London: Edward Arnold 41 & 43 Maddox Street, Bond Street, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. A superb Ninth Impression of these tales that "have come to be seen as the epitome of the English ghost story." (Literary Encyclopedia) Demy 8vo (211 x 145mm): xii,270pp, with four illustrations by James McBryde. Original..... more

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. First American Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (with Scribners 'A' on copyright page) of the author's second novel, first published, in London, in 1963. 8vo: 234pp. Publisher's pea-green cloth, fetish device to front cover and spine lettered in bright blue, first state illustrated dust jacket..... more

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1942. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated), one of only 1700 printed. 8vo: xi,82pp. Publisher's crimson fine-bead cloth, spine lettered in navy blue; vivid red typographic dust jacket, lettered in white and priced $2.00. Fine and apparently unread; About Fine jacket (minimal fading to spine..... more

London: Boriswood, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of "this deservedly forgotten novel." (O'Brien) With a prefatory letter by T. E. Lawrence. Crown 8vo: (188 x 120): [8],11-287,[1]pp, with three publisher's promotions laid in. Original saffron linen, spine decorated and lettered in scarlet and French blue, top edge stained faded..... more

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of the Booker-prize winning author's first book. Crown 8vo: 301,[3]pp, including glossary and recipes for Indian dishes mentioned in the text. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in silver, top edge stained black; illustrated dust jacket priced 15s. An exceptional..... more

Boston: The Cornhill Company, n.d. [1918]. First Edition thus. Hardcover. First Unauthorized American Edition of Joyce's first regularly published work, with print run estimated at 1000 copies. Small, slim 8vo: 20 unnumbered leaves, with 36 numbered Elizabethan-like poems chronicling the growth of a young poet’s love for a golden-haired woman..... more

Berlin: Oesterheld, 1910. Hardcover. First Edition of this collection of short lyrical songs, in German, including works by Mendelssohn (Songs Without Words) and Chopin, selected by the dramaturge of Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater, in Berlin. Crown 8vo (184 x 120mm): 115,[1]pp. Publisher's green and orange paper-covered boards, beige paper title..... more

London: Putnam, 1934. First Impression. Hardcover. The uncommon First British Edition of Isak Dinesen's first book. Thick 8vo: [6],522pp, with full-color frontispiece (repeating dust jacket design) by Rex Whistler. Publisher's cinnamon colored cloth, spine lettered in gilt; illustrated dust jacket, priced 7s / 6d. About Fine (spine ends bumped, top..... more

Eton / London: Ingalton and Drake / Simpkin, Marshall, 1868. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of apparently the first field guide to birds to use photographs as illustrations. 8vo: xiv,[2],232pp, with four hand-colored and varnished albumen photographs of stuffed birds mounted on heavy card stock. ("It was impossible at the time..... more

New York: New Directions, 1964. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated). Square 8vo: [viii],179,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven beige cloth, spine lettered in black, brown paper-covered boards decorated in blind with PFC stripes, brown laid end papers, brown pictorial dust jacket printed in yellow and black. Fine in a just..... more

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated) of the author's first novel. Publisher's slate-gray linen, spine and upper cover stamped in red and gilt, top edge stained yellow, fore-edge untrimmed; illustrated dust jacket, priced $3.75. An about Fine, unread copy (lower corners bruised), in..... more

London: Fortune Press, 1945 [but 1965]. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Second (unauthorized) Edition. Tall, slim 8vo: [4],36pp. Publisher's smooth maroon buckram (some copies bound in brownish-orange buckram, no priority known), spine lettered in gilt, bottom edge untrimmed; beige dust jacket (Bloomfield calls it pale orange, but to my eye there is..... more

London: Duckworth, 1914. First Edition. Original Cloth. First or Second Issue (bibliographers disagree, but note MacDonald: "A [third or] later issue], in somewhat lighter blue cloth, lettered in black, must not be confused with either [first or second issues]). Crown 8vo: 310,[2],20(publisher's catalog)pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth, spine and upper..... more