London: Faber & Faber [through 1934], 1932. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Second Edition (first revised edition), one of 1,000 copies. 8vo: 112pp. Publisher's finely woven black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained grey, others untrimmed; light blue dust jacket printed in black and priced 7s.6d. About Fine (dust-soiled top..... more
![The Sot-Weed Factor [Signed]. John BARTH](/pictures/thumb/BB1666.jpg?v=1551743691)
London: Secker & Warburg, 1961. First UK Edition. Hardcover. First Impression (no additional printings listed), signed by Barth on front free end paper. Thick 8vo: 806pp. Publisher's scarlet cloth, spine stamped in silver, pictorial dust jacket (illustrated by Owen Wood), with cupids and nudes evocative of a bawdy 17th century..... more
New York: Viking Press, 1959. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition, First State. 8vo; [8], 341pp. Publisher's beige quarter-bound linen spine lettered in orange,silver, and black, with orange cloth-covered boards titled in black, the top edge stained yellow; in a pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Bill Preston priced at $4.50, with..... more
![Herzog [Signed]. Saul BELLOW](/pictures/thumb/BB1340.JPG?v=1499796759)
New York: Viking Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of Bellow's masterwork. 8vo: [8],341,[1]pp. Publisher's mottled blue cloth, spine stamped in silver, upper board titled in blind, top edge stained light blue; illustrated dust jacket priced $5.75. Signed by Bellow on first end sheet (as usual). Laid in is..... more
London: John Lehmann, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression ("First published in 1948") of "this quiet masterpiece." (Burgess). Crown 8vo: 256pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth, spine lettered in gold; superb pictorial dust jacket, priced 9s/6d, illustrated by Edward Bawden. About Fine (top edge lightly dust-soiled, spine lettering slightly dulled); in..... more
London: Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press, 1983. First Impression. Hardcover. First British Edition (so stated) of the definitive collection, compiling all of Bishop's poems for the first time. Tall, thick 8vo; [12], 287, [1]pp. Publisher's forest green cloth, the spine lettered gilt within a black title block; the pictorial dust jacket..... more
![Ficciones [Fictions]. Jorge Luis BORGES](/pictures/thumb/BB1283.jpg?v=1499796749)
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression, translated from the Spanish, of this "landmark of modern literature." (Diefendorf) Edited and with an introduction by Anthony Kerrigan. Crown 8vo (190 x 121mm): [6],7-174pp. Publisher's grey coarsely woven cloth, spine lettered in gilt, typographic dust jacket priced 21s. About..... 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: Peter Owen, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. First British Commonwealth Edition (so stated) of Bowles's only novel, a modernist cult classic (Tennessee Williams named it his favorite book), written in singular, spare, elliptical prose. 8vo (184 x 119mm): Publisher's bronze cloth, spine lettered in gold, illustrated dust jacket designed by..... more
London: Macmillan, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of "perhaps the greatest travel book of the 20th century . . . that dazzles as much today as it did on publication." (The Guardian) Crown 8vo (197 x 126mm): ix,[1]341,[3]pp, with 5 maps and 16 plates (including frontispiece) from monochrome photographs..... more
New York: Viking Press, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of Caldwell's finest novel, combining a powerful story with social protest and experimental narrative techniques. First Edition (so stated). 8vo (189 x 130mm): [6],303,[1]pp. Publisher's black cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in gold and green, top edge stained gold..... more
![The Secret Agent [First Issue]. Joseph CONRAD](/pictures/thumb/BB1765.jpg?v=1535668027)
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: Horace Liveright, 1930. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (second edition overall, following the Holland paper issue published in Paris) of this "landmark achievement in the genre of the modern long poem." (Literary Encyclopedia) Squarish demy 8vo (219 x 154mm): [2],82pp, with frontispiece photograph of Brooklyn Bridge by..... more
![Ragtime [Signed]. DOCTOROW, dgar, awrence](/pictures/thumb/BB1590.jpg?v=1504581229)
New York: Random House, 1975. Hardcover. First Printing of the author’s most famous work, extravagantly praised on publication, winner of the first National Book Critics Circle Award, one of the Modern Library 100 best novels, and the book that earned Doctorow election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters..... more
London: John Lehmann, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of an early British edition containing the entire trilogy of novels that comprise the author's kaleidoscopic portrait of the United States between the turn of the 20th century and the beginning of the Great Depression. About Fine (sunning to the toe..... more
![Four Quartets, comprising] East Coker; [together with] Burnt Norton; [together with] The Dry...](/pictures/thumb/BB2292.jpeg?v=1598205661)
London: Faber & Faber [through 1942], 1940. Four beautifully preserved (and unfaded) first and early impressions of the separate appearances in pamphlet form of Eliot's wartime masterpiece. Demy 8vo (229 x 160mm): each 16pp. East Coker (sixth impression of first Faber edition; East Coker first appeared in two separate printings..... more
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Impression (and not, as the colophon states, "Second Edition," for which see Gallup), Number 369 (stamped in type 2-mm high) limited to just 1000 copies. With the incorrect 'mount in,' line 339, p. 41. Slim crown 8vo (192 x 124mm)..... more
![Four Quartets [comprising East Coker, Burnt Norton, The Dry Salvages, Little Gidding]. ELIOT,...](/pictures/thumb/BB1764.jpg?v=1533913216)
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
London: Andre Deutsch, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of Rhys's prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, reconstructing the life of Bertha Cosway, the madwoman of Thornfield Hall. Small 8vo: 190pp. Publisher's finely woven tangerine cloth, spine stamped in gilt; beautifully illustrated dust jacket by Eric Thomas, priced 21s. A...... more
![The Snopes Trilogy, comprising:] The Hamlet; The Town; The Mansion. William FAULKNER](/pictures/thumb/BB0493.jpg?v=1499796664)
New York: Random House [through 1959], 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Three First Printings (so stated), a superb set of Faulkner's masterful trilogy. 8vo: [8],421,[1]; [8],371,[1]; [12],436pp. The Hamlet: Publisher's black cloth, spine and upper cover ruled in red and lettered in gilt, top edge stained red, full-color pictorial title page;..... more
London: John Murray [through 2013], 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impressions of Leigh Fermor's magisterial account, in three volumes, of his epic journey at age 18, in 1933, from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. Publisher's navy-blue cloth, spines and upper covers lettered and decorated in gold or silver, in..... more
![The history of Tom Jones, a foundling. In four volumes [Definitive Text]. Henry FIELDING](/pictures/thumb/BB1793.jpeg?v=1605147542)
London: Printed for A. Millar, over against Catharine-street, in the Strand, MDCCXLIX [1749]. Early Reprint. Three-Quarter Calf. Third Edition (published same year as the first), and the "final authority in all textual matters," (Jensen) of Fielding's masterpiece, complete in four volumes. 12mo (156 x 95mm): xx,304; viii,330; x,288; xii,347,[1]pp. Later..... more
![The Good Soldier. A Tale of Passion [Signed]. Ford Madox FORD](/pictures/thumb/BB1647.jpg?v=1535642198)
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 74 of 300 copies for sale and 25 unnumbered presentation copies, signed by the Ford on front free end paper. Crown 8vo: ix,260pp. Publisher's quarter-bound finely woven sky-blue cloth over lime-green paper-covered boards, spine stamped in green, top edge..... more
![Bloomsbury] The Longest Journey. E. M. FORSTER, Edward Morgan](/pictures/thumb/BB1921.jpg?v=1534212694)
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, MCMVII [1907]. First Edition. Original Cloth. The author's second book, 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 only and neat paper repair to front hinge), fresh..... more
![Bloomsbury] A Passage to India. FORSTER, dward, organ](/pictures/thumb/BB1953.jpg?v=1603715701)
London: Edward Arnold, 1924. First Edition. Cloth. First Printing (with 1924 to title page and no further dates or printings on copyright page) of Forster's final, and best, novel. 8vo: [4],5-325,[3,advertisements]pp, without half-title (as issued). Publisher's vertically ribbed wine-red cloth, spine and upper board lettered in black; without the scarce..... more