Anstey, F. [Thomas Anstey Guthrie]

Voces Populi.

London : Longmans, Green, and Co, 1890.

First edition of Guthrie’s collection of short comedic plays which originally appeared in Punch magazine. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarters vellum by Morrell with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, with twenty illustrations to volume I and twenty-five to volume II by Partridge including frontispieces. In near fineContinue reading "Voces Populi."

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$450.00

Item Number: RRB-112304

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Alger, Horatio

The Five Hundred Dollar Check. [$500].

New York : United States Book Company, 1890.

First edition, first state of this rare novel. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. This book was produced by “Porter and Coates” in 1890 but acquired and released by “The American Book Company,” The first state copies were then distributed with the Porter and Coates name purposefully blacked out with dye on the bottom portion ofContinue reading "The Five Hundred Dollar Check. [$500]."

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$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-149449

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Kitton, Frederic G. [Charles Dickens]

Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil and A Supplement to Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil.

London : Frank T. Sabin, 1890-1891.

First edition in book form of the most sumptuous presentation of Kitton’s collection of Dickens portraits and illustrations which first appeared in serialized parts between 1889-1890. Folio, two volumes bound in full buckram with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, containing 31 engraved portraits, 30 engraved remarque plates, 78 illustrations in the text and 67Continue reading "Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil and A Supplement to Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil."

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$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-122094

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Rossetti, Lucy Madox. [Mary Shelley]

Mrs. Shelley.

London : W. H. Allen & Co, 1890.

First edition of Lucy Madox Rossetti’s biography of Mary Shelley; extra-illustrated and with an autograph letter signed by Mary Shelley laid in. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Bayntun with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, quadruple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels,Continue reading "Mrs. Shelley."

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$9,500.00

Item Number: RRB-133425

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Kipling, Rudyard

Plain Tales From the Hills.

Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1890.

First Tauchnitz edition of Kipling’s first short story collection. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition.

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$30.00

Item Number: RRB-126749

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Kipling, Rudyard

Under the Deodars.

New York : John W. Lovell Company, 1890.

First authorized Lovell edition of Kipling’s Under the Deodars. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.

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$275.00

Item Number: RRB-123799

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Garland, Hamlin

Main-Travelled Roads.

Boston : Arena Publishing Company, 1891.

First edition of the author’s second book. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free patterned endpaper, “To my friend Hird whose encouragement was so timely. With fraternal best wishes. Hamlin Garland Boston June 9/91.” In very good condition. Bookplate. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

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$750.00

Item Number: RRB-139642

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Hardy, Thomas

A Group of Noble Dames.

New York : Harper and Brothers, 1891.

First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front panel, illustrated. In near fine condition.

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$175.00

Item Number: RRB-133304

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Kipling, Rudyard

Letters of Marque.

Allahabad : A. H. Wheeler & Co, 1891.

Rare first edition of this collection of letters published without Kipling’s permission and so quickly suppressed. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth. One of one thousand copies, many of which were destroyed at Kipling’s behest. In near fine condition. Ownership stamp. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case.

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$975.00

Item Number: RRB-124119

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Kipling, Rudyard

Letters of Marque.

Allahabad : A. H. Wheeler & Co, 1891.

Rare first edition of this collection of letters published without Kipling’s permission and so quickly suppressed. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth. One of one thousand copies, many of which were destroyed at Kipling’s behest. In very good condition.

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$1,100.00

Item Number: RRB-120684

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Kipling, Rudyard

Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People.

London : Macmillan and Co, 1891.

First edition of Kipling’s collection of short stories on the British in India. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In good condition. Ownership inscription.

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$150.00

Item Number: RRB-123804

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Boswell, James

The Life of Samuel Johnson.

London : George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1891.

Octavo, 6 volumes, bound in three quarters red morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, illustrated with portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds. In near fine condition. An attractively bound set.

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$750.00

Item Number: RRB-2542

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Kipling, Rudyard

Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People.

London : Macmillan and Co, 1891.

First edition of Kipling’s collection of short stories on the British in India. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. In very good condition.

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$150.00

Item Number: RRB-121804

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Wilde, Oscar

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime & Other Stories.

London : James R. Osgood, 1891.

First edition of  this collection of Wilde’s humorous mystery stories, published the same year as the first edition in book form of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Octavo, original stiff paper-covered boards. In good condition. Very rare.

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$1,750.00

Item Number: RRB-139780

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Whymper, Edward

Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator.

London : John Murray, 1891-92.

First edition of this work by the mountaineer and explorer. Octavo, 2 volumes, original publisher’s cloth, with 34 engraved plates and 4 maps (one folding, one large folding route map in rear cover pocket). From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown of each volume. American businessman and record-settingContinue reading "Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator."

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$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-111798

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Tolstoy, Lyof [Leo]

The Fruits of Enlightenment: A Comedy in Four Acts.

London : William Heinemann, 1891.

First edition in English of Tolstoy’s satirical play. Octavo, original boards, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Tolstoy. Translated from the Russian by E. J. Dillon. Introduction by Arthur W. Penero. In fine condition. An exceptional example of this rare work.

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$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-135733

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Harte, Bret

A First Family of Tasajara.

London : Macmillan and Co, 1891.

First edition of Harte’s classic work. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “with the best New Years greetings from Bret Harte London Jan. ’92.” In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.

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$500.00

Item Number: RRB-96090

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Light That Failed.

London : Macmillan and Co, 1891.

First edition of Kipling’s first novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, publisher’s gilt emblem to the front panel. In very good condition.

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$2,000.00

Item Number: RRB-121637

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Kipling, Rudyard

Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine: The Light That Failed.

London : Ward, Lock, and Co., 1891.

The January 1891 issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine containing the first appearance of Kipling’s early novel, The Light That Failed. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Rare.

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$475.00

Item Number: RRB-121480

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Kipling, John Lockwood

Beast and Man In India: A Popular Sketch Of Indian Animals In Their Relations With The People.

London : Macmillan and Co, 1891.

First edition of Rudyard Kipling’s father, John Lockwood Kipling’s, best-known work. Octavo, original illustrated cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, illustrated. In very good condition. Rare.

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$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-135029

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Hugo, Victor

The Works of Victor Hugo: Including [Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The Contemplations and The Legend of the Ages].

Boston : George H. Richmond & Co, 1892.

Finely bound complete set of the Cabinet edition of the Works of Victor Hugo, one of 1000 numbered sets produced. Octavo, 40 volumes bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in three compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, illustrated with tissue-guarded engravingsContinue reading "The Works of Victor Hugo: Including [Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The Contemplations and The Legend of the Ages]."

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$5,000.00

Item Number: RRB-133601

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Henty, George Alfred

Held Fast For England: A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83).

London : Blackie & Son, Limited, 1892.

First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles and decorations to the spine and front panel, illustrated by Gordon Browne. In very good condition. Uncommon.

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$125.00

Item Number: RRB-122382

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

Merry Tales.

New York : Charles L. Webster & Co, 1892.

First edition, first state with patterned endpapers, without the frontispiece portrait of Twain, and with 7 pages of undated advertisements. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. In very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown.

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$450.00

Item Number: RRB-137246

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly and A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1892.

Finely bound example of the author’s classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, volume with title vignettes and six wood-engravings. Lengthily signed by the author as follows, “There is no death to such as thou dear Eva,Continue reading "Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly and A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin."

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$8,800.00

Item Number: RRB-117857

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