Jane Austen. The Novel Library. 6 Volumes by Austen, Jane - n. d.

2015 Berkeley, University of California Press. Full numberline, "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" appears on the copyright page. Not remainder marked, dj is not clipped. Dj clean with no rips, no discoleration, looks fine in Brodart protective sleeve. Boards clean & square. Pages clean, unmarked & bright. Black cloth binding firm & straight, gold lettering on spine fine.

"LITTLE PAUL" from the "Dombey and Son" of Charles Dickens. Circa 1850's (there is no date of publication stated); Redfield; New York. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. Scarce volume from the 6-volume "DICKENS' LITTLE FOLKS" series which was "undertaken with a view of supplying the want of a class of books for children, of a vigorous, manly tone, combined with a plain and concise mode of narration." "With this view, the career of [Little Paul has] been detached from the large mass of matter with which [he was] originally connected, and presented, in the author's own language, to a new class of readers, to whom the little volumes will, we doubt not, be as attractive as the larger originals have so long proved to the general public."Condition:Clean covers and spine with no stains; 1" cloth tear at the top-right corner of the spine; horizontal crease across the front cover which is also visible on the opposite side of the board. Occasional foxing and staining to the pages (heaviest on end… Read More

London, 1879. First Edition, First Printing. No binding. Very good. A Very Good or better illustration of author Bret Harte published in Vanity Fair magazine for July 4, 1879, including the Vanity Fair profile of Harte, being Vanity Fair's "MEN OF THE DAY. No. 191." with evidence of the two pages having been removed from a larger volume which once likely held them. Examples of this original material are surprisingly uncommon to the market. A Very Good or better UNCOMMON piece of Bret Harte literary ephemera.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. In contemporary fine binding, signed "Bound by Launder", half morocco over marbled boards, matching marbled end pages, back with gilt lettering, tail date and ornate decorations in gilt, top edge gilt. Very Good, light wear at spine ends and fore edges. 464 pp, with illustrations by the author. First appeared as a serialization in "Harper's Magazine", this First American Edition is the first edition in book form. . First American Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford at the Clarendon Press. London. 1913. REPRINT of the 1912 first edition. 8vo. (6.9 x 4.6 inches). India paper edition. xvi, 1023pp. A neat five line inscription on the front blank free endpaper, otherwise a clean copy throughout. In a fine early leather binding of half dark blue morocco, bound for Hatchards of Piccadilly. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments double ruled and lettered in gilt. Blue cloth on boards. All edges gilt. Blue plain endpapers. Some offsetting to the edge of the endpapers, where the leather has touched the page, and just a hint of rubbing to the extremities, otherwise a near fine, beautifully bound, copy.

2015 Berkeley, University of California Press. Full numberline, "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" appears on the copyright page. Not remainder marked, dj is not clipped. Dj clean with no rips, no discoleration, looks fine in Brodart protective sleeve. Boards clean & square. Pages clean, unmarked & bright. Black cloth binding firm & straight, gold lettering on spine fine.

"LITTLE PAUL" from the "Dombey and Son" of Charles Dickens. Circa 1850's (there is no date of publication stated); Redfield; New York. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. Scarce volume from the 6-volume "DICKENS' LITTLE FOLKS" series which was "undertaken with a view of supplying the want of a class of books for children, of a vigorous, manly tone, combined with a plain and concise mode of narration." "With this view, the career of [Little Paul has] been detached from the large mass of matter with which [he was] originally connected, and presented, in the author's own language, to a new class of readers, to whom the little volumes will, we doubt not, be as attractive as the larger originals have so long proved to the general public."Condition:Clean covers and spine with no stains; 1" cloth tear at the top-right corner of the spine; horizontal crease across the front cover which is also visible on the opposite side of the board. Occasional foxing and staining to the pages (heaviest on end… Read More

London, 1879. First Edition, First Printing. No binding. Very good. A Very Good or better illustration of author Bret Harte published in Vanity Fair magazine for July 4, 1879, including the Vanity Fair profile of Harte, being Vanity Fair's "MEN OF THE DAY. No. 191." with evidence of the two pages having been removed from a larger volume which once likely held them. Examples of this original material are surprisingly uncommon to the market. A Very Good or better UNCOMMON piece of Bret Harte literary ephemera.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. In contemporary fine binding, signed "Bound by Launder", half morocco over marbled boards, matching marbled end pages, back with gilt lettering, tail date and ornate decorations in gilt, top edge gilt. Very Good, light wear at spine ends and fore edges. 464 pp, with illustrations by the author. First appeared as a serialization in "Harper's Magazine", this First American Edition is the first edition in book form. . First American Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford at the Clarendon Press. London. 1913. REPRINT of the 1912 first edition. 8vo. (6.9 x 4.6 inches). India paper edition. xvi, 1023pp. A neat five line inscription on the front blank free endpaper, otherwise a clean copy throughout. In a fine early leather binding of half dark blue morocco, bound for Hatchards of Piccadilly. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments double ruled and lettered in gilt. Blue cloth on boards. All edges gilt. Blue plain endpapers. Some offsetting to the edge of the endpapers, where the leather has touched the page, and just a hint of rubbing to the extremities, otherwise a near fine, beautifully bound, copy.