Literature
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Proust | Three Dialogues.
London: John Calder, 1965. [Literary and Art Criticism] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.126 [2]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the orange dust-jacket, priced at 18s. A nice crisp, clean copy, with just a little wear to jacket edges. Near fine. A republication of Beckett's..... More
A Spliced Yarn. Some Strands From the Life Cable of Bill Bullen.
London: Gibbings and Company, 1899. [Maritime fiction] ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 300. With five tissue-guarded halftone plates, including a frontispiece, illustrated by Frank Brangwyn. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Red pictorial decoration to upper and spine. Top edge gilt. Toning to margins, foxing..... More
The Michael Fraenkel and Henry Miller Correspondence, Called Hamlet. Volume I and Volume II.
London: Edition du Laurier, Carrefour, 1962. FIRST ONE VOLUME EDITION, third printing. Quarto, pp.411 [5]. With a handful of in-text lithographic illustrations. In publisher's cream card wraps, bound together with blue string. Titles to front cover. Some light external wear; very good overall. First printed in 1939, with subsequent impression..... More
The Serpent.
London: Faber and Faber, 1943. [Modern Literature] REVIEW COPY. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.255; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 8s 6d to front flap. Loosely inserted is a slip asking for a review. Rolling to spine, sunning to dust-jacket spine..... More
Typee, a Real Romance of the South Sea.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1925. [Literature] LIBRARY EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] xxxvi; 389 [3]. Green full calf, finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere. Navy and red labels with gilt titles, gilt tooling, and raised bands to spine. Boards gilt-ruled, gilt dentelle to turn-ins. Machine-marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Fine, as new..... More
Just Wild about Harry. A Melo-Melo in Seven Scenes.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1964. [Drama] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.106 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green and purple typographic dust-jacket, priced at 16s. The lightest of handling. A lovely crisp fine copy. More
Quiet Days In Clichy.
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1958 [Printed December 1957]. [Salacious Literature]. SECOND EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.174. With photographs by Brassai. Illustrated self wraps. Gentle reading crease to spine, joints rubbed. Very good indeed. The full text of Miller's 1956 pornographic novel, which was banned in America under obscenity laws..... More
Tropic of Cancer.
London: John Calder, 1963. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 318. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page; possibly a secretarial hand. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue dust-jacket, priced at 25s. Large blue ink ownership to..... More
The Franco-German War of 1870-71.
London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1893. [Military History] FINE PRIZE-BINDING. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 448. With a large fold-out map. Full red calf, gilt armorial device to upper. Boards gilt-ruled, spine with raised bands, gilt tooling, and gilt titles backed in green. Marbled endpapers and textblock edges..... More
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