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

[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: privately printed [by Strangeways, Printers], 1925. Limited Edition. Quarter-Cloth. With a preface by Jessie Conrad. One of only 100 copies signed by Curle, this copy being no. 37. Slim demy 8vo (241 x 237mm): [2],41,[3], with frontispiece facsimile Conrad letter inserted. Original taupe cloth over beige buckram, top edge..... more

London: John Lehmann [from 1951], 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Impression of this wildly influential guide to the preparation of the dishes of rural France. Crown 8vo (196 x 124mm): 247,[1]pp, with frontispiece, illustrated title page, and nine full page plates by John Minton. Publisher's coarsely woven oatmeal-colored cloth, spine..... 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

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing, one of only 1,000 copies. Rare Presentation Copy, inscribed by Laurence on front fly leaf and signed by both Edel and Laurence to the great bibliographer Jacob Blanck, with typed postcard signed from Edel to Blanck laid in and fascinating marginal..... more

London: Penguin Books, 1935. First Printing. Rare First State (with "Andre" instead of "André" on front cover) of first Penguin paperback, a biography of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Translated by Ella D'Arcy. Foolscap 8vo (179 x 107mm): 252pp. Publisher's card covers printed in blue and black. Wanting the..... more

Stuttgart: K. Thienemanns Verlag, 1928. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. First Printing, in German, of this classic, an "incunabula" of rocket literature. Crown 8vo (203 x 142mm): 106,[6]pp, with eight inserted leaves of plates from photographs (of rockets, racing cars, and portraits) on coated stock and further illustrations and diagrams in..... more

[Pensnett, Staffordshire]: printed by Tony Ward at the Arron Foundation, Lumb Bank, Yorkshire, 1975. First Printing. Card Covers. Only edition of this indispensable reference for collectors of the Grosseteste Press. Oblong foolscap 8vo (112 x 142mm): [62]pp. Original stitched Navy blue card covers, cream dust wrapper printed in French blue..... 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