Item 462THE FALL OF TROY.
London: Chatto & Windus, [2006]. First edition. Octavo. Black cloth, gilt spine. First edition. 215,[1] pp. Signed by the author on the title page. About fine, in a highly pictorial dust jacket. .
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Item 463THE LAMBS OF LONDON.
London: Chatto & Windus, [2004]. First edition. Octavo. Gray cloth, gilt spine. First edition. 216 pp. Signed by the author on the title page. About fine, in a highly pictorial dust jacket. Domestically sequestered Mary Lamb spends her life in the company of her brother Charles, who is equally constrained.....
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Item 831[African Americana - Slavery/Abolition] OUR WORLD: or, THE SLAVEHOLDER'S DAUGHTER.
New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. First edition. Octavo. Original publisher's plum colored ribbed cloth, blind-stamped borders and center diamond shape. [8], 597, [4] pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard intact. Nine plates, printed on recto only, one vignette in text. Four pages of advertisements follow the text.....
Item 665THE ZONE OF INTEREST.
London: Jonathan Cape, [2014]. Tall octavo. Blue cloth, gilt stamped spine. 310,[2] pp. A fine, as new copy, in a likewise perfect dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page in the Heywood Hill Bookshop, London, in the last week of August, 2014. First edition, first impression. The.....
Item 450MITZ: THE MARMOSET OF BLOOMSBURY.
[New York: Harper, 1998]. First edition. Octavo. Black cloth, teal boards, gilt spine. 116 pp. First edition. Clean and bright, remainder mark on upper edge, else near fine in likewise, unclipped, delightfully pictorial dust jacket.Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury tells the story of a sickly marmoset who came into the.....
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Item 547[Original Gelatin Silver Production Still from the film:] SAYONARA.
[Np: Np, c. 1957]. One large borderless gelatin silver print original film still, title in pencil on verso, 14 x 11 in. (36 x 28 cm) of Marlon Brando and Miiko Taka on the set of the film Sayonara, Brando staring intently at Taka while eating with chopsticks, Taka smiling.....
Item 390GATE TO THE SEA.
[New York]: Pantheon, [1958]. Cloth and boards. First edition (preceding the British printing). Photos by Islay de Courcy Lyon of the present day (1958) Paestum. With a gift inscription from novelist Francis Parkinson Keyes to a friend with whom she apparently spent a day in Paestum (Italy). Very good in.....
Item 395THE PLAYER'S BOY.
New York: Pantheon, [1953]. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, preceding the British publication. Poet Ralph Hodgson's copy, with his ownership signature and date. Offset to endsheets from clipping, otherwise a nice copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket.
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Item 622CHANTAGE [THE MINISTRY OF FEAR].
Londres: Heinemann & Zsolnay, Ltd, [1945]. Octavo. Wrappers, printed in red and blue. 223 pp. First French edition, translated from the original 1943 English edition by Xavier H. Réal. Fritz Lang adapted the work to the cinema in 1944, under the title The Ministry of Fear (Espions sur la Thaise.....
Item 662FIRST IMPRESSIONS A NOVEL OF OLD BOOKS, UNEXPECTED LOVE, AND JANE AUSTEN.
[New York]: Viking, [2014]. First edition. Octavo. Cloth and boards, copper stamped upper boards and spine. First edition, first impression. 308 pp. A fine copy, in a very good or better dust jacket, unclipped, small nicks at bottom edge and foretips.
Item 605THE SUN IN CAPRICORN A RECITAL.
London: William Heinemann, Ltd., [1934]. First edition. Thick octavo. Brown cloth, stamped in gilt. [10],531,[1] pp. Shelf wear at bottom edge, top edge of spine close-splayed, bookplate to front pastedown, stamp of NY literary agency to first free endpaper, else rather good; in an unclipped pictorial dust jacket that has.....
Item 836THE BIRDS FALL DOWN.
New York: Viking:, 1966. First edition. Octavo. Cloth and boards. First edition. 435 pp. Very good or better in a bright unclipped dust jacket whose price was altered by the publisher. First edition, Book of the Month Club Selection. Dame Rebecca's tale was made into a mini-series by the BBC.....
Item 498THE GODS ARRIVE.
New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1932. First American Edition, first printing. Octavo. Publisher's dark blue diagonal fine rib cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt to upper board and spine. Lovely creme yellow endsheets. 432 pp., printing code "(I)" on page 432, as called for. Dust jacket: wove.....
Item 673THE IDES OF MARCH.
New York / London: Harper & Brothers, [1948]. First edition. Blue cloth, silver spine. viii,246 pp. From the estate of Wilder's sister, Isabel Wilder, very good +, without a dust jacket. First edition. The Ides of March is a historical novel set in ancient Rome, it brings to life the.....
Item 609ORLANDO.
Paris: Librairie Stock Delamain et Boutelleau, 1931. First French Edition. Octavo. Original printed wrappers. xiv, 15-266pp. Traduction et préface de Charles Mauron. Introduction by the author, Virginia Woolf. Near fine, a few old spots on wraps, tiny split near toe of spine, else a clean and bright copy preserved in.....
Item 635THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER.
New York: The Century Co., 1918. First American edition. Pale green cloth, maroon lettering to upper panel and spine. Frontispiece, and three additional b&w illustrations by Norman Price. Slight impression on upper panel at fore-edge, large bookplate of Scofield Thayer, the editor of the periodical, The Dial on front pastedown.....
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