London: Chatto and Windus, 1929. First Impression. Hardcover. First English Edition (appearing a few weeks after the American edition) of this canonical modernist novel. Thick crown 8vo (207 x 124mm): xii,440pp. With the author's note, commenting on the publishers' censorship and explaining the use of asterisks, and considering it "better..... more

London: Hogarth Press, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. 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 Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie"), his only child to..... more

Paris: Chez Camille Bloch, 1921. Limited Edition. Wrappers. Copy No. 534 of 575 copies, "Réimprimée selon l'édition originale," with the final state of the engravings. Demy 8vo (226 x 140mm): ix,[1],152,[4]pp, printed on on Arches vergé, with six full-page burin engravings (including frontispiece), woodcut initials and chapter heading, and inserted..... more

London: Printed by Thomas Tegg, No. 111, Cheapside, 1816. First Edition of this ferocious satire of British colonial rule in India. Royal 8vo (244 x 150mm): iii-x,252pp, with folding frontispiece, illustrated title, and 25 full-page plates (all tissue-guarded hand-colored aquatints) and one sepia engraving. C8 (pp. 31-32) is a cancel..... more

London: printed at the Shakespeare Press, by W. Nicol, for John Major, Fleet Street, 1831. First Edition thus. Original Cloth. First Edition with Cruikshank's illustrations and introductory verses by Bernard Barton, complete in two volumes. 8vo (173 x 105mm): [8],xvi,434,[2]; [4],406,[2]pp, with engraved steel frontispiece depicting Friday kneeling to Crusoe..... more

New York: Equinox, 1932. First Edition. Wrappers. Only Printing of this poem, illustrated with drawings by Albert Heckman. Slim crown 8vo (203 x 131mm): [8]pp Publisher's string-tied tan paper wrappers printed in brown; wanting original unlettered white mailing envelope. A superlative copy, virtually pristine. Petersen A14.1 and C16. Man Working..... more

New York: Albondocani Press, 1971. Limited Edition. Wrappers. 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 brown, grey, and gold French marble..... more

London: Cassell, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this juvenile, collecting seven poems, one of 5,000 copies printed. Slim demy 8vo (216 x 161mm): [8],38,[2]pp, with 35 pen drawings (including illustrated title page), each with single color wash, alternating green and peach. Publisher's powder blue cloth-effect boards, spine lettered..... more

London: Faber and Faber, MCMXXXIX [1939]. First Edition [from 1932]. Hardcover. Third Impression of this first in a series (and arguably the finest) of cookery titles the two men collaborated on. Crown 8vo (200 x 131mm): 279,[1]pp, with title-page vignette within ornamental border and 19 black-and-white illustrations. Publisher's beige cloth..... more

Lewisburg, Pa. Bucknell University : Press of Appletree Alley, 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, No. 27 of 28 copies printed on mould-made Rives, from a total edition of 150. Royal 8vo (261 x 174mm): 47,[1]pp, with linoleum engravings in color by Barnard Taylor. Publisher's tan quarter-calf over beige paper-covered..... more

London: Printed for J. Rodwell, (successor to Mr. Faulder,) New Bond Street, by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey, 1815. Half-Calf. "A New Edition, Corrected. In three volumes." Crown 8vo (191 x 127mm): [4],xli,[3],223,[1]; [4],272; [2],304pp, with 52 woodcuts (title-page vignettes, head- and tailpieces) by John and Thomas Bewick, Charlton Nesbit, and..... more

Paris: Chez l'auteur / chez Lapina, Editeur, 1930. Limited Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Second Revised Edition, "where, in a new form, the author has revealed many delicious secrets and recipes for good cooking, transcribes the precious opinions of famous gourmets and fine gourmets, friendly and sure advisers in the art of..... more

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1929. Limited Edition. Morocco. Deluxe Facsimile Edition, limited to 125 copies, of "the first treatise devoted solely to the subject of pheasant rearing, covert shooting, and the management of woodlands for the special purpose of preserving game." (from the preface) Publisher's green morocco with gilt borders; top..... more