Fine Editions Ltd

A Search for the King

VIDAL, Gore (1925-2012) · 1950

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

New York E. P. Dutton First Printing First Edition (so stated). 8vo: 255,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, in an illustrated dust jacket priced $3.00. Fine (former owner's name to corner of front paste-down) and unread, in a Fine ja...

The Three Clerks. A novel.

TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-1882) · 1858

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

London Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street First Edition First Printings, complete in three volumes, one of only 1,000 sets. 8vo's: iv,340; iv,322; iv,334pp. Three-quarter blue morocco over French blue cloth, spines in six compartments paneled in gilt (four with central gil...

Days in the Yellow Leaf [Tom Wolfe's copy]

HOFFMAN, William (1925-2009) · 1958

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

New York Doubleday First Printing First Edition (so stated) of the author's second novel. 8vo: 354pp. Publisher's mustard-yellow linen, spine lettered in black, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust jacket priced $3.95. Fine, apparently unread copy, in an about Fine jacket, he...

Exiles of Time

BOND, Nelson (1908-2006) · 1949

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

Philadelphia Prime Press First Printing First Edition (so stated). 8vo: xiii,[1],181,[1]pp. Publisher's grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, grey end papers, pictorial dust jacket by James Gibson priced $3.00. Fine, tight and square (likely unread), in Near Fine or better jacke...

[Caxton Club] Fantasy In A Wood-Block Or What Occurred When John James Audubon, the Naturalist, Visited with Thomas Bewick, The Wood-Engraver in the year 1827. Being a narrative by Gordon R. Williams, together with a print taken by R. Hunter Middleton from the wood-block which Mr. Bewick was engraving at the time.

WILLIAMS, Gordon R.; [Thomas Bewick] · 1972

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

Chicago Caxton Club Limited Edition Tall, slim 8vo: [4],12,[6]pp, including full-page reproductions from photographs, plus the Bewick wood-block print. Decorated gold-and-tan paper-backed boards, black linen spine, printed paper label, medium-brown laid end papers. Pristine. O...

Three Partners, or The Big Strike on Heavy Tree Hill

HARTE, Bret (1836-1902) · 1897

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

Boston Houghton Mifflin First Edition First printing ("1897" on the copyright page and title page), issued simultaneously with the London edition, of this late Jack Hamlin novel, set in the California Gold Rush. Small 8vo: [4],342pp. Publisher's brown S cloth (also issued in ...

Sand and Satin

ROHMER, Sax (1883-1959) · 1955

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

London Herbert Jenkins First Impression First UK Edition (released only as a paperback, entitled Return of Sumuru, in the U.S.). Publisher's red cloth, spine and lower cover stamped in black; price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. Just about Fine, square, tight and unmarked (fro...

Uncle Fred in the Springtime

WODEHOUSE, Sir P[elham]. G[renville]., 1881-1975 · 1952

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,105)

London Herbert Jenkins First Edition Fourth Printing (first published 1939) of the fifth Blandings Castle novel and the first to star Uncle Fred. . Small 8vo: 311,[1]pp. Publisher's bright orange cloth stamped in black; pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Fenwick. Fine (proba...

Ethan Frome

WHARTON, Edith (1862-1937) · 1911

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

New York Charles Scribner's Sons First Issue, with top edge gilt, one of 2500 copies ("wearily" on the penultimate line p.135 is unbroken in this copy, but the word appears in both states, broken and perfect, in copies with gilt top edges and without and is thus not an indicat...

Nerve

FRANCIS, Dick (1920-2010) · 1964

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

London Michael Joseph First Edition First Impression of the author's second novel, basis of the audio drama Breaking Point, starring Michael Kitchen. Crown 8vo (183 x 118mm): 238pp. Publisher's forest green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; illustrated dust jacket by Trevor Denni...

My Head! My Head! [First Issue]

GRAVES, Robert (1895-1985) · 1925

$101.00 (€91.64 | £76.45 | ¥16,128)

London Martin Secker First Impression First Issue (without box around title page), one of only 500 copies. 8vo: 141,[3]pp. Publisher's black cloth spine, lettered in gilt, over red patterned cloth-covered boards, without the dust jacket. Near Fine or better, first and final fe...

To Whom She Will : A Novel [Amrita]

JHABVALA, R[uth]. Prawer (1927-2013) · 1955

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

London George Allen & Unwin First Edition First Impression of the Booker-prize winning author's first book. Crown 8vo: 301,[3]pp, including glossary and recipes for Indian dishes mentioned in the text. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in silver, top edge stained black; ...

Clarissa Oakes [The Truelove]

O'BRIAN, Patrick (1914-2000) · 1992

$214.00 (€194.16 | £161.98 | ¥34,173)

London Harper Collins First UK Edition First Impression (full number line) of the fifteenth installment in the Aubrey-Maturin series, featuring naval commander Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon (and spy) Stephen Maturin. 8vo: 256pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth, spine stamped in g...

[Emblem Book] 'S Werelts begin, midden, eynde, besloten in den trou-ring, met den proef-steen van den selven; [bound with] Lof-sang, op het geestelyk houwelyk van godes soone

CATS, Jacob (1577-1660) · 0

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.17 | ¥55,731)

t' Amsterdam Hendrick vander Putte, Papier en Boekverkooper op't Water, in de Lootsman Early eighteenth century edition (based on imprint) of the Dutch poet and politician's rhymed dissertations on marriage and conjugal fidelity, first published in Dordrecht, in 1637. 16mo (15...

Funeral March of a Marionette: Charlotte of Albany

BUCHAN, Susan [Baroness Tweedsmuir, 1883-1977]; Vanessa Bell (Illustrates) · 1935

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

London Hogarth Press First Edition First Impression ("First published 1935" on copyright page), one of only 1500 copies, of this odd and unexpected life of Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany (1753-1789), illegitimate daughter of the Jacobite pretender Prince Charles Edward St...

[Three early novels, comprising: ] The Nature of Passion; [with] Esmond in India; [and] Get Ready for Battle

JHABVALA, R. Prawer (1927-2013)

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

London George Allen & Unwin / John Murray First Edition A superb trio of First Impressions, the Booker Prize-winning author's second, third, and fifth novels. Crown 8vo (184 x 118mm): 261,[3]; 256; 224pp. Passion: Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in silver, top edge sta...

Occasion for Loving

GORDIMER, Nadine (1923-2014) · 1963

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

London Victor Gollancz First Edition First Impression of Gordimer's third novel. 8vo; 288pp. Publisher's scarlet cloth, the spine lettered in gilt; in a typographic dust jacket priced 21/-. A Fine copy, tight, square and unmarked (though the top edge lightly dust-soiled); in a...

The Devil's Highway

WRIGHT, Harold Bell (1872-1944) and John Lebar · 1932

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

New York D. Appleton First Edition First Printing, with the number (1) in parenthesis on the final page. 8vo; [6], 336pp. Publisher's crimson cloth, the spine and upper cover lettered in gilt; in the original illustrated dust jacket priced at $2.00. A Near Fine or better copy,...

["The Hang of It," in] The Kit Book for Soldiers, Sailors and Marines [with mailing carton]

SALINGER, J[erome]. D[avid]., 1919-2010 · 1943

$439.00 (€398.30 | £332.29 | ¥70,103)

Chicago Consolidated Book Publishers [through 1942] First Edition First Edition, second issue (with 1943 copyright), of this World War II-era collection of "favorite stories, verse and cartoons for the entertainment of servicemen," including Salinger's first appearance in book...

Gold from Crete

FORESTER, C[ecil]. S[cott]., 1899-1966 · 1971

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

London Michael Joseph First Impression First Printing ("First published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph 1971" on copyright page). 8vo; 194pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, the spine stamped gilt, in a pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Graham Humphreys and priced at £1.7...