New York: Viking Press, 1959. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition, First State, of the author's fourth (and perhaps most loved) book and one of Modern Library's 100 Best Novels. 8vo; [8], 341pp. Publisher's beige quarter-bound linen, spine lettered in orange, silver, and black, orange cloth-covered boards titled in black, top..... more

London: John Lehmann, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression ("First published in 1948") of "this quiet masterpiece." (Burgess). Crown 8vo: 256pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth, spine lettered in gold; superb pictorial dust jacket, priced 9s/6d, illustrated by Edward Bawden. About Fine (top edge lightly dust-soiled, spine lettering slightly dulled); in..... 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

London: Faber & Faber, 1959. First Impression. Hardcover. First Edition of this selection by Berryman from two of his previous books, including Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, "one of the most unique poems in modern American literature." (Literary Encyclopedia) Demy 8vo (216 x 134mm): 111,[1]pp. Publisher's teal cloth, spine lettered in..... more

Newcastle upon Tyne: printed by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby, & T. Bewick, Newcastle: sold by them, by G. G. J. & J. Robinson, & C. Dilly, London, 1791. Second Edition. Full Calf. A superlative example of the second (and best) edition: "no mere reprint: it was a largely..... 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." Small 8vo: [4],xli,[3],223,[1]; [4],272; [2],304pp, with 52 superb wood cuts by John and Thomas Bewick. Beautifully bound by Orrock & son in half-burgundy morocco..... more

Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1936. Early Printing. Cloth-Backed Boards. "New Edition" of one of the founding works of the "New Objectivity" movement in Germany and one of the iconic books in the history of photography. Text in German. Royal 8vo (320 x 250mm): XVI, with 96 full-page, gravure-printed plates (many..... more

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Advance Reading Copy. Stiff Wraps. 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. Bock's first novel, following..... more

Te Amsterdam: By M. Magérus, Boekverkooper, MDCCLXXII [1772]. Stiff Wrappers. First and only edition of Boddaert’s description of the nocturnal giant leaf frog (a native of the Amazonian rain forest that produces a poison traditionally used as medicine) from the Schlosser natural history cabinet, the first monograph on (and first..... 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

Antwerp: Printed for the Plantins by Joannes Moretus, 1591. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Beautifully presented collection of 72 etchings by Pieter van der Borcht the Elder (who signed the plate on p. 357), from one of the gems of Renaissance illustrated books, a very early juvenilia, Ovid's Metamorphoses abbreviated..... more

Glasgow: printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, London, 1768. First Edition. Mottled Calf. First Edition of Boswell's first important work, which launched his career and catapulted him to fame. Demy 8vo: xxi,[3],382pp, with final blank and large folding map of Corsica by..... more

London: Peter Owen, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of Bowles only short stories, collecting "Plain pleasures," "Everything is nice," "A Guatemalan idyll," "Camp cataract," "A day in the open," "A quarrelling pair," and "A stick of green candy", ranging in place from North Africa to South American. Slim crown..... more