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Sketches of the Works for the Tunnel, under the Thames, from Rotherhithe to Wapping

[Thames Tunnel Company] [BRUNEL, Marc Isambard, 1769-1849] · 1831

$626.00 (€567.96 | £473.83 | ¥99,964)

[London] Published by Harvey and Darton, 55, Gracechurch Street Rare issue of this fascinating and fragile pictorial and written record of the first tunnel constructed successfully beneath a navigable river: OCLC records no 1831 edition (but several, dating 1828, '29, and '30)...

The Lives of the Roman Emperors and Their Associates : From Julius Caesar (B C 100) to Augustus (A D 476)

REED, J. Eugene (edited by) · 1883

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

Philadelphia Gebbie & Company [through 1884] First Edition Complete set, in five volumes, in exceptionally fine matching publisher's bindings. Royal 8vo (243 x 165mm): vi,[4],342; [8],342; [8],344; [8],344; [8],344pp, with 50 tissue-guarded steel-engraved plates and numerous w...

Septimius Felton or The Elixir of Life [First State]

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864) · 1872

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

Boston James R. Osgood First Edition With a preface by Una Hawthorne. First State (Clark's First Printing, with dropped "I" in "It," l.18, p.42) of Hawthorne's final work, a gothic romance set during the Revolutionary War about a search for the elixir of life. One of only 3000...

Apple of the Eye

MIDDLETON, Stanley (1919-2009) · 1970

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

London Hutchinson First Edition First Impression of the author's scarce tenth novel. 8vo: 227,[1]pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth-effect paper-covered boards, spine stamped in gold; pictorial dust jacket by Colin Andrews, priced £1.50. Fine and apparently unread; about Fine jac...

The Descendant [First Issue]

GLASGOW, Ellen Anderson Gholson (1873-1945) · 1897

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,105)

New York Harper & Brothers First Edition First Printing of Glasgow's first book in first issue binding (author's name not on spine and single imprint on title page). Small 8vo: [4],276,[8]pp. Publisher's green and brown art deco pictorial cloth, covers and spine ornamented in ...

Twilight

GAY, William Elbert (1941-2012) · 2006

$86.00 (€78.03 | £65.10 | ¥13,733)

San Francisco MacAdam / Cage First Edition First Printing (complete number line) of this Southern Gothic tale of an undertaker who hires a hitman to kill a nosy teenager. Demy 8vo (226 x 145mm): [2],234pp. Publisher's rose red cloth-effect paper-covered boards, spine lettered ...

The Slave of the Lamp [Christian Vellacott]

[Hugh Stowell Scott, writing as:] MERRIMAN, H. S. (1862-1903) · 1892

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

London Smith, Elder First Edition, complete in 2 volumes. 8vo: [6],276; [6],289,[3]pp. Publisher's smooth pale greenish-blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover lettered and ornamented in black, pale yellow coated end papers, edges rough-trimmed. A virtually pristine se...

The Uncommercial Traveller [Original Cloth, Cheap Edition]

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870) · 1866

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

London Chapman & Hall, 193, Piccadilly [from 1860] First Edition thus New Edition of this collection of literary sketches and reminiscences. Crown 8vo (190 x 121mm): viii,204pp, with frontispiece by G. J. Pinwell. Original green cloth, covers elaborately stamped in blind with ...

Scloppetaria: or Considerations of the Nature and Use of Rifled Barrel Guns, with Reference to Their Forming the Basis of a Permanent System of National Defence, Agreeable to the Genius of the Country

[BEAUFOY, Captain Henry, attributed to] · 1812

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

London Printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-Bar, for T. Egerton, Military Library, Near Whitehall Second Edition of the first book in English on target rifle shooting (the Latinized title means The Militiaman) and attempts to increase the accuracy of long-barreled firearms...

A Short History of Lyme Regis

FOWLES, John (1926-2005) · 1981

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

London Little, Brown First Printing First American Edition (so stated) of this expanded edition of Fowles's A Brief History of Lyme, a 12-page pamphlet issued by the Friends of the Lyme Regis Museum in 1981. Slim, wide 8vo: 52,[2]pp, with numerous images of 19th- and early 20t...

Deer Park

MAILER, Norman (1923-2007) · 1957

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

London Allan Wingate First British Edition First Impression of Mailer's third book, a roman à clef whose protagonist is a recently discharged Air Force officer and would-be novelist. Crown 8vo (182 x 115mm): 388pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine stamped in gold, matching...

Merkwaardige Gezigten, Gebouwen, Monumenten en Standbeelden in de Noordelijke Provintien van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden

MAASKAMP, Evert [edits], 1769-1834 · 1816

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

à Amsterdam chez E. Maaskamp, près du Palais First Edition thus First separate edition of this rare guide for tourists to the northern provinces of the Netherlands, Oblong foolscap 8vo (113 x 162mm): [80]pp, with title-page vignette by W. van Senus and 37 finely executed aqua...

The Brightfount Diaries

ALDISS, Brian W. (1925-2017) · 0

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,105)

London Faber and Faber First Edition First Impression of the author's first book (first published mcmlv on copyright page). 8vo: 200pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine lettered in yellow, salmon-pink dust jacket illustrated by Pearl Falconer, who also contributed full-pag...

The Flying Shadow

RHYS, John Llewellyn (1910-1940) · 1936

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

London Faber and Faber First Edition First Impression of the author's first book. Small 8vo: 292pp. Original lime-green cloth, spine lettered in red and gold, publisher's reply card laid in; illustrated dust jacked, priced 7s / 6d. About Fine, square, and tight (very slight so...

The Man In The Tricorn Hat

AMES, Delano (1906-1987) · 1960

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

London Methuen First Edition First Printing of this thriller set in a Spanish village. Crown 8vo (200 x 132mm): 200pp. Publisher's forest green finely woven cloth, spine lettered in silver, striking dust jacket illustrated by David Watson and priced 15s. A handsome example, ti...

A Horseman Riding By; [with] The Green Gauntlet

DELDERFIELD, R. F. (1912-1972) · 1966

$214.00 (€194.16 | £161.98 | ¥34,173)

London Hodder and Stoughton [through 1968] First Edition First Impressions of Delderfield's two-volume elegy for the traditional, pastoral society blown apart by the First World War. Thick 8vo: 1151; 475,[3]pp. Horseman: Publisher's forest green cloth, spine stamped in gold, m...

Tactical Exercise [Love Among the Ruins]

WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966) · 1954

$139.00 (€126.11 | £105.21 | ¥22,197)

Boston Little, Brown First Printing First and only Edition (never published in the United Kingdom), including the first American appearance of Love Among the Ruins (published in England as a separate book). 8vo: [6],289,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven sea-green cloth, spine le...

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories [First Issue]

LAWRENCE, D. H. [David Herbert, 1885-1930] · 1914

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

London Duckworth First Edition First or Second Issue (bibliographers disagree, but note MacDonald: "A [third or] later issue], in somewhat lighter blue cloth, lettered in black, must not be confused with either [first or second issues]). Crown 8vo: 310,[2],20(publisher's catal...

The Good Soldier. A Tale of Passion [Signed]

FORD, Ford Madox (1873-1939) · 1927

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

New York Albert and Charles Boni Limited Edition No. 74 of 300 copies for sale and 25 unnumbered presentation copies, signed by Ford on front free end paper. Crown 8vo: ix,260pp. Publisher's quarter-bound finely woven sky-blue cloth over lime-green paper-covered boards, spine ...

Big As Life [Signed]

DOCTOROW, E[dgar]. L[awrence]. (1931-2015) · 1966

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

New York Simon & Schuster First Edition First Printing of Doctorow's second novel and scarcest book, never reprinted and later orphaned by the author (his web site makes no mention of this title). 8vo: (6),218pp. Publisher's crimson cloth, spine stamped in gilt, top edge stain...