London: S.W. Fores, April 19, 1786. Boards. 27.5 x 37 cm. Hand colored lithograph from S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse. Caption in right corner read "Man Traps & Spring Guns. Brightly colored print, colors fresh and clean. More about The Farm Yard
London: E. Jackson, 1786. Boards. 28.5 x 26.5 cm. Portrait of lawyer, diarist and biographer James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck holding "Material for the Life of Sam Johnson L.L D." and out from his right pocket, "Ogden On Prayer." In the copy below the image, Boswell makes claim to... More about The Journalist; With A View of Auckinleck _ or the Land of Stones
Berlin & Gdansk: Slovo, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. 159 pages. 31 x 25 cm. Illustrated with lithographs by B. D. Grigoriev. Lithographed title, 19 full-page lithographs, illustrations in text. Grigoriev , a brilliant social cartoonist also exhibited with Mir Iskusstva [The World of Art]. Some of his most delightful pictures... More about Detskii Ostrov (Children's Island
Fyfield: Oak Tree Press, 2006. Hardcover. 26 x 20 cm. Deluxe edition comprising eight volumes. The first five titles with an additional plate signed and numbered by the artist: Coetzee, J.M. "Life and Times of Michael K," illustrated in black and white lithograph by South African artist Colbert Mashile. Roman... More about Volumes 1-8
Paris: Contact Editions, (1923). First edition. Original Wraps. 60 pages. 19 x 14 cm. Signed by Hartley on the title page, an unopened copy from an edition surmised to be only 300 copies. Printed in Dijon by Maurice Darantiere. A superlative copy. The author/painters first book. This an early publication of Contact... More about Twenty-Five Poems
St. Petersburg & Berlin: Petropolis, (1922). First edition. Original Wraps. 75 pages. 16 x 12 cm. This second collection of poetry, 943 poems, composed between 1915 and 1922, published shortly after Mandelstam moved from St. Petersburg to Moscow with his new wife Nadezhda. Here he express the inner exile of the poet... More about Tristia
New York & London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First edition. 178 (X1) pages. 20 x 14 cm. Notes and Introduction by H.L. Mencken. One of 1475 copies designed by W.A. Dwiggins, a signed presentation copy to Harry Richel in ink on front free endpaper by Mencken, dated 1937. More about The Charlatanry Of The Learned (De Charlataneria Eruditorum, 1715) by Johann Burkhard Mencken;...
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New York: Phaedra, 1967. First Russian Edition. Hardcover. 304 pages. 21 x 14 cm. The translation was the only one prepared by Nabokov himself and includes a postscript that appears only in this edition. The literary sensation of Lolita The publication of Lolita -- in which the author invented the... More about Lolita [First Edition in Russian
London: Kerby & Son, 1856. First edition. leather_bound. 88 pages. 17 x 13 cm. Four black and white etchings by Cruikshank with original red cloth cover decorated and lettered in gilt laid-in at rear. Bound by Worsfold, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in floral motifs... More about Lady Arabella, Or The Adventures Of A Doll by Miss Pardoe
London: Collins Harvill, 1987. First English edition. Hardcover. 297 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Signed by Ford on free front endpaper in blue ink. His first novel. More about A Piece of My Heart
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 201 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Signed by Ford on the title page in blue ink. His second novel published four years after "A Piece of My Heart. Dust wrapper not price clipped, one inch nick bottom of rear blank page. Stanley... More about The Ultimate Good Luck
New York: Vintage, 1986. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 375 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. Signed by Ford on the title page in blue ink. This novel was first issued as a paperback original in 1986, but when its sequel, "Independence Day" won a Pulitzer Prize the hardcover edition was published... More about The Sportswriter
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 177 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Signed by Ford on the title page in blue ink. A collection of short stories. As new copy in clear mylar over wrapper. More about Rock Springs
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1996. First edition thus. Hardcover. 375 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Signed by Ford on the title page in blue ink. As new copy. This novel was first issued as a paperback original in 1986, but when its sequel, "Independence Day" won a Pulitzer Prize the hardcover edition was published. More about The Sportswriter
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 451 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Signed by Ford on the title page in blue ink. As new copy. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, the first book to win both. More about Independence Day
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. 286 pages. 24 x 15 cm. Signed by Ford on the title page in blue ink. As new copy. A collection of short stories. In 2001 Ford received the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction. More about A Multitude Of Sins
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1997. First trade edition. Hardcover. 255 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. Signed by Ford on the title page in blue ink. As new copy. More about Women With Men Three Short Stories
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 177 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Signed by Ford on the title page in blue ink. His fourth novel. As new copy in clear mylar over wrapper. More about Wildlife
London: George G. Harrap, 1936. Rackham, Arthur. leather_bound. 256 pages, 27 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 92 of 460 signed by Arthur Rackham. Twelve full-page plates with lettered tissue guards. Introduction by R. Farquharson Sharp, the translator who made a concerted effort to keep as closely to the original's... More about Peer Gynt A Dramatic Poem By Henrik Ibsen
London: Henry Hooper, 1840. Cruikshank, George. leather_bound. 60 pages in text. 31.5 x 24 cm. Extra-illustrated copy with 180 engraved plates, 6 are colored. The illustrations are wood-cuts, etchings and lithographs, culled from various sources, many inlaid to size. This work appears here, as often, without printed title page. This... More about An Essay On The Genius Of George Cruikshank; (From The Westmister Review, NO. LXVI.) With...