London: Methuen, 1940 / 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impressions of Graves's two novels of the American War of Independence, based on the actual Roger Lamb's autobiographical works. Crown 8vo (185 x 120mm): xi,[1],376; vii,[3],,314,[2]pp, with frontispieces and folding map tipped in at rear of each volume. Publisher's plum and..... more

London: Arthur Barker Ltd, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression. Slim 8vo: [8],38pp. Publisher's black linen spine stamped in gilt, grey paper-covered boards lettered in black (without dust jacket, as issued), bookplate and gift card tipped to front paste down. Near Fine or better, covers lightly browned, end papers spotted..... more

London: William Heinemann, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of one of Greene's later "entertainments," with publisher's promotional card laid in. Small 8vo: [6],140pp. Publisher's blue cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, illustrated dust jacket priced 7s/6d. Near Fine or better (mild lightening to spine, offsetting from jacket..... more

London: Bodley Head, 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 132 of 250 signed limited-edition copies bound in boards (of which only 170 were for sale); the first trade edition was issued as a paperback original. Small, slim 8vo (189 x 113mm): 80pp. Publisher's copper-colored paper over boards, spine lettered in gold..... more

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, n.d. [1946]. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression, second issue, with reviews on front flap (the first issue appeared in plain boards with plain buff dust jacket) of Greene's first children's book. Both issues are scarce and sought-after, and this is the more attractive. Oblong royal 8vo..... more

Paris: Contact Editions, Ile Saint-Louis, Quai d'Anjou, 29, 1926. First Edition. Wrappers. Scarce First Printing of the author's first published novel. Crown 8vo (193 x 139mm): Original cream-colored paper wrappers with French flaps, spine and covers lettered in black (front cover repeating title page, back with list of seven Contact..... more

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. First Printing. Hardcover. First Printing (complete number line) of the poet's own favorite. Octavo, 67pp. Original burgundy quarter cloth over grey paper-covered boards, the spine lettered in gilt, pink endpapers; in a pictorial dust jacket priced at $16.95. As New (and probably unread), in..... more

Boston: David R. Godine, 1975. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (no additional printings noted.) Slim 8vo: 44pp. Publisher's decorative black-and-white patterned paper-covered boards. No Jacket, as issued. As New (and probably unread). Kelleher A-16. ¶ A Godine Poetry Chapbook, Second Series, beautifully printed on laid paper. The title poem concerns..... more

London: Harper & Brothers, 45 Albemarle Street, MDCCCXCVIII [1898]. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Impression of the author's first collection of poems, one of only 500 copies. Crown 8vo (200 x 131mm): xi,[1],228pp, with 31 illustrations (13 full-page, including frontispiece) reproduced from drawings by Hardy. Publisher's original forest green bold-ribbed..... more

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of the literary successor to Hartley's best-known work, The Go-Between. Crown 8vo (183 x 120mm): 248pp. Publisher's forest green cloth, spine stamped in silver, dust jacket printed in red, green, and black and priced 13s / 6d. A spectacular copy, virtually..... more

New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of the poet's critically acclaimed first commercially published work (preceded by the privately printed pamphlet, Eleven Poems, in 1965), one of only 1,000 copies (bound from sheets purchased from Faber and Faber, Heaney's London publisher). Tall, slim 8vo..... more

Belfast: Ulsterman Publications, 1975. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. First Printing of this sequence of twenty-one "verse paragraphs" or prose poems (a style then new to Heaney), among which are "Nesting-grounds," "England's difficulty," "Cloistered" and other poems that hark to Heaney's childhood. Slim demy 8vo (215 x 153mm): 24pp. Publisher's pale..... more

Cleveland: The J. B. Savage Company, 1938. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Exceptionally scarce First Issue with F. A. I. banner end papers, one of fewer than 100 copies from a limited edition of 1000 copies, of which this is number 116. (Hemingway so disliked the original orange end papers showing..... more