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Condizione: Very Good. first edition, first printing; 260 pp., frontis., original gilt & blind stamped red cloth (hardcover), very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

Octavo, original orange cloth stamped in black. First edition. Posthumous collection of short stories, burlesques, poems and whimsies published in the HOUSTON DAILY POST in 1895 and 1896, with an introduction by Florence Stratton. Not in Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925. BAL 16304 (noted binding B). Neat owner's signature on front free endpaper. A fine copy in good decorated dust jacket with a few short tears and shallow chips at edges and internal tape ghosts at spine ends. (#133487).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. 260 pages ; frontispiece, 20 cm OCLC similar to 1087431752 ; ed brick cloth with lettering and design in gold ; some wear to covers ; no dustjacket ; excised front endpaper ; The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry is a collection of short stories that vividly captures the lives of ordinary people living in New York City. The collection explores themes of love, ambition, sacrifice, and the complexity of human relationships, often set against the backdrop of the city's bustling, sometimes harsh, environment. O. Henry's signature twist endings are evident throughout the stories, where he uses irony and surprise to reveal the unexpected turns of fate that affect his characters' lives. Many of the stories focus on the lives of the working class and the struggle for survival in a rapidly changing society. The characters in the collection are often caught between their dreams and their realities, revealing the gap between aspiration and achievement in the face of social and economic challenges. With its poignant humor and insightful social commentary, the collection paints a rich, sometimes bittersweet portrait of life in the city, showcasing O. Henry's mastery of storytelling and his ability to illuminate the human condition in both its light and dark moments. ; better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer known primarily for his short stories, though he also wrote poetry and non-fiction. His works include "The Gift of the Magi", "The Caballero's Way", "The Duplicity of Hargraves", and "The Ransom of Red Chief", as well as the novel Cabbages and Kings. Porter's stories are known for their naturalist observations, witty narration, and surprise endings. ; Contents:The trimmed lamp -- A Madison Square Arabian Night -- The Rubaiyat of a scotch highball -- The pendulum -- Two Thanksgiving Day gentlemen -- The assessor of success -- The buyer from Cactus City -- The badge of Policeman O'Roon -- Brickdust Row -- The making of a New Yorker -- Vanity and some sables -- The social triangle -- The purple dress -- The foreign policy of Company 99 -- The lost blend -- A Harlem tragedy -- "The guilty party"--an eastside tragedy -- According to their lights -- A midsummer knight's dream -- The last leaf -- The count nd the wedding guest -- The country of Elusion -- The ferry of unfulfillment -- The tale of a tainted tenner -- Elsie in New York ; VG. Book.…

Octavo, inserted frontispiece with illustration by Alice Barber Stephens, publisher's red cloth stamped in gold and blind, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. The author's third collection of short fiction. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 H-517. BAL 16273. Top edge of text block dusty, a bright, tight, near fine copy. A nice copy. (#133491).…

First edition. Limited edition. Hardcover. Signed by the artist. Publisher's original dark purple cloth with gilt titles to the spine and upper board. Illustrated with six captioned, black and white plates by Vincent Sammy. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with just a touch of spotting to the top and fore- edges of the closed text block, are otherwise clean throughout, and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Issued in an edition of 100 copies, from which this example is numbered 85, and signed by British Fantasy Award-nominated illustrator Vincent Sammy in black ink on a cream bookplate pasted to the front endpaper (as issued). The sixth chronological volume in co-editors Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin's supernatural-horror 'Pandemonium' anthology series. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Needs to be re-backed and thus sold as is. Second edition (as stated upon title page; first published 1889). xii, 672 pages. Hardcover: H 22.75cm x L 15.25cm. Contemporary full calf leather binding; front board only tenuously attached with spine leather separating from underlying backstrip; spine's black gilt-lettered author label intact but black gilt-lettered title label near head mostly missing (only the left quarter still present). Front free endpaper and front flyleaf detached and now laid-in; both leaves worn along their fore-edges with pencil signatures and writing of past owner on ffep; foxing and some occasional staining to interior leaves; pencil and ink writing on rear endpapers. Rear hinge shaken but text block itself (other than the aforementioned first two prelims) remains firm. Book now presented in a trimmed clear Dura-Lar (polyester film) sheet forming a dj which aids the securing the boards and modestly enhances the book's compromised shelf appearance. A classic Texiana title which has been reprinted numerous times. The first printing is particularly scarce with this second printing more readily available in the trade but nonetheless quite uncommon as well. Bibliographical references: Jenkins BASIC TEXAS BOOKS #218 - "the most thorough compilation of accounts of Indian warfare in Texas in the 19th century;" Wright Howes U.S.IANA W407 - "Most complete of the early compilations on Texas Indian fights and fighters.".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. 14 volumes. "Memorial Edition" and "Edition deluxe." Number 403 of 1,075 copies. Vol. 1 has an extra half-title, engraved: "Memorial edition," with vignette and pencil signature: "Doubleday, Page and Co." also signed by the illustrator, Gordon Grant, on the frontispiece of the first volume. 8vo. (24 cm.), frontispieces, plates. Uniformly custom-bound in full dark blue morocco by Thomas W. Best (Best was a Boston bookseller and at one time a part owner of Harcourt Bindery. Gilt titles, gilt lines on five spine compartments, on both covers and on dentelled edges; silk end sheets; t.e.g. Rubbing and starting primary to joints of front cover but all in all the bindings are tight and sound; spines gradually have faded to brown. From the library of a prominent, early 1900s Clevelander with his bookplate. Contents: I. Cabbages And Kings.--II. The Four Million.--III. The Trimmed Lamp.--IV. Heart Of The West.--V. Voice Of The City.--VI. The Gentle Grafter.--VII. Roads Of Destiny.--VIII. Options.--IX. Strictly Business.--X. Whirligigs.--XI. Sixes And Sevens.--XII. Rolling Stones.--XIII. Wind Of Destiny.--XIV. Waifs And Strays, Twelve Stories, Together With A Representative Selection Of Critical And Biographical Comment. Postage may be extra on this item. …

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909. Original red cloth. First Edition of this gathering of 22 short stories, all delving into the question of fate vs free will -- how chance encounters and offhanded decisions shape the course of one's life, for better or for worse. As with all copies, there is a missing "h" at page 9 line 6. This is a fine copy (short tear in the edge of the pp 257-258 leaf). Blanck 16277.…

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910. Original red cloth. First Edition of this collection of 24 short stories, many of them ending with classic "I did not see that coming" twists. Included is one of his best-known, "The Ransom of Red Chief." WHIRLIGIGS was published in September 1910, three months after the author's death (at age 47) -- due to two years of increasingly bad health brought on by diabetes, cirrhosis of the liver, and heart disease. This is a fine copy (just a touch of rubbing at some tips). Blanck 16295.…

New York: The McClure Company, 1908. 1 page undated ads. Original red cloth. First Edition, first printing (with only the endpaper following the ad leaf), first binding (with "McClure" rather than "Doubleday, Page & Co." at the foot of the spine). This was O. Henry's third volume of 25 very short stories about the people of New York City -- following THE FOUR MILLION (1906) and THE TRIMMED LAMP (1907). He had settled there among the four million residents in 1902, after his three-year imprisonment in Texas for bank embezzlement. This is a close-to-fine copy (no wear, and only a little of the unavoidable spine-fading) -- and is uncommon in this condition. Blanck 16275. Provenance: endpaper signature of Nelson Dwight Phelps, dated in Oakland in July 1908, and (appropriately) bearing the bookseller's label of Paul Elder & Company of San Francisco.…

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910. Original red cloth. First Edition. This was O. Henry's fourth volume of tales about the "four million" people of New York City; he had settled there in 1902, after his three-year imprisonment in Texas for bank embezzlement. This is a bright copy, fine except very light rubbing at some corners. Blanck 16294.…

Frontispiece by Alice Barber Stephens. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1907. Original red cloth. First Edition of "O. Henry"'s third book, following CABBAGES AND KINGS (1904) and THE FOUR MILLION (1906). Like his preceding volume, these are short stories and vignettes (often ending with "a twist") about the people of New York City; he had settled there among the four million residents in 1902, after his three-year imprisonment in Texas for bank embezzlement. This is a just-about-fine copy, with no soil or wear, and with only a little of the spine-fading that typically afflicts these red O. Henry volumes; there is slight wrinkling of a fore-corner of the leaves. An uncommon title. Blanck 16273. Provenance: endpaper signature of Harriet Holmes Haslett of Alameda, author of numerous short stories about her native San Francisco in the 1920s.…