considered the founder of modern Russian literature. This work, "Gabriel", is a satirical (some..... More
New York: Cassell Publishing Co., (1893). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing in book form, duodecimo size, 324 pp. Ambrose Gwinnet Bierce (1842-ca. 1914), a solider by training and profession between 1861 and 1865, serving in the Union army during the Civil War, became one of the leading literary figures of..... More