New York: Harper & Bros. [c. 1896]. Handsome pale lavender pictorial cloth, stamped in silver, black and grey. Frontis and plates (some by Seymour Lucas). Unspecified printing of the US edition in book form of this early mid-career fiction by the Scottish novelist. Modest offsetting and hint of eradicated inscription.....
New York: Scribner's, 1908. Royal purple pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt, white and gray. Frontis and plates by Frederic Dorr Steele. Fine a trace sunned, otherwise a very good, bright copy. First edition, the much preferred first binding. The sourcework for a 1917 film adaptation starring Kitty Gordon and Walter.....
New York: The Century Co., 1900. Medium green cloth with elaborate floral decorations in gilt and dark green, t.e.g. First edition. Pencil ownership inscription on free endsheet, otherwise near fine and bright.
New York: Baker & Taylor, 1903. xvi,[2],17-233,[5]pp. Octavo. Gilt decorated pictorial olive cloth. Frontis, portrait and 27 plates from photographs. First US edition. Cloth a bit sunned and soiled, top edge has a few small scuffs, a good copy.
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1885. Quarto. Publisher's mauve cloth, heavily decorated in gilt and blind, untrimmed. Plates and illustrations. Minor speckling to the cloth sizing at the extreme foretips, some foxing early and late and occasionally to a few margins of plates, institutional bookplate on pastedown, otherwise.....
Paris & New York: Goupil & Co / Boussod, Valadon & Co., 1893. [6],287pp. Small quarto. Elaborately gilt pictorial mustard cloth, a.e.g. Heavily illustrated with photographs. Color lithographed extra title. Modest hand-soiling to cloth, with minimal shelfwear at tips; very good and bright. First Paris/New York edition, denoted the "Official.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [c. 1907]. Green cloth, lettered in white and stamped in blind, with pictorial vignette. Frontis by Harrison Fisher. Illustrations by Clarence Underwood. G&D reprint (first published in similar format by John McBride in 1907). Endsheets a bit foxed from the glassine wrapper, small ink date.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1903. Large octavo. Elaborately decorated pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Frontis, plates and elaborate marginal borders. Spine a trace darkened, with light wear at crown, endsheets darkened and a bit discolored at gutters, otherwise good and sound. First edition in this format, with plates by.....
New York & London: Putnam, 1894. Small octavo. Pale gray green cloth, decorated with a repeated array of a dark green Pegasus device, lettered in gilt. Reprint of the original edition (first published 1893). Ink ownership inscription, otherwise a fine copy, accompanied by the printed panels and plain flaps of.....
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1853. 288pp. Octavo. Publisher's red calf, the boards decorated with an elaborate central device of a flower and costumed boy-child festooned fountain, within a gilt rule with ornamented corners, spine elaborately gilt decorated, a.e.g. Frontis, engraved title and five plates by Smith after various artists.....
Worcester: Published by E. Livermore, 1849. vi,[2],[9]-322pp. Octavo. Publisher's black calf, the boards decorated with an elaborate central device of a flower festooned semi-gothic architectural frame, within successive borders of gilt rules, spine elaborately gilt decorated, a.e.g. Frontis, engraved title and four plates by O. Felton. Extremities a bit rubbed.....
Philadelphia: Published by E. H. Butler & Co., 1856. x,[2],[13]-372pp. plus frontis and eight engraved plates. Large octavo. Bright green sloth, elaborately decorated in gilt, a.e.g. 1855 Xmas gift inscription on free endsheet, cloth modestly soiled, but a very good copy.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1898. Distinctive green cloth, with overall decorative stamping in darker green, lettered in gilt. Extremities a bit rubbed, bookplate of collector Paul Lemperley and some relevant clippings inserted by him in back, else a fine copy, in a good example of the very scarce printed dust.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, [September 1907]. 490pp. plus plates. Large octavo. Pictorial blue-black cloth stamped in gilt and grey, t.e.g. Illustrated with thirty-two plates from photographs by Hélène Philippe. First US edition with these illustrations. Repaired snag to crown of spine, otherwise a good, sound copy.
New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1899. Pictorial cloth by Blanche McManus, stamped in red and gilt. Portrait. First edition, including some RK oddments for the first time in book form, and the first book publication of an interview Kipling undertook with Samuel Clemens. Unfortunate adhesive book label of a......
New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1899. Pictorial cloth by Blanche McManus, stamped in red and gilt. Portrait. First edition, including some RK oddments for the first time in book form, and the first book publication of an interview Kipling undertook with Samuel Clemens. Unfortunate adhesive book label of a......
New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1899. Pictorial cloth by Blanche McManus, stamped in red and gilt. Portrait. Cloth faintly soiled, otherwise a very good copy, with the bookplate of George B. McCutcheon. Half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition, including some RK oddments for the first time in book.....
London, New York & Toronto: John Lane [et al], [1915]. Pictorial black cloth, stamped in orange and gilt. Ink name on endsheet, small nick at crown of spine, narrow split at top of lower joint; very good and sound. Third "edition" (or more likely printing of the original edition) of.....
New York: Macmillan, 1897. Slate cloth, with upper board and spine heavily gilt, with inset red morocco letter "A," t.e.g., others untrimmed. Heavily illustrated by George Wharton Edwards. First edition. Upper board moderately rubbed but intact and bright, text block heavily foxed, on leaf creased in manufacture, otherwise a good.....
London & New York: Routledge, [nd. but ca. 1879]. Forest green cloth, elaborately decorated in red, black and gilt. Illustrated with a frontis and three imaginative plates by Cruikshank. First published in 1847. Clumsy mend to rear inner hinge, somewhat worn and frayed at edges with short tear at toe.....
New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1878. xiv,[2],237pp. Heavily gilt decorated pictorial green cloth, t.e.g. Frontis, plates and illustrations. First edition, BAL's first printing, with the Rand, Avery and Company imprint. Slight tanning to text block, some wear and rubbing to spine ends, otherwise an unusually nice copy, very good.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [c. 1906, but later]. Gilt green decorated cloth. Frontispiece. Black and white illustrations by Frank T. Merrill. 16 pages of ads at conclusion of the text. Reprint, from the plates of the 1906 Lee & Shepard edition. Previous owner's name on front free endsheet and.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [c. 1903, but later]. Gilt green decorated cloth. Frontispiece. Black and white illustrations by A. Burnham Shute. Reprint, offset from the 1903 Lee & Shepard plates. Previous owner's name on front free endsheet, minor rub at tips, else near fine.
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1892. xvi,411pp. Large octavo. Camel tan cloth, elaborately decorated in gilt, brown, black and blue, t.e.g. Frontis, plates and illustrations. Minute tear at fore-edge of leaf vii/viii, otherwise fine and bright, though wanting the dust jacket and slipcase. The first printing of the first edition.....
New York: Barse & Hopkins, [nd but c. 1916]. 300pp. Pictorial blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Pictorial endsheets. Frontis and three plates. Unspecified printing of the first edition. Minor rubbing at tips, otherwise near fine. Not in Smith (perhaps because it is likely intended for young readers).
