London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. First Edition. First edition. Mixed collection of seventeen stories including five or so fantastic or supernatural stories, including the humorous ghost-story "The Lady Killer" and the werewolf tale "The Sword of Corporal Lacoste." 8vo., [1-2], [i-ix], x, [1-3], 4-284 + 32-page publisher's.....
Cincinnati: U.P. James, 1855. First Edition. Scarce first edition by Abraham Lincoln's self-appointed bodyguard. No copies have appeared at auction since 1950 (RBH). Small 8vo. [iii]-vi, [7]-126pp. Wright II: 596.
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New York: Dix, Edwards, 1858. First Edition. First edition (BAL 4270, binding variant A). ALS pasted on rear pastedown to a D.W. Fiske (possibly a fellow Cornell professor elected to professorship in the same year as Curtis). A desirable copy given the provenance.
New York: A. Simpson & Co, 1867. First Edition thus. Signed and inscribed by Cozzens on the flyleaf. This edition has a colorful bibliographical history. Erroneously listed in Wright II 649 for the 1868 edition under the authorship of Cozzens. BAL 4010 corrects; Halkett II, 273. The edition here.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. First Edition. First Edition first printing per BAL's points of issue. Volume II has inserted catalog dated January, 1861. Notably, BAL notes the earliest catalog as February 1861, whereas this copy's catalog is dated the prior month. Holmes's first novel. His medical background.....
New York: Appleton and Company, 1854. First Edition. Scarce work of a minor nineteenth-century American author, set in upstate New York. Among the odd plot lines present is the heroine’s scoundrelous father uses her in a money counterfeiting scheme. The Western Literary Messenger in 1855 called it “a genial.....
New York: G. Hillson for Wm. Randall, 1823. First Edition. Contains the purported memoirs of Miss Perkins (as well as anonymous prefatory matter and commentary), of whom there appears to be little information available apart from this book. The contents contain letters, poems, addresses, and quotes attributed to Miss Perkins.....
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1880. First Edition. First Edition. 12mo. 272 pp. Wright, L.H. American Fiction, 1876-1900, 5903.
