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
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
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
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
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1948. First Edition, First Impression. Octavo, original green cloth, spine panel blocked in brown and gold, gilt titles, top edges stained red. 765 pp. A few minor and tiny aterstrikes to cloth & top page edges, a very good, tight clean copy in the original..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1891. First edition. 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 American South. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1894. First American Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. 12mo, original tan buckram stamped in dark brown, publisher's logo on front panel. 224 pp + [2] pp ads at rear. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Cloth moderately dust-soiled, a clean, very good copy. ¶ Collects..... More
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
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
New York: Harper & Row. [1989]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, original white cloth titled in silver on spine panel. 244 pp. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. ¶ The author's second book and first short story collection. More
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
London. Gollancz. 2018. First UK Edition, Deluxe Issue. Full Leather. Large thick octavo, bound in full blue leather titled and decorated in gilt, full colour endpapers, silk ribbon bookmark, slipcased. 992 pp, 56 illustrations (including seven colour plates), maps. ONE OF ONLY 30 COPIES, this being copy No. 8. A...... More
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
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
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
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
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
London: Alfred A Knopf. 1926. First British Edition. Hardcover. First British edition. Octavo, original patterned batik-style paper covered boards with white cloth spine, green titles to spine. 351 pp. Foxing to page edges, a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket, slightly chipped at spine head, light overall..... More
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
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
Paris: The Obelisk Press. [1958]. Reprint. Octavo, original green cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel. 362 pp. Silk bookmark bound in. A few small marks to covers, a very good clean copy. ¶ Sequel to TROPIC OF CANCER. First published by the Obelisk Press in 1938. More
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
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
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
London: B.U.F. [British Union of Fascists] Publications Ltd., 1936. First Edition, First Impression. Original Wraps. Small octavo, original buff wrappers printed in black. Unpaginated [59] pp + [3] pp ads at rear. Issued as 'Fascist Shilling Library Vol. I". Minor interior browning, covers lightly rubbed & soiled, but overall a...... More