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Poems

HARTE, Bret (1836-1902) · 1871

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

Boston Fields, Osgood First Edition First Printing (of three), per BAL, with FO monogram on title page and foot of spine and S.T.K. for T.S.K. in caption p. 136. Small 8vo: vi,7-153pp. Original green publisher's C cloth (also issued in orange and purple cloth, no priority note...

Metroland [Otis Skinner Blodget's copy]

BARNES, Julian · 1980

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥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 Gracie Allen Murder Case

[Willard Huntington Wright, writing as:] VAN DINE, S. S. (1888-1939) · 1938

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

New York Charles Scribner's Sons First Edition First Printing (with "A" and publisher's seal on copyright page). 8vo: 227,[7]pp. Publisher's canary yellow cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in black,fore-edge untrimmed, typographic dust jacket priced $2. A Near Fine or bette...

Dusklands

COETZEE, J[ohn]. M[axwell]. · 1982

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

London Secker & Warburg First UK Edition First Impression of the Nobel Prize-winning South African author's dauntingly complex debut novel, first published in Johannesburg, in 1974. Tall, slim 8vo: [10],125,[1]pp. Publisher's brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt, in a copper-col...

The Path to the Nest of Spiders

CALVINO, Italo (1923-1985) · 1957

$214.00 (€194.16 | £161.98 | ¥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...

[Emblem Book] Alle De Wercken, soo Oude als Nieuwe van den Heer Jacob Cats, Ridder, oudt Raadtpensionaris Van Hollandt, &c. : Op nieus vermeerdert met des Autheurs Tachtig-jarig Leven, Huyshoudinge en Bedenckingen op Zorg-vliet. Hier komen noch by des Dichters Gedachten Op Slapeloose Nachten, Nevens zijn gansche Twee En Tachtig-Jarigleven. Door hemzelf in dichtmaat beschreven, en nooit voor deezen gedrukt

CATS, Jacob (1577-1660) · 1700

$2,749.00 (€2,494.14 | £2,080.78 | ¥438,980)

T'Amsterdam / T'Utrecht Daniel van den Dalen. François Halma. De wed. van A. van Someren / J. en Wilhelm vande Water. Boekverkopers Early Reprint Profusely illustrated edition of Cats's complete collected works, first published in 1655. Two folio volumes bound in one, each...

The Memorial [First State] Portrait of a Family

ISHERWOOD, Christopher (1904-1986) · 1932

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

London Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 52 Tavistock Square First Edition First Impression (one of only 1,222 copies) of this "remarkably acute and assured novel about the pre- and post-war generations, seen from both sides of the divide" (ODNB) in...

An essay on electricity, explaining the principles of that useful science; and describing the instruments, Contrived Either to Illustrate the Theory, or Render the Practice Entertaining. Illustrated with six plates. To which is added, a letter to the author, from Mr. John Birch, Surgeon, on the Subject of Medical Electricity. By the late George Adams, Mathematical Instrument maker to his Majesty, &c. The fifth edition, with corrections and additions, by William Jones, Mathematical Instrument Maker [Uncut]

ADAMS, George (1750-1795) · 1799

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

London printed by J. Dillon, and Co. for, and sold by, W. and S. Jones, Opticians, Holborn, Early Reprint Fifth (and most desirable) Edition of this seminal work on electricity and its applications (first published 1784), with corrections and additions by William Jones. 8vo: x...

The Lion and the Lamb

OPPENHEIM, E. Phillips (1866-1946); Bip Pares [illustrates] · 1930

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,105)

Boston Little, Brown First Edition First Printing ("Published August, 1930," with no further printings noted) of one of the author's later novels. 8vo: [4],294pp. Publisher's yellow cloth stamped in black, pictorial dust jacket by the incomparable Bip Pares, priced $2.00 and w...

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...

[Nazis] [Anschluss] The White Horses of Vienna and other stories [Inscribed]

BOYLE, Kay (1902-1992) · 1936

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,105)

New York Harcourt, Brace First Printing First Edition (so stated), collecting the title story and seventeen others, including "Major Alshuster," "Astronomer's Wife," and "Winter in Italy." Crown 8vo (186 x 125mm): [10],355,[1]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine lettered i...

Northern France from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire excluding Paris and its Environs; [with] Southern France and Corsica Handbook for Travellers

BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859 · 19091914

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,105)

Leipzig Karl Baedeker, Publisher A complete two-volume set (each volume issued separately) of early editions for the traveler wanting a handy panoramic survey of the entire country, in matching bindings. Foolscap 8vo (158 x 99mm): xxxvi,454pp, with 16 maps and 55 plans (some f...

South-Western France from the Loire and the Rhone to the Spanish frontier Handbook for Travellers

BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859 · 1895

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

Leipzig Karl Baedeker, Publisher Second Edition. xxiv, 294 pages, with 10 maps and 13 plans (some folding). Nominally the second edition, but Baedeker only published this title once. Publisher's red flexible cloth stamped in blind and gilt with all edges marbled and a green si...

The Affluent Society

GALBRAITH, John Kenneth (1908-2006) · 1958

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

Boston Houghton Mifflin First Edition First Printing (so stated) of the Harvard economist's celebrated examination of America’s post–World War II consumer economy and political culture. Demy 8vo: xii,[2],368pp. Publisher's bronze-colored cloth stamped in silver and black, fore...

[Photobook] [Field Guide] The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: a Contribution to the Natural History of the Two Counties

KENNEDY, Alexander W. M. Clark (1851-1894) · 1868

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

Eton / London Ingalton and Drake / Simpkin, Marshall First Edition of apparently the first field guide to birds to use photographs as illustrations. 8vo: xiv,[2],232pp, with four hand-colored and varnished albumen photographs of stuffed birds mounted on heavy card stock. ("It ...

English Books 1475-1900. A Signpost for Collectors

SAWYER, Charles J. (1876?-1931); F. J. Harvey Darton (1878-1936) · 1927

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

New York E. P. Dutton Two thousand sets of this book have been printed at the Riverside Press . . . Tall, thick 8vo: xvi,[2],8-368; viii,423,[1]pp, with frontispiece, folding plate and 98 further full-page illustrations (chiefly facsimiles of title pages), many with tissue gua...

The englishman’s fortnight in Paris; or, the art of ruining himself there in a few days. By an observer. Translated from the French

RUTLEDGE, Jean Jacques (1742-1794) · 1777

$649.00 (€588.83 | £491.24 | ¥103,637)

London printed for T. Durham, at Charing-Cross; and G. Kearsly, at No. 46, in Fleet-Street First Edition First Edition, in English, of this novelized first-person account of a young English lord's debauched sojourn—prostitutes, gambling, horse-racing, drink—in the French capit...

The works of Francis Rabelais, M.D. Now carefully revised, and compared throughout with the late new edition of M. Le du Chat, By Mr. Ozell. Who has likewise added at the bottom of the pages, a translation of the notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, of the said M. du Chat, and others: in which notes, never before printed in English, the text is not only explained, but, in multitudes of places, amended, and made conformable to the first and best Editions of this learned and facetious author. Adorn'd with 15 very neat copper-plates

RABELAIS, François (ca. 1490-1553?) · 1737

$2,149.00 (€1,949.77 | £1,626.63 | ¥343,168)

London printed by J. Hughs, near Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, for J. Brindley, bookseller to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at the King’s-Arms in New-Bond-Street; and C. Corbett, at Addison’s Head, against St. Dunstan’s Church, Fleet-street, First Edition thus A gorgeous set...

Principles of political economy : considered with a view to their practical application

MALTHUS, Thomas R. (1766–1834) · 1820

$2,899.00 (€2,630.24 | £2,194.32 | ¥462,933)

London John Murray, Albermarle-Street First Edition First Edition, with the rare 4-page publisher's catalog, dated April 1820, of this classic of economic theory. 8vo: vi,601, 1]pp. "London: Printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar." on colophon and title-page verso, as ca...

The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner

SILLITOE, Alan (1928-2010) · 1959

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,081)

London W. H. Allen First Edition First Impression of the author's second book (following "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"), a collection of nine stories. Crown 8vo: 176pp. Publisher's grey cloth-effect paper-covered boards, spine stamped in silver gilt; dust jacket illustra...