London: Printed for J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane; J. Stagg, in Westminster Hall; and D. Browne, without Temple-Bar, 1727. Quarter-bound Leather. 4to: 80pp, with large folding copper-engraved frontispiece, "Procession of Kings and Queens with over 150 robed figures," measuring a full 44 cm x 35 cm, a second folding engraving, "The..... more

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated) of Abbott's photo essay on the streets, store fronts, artists, alleyways, restaurants, and bars of New York City's Greenwich Village. With text by Henry W. Lanier, editor, writer, and son of southern poet Sydney Lanier. Demy 8vo..... more

London: printed by J. Dillon, and Co. for, and sold by, W. and S. Jones, Opticians, Holborn, 1799. Early Reprint. Paper-Covered Boards. 8vo: xiv[bound out of sequence],594pp, with six copper-engraved plates. Tall, uncut, wide-margined copy, completely unsophisticated, in original drab grey boards, beige paper spine, printed paper label. An exemplary..... more

London: printed for P. Vaillant in the Strand, and W. Mears and F. Clay without Temple-Bar, MDCCXXI [1721]. Half-Calf. First Edition in English of the "first treatise on cuttings and graftings." (Hunt) Demy 4to (276 x 214mm): [24],300,[4]pp, with 31 (i.e. 33: in the numbering of plates, XXIII and XXVIII..... more

London: Chatto and Windus, 1929. First Impression. Hardcover. First English Edition (appearing a few weeks after the American edition) of this canonical modernist novel. Thick crown 8vo (207 x 124mm): xii,440pp. With the author's note, commenting on the publishers' censorship and explaining the use of asterisks, and considering it "better..... more

London: Faber and Faber, [1958]. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression (First published in mcmlviii on copyright page) of "probably still the best treatment of the [Generation Starship] theme,” by “one of the most considerable talents in contemporary British sf." (Pringle) Issued in the U. S. the following year, with textual..... more

London: Alec Tiranti, 1954. Hardcover. First edition.  Slim foolscap 8vo (179 x 124mm): 38pp and 56 full-page plates. Publisher's original pictorial paper-covered boards, dust jacket repeating cover design by William Scott (one of the nine artists), priced 7s / 6d. Neat ownership inscription and date on fly-leaf. Jacket's spine panel folds lightly..... more

London: Methuen, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this thriller set in a Spanish village. Crown 8vo (200 x 132mm): 200pp. Publisher's forest green finely woven cloth, spine lettered in silver, striking dust jacket illustrated by David Watson and priced 15s. A handsome example, tightly bound and clean throughout..... more

Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition of Amis’s first book, "the quintessential campus novel," in the superb Edward Gorey dust jacket, one of his first and finest. 8vo: 256pp. Publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered in white, illustrated dust jacket priced $3.50. About Fine (end leaves lightly..... more

London: printed for William Lane, Leadenhall-Street, MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]. First Edition. Half-Morocco. First Edition (preceding the French edition by one year) of this eighteenth-century travel account of Canada and the Northeast by an officer who served with Burgoyne. Complete in two octavo volumes, including plate list, subscribers and errata (rebound without..... more

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing (no additional printings noted). 8vo: xviii,346pp. Publisher's brown pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt within blue title block, upper cover lettered in gilt with vignette of farmhouse and barn, top edge stained black, fore-edge untrimmed, title page printed..... more

Amsterdam: G. Theod. Bom, n.d. [c. 1874]. Pictorial Wrappers. Crown 8vo (180 x 128mm): [8]pp, with six color lithographs (printed by Emrik & Binger, Haarlem), each with flaps that, when flipped, reveal a completely different image (a ship at sea becomes Bedouins in the desert, a volcano erupts into walruses..... more

Boston: J. E. Tilton and Company, 1864. Decorative Cloth. First Edition under this title (see below) of this early work on a fashionable Victorian pastime. 8vo (191 x 119mm): 96pp, with six tissue-guarded plates, head pieces, and historiated initials. Original dark green ribbed and beveled cloth, covers paneled in blind..... more