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1907. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1907. Original light blue-grey cloth decorated in orange, white and black. First American Edition of Conrad's great novel of espionage (filmed by Alfred Hitchcock as "Sabotage"). The American edition has over a hundred variations in text from the English edition, since Methuen sent early uncorrected proofs to Harper as copytext. Harper printed 4,000 copies of the book, but initially sold only about two-thirds of them. Most of the others did not sell until after 1914 (when CHANCE reawakened interest in Conrad); these later copies have "Printed in the U. S. of America" ink-stamped onto the title verso (not present in this copy). This American edition also has one of the most unusual bindings among his works -- portraying Atropos about to cut the thread of life. This is a fine, clean copy (just a touch of rubbing at the extremities). We find this to be the very toughest American edition of Conrad to find in truly collectible condition -- due to the fact… Leer más

1898. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. Original brown cloth blocked in white. First American Edition of this early Hornung collection of eleven imaginative tales, including "The Widow of Piper's Point," "The Magic Cigar" and "A Spin of the Coin." This book came out five years after Hornung married Constance, sister of Arthur Conan Doyle, and one year before Hornung created his most memorable character, Raffles the gentleman cricketer (and crook). Except for one small blemish on the front cover (affecting the title's "U"), this is a fine copy.

1915. [in light brown boards] Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. 2 pp undated ads. Original light brown paper-covered boards with yapped edges, printed in black. First (Colonial) Edition of Buchan's best-known book, the classic mystery that has withstood the test of time both as a book and as a film. It features a British mining engineer from the southern Africa colonies, bored on vacation in London, who inadvertently learns too much about a German plot, and flees to his homeland of Scotland to avoid his pursuers. This was the first of Buchan's five mysteries to feature the Richard Hannay (the others being GREENMANTLE, MR. STANDFAST, THE THREE HOSTAGES and THE ISLAND OF SHEEP). The tale was of course the basis for one of Alfred Hitchcock's most highly-regarded early films, released in 1935; there have been three other releases, the most recent (2008) for TV. This was a cheaply-produced wartime book (price one shilling), printed on cheap paper that has always browned, with the… Leer más

1881. Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. Illustrated by L. Benett. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1881. One page undated ads (priced in sterling). Original bright red cloth decorated in black and gilt. First Illustrated American Edition (also the first to be issued in a decorative cloth binding) of one of Verne's odder tales... Wealthy Chinaman hears that his fortune is lost. Opts for honorable suicide by arranging for a friend to kill him. Learns that his fortune isn't lost after all. Tells friend thanks but there is no need to kill him. Friend replies that he has already arranged for some thug to do the deed and now can't contact him... This Verne title is also unusual in that all three early publishers of this tale, on both sides of the Atlantic, ultimately published it in the exact same cloth binding (showing several characters "afloat on their backs, propelled by the wind caught in minisails attached to toe-masts, controlled by waistband halyards" [T&M]). The first edition in English was… Leer más

1911. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1911. Original dark blue cloth. First American Edition of this tale of revolutionaries in czarist Russia, centered about the double-agent Razumov. Harper declined to handle the serialization "because their magazine circulated in Russia and they feared it would cause a breach in their good relations with that country" [Cagle]. This copy is in dark blue cloth, which is the only color mentioned by Cagle or Supino; however, we have also seen this book bound in a much brighter blue cloth. Although half of this edition's 4,000 copies sold in the first year, the rest sold slowly through 1917: we would surmise that the cloth color variance was due to copies being bound up over so many years. This is a near-fine copy (scarcely any wear, but as usual the spine lettering is a bit dulled). Supino A14.8.0; Cagle A14c.