New York: The Macmillan Co., 1927. First Edition thus. Pictorial Boards. First Printing with these illustrations of one of the most famous children’s picture books and "one of the most notable Sambo productions of the period," scarce in the original dust jacket. (Pictus Orbis Sambo) Square foolscap 8vo (143 x...... more
![The Sea [Signed]. John BANVILLE](/pictures/thumb/BB1418.jpeg?v=1625270564)
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
![Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches [Presentation Copy to Constance Lytton]....](/pictures/thumb/BB2261.jpeg?v=1632395462)
London: Mills & Boon, Limited, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression (published August 1909 on verso of title page) of this "extremely difficult to find" collection of 25 weird, supernatural, and fantastic stories. Crown 8vo (189 x 121mm): [2],x,306,[2]pp. Publisher's forest green cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt..... more
![Flaubert's Parrot [Signed]. Julian BARNES](/pictures/thumb/BB1416.JPG?v=1499085300)
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
![Metroland [Otis Skinner Blodget's copy]. Julian BARNES](/pictures/thumb/BB1109.jpeg?v=1632347325)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression ("First published 1980") of Barnes's first novel. Crown 8vo (197 x 125mm): 176pp. Publisher's steel-grey cloth, spine stamped in silver, grey end papers; black typographic dust jacket (priced-clipped) printed in metallic silver and white. Signed book plate of Otis Skinner Blodget..... more
London: Secker & Warburg, 1962. First UK Edition. Hardcover. First UK Edition (no additional printings mentioned) of the author's third book. Fine publisher's black cloth-covered boards, the spine brightly stamped with silver lettering, in a Near Fine priced dust jacket, with light soiling to the rear panel and a moderately..... 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
![Photobook] Photographic Views of Warwickshire. Francis BEDFORD, 1815/](/pictures/thumb/BB2031.jpg?v=1568470108)
Chester: Catherall & Pritchard, Eastgate Row, n. d. [c. 1865]. Morocco. A fine album of views by one of the preeminent nineteenth century photographers. Oblong royal 8vo (180 × 249mm): 16 interleaved albumen photographs from collodion negatives, each mounted on card with gilt fillet border and title printed in brown..... 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
![Dangling Man [Signed]. Saul BELLOW](/pictures/thumb/BB1323.jpeg?v=1626039989)
London: John Lehmann, 1946. First UK Edition. Hardcover. First Impression ("First published in England 1946") of this slim, quiet masterpiece (Bellow's first book) from the Nobel prizewinning author of Herzog, Augie March, and Henderson the Rain King. Slim crown 8vo (184 x 119mm): 191,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven sunflower cloth, spine..... more
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
![Herzog [Signed]. Saul BELLOW](/pictures/thumb/BB1340.JPG?v=1499796759)
New York: Viking Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of Bellow's masterwork. 8vo: [8],341,[1]pp. Publisher's mottled blue cloth, spine stamped in silver, upper board titled in blind, top edge stained light blue; illustrated dust jacket priced $5.75. Signed by Bellow on first end sheet (as usual). Laid in is..... more
London: John Lehmann, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of "this quiet masterpiece." (Burgess). Crown 8vo: 256pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth, spine lettered in gold; illustrated dust jacket, priced 9s/6d, by Edward Bawden. About Fine (top edge lightly dust-soiled, spine lettering slightly dulled); Near Fine or better jacket (spine folds..... more
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
![Latin American trilogy, comprising] The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, [with] Señor Vivo...](/pictures/thumb/BB1518.jpg?v=1568509174)
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
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First Printing. Hardcover. First Printing (so stated) of the poet's third book, "one of the most unique poems in modern American literature." (Literary Encyclopedia) Royal 8vo (237 x 158mm): unpaginated, with 57 numbered 8-line partially rhymed stanzas and 10 illustrations (7 full-page) by..... more
![Homage to Mistress Bradstreet and Other Poems [Nathaniel Tarn's copy]. John BERRYMAN](/pictures/thumb/BB0452.jpg?v=1499796661)
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
![Shape Book] [Children's/Juvenile] Los Viajes de Julita. María BLANCA-GIL,...](/pictures/thumb/BB2396.jpeg?v=1633813217)
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
![Archetypes of Art] Urformen der Kunst : Photographische Planzenbilder von Professor Karl...](/pictures/thumb/BB2327.jpeg?v=1625356563)
Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth A. G., [1929]. Second Edition. Decorative Cloth. Preferred Printing of this founding work of the "New Objectivity" movement in Germany and one of the iconic books in the history of photography. Introduced by Karl Nierendorf; text in German. Royal 8vo (320 x 250mm): xvii, [3] with..... more
![Photobook] Wunder in der Natur. Bild-dokumente schöner Pflanzenformen. Karl BLOSSFELDT](/pictures/thumb/BB2505.jpeg?v=1624744622)
Leipzig: Verlag: H. Schmidt & C. Günther Pantheon-Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. First (and only) Printing of the final book in Blossfeldt's celebrated trilogy (with Urformen der Kunst and Wundergarten der Natur), showcasing "unfamiliar shapes from the vegetal worlds . . . as startling, elegant architectural forms." (Roth..... more
![The Light Around the Body [Inscribed Association Copy]. Robert BLY, 1926](/pictures/thumb/BB1827.jpg?v=1534211302)
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
![The Ash Garden [Signed]. Dennis BOCK](/pictures/thumb/BB1185.jpg?v=1499796740)
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
![World War] The Way of the Lancer [together with] Lances Down. Between the Fires in Moscow....](/pictures/thumb/BB2584.jpeg?v=1610726342)
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
![Automatic Writing] [Spiritualism] [First World War] The hill of vision : a forecast of the great...](/pictures/thumb/BB2538.jpeg?v=1618187042)
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
Philadelphia: Prime Press, 1949. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated). 8vo: xiii,[1],181,[1]pp. Publisher's grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, grey end papers, pictorial dust jacket by James Gibson priced $3.00. Fine, tight and square (likely unread), in Near Fine or better jacket barely rubbed at spine tips, faint ink..... more