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Crane, Stephen. Maggie: A Child of the Streets. William Heinemann, 1896.
Price: US$39.89 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1896. No Edition Remarks. 147 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Slight cracking to hinges and gutters causing boards and binding to be loose. However, boards and pages throughout remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Crane, Stephen. Maggie. William Heinemann, 1896.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Blue cloth, no dust jacket. Inked name and small blindstamp, endpapers and pages toned, front hinge neatly repaired with Japanese tissue, boards gently bowed, very good, in custom mylar cover.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
CRANE, Stephen.:. Maggie. A Child of the Streets.. William Heinemann, 1896., 1896.
Price: US$212.56 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First English Edition. 148pp., navy buckram, stamped in gilt, t.e.g. A very nice copy. Crane's first book, here printed from the second, revised New York edition with an added 'Appreciation' by W.D. Howells.
Seller: Charles Cox Rare Books , Bude, United Kingdom
Crane, Stephen. GEORGE'S MOTHER. , 1896.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: New York / London: Edward Arnold, 1896. 8 pp undated ads. Original tan cloth. First Edition of Crane's fourth book (just after THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE). This is a tale of a church-going mother and her idealistic expectations for her saloon-going son (Crane's mother and brother are much in evidence). Like Crane's first book, MAGGIE (A Girl of the Streets), this is a tale of the degradation of life in the slums of New York City's Bowery. GEORGE'S MOTHER has received almost no critical consideration at all, although it is eminently more satisfactory in its realism, more convincing in characterization, and less bizarre in style than MAGGIE. The depiction of the relationship between George and his mother is not only decidedly superior in its elaboration and psychology to that between Maggie and her mother, but is also Crane's most significant exploration of the relationship between parents and children. [Brennan] In 1900 (the year of Crane's death from consumption at age 28), Heinemann of London published these two novellas together, as BOWERY TALES. This is a near-fine copy -- spine slightly darkened as usual, but without soil or wear. Williams & Starrett 6; Blanck 4073. Provenance: bookplate of Syracuse attorney Ephraim James Page (1867-1950).
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
CRANE, Stephen.. Maggie. A child of the streets.. London: William Heinemann, 1896, 1896.
Price: US$289.86 + shipping
Description: First UK edition, first impression, revised by the author from the first US edition of 1893. The novel ranks among the first works of American Naturalism, and is known for its gritty realism and strident social commentary. The American author and critic Henry Edward Rood declared the novel "one of the most powerful, terrible and hideous studies of the dregs of humanity that have been produced in the English language" (review in the New York Mail and Express, May 30, 1896). BAL 4075. Duodecimo. Original dark blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Bookseller's blind stamp to front free endpaper. Some page corners lightly creased. A near-fine, bright copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Maggie: A Child of the Streets. By Stephen Crane and printed in London by William Heinemann. 1896, 148 pp, 6.5 x 4.5, 8vo, hardcover gilt-lettered blue cloth. Overall good, with minor rubbing and wear to exterior. Light cracking to front hinge. Text block remains complete, with occasional wear to binding. Light markings and marignalia at front of book. Includes four-page catalogue at rear with other works sold by the publisher. General age-related toning to pages, along with periodic foxing and wear. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A scarce 1st British edition. The first novel written by Stephen Crane (1871-1900) and self-financed and published in 1893 when he was only 22 years old, it was considered controversial for its risqué themes. Following the success of The Red Badge of Courage in 1895, it was reprinted again, including in the United Kingdom, with changes made from its first printing. COLL1896DJKQ
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
CRANE, Stephen. Maggie: A Child of the Streets. William Heinemann, London, 1896.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First English edition. 12mo. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Spine sunned and a little rubbed, else near fine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Crane, Stephen. Maggie. A Child of the Streets. William Heinemann, London, 1896.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Rear cover veery lightly scuffed.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Crane, Stephen. MAGGIE A CHILD OF THE STREETS. William Heinemann, London, 1896.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. Polished black buckram, lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Ink name in upper margin of title. light offsetting to endsheets, bookplate of David Garnett; a very good, bright copy. First UK edition of the author's first book, including "An Appreciation" by W. D. Howells not appearing in the US 1896 edition. BAL 4075n. & BAL 9705. WILLIAMS & STARRETT 9.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
CRANE, Stephen. MAGGIE; A Child of the Streets. William Heinemann, London, 1896.
Price: US$538.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, , pp. 148, 4 (small stain to the rear blank, showing a little on the pages of ads.) Bound in flexible blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt, other untrimmed. Some very minimal rubbing, otherwise a near fine copy. BAL 4075. Crane's first book. This was first privately issued in wraps, in 1893. Called the first realistic American novel, Maggie is the story of a girl in the New York slums, doomed by a life she can't escape.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Crane, Stephen. Maggie A Child of the Streets. William Heinemann, London, 1896.
Price: US$799.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First British edition. Original navy blue cloth over flexible card. Gilt titles minimally rubbed. Gilt topstain largely untarnished. PO blindstamp to ffep. Small indentation to bottom text block edge. Unmarked. A very nice copy overall. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Crane, Stephen. Maggie A Girl Of The Streets. William Heinemann, London, 1896.
Price: US$890.00 + shipping
Description: 148 pages. 16.5 x 11 cm. Crane self published the first edition in 1893. To his great dismay it sold so poorly, he was forced to give copies away. Today, he is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. His writing in the realist tradition presents early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism, to end unceremoniously in an early death at the age twenty nine. This English edition carries the sterling reviews of his successful "The Red Badge of Courage," as a frontispiece. Interior contents clean and fresh, front cover decorated and letter in gilt, spine faded. Orig. navy cloth. Teg. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.