Fireworks at Dusk. Paris in the Thirties
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter blue cloth over pale green paper boards, silver spine lettering, in a fine dust jacket. More
Literary Sudies
The Growth of Literature. Volume 1 & 2.
Cambridge University Press, 1968. Hardcover. 1968 reprint. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering. Unmarked and clean throughout in tight and square binding. Dust jackets sunned at the spine, with a few little water spots and water stain to the jacket spine of volume 2. More
Johnsonian and Other Essays and Reviews
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 243p. Black cloth with paper spine label, with spare label at rear. Ink name to front endpaper, else clean and tight in price clipped dust jacket, a little scuffed, sunned at the edges and spine, with small paper tape re-enforcements to inside..... More
The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Volume 1, 1794-1804, Notes
New York: Pantheon - Bollingen Series L, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Bollingen Series L. Volume 1 only. Maroon cloth with gilt facsimile signature to front boards, gilt spine lettering, light-blue topstain, ribbon bookmark. Very good plus copy housed in a price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket browned with tanning and damp..... More
The Globe Guide to Shakespeare: The Plays, the Productions, the Life
New York: Pegasus, 2016. First Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Softcover. First Pegasus paperback edition. Clean copy, as new. More
A Perverse History of the Human Heart
Cambridge, Massachussets: Harvard University Press, 1997. Hardcover. 8vo. 172p. Grey cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, no dust jacket. Fine copy, as new. More
Forsytes, Pendyces & Others
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. 298pp. Green cloth, gilt. Decorated dust jacket lightly soiled, with four creases on covers, corners, head and heel bumped, and spine darkened along with flap edges. Interior crisp and clean. Foreword by Ada Galsworthy. This book contains several stories..... More
Reminiscences of Leonid Andreyev. Translated from the Russian By Katherine Mansfield and S.S. Koteliansky
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. Limited Edition, First Thus. Hardcover. 12 mo. Limited edition of 400 copies, printed under the direction of Frederic Warde. Pp. [85]. Gilt-stamped black cloth spine over plain grey paper boards. Very lightly soiled and scuffed, bit of sunning to top edge of rear panel, spine..... More
Contributions to The Edinburgh Review. Complete in One Volume [With] Two Handwritten Letters
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. Original Cloth. Stout Octavo. Pp. 1005, frontispiece portrait engraved by H. Robinson after Colvin Smith and extra engraved title-page, text in two columns. Original brown cloth, blindstamped ito both upper and lower covers in a Cambridge design, brown coated endpapers. Loosely inserted is..... More
Piers Plowman: The A Version. Will's Visions of Piers Plowman and Do-well. An Edition in the Form of Trinity College Cambridge MS R.3.14 Corrected from Other Manuscripts, with Variant Readings
London: University of London / The Athlone Press, 1960. Hardcover. Tall Octavo. Pp. [xii], 457. Mustard coloured cloth, gilt spine lettering. Prev. owner's signature to front free endpaper, else interior fine and clean. Uneven sunning to covers, spine faded, light bubbling to upper cover, tip of rear lower corner waterstained..... More
The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman in Three Parallel Texts Together with Richard the Redeless. With a Preface, Notes, and a Glossary By Walter W. Skeat [2 Volumes]
London: Oxford University Press, Reprinted Lithographically By Lowe & Brydone, 1961. Hardcover. Stout Octavo. Pp. vi, 628; cii, 484. Navy-blue cloth, copper spine lettering. Prev. owner's signature to front free endpapers, some light pencil underlining and margin notes in vol. 1, ink notes on rear blank of vol. 2, else..... More
Long Drums and Cannons. Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists 1952-1966
London: Macmillan, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Brown cloth, silver spine title. Very good, clean copy in price-intact dust jacket with nicks to tips and a bit of shelfwear along top and bottom edges, otherwise very good. More
Contexts of Criticism
Cambridge, Massachussets: Harvard University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo (140x220mm). 335pp. 1969 printing. Green boards in gilt lettering in dull green dust jacket with maroon lettering, all in mylar wrap. Book analyzes criticism of American literary works. Book is fine, dust jacket is fine with some fading to edges. A...... More
The Critical Writings of James Joyce
New York: Viking, 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. Fine with light wear to head & heel of spine in VG DJ with wear to outer corners & head & heel of spine panel; a few short closed tears & creasing to upper front panel, closed tear..... More
The Vagrant Mood
London: William Heinemann, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 241. Quarter cream leather with black label on spine over navy leather boards. Top edge gilt. Lacking the slipcase. Light scuffing to the spine, small chip to the spine head and light rubbing to the foot, rear board scuffed in a...... More
Russian Themes
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 373. Black cloth, silver spine titles, sticker of previous owner to front paste-down, clean and unmarked throughout in a lightly edge-worn dust jacket. Translated by Marija Mihajlov. More
The Ring of Truth. The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung
New York: The Overlook Press, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 401p. Quarter red spine over black paper boards, lettering in gilt, with a slight binder's defect to the spine near the foot, with light bumping to the spine ends, text block clean and tight and the dust jacket is like..... More
The Acceptance of Absurdity. Anthony Powell Robert Vanderbilt Letters 1952-1963
London: Maggs Brothers, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 126, [1]. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering, fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Edition limited to 400 copies. More
Omniana, or Horae Otiosiores [2 volumes]
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812. First Edition. Hardcover. 12 mo. 2 volumes, pp. ix, 336; vi, 330. Rebound with cloth spine, retaining original brown boards, new endpapers, new sympathetically printed paper spine labels. Top edge trimmed, others deckled. Occasional thumbing and stains to interior, medium..... More
Southey's Common-Place Book. Edited by His Son-in-Law, John Wood Warter, B.D. [4 Vols.]
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849-1850, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. All First Editions, 4 volumes: First Series, Choice Passages; Second Series, Special Collections; Third Series, Analytical Readings; Fourth Series, Original Memoranda, Etc. 8vo. Pp. iv, 596; [viii], 693; [viii], 841; [viii], 748. Engraved title in first volume, half-titles..... More
On Nineteen Eighty-Four. A Biography
New York: Abrams Press, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 194p. Red paper boards with silver lettering. Small bump to the spine head, else a fine, as new copy in a fine dust jacket. More
Phillips in Print: The Selected Writing of Walter J. Phillips on Canadian Nature and Art
Winnipeg: The Manitoba Record Society, 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Green cloth, gilt spine title, pp. xxiv, 156, 8 inserted plates double-sided (3 in colour), + black & white full-page illustrations throughout. No. 350 of 1000 numbered copies. Dustjacket scuffed with wear to the outer extremities and a light fade..... More
The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Bound in dark blue cloth, gilt spine lettering, pp. viii, 248. Near fine copy in dust jacket by Vanessa Bell. Slightly soiled dust wrapper, with spine and flap-folds gently darkened, minor nicks at tips and spine ends, otherwise..... More
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
London: The Hogarth Press, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Bound in blue cloth, gilt spine title, pp. 157, dust jacket by Vanessa Bell. Minute dust-soiling to dust wrapper, with spine and flap-folds gently darkened, nicks to the tips and to the spine ends, otherwise a lovely copy overall. More
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Bound in green cloth, white spine lettering, pp. viii, 248, dust jacket by Vanessa Bell. Jacket browned, primarily to spine and flap-folds, with water flecks to the spine only, chips to the tips and spine ends affecting publisher..... More