London: Ulysses, 1994. Limited Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. First Limited Edition, one of only 26 copies, lettered A to Z (this being copy D), with hand-colored frontispiece and signed and dated by both author and artist (Ian Beck). Tall , slim 8vo: unpaginated (14 leaves). Original pale yellow paper-covered boards patterned..... more

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1936. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated), collecting the title story and seventeen others, including "Major Alshuster," "Astronomer's Wife," and "Winter in Italy." Crown 8vo (186 x 125mm): [10],355,[1]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, top edge stained blue, fore-edge rough-trimmed; illustrated dust..... more

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. First Edition. First Impression of Braine's first book, offered with the scarce uncorrected proof. Crown 8vo (189 x 122mm): 256pp. Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gold, in the striking dust jacket (price-clipped) illustrated by John Minton. An excellent example (spine ends very lightly bruised)..... more

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1936. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. First Printing (so stated) of the photographer's first book, introduced by Raymond Mortimer. Royal 8vo (235 x 180 mm): 8pp, with 63 full-page captioned gravure plates by Brandt. Publisher's glazed photographically illustrated boards, spine and upper cover lettered in red..... more

Paris: The Olympia Press, 8, Rue de Nesle, 1958. Second Edition. Printed Wrappers. Second Edition of this short novel, celebrating love, art, and the Bohemian life, with 29 full-page photogravures (recto and verso, of which one verso only and one double-page photomontage) of Paris after dark by Brassai (pseudonym of..... more

New York: Fredrick A. Stokes, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of Bromfield's eighth novel (Bromfield won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for "Early Autumn"). Thick 8vo: [8],463,[1]pp. Publisher's textured vivid orange cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in blue, top edge stained orange, fore-edge untrimmed, yellow patterned end..... more

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1916. First Impression. Original Wrappers. First Separate Edition, with double-page woodcut by Noel Brooke, one of 2900 copies issued. Foolscap 8vo (170 x 124mm): 14pp. Stitched in publisher's stiff grey paper wrappers printed in black. Bottom edge of upper wrapper lightly spotted, one corner bumped, but..... 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

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1849. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of this scarce triple-decker, which pioneered the "domestic" school of fiction. Crown (195 x 119mm): 8vo: [4],iii,[1],viii,327,[1]; [4],346; [4],308,32pp. Publisher's chocolate brown ribbed cloth blocked in blind and lettered in gold, fore- and bottom edges rough-trimmed, pale yellow..... more

Basel: Druck und Verlag der Schweighauser'schen Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1860. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of this classics of Renaissance historiography, from the library of Otto Wesendonck, patron of the composer Richard Wagner. Demy 8vo (221 x 133mm): 4],576pp. Original moire-pattern purple cloth, covers blocked in blind with intricate oval device, spine lettered..... more

London: printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall, MDCCLXV. [1765]. Early Printing. Full Calf. Fourth Edition, "with improvements," complete in two volumes, of the "best contemporary account" of European colonization of the New World. (Howes). Printed by William Bowyer, whose records show only 500 copies went through the press. Demy..... more

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston / Viking [through 1987], 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes, all First Printings and all signed (but not inscribed) by Burroughs on title pages. Demy 8vo (228 x 150mm): xviii (including frontispiece and title page),332; [12],306, with double-page map; [12],258pp. Red Night: Publisher's beige..... more

London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1874. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. Translated from the 1557 Marburg edition by Albert Tootal, with preface, introduction, and annotations by Richard F. Burton. Demy 8vo (218 x 134mm): 12,xcvi,169,[1]pp. Publisher's original light blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, fancy blind border on covers..... more