London: Published by George Emmett, at the Office, Hogarth House, St. Bride’s Avenue, [ca. 1885]. Early edition. James & Smith tentatively attributed this boys’ adventure to George Emmett, who appears here as the publisher. The illustrations, at least one of which is signed “Phiz,” have been attribited to Hablot Knight..... Read More about Young Tom Wildrake’s Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America

London: [Edwin J. Brett] “Boys of England” Office, n.d [ca. 1880]. E.J. Brett edition (Harkaway Series no. 6 & 7), bound from 23 parts. Author’s Copy. With a note in the author’s hand beneath the title, “by Philip Richards.” Bracebridge Hemyng wrote most of the Jack Harkaway series and this..... Read More about Jack Harkaway Among the Brigands … Volume I & II [complete

New York: The Literary Guild, 1931. First Edition. Inscribed to Joseph Mankiewicz. “The legend of a character born of the imagination of Southern Negro workers. He was six feet, strong and robust and capable of doing humans feats.” Treasure Trove p. 9. INSCRIBED on the flyleaf to legendary film producer..... Read More about John Henry

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1929. First Edition. Signed. Signed “Roark Bradford / New Orleans 1940” on the flyleaf. Read More about This Side of Jordan

London: Hogarth House, ca. 1880. First edition, bound from 12 penny parts. [Bound with:] [ANON.] Jack Rushton; or, Alone in the Pirate’s Lair. [London:] Publishing Office, 1877. Illus, incl. colored frontis and one colored plate;154 pp. Not in James & Smith. Read More about On the Queen’s Service, a Tale of Many Lands

London: George Redway, 1898. First edition. Very scarce translation from Celtic Lore about the "Otherworld" La Légende de la mort en Basse-Bretagne, 1893. compiled by Braz. the "Bard of Brittany" (1859 – 1926), was a Breton poet, folklore collector and translator. Read More about Dealings with the Dead Narratives From "La Légende de la Mort en Basse Bretagne"...

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill, 1847. First edition, without publisher's adverts or notice for the Calcutta Review found in some copies. The rare first edition, with half-titles. The first published novel by the Brontë sisters, done in a small edition of about 500 copies. It was immensely popular, and..... Read More about Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell. In Three Volumes

Dallas: The Kaleidograph Press, [1948]. In uncommon dust-jacket, with fair copy poem laid-in. Jonathan Henderson Brooks (1905-1945), African-American Baptist minister and poet, was born in Lexington, Mississippi. He attended high school in Missouri and was a graduate of Tougaloo College, where for three years he was employed as assistant to..... Read More about The Resurrection & Other Poems

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1959. First Edition. Read More about Trumball Park

Amsterdam: 1716. A very famous poet in his day. Read More about Aarnout en Adolf van Egmond, hertogen van Gelder. Treurspel

London: Macmillan and Co, 1904-1905. First Edition thus. Fanny Burney's Diary. Fanny Burney needs no introduction as the author of "Evelina," and her diary has been called an "inexhaustible storehouse of amusement and information as to the manners and customs of the eighteenth century." Read More about Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay, (1778-1840

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1878. First edition. In 1877, Burton sought to raise money from the Khedive of Egypt for a project to revive the gold mines at Midian near the Red Sea cost. “Burton took a ‘preliminary canter’ into Midian to size up the ground and assess..... Read More about The Gold Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities. A Fortnight’s Tour in North-western...

New York: G. P. Putnam & Co. [R. Craighead, Printer], 1856. First American edition. First published in 1855. Read More about Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. With Introduction by Bayard Taylor