Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1893
Language: English
Seller: Pages Past--Used & Rare Books, Greensboro, NC, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 12mo. 201, 8 pages. Hardcover bound in green cloth. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. The spine ends show tears and chipping. A sound copy with secure. Partly unopened, including at the title page. The text appears clean. SIGNED in pencil by Frank R. Stockton on the half title. A collection of Stockton's stories, including his most famous, "The Lady, or the Tiger". Some of the other stories have a metaphysical or supernatural nature, including "The Transferred Ghost" and "The Spectral Mortgage". Although not a First Edition, signed copies of this title are quite scarce. Signed by Author(s).
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Laid in loose is a clipped signature of Frank Stockton from a letter with closing holograph postscript. A Good first edition in the original pictorial brown and gray cloth stamped in gilt and black (light rubbing to cloth; some fraying to top of spine; front inner hinge starting; some browning to text; ink gift inscription). BAL 18880.
Published by [ Vancouver, British Columbia:] HM, 2022, 2022
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. ÒThe Lady, or the Tiger? was first published in The Century magazine in 1882. It was tremendously popular but readers did not like being left to draw their own conclusion. In a sly acquiescence to the incessant requests to know which came out the door, in 1885 he published The Discourager of HesitancyÓ (colophon). Octavo. [13] ff. With two title-pages. Two pochoir frontispieces and nineteen vignettes by Walter Bachinski. Set in Weiss and American Uncial types and printed on dampened Barcham Green Canterbury handmade paper by Rollin Milroy. Bound in quarter yellow cloth over black paper boards with gold-printed paper onlay on one cover and black ink stamp pattern on the other. The dos-a-dos format allows the book to be read from one end, then flipped over and read from the other. In a black board slipcase. With the prospectus. A fine copy, as new. One of thirty numbered copies. Six hors commerce copies were also produced. Signed on the colophon by Walter Bachinski. This collaboration between Rollin Milroy and Shanty Bay Press proprietor Walter Bachinski takes up two stories by Frank R. Stockton (1834 Ð 1902) about Òambiguity and living in a society ruled by arbitrary justiceÓ (Oak Knoll website). Signed by Author(s).