Fine Editions Ltd

The Passionate North

SANSOM, William (1912-1976) · 1950

$139.00 (€126.11 | £105.21 | ¥22,197)

London Hogarth Press First Edition First Impression of one of the author's early collections, of 10 short stories. Small 8vo: viii,250pp. Publisher's tangerine cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained deep pink, bottom edge untrimmed; dust jacked, priced 8s/6d. Very Fin...

Loser Takes All [Publisher's card laid in]

GREENE, Graham (1904-1991) · 1955

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

London William Heinemann First Edition First Impression of one of Greene's later "entertainments," with publisher's promotional card laid in. Small 8vo: [6],140pp. Publisher's blue cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, illustrated dust jacket priced 7s/6d. Near Fine or...

The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species [Unopened]

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882) · 1880

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

London John Murray Second Edition Second Edition of one of the scarcer Darwin titles, one of only 1,250 copies, with a new preface, in which Darwin states that "the text has been left as it originally appeared excepting that a few errors have been corrected." According to Free...

Face to Face

GORDIMER, Nadine (1923-2014) · 1949

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

Johannesburg Silver Leaf Books First Edition First Impression of the Noble laureate's first book. Crown 8vo: 164,[4]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine stamped with silver foil; illustrated dust jacket by Ernest Ullman, priced 12s/6d. Fine and unread, tightly bound, clean...

On the Black Hill [Signed]

CHATWIN, Bruce (1940-1989) · 1982

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.17 | ¥55,731)

London Jonathan Cape First Edition First Impression. 8vo: 248,[2]pp. Publisher's slate grey cloth, spine stamped in gilt, wraparound pictorial dust jacket, by Mon Mohan, unclipped and unpriced (one of the export copies Jonathan Cape issued; priced copies include the exception,...

Dombey and Son [Original Cloth]

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870) · 1848

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

London Bradbury & Evans, 11 Bouverie Street First Edition in book form of Dickens's seventh novel, in original cloth. With the half-title. 8vo: (iii)-xvi,[2,errata],624pp, with the engraved title page ("Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son, wholesale, retail and for export...

Girl with a Pearl Earring [First State, Signed]

CHEVALIER, Tracy · 1999

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.17 | ¥55,731)

London HarperCollins [Harper Collins] First Edition First Impression (no further printings noted), in first state dust jacket, with 'earing' misspelled on back panel. Small 8vo: [6],248,[2]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt (still brilliant); pictorial du...

The Emigrants [Die Ausgewanderten]

SEBALD, W[infried]. G[eorg]. (1944-2001) · 1996

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

London Harvill Press First Edition First Impression of Sebald's first book published in an English-language edition, translated from the German by Michael Hulse. 8vo: [8],237,[1]pp, profusely illustrated with black and white, unlabeled photographs (as are most of Sebald's text...

The Garden Party and other Stories. With coloured lithographs by Marie Laurencin

MANSFIELD, Katherine (1888-1923); [Marie Laurencin] · 1939

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

London Verona Press First Edition thus First Limited (and First Illustrated) Edition, number 145 of 1200 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni on handmade paper. Oversized 8vo: [xii],316,[2, colophon]pp, Illustrated with 16 superb colored lithographs by the French Cubist artis...

The Artificial Nigger and Other Tales [A Good Man Is Hard to Find]

O'CONNOR, Flannery (1925-1964) · 1957

$551.00 (€499.92 | £417.06 | ¥87,988)

London Neville Spearman First Edition First Impression of the author's first collection of short stories, one of only 2000 copies printed. 8vo: 251,[1]pp. Publisher's crimson paper-covered boards with simulated cloth grain, spine lettered in gilt; strikingly illustrated dust j...

Death of a Naturalist [Signed]

HEANEY, Seamus (1939-2013) · 1966

$1,624.00 (€1,473.44 | £1,229.24 | ¥259,332)

New York Oxford University Press First American Edition First Printing of the poet's critically acclaimed first commercially published work (preceded by the privately printed pamphlet, Eleven Poems, in 1965), one of only 1,000 copies (bound from sheets purchased from Faber and...

Blood for a Stranger

JARRELL, Randall (1914-1965) · 1942

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,081)

New York Harcourt, Brace First Printing First Edition (so stated), one of only 1700 printed, of Jarrell's first collection of poems. 8vo: xi,82pp. Publisher's crimson fine-bead cloth, spine lettered in navy blue; vivid red typographic dust jacket, lettered in white and priced ...

No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories

GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel (1927-2014) · 1971

$214.00 (€194.16 | £161.98 | ¥34,173)

London Jonathan Cape First Edition First Impression of the Nobelist's third work of fiction, after Leaf Storm. 8vo: [6],170pp. Publisher's steel-grey finely woven cloth, spine stamped in silver gilt, top edge stained red, illustrated dust jacket printed in green, yellow, and r...

The Spanish Earth [F. A. I. End Papers]

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961) · 1938

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

Cleveland The J. B. Savage Company First Edition Exceptionally scarce First Issue with F. A. I. banner end papers, one of fewer than 100 copies from a limited edition of 1000 copies, of which this is number 116. (Hemingway so disliked the original orange end papers showing sol...

Dangling Man [Signed]

BELLOW, Saul (1915-2005) · 1946

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

London John Lehmann First UK Edition First Impression ("First published in England 1946") of this slim, quiet masterpiece (Bellow's first book) from the Nobel prizewinning author of Herzog, Augie March, and Henderson the Rain King. Slim crown 8vo (184 x 119mm): 191,[1]pp. Publ...

Miss Zilphia Gant

FAULKNER, William (1897-1962) · 1932

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

Dallas Book Club of Texas First Edition First and only printing in English (although the text later appeared in Uncollected Short Stories of William Faulkner, in 1979), no. 189 of 300 numbered copies. Preface by Henry Nash Smith. 8vo: xii,29,[2]pp. Publisher's reddish-brown V-...

Jeeves in the Offing [How Right You Are, Jeeves]

WODEHOUSE, Sir P[elham]. G[renville]., 1881-1975 · 1960

$86.00 (€78.03 | £65.10 | ¥13,733)

London Herbert Jenkins First Edition Second issue, with half-title corrected. Small 8vo: 205,[1]pp. Publisher's butterscotch cloth, spine lettered in black, illustrated dust jacket. Square, tight, unread copy with fresh, bright pages in about Fine price-clipped jacket, very li...

American Earth

CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987) · 1931

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

New York Charles Scribner's Sons First Edition First Printing of this important debut, copies of which in a dust jacket this fine are seldom seen. 8vo: x,314pp. Publisher's tan cloth, lettering and decor stamped in forest green on spine and front cover, illustrated dust jacket...

Tar : A Midwest Childhood

ANDERSON, Sherwood (1876-1941) · 1926

$101.00 (€91.64 | £76.45 | ¥16,128)

New York Boni & Liveright First Edition First Printing (no additional printings noted). 8vo: xviii,346pp. Publisher's brown pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt within blue title block, upper cover lettered in gilt with vignette of farmhouse and barn, top edge stained black, ...

The Ash Garden [Signed]

BOCK, Dennis · 2001

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

New York Alfred A. Knopf Advance Reading Copy Uncorrected Proof, ARC. 8vo: [10],285,[1]. Publisher's stiff wraps, with cover design by Carol Devine Carson, with publisher's reply card laid in. Signed and dated ("June 2/01") by Bock on title page. As New and unread. As New Boc...