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William Heinemann, 1896. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1896. No Edition Remarks. 147 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Slight cracking to hinges and gutters causing boards and binding to be loose. However, boards and pages throughout remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

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London : William Heinemann, 1896. First British edition. His first book, "regarded as the first work of unalloyed naturalism in American fiction" (Milne Holton) and immediately inviting comparison in Europe with Hardy, Zola and Arthur Morrison's "Tales of Mean Streets". Originally published under a pseudonym at Crane's own expense in 1893, but not issued under his own name until after the success of "The Red Badge of Courage" on both sides of the Atlantic. The British edition has a telling introduction by William Dean Howells (1837-1920) - "the girl herself, with her bewildered wish to be right and good, with her distorted perspective, her clinging and generous affections, her hopeless environments ...". Foolscap 8vo (17cm). (viii),(148),4pp. Original decorative navy buckram gilt; top edge gilt; endpapers a little tanned; a touch shaken; a few minor marks and spots, but overall a very good copy. With the dated (October 1896) ownership inscription and armorial bookplate of Walter Wren (1833-1898),… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1896. Hardcover. Near Fine. First English edition. 12mo. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Spine sunned and a little rubbed, else near fine.

London: William Heinemann,, 1896. First UK edition, first impression, revised by the author from the first US edition of 1893. The novel ranks among the first works of American Naturalism, and is known for its gritty realism and strident social commentary. The American author and critic Henry Edward Rood declared the novel "one of the most powerful, terrible and hideous studies of the dregs of humanity that have been produced in the English language" (review in the New York Mail and Express, May 30, 1896). Duodecimo. Original dark blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Bookseller's blind stamp to front free endpaper. Some page corners lightly creased. A near-fine, bright copy. BAL 4075.

London: William Heinemann, 1896.. 12mo. Polished black buckram, lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Ink name in upper margin of title. light offsetting to endsheets, bookplate of David Garnett; a very good, bright copy. First UK edition of the author's first book, including "An Appreciation" by W. D. Howells not appearing in the US 1896 edition. BAL 4075n. & BAL 9705. WILLIAMS & STARRETT 9.

London: William Heinemann. Near Fine. 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. First British edition. Original navy blue cloth over flexible card. Gilt titles minimally rubbed. Gilt topstain largely untarnished. PO blindstamp to ffep. Small indentation to bottom text block edge. Unmarked. A very nice copy overall. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .