London: Wilfred Merton & Emery Walker, 1932. First and Limited Edition. Full leather. This is a particularly compelling copy of one of the twentieth century’s most compelling books. This copy is not only still housed in its original slipcase and accompanied by the original publisher’s prospectus, but also inscribed by..... More

London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing, first issue of Stevenson’s most enduringly famous novel, the coming-of-age pirate treasure quest of young Jim Hawkins.Edition & ConditionThe 2,000 first edition sheets were bound by the publisher in batches, resulting in a variety..... More

Boston and Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Company and Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the two-volume first edition, first printing of perhaps “the most influential novel of propaganda in American literature.” Each book is the correct first printing, with the Hobart & Robbins..... More

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1820. First edition. Hardcover. This is the three-volume first edition, first issue, all three volumes in the publisher's elusive original bindings. Each volume remains, as issued, in the publisher's blue-green boards with drab brown spines and printed, paper spine labels, the contents with all edges..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. This is a lovely, signed first edition of then-First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s Christmas story for children. The author signed “Eleanor Roosevelt” in blue ink on the half-title page. Condition is fine in a near fine dust jacket. The illustrated binding is..... More

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1820. First edition. Half leather. This is the three-volume, first edition, first issue, the set bound in contemporary half brown calf over marbled paper-covered boards. Consonant with first issue, there is significant Volume I mispagination; pages 167-306 are misnumbered as 143-298. Condition of the volumes..... More

New York: Random House, 1962. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This first edition, first printing was inscribed by Dr. Seuss for a young mother in 1963 at a bookshop one mile from Dr. Seuss’s home in La Jolla, California. It was acquired by us directly from the person for whom..... More

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1937. First edition, fourteenth printing. Hardcover. This fourteenth printing of Dr. Seuss’s first book for children was inscribed by Dr. Seuss for a young mother in 1963 at a bookshop one mile from Dr. Seuss’s home in La Jolla, California. It was acquired by us..... More

New York: Random House, 1948. First edition, later printing. Hardcover. This likely 1958 printing was inscribed by Dr. Seuss for a young mother in 1963 at a bookshop one mile from Dr. Seuss’s home in La Jolla, California. It was acquired by us directly from the person for whom this..... More

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. Richard Doyle, John Leech, Daniel Maclise, Clarkson Stanfield. First edition. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing, first state, of the third Dickens Christmas book, an unrestored copy in the publisher’s original illustrated red cloth. Condition is very good. The elaborately gilt and blind..... More

New York: Random House, 1949. 1962 or 1963 printing. Hardcover. This 1963 printing was inscribed by Dr. Seuss for a young mother in 1963 at a bookshop one mile from Dr. Seuss’s home in La Jolla, California. It was acquired by us directly from the person for whom this book..... More

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932. First U.S. edition, first printing, trade issue. Hardcover. This is the first U.S. edition, first printing, trade issue, very good in a good dust jacket. The brown cloth binding is tight and respectably clean with a slight forward lean, bruised lower rear..... More

New York: Random House, 1939. First edition, 1963 printing. Hardcover. This 1963 printing was inscribed by Dr. Seuss for a young mother in 1963 at a bookshop one mile from Dr. Seuss’s home in La Jolla, California. It was acquired by us directly from the person for whom this book..... More