Fine Editions Ltd

Israel Potter : His Fifty Years Of Exile

MELVILLE, Herman (1918-1891) · 1923

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,081)

London Constable [through 1924] First Edition thus Limited Edition (one of only 750 copies printed) of Melville's eighth book, first published in serial form in Putnam's Monthly magazine between July 1854 and March 1855, then in book form by G. P. Putnam & Co., in March, 1855....

The Great Crash 1929

GALBRAITH, John Kenneth (1908-2006) · 1955

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

London Hamish Hamilton First Impression First British Edition of this classic account of the perhaps greatest speculative boom in history, setting the stage for the Great Depression. Demy 8vo (212 x 134mm): 186pp, with frontispiece reproduced from The New Yorker Magazine. Publ...

[Sette of Odd Volumes] A Riverside Walk : An Easy-Going Essay by a Peripatetic Philosopher [Unopened]

TODHUNTER, John (1839-1916) · 1898

$86.00 (€78.03 | £65.10 | ¥13,733)

London Imprynted at the Bedford Press, 20 and 21, Bedfordbury Limited Edition, no. 117 of 250 copies printed for private circulation only. Foolscap 8vo (145 x 116mm): 43,[1]pp, with frontispiece (Low Water in Mortlake Reach) and list of Sette club members. Publisher's blue-gr...

The Stoneground Ghost Tales. Compiled from the Recollections of The Reverend Roland Batchel, Vicar of the Parish [Bone to His Bone]

SWAIN, E. G. (Edmund Gill, 1861-1938) · 1912

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

Cambridge W. Heffer & Sons Ltd. Scarce First Edition ("extremely rare") of this classic collection of antiquarian ghost stories dedicated to M. R. James. (Tymn) Crown 8vo (182 x 119mm): [8],187,[1]pp. Original pictorial coarse sky-blue cloth, spine lettered in black, front cov...

[Auction Catalog] The History of the Book: The Cornelius J. Hauck Collection

[HAUCK, Cornelius J., 1893-1967] · 2006

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,105)

New York Christie's Auction catalog of this significant collection documenting the history of the book in all its forms. Thick royal 8vo (267 x 209mm): 679pp, with spectacular color photographs throughout and prices neatly noted for each lot. A superlative example (tips barely...

[The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy] Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien [Otto Wesendonck's copy]

BURCKHARDT, Jacob (1818-1897) · 1860

$1,474.00 (€1,337.35 | £1,115.70 | ¥235,379)

Basel Druck und Verlag der Schweighauser'schen Verlagsbuchhandlung First Edition of this classics of Renaissance historiography, from the library of Otto Wesendonck, patron of the composer Richard Wagner. Demy 8vo (221 x 133mm): 4],576pp. Original moire-pattern purple cloth, c...

[Triple-Decker] The Shadow of Erksdale [Signed]

MARSHALL, Bourton · 1875

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

London Samuel Tinsley, 10, Southampton Street, Strand First Edition First (and only) Impression of this rare and obscure triple-decker, inscribed by Marshall to fly-leaf of volume one. Crown 8vo (181 x 120mm): [4],255,[1]; [2],259,[1]; [2],247,[1],16[publisher's catalog dated ...

[American Revolution] Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth; [offered with the sequel:] Proceed, Sergeant Lamb

GRAVES, Robert (1895-1985) · 19401941

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

London Methuen First Edition First Impressions of Graves's two novels of the American War of Independence, based on the actual Roger Lamb's autobiographical works. Crown 8vo (185 x 120mm): xi,[1],376; vii,[3],,314,[2]pp, with frontispieces and folding map tipped in at rear of ...

Turkey Remains and How to Inter Them

FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940) · 1956

$101.00 (€91.64 | £76.45 | ¥16,128)

[Toronto] Cooper & Beatty First Edition thus First Separate Edition of this humorous Christmas keepsake issued in the Fall of 1956 by Toronto typographer Cooper & Beatty, one of 2,000 copies. Slim crown octavo (210 x 137mm): v,[1],5,[1]pp, printed in black and silver-grey on w...

[Opera Archive] [Staatsoper] [Playbill] Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Ein Maskenball; Oedipus der Tyrann; Don Carlos; Wozzeck; Aida; Capriccio; Tristan und Isolde; Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung; Don Giovanni; Die Hochzeit des Figaro; Eugen Onegin; Die Fledermaus; Electra; Turandot; Der Rosenkavalier; Ariadne auf Naxos; Arabella; Così fan tutte

BERG, Albin; MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus; ORFF, Carl; PUCCINI, Giacomo; STRAUSS, Johann; STRAUSS, Richard; TSCHAIKOWSKY, Pyotr Ilyich; VERDI, Giuseppe; WAGNER, Richard · 1961

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

Vienna Wiener Staatsoper A fascinating, remarkably complete collection of programs, playbills, and ticket stubs for performances during the 1961 and 1962 spring season at the Staatsoper in Vienna, then under the direction of Herbert von Karajan. For each of 25 performances, th...

[Poland] [Napoleonic Wars] Theatre de la guerre actuelle, comprenant : la Prusse, la Pologne, une grande partie de la Russie, & de la Turquie européenne et asiatique jusqu'à la Mer Caspienne

BONNE, Rigobert (1727-1794) · 0

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

A Paris Treuttel & Würtz, rue de Lille, No. 17 Uncommon early nineteenth-century map (700 x 975mm), with contemporary hand coloring, of Poland and adjoining territories during the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Original copperplate engraving printed from 9 plates, then segment a...

The Ragman's Daughter [Signed, Peter Apap Bologna's copy]

SILLITOE, Alan (1928-2010) · 1963

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

London W. H. Allen First Edition First Impression of the author's second short story collection, after The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Crown 8vo (196 x 123mm): 190pp. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gold; illustrated dust jack...

The Go Away Bird with Other Stories

SPARK, Muriel (1918-2006) · 1958

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

London Macmillan First Edition First Impression of this early short-story collection by the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Crown 8vo (190 x 119mm): vii,[1],214,[2]pp. Publisher's scarlet cloth, spine lettered in gold; illustrated dust jacket by Victor Reinganum, pric...

[Early Photography] David Octavius Hill / Robert Adamson : Inkunabeln der Photographie

STEINERT, Otto (1915-1978) · 1963

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

Essen Museum Folkwang Catalog for this exhibition of 214 works at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, March 16-April 14, 1963. Essay in German by photographer Otto Steinert and Marlis Steinert, with footnotes and checklist. Royal 8vo (270 x 187mm): [48]pp, including 41 sepia-toned b...

S.P.Q.V. A Survay of the Signorie of Venice, of Her admired policy, and Method of Government, &c. With a Cohortation to all Christian Princes to resent her dangerous Condition at present

HOWELL, James (1594?-1666) · 1651

$2,524.00 (€2,290.00 | £1,910.47 | ¥403,050)

London printed for Richard Lowndes at the VVhite Lion in S. Pauls Churchyard, neer the west end Scarce first edition of Howell's appeal (in the guise of a plea to aid Venice) to the Rump parliament. Crown folio (270mm x 180mm): [8],55,[3],57-165,168-184,183-198,175-210,[8]pp, ...

[Piracy] The gentle art of making enemies: edited by Sheridan Ford [Unopened]

[WHISTLER, James McNeill, 1834-1903] · 1890

$1,024.00 (€929.07 | £775.09 | ¥163,520)

New York [but Ghent] Frederick Stokes & Brother Unauthorized (Pirated) Edition (preceding an ordinary trade edition and a signed limited edition published, respectively, in June and August the same year) of the collected published newspaper correspondence of James McNeill Whis...

The Golden Lion of Granpere

TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-1882) · 1872

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

New York Harper and Brothers First Edition Scarce First American (and first illustrated) Edition of Trollope's "very best shorter book." (Walpole) Royal 8vo (231 x 142mm): 124,[4]pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece and twenty-three further wood-engraved illustrations by Dalzi...

[Photobook] Old English Homes : A Summer's Sketch-Book

THOMPSON, Stephen (c. 1830-1893) · 1876

$514.00 (€466.35 | £389.06 | ¥82,079)

London Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, Crown Buildings 188, Fleet Street First (and only) Edition of this documentary record of six important country houses, featuring 24 Woodbury-type photographs mounted on card stock. Royal 8vo (288 x 203mm): viii,215,[1]pp, with illu...

Doctor Martino and other stories

FAULKNER, William (1897-1962) · 1934

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

London Chatto & Windus First British Edition First Impression of Faulkner's second collection of stories (published the same year in New York, by Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, in both limited and trade issues, the latter of which we also have on offer). One of 1,500 copies (...

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings, Pastels, Drawings and Woodcuts illustrating Col. T. E. Lawrence's Book "Seven Pillars of Wisdom." With Prefaces by Bernard Shaw and T. E. Lawrence

LAWRENCE, T. E. (1888-1935); George Bernard Shaw (introduces) · 5211927

$964.00 (€874.63 | £729.67 | ¥153,938)

London Ernest Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, Leicester Square First Edition A superb copy of the rare First Printing of this catalog of art works (later printings are noted at top of front wrapper) accompanying Lawrence's account of his legendary part in the Arab r...