London: privately printed [by Strangeways, Printers], 1925. Limited Edition. Quarter-Cloth. With a preface by Jessie Conrad. One of only 100 copies signed by Curle, this copy being no. 37. Slim demy 8vo (241 x 237mm): [2],41,[3], with frontispiece facsimile Conrad letter inserted. Original taupe cloth over beige buckram, top edge..... more

London: Methuen, 1907. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Impression (one of only 2500 copies), First Issue ("be be" on final line of p. 117, six additional text error as noted by Smith, and publisher's catalogue dated September 1907), of the "earliest and best novel portraying the character and fate of..... more

London: Henry Colburn and Co. Public Library, Conduit Street, Hanover Square, 1821. First Edition. Half-Calf. First Printing of the author's rare first novel (very rare, as here, in the British edition), complete in three volumes. 12mo: [2],307,[1]; [2],301,[1]; [2],315,[1]pp, vol. III, pp. 139 and 272 misnumbered 189 and 172). Contemporary..... more

New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (second edition overall, following the Holland paper issue published in Paris) of this "landmark achievement in the genre of the modern long poem." (Literary Encyclopedia) Squarish demy 8vo (219 x 154mm): [2],82pp, with frontispiece photograph of Brooklyn Bridge by..... more

New York: D. Appleton, 1897. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing of Crane's fourth book, widely dismissed on publication as a partly autobiographical potboiler but is now ranked among the author's unfairly forgotten works. Crown 8vo (183 x 118mm): [4],203,[1]pp. Publisher's tan buckram, spine and upper cover ornamented and lettered..... more

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. Square demy 8vo (213 x 213mm): [78]pp, with numerous color and black-and-white full- and partial-page illustrations, including double-page world map. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards, tangerine end papers, illustrated title page; matching dust jacket priced $1.60. Tips barely worn, top..... more

London: Printed for Harvey & Darton, 55 Gracechurch-Street; and Wm. Darton, 58, Holborn Hill, 1820. Card Covers. Early printing, in original wrappers, of an uncommon Harvey and Darton juvenile book. 12mo (157 x 100mm): [48]pp, with title-page vignette and 21 half-page and 3 full-page wood engravings (two partially hand-colored). Original..... more

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908. Hardcover. First Printing of the prolific Irish author's best known work, a romance novel filmed multiple times and the first installment of The Blue Lagoon Trilogy, with The Garden of God (1923) and The Gates of Morning (1925). Crown 8vo (184 x 118mm): [12],326;[12]pp. Publisher's..... more

London: Andre Deutsch, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this uncommon memoir of Eritrea, Somaliland, and the shores of Bab-El-Mandeb, admired by Isak Dinesen and Harold Nicholson and one of David Bowie's favorite books. Demy 8vo (209 x 134mm): 192pp, with eleven inserted leaves of plates after monochrome photographs..... more

Boston: Little, Brown, 1929. First Printing. Hardcover. First (and only) U. S. Trade Edition, edited by the poet's niece, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1866-1943). 8vo: xx,208pp. Publisher's dark forest green V cloth, upper cover stamped in gold, spine lettered in blind (perhaps a variant or a binder's error), top edge gilded..... more

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of Doctorow's second novel and scarcest book, never reprinted and later orphaned by the author (his web site makes no mention of this title). 8vo: (6),218pp. Publisher's crimson cloth, spine stamped in gilt, top edge stained crimson, cream-colored typographic..... more

London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this unusually scarce working-class novel by one of the "most important practitioners of the socialist novel in Britain." (Bounds, Orwell and Marxism) Crown 8vo (195 x 127mm): 352pp. Publisher's lime-green cloth, spine lettered in black; evocative dust jacket design..... more

London: John Lehmann, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of an early British edition containing the entire trilogy of novels that comprise the author's kaleidoscopic portrait of the United States between the turn of the 20th century and the beginning of the Great Depression. About Fine (sunning to the toe..... more