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
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
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
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
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
London: Macmillan, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original black boards titled in gilt on spine. 201 pp. Light browning to text block, otherwise a fine copy in a fine dust jacket, price corner clipped. ¶ The harsh, unforgiving Father Ailnoth is brought as pastor for Holy..... More
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
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
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
New York: Ace Books, [1983]. Advance Proof copy of the First Edition. Original Wraps. First edition. An advance, uncorrected proof copy in blue wrappers, lettered in black. A little fading to edges, upper back cover a trifle bumped, basically a fine copy. An uncommon advance issue of this great fantasy..... More
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
New York: Alfred A Knopf. 1962. First Edition. Octavo, original aqua cloth titled in gold and brown on spine, author's initials in brown on front. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with very faint browning to jacket spine. More
Toronto: The Musson Book Company Limited, No Date [1910]. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. First Canadian edition. Octavo, original purple cloth stamped in gold on front panel. [21] pp. Contemporary ink dname and date in ink on front free endpaper, minor wear to the cloth at spine tips and corners, some..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1905. Reprint. Hardcover. First issued in 1861 under the title 'The Early Italian Poets' and re-issued under this title in 1874. Octavo, original brown cloth decorated in black and titled in gold on spine and front panel. ruled in gilt on front & rear cover..... More