2 J. Sheridan Le Fanu first editions are documented on this shelf, from Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (1864) to Wylder's Hand (1864). Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that J. Sheridan Le Fanu title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh — 1864 · Richard BentleyFirst edition, three volumes, published December 1864 (following serialization in the Dublin University Magazine under the title 'Maud Ruthyn and Uncle Silas'). Bound in contemporary quarter roan over pebble-grained cloth boards with covers ruled in blind and spines lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges marbled, with marbled endpapers; half-titles are present. Printed in an edition of only 500 copies and….
Wylder's Hand — 1864 · Richard BentleyFirst edition, three volumes, octavo, bound in decorated pebbled purple cloth with the front and rear panels elaborately stamped in blind and the spine panels stamped in gold, with cream coated endpapers. The collation includes complete blank leaves preceding the title leaves of volumes II and III, a point that should be checked in any claimed first-edition set. The first American edition (Carleton, New York,…. The three-volume London Bentley edition of 1864 precedes the American Carleton edition of 1865 and is the true first edition.

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