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: Peter Owen, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Correct first printing (with misprint of extra "one" on p. 126, line 15) of Bowles's only short stories, collecting "Plain pleasures," "Everything is nice," "A Guatemalan idyll," "Camp cataract," "A day in the open," "A quarrelling pair," and "A stick of green candy,"..... more

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1936. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated), collecting the title story and seventeen others, including "Major Alshuster," "Astronomer's Wife," and "Winter in Italy." Crown 8vo (186 x 125mm): [10],355,[1]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, top edge stained blue, fore-edge rough-trimmed; illustrated dust..... more

New York: Fredrick A. Stokes, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of Bromfield's eighth novel (Bromfield won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for "Early Autumn"). Thick 8vo: [8],463,[1]pp. Publisher's textured vivid orange cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in blue, top edge stained orange, fore-edge untrimmed, yellow patterned end..... more

New York: Viking Press, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this collection of 16 short stories abiout Gerogia poor whites from the author of "Tobacco Road." 8vo: 206pp. Publisher's coarsely woven slate blue cloth, spine and upper cover ruled in red and lettered in black, top edge stained slate..... more

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922. First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition of this semi-autobiographical novel charting the tensions between a young woman’s aims as a writer and the expectation that she conform to the conventional role of a doctor’s wife. Crown 8vo (187 x 129mm): [4],319,[1]pp. Publisher's forest green cloth..... more

Boston and New York / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press, 1899. First Trade Edition. Pictorial Cloth. First Printing of the author's first book, seven interrelated folk tales set in antebellum North Carolina and told "in Negro dialect" by an old gardener. Crown 8vo (175 x 110mm): [4],229,[3]pp. Publisher's..... more

London: Secker & Warburg, 1982. First UK Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of the Nobel Prize-winning South African author's dauntingly complex debut novel, first published in Johannesburg, in 1974. Tall, slim 8vo: [10],125,[1]pp. Publisher's brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt, in a copper-colored typographic dust jacket. A Very Fine unread copy..... more

London: Methuen, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression, in the first published state, of the novel that revived Conrad's career, outselling all his previous publications. With cancel title leaf (dated 1914 on verso), spine brass reading "METHVEN," closed quotes after "Narcissus" in the list of Conrad's works facing the title..... more

Mexico City: n.p. [Joaquin Ausiro, printer], 1951. Limited Edition. Card Covers. Unnumbered review copy from an edition of 500 numbered copies. Foolscap 8vo (179 x 119mm): 196,[4]pp, with three hand-colored linoleum blocks (linocuts ) by Jose Paredes and Edward Owensby. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers, fore-edge untrimmed (according to colophon..... 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

New York: Random House, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (so stated) of the third (and concluding) novel of the Snopes family saga. 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..... more

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1927 [but 1933]. Hardcover. Second Edition of Faulkner's second novel, set in New Orleans and following a group of artists on a four-day yacht excursion on Lake Pontchartrain. Crown 8vo (186 x 125mm): [10],9-349,[1]pp, "apparently from the original plates." (Petersen) Publisher's French blue cloth, spine..... more