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Edité par H. S. Stone & Company, Chicago, 1897
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, eleven inserted plates with illustrations by Robert Sauber, original decorated blue green cloth stamped in white, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. Six short historical fictions set in the eighteenth century, involving, among others, Nell Gwyn, David Garrick and Sarah Siddons. The first of three books by Moore published by Stone. Moore's historical romance THE JESSAMY BRIDE, also published 1897, was a bestseller. Kramer 125. Private owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down. Several short, mild scratches to front cover, else a nearly fine copy. (#116923).
Edité par Hutchinson & Co., London, 1899
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-362 1-[6]: ads, original blue-gray cloth, front panel and spine panels stamped in gold, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Murder and romance against a background of London banking and Zanzibar exploration, by a successful author of popular middle-class fiction. Hubin (1994), p. 582. Some scattered foxing to text text block, else a fine copy. A nice copy of an uncommon book seldom found in decent condition. (#130403).
Edité par Dodd, New York, 1898
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, pp. [1-4] 1-380, original pictorial tan cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red, black and gold. First U.S. edition. Society romance set in Ireland with minor supernaturalism -- a visit to a Dublin witch. Not in Wolff (who had twenty-four of his other titles). Not in Brown, Ireland in Fiction. Some soiling to rear cover, else a very good copy. Uncommon. (#112370).
Edité par Hutchinson & Co., London, 1895
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Tall octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-4] 1-228 [229] [230: blank] [231-238: ads], frontispiece and illustrated title leaf (inserted conjugate pair) printed in blue and brown, original tan buckram, front panel stamped in brown and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher's monogram on rear panel stamped in brown, all edges untrimmed. First edition, later issue or printing. A volume issued as part of Hutchinson's "Zeit-Geist Library" in both paper and cloth bindings, this being one of the later. "An excellent novella exploring the issue of the 'New Woman' of the 1890s with passion and a bracing cynicism. A woman who fancies herself an enlightened woman of the day leaves her husband to go off with a slick Lothario. The story takes place entirely on an ocean liner bound for the West Indies, where the pair meet by arrangement for their flight. Imagine their surprise when her husband walks up to them nonchalantly and, instead of chastising them, encourages them to see and speak freely to each other, giving them all the rope they need to eventually hang their illusions. Everywhere around her is evidence that her husband is ten times the man that her would-be lover is, but her vanity prevents her admitting this until the last moment, just before a mid-ocean collision caps the drama. The woman is a good case study in a certain kind of ethical aberration that comes from blindly following ideological fashions, but to call the book fantastic on the basis of her 'mental aberration' seems to us unwarranted. This is definitely a cut above the average commercial fiction of the day and raises issues that still resonate today." - Robert Eldridge. Bleiler (1978), p. 142 (coding Mental aberration). Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Violet Howard's 1897 art nouveau bookplate affixed to front paste-down. Binding leaned, a hint of sunning to spine panel, free endpapers tanned, a clean, tight, very good copy. (#171455).
Edité par A. Constable and Co., Westminster, 1896
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Small octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-137 [138: printer's imprint] [139-142: blank] [note: first two and last two leaves are blanks], original pictorial blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. A volume issued as part of Constable's "Acme Library" in both paper and cloth bindings, this being one of the later. Short horror novel of communication with apes in West Africa. The story was collected later in his rare short story collection THE OTHER WORLD (Eveleigh Nash 1904). Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 82. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Wolff 4863. A fine copy. A beautiful copy of an uncommon book. (#170909).