London: Smith, Elder, 1887. Second UK printing, same year as the first. Quarto, original brown bevel edge cloth, brownish endpapers. [2], (x), (190), [4, ads] pp. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard laid in, numerous other plates inserted, illustrations in text. All plates present. Light marks to rear cover; spine lightly darkened with nicks to spine tips, short tears to joints at top neatly repaired; bookplate to front pastedown; some foxing in text; hairline crack to front inner hinge but firm; in all a VG copy, tight in the binding. "The letters contained in this volume are in the course of publication in Scribner's Magazine, and the book is printed from the stereotype plates of a volume about to be published in New York" - publisher's preface. According to Van Duzer 32, the book was first published simultaneously in New York and London in 1887. 1.5 kg

Toronto: Rose Publishing Co., no date (1890). Second Canadian edition (first was G.M. Rose [1889]). Squarish octavo, brown pictorial cloth stamped in blue, black and gilt, floral endpapers. pp [2], (xvi), 17-575, [3]. Book a bit leaned; wear to spine ends and a bit to outer corners; damp stain to lower inner corner of front cover not showing much and showing faintly to about page 50 of text; two dents to spine just above the imprint; yellowing to page edges; in all, about a VG copy otherwise, still decent in appearance, text clean and unworn, hinges not cracked. For once the Canadian edition was not a piracy. Issued under contract with Twain, made from US plates, and in a binding similar to that of the US edition, with the cover title shortened to A YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.

Toronto: G.M. Rose & Sons, n.d. [1889]. Thick squarish octavo, grey pictorial cloth stamped in black, blue & gilt. Spine imprint reads "TORONTO/ THE G.M. ROSE & SONS CO./ LIMITED". (xvi), 17-575 pp. Cheap paper a bit tanned, with yellowing to page edges; spine very slightly darkened with a touch of rubbing to ends; ink owner name at front; VG+ overall. BAL 3429 note. McBride p. 129 . For once the Canadian edition was not a piracy. Issued under contract with Twain, made from US plates, and in a binding similar to that of the US edition, with the cover title shortened to A YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT. It was registered for copyright 11 Dec., 1889. The US edition was deposited 5 Dec., 1889. This is the correct first Canadian edition. Copies with the Rose Publishing Company imprint, also undated, are from 1890. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.

New York: Harper, 1890. Second edition, first in the two volume format (first ed. was in 1889 in a one volume format). Two volumes, original terra cotta cloth gilt lettered. pp (4), 332; (4), 332. Interesting bookplate on front pastedowns of Daniel Baugh (monkey with glasses, reading & writing, between two candles). Ink name on fly leaves and on rear pastedown of volume I; light rubbing and light age darkening to spines; s VG unworn pair otherwise. One of Howells' more important novel and his first set in New York. it reflects his growing interest in socialism and the problems of the machine age. The story involves a magazine financed by a millionaire farmer, the editor who hires a socialist, and a streetcar employees' strike, inspired by the Haymarket Riot. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.

New York: Harper, 1855. Two volumes, octavo, original brown cloth, yellow endpapers. pp [2], (2), (xii), (13)- 378, [2], including a list of his articles in the Edinburgh Review and an index; [6], xviii, (19)-511, [3]. Moderate wear to spine ends of volume I, which also has the front free endpaper removed; 1920 ink owner names at front; small strip clipped from top of title leaf of volume two; mild foxing; else a VG clean, tight and unworn pair. Published in the same year as the UK edition. Sydney Smith, an Anglican cleric who promoted progressive causes - the education of women, the abolition of slavery and the teaching of practical subjects rather than the classics - was also known as a great wit and humourist. One of his most famous lines was that his friend Henry Luttrell's idea of heaven was "eating pâté de foie gras to the sound of trumpets". Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, no date [1914]. Octavo, grey bevel edge cloth with paper spine label, no publisher's spine imprint. xii, 384 pp. Cancel title leaf. Spine lightly age-darkened with label tanned, lightly rubbed; bruises to outer corners of covers; text has a soft crease to lower outer corners; endpapers lightly tanned; minor skinning to rear pastedown from removed label; page edges yellowed; else a VG clean & unworn copy, tight in the binding. First of this translation, by Frantz Davidovitch Davis, the trade issue. There was also a private issue published [1914?] by the translator, there calling himself Francis Myddleton Davis. Same set of sheets for both, presumably. A translation of DVORIANSKOE GNEZDO (1859), it has also been translated into English as LIZA, as A NEST OF NOBLES, and as A NEST OF GENTLEFOLK. First edition in English was London, 1869. Laid in the slip printed on both sides designed to help with the Russian names of the main characters.

Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1824. Two volumes, 12mo, 20 cm. pp 306, [2]; 276. Two binder's blanks front and rear of each volume. Bound with old marbled boards, new brown leather spines with paper labels, new floral endpapers. Text pages untrimmed. Externally fine, internally VG, clean & unworn, with light foxing and yellowing, some corner creases in Volume I. Watters p. 260. No copies located on AMICUS. Cheney was one of a pair of liberal American women who emigrated to Montreal with their husbands and concerned themselves with the education of Canadian children. Eliza Cushing and Harriet Vaughan Cheney, along with another American emigrée Eleanor H. Lay, founded "The Snow Drop" (1847-53), a Canadian monthly for children. The sisters also contributed to the "Literary Garland". "HARRIET V. CHENEY is a native of Massachusetts. Her love of literature was developed in childhood, probably owing much to the influence of her mother's taste and genius, who was author of one of the earliest American novels, 'The Coquette, or History of Eliza Wharton.' Soon after she left school, she wrote, in conjunction with her sister, 'The Sunday School, or Village Sketches.'" Her next work was "A Peep at the Pilgrims," which was republished in London. "The Rivals of Acadia" was the next; and then for a number of years her time was devoted to her family. The death of her husband led her again to literary exertions; and she wrote "Sketches from the life of Christ," and "Confessions of an Early Martyr," and afterward wrote largely for a magazine in Canada, to which region she removed". - American Biographical Library. "Perhaps the best and most detailed of the early 19th century novels of the Puritans [and] probably the best novel of its kind until `Standish of Standish.'"--Scribner, American Historical Novels 16. Rare.