Fine Editions Ltd

Poems

DUGAN, Alan (1923-2003) · 1961

$274.00 (€248.61 | £207.41 | ¥43,754)

New Haven Yale University Press First Edition First Printing of this important debut, awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Selected and introduced by Dudley Fitts. Slim crown 8vo (203 x 124mm): xiii,[1],62,[2]pp. Publisher's coarsely woven plum-colored ...

Room at the Top [with Uncorrected Proof]

BRAINE, John (1922-1986); John Minton (1917-1957) · 1957

$949.00 (€861.06 | £718.36 | ¥151,543)

London Eyre & Spottiswoode First Edition First Impression of Braine's first book, offered with the scarce uncorrected proof. Crown 8vo (189 x 122mm): 256pp. Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gold, in the striking dust jacket (price-clipped) illustrated by John Minton....

The History of Moses

STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894); A. Edward Newton (1864–1940) · 1919

$176.00 (€159.69 | £133.23 | ¥28,105)

Doylesford, Penna. Privately Printed [for] A. Edward Newton, "Oak Knoll" Limited Edition reproducing Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest literary composition. Foolscap 8vo (178 x 120mm): [2],10pp, with tissue-guarded color frontispiece of Israelites Going Out of Egypt (from a ch...

Proust

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989) · 1931

$724.00 (€656.91 | £548.04 | ¥115,614)

London Chatto & Windus First Edition A superb First Impression (with misprint "hölder" for "holder" on p. 70) of Beckett 's scarce first commercially published book (after Whoroscope, brought out the previous year by Nancy Cunard's Hours Press), one of only 3,000 copies printe...

[Graphic Novel] Gods' Man. A novel in woodcuts

WARD, Lynd (1905–1985) · 1929

$499.00 (€452.76 | £377.73 | ¥79,684)

New York Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith First Printing First Trade Edition of the first of Ward’s stories without words, relying solely on visually striking woodcuts to tell a Faustian tale of an artist who signs away his soul for a magical paintbrush. Demy 8vo (205 x 140mm)...

The House of Breath

GOYEN, William (1915-1983); Balint Stephen ("Val") Biro (Illustrates) · 1951

$139.00 (€126.12 | £105.22 | ¥22,197)

London Chatto & Windus First Printing First British Edition of Goyen's acclaimed debut novel, touching on themes of family, sexuality, time, place, and memory. Crown 8vo (183 x 120mm): 223,[1]pp. Publisher's burgundy cloth, beautifully illustrated dust jacket by Biro, priced 1...

[Photobook] The English at Home

BRANDT, Bill (1904-1983) · 1936

$424.00 (€384.71 | £320.95 | ¥67,707)

New York Charles Scribner's Sons First Edition First Printing (U.S. issue, with "Scribners" to tail of spine) of the photographer's first book, introduced by Raymond Mortimer. Royal 8vo (235 x 180 mm): 8pp, with 63 full-page captioned gravure plates by Brandt. Publisher's glaz...

[Photobook] The English at Home

BRANDT, Bill (1904-1983) · 1936

$1,024.00 (€929.11 | £775.13 | ¥163,520)

London B. T. Batsford Ltd First Edition First Printing (so stated) of the photographer's first book, introduced by Raymond Mortimer. Royal 8vo (235 x 180 mm): 8pp, with 63 full-page captioned gravure plates by Brandt. Publisher's glazed photographically illustrated boards, spi...

In Patagonia

CHATWIN, Bruce (1940-1989) · 1977

$724.00 (€656.91 | £548.04 | ¥115,614)

London Jonathan Cape First Edition An exceptional first impression ("First published 1977), first issue (map endpapers.), without even a degree of fading to the dust jacket spine panel's fugitive colors, of Chatwin's first book. 8vo: [4],204pp, with map frontispiece, and 14 fu...

One Man's Initiation : 1917 [First State]

DOS PASSOS, John (1896-1970) · 1920

$724.00 (€656.91 | £548.04 | ¥115,614)

London George Allen and Unwin First Edition First (and only) Impression, First State, of the author's first books, one of only 750 copies printed and bound. Small 8vo: 128pp. Publisher's pale blue mesh cloth, front cover and spine stamped in navy blue, text printed on heavy st...

The House of Silk

WURDERMANN, Audrey (1911-1960) · 1927

$124.00 (€112.51 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

New York Howard Vinal First Edition First Printing. Slim 8vo: [12],85,[3]pp. Publisher's black finely woven cloth, upper cover decorated and lettered in gold, spine stamped in silver, saffron yellow typographic dust jacket priced $1.50. Fine, fresh copy, apparently unread, in ...

Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life, and every-day people : the second series, complete in one volume. [Original Cloth]

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870) Cruikshank, George (1792-1878) · 1837

$1,774.00 (€1,609.61 | £1,342.86 | ¥283,286)

London John Macrone [from 1836] First Edition Second series of this collection of short pieces of literary journalism that marked the launch of the young author’s meteoric career. Crown 8vo (194 x 120mm): [4],viii,377,[1],]pp, with 10 steel-engraved plates (including frontispi...

Seven Gothic Tales

[Karen Christenze Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke, writing as:] DINESEN, Isak (1885-1962) · 1934

$1,399.00 (€1,269.36 | £1,059.00 | ¥223,403)

London Putnam First Impression The uncommon First British Edition of Isak Dinesen's first book. Thick 8vo: [6],522pp, with full-color frontispiece (repeating dust jacket design) by Rex Whistler. Publisher's cinnamon colored cloth, spine lettered in gilt; illustrated dust jacke...

To the Loud Wind and Other Poems [Signed]

HALL, Donald · 1955

$274.00 (€248.61 | £207.41 | ¥43,754)

Cambridge Harvard Advocate First Edition First Printing of the poet's first commercial collection published in the United States. 8vo: [4],26pp. Cream stiff wrappers, light blue dust jacket printed in black and priced 65¢. Signed by the poet on the title page. Fine in about Fi...

[Latin American trilogy, comprising] The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, [with] Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, [and with] The Troublesome Offspring Of Cardinal Guzman [All Signed]

BERNIÈRES, Louis de · 1990

$424.00 (€384.71 | £320.95 | ¥67,707)

London Secker & Warburg [through 1992] First Edition Three Fine and Signed first impressions. Complete in three tall octavo volumes, in the fabulous dust jackets illustrated by Irene von Treskow: viii,376; [8],280; x,388pp. Don Emmanuel: Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered...

Metroland [Otis Skinner Blodget's copy]

BARNES, Julian · 1980

$274.00 (€248.61 | £207.41 | ¥43,754)

London Jonathan Cape First Edition First Impression ("First published 1980") of Barnes's first novel. Crown 8vo (197 x 125mm): 176pp. Publisher's steel-grey cloth, spine stamped in silver, grey end papers; black typographic dust jacket (priced-clipped) printed in metallic silv...

The Path to the Nest of Spiders

CALVINO, Italo (1923-1985) · 1957

$214.00 (€194.17 | £161.99 | ¥34,173)

Boston Beacon Press First Edition First Printing (no additional printings noted) of the author's first novel, translated into English by Archibald Colquhoun. 8vo: [6],145,[1]pp. Publisher's coarsely woven sea-green cloth, spine lettered in black, fore-edge untrimmed; illustrat...

Death Under Sail

SNOW, C. P. (1905-1980) · 1932

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

London William Heinemann [through 1959] Revised and reset (first published 1932) edition of Snow’s first novel, an ingenious detective story set on the Norfolk Broads—“a murderer making his murder look like a suicide arranged to look like a murder." 8vo: viii,255,[1]pp. Publis...

The Acrobats

RICHLER, Mordecai (1931-2001) · 1954

$289.00 (€262.22 | £218.76 | ¥46,150)

London Andre Deutsch First UK Edition First Impression of the Canadian author's first book. 8vo; 204pp. Publisher's green cloth, the spine stamped gilt; in a pictorial dust jacket priced 10s/6d. Just about Fine, square, tight and, bright, the top edge dust-speckled, the end pa...

Goodbye, Columbus; [offered with] The Paris Review 20, Autumn-Winter, 1958-59Autumn-Winter,1958-59

ROTH, Philip (1933-2018) · 1959

$1,099.00 (€997.16 | £831.91 | ¥175,497)

London Andre Deutsch First Impression First Impression of this novella, first published in the Autumn-Winter,1958-59, issue of The Paris Review, also on offer here. Crown 8vo (184 x 117mm): 157,[1]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine lettered in gold; illustrated dust jack...