Literature
L'Entraîneuse. Roman.
Paris: Albin Michel, n.d. [1923]. [French literature] FIRST EDITION, BOUND BY LEVITZKY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.347 [5]. Fine contemporary navy half morocco, gilt-ruled, with decorative paper over bevelled boards. Spine in five compartments, red labels titled in gilt, with red onlays and gilt tooling. Original cream softcovers and backstrip..... More
The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits.
London: John Murray, 1881. [Biology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] vii [1] 326 [2], publisher's advertisement to rear. With numerous in-text illustrations throughout. Publisher's green cloth, boards blind-ruled, gilt titles to spine. Brown endpapers. With a loose photograph included. Minor, infrequent spotting, mostly to front and rear blanks..... More
Introducing James Joyce. A selection of Joyce's prose.
London: Faber and Faber, 1942. [Excerpts] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.146 [2]. Publisher's yellow cloth with brown titles to spine. With the yellow typographic dust-jacket, priced at 3/6. Jacket toned, with rubbing and light chipping to edges, and heavier rubbing and browning to spine. Very good. Selected passages..... More
Ulysses.
London: The Bodley Head, 1967. [Modern literature] FILM TIE-IN, the seventh impression of the 1960 text. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 939 [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket showing a white bow to the spine, and a second black and white photographic jacket..... More
A Christmas Book. An Anthology for Moderns.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1928. [Christmas stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xix; 320 [2]. With in-text illustrations and music transcriptions by A.C. Harradine, as well as a colour frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge tinted red. With the dust-jacket illustrated..... More
Blasting and Bombardiering. The Autobiography (1914-1926) of Wyndham Lewis.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1937. [Literary memoirs] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 312. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price 15s on front flap. Minor toning to textblock edges, otherwise internally clean, spine slightly rolled. Some wear to dust-jacket top edge, a slight..... More
The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. [American Literature / Verse] FIRST EDITION, First Issue, with "treacherous" for "ruddy", l.3, p.124. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.215; [1], blank; 12, advertisements dated October 1858. Publisher's brown cloth decoratively blocked in blind, gilt-lettered to spine, brown endpapers. This copy with the additional inserted ad..... More
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1867. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a new edition. Small quarto (22 x 18cm), pp.[2] iv; 556 [2]. With frequent in-text wood engravings by the Dalziel Brothers after illustrations by Gilbert, and a frontispiece etching of the author. Contemporary green full panelled calf with..... More
The Poetical Works. Complete Copyright Edition.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse, 1901. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 878. Beautifully bound by in contemporary brown full morocco, raised bands and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of the author. Printed in double columns. Internally nice and clean..... More
The Golden Legend.
London, David Bogue 1851. 8vo. First Edition. Publisher's dark pink cloth with blind stamped design to boards, extra gilt, pale yellow endpapers, owner's name to neat label attached to free endpaper. Minor wear, sunned to spine; a clean, fresh copy. Longfellow's classic verse, in which the central figure is an..... More
A L'Hopital Marie Madeleine.
Paris: Editions du Sagittaire, 1924. [Surrealist Novella] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 12cm), pp.107 [5]. Number 709 of just 750 copies of the first edition. Publisher's plain soft covers with the brown paper wrap-around jacket titled in red and black to spine and front cover. Also with the glassine..... More
Miss Elizabeth Bennet. A Play from 'Pride and Prejudice.'
London: Chatto and Windus, 1936. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiv; 116. Publisher's grey cloth, paper label to spine. Top edge tinted blue. The odd internal mark, textblock edges lightly spotted with toning to top. Cloth sunned, with spotting to spine. Gentle bumping to extremities. Very good. By..... More
The House of Life: A Sonnet-Sequence. Variorum Edition with an Introduction and Notes.
Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2007. [Poetry] CRITICAL EDITION, First Thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxii; 301 [3]. A scholarly edition containing a large introduction, extensive detailed notes, and appendices. Publisher's brown cloth with titles in gilt to spine, and a paper label to upper. A fine, as-new copy... More
The Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
London: Ellis and Elvey, 1891. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary brown full morocco, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt, and endpapers decorated with gilt. Gentle toning throughout, with spotting to frontispiece tissue guard. Moderate wear and bumping to..... More
Poems & Translations 1850-1870, Together with the Prose Story 'Hand and Soul.'
London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1926. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND, a later edition thus. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] xx; 482 [4]. With a frontispiece of the author's self-portrait in the National Portrait Gallery. Contemporary navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and blue cloth..... More
Poems & Translations 1850-1870. Together With the Prose Story 'Hand and Soul.'
London, Edinburgh etc.: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1919. [Poetry] OXFORD EDITION, with interesting provenance. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xvii [3] 482 [2]. With a halftone frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt motif to upper board and gilt titles to spine. Boards blind-ruled. Contains a loose letter and..... More
The Way We Live Now.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1875. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 320; pp.viii; 319; [1]. With forty wood engraved plates after Linton, including a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spines, and decorative ivy patterns stamped to upper boards in..... More
The Writings of Anthony Trollope. Collector's Edition.
Philadelphia, PA: Gebbie and Company, 1900. [Complete Works] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION SET. Complete in 30 volumes. Octavo (22 x 16 x ). Each volume with a frontispiece and three further illustrated plates. Number 5 of just 250 sets thus. Finely bound by HADDON and Co. in black full crushed..... More
The Story of Wilbur the Hat. Being a True Account of the Strange Things Which Sometimes Happen in a Part of the World Which Does not Exist.
New York City: Horace B. Liveright, 1925. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.112. With numerous full-page lithographic illustrations by Van Loon. Pictorial endpapers. Pictorial paper over boards, black cloth with titles to spine. Interior bright and mostly clean, some marking and spotting here and there..... More
The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Volumes I, II, III, IV and V, 1915-1941.
New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977-1984. [Literary Diaries] COMPLETE FIRST US EDITIONS. Five volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 16cm), pp.xxviii; 356; pp.xii; 371 [1]; pp.xiv; 384 [2]; pp.xiv; 402; pp.xiv; 402. Sketch-maps to endpapers of all volumes except I. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spines and..... More
The Letters of Virginia Woolf, 1888-1941. The Flight of the Mind; The Question of Things Happening; A Change of Perspective; A Reflection of the Other Person; The Sickle Side of the Moon; Leave the Letters Till We're Dead.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1975-1980. [Letters] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. Six volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 25cm), pp.xxiv; 531 [1]; pp.xxviii; 627 [1]; pp.xxiv; 600; pp.xxii; 442; pp.xx; 476; pp.xviii; 556 [2]. With four double-sided black and white photographic plates each to volumes I-IV, and frontispieces to volumes..... More
The Common Reader First and Second Series.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1945. [Essays] FIFTH AND THIRD EDITIONS. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.305; [3]. pp.270. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 7/6 to spine. Small booksellers stamp to front pastedown of first vol., gilt titling worn, bumping to..... More
The Common Reader First Series and The Common Reader Second Series.
London: Hogarth Press, 1948. [Literature] UNIFORM EDITION, seventh impression, fifth impression. Two volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.305; [1]. pp. 207; [2]. Publisher's bright teal cloth lettered in gilt to spine with typographic dust-jacket priced at 7s 6d to front flap and spine. [Vol I] Pencil margin marks..... More
Flush. A Biography.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1933. [Literature] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.163 [1]. With six photographic plates and four drawings by Vanessa Bell. Recently re-bound in red half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Original cloth spine bound in at rear..... More
Jacob's Room
London: The Hogarth Press. 1949. [Modern Literature] UNIFORM EDITION, seventh impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.176. Publisher's turquoise cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 7/6 to spine and front flap. Top edge green. Previous owner's name and date in green ink to verso of..... More