Victorian Literature from Mary Riversong Books

Wilde, Oscar. 1925 Dodd, Mead & Company 1st Illustrated Edition Thus, Illustrated by BEN KUTCHER. RARE/SCARCE. Used. Hardcover. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Black boards with highly decorated gold gilt ornamentation on front and back boards. Please see our photos. Titling on spine is no longer visible. Summary: "The story concerns a boy king whose love of luxury and artistic… Read more

631collinsMoonstoneMidnite Collins, Wilkie (THE MOONSTONE 1944, Books, Inc. Midnite Mystery / no DJ) First Edition Thus. Used. Not an exlib. Good/ No dj. Summary: " The moonstone in the title refers to a brilliant but flawed gem seized by a British officer in India. He brought it back to England as a family heirloom - with a supposed curse… Read more

615DoyleFour Doyle, A. Conan The Sign Of Four, A Sherlock Holmes Story. ca 1933 Grossett & Dunlap) Used. Red boards, black titling. VG/No DJ. Quite scarce in this edition. Summary: A story of India and stolen treasure, set in 1857. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾. $75.00

BOUND IN SUEDE LEATHER. Publisher: Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1900. Original copyright 1841. Used - RARE. Very Good. 8vo. (22 cm.) [6]1-75[5]p. Frontispiece black and white potrait of John Ruskin. Decorated title page and decorated initial letters by Samuel Warner. Colophon reads, printed in red, as follows: SO HERE ENDETH THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER, AS / WRITTEN BY… Read more

Moore, Clement C. The Night Before Christmas (1976 Weathervane First Edition, Stated impression "A").aka "A Visit From St. Nicholas". ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM. Summary: "On the night before Christmas a father catches an unexpected glimpse of St. Nicholas himself, along with his sleigh pulled by 8 flying reindeer." Used. FIRST IMPRESSION THUS. VG/VG. A clean, tight copy.… Read more

A. Conan Doyle. Copyright 1919, George H. Doran First Edition . Used. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Not an exlib item. SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY. Stories Included here are: Danger!, One Crowded Hour, A Point of View, The Fall of Lord Barrymore, The Horror of the Heights, Borrowed Scenes, The Surgeon of Gaster Fell, How It Happened, The Prisoner's Defence, Three… Read more

"Powell, Edward Payson. Nullification and Secession in the United States. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. UNCOMMON/RARE IN THIS 1897 FIRST. NOT A REPRINT. NOT AN EXLIB. Please see our photos. USED. VG-/ No Dust Jacket. 461 pp. A study of secession and nullification movements in the United States from the Nullification Resolutions of 1798 to the American… Read more

Haggard, H. Rider: The Wizard, Longman's Green 1st Edition, 1896, London. A tale of Africa. Used. Very Good/ No dust jacket is included. Red Boards with gold titling on spine. Titling is still nice. Summary: "The novel is placed in the imperialist literature of 19th-century England. Just like many of his other works, this novel is inspired by Rider Haggard's… Read more

Used. Stevenson, Robert Louis: A Child's Garden of Verses, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. VG/Good original dust jacket. RARE THUS. a gift presentation copy. Has a purple cloth ribbon laid in. This ribbon may be original to the edition, but I don't have that information. Condition: Other than a gift label pasted to front free endpaper and the ribbon, this… Read more

BY WILKIE COLLINS. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1860.[2], 260, [4, ads] pp. Publisher's brown stamped heavy cardboard boards with elaborate blind stamped Harper and Brothers cartouche on front and back boards. . Used. Good- Condition. Our copy lacks the spine. Some water-spotting noted.. Please see our photos. States 1860 on the title page. In-text illustrations by John McLenan.… Read more

Collins, Wilkie: The Woman in White. A.L. Burt Home Library Edition. Undated, circa 1900. Maroon cloth boards with gold gilt topstain. Used. Very Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice vintage copy.

Collins, Wilkie: THE FROZEN DEEP by Wilkie Collins, , AUTHOR OF "THE WOMAN IN WHITE" AND "THE MOONSTONE". PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM F. GILL AND COMPANY, BOSTON, 1874, 1ST AMERICAN EDITION. ILLUSTRATED BY ALFRED FREDERICKS. USED. GOOD CONDITION. ANTIQUARIAN. 5 x 7 3/4. 237 pages. Green cloth boards with Black and gold gilt titling and ornamentation that remains fairly… Read more

Houghton Mifflin First Edition, 1897. By Bret Harte. VG/No DJ. A bright, solid copy. Gutters are intact. A nice copy.

Rare/Scarce. By H. Rider Haggard, author of "She" and the Allan Quatermain series. Longmans, Green and Co., NY 1920. Stated First Edition Second Impression Thus.Good- condition. Gutter separation at back hinge. Bright pages. No dust jacket is included. States 1920 on title page. Colour frontispiece of Merapi at a chariot.

Used. Noyes, Platt & Company, Boston, 1901 First Edition. ILLUSTRATED BY PETER NEWELL, . artist/author of the "Hole Book" series. This book is in very good condition. All colour plates present and affixed to the binding. No dust jacket is included if issued. Tight binding, gutters intact. Pages are fairly bright. A nice copy.

Used. Very Good+ Condition. RARE/SCARCE. ANTIQUARIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK. Thomas Nelson & Sons First Edition, 1876. Coloured front paper paste-down label is in nice condition. Dark Blue, blind-stamped boards. Pocket Edition size 4 5/16 X 6 1/2. An attractive copy.

USED. SCARCE. THE FROZEN DEEP BY WILKIE COLLINS, AUTHOR OF "THE WOMAN IN WHITE" AND "THE MOONSTONE". PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM F. GILL AND COMPANY, BOSTON, 1874, 1ST AMERICAN EDITION. ILLUSTRATED BY ALFRED FREDERICKS. 5 x 7 3/4. 237 pages. Green cloth boards with Black and gold gilt titling and ornamentation that remains fairly bright. Tight binding, bright pages.… Read more

RARE/SCARCE. Used. Good Condition. HARPER & BROTHERS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1870. MAN AND WIFE, a novel by WILKIE COLLINS, author of "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White. Brown boards with ornate gold gilt titles on spine. TITLING REMAINS BRIGHT. Large octavo, original cloth, 239 pages [text printed in two columns] (followed by 4 pages of adverts).… Read more