New York: Viking Press, 1959. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition, First State, of the author's fourth (and perhaps most loved) book and one of Modern Library's 100 Best Novels. 8vo; [8], 341pp. Publisher's beige quarter-bound linen, spine lettered in orange, silver, and black, orange cloth-covered boards titled in black, top..... more

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of Bowles's only novel, a modernist cult classic (Tennessee Williams named it his favorite book), written in singular, spare, elliptical prose. 8vo (197 x 135mm): [6],271,[1]pp. Publisher's tan cloth lettered and decorated in red, top edge stained red, fore-..... more

London: Methuen, 1907. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Impression (one of only 2500 copies), First Issue ("be be" on final line of p. 117, six additional text error as noted by Smith, and publisher's catalogue dated September 1907), of the "earliest and best novel portraying the character and fate of..... more

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

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, MCMVII [1907]. First Edition. Original Cloth. First Impression of the author's second book, preceding A Room with a View, one of 1587 copies printed. 8vo: [8],360pp. Publisher's dark forest green cloth, spine and upper covered stamped in gold. A superior copy (light wear..... more

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (so stated) of the Harvard economist's celebrated examination of America’s post–World War II consumer economy and political culture. Demy 8vo: xii,[2],368pp. Publisher's bronze-colored cloth stamped in silver and black, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough-cut; yellow typographic jacket lettered in black and..... more

London and New York: Macmillan, 1886. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First American (and first single-volume) Edition, First Issue (with 1886 title page), of James’s only overtly political novel. Crown 8vo (187 x 117mm): [4],596pp. BAL first-state binding: blue-green S cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt and black, rear..... more

London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. First Edition thus. First Trade Edition (hand-numbered limited issue, no. 363 of 750 copies) of one of the indisputable classics of twentieth century English literature. Thick, square 8vo: 672pp, with 54 plates (many in color and including 3 not in in the 1926 subscriber's edition and..... more

Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press [through 1992], 1989. First Impression. `. True First English-language Editions of Mahfouz's masterpiece, one of the greatest works in Arab literature, complete in three volumes, each inscribed by the lead translator (Hutchins). Translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Olive E. Kenny, and Lorne M...... more

New York: Atheneum, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of Merrill's long dramatic sequence with voices, collected here in a single volume for the first time. Royal 8vo (237 x 145mm): [8],560,[4]pp, with errata slip laid in. Publisher's finely woven black cloth, upper cover with author's monogram and title in..... more

London: Faber and Gwyer / Faber and Faber [through 1936], 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. An uncommonly handsome set of Sassoon's celebrated World War I trilogy, one of the great classics of English literature (Fox-Hunting Man was awarded both the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Prize). First Impressions of..... more

New York: Little, Brown, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (full number line), in First State dust jacket (incorrectly spelling William Vollmann as "Vollman" on back panel) of the author's magnum opus. Thick 8vo: [4],1079,[1]. Publisher's quarter-bound French blue cloth spine over periwinkle paper-covered boards, spine stamped in silver. Superb..... more

London: Methuen [through 1912], 1909. Decorative Cloth. A superb set of the First Foolscap Octavo Edition (Second Collected Edition) of Wilde's works, in 14 matching publisher's bindings, issued as separate volumes beginning in 1909 (twelve by Methuen, one by Charles Carrington of Paris, and one by John Lane). Publisher's bright..... more