London: John Brooks, C and J Ollier, Charles And James Ollier, 1822. First edition. Hardcover. 22 x 14 cm. All are First Editions. In printed order are "Queen Mab "(1829). 89 pages. NOTES to Queen Mab in French, Latin and Greek are printed verbatim. 92 pages. "Prometheus Unbound." With "Other..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam, 1856. Hardcover. (XVI) 586 pages. 23 x 15 cm. 5 folding maps, 11 lithographed plates (2 folding, 8 tinted), 232 wood-engravings in the text. Index. This edition published simultaneously with the London edition of the same year. This publication "Being The Result of a Second Expedition"..... More
New York: R. Martin, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. 64 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Eleven designs on sixteen pages, wood engravings. Charles B. Wood, notes: "This was the first American book to be concerned solely with houses for the working classes. It is of interest not only to the architectural..... More
new York: Fowler and Wells, 1854. 192 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. Three full-page plates printed in bistre as frontispieces, and thirty wood-engravings. This is the first stereotyped edition, revised and enlarged with a new 1853 copyright. The original edition published in 1848 is extremely rare. KARPEL B1093. "According to..... More
Paris: Tolmer, 1921. Legrand, Edy. First edition. Hardcover. Folio, 11" x 15 1/4", 30 pages, 54 illustrations -- one double-page, two large folding maps on Japan, a plethora of pochoir plates (hand-colored through stencils). A triumph of modern French book making depicting the feats of French exploration -- Cartier, de..... More
London & New York: Faber & Faber Limited & The Viking Press, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 628 pages. 26 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 22 of 425 signed by James Joyce in green ink. Joyce wished to puzzle critics with his novel's plot which is not nearly as complex..... More
London: Faber And Faber, (1929). First English language edition. Hardcover. 191 (2) pages. 19 x 14.5 cm. Published from the original French sheets. Critical essays on Joyce's "Finnegans Wake. Beckett, in Joyce's company at the time, and his essay (the first of the essays here published, by virtue of the..... More
London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1715. First edition. leather_bound. [4] xlii [43] 219 [5] pages. 19.5 x 12 cm. The second edition appeared the same year. A political satire on the statesman Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford (1661-1724). It takes the form of an account of Martin Powell (fl.1709-29), the..... More
Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929. Brancusi, Constantin. First edition. Hardcover. 55 pages. 21 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 325 of 500 on Holland Van Gelder Zonen. Preface by C.K. Ogden. Portrait of the author by C. Brancusi. Title printed in red and black: The three fragments are entitled; "The..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 329, 435 pages. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. The novel explores one of James’s favorite themes: the cultural clash between naive Americans and sophisticated, often decadent Europeans. Bright, fresh copy. BAL 10647. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. 412, 377 pages. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. Set in England, this complex study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James's career. Bright, fresh copy. BAL 10659. Pencil signature of Katherine Griffin, Boston, Mass..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. 669 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Charles Dickens's first novel was published by Chapman & Hall in monthly installments from March of 1836 until November 1837. The publisher had just started a series of amusing stories dealing with “Cockney sporting scenes”. The..... More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854. First edition. Hardcover. 352 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. First edition in book form in the first binding. With Smith's points on pp.60 and 265 but lacking the others. Dickens's tenth novel, serialized in Household Words in 1854, and one of two by him without..... More
Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Field, 1852. First American edition. Hardcover. 273 pages. 16.5 x 12 cm. Four pages of publisher adverts at front of book with ads dated January 1852. This, the final collection of short stories written by Hawthorne was reputed to be his least popular book, commercially. BAL..... More
Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Field, 1852. First edition. Hardcover. 288 pages. 16.5 x 12 cm. BAL binding A. Ahearn notes the first American edition, which this is as having "4 pages of ads at end," but here, the advertisements are positioned at the front of the volume between the paste-down..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1962. First American edition. Hardcover. 592 pages. 22 x 15 cm. This work, his first novel has been translated into all major European languages, and its meaning implies we are all moral hunchbacks. Book jacket drawing by Gunter Grass. Glossary. Slightest of nicks at spine head..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 861 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. This novel, his first won the 1952 National Book Award. With first issue dust wrapper, and with an additional later issue dust wrapper. Gilt spine lettering with minor loss. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905. leather_bound. Uniformly 26 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 118 of 1000 signed by Sidney Lee in the Venus And Adonis volume. Pagination's respectively reflect Lee's Introduction and Bibliography as per titles noted: 75, 57, 55, 71, 48 with 6 page list of Subscribers. The collotype..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1929. First American edition. Hardcover. 291 pages. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Remarque, conscripted as an eighteen year old in the German army in 1917 he served with the 5th Reserve Infantry Regiment, 2nd Company, Engineer Platoon Bethe, A shrapnel wound sent him to hospital where..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. 262 pages. 21 x 14 cm. With first edition confirmed by letter A on verso of title. This novel served as the basis for Howard Hawk's film co-scripted by Faulkner that starred Humphrey Bogart as Harry Morgan and co-starred Lauren Becall..... More
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood And Sons, 1859. Second edition. Hardcover. 309, 324 pages. 18 x 11.5 cm. Second edition in the "A" binding with the Edmonds & Remnants binding ticket. This second edition published one year after the first edition which is considered the author's rarest book. Armorial engraved..... More
London: B. Bragg, 1707. First edition. leather_bound. 544 pages. 20 x 13 cm. The author, an English bookseller founded The Athenian Society in 1691. He also wrote the first periodical designed specially for women, "The Ladies' Mercury." Some of his tidbits here include: "The loving shrew, or the kindest women..... More
London: Macmillan, 1874. leather_bound. [lxiii] 536 pages. 17.5 x 12.5 cm. Fore-edge painting of Blarney Castle. Raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, latter slightly darkened. Owner inscription paste down front endpaper dated 1875. More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1866. leather_bound. 477 pages. 15.5 x 13 cm. Fore-edge painting of Stratford-Upon-Avon. This is her best known book, written to order for an editor who wished for a story about Martin Luther, Owner inscription free front endpaper dated 1891. Interior contents clean and fresh. Raised..... More
