Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1931. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated) after the printing of 201 deluxe copies. 8vo: xii,229,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven black cloth, spine lettered in gilt (slightly oxidized), title-page vignette, top edge stained brown, fore-edge untrimmed; cream-colored Illustrated dust jacket printed in black and brown, priced..... more

London: Secker & Warburg [through 1992], 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Three Fine and Signed first impressions. Complete in three tall octavo volumes, in the fabulous dust jackets illustrated by Irene von Treskow: viii,376; [8],280; x,388pp. Don Emmanuel: Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in while, hunter green end papers, jacket priced..... more

Maggs Bros. 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 238 of 300 copies signed by Besterman, cataloging his fabulous collection of fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth century art books. Medium folio (412 x 310mm): xiv,118,[2]pp, plus folding frontispiece and 149 additional plates (some folding). Publisher's gun-metal grey cloth, spine lettered in gold. An..... more

Amsterdam: Chez Thomas Lombrail, marchand libraire, dans le Beurs-Straat, M D CC VII [1707]. Full Calf. First French-language Edition (another French language edition was printed in Orleans, but bearing a Paris imprint, the same year, with no priority definitively established), translated from the English, of the first history of the..... more

Barcelona: Editorial Colón, 1960. Card Covers. Die-cut shape book (247 x 180mm): 12pp, fully illustrated in color. A beautifully preserved example copy of this fragile juvenile. A charming children’s book, in Spanish, featuring a beautiful blonde girl who travels with her family around Spain. One of nine titles from the..... more

New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated) of Bly's second collection, playfully inscribed by him on the front free end paper in three colors of pen in the year of publication: "Oct. 24, '67 / For Henry / who published so many / of..... more

Te Amsterdam: by Kornelis van Tongerlo, 1770. Stiff Wrappers. First and only edition of Boddaert’s description of the freshwater Southeast Asian soft-shell turtle (Testudine cartilaginea) from the Schlosser natural history cabinet, the first monograph on (and first illustration of) this species. Demy 4to (283 x 221mm): [4],39,[1]pp, printed on heavy..... more

London: Cassell / Grayson & Grayson, 1932 / 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. A stunning set, two First Impressions, of this "grim story of the collapse of the Russian army, revolution, and atrocities in the Russian Civil War," written with Helen Woodward. (Lengel) Demy 8vo (214 x 137mm). Way of the..... more

Boston: Marshall Jones Company, M D CCC XIX [1919]. First Edition. Hardcover. A superb First Printing of Bligh Bond's prophesies of the Great War, "gathered from automatic writings obtained between 1909 and 1912, and also in 1918, through the hand of John Alleyne." Crown 8vo (195 x 130mm): 134pp. Publisher's..... more

A Paris: Treuttel & Würtz, rue de Lille, No. 17, c. 1807. Uncommon early nineteenth-century map (700 x 975mm), with contemporary hand coloring, of Poland and adjoining territories during the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Original copperplate engraving printed from 9 plates, then segment and laid down on blue linen..... more

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression, translated from the Spanish, of this "landmark of modern literature." (Diefendorf) Edited and with an introduction by Anthony Kerrigan. Crown 8vo (190 x 121mm): [6],7-174pp. Publisher's grey coarsely woven cloth, spine lettered in gilt, typographic dust jacket priced 21s. About..... more

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of Bowles's only novel, a modernist cult classic (Tennessee Williams named it his favorite book), written in singular, spare, elliptical prose. 8vo (197 x 135mm): [6],271,[1]pp. Publisher's tan cloth lettered and decorated in red, top edge stained red, fore-..... more

London: Macdonald, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of Bowles's third novel, set in Fez during the anti-colonial uprisings against the French. Crown 8vo (196 x 127mm): 384pp. Publisher's orange cloth, spine lettered in gold; dust jacket illustrated by Stein and printed in black, blue, and orange. An excellent example..... more