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
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
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
London: The Folio Society. 2008. First Folio Society Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original pictorial cloth. 216 pp. Frontispiece plus seven additional full-page colour plates on textured paper, plus cover design, all by Jonathan Burton. A fine copy in slipcase. ¶ Detective Fiction. Originally published in 1962, this is P.D. James' debut..... More
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
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: The Folio Society. 1965. First Folio Society Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original grey canvas boards with green cloth spine, gilt titles. 324 pp. Frontispiece plus seven additional full-page black & white plates, plus cover design, all by Masterman. Tiny scuffs to spine, a very good tight copy in the original..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, [1945]. First Edition, First Impression. Octavo, original tan cloth titled in black on spine and front cover. 146 pp. Covers slightly darkened, slight bump and one tiny tear to cloth at spine head, a good / very good copy, no dust jacket. More
London: Cassell & Company, [1948]. First Edition, First Impression. Octavo, original red cloth titled in black on spine panel. 190 pp. Covers a bit stained; small split at inner front hinge; a very good sound copy. The front panel of the dust jacket with the stunning artwork by Michael Aryton..... 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
London: The Folio Society. 1970. Second Folio Society Edition. Hardcover. The second Folio Society Edition, but the First with these Illustrations. Octavo, original decorated brown-red cloth with a design in silver by Madeline Dinkel, gilt titles of spine. Printed throughout in black & brown. 32 pp, Frontispiece and four additional..... 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
London: Williams and Norgate Ltd, Great Russell Street. [1939]. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Octavo, original rough-weave brown cloth, gilt titles on spine, top page edges stained black. 291 pp., 111 + illustrations, mostly photographic but with some sketches & reproductions of handwriting by Lawrence. Very neat ink name on..... 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: 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
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
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
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