New York: Counterattack, 1950. Illustrated Wrappers. First Edition of this landmark of McCarthy-era blacklisting in the entertainment industry. Demy 8vo (210 x 140mm): [8],213,[3]pp. Publisher's illustrated staple-bound cream paper wrappers printed in scarlet and black. Light wear and toning to covers, but tightly bound and clean throughout, an excellent example..... more

London: Cassell / Grayson & Grayson, 1932 / 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. A stunning set, two First Impressions, of this "grim story of the collapse of the Russian army, revolution, and atrocities in the Russian Civil War," written with Helen Woodward. (Lengel) Demy 8vo (214 x 137mm). Way of the..... more

[Cambridge, Mass.]: Printed only for private distribution [Houghton Mifflin], 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce privately printed issue of these letters from a First World War ambulance driver sent from the front. Crown 8vo (180 x 115mm): xvi,129,[1]pp, with photographic frontispiece, tissue-guarded title page, 14 photographs and numerous line drawings in..... more

Hamilton, Ontario: Duncan Lith., Co., n.d. [but not before 1898 based on reference to Spanish-American War]. Pictorial Wrappers. Scarce souvenir songbook of "plantation lullabies," with sheet music for 13 songs and lyrics for 54 more, for the Canadian group's extended tours of Great Britain and the United States. Cover title..... more

London: The Argonaut Press, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this consideration of Charles Dickens's first published work. Demy 8vo (214 x 136): x,145,[5]pp, with portrait frontispiece and four further plates on inserted leaves. Addendum slip tipped in preceding p. 143. Publisher's green cloth spine over mottled green paper-covered..... more

Boston: Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, 1927. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. First (and only) Printing of this official report of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, written by Dos Passos after visiting the two accused in Massachusetts prisons. Demy 8vo (214 x 147mm): 128p. Original stiff olive drab wrappers printed in black. Trivial creasing..... more

Paris: Editions Le Terrain Vague, 1964. Card Covers. First Edition of this seminal study of the German film director, whose adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, "Nosfératu," is considered a masterpiece of Expressionist cinema. In French, with additional texts by Robert Plumpe and Robert Herlth. Demy 8vo (220 x 163mm): 253,[1]pp..... more

London: Little, Brown, 1981. First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition (so stated) of this expanded edition of Fowles's A Brief History of Lyme, a 12-page pamphlet issued by the Friends of the Lyme Regis Museum in 1981. Slim, wide 8vo: 52,[2]pp, with numerous images of 19th- and early 20th-century prints..... more

Near the Cathedral, Garden City [N.Y.]: Henry & Longwell, 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed Limited Edition of perhaps the earliest modern book on whiskey, which, well ahead of its time, promoted single malt whiskey over blends. "307 copies privily printed, 300 for gainful traffic and 7 for hilarity, December 1930..... more

London: Macdonald [from 1954], 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Impression of this definitive history of English cuisine, a "treasury of information on the gathering, storing, and cooking of food from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. . . . as full of magic and potions as any medieval herbal." (ODNB..... more

København [Copenhagen]: Forening for boghaandvaerk, 1944. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First and only printing of this bibliography and brief essay on wood engraver F. Hendriksen. Slim demy 8vo (211 x 139mm): 36,[2]pp, including four full-page plates. Publisher's light brown and sage green floral patterned paper-covered boards, beige paper label printed..... more

Berlin: Oesterheld, 1910. Hardcover. First Edition of this collection of short lyrical songs, in German, including works by Mendelssohn (Songs Without Words) and Chopin, selected by the dramaturge of Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater, in Berlin. Crown 8vo (184 x 120mm): 115,[1]pp. Publisher's green and orange paper-covered boards, beige paper title..... more

New York / London: Random House / Mandrake Press Ltd, 41 Museum Street, 1929 / 1930. Hardcover. Copy No. 241 of D. H. Lawrence's separately published introduction to the Paris popular edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover, together with the first trade edition of the expanded introduction, published the following year..... more