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1897017305London: Jarrold & Sons 1897. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This book is the first edition the covers are Blue with gilt and red wording and decoration the rear cover is embossed with the publishers logo. The spine has gilt and red decoration but it is sunned. The binding is tight. This is the first printing as it does not include the four plates which were inserted in later printings Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Jarrold & Sons hardcover
1884006246Boston: James R. Osgood and Co. 1884. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bellamy's third novel preceding "Looking Backward 2000-1887" by 3 years and SCARCE especially so in collectible condition. In original brown cloth stamped at front cover and spine with black decorations and gilt titles. Copyright page states 1884 title page1885. Very Good cloth rubbed at the edges and corners end pages toned prior owner inscription front paste down. Binding solid contents are clean and unmarked. James R. Osgood and Co. Hardcover
189936433London: Ward Lock & Co 1899. 1st ed. Hardcover. Bacon John H. 1st ptg. 8vo blue cloth with elaborate color design. Pencil ownership signature on front free endpaper. Endpapers darkened front endpaper brittle and detached else a near fine bright copy. A very nice copy and scarce in this condition. Ward Lock & Co hardcover
1897HW03London: Jarrold & Sons 1897. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st printing 1897. Blue cloth lettered and decorated in red and gilt on front and spine; publsiher's device in blind on rear. Paper has tanned especially end and following pages; bookplate removal; shelf wear wth a lower foredge bump to corner of the boards. Jarrold & Sons Hardcover
189836432London: Digby Long & Co 1898. Hardcover. 1st ed. stated 2nd ptg. on title page. 8vo pictorial blue-gray cloth printed in red orange black and silver publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel top and bottom edges untrimmed light green floral patterned endpapers tanned. 16-page publisher's catalogue dated "November 1896" inserted at rear inserted frontispiece with illustration initialed "C.H.S." title page printed in red and black. Period bookplate and sticker for Foyle's Bookstore Charing Cross affixed to front pastedown. Bumps to all corners mild foxing to preliminary pages. Digby Long & Co hardcover
1817025441London: John Murray 1817. First Edition Thus . Original Quarter Calf. Very Good. 8 3/8 " Tall. I 210; I Viii 214. Quarter Calf 6 Compartments Black Morocco Title Label. First Combined And Complete Edition With Fifth Edition Of The First Part Third Edition Of The Second Part Including The Appendix At The End Of The Second Part First Printed Here In This Third Edition Of Part Ii. Original Quarter Morocco Over Marbled Boards With Preliminary And Final Blanks No Ads No Pages Between The Two Parts Except The Title Page For Part Ii. Wear To Edges Joints And Hinges Solid Joints Beginning To Crack At Edges Fraying To Tips. Ancient Ownership Name Of George Wood No Other Names Or Marks. This Edition With The First Printing Of The Appendix Is Quite Scarce. <br/> <br/> John Murray unknown
1817025442London: John Murray 1817. 1st Edition . Original Quarter Calf. Good. 9 3/8" Tall. I Viii 214. With Preliminary And Final Blanks In Original Blue Boards Spine Mostly Perished But With Most Of Original Paper Spine Label Intact. Uncut Deckled Edges Note Height Of Book Is 9 3/8". Boards Worn Frayed Through Along Most Of Edges. Edges Of Pages Dusty Contents Immaculate And Fine. <br/> <br/> John Murray unknown
1900006290New York: New Amsterdam Book Co. 1900. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RARE in either the British or American First Editions this copy the American with the American publisher listed above the British on the title page and with different colors to the cloth and the artwork. 320 pp. printed without the 46 page publisher's catalogue seen in the British edition. In the original publisher's grey cloth lettering in green pictorial artwork to spine and front cover in green red black and white. Very Good cloth rubbed at spine ends corners a bit bumped and rubbed. small "Brentano's Booksellers" label bottom edge rear paste down. Contents clean and unmarked with absolutely no foxing or toning a quite handsome copy containing 12 stories from this master of the macabre Richard Marsh who is best known for his classic novel of supernatural horror "The Beetle" 1897. New Amsterdam Book Co. Hardcover
1896003496London: John Lane 1896. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. First British Edition. First British Edition First Issue with catalog at rear dated 1896. In light brown decorative cloth boards spine titles gilt red decorations and title front board and red key decoration spine and rear board along with 1896 date. Pagination error on title page 26 pages of ads at rear. A Very Good copy. Small booksellers sticker bottom edge rear pastedown that of J.L. McCallum Surrey. About 1/4" of cloth loss at head of spine not affecting title. Contents are clean tight and free of any foxing whatsoever. Edges of pages just starting to brown SCARCE in the true British First Edition and in quite collectible condition. John Lane Hardcover
1872025507Philadelphia: J B Lippincott & Co 1871 1872. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Green Cloth Gilt. Very Good . 6 7/8' Tall. 203 Pp. Green Cloth Gilt And Black Lettering And Design Two Blank Front Free Endpapers Two Blank Rear Free Endpapers The Elaborate Green Cloth Binding Being Very Similar To Strahan's 1871 London First Edition And The 1871 Routledge New York Printing But With No Publisher's Name At Base Of Spine And Lippincott Name And 1872 Date On Title Page The Actual Publication Date Of This Lippincott Edition Is Cited As December 1871 And As Lippincott Was Strahan's American Publisher At This Time It Seems Likely That This Edition Is The First Authorized American Edition. The Strahan Edition Has "Goblin" On Spine And Cover In Black But In The Routledge And This Lippincott Edition That Word On The Spine Is In Gilt. 30 B/W Illustrations In The Text Half-Page At Center Of Pages Signed With The Dalziels' Name In Plural And Hughes' Initials. Very Well Preserved Covers Clean All Gilt And Black Complete And Strong All Gilt Still Brilliant Rubbing And Wear To Cloth At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Tips A Few Frays At Top And Bottom Of Spine And Pinpoint Frays At Three Of The Tips; Hinges Tight Original Off White Coated Endpapers No Cracking To Hinges No Names Or Marks No Repairs Slight Spine Lean. Display Quality. <br/> <br/> J B Lippincott & Co [1871] hardcover
1871015350London: William Blackwood and Sons 1871. First Separate Edition First Printing . Violet Wrappers. Near Fine. Cover Illustration By W. Patterson. Pp. 1-641-8 Of Ads. First Issue With "Price Sixpence" And "From Blackwood's Magazine May 1871" On Front Cover And 1871 Date In Roman Numerals At Foot Of Title Page. First Separate Publication Of This Short Story About A Fictional Invasion Of England By Germany. A Bright Clean Almost Unused Copy. Spine Faded To Light Violet As Is A 1/8" Vertical Strip Adjacent To The Spine On The Rear Cover. Very Scarce In Such Exceptional Condition This Being The Best Copy We Have Seen In 30 Years. <br/> <br/> William Blackwood and Sons unknown
1886010143London: Longmans Green & Co./ Chatto and Windus 1886. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Editions Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Three First Edition books bound in one volume consecutively Underwoods Chatto and Windus 1887; The Dynamiter Longmans Green & Co. 1885 and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Longmans Green & Co 1886. Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards marbled end papers top edge gilt the bookplate of the Constitutional Club Library at front paste down. The Constitutional Club was a London gentlemen's club established in 1883 and disbanded in 1979 that was closely aligned with the Conservative Party and at one time counted P.G. Wodehouse as a member. Very Good horizontal closed tear at p. 109 of The Dynamiter boards rubbed occasional widely scattered toning. xv 138 1 half-title 207 title 141 pp. Basis for every Dr. Jekyll movie. Longmans, Green & Co./ Chatto and Windus Hardcover
18985498<p><strong>The first Russian translations of the novel.</strong></p><p>This Russian translation was issued in the same year as the first edition of '<em>The War of the Worlds</em>' was published. The translation appeared in the magazine '<em>Novyi Zhurnal Inostrannoi Literatury Iskusstva i Nauki</em>' 'New Journal of Foreign Literature Art and Science' Nos. 6-9 and this particular copy is an offprint from the magazine. It was also published in 1898 as a separate book in a smaller format with different pagination.</p><p>According to some sources the translator might have been <strong>Konstantin Tolstoi</strong> 1842-1913 a doctor and publicist known for his attempt to translate Shakespeare's '<em>Romeo and Juliet</em>'.</p><p>Later that same year another Russian translation of the novel was released.</p> Novyi Zhurnal Inostrannoi Literatury hardcover
