Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1898. Cloth. Third Edition, revised and augmented (the Peninsula of Sinai is new to this edition). cxviii,472pp, profusely illustrated with 20 maps and 48 plans (many folding) and a panorama of Jerusalem. Publisher's red flexible cloth stamped in blind and gilt, all edges marbled, green silk..... more

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1905. Cloth. Twenty-first edition. Small 8vo; xxxviii, 548pp, with 63 maps, 17 plans, and 11 panoramas. Publisher's red flexible decorative cloth stamped in blind and gilt, all edges marbled, two silk page-maker (red and green). A superb copy with bright gilt lettering and richly marbled edges;..... more

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, [various]. [various]. Stamped Cloth. An excellent 3-volume set (each volume issued separately) of early editions for the traveler wanting a handy panoramic survey of the entire country, in matching bindings. Foolscap 8vo (158 x 99mm): lxviii,698, with 36 maps, 45 plans, and panorama of the Alps;..... more

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1913. Second Edition. Stamped Cloth. Second (and final) Edition (first appeared in 1901), published only in German, with details of a new arrangement of paintings at the Hermitage recently completed. Small, slim 8vo: xxii,134pp, with 5 maps (including one of Russia on rear end papers), 11..... more

London: Picador, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression, unread and signed by Banville on the title page, of this "modern classic." 8vo: [6],264pp. Publisher's Prussian blue cloth, spine stamped brightly in gilt, grey end papers, illustrated dust jacket priced £16.99. Virtually flawless, crisp, clean and bright. In a Paris Review..... more

London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression ("First published 1984") of the author's "most celebrated book . . . hailed as an exemplary postmodernist text . . ." (Literary Encyclopedia) 8vo: 190pp. Publisher's lime-green cloth, spine stamped in gilt; pictorial dust jacket priced £8.50. Signed and dated (not..... more

Hafinae & Lipsiae [Copenhagen and Leipzig]: Printed By Pelt, Friedrich Christian, 1766. Early Reprint. Full Leather. Fourth Edition, in Latin, of one of the most popular eighteenth-century utopian novels (second only to Gulliver's Travels), eventually reaching some 60 editions in 13 different languages. Small 8vo: [10],360pp, with portrait frontispiece, engraved..... more

London: Secker & Warburg, 1961. First UK Edition. Hardcover. First Impression (no additional printings listed), signed by Barth on front free end paper. Thick 8vo: 806pp. Publisher's scarlet cloth, spine stamped in silver, pictorial dust jacket (illustrated by Owen Wood), with cupids and nudes evocative of a bawdy 17th century..... more

London: Dennis Dobson [through 1964], 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated in color throughout by Carol Barker. First Impressions of the second and third works, Second Impression of Achilles the Donkey (first published 1962), all three volumes signed by Bates on half-title or title pages; two dated 1969. Royal 8vo (285..... more

Oxoniæ [Oxford]: e theatro Sheldoniano, MDCCXLV [1745]. First Edition thus. Quarter-Calf. Two works bound in one, each with half-title and title page, registration, and pagination. Text in Latin (an English translation, in octavo, appeared in 1774). 4to: [12],138,[4]; [4],164pp, with 16 plates (including seven folding and one double-page) and four..... more

London: Faber and Faber, mcmlix [1959]. First Printing. Wrappers. True First Edition (wrappers) of these two dramatic pieces, a monologue and a play for radio, by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1969. Crown 8vo (200 x 121mm): 36pp. Publisher's sea green wrappers over card end papers..... more

Paris: Audot, Editeur, rue des maçons-sorbonne, no. 11, 1828. Wrappers. A charming juvenile, with directions, patterns, and finished views for the construction of paper and cardboard toys—a sentry box, a thatched cottage, furniture, a bridge, a windmill, a medieval tower, and more—intended to teach elementary geometric concepts. 12mo (146 x...... more

Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1921. First Edition. Stiff Card Covers. First and only Impression, limited to 350 copies, hand printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Crown 8vo (190 x 130mm): 29,[3]pp. String-bound stiff buff wrappers, lettered and with clover design in red on front cover. A superb copy, partly unopened, fresh..... more