London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1886. First British edition. Bound in publisher's salmon cloth stamped in black; floral endpapers. Very Good or better with toning to spine, cloth lightly soiled, lightly scratched and bubbled. Housed in a custom slipcase, with scuffing to morocco spine. A lovely copy. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First American edition, first printing; precedes the London edition by four days. Bound in publisher's greenish-gray cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. Fine, with trivial touches of wear to cloth, name erased from top of title page, pages lightly toned. A fantastic copy..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. First and only edition; later issue with white endsheets, consisting of remaindered sheets put into covers perhaps as late as 1931. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with fading/mottling to cloth, contents toned and with several hinges slightly exposed. In a...... More
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1834. First American edition. Two volumes bound in publisher's original dram boards over blue cloth spine; title labels perished. Binding worn, corners softened and contents foxed, old tidemarks to bottom corner of several early pages. Chip to edge of first blank in Volume II. Lower..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. Three volumes bound in early-to-mid 20th-century half-leather over marbled boards. Near Fine with leather lightly scuffed and rubbed, spines sunned. Former owner bookplate to front pastedowns. Longfellow's translation, originally published in 1867, was the first American translation of Dante's Italian narrative..... More
Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1897. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original dark green cloth elaborately stamped in gilt. Previous owner name, bookplate and light soiling to front endsheet, pages lightly toned, still easily Fine. A fantastic copy. More
London: John Murray, 1818. First edition. Four volumes. First editions of the author's last two published novels. Very Good. Bound in contemporary half-leather over marbled paper-covered boards. Bindings rubbed; joints strengthened and endpapers sympathetically replaced. Previous owner name and date on blank preliminary page in Volume I. Half-title is present..... More