Mouse Trap Farces, First Edition (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Red cloth with front cover and spine gilt lettering. 184 pages plus two pages of publisher ads at the rear. 8vo. Frontis and eight full page illustrations by various illustrators. Light general wear and soiling most noticeable as light fraying to spine top/bottom. VERY GOOD- Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 184pp Four plays, the longest being The Mouse-Trap. The others, the farces, are "The Garroters", "Five O'Clock Tea" and "A Likely story". (Loc G174/1).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 184 + ads pp. Red cloth stamped in gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece and full-page plates. Owner's neat ink name dated in month and year of publication, in upper margin of title page ("Gerald L. Hoyt Apl 1889"). A very good or better copy with spine dulled, light wear to tips of spine, few tiny soil marks on rear cover. *BAL* 9642.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in boards. Owner name on FEP. Lightly darkened spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original crimson cloth. Inscribed and signed in ink by Howells: "Charles Fairchild/ from/ W. D. Howells." Fairchild was a broker and friend and neighbor when Howells lived at Belmont. See "Selected Letters of W. D. Howells" for the relations between Howells and Fairchild. Fairchild owned and rented Howells' home in Belmont, and he conducted negotiations for publication of Howells' works by Harper when Osgood failed. Note that this book is published by Harper. From the library of Christoph Lohmann, who was Associate Editor of "Selected Letters of W. D. Howells," but without any indication to that effect.Wear with slight loss at the head and foot of the spine, fading on the spine, internals very nice. An important association copy.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in boards. Front hinge starting, rear hinge cracked. Light staining on top text block corner and spine.

Hardcover. First Edition. Original red cloth. BAL 9642. Illustrated with eight plates. A fine presentation copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to "Joanna/from her brother,/W.D. Howells." We are not sure who the recipient is as Howells, one of eight children, did not have a sister named Joanna. He did have a brother named John, but he died in 1864. Slight hinge crack. Spine sunned and a little soiled. Very Good.