![One Man's Initiation : 1917 [First State]. John DOS PASSOS](/pictures/thumb/BB1855.jpg?v=1535674964)
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. First (and only) Impression, First State, of the author's first books, one of only 750 copies printed and bound. Small 8vo: 128pp. Publisher's pale blue mesh cloth, front cover and spine stamped in navy blue, text printed on heavy stock white..... more
![Sacco and Vanzetti] Facing the Chair: Story of the Americanization of Two Foreignborn Workmen....](/pictures/thumb/BB2297.jpeg?v=1599696662)
Boston: Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, 1927. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. First (and only) Printing of this official report of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, written by Dos Passos after visiting the two accused in Massachusetts prisons. Demy 8vo (214 x 147mm): 128p. Original stiff olive drab wrappers printed In black. Trivial creasing..... more
London: John Lehmann, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression collecting the 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 toe of spine; dusty top edge) publisher's French..... more
![Spiritualism] The Parasite [Association Copy]. . Conan DOYLE, rthur](/pictures/thumb/BB1909.jpeg?v=1634332983)
London: A[rchibald]. Constable, 1894. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. First Impression of Doyle's vampire novel (a spirit- rather than blood-sucking entity), preceding by three years Bram Stoker's Dracula. First volume in Constable's "Acme Library" series. Foolscap 8vo (158 x 95mm): [8],125,[1]pp. Publisher's dark blue ribbed cloth (also issued in light green..... more
London: A. & C. Black Ltd, 1924. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing of this history of the smoking pipe, one of 3,000 copies printed. Demy 8vo (219 x 155mm): x,262,[2]pp, with 28 full-page plates (four colored) and 230 line drawings. Publisher's navy cloth, spine stamped in gilt and blind..... more
Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1938. First Printing. Stiff Wrappers. True First Edition (with error in pagination at pp. 114-118), second issue (with erratum slip tipped onto title page), of Durrell's first significant novel and the first volume in the Villa Seurat Series, founded by Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, and Lawrence..... more
London: Turret Books, 1967. Limited Edition. Card Covers. First publication in the series Contemporary Poetry Set to Music, a six-line poem by Durrell, set to music for "high voice" by Southam. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by the poet and the composer, this being no. 25. Unpaginated: [8]pp, with..... more
New York: Covici-Friede, 1937. First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition of Lawrence Durrell's uncommon second novel, set on an imaginary Greek island reminiscent of Corfu, to which Durrell and his young wife had relocated from England in 1935. Crown 8vo (203 x 129mm): 372pp. Publisher's beige cloth, spine and upper..... more
![Children's Literature] A Little Boy Was Drawing. Roger DUVOISIN](/pictures/thumb/BB2415.jpeg?v=1626124706)
New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing (Scribner's "A" on copyright page) of Duvoisin's scarce first book. Tall, wide 8vo (245 x 203mm): 56 unnumbered pages, with numerous illustrations (many full-page, in color). Publisher's blue, red, pink, and white patterned cloth; red paper..... more
![Juvenile] The Three Astronauts [I tre cosmonauti]. Umberto ECO, Eugenio Carmi](/images/noimage.png)
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of the second installment in Eco's trilogy of children’s books, also including The Bomb and the General and The Gnomes of Gnu Bompiani, all illustrated by Eugenio Carmi. Translated by William Weaver. Tall, slim 8vo: unpaginated, with 17 stunning..... more
![A Bibliography of Henry James [Jacob Blanck's copy, presented by the authors]. Leon EDEL, Dan H....](/pictures/thumb/BB1361.jpg?v=1568301891)
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing, one of only 1,000 copies. Rare Presentation Copy, inscribed by Laurence on front fly leaf and signed by both Edel and Laurence to the great bibliographer Jacob Blanck, with typed postcard signed from Edel to Blanck laid in and fascinating marginal..... more
![Photobook] [Exhibition Catalog] Election Eve. William EGGLESTON, b. 1939](/pictures/thumb/BB2452.jpeg?v=1598205669)
Washington, D. C. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1977. Limited Edition. Stiff Wrappers. From an edition of 2,000, with photographs by William Eggleston, preface by Lloyd Fonvielle, and essay by Jane Livingston. Also includes an exhibition checklist, full-page map of Sumter County, Ga., showing locations where photographs were taken, and..... more
![Cinema] F. W. Murnau [Inscribed to Jean Kress]. Lotte H. EISNER](/pictures/thumb/BB2305.jpeg?v=1629889465)
Paris: Editions Le Terrain Vague, 1964. Card Covers. First Edition of this seminal study of the German film director, whose adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, "Nosfératu," is considered a masterpiece of Expressionist cinema. In French, with additional texts by Robert Plumpe and Robert Herlth. Demy 8vo (220 x 163mm): 253,[1]pp..... more
![Dante [The Poets on the Poets]. T. S. ELIOT, Thomas Stearns](/pictures/thumb/BB2602.jpeg?v=1614005524)
London: Faber and Faber, MCMXXIX [1929]. First Impression. Pictorial Boards. First Edition, ordinary copy (there was also a signed, limited edition of 125 copies), in the first-issue dust jacket (without excerpts from reviews on front flap and back panel). Crown 8vo: [8],11-69,[1]pp. Publisher's grey decorated paper-covered boards, spine and upper..... more
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Impression (and not, as the colophon states, "Second Edition," for which see Gallup), Number 369 (stamped in type 2-mm high) limited to just 1000 copies. With the incorrect 'mount in,' line 339, p. 41. Slim crown 8vo (192 x 124mm)..... more
![Four Quartets [comprising East Coker, Burnt Norton, The Dry Salvages, Little Gidding]. ELIOT,...](/pictures/thumb/BB1764.jpg?v=1533913216)
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (“First American Edition” on copyright page) of the first single-volume edition of Eliot's wartime masterpiece (preceding the British edition by more than a year), in the first-issue dust jacket (with nine titles to back panel). Tall, slim 8vo: [8],39,[1]pp. Original..... more
London: Andre Deutsch, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of Rhys's prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, reconstructing the life of Bertha Cosway, the madwoman of Thornfield Hall. Small 8vo: 190pp. Publisher's finely woven tangerine cloth, spine stamped in gilt; beautifully illustrated dust jacket by Eric Thomas, priced 21s. A...... more
![Sonnets, With Folk Songs from the Spanish. [Unopened]. Havelock ELLIS](/pictures/thumb/BB0393.jpg?v=1499796658)
Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, Great Britain: Gold Cockerel Press, 1925. Limited Edition. Quarter cloth. Octavo; 81pp. Oatmeal-colored quarter cloth over matching paper-covered boards, with a paper spine label and deckled edges. No. 17 of 500 numbered copies. Fine and opened. more
![Ariel : A Shelley Romance [Penguin No. 1]. Emile Herzog, Andre MAUROIS, 1885 to 1967](/pictures/thumb/BB2401.jpeg?v=1598708822)
London: Penguin Books, 1935. First Printing. Rare First State (with "Andre" instead of "André" on front cover) of first Penguin paperback, a biography of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Translated by Ella D'Arcy. Foolscap 8vo (179 x 107mm): 252pp. Publisher's card covers printed in blue and black. Wanting the..... more
![Photobook] The Road To Wigan Pier [True First]. Eric Arthur Blair, George ORWELL](/pictures/thumb/BB2132.jpg?v=1562726517)
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1950. First Impression. Wrappers. Paperback Original ("Left Book Club Edition / Not For Sale To The Public"), the true first edition preceding the trade casebound issue of 2,150 copies. As many as 44,000 copies were printed, but relatively few have survived in collectible condition. Tall, thick..... more
London: T. Werner Laurie, 1911. First Edition. Cloth. An exemplary example of "Pain's best general short story collection." (Wilson) 8vo: [8],320,[10, advertisements]pp. Publisher's sea green textured cloth, front and back covers stamped in black, spine lettered in gilt, title page (with vignette) printed in blue and black. Light spotting to..... more
![Social Fiction] Men Working [together with Advance Reading Copy]. John FAULKNER](/pictures/thumb/BB2529.jpeg?v=1625357916)
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1941. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated), offered with the scarce Advance Reading Copy in original pictorial wrappers, of this Depression-era tale of Mississippi tenant farmers by William Faulkner's younger brother, his first published novel. Crown 8vo (204 x 131mm): [4],300pp. Publisher's coarsely woven oatmeal..... more
London: Chatto & Windus, MCMXXXIV [1934]. First British Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of Faulkner's second collection of stories (published the same year in New York, by Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, in both limited and trade issues, the latter of which we also have on offer). One of 1,500 copies..... more
New York: Random House, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (so stated). 8vo: [12],436pp. Publisher's blue coarsely woven cloth, upper cover and spine ruled in grey and lettered in gold, top edge stained yellow, blue end papers; first-state pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped, but with publisher's code "10/59" on front flap..... more
London: Chatto & Windus, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression (no further printings noted). 8vo: 399,[1]pp. Publisher's burnt orange imitation cloth, spine stamped in gold, matching burnt-orange top stain; typographic dust jacket designed by John Woodcock, priced 21s. A Fine copy, square and tight with spine gilt undiminished, better than..... more