![Item #BB2501 Private View [with wraparound band]. Jocelyn BROOKE](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2501.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1629639628)
London: James Barrie, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of these four character sketches "in that style of managed autobiography which Jocelyn Brooke has made so peculiarly his own" (from front flap). Crown 8vo (189 x 120mm): vii,[1],178pp. Publisher's maroon cloth, spine lettered in gold; lime green illustrated dust jacket..... more
![Item #BB1317 [Stonehenge] English Traits. EMERSON, alph, aldo](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB1317.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1503714848)
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1856. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing, with "(1)" on half-title, "Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry" on title page verso, battered type at the bottom of page 230, and type of last line on p. 304 not battered. 8vo: 312pp. Publisher's dark brown ribbed T cloth..... more
![Item #BB2408 The Structure of The Novel [Hogarth Lectures on Literature (First Series), No. 6]....](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2408.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1601171528)
London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (one of 2,250 copies) of this guide to constructing a novel by one of Scotland's finest poets. Crown 8vo (185 x 118mm): 151,[1]pp. Publisher's orange cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in red; orange dust..... more
![Item #BB2444 How to Read [First Issue]. Ezra POUND](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2444.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1598206283)
London: Desmond Harmsworth, MCMXXXI [1931]. First Edition. Hardcover. A spectacular First Printing of this rancorous essay on literary instruction, language, criticism, and much else, including a checklist of recommended writers, beginning with Confucius and down through Flaubert and Rimbaud. Slim crown 8vo (190 x 129mm): 55,[1]pp. Publisher's first issue roughly..... more
London: printed for T. Durham, at Charing-Cross; and G. Kearsly, at No. 46, in Fleet-Street, 1777. First Edition. Quarter-bound Leather. First Edition, in English, of this novelized first-person account of a young English lord's debauched sojourn—prostitutes, gambling, horse-racing, drink—in the French capitol. Crown 8vo (206 x 121mm): [2],x,222pp. Contemporary leather..... more
![Item #BB1673 Memoirs of an Infantry Officer [with important bibliographic significance]....](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB1673.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1504583263)
London: Faber and Faber, 1930. First Impression. Hardcover. First Trade Edition of the second installment in Sassoon's lightly fictionalized autobiographical trilogy. 8vo: 334,[2]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine lettered in gold, top edge stained pink, fore-edge rough-trimmed; pale yellow typographic dust jacket printed in blue and priced 7s/6d. Loosely laid..... more
![Item #BB1334 Lectures on the art of reading [Parts I & II]. Thomas SHERIDAN](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB1334.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1535591239)
London: printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; J. Wilkie, St. Paul’s Church-Yard; E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and T. Davies, Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, MDCCLXXV, MDCCLXXV [1775]. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. First Edition, in two parts (volumes): Part I. The art of reading prose. Part II. The art of reading verse..... more
London: printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; J. Wilkie, St. Paul’s Church-Yard; E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and T. Davies, Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, MDCCLXXV, 1775. First Edition. Full Calf. First Edition. 8vo; xii, 392pp. Beautifully bound by Fitterer to period style in full speckled calf, spine in six compartments between..... more
![Item #BB2795 [Sette of Odd Volumes] A Riverside Walk : An Easy-Going Essay by a Peripatetic...](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2795.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1685645588)
London: Imprynted at the Bedford Press, 20 and 21, Bedfordbury, MDCCCXCVIII [1898]. Wrappers. Limited Edition, no. 117 of 250 copies printed for private circulation only. Foolscap 8vo (145 x 116mm): 43,[1]pp, with frontispiece (Low Water in Mortlake Reach) and list of Sette club members. Publisher's blue-grey wrappers, uncut and entirely..... more
![Item #BB2601 [Piracy] The gentle art of making enemies: edited by Sheridan Ford [Unopened]. James...](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2601.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1626182426)
New York [but Ghent]: Frederick Stokes & Brother, 1890. Card Covers. Unauthorized (Pirated) Edition (preceding an ordinary trade edition and a signed limited edition published, respectively, in June and August the same year) of the collected published newspaper correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, chronicling his impassioned exchanges with such eminences..... more
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing (with "A" and Scribner's seal on copyright page) of Wilson's first collection of critical essays, charting the influence of the French Symbolist poets on such revolutionary twentieth-century texts as Joyce's Ulysses and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Crown..... more