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
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IF THIS IS A MAN. Translated by Stuart Woolf. With an Introduction by Frederic Raphael and an Afterword by the Author. Etchings by Jane Joseph.
London: The Folio Society. 2000. First Folio Society Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original pictorial cloth. 234 pp. Frontispiece plus eleven additional full-page black & white reproductions of engravings, all by Joseph. A fine copy in slipcase. ¶ First published in 1947, IF THIS IS A MAN (US title: 'Survival in Auschwitz')..... More
THE CLANDESTINE BETROTHAL. Inscribed by Val Gielgud.
London: Robert Hale. [1967]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition [and first printing]. Octavo, original green boards, gilt titles to spine panel. 208 pp. Inscribed in pen on the inner front cover "Audrey Cameron / from / Val Gielgud / Edinburgh Christmas 1967". Val Henry Gielgud (1900 - 1981)..... 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 ANATOMY OF TOBACCO. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1926. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original yellow cloth, printed paper label on spine panel, decorated endpapers. 186 pp + [2] pp publisher's ads for other works by Machen at rear. A REMARKABLE INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on the half title leaf..... More
THE PROVOCATIONS OF MADAME PALISSY. By the Author of "Mary Powell".
London: Arthur Hall, Virtue, & Co. 1854. Second edition, printed a year after the first edition [1853, but undated]. Octavo, original pebbled green cloth titled in gilt on spine, covers decorated in blind. 240 pp + 24 pp publisher's catalogue dated January, 1854, bound in at rear, [4] pp a...... 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
MY FRIEND HENRY MILLER. An Intimate Biography by Alfred Perles. With a Preface by Henry Miller.
London: Neville Spearman. [1955]. First edition. Octavo, original blue boards titled in gilt on spine panel. 242 pp., Index, Plates. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust wrapper; price-clipped and with some faint rubbing around the edges. A clean, attractive example. More
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. A Play in Five Acts. With a Prologue by Walter de la Mare.
London: Constable & Company Limited. 1924. First Edition. Quarto, original cream cloth blocked pictorially in blue on spine and front panel, top edges stained blue, others untrimmed. [227] pp. Fading to top egde stain, lower corners bumped, a very good, clean copy. Highly attractive cover artwork, artist uncredited. 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
LALLA ROOKH, An Oriental Romance. Illustrated with Engravings from Drawings by Eminent Artists.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858. Early Edition. Octavo, bound in full brown morocco ruled in brown and gilt, the spine with raised bands, ruled and titled gilt within compartments, decorated endpapers, inner dentilles; all edges gilt. Frontispiece with tissue guard and engraved title leaf, plus eleven additional..... 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
ADMIRALS ALL And Other Verses.
New York: John Lane. 1898. First American Edition. Vellum. First American Edition. Small octavo, bound in full vellum titled in black ink on front cover in an Old English script similar to the title page font, decorated endpapers. 43 pp. Vellum boards bowed, Fore-edges of binding trimmed, a very good..... More
AN EXCELLENT MYSTERY. The Eleventh Chronicle of Brother Cadfael.
London: Macmillan, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original red boards titled in gilt on spine. 190 pp. Light browning to text block, otherwise a fine copy in a fine dust jacket, price corner clipped. ¶ A Brother Caedfael Mystery. The siege of Winchester sends monks streaming..... More
THE LEPER OF ST. GILES. The Fifth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1982. First American Edition. Hard Cover. First American edition. Octavo, original tan boards with brown cloth spine titled in silver. 223 pp. A virtually fine copy in like dust jacket, price corner intact. A fresh, clean copy. ¶ A beautiful Princess about to..... More
THE ROSE RENT. The Thirteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael.
London: Macmillan, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original green boards titled in gilt on spine. 190 pp. Light browning to text block, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket, price corner intact. ¶ A young monk is murdered next to a white rose bush at..... More
A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
London: The Folio Society. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Royal Octavo, bound in quarter dark blue leather over blue cloth boards. 159 pp. Frontispiece plus thirty-nine additional full-page black & white plates showing facsimiles of various manuscripts, printed books, portraits, paintings and etchings illustrating the progress of English Literature. A fine..... More
AT 12 MR. BYNG WAS SHOT.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [1962]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original boards. 338 pp, illustrated, appendixes, notes and bibliography, index. Historical account of the execution by Firing Squad of Admiral the Hon John Byng on March 14th, 1757. A fine copy in a fine price-clipped dust wrapper..... More
EZRA POUND. A Collection of Essays Edited by Peter Russell to be Presented to Ezra Pound on his Sixty-Fith Birthday.
London: Peter Nevill Limited. [1950]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, original green boards titled in black on spine panel. Frontispiece, 268 pp, Select Bibliography at rear. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, a bit irregularly darkened on the rear panel. ¶ A collection of essays including..... More
Works.
London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society, Ltd., 1921. First Edition Thus. Later printing. 8vo. Two volumes [xvi, 474, 2; xvi, 462, 2]. Bindings by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, burgandy calf, figured covers, double gilt rule, 5 raised bands, gilt figuring and labels, marbled endpapers. Covers and backs rubbed and scuffed..... More
Die Sagen von Merlin. Mit alt-wälschen, bretagnischen, schottischen, italienischen und lateinischen Gedichten und Prophezeiungen Merlins, der Prophetia Merlini des Gottfried von Monmouth, und der Vita Merlini, lateinischem Gedichte aus dem dreizehnt.
Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses. 1853. First Edition, First Printing. First edition. Octavo, Bound in mid-20th Century half paper patterned boards with green cloth spine, gilt titles. 351 pp. Foxing and staining to text block, a few old marks to title page and also the title leaf is slightly..... More
LOVE AMONG THE ARTISTS.
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company. 1900. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. This US edition precedes the UK edition by 14 years. Octavo, original green cloth titled and decorated in darker green. 443 pages, complete. A good to very good copy. Hinges tight, cloth with light general dust soiling, some..... More
COLD STEEL.
New York: Brentano's. 1900. First American Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition. Octavo, original pictorial brown cloth, upper front panel depicting a scene of knights with lances in black, brown & light blue, titled in black and ruled in brown on front cover, gilt titles to spine. 372 pp. A few..... More
COLD STEEL.
London: Grant Richards, 1899. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original pictorial brown cloth, upper front panel depicting a scene of knights with lances in black, brown & light blue, titled in black and ruled in brown on front cove & spine. 372 pp + 19 pp catalogue..... More