Modern first editions
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.....
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1982. First edition. Octavo. Navy cloth and gold boards, gilt spine. 366,[2] pp. Afterword by the author. First edition, first printing with the requisite code M36 on the lower gutter edge of page 365. Fourth novel in the Foundation series; Hugo Award winner. Fine.....
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. With Illustrations by the Author. First edition. Navy blue cloth; title and author in inverted triangle escalloped in gilt on front panel; spine stamped and lettered in red with gilt ornamentation. 323[1] pp. Frontis (a Ryder family tree), and all illustrative plates by the author.....
Berkeley: University of California Press, [1999]. First edition. Octavo. Cloth and boards. First edition. 339,[1] pp. Six black & white plate illustrations. Translated from the Italian by Laura Gibbs. Author's preface, translator's preface, notes, works cited, index. Fine, in a fine pictorial dust jacket. "'Take an abandoned lover, put a......
London: Peter Owen, [1965]. First British Commonwealth Edition. Octavo. Original publisher's brown cloth, gilt spine. 271,[3] pp. Dust speckled top edge, spine ever-so-slightly cocked, else a clean, bright, very good copy; pictorial dust jacket with minor rubbing, rear panel slightly soiled, else good and presents well. Scarce in this condition. .....
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. First, Limited edition. Hardcover. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. This first edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 300 hardcover trade copies; 125 hardcover copies have been numbered & signed by the editors. 22 copies lettered A......
London: Faber and Faber, [1932]. Small octavo. Blue boards, spine lettered in red. First edition, first recorded binding. 31 pp. Sunning to edges and spine, no notations or inscriptions, very good; in a good, unclipped dusty typographical yellow dust jacket printed in blue, with a sunned and chipped spine, closed.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1935. Octavo. Plum pebble cloth, gilt spine lettering. First edition. 119 pp. Spots along fore-edge, else very good in a very good dust jacket with spine lightly sunned. From the library of noted Bloomsbury collector William Beekman with his elegant bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. .
London: Jonathan Cape, [2003]. Octavo. Black cloth, gilt spine. 272 pp. Fine, in fine dust jacket with the "Shortlisted for the 2003 Whitbread Novel Award," label, which the novel won, affixed to front panel. This is the edition published for an adult audience. First edition. A murder mystery whose detective.....
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New York: Covici-Friede, 1929. Victory edition. Tall octavos. Gold cloth, blue paper, embossed with silver Art Deco design stamped on upper panel and spine. Frontispiece portrait. Two volumes; xxiv, 506 pp. Top edge gilt, fore-edges uncut; spines sunned, silver gilt rubbed, as usual. A few preliminary leaves faintly foxed, else.....
New York: Random House, [1998]. First trade edition. Thick octavo. Black cloth and boards, gilt spine. 537,[7] pp. Small crease in upper first free endpaper, else a near fine copy in a very good or better dust jacket with minor shelf wear at lower edge of front panel. Irving brings.....
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1988. First, Limited edition. Lavender cloth and pictorial boards, printed paper spine label. 215,[5] pp. First edition, Limited issue. Printed December 1987 in Santa Barbara & Ann Arbor for the Black Sparrow Press. Fine, in an equally fine original acetate dust jacket. This edition is.....
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. First, Limited edition. Decorated cloth and pictorial boards, printed paper spine label. 179,[5] pp. First edition, Limited issue. Printed November 1989 in Santa Barbara & Ann Arbor for the Black Sparrow Press. Fine, in an equally fine original acetate dust jacket. This edition is.....
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First, Limited edition. Decorated cloth and pictorial boards, printed paper spine label. 103,[5] pp. First edition, Limited issue. Illustrations by David Bromige. Printed December 1974 in Santa Barbara & Ann Arbor for the Black Sparrow Press. Fine, in an equally fine original acetate dust.....
Sauk City, Wisconsin, Arkham House, 1963. First edition. Black cloth, gilt spine. 110 pp. First edition. Copyright page blank. Fine, in about fine Richard Taylor designed dust jacket. Long's slim novel, first serialized in Weird Tales in January and February/March 1931, is a novel in the "Cthulhu Mythos" vein. The.....
Sauk City, Wisconsin, Arkham House, 1967. Lee Brown Coye [illus]. First edition. Quarto. Black boards, gilt spine, grey unmarked endpapers. [ii], iii-v, 134 pp. Sixteen full page illustrations by Lee Brown Coye, printed on rectos only. Fine, fresh and unmarked in a very good unclipped dust jacket, also illustrated by.....
Sauk City, Wisconsin, Arkham House, 1964 (1971). First edition. Black boards, gilt spine. xi,432 pp. First edition, stated third impression (dust jacket inner flap and page 433). Fine copy,with no spotting or staining, in near fine dust jacket by Lee Brown Coye with some light sunning and an insignificant abrasion.....
Sauk City, Wisconsin, Arkham House, 1970. First edition. Black boards, gilt spine. ix, 383 pp. Fine copy, in fine dust jacket by Gahan Wilson. First edition, first impression. "A collection of what was at that time believed to be all the known "revisions" by Lovecraft of weird tales for a......
[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.
New York: Viking, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Grey cloth spine, silver lettering; blue cloth boards. First American edition, first printing. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Fifteen distinguished new poems about which W. H. Auden said, "The endless musical and structural possibilities of Miss Moore's invention are a......
London: The Hogarth Press, 1949. First edition, first impression. Plum colored cloth, gilt title and decoration. 109 pp. Sunned at spine, ownership inscription of Elizabeth Plunket Greene on front free endpaper, else very good, in the scarce Duncan Grant designed jacket, unclipped, with an internal reinforcement at the crown of.....
New York: Crown, [1995]. First American Edition. Octavo. Cloth and boards, silver spine. 327,[1] pp. Fine, in fine dust jacket. Rendell's seventeenth Chief Inspector Reg Wexford mystery blends his heretofore unacknowledged racial bias with changes in his small town of Kingsmarkham in Suffolk. Wexford is asked to look for the.....
[London: Bloomsbury, 2007]. First UK edition. Thick octavo. Pictorial boards. First UK edition, first printing. Spotting to top edge, else a very good copy of the adult's edition; small snag at top of rear panel, else a very good dust jacket. The final edition in the Harry Potter series, personally.....
Boston / Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1959]. Octavo. Grey cloth, spine gilt. 248 pp. First edition, third issue with the dedication page tipped in facing the copyright page. Original dust jacket, price intact. Page 173 has the requisite misspelling of the title character "Seymour" as "Seymore." Small crease at.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. Deep green buckram, gilt spine. [2],69,[1] pp. Half title, frontispiece by William F. Matthews printed in red, title page in black with red decorative borders. Most leaves unopened, which makes for a near fine copy, without dust jacket. First US edition. Edith Sitwell's poems.....