THE PYRAMID.
London: Faber and Faber. [1967]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. 217 pp. Small bump to one corner else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
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THE SPIRE.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., [1964]. First American Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Octavo, original black cloth, gilt titles to spine. 223 pp. Bookplate on inner front cover (University of Nevada Library gift label), a fine copy in dust jacket, price corner intact. From the University of Nevada..... More
BRIGHTON ROCK.
New York: The Viking Press. [1981], Reissue, first published in 1938. Octavo, original tan cloth, gilt titles to spine. [310] pp. Issued as a volume in The Collected Edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE.
[Toronto]: Lester & Orpen Denys. [1982]. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. First edition. Original white boards, gilt titles to spine. 232 pp. This Canadian edition precedes both the UK and US editions. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
THIS GUN FOR HIRE.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: A Superior Reprint Published by the Military Service Publishing Co., [1945]. First Paperback Edition. Original pictorial wrappers. Issued as Superior M652 (25¢]. A very good clean copy. Reprint. First issued in 1936 in the UK as THIS GUN FOR SALE, the American edition (also 1936, and possibly preceding..... More
ROBERT GREENE. A NOTABLE DISCOVERY OF COOSNAGE. 1591 / THE SECOND PART OF CONNY-CATCHING. 1592.
New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc. [1966]. Reprint. Small octavo, original burgundy cloth, white title lettering. A reprint of the 1923 edition issued as Vol I in the Bodley Head Quartos series, which itself was a reprint of the 1591 edition of NOTABLE DISCOVERY... and the 1592 edition of THE..... More
MEMOIRS OF THE COMTE DE GRAMONT. Translated by Horace Walpole. Edited, with an Introduction, by david Hughes.
London: The Folio Society. 1965. First Folio Society Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, bound in full dark green buckram with a gilt design based on a binding by Samuel Mearne from the library of Charles II, now in the British Library. 256 pp. Frontispiece plus fiftenn additional full-page black & white lithographed..... More
FOURE LETTERS AND CERTEINE SONNETS, ESPECIALLY TOUCHING ROBERT GREENE. And Other Parties By Him Abused. 1592.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head. [1924]. First printing of this edition. Issued as Bodley Head Quartos II. Octavo, original gray cloth titled and decorated in blue. 102 pp. A reprint of the 1592 edition, accurately reproduced from a copy of the original in the British Museum and reprinted line..... More
BRESSANT. A Novel.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 549 & 551 Broadway. 1873. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original green cloth titled and decorated in gilt and black on spine and front panel. Brown coated endpapers. 383 pp. Contemporary ink inscription on preliminary black, dated Jan 26, 1874; moderate..... More
THE NORTH STAR. A TALE OF NORWAY IN THE TENTH CENTURY. Illustrated by Wilbur Dean Hamilton.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1904. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original pictorial blue cloth titled in gilt on spine, stamped in white, green and peach. 355 pp, [1] pp ads at rear. Frontispiece and 5 additional black & white plates. Pencil name on front endpaper, inner..... More
JOHN BULL AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP. A New Reading on an Old Tale. By Homunculus (Thackeray). 1849. With Six Illustrations Designed by the Author.
Leicester: Wyvern Bindery, Wellington Street, 1903. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Reprint of a work first issued in 1849. Octavo, original gray-green cloth blocked pictorially in gold on the front panel, titled in gold on spine. 63 pp., frontispiece and 5 additional black & white plates. Trifle bit of darkening to..... More
THE WORLD IN THE EVENING.
London: Methuen & Co., [1954]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. 333 pp. University of Nevada gift label (now deaccessioned) on inner front cover, else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
STORIES OF OLD NEW SPAIN.
New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1891. 1891. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Octavo, original green cloth stamped in gold and darker green. 326 pp + [10] pp ads at rear. Frontispiece. Fresh clean copy, small faint stain to spine; near fine. ¶ Stories of old Mexico and the Spanish..... More
DISCOVERIES. 1641. / CONVERSATIONS WITH WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN. 1619.
New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc. [1966]. Reprint. Small octavo, original burgundy cloth, white title lettering. A reprint of the 1923 edition issued as Vol V in the Bodley Head Quartos series, which itself was a reprint of the 1641 edition of DISCOVERIES...accurately reproduced from a cop y of the..... More
THE LONELY GOD.
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited. n.d. [1897]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First separate edition. Octavo, original gray cloth elaborately decorated in an arts & crafts style in green and brown on front & rear covers. 52 pp + [2] pp ads at rear. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Moderate..... More
EUPHROSYNE And Her "Golden Book".
Chicago: H.S. Stone & Company. 1901. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original pictorial light green cloth stamped in gold and dark green, top edges gilt. 141 pp. The first edition of the author's first book. Minor bruising to spine tips; a fine, bright copy. ¶ A beautiful..... More
THE ADVENTURES OF GIL BLAS OF SANTILLANE, Translated from the French of Le Sage by T. Smollett, M.D.; To which are prefixed memoirs of the author. In Three Volumes.
Hartford: S. Andrus and Son. 1844. Three volumes. Octavo, original brown cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, covers with designs in blind. 316 + 308 +304 pp; each volume with an engraved frontispiece. Offsetting from frontispieces to title leaves, cloth somewhat worn at the extremities; a very good, sound set..... More
WHILE ENGLAND SLEEPS.
New York: Penguin. 1993. 1st edition. 1st printing of this very controversial novel, this edition was suppressed. A novel about a love affair between two men in the late 1930's, Stephen Spender filed a lawsuit contending that the book is a salicious retelling of parts of his 1951 memoir WORLD..... More
AMNESIA MOON.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company. 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, cloth & boards. Signed by the author on the title page. A fine copy in dust wrapper. More
DAPHNIS & CHLOE. Translated From the Greek of Longus by Jack Lindsay; with Fourteen Decorations by Lionel Ellis and with A Critical Essay by the Author Illustrated From the Original Grecian Sources [Cover Title: The Lesbian Pastorals of Daphis & Chloe].
London: The Daimon Press, 1948. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo, original tan cloth, gilt titles to spine. 114 pp., reproductions of woodcuts by Lionel Ellis throughout. Covers slightly faded, a very good copy in a somewhat poor dust jacket, with some old tape at the edges and internally; a 2-inch..... More
THE WAY OF THE GODS.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original pictorial sage-green cloth titled in gilt on spine, titled in black and decorated in black, red and gilt on front panel, top edges gilt. 314 pp + [3] pp ads at rear. Publisher's promotional pamphlet advertising 8 other contemporary..... More
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF LAZARILLO DE TORMES. Translated from the Spanish of de Mendoza by Thomas Roscoe (with) THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF GUZMAN D'ALFARACHE or THE SPANISH ROGUE by Mateo Aleman Translated by John Henry Brady.
London: J.C. Nimmo and Bain. 1881. First Edition in English. Hardcover. Octavo, two volumes bound in brown cloth over bevelled boards, spines titled in gilt, floral endpapers. The first translation into English of this two picaresque Spanish novels, the Aleman is translated from the French edition of le Sage. With..... More
CAMEOS FROM MRS. BROWNING.
London & Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press. No Date [circa 1915]. Full Leather. 16mo, small upright oblong format, 40 mm wide x 106 mm tall x 4 mm thick. Bound in the publisher's original limp suede with an inlaid border in blind, gilt titles on spine, all edges gilt. 60 pp..... More
THE PRAIRIE-BIRD.
London: Richard Bentley, 1845. First Edition Thus. Half-Leather. The first one-volume edition, issued as volume 98 in Bentley's Standard Novels series. Originally issued in 3 vols by Bentley in 1844. Small octavo, bound in half black calf over marbled boards, spine panel nicely decorated in blind and ruled in gilt..... More
PIERCE PENILESSE, HIS SUPPLICATION TO THE DIVELL (1592).
London: John Lane The Bodley Head. [1924]. First Edition Thus. First printing of this edition. Issued as Bodley Head Quartos XI. Octavo, original cloth titled and decorated in blue. 137 pp. A reprint of the 1592 edition, accurately reproduced from a copy of the original in the British Museum and..... More