New York: Random House, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book publication of this novel originally submitted for publication by Alcott in 1866 but not accepted. Edited by Kent Bicknell with a brief note on the text. 242 pp Illustrated endpapers reproduce some of the original manuscript pages. ISBN: 0-679-445102.

New York: Morrow - Quill, 1984. The first book publication of several 'blood-and-thunder' tales written by Alcott and published, either anonymously or under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard, in various weeklies starting in 1862 and before Alcott had published 'Little Women' under her own name. Edited and with an introduction by Madeleine Stern. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-688-033709.

New York: Macmillan, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - An attractive edition of this classic fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, retold by Marianna Mayer and illustrated in full color by Thomas Locker. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-027651304.

New York: The Viking Press, 1964. Stories of small-town life, originally published in 1919, with an introduction by Malcolm Cowley. 247 pp. Compass Books C-39. Map frontispiece. 247 pp. Cover illustration by Lazlo Matulay.

New York: Akashic Books. (2009). SIGNED first edition - Includes stories published between 1889 and 1991 by Dashiell Hammett, Jack London, Mark Twain, Craig Clevenger, Ambrose Bierce, Bill Pronzini, Marcia Muller, John Shirley, Ernest Gaines and more. SIGNED by TWO authors: Janet Dawson at her story "Union Square" and John Shirley at "Ash." 330 pp plus notes on contributors and two pages of publisher's ads. ISBN: 978-1933354651.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons nd (ca 1900-1910). Hardcover - A rather uncommon and very appealing small volume which combines two of Austen's most popular novels in a pocket sized edition - measuring just 6 1/4 inches by 4 1/4 inches and printed on onionskin paper so only a little more than 1/2 inch thick. Bound in flexible burgundy leather with gilt lettering on the spine and a flower decoration, with marblized orange endpapers, frontispiece with a tissue guard. Each novel has a separate title page with the title printed in red, and each is paginated separately - 343 pp, 216 pp. respectively. Top edge gilt.

Naperville,IL: Sourcebooks Landmark, (2007). First edition - From the back cover:"The sequel to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with Mary Shelley's unabridged Frankenstein included. Hilary Bailey has created a classic horror story in the vein of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein-and a monster even more terrifying than the original." Bailey's book was originally published in the UK in 1995; thjs edition includes a new introduction to Shelley's book by Bailey. xxi, 236, 253 pp.

New York: William H. Morrow / Books of Wonder, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A handsome facsimile edition of this book originally published in 1909. Includes 126 of John R. Neill's original pen-and-ink drawings. New afterword for this edition by Peter Glassman. Printed on varying shades of pastel-colored paper. Top edge gilt. 267 pp. ISBN: 0-688-09997-1.

New York: Modern Library, nd (ca 1952.) dj. Hardcover - Introduction by Heywoud Broun. Immediately popular, this novel has remained one of the best known and most important utopian classics, a title in the Grolier 100 list of the influential American books printed before 1900. 276 pp.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twenty- seven stories published in magazines between 1896 and 1932, and with the exception of only two stories, never before published in book form. The title story is a previously undiscovered Miss Mapp story. The stories are grouped by type: crank stories, society stories, cruel stories, odd stories, dodo stories, spook stories. Introduction by Jack Adrian. List of sources. xiv, 278 pp. ISBN: 0-192123041.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (c 1930) dj. Hardcover - An attractive illustrated edition of this classic romantic novel set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset, particularly around the East Lyn Valley area of Exmoor, and involving the daughter of a once noble family turned outlaws. Illustrated by Mead Schaeffer, with a full-color frontispiece and 7 internal full color plates. Slightly oversized, 648 pp.

London: Hamish Hamilton, (1950) dj. Hardcover - An appealing small and rather uncommon edition of this classic novel. A title in the Novel Library series, with a policy of presenting the novels selected in an elegant and readable small format at an affordable price. Introduction by Alan Hodge. 4 1/2 inches wide by 7 inches tall. x, 362 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Hardcover first edition - A title in the Scribner's Classic series, illustrated by F.C. Yohn with a pasted-on cover illustration, pictorial endpapers and title page plus 9 inserted color plates (the color plate pasted on the dustjacket is different from that of the book and reproduces the plate at pg 150.) A beautiful edition of this classic set in the days of the Roman Empire and early Christianity. viii, 425 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. dj. Hardcover - A title in the Scribner's Classic series, illustrated by F.C. Yohn with a pasted-on cover illustration, pictorial endpapers and title page plus 9 inserted color plates (the color plate pasted on the dustjacket is different from that of the book and reproduces the plate at pg 150.) A beautiful edition of this classic set in the days of the Roman Empire and early Christianity. viii, 425 pp.

New York: Barnes & Noble, (2009.) dj. Hardcover - Originally published in 1977, this work consists of a novella recreating poet John Keat's last days in Rome, followed by a short nonfiction section on Keat's friend Joseph Severn, his doctor James Clark and the Italian poet Giuseppe Belli, and the final section is a translation of Belli's sonnets on Biblical subjects. Foreword by Michael Dirda. A title in the Barnes & Noble Rediscovers Series. vi, 152 pp. ISBN: 1435104234.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Hardcover - A novel originally published in 1873 which centers on a young "fallen" woman named Mercy, who is working as a nurse during the Franco-Prussian war, and when it appears that a yound woman whom she has taken in was killed, sh sees a chance to claim a new identity but things soon unravel for her. While this could be considered pure escapism and sensationalism, Wilkie Collins was ahead of his time in his attitude towards women and so the fallen woman, the "Magdalen" is definitely the more sympathetic character. Illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard and three inserted plates by John Sloan. 366 pp.

New York & London: Co-operative Publication Society, n.d. (ca 1900). Hardcover - An early novel by Cooper, originally published in 1823, the life of a naval pilot during the American Revolution. Sepia toned frontispiece with tissue guard. 473 pp.

New York & London: Co-operative Publication Society, n.d. (ca 1900). Hardcover - An early novel by Cooper, who was an American pioneering writer in the sea novel genre. This follows the activities of the sailor Dick Fid, free black sailor Scipio Africanus and Royal Navy officer James Wilder as they encounter the famous pirate, "The Red Rover." Notable both for its serious treatment of black characters and in his blurring of social and gender barriers, as shown in the character of a young girl disguised as a cabin boy. Two-color frontispiece with tissue guard. 494 pp.

New York: American Book Company, (1937) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by Cooper which was almost ignored on its publication, but here presented as one of the best of Cooper's stories, a vivid picture of colonial life and manners during the middle of the 18th century. A title in the American Fiction Series. Edited, with introduction, chronology, and bibliography by Robert E. Spiller and Joseph D. Coppock.Frontispiece portrait, other photographs. Note on the text. xli, 424 pp.

Springfield, Massachusetts: McLoughlin Brothers, (1938). Hardcover - Illustrated with duotone drawings by H. G. Nicholas. Little Big Classics #864. Small square format. 94 pp.

New York & London: Thomas Nelson, nd (ca 1900). Hardcover - Frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated title page with red lettering. Bound in flexible leatherette covers, with gilt bands titling on spine, all edges gilt, small format measuring approx 6 1/2 by 4 inches, printed on lightweight paper. Marbeled endpapers. 575 pp.

New York & London: Thomas Nelson, nd (ca 1910). Hardcover - A title in the New Century Library, Frontispiece. Bound in flexible leatherette covers, with gilt bands on front cover, titling on spine, all edges gilt, small format measuring approx 6 1/2 by 4 inches, printed on lightweight paper. 434 pp.

St Louis: MCE Publishing Company, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A profusely illustrated edition of Dickens's classic yuletide ghost story features 45 engravings by Gustave Dore (which were discovered in an 1861 French magazine), and who was the first artist to illustrate Tiny Tim and the Cratchit family. It also includes 150 other Victorian illustrations. Introduction by Dan Malan. Square format. Illustrated endpapers. 176 pp. ISBN: 1-88895700X.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at how Dickens's contradictory views of the world, as evidenced in his rhetoric, affect reader's reactions. "Dickens assures his reader that the world is a moral one in which good actions change the world. But the images he creates contradict that faith in a rational world." Notes, index. xiii, 136 pp. ISBN: 0-82291140X.

New York: Random House, (c 1954) dj. Hardcover - Includes the complete 'The Sound and the Fury", selections from other novels, stories, Nobel Prize address and more, with a new foreword by Faulkner. xi, 682 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, 1945. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes the complete text of 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Tender is the Night' and a selection of nine of his short stories. Compiled by his friend Dorothy Parker and with an introduction by John O'Hara. At the time this was published, Fitzgerald was once again just beginning to be recognized as a major American writer. Viking Portable Library #14. xix, 835 pp. Small format.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1927, c 1920) dj. Hardcover - One of several titles of this Definitive Edition of the works of Anatole France, published in 1927, and "printed on special India tint laid antique paper with endpapers in color from a design by Aubrey Beardsley, bound in black linen cloth stamped in gold" with an ornate overall design. The dust jacket repeats the same design but reverses the colors with a gold background, decorations in black. 296 pp.