Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1896. Decorated cloth. Frontis and plates by John T. McCutcheon. First edition of the author's first book. Front inner hinge a bit tender, mild fraying at extremities, but a good copy.
Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899. Small octavo. Decorated cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontis and illustrations by John T. McCutcheon. First edition. Trace of foxing to endsheets, otherwise a very good or better copy.
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1895. Small octavo. Elaborately gilt decorated cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Narrow splits at tips of lower joint, otherwise a very good, bright copy. First edition, first "issue," without the colophon, and without additional titles beneath the author's name on the title-page. One of two binding designs.....
Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1897. Grey-green cloth, stamped in blue with tricolor decoration, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Bookplate leavings on front pastedown, otherwise a very good or better copy. First edition of this tale of the near future, tracing the rise of a British barrister to.....
Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1897. Red cloth, decorated in black, t.e. plain, others untrimmed (a remainder binding for the "Eldridge Series"). First U.S. edition. Spine a bit darkened and lightly edgeworn, but a good, sound copy.
Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1898. Gilt forest green cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Foretips a bit bumped, else near fine. First edition of the author's first book, inscribed and signed by him in 1900. The author, a Chicago physician and financier, proved an important benefactor to.....
New York: Stone & Kimball, 1896. Small octavo. Medium green cloth, decorated with shamrocks in darker green, t.e.g., others untrimmed. First U.S. edition, primary binding. Cloth a bit darkened, light discoloration to lower portion of lower board and toe of spine, marginal spot to several leaves, but a good, sound.....
Boston: Copeland and Day, "1897" [i.e. 1898]. Small octavo. Gilt red cloth, decorated in blind (faintly). Ink name on first blank, else very good. Second "edition" (one of 1000 copies). This is one of the copies bound up by Small, Maynard & Co. in May of 1899, but contrary to.....
Chicago: Privately Printed under the Direction of Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1898. Small octavo. Light blue cloth, stamped in dark blue, edges untrimmed. Cloth rather soiled, crown of spine rubbed, endsheets a bit foxed, small smudges to a couple leaves; just a sound, tight copy. First edition of this.....
Boston: Copeland & Day, 1897. 12mo. Medium brown cloth, lettered in gilt, decorated in blind. First edition. Spine extremities a bit shelfworn, but a very good copy.
Boston & London: Copeland and Day / Elkin Mathews, 1896. Small octavo. Pictorial boards and endsheets (after designs by Tom. B. Meteyard. Clipped portrait of the authors tipped to verso of preliminary black, front free endpaper cracked at gutter at crown and toe, short crack at crown of upper joint.....
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1900. Cloth backed decorated pictorial boards, after a design by Frank Hazenplug, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Foretips bumped, crown of spine a trifle worn (with tiny snag), inner hinges cracking slightly, otherwise a good copy, with the pencil ownership signature of Frederic M. Burr. First.....
Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1902. Red cloth, stamped in green, all edges trimmed. A few minor flecks to sizing, but a very good copy. First edition of this novel of the Franco- Prussian war. In the remainder binding characteristic of the "Eldridge Series."
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1895. Small octavo. Gilt red cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Inserted frontis and seven plates by C.D. Gibson. Spine sunned, conjugate stub of frontis exposed, a few marginal smudges, else a very good copy. First edition of Stone & Kimball's first bestseller.
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1900. Medium blue cloth, decorated in white and black, t.e.g., others untrimmed. First U.S. edition. A few smudges to endsheets, otherwise a very good or better copy.
Philadelphia: George S. MacManus Co., 1979. Quarto. Green buckram. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Illustrations. Designed by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press. Very good or better, without dust jacket, as issued. The authoritative monograph on this innovative imprint.
New York: Stone & Kimball, 1897. Pictorial green cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed. A very good copy, closer to near fine. First U.S. edition of this popular novel of reincarnation. Published in the same month as the UK edition.
New York: Stone & Kimball, 1897. Pictorial green cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Light corner wear, inner hinges cracking (but sound), pencil inscription on endsheet; just a good copy. First U.S. edition of this popular novel of reincarnation. Published in the same month as the UK.....
New York: Stone & Kimball, 1896. Blue cloth, decorated in white, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontis and plates by Charles Sheldon. Early ink private ownership stamp on title heavily (and partially) erased, otherwise about fine. First U.S. edition of the first book by the future biographer of Stevenson and prolific author.....
New York: Stone & Kimball, 1896. Blue cloth, decorated in white, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontis and plates by Charles Sheldon. Ink ownership inscription on endsheet, small spot of erosion in extreme upper tip of free endsheet, else a very good or better copy. First U.S. edition of the first book.....
Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. Small octavo. Cream paper over boards, with stylized orchid device by F.C. Gordon stamped in black. Some wear at extremities, with small chip and hairline crack near and parallel to lower joint; just a good copy of this fragile book, internally about fine. Half morocco.....
Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1898. Small octavo. Claret red cloth, elaborately decorated in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed. First edition. Private ownership stamp on pastedowns, a few incidents of minor foxing, ink bookseller's price stamp on free endsheet, else a nice, bright copy. "Of wealthy families.....
New York: Stone & Kimball, 1896. Gilt decorated grey-green cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. First U.S. edition, published a month after the London edition. Small spot in corner of upper board, light hand-soiling to cloth, otherwise very good.
New York: Stone & Kimball, 1896. Slate grey cloth, edges trimmed, stamped in black. First U.S. edition, published a month after the London edition. A contemporary variant (remainder?) binding, without imprint at toe of spine. Short closed tear at fore- edge of half-title, else a very good copy.
Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1898. Small octavo. Medium blue cloth, decorated in white, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontis by Cecil Clark. Spine ends a bit worn, endsheets lightly foxed, otherwise a very good copy. First edition of the author's first book, a collection of stories gathered.....
