Stories from the Chap-Book
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1896. First edition. Original decorated cloth,worn at the top of the spine, light stains on covers. More
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
Reflections. Nigerian prose and verse
Lagos: African Universities Press, (1962). Wrappers, fine. First edition, includes works by Achebe, Ekwensi, Tutuola, Soyinka, et al., some previously unpublished. More
Random Recollections of an Old Doctor
Baltimore: William Taylor and Company, 1846. First edition. 132 pp., stitched, not bound. Tear in last leaf. More
Admiral's Widow
London: Hogarth Press, 1942. First edition. Black cloth, very good in dust jacket, (light wear, dusty), designed by John Piper. Woolmer 489. More
Brief Lives and Other Selected Writings; Edited with an introduction and notes by Anthony Powell
London: The Cresset Press, 1949. First edition. Cloth near-fine copy in worn dust jacket. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. There's a slip of paper bookmarking "The Digbys and Venetia Stanley," from which Gershwin quoted a bit as epigraph to his "Lyrics on Several Occasions" More
Education Today -- and Tomorrow
London: Hogarth Press, 1939. First edition. Possible proof copy in variant binding. Neat ownership signature of Scottish poet and novelist Ruthven Todd to half-title, "1st Proof" written in same hand to front wrapper. Grey wrappers, rather than the reddish orange of normal copies. 51 pp. A very good copy with... More
The Orators.; An English Study
London: Faber and Faber, (1966). Third edition, revised. Blue cloth, fine in lightly used dust jacket. Bloomfield A3c. More
The Essayes or Counsels Civill and Morall.... Newly enlarged
London: Printed by John Haviland, 1632. 4to, [8] 340, [36] pages ; 19 cm. Contemporary limp vellum, darkened, paper a little browned,new free endpapers; edges of title page reinforced with matching paper. Ownership signatures of Nassau William Senior (probably a schoolboy then, later a political economist) on cover and endpapers. More
The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels
London: Richard Bentley, 1856. New edition. Half red goatskin with marbled boards, a bit rubbed. More
The Future of Colonies
London: Hogarth Press, 1936. First edition. Blue-grey wrappers. 46 pp. A very good copy, sunned to spine and with occasional pencil bracketing to margins. Day to Day Pamphlets No. 32. Woolmer 381. More
Waiting for Godot
New York: Grove Press, (1954). First American edition. Black cloth, a fine copy in dust jacket, price-clipped and slightly darkened. First edition of Beckett's own translation into English. More
The Beckett country : Samuel Beckett's Ireland
Dublin: Black Cat Press in association with Faber and Faber, London. with Rier Run Press stamped over . 1986. First edition. xxvi, [2], 402 p. Eoin O'Brien ; photography, David H. Davison ; foreword, James Knowlson ; illustrations, Robert Ballagh. ill. ; 27 cm. Cloth, fine in slightly faded dust jacket. More
A Peep into the Past
Privately printed, 1923. Small quarto, paper covered boards with cloth spine, printed labels, chipped glassine wrapper. A fine copy, without the slipcase. First edition, a piracy, issued in an edition of 300 copies, printed on japan vellum. Beerbohm's original manuscript is reproduced in facsimile. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More
The Works of Max Beerbohm.
New York: Scribner's, 1896. First American edition. Brown cloth, gilt, edges rubbed, foxing to endpapers; good copy. Lou M. Paley's ownership signature. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More
The Legend of Monte Della Sibilla
London: Hogarth Press, 1923. First edition. One of 400 hand printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Original printed boards, occasional light foxing, else a fine copy in browned and lightly worn jacket, with some small tape repairs on the back. "With decorations and a cover design by Duncan Grant and... More
The Legend of Monte Della Sibilla or le Paradis de la Reine Sibille
London: Hogarth Press, 1923. First edition. One of 400 copies handprinted by Leonard and Virginia Woolf "with decorations and a cover design by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell", although Woolmer notes that Quentin Bell's biography attributes the cover solely to Vanessa. A very good copy, with unopened leaves, gutter strained... More
On British Freedom
London: Chatto & Windus, 1923. First edition. Pale blue boards backed in marbled blue cloth, paper label, lacking the dust jacket. A very good copy tanned to spine and board edges, page block lightly foxed. More
Poems
London: Hogarth Press, 1921. First edition. One of 350 copies hand printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Original wrappers,darkened, very good, ink splash on back cover. Inscribed by Bell on the front flyleaf "For Lydia [Lopokova] from the poet. 1.12.21" Bell's poem "To Lopokova Dancing" on page 24 of this... More
Pot-Boilers
London: Chatto & Windus, 1918. First edition. Green cloth, paper label, black top-stain. Light spotting to beginning leaves, indecipherable ownership blind-stamp to corner of title page. A very good copy. More
Hotel Splendide
New York: Viking, (1941). First edition. Copy 47 of 245 numbered and signe, "bound in the draperies of a famous New York hotel. Original brocade covers with leather label, spine slightly faded, A near-fine copy. More
My Ten Years in a Quandary and How they Grew
New York: Harper, 1936. First edition. Original green cloth, near-fine, in lightly worn price-clipped dust jacket. With Ira Gershwin's pencil ownership signature. More
Of All Things
New York: Holt, 1921. Williams, Gluyas. First edition. Blue cloth, a very good copy. Benchley's first book, illustrated by Gluyas Williams. Without the four pages of advertisements at the end. No priority has been established for copies with or without advertisements.The publisher claimed ten there were printings in the first... More