London: Smith Elder, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. 294 & 258 pages. 19 x 12 cm,. Bronte's first novel, an intensely autobiographical story, and ironically published after her death. It was initially rejected by several publishers; however, Smith Elder encouraged her to continue writing. Charlotte Bronte reworked this novel into a...... More
London & New York: Elkin Mathews & John Lane & Dodd, Mead & Company, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 136 pages. 16.5 x 13.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 500 copies printed for England (of which 400 hundred are for sale) and 150 copies printed for America. WADE 294. 15 pages..... More
London: Lawrence And Bullen, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. 212 pages. 17 x 10 cm. Frontispiece by Jack Yeats, adverts leaf and half title. Publisher's name all in caps at bottom of spine. WADE 8. Owner inscription free front endpaper dated Xmas 1893, back cover decoration in blind. Backstrip worn head..... More
New York & London: John Lane, 1899. First American edition. Hardcover. 108 pages. 20 x 13 cm. No Errata slip. WADE 27. Art Nouveau gilt cover designs by Althea Giles reasonably fresh, free endpapers toned. Some of his best poetry contained herein. Yeats commented on Ms. Giles -- "She was..... More
London: Elkin Mathews, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. 108 pages. 20 x 13 cm. Limited edition, one of 500. With Errata slip (Errors). WADE 27. Art Nouveau gilt cover designs by Althea Giles, front cover gilt dulled, back cover sharp, free endpapers toned. Some of his best poetry contained herein. Yeats..... More
London: Elkin Mathews, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 94 pages. 16.5 x 13 cm. Limited edition, one of 450 copies. John Quinn's bookplate front cover paste-down. Original contributions by Yeats (6 poems), Richard Le Gallienne, Arthur Symons, and other Rhymer’s Club members. Purportedly, Yeats proposed this collection because "I wanted to..... More
Boston & London: Roberts Bros. & T. Fisher Unwin, 1902. First American edition. Hardcover. 141 pages. 19 x 11.5 cm. Engraved frontispiece by T.J. Nettleship. The present volume represents Yeats's second collection of poetry. In addition the play The Countess Kathleen, the collection includes some of Yeats’ finest early lyrics..... More
London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. 265 pages. 20 x 13.5 cm. 6 photogravure plates by Jack Yeats, photogravure frontispiece, tissue guard, title in red and black, engraved device on title. Yeats deals with Celtic mythology in this prose work. Lavish gilt cover designs by Althea Gyles. Clean..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 141 pages. 19 x 11.5 cm. Engraved frontispiece by T.J. Nettleship. The present volume represents Yeats's second collection of poetry. In addition the play The Countess Kathleen, the collection includes some of Yeats’ finest early lyrics, including “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,”..... More
London: Hodder And Stoughton, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. 57 pages, 24 x 17.5 cm. Fresh, clean copy, wide text margins, owner inscription dated 1900, book dedicated to Lady Gregory. Backstrip gilt lettering bright as well as the two front cover gilt decorations. WADE 30. More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. leather_bound. 156 pages. 17 x 12 cm. First edition, second issue, with the cancel title page and new frontispiece by Niam, only 73 copies so issued. With Kegan Paul threatening lawsuits over payment for the remaining copies of the first edition, Yeats wrote to John..... More
Paris: Nouveau Cercle Parisien, 1963. Derain, Andre. Hardcover. 153 pages. Folio, 37 x 29 cm. The watercolors and lithographs printed by Mourlot Freres. Limited edition, copy CXX of 270 printed for Madame Therese Moncey on velin de Rives. The first 150 copies printed in Roman letters. Fifty six original lithographs..... More
Paris: Rene Kieffer, 1923. leather_bound. 54 pages. 24 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 95 of 500 on velin la forme with 45 vignettes in pochoir by Joseph Hemard. An exquisite copy bound by Kieffer with his label on verso of front cover paste-down. Hémard’s lasting fame, however, lies in..... More
![La Maison Des Grenades [House of Pomegranates]. Oscar Wilde](/pictures/thumb/22199.jpg?v=1575314947)
Paris: Henri Jonquieres & Cie, 1924. leather_bound. 201 pages. 20.3 x 15 cm. One of 1100 on velin de Rives elegantly bound by Rene Kieffer (his binding label on free endpaper verso) a host of color wood engravings by C. Le Breton. Preface by Henri De Regier, translated by G...... More
Providence: Ziggurat Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. French leaved, approx. 15 leaves in accordian, Laperello presentation. 22.5 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 24 of 50, Walter Feldman copy with his blind stamp on title. Images, wood block prints designed by Feldman. The author is known mainly for the poems..... More
London: Essex House Press (Edward Arnold), 1902. leather_bound. 45 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Limited edition, copy 94 of 165 printed on vellum with front cover Arts & Crafts rose in blind, and entitled "Soul Is Form." Hand colored woodcut frontispiece, plus a central two panel plate, and elaborate colored..... More
New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co, 1874. First American edition. Hardcover. 286 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Four leaves of adverts at rear. Forty two illustrations. The two tales, the first based on his own experience on a transatlantic voyage on the Great Eastern, the largest iron ship ever constructed..... More
London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 220, 228, 224, 226 pages. 19.5 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 60 of 260. Forty hand colored etchings, including additional engraved half-titles with vignettes in each volume. A series of comic tales originally published in 1819-1820. Light rubbing to extremities. Raised..... More
London: James Robbins, 1826. First edition. Hardcover. 200 pages. 27 1/2 x 22 cm. Twelve hand-colored plates with additional 12 uncolored plates designed and engraved by Cruikshank, and sixteen woodcuts in the text. One page ALS dated January 6th 1846 signed (Geo Cruikshank) bound in after the free front endpaper..... More
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
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
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
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
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
![Lolita [First Edition in Russian]. Vladimir Nabokov](/pictures/thumb/22117.jpg?v=1568583817)
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