Library Of Southern Literature: 17-volume Set by Alderman, Edwin Anderson, and Joel Chandler Harris, editors In Chief - 1907-1923

London: Hutchinson. Very Good- with no Dust Jacket. 1894. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. Translated by Edward Vizetelly and illustrated with eighty-eight wood engravings from original drawings by George Roux. Illustrated frontispiece, tissued. Dark blue boards with silver decorations, lettering, green blindstamping decoration. One of only 100 published by Hutchinson in this first English edition. Slant. ; Wood engraving; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 399 pages; 12414 .

Henry and Co. London. 1893. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Original blue buckram, lettered in gilt. Housed in a custom green cloth slipcase and chemise. Small bookplate to front pastedown, related bibiliographic material pasted to endpapers. Shaw's very scarce first play, published in an edition, according to Laurence, of "not more than 500" copies. It was not an overwhelming bestseller. Shaw wrote to John Lane (quoted in Laurence) that the publisher "never advertised it even once; and the sale, which was only effected by great perseverance & determination on the part of the purchasers, was 150 copies." When the publisher retired in December 1897, they ceded to Shaw 194 sets of unbound sheets, which Shaw claimed to have commissioned Sotheran & Co. to bind for him. "So few of these [in purple cloth] in the Sotheran binding have turned up, however, that it is unlikely Shaw had all of the copies bound; a considerable number must eventually have been pulped â¦" Copies in green cloth have been noted as well,… Read More

Longmans, Green, and Co. London and Bombay. 1902. FIRST EDITION. Colonial Issue. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with sixteen mono plates by Sidney Paget. Tisue guard to the frontispiece. A few of the plates are bound in different places than listed on the contents page but all are present. 4 pages of publishers adverts for the colonial library at the rear of the book. The text and illustrations are fine, clean and bright throughout and look unread. Publishers decorative green cloth which has dark blue illustration to the front board and spine. Gilt lettering to the spine. Decorative light blue and white floral endpapers with ship and swan designs. There are a couple of small closed tears to the spine and the cloth is a bit rubbed and bumped and has a few small marks but is generally in very good condition with the gilt on the spine still quite bright. Previous owner's small typed name label on the plain verso of the front free endpaper, reading H. B. Rattray. This is almost certainly Captain… Read More

WE ARE HAPPY TO PRESENT: Flack, Marjorie. THE STORY ABOUT PING. ILLUSTRATED BY KURT WIESE. FIRST EDITION 1933 VIKING PRESS. 3 lines of copyright information. HARDCOVER. BACK DJ FLAP INCLUDES JUNIOR VIKING COUPON. Matching blue floating duck back board and dust jacket panels do not bear weekly reader logo. PLEASE SEE OUR PHOTO OF DJ BACK PANEL. Unclipped Front DJ flap priced at $1.00 . QUITE THE FIND. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ GOOD CONDITION UNCLIPPED DJ. Unpaginated. 7 X 9 1/4. A CLEAN SOLID COPY. PLEASE SEE OUR PHOTOS.

Richard Bentley. London. 1847. Bentley's Standard Novels and Romances, volume 25. Reprint of the 1833 edition. 8vo. (7 x 4.5 inches). Illustrated frontis engraving by Pickering. Publishers dark brown morocco grained cloth with elaborate blind stamped decorative border to the boards. Spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Yellow endpapers with lists of other titles published by Bentley. Neat previous owner bookplate to the top of the front paste down endpaper. Some staining to the bottom of the frontispiece, not affecting the image or type, otherwise a very clean and fresh copy. The cloth is clean and tidy, with sharp corners, and the gilt on the spine still bright and fresh. A little rubbing to the extremities but this is a superior copy. Scarce in such nice condition.

London: Hutchinson. Very Good- with no Dust Jacket. 1894. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. Translated by Edward Vizetelly and illustrated with eighty-eight wood engravings from original drawings by George Roux. Illustrated frontispiece, tissued. Dark blue boards with silver decorations, lettering, green blindstamping decoration. One of only 100 published by Hutchinson in this first English edition. Slant. ; Wood engraving; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 399 pages; 12414 .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936 BOTH VOLUMES IN FINE CONDITION. With Dust Jackets in Near Fine Condition protected in mylar jackets. The New York Edition. Bindings & hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. The dust jackets show light edge wear/small chips to upper edge of spine area.

Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co, 1891. First (Indian) edition. Front flyleaf with two small chips, original wrappers with minor fading, binding about fine. First (Indian) edition. 8vo. 4 leaves, 108p, 7 leaves of advertisements including "Opinions of the Press" (Both Livingston and Stewart list 5 leaves of ads). Original grey-green printed wrappers bound in; advertisements inside both covers. Bound by the Club Bindery in 1901 in full dark blue crushed morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the covers with panels formed of two sets of triple gilt rules with corner ornaments, the spine with gilt titles and densely gilt panels, fancy dentelles. "Indian Railway Library, No. XIV" with imprint at bottom of p. 108: "Printed at the 'Pioneer' Press, Allahabad." Livingston calls this the second edition, after the suppressed edition of which only three copies were to be kept after the remainder were destroyed. With a tipped-in SIGNATURE of Kipling. From the library of Rudolph August Witthaus (1846-1915… Read More

Macmillan and Co. London. 1891. FIRST THOMSON EDITION, Large paper issue. One of only 300 copies issued. Large 8vo. (10.5 x 7.4 inches). Illustrated throughout with 101 fine line drawings by Thomson. Finely bound by Cedric Chivers of bath in early twentieth century binding of full plum morocco. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Decorative line and floral design to both boards. Board edges double ruled in gilt. Mottled coloured endpapers. Turn ins with double ruled lines and floral design. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Two previous owner bookplates on the front paste down endpaper. A little fading to the spine but overall a very near fine copy.

London: John Murray, 1855. Autograph Letter Signed from Ticknor to noted British poet and man of letters Samuel Rogers tipped in front of Volume I. Inked notation front end page indicating "Sotherans March 1898 Literature" with the cut-out for the listing of this book, item no. 505, laid in. Finely bound in half crimson crushed Levant morocco extra over marbled boards, marbled end papers, tops gilt. From the private library of renowned British Dante scholar Paget Toynbee (1855-1932) with his engraved bookplate to front pastedowns. Near Fine, slight rubs at corners and edges, a bit of spotting at end papers only. The letter, on a single folded sheet, is headed "Clarendon Hotel, July 19-". runs roughly 70 words, and seems to be arranging a meeting with some American friends of Ticknor's. At bottom of letter in pencil "to Samuel Rogers". Ticknor's most important work, in fine binding and with distinguished provenance and with a wonderful ASSOCIATION ALS to Samuel… Read More