Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chatto & Windus, London January 1894 Binding: Hardcover ******1897 edition****** front hinge cracked rubbing to spine
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Ex-libris bookseller Sam Weller Good with rolled spine, rubbed edges, dusty top edge, and a few light stains. Tiny crack in front hinge. Contemporary owner's name on front free endsheet
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$31.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Contains: The King of Schnorrers by Israel ZANGWILL. Complete serialisation. Memoirs of a Female Nihilist by Sophie WASSILIEFF. Non-fiction. Last three installments. My First Book. Contributions by Morley ROBERTS, David Christie MURRAY, Marie CORELLI, John Strange WINTER, Jerome K. JEROME, Bret HARTE. Short stories include: The Burrawaar Brand by E. W. HORNUNG, Bellamy by James PAYN, The Case of Lady Sannox by A. Conan DOYLE, A Dream in the Night by Coulson KERNAHAN, Story of a Deccan Filly by Hume NISBET, Exchange is Robbery by Richard MARSH, The Greenstone God and the Stockbroker by Fergus HUME, The Man-Eater by Morley ROBERTS, The Phantom Death by W. Clark RUSSELL. Late C19th red leather over red cloth covered boards; raised bands and dark green leather title label on spine. Rubbed at foot of spine, some scrapes to leather on corner pieces, light foxing, otherwise good. A heavy volume which will require additional postage outside the UK.
Seller: Richard Beaton, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth, lettered in black and gilt, front cover illus. in black and silver foil. 1st ed. 312 pp., 185 illus., 32-page publisher's catalog at rear. Rubbed along joints and spine extremities, spine panel cloth modestly tanned, light surface rubbing to covers. Firm binding. Hinges starting but firm. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$71.33 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description : xxiv, 309 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm. Subjects : Authors, English ; Biography. Authorship. Illustrated. English Literature. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st ed. Octavo. Fine period half morocco and marbled boards with gilt spine titles and decoration, marbled end papers, top edge gilt. Original cloth covers and spine bound in rear. xxiv, 309 p, portraits, illustrations. Very Good +, slightly worn on a few edges and joints. A beautiful copy. Indiana author George Barr McCutcheon's copy with his beautifully engraved book plate. Over twenty famous authors recount writing and publishing their first book. *** George Barr McCutcheon (186-1928) was an American popular novelist and playwright. His best known works are novels set in Graustark, a fictional East European country, and the novel Brewster's Millions. ***.
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$88.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description : xxiv, 309 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm. Subjects : Authors, English ; Biography. Authorship. Illustrated. English Literature. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$109.73 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original title-blocked, pictorial cloth. Professionally recased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Scans etc. On request. ; 309 pages; Description: xxiv, 309 p. : ill. , ports. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Departmental ditties and other verses. Authors, English--Biography. Authorship. Includes Kipling's discussion of his "Departmental ditties and other verses" on p. 91-97. References: Stewart, J. M. Kipling, 644. Livingston, F. V. M. Kipling, 112. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$116.00 + shipping
Description: MY FIRST BOOK, Chatto & Windus, 1894, first edition, some rubbing to fore edge corner tips and bottom cloth edges, inner hinge just starting, spine a bit tanned, else a tight, near vg copy in the publishers original pictorial cloth binding. Author contributions by Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, M. E. Braddon, F. W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R. M. Ballantyne, Israel Zangwill, Morley Roberts, Jerome K. Jerome, David Christy Murray, Marie Corelli, Bret Harte, "Q", Robert Louis Stevenson, et.al. Accompanied by 185 illustrations. Ads in rear dated September, 1893. Formerly the copy of fellow Victorian author Egerton Castle with his bookplate on the f.p.d.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original title-blocked, pictorial cloth. Professionally recased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Scans etc. On request. ; 309 pages; Description: xxiv, 309 p. : ill. , ports. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Departmental ditties and other verses. Authors, English--Biography. Authorship. Includes Kipling's discussion of his "Departmental ditties and other verses" on p. 91-97. References: Stewart, J. M. Kipling, 644. Livingston, F. V. M. Kipling, 112. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First serialized in the Idler in 1893. Publisher's original blue cloth with cover and spine decorated in black, silver and gold., floral end papers, 185 illustrations including tissue guarded frontispiece, 32 page catalog dated April 1894 at rear. 22 authors (including Haggard, Kipling, Doyle and Stevenson) discuss the circumstances surrounding their first book. These were first serialized in "The Idler" in 1893. Scott 104; Whatmore M26. London: Chatto & Windus (1894), 309 pps. A Fine copy of this lovely book. Modest wear, bruised tips, clean unmarked interior.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.