Literature
Eliot, T. S.
London: Faber, 1958. Hardcover. 11th impression. 8vo. Ink name to front endpaper, spine head a little bumped, jacket with small chip to the spine head and lightly nicked corners, else clean and very good overall. More
Mantissa
London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Signed. Grey cloth in dust jacket. Inscribed on the title-page to Greg Gatenby, Toronto author and past director of the Harbourfront reading series, "Greg Catterby / With a smile? / John Fowles 7 May 1998", and Gatenby's signature and 1998 date to..... More
Jataka Tales
Cambridge University Press, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. xiv, [2], 488. 8 b/w illustrations. Publisher's orange cloth boards lettered in black to the front board and spine. Light bumping and nicking to the cloth at the spine ends, and the bottom fore-edge corners bumped, top corner a touch rubbed..... More
CONTES FANTASTIQUES. TRADUCTION NOUVELLE. PRECEDE DE SOUVENIRS INTIMES SUR LA VIE DE L'AUTEUR PAR P. CHRISTIAN.
Paris: Lavigne, 1843. Gavarni. Hardcover. 8vo. xix, 522pp. Original wraps bound in. Quarter leather with ornate spine, gilt, with gilt title. Head of spine at corners a bit rubbed, green mottled paper boards with light edgewear. All edges speckled green. First edition with illustrations by Gavarni, finely engraved on wood..... More
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
New York: Pantheon, 1998. Hardcover. 8vo. Very light bumping to the spine ends, otherwise a clean and unmarked copy in a fine dust jacket. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translation. More
Mirgorod. Containing Old-World Land-Owners, Taras Bulba, Viy, Ivan Ivanovitch & Ivan Nikiforovitch
London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. From the library of David Garnett, Constance Garnett's only son, with his name-plate to front pastedown. With a pencilled noted on from endpaper "gift from CG" Blue cloth with dark blue spine lettering, in beige dust jacket with green lettering..... More
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
New York, NY, United States: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 295pp. First American edition. Brown cloth and black lettered and decorated spine. Very light wear to the spine head, bookplate of Beatrice R. Budlong to front endpaper, else a clean and tight copy. The dust jacket price..... More
The Vicar of Wakefield
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1890. Hugh Thomson. Leather. Second edition. 8vo, xxxv, 305pp. Later printing. Full green straight grained calf by Zaehnsdorf, with gilt fillet borders, 5 raised bands, with dark green title labels and fleuron and filigree compartments, inner dentelles and green marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, with..... More
The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. Supposed to be Written By Himself
Salisbury: Printed By B. Collins, for F. Newbery, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1766. First Edition. Full Leather. 12mo. 2 volumes. 16.2 cm x 9.5 cm bound in 12's. Vol. 1 pp.: [blank], title-page, [2] - Advertisemant signed Oliver Goldsmith, 214, [blank]; Vol. 2 pp.: [2 blank], title-page, 223, [2 blank]. An exquisite..... More
Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith Comprising The Vicar of Wakefield, Plays and Poems
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1901. Full Leather. Octavo. Pp. xii, 434. Bound in contemporary full maroon calf, with a large central gilt crest of Rugby School with the motto "Orando Laborando" (by prayer and work), bordered by double gilt fillets framing a wavy blind roll and blind-stamped corner pieces..... More
FORE-EDGE PAINTING - Poems
[Eton]: Printed at The Eton College Press, 1902. Full-Leather. Quarto. Bound by Spottiswoode & Co. in full smooth calf binding with gilt decorated border to both upper and lower boards and gilt-stamped crest with a lion rampant, 5 raised bands with gilt decorated compartments, gilt-stamped green leather title label, gilt..... More
The Comedians
New York: The Viking Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 309pp. First American edition. Nice clean and tight copy, dust jacket not price clipped, a touch age-toned at the edges of flaps and an uneven fade to the rear cover, else bright and unworn. An excellent copy. More
May We Borrow Your Husband? And Other Comedies of the Sexual Life
London: Bodley Head, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Signed. 8vo. 188pp. One quarter green cloth over patterned paper boards. Edition of 500 copies, this is no. 174. Signed by Graham Greene. Light rubbing to the corners, corners of acetate jacket chipped, but overall a near fine copy. More
Monsignor Quixote
Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. First edition, precedes UK edition. Light coloured cloth with copper coloured spine lettering, in dust jacket. Hard bump to spine head and foot, otherwise a nice clean copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy inscribed by Graham Greene..... More
Ways of Escape
Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. First edition, precedes UK edition. Green/grey boards with silver spine lettering, in dust jacket. Corners and spine ends a little bumped, otherwise a very good copy in a price clipped dust jacket with a fade to the spine and a...... More
Forever Flowing
London: Andre Deutsch, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 247pp. Orange cloth with gilt lettering. Very light bump to one corner and spine ends, ink stamp to front endpaper and a light spot for a few pages starting at the half-title, A clean and tight copy in a very sharp dust..... More
The Witch's Head
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. In three volumes. First edition. With a presentation inscription from the author to his sister reading, "Mary Haggard fr her affectionate brother The Author, May 1885." 8vo., orig. dark green grey cloth , lettered in silver on upper cover and the..... More
Ludus Coventriae. A Collection of Mysteries, Formerly Represented at Coventry on the Feast of Corpus Christi
London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Pp. xvi, 434. Original blind-stamped rib grain cloth, gilt lettered spine, edges rough-trimmed. A couple of corners bumped, spine and edges of covers a bit sunned, minor traces of foxing to text, but otherwise a near fine copy. More
Look Back on Happiness
New York: Coward McCann, Inc., 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 276. Translated from the Norwegian by Paula Wiking. Brown lettering on green cloth, in dust jacket. Book very near fine, dust jacket with light creasing to spine foot and some nicking to the spine head, the white rear panel..... More
FORE-EDGE PAINTING - The Book of Archery, Being the Complete History and Practice of the Art, Ancient and Modern, Interspersed with Numerous Interesting Anecdotes, and an Account of the Existing Toxophilite Societies
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1841. Second Printing. Full-Leather. Octavo. Full green morocco with gilt-stamped vignette to both upper and lower boards, 5 raised bands with gilt decorated compartments, gilt title direct to spine, gilt dentelles, plain endpapers. All edges gilt. Beautiful FORE-EDGE PAINTING of a 19th-century Archery Range. Pp. [xxiv]..... More
Florentine Nights
Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 83pp. First edition in English with translation by Kirke Boylan Fitz-Gerald. Red cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine, border on front board in blind. Dust jacket with light edge-wear, some nicking to the spine ends and a...... More
The London Book of English Prose
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, 665pp. Ink name to front endpaper, touch of rubbing to the book edges, dust jacket with little chips in the corners and a heavily faded and scuffed spine. More
Jack Upland Friar Daw's Reply and Upland's Rejoinder (Oxford English Monographs)
Oxford University Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 176pp. First printing. Green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Ink name to the front endpaper, else clean and unmarked in a tight and square binding. Price clipped dust jacket. Good clean copy. More