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MAUGHAM, W[illiam]. Somerset (1874-1965) · 1928

$724.00 (€656.88 | £548.01 | ¥115,613)

London William Heinemann First Edition Second Impression of this archetype of the espionage novel, a precursor to the works of Ian Fleming, Len Deighton, John le Carre, and Robert Ludlum. Publisher's dark blue linen-grain cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Without ...

[Ouija] [Occult] The Changing Light at Sandover: Including the Whole of the Book of Ephraim, Mirabell's Books of Number, Scripts for the Pageant and a new coda, The Higher Keys [Signed]

MERRILL, James (1926-1995) · 1982

$724.00 (€656.88 | £548.01 | ¥115,613)

New York Atheneum First Edition First Printing of Merrill's long dramatic sequence with voices, collected here in a single volume for the first time. Royal 8vo (237 x 145mm): [8],560,[4]pp, with errata slip laid in. Publisher's finely woven black cloth, upper cover with author...

The Gold Bug Variations

POWERS, Richard (b. 1957) · 1991

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

New York Morrow First Edition Uncorrected Bound Galleys of the author's "most ambitious and successful novel." (Literary Encyclopedia) Crown 8vo (202 x 129mm): 639,[1]pp. Saffron paper wrappers lettered in black. Presumably an early (or first) issue, without publication date i...

Love’s Lovely Counterfeit

CAIN, James M[allahan]. (1892-1977) · 1942

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

New York Alfred A. Knopf First Printing First Edition (so stated) of Cain fifth novel. 8vo: [8],218,[2]pp. Publisher's ruby red cloth, spine and covers stamped in black, top edge stained matching red, other edges rough-trimmed; illustrated dust jacket by Bob Smith, priced $2.0...

Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life, and every-day people [Original Cloth]

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870) · 1863

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

London Chapman & Hall [from 1837] First Edition thus Later printing, in original cloth, of the so-called First Collected Edition (the first issue of series one and series two appeared in three volumes) of Dickens's first book, introducing a introducing a major literary talent ...

[The Levant Trilogy, comprising] The Danger Tree; The Battle Lost and Won; [and] The Sum of Things

MANNING, Olivia (1908-1980) · 1977

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

London Weidenfeld and Nicolson [through 1980] First Edition First Printings of Manning's second major semi-autobiographical wartime novel sequence, sequel to The Balkan Trilogy, continuing the story of Harriet and Guy Pringle. Publisher's original cloth (French blue, orange, ...

[A l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs] Within A Budding Grove [Remembrance of Things Past]

PROUST, Marcel (1871-1822) · 1924

$724.00 (€656.88 | £548.01 | ¥115,613)

London Chatto & Windus Part Two (complete in two volumes) of this masterpiece of modernity, "a milestone in the study of human consciousness and a revolution in the history of prose writing." (Literary Encyclopedia) Translated from the original French by C. K. Scott Moncrieff....

Tropic of Capricorn

MILLER, Henry (1891-1980) · 1964

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

London John Calder First Printing First British Edition in the variant scarlet binding (also issued in gray boards, no priority known). 8vo: 316pp. Publisher's scarlet cloth, spine lettered in gold; scarlet dust jacket, designed by Guy Nicholls, priced 25s. About Fine (few spe...

The House of Silk

WURDERMANN, Audrey (1911-1960) · 1927

$124.00 (€112.50 | £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 ...

The Children of Dynmouth

TREVOR, William (1928-2016) · 1976

$86.00 (€78.03 | £65.10 | ¥13,733)

London The Bodley Head First Edition First Impression of this master storyteller's eighth novel. 8vo: 222pp. Publisher's lime-green cloth, spine lettered in gold, wraparound pictorial dust jacket, priced £3.50 and illustrated by John Walsh. Exceptionally Fine, tight, square an...

[Côté de Guermantes] The Guermantes Way [Remembrance of Things Past]

PROUST, Marcel (1871-1822) · 1925

$1,399.00 (€1,269.30 | £1,058.93 | ¥223,402)

London Chatto & Windus First Edition Parts Three and Four (complete in two volumes) of this masterpiece of modernity, "a milestone in the study of human consciousness and a revolution in the history of prose writing." (Literary Encyclopedia) Translated from the original French...

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 (€1,609.53 | £1,342.78 | ¥283,285)

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...

The Reign of King Charles : An History Faithfully and Impartially delivered and disposed into Annals

L'ESTRANGE, Hamon (1605–1660) · 1655

$949.00 (€861.02 | £718.32 | ¥151,543)

London printed by E[llen]. C[otes]. for Edward Dod, and Henry Seile the younger, and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivie-lane, and over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street First Edition First Edition of this rare history of the reign of Charles I to May 1641. Crown folio...

Monday or Tuesday

WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941) · 1921

$1,249.00 (€1,133.21 | £945.40 | ¥199,449)

New York Harcourt, Brace First Printing First American Edition, one of 1,500 copies. Crown 8vo: [4],116pp. Publisher's sage-green quarter cloth over mottled light brown paper-covered boards, white paper spine label printed in black, fore- and bottom edges rough-cut; original b...

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer [with important bibliographic significance]

SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967) · 1930

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

London Faber and Faber First Impression First Trade Edition of the second installment in Sassoon's lightly fictionalized autobiographical trilogy. 8vo: 334,[2]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine lettered in gold, top edge stained pink, fore-edge rough-trimmed; pale yellow...

The Land's End : a naturalist's impressions in West Cornwall

HUDSON, W. H. [William Henry], 1841-1922 · 1908

$101.00 (€91.64 | £76.45 | ¥16,128)

London Hutchinson & Co. First Edition 8vo: viii,323,4(advertisements)pp, with 8 (including frontispiece) full-page plates on calendered paper tipped in and 41 pen-and-ink text vignettes by A. L. Collins. Publisher's navy-blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover stamped ...

The Pedlar's Revenge and Other Stories [Díoltas]

O'FLAHERTY, Liam (1897-1984) · 1976

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

Dublin Wolfhound Press First Impression of the first English language edition, originally published under the titled Díoltas. 8vo: 222pp. Publisher's mid-brown coarsely woven cloth, spine lettered in gilt, mustard-yellow end papers; dust jacket, illustrated by Jarlath Hayes, ...

[Emblem Book] Iconologia di Cesare Ripa ... Divisa in tre libri, ne i quali si esprimono varie imagini di virtù, vitij, passioni humane, affetti, atti, discipline, humori, elementi, corpi celesti, prouincie d'Italia, fiumi, & altre materie infinite vtili ad ogni stato di persone. Ampliata dal Sig. cav. Gio. Zaratino Castellini Romano in questa vltima editione di imagini, & discorsi, con indici copiosi, & ricorretta

RIPA, Cesare (1560-1645) · 0

$1,999.00 (€1,813.68 | £1,513.09 | ¥319,214)

In Venetia [Venice] Appresso Nicolò Pezzana Early Printing An early edition of the most famous catalog of emblems and symbols collected from antique literature and translated into pictorial terms for the use of visual artists, influencing, among others, Vermeer. 4to (210 x 148...

[Sword of Honour Trilogy, comprising:] Men at Arms; [with] Officers and Gentlemen; [and] Unconditional Surrender [Signed by Biro]

WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966) · 1952

$1,324.00 (€1,201.25 | £1,002.16 | ¥211,426)

London Chapman & Hall [through 1961] First Edition Three fine First Impression octavo volumes, each signed on the front jacket flap by the legendary illustrator Val Biro (1921-2014). vi,314; [10],335; [8],311. Original publisher's blue cloth, spines stamped in gilt, top edges ...

Seven Gothic Tales

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

$1,399.00 (€1,269.30 | £1,058.93 | ¥223,402)

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...