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[World War] The Angels of Mons : the bowmen and other legends of the war [Ross Clan Crest]

MACHEN, Arthur (1863-1947) · 1915

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,081)

London Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. First Edition First Impression of this supernatural fantasy, first published in The Evening News after the Battle of Mons, in 1914. Foolscap 8vo (169 x 104mm): 86pp. Heavy slate-blue pictorial boards printed in dark blue, bl...

Under the Deodars [Indian Railway Library, No. 4]

KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936) · 0

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,081)

Allahabad / London Published by Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ld., St. Dunstan's House Fetter Lane [from 1888] First English Edition (third overall) of this collection of short stories. Indian Railway Library Number 4. Demy 8vo (214 x...

[Shakespeare] [Stephen Kemble] Hamlet in Scotland. A large manager in a Great Character

DIGHTON, Robert (1751-1814) · 61794

$476.00 (€431.87 | £360.29 | ¥76,011)

London Robert Dighton Hand-Colored (300 x 234mm) print of Stephen Kemble in the role of Hamlet, drawn and etched by Robert Dighton and signed by Kemble in red ink, lower right. "The enormously fat Stephen Kemble, as Hamlet, gesticulates, right arm extended, left arm thrown bac...

[Czech Photographic Society] Fotografie 1928-58

KAINAR, Josef (1917-1971) · 1959

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

Prague Orbis First Edition Portfolio of 20 original gelatin silver prints, representing 30 years of Czech photography, including Josef Sudek's "Mé Okno" (1952), Jaromir Funke's "Z Cyklu Cas Trvá" (1932), Karel Hájek's "Zachranený" (1934), and Erich Einhorn's "Za mané?e" (1958)...

[Social Fiction] Men Working [together with Advance Reading Copy]

FAULKNER, John (1901-1963) · 1941

$551.00 (€499.92 | £417.06 | ¥87,988)

New York Harcourt, Brace First Printing First Edition (so stated), offered with the scarce Advance Reading Copy in original pictorial wrappers, of this Depression-era tale of Mississippi tenant farmers by William Faulkner's younger brother, his first published novel. Crown 8vo...

[Russia] Great Cities of the USSR [Moscow and Leningrad]

[INTOURIST]

$139.00 (€126.11 | £105.21 | ¥22,197)

[Moscow] [Intourist / Moscow / Hotel Metropol] Early tourist booklet, in English, featuring Leningrad and Moscow. Crown 8vo (201 x 148mm): 30pp, with two large folding maps in color (273 x 389mm), profusely illustrated with partial page images from photographs of life in the U...

The Ginger Man

DONLEAVY, J. P. (James Patrick, 1926-2017) · 1956

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,081)

London Neville Spearman First Edition thus First Impression of first British edition, introduced by Arland Ussher, of the author's debut novel, originally published in Paris and subsequently banned for obscenity in the United States and Ireland. Crown 8vo (183 x 116mm): xi,[1]...

Private View [with wraparound band]

BROOKE, Jocelyn (1908-1966) · 1954

$139.00 (€126.11 | £105.21 | ¥22,197)

London James Barrie First Edition First Impression of these four character sketches "in that style of managed autobiography which Jocelyn Brooke has made so peculiarly his own" (from front flap). Crown 8vo (189 x 120mm): vii,[1],178pp. Publisher's maroon cloth, spine lettered ...

Panic Spring

[DURRELL, Lawrence, writing as:] Charles Norden · 1937

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

New York Covici-Friede First Printing First American Edition of Lawrence Durrell's uncommon second novel, set on an imaginary Greek island reminiscent of Corfu, to which Durrell and his young wife had relocated from England in 1935. Crown 8vo (203 x 129mm): 372pp. Publisher's ...

[Western Americana] The Spurs; [offered with] The Espuela Land and Cattle Company : a study of a foreign-owned ranch in Texas

ELLIOT, W. J.; William Curry Holden · 1939

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.17 | ¥55,731)

Spur, Texas / Austin The Texas Spur [from 1938] / Texas State Historical Association First Edition Only printing of this western Americana, "now quite difficult to come by." (Adams) Crown 8vo (176 x 125mm): [16],274pp, with portrait frontispiece from photograph on coated turqu...

We Moderns : Gotham Book Mart 1920-1940 [Catalogue No. 42]

STELOFF, Frances (1887-1989) and Kay Steele; Gertrude Stein, Samuel Putnam, Dudley Fitts, William Carlos Williams, Whit Burnett · 0

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

[New York] [Gotham Book Mart] Twentieth anniversary catalogue issued by the famous midtown Manhattan bookstore and cultural landmark, one of 500 unnumbered copies in spiral binding, from a total edition of 5,500. Introductory notes by Frances Steloff and Kay Steele, Gertrude S...

An essay on cottage allotment, or field garden cultivation

NOWELL, John (1794-1869) · 1844

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,105)

Huddersfield Printed and sold by T. Kemp First Separate Printing (second edition overall) of Nowell's appeal to his fellow mill-owners and manufacturers. With an Appendix, "Example Schedules from the Eastbourne Self-Supporting Schools." Foolscap 8vo (172 x 105mm): 24pp. Handso...

Two Early Stories [The Wavering Disciple; A Study in Opal]

FIRBANK, Ronald (1886-1926); GOREY, Edward [Illustrates] · 1971

$326.00 (€295.78 | £246.76 | ¥52,058)

New York Albondocani Press Limited Edition No. 147 of 200 hand-numbered copies for sale (26 lettered copies were also issued), with illustrations by Edward Gorey and foreword by Miriam J. Benkovitz. Crown 8vo (190 x 135mm): 54,[2]pp, with four illustrations. Original limp brow...

[Map] [Walker's] Berkshire

[J. & C. WALKER] · 0

$139.00 (€126.11 | £105.21 | ¥22,197)

London Longman and Co., Paternoster Row, and J. and C. Walker, 3, Burleigh Street, Strand Later Printing Hand-colored engraved map (sectioned into 15 parts and mounted on linen) folded into pebbled green cloth wallet with decorative printed paper title label to upper cover. Co...

[Exhibition Catalog] Posters by E. McKnight Kauffer

KAUFFER, E. McKnight (Edward), 1890-1954; HUXLEY, Aldous [Introduces] · 1937

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,081)

New York The Museum of Modern Art First Printing One of 2,750 copies printed by the Spiral Press, with notes by Kauffer on technique and foreword by Aldous Huxley, of this catalog for an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art from February 10 to March 7, 1937. Royal 8vo...

[Shape Book] [Tobacco] [Die Cut] Dental Scotch Snuff

[AMERICAN SNUFF CO.] · 0

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

Memphis, Tennessee Mid-Century tobacco advertising booklet. Foolscap 8vo (138 x 76mm): note pad shaped as a can of snuff, 24 blank ruled pages, excepting advertising text at center and inside covers. Original illustrated card covers. Provenance: Fred Board, collector of odd an...

[African American] [Gospel Music] [Plantation Lullabies] Songs Sung By The Canadian Colored Concert Co. The Royal Paragon Male Quartette And Imperial Orchestra : five years' tour of Great Britain, three years' tour of United States

[CANADIAN COLORED CONCERT CO.] · 1898

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.17 | ¥55,731)

Hamilton, Ontario Duncan Lith., Co. Scarce souvenir songbook of "plantation lullabies," with sheet music for 13 songs and lyrics for 54 more, for the Canadian group's extended tours of Great Britain and the United States. Cover title: Canadian Colored Concert Co., Plantation l...

The God of Small Things [Indiaink]

ROY, Arundhati (b. 1961) · 1997

$401.00 (€363.82 | £303.53 | ¥64,035)

New Delhi Indiaink First Printing First Indian Edition (and Indiaink's first publication), preceding all others, of the political activist's first novel. Demy 8vo (213 x 144mm): [12],340pp. Publisher's black buckram, spine lettered in gilt, chocolate end papers; photographical...

[Children's Literature] A Little Boy Was Drawing

DUVOISIN, Roger (1900-1980) · 1932

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

New York and London Charles Scribner's Sons First Edition First Printing (Scribner's "A" on copyright page) of Duvoisin's scarce first book. Tall, wide 8vo (245 x 203mm): 56 unnumbered pages, with numerous illustrations (many full-page, in color). Publisher's blue, red, pink, ...

The Structure of The Novel [Hogarth Lectures on Literature (First Series), No. 6]

MUIR, Edwin (1887-1959) · 1928

$101.00 (€91.64 | £76.45 | ¥16,128)

London Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press First Edition First Printing (one of 2,250 copies) of this guide to constructing a novel by one of Scotland's finest poets. Crown 8vo (185 x 118mm): 151,[1]pp. Publisher's orange cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in red; ...