London: Batsford, 1946. Third printing, with added illustrations. Octavo (22cm). Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 55pp; frontispiece and 33 inserted leaves of plates (some in color), text illus. About fine, in the original dustwrapper, crisp and unclipped (priced 10s.6d. on front flap) but slightly darkened on spine, still Near Fine. Printed..... More
New York: Cochrane Publishing Co., 1909. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo (19cm). Grayish-tan, pictorial textured cloth, 153pp. A bright, straight copy, Near Fine, in the publisher's binding. A curious little novel of country manners, built around an itinerant school-teacher's term in a rural Vermont schoolhouse. A contemporary review in..... More
New York: John Day Company, 1959. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Original light blue cloth, stamped in black, in blue dust jacket; plain endpapers; 317pp. A straight copy, head and tail pushed, lightly faded along top edge, else Near Fine. Jacket trimmed at corners but price ($4.50) still present..... More
London: Methuen, 1929. First Edition. First printing. Publisher's pink cloth, stamped in gilt, in pink jacket; plain endpapers; viii,208,8pp; 8-page publisher's catalogue at rear. Gently cocked, endpapers browned, else Very Good. Jacket unclipped (priced 6/-), brown at spine, front and rear along spine, and upper edge, lightly rubbed with one..... More
London: Methuen, 1939. First Edition. First edition. Octavo (22cm). Publisher's blue buckram, stamped in yellow, in dark blue jacket; plain endpapers; [xii],267,[1]pp; frontispiece portrait. Straight and tight, lightly rubbed and faded at extreme edges, spine stamping rubbed, minor discoloration to endpapers, else clean: Very Good. Jacket unclipped (priced 12. 6d.)..... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1940. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Green publisher's cloth, stamped in dark green, in original pictorial dust jacket; plain endpapers; [viii],312pp; publisher's ads to rear and rear flap of jacket. Straight, rubbed at edges, browning to endpapers, old dampstain to lower corner..... More
London: Martin Secker, 1929. First Edition. First trade edition. Octavo (23cm). Blue and cream decorative paper over boards, backed in blue cloth, top edge gilt, with orginial cream dust jacket; plain endpapers; 154,[2]pp. Straight and tight, lightly rubbed, partly unopened: Near Fine. Jacket priced on front (half-a-guinea), spine browned, chips..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. First Edition. First printing. Square octavo (21cm). Original three-piece binding in blue and tan cloth, stamped in red and gilt, with original pictorial dust jacket; faux marbled endpapers; [vi],111pp; color plates by Charles Keeping. Rear board slightly bowed, minor spotting to top edge: Very Good or..... More
[London: Beaumont Press, 1919]. One of 250 hand-numbered copies on handmade paper (of a total edition of 275). Octavo (23cm). Cloth-backed patterned boards with printed paper spine and cover labels; 48pp. Mild external wear; usual darkening to endpapers from bider's adhesive, still a tight, solidly Very Good copy. In a...... More
Philadelphia: William Smith, [1844]. A poignant image, depicting the first casualty of the 1844 Philadelphia Anti-Catholic riots, which roiled the city in both May and July of that year leaving dozens dead and hundreds wounded. As was the case in many other large cities on the Eastern seaboard, Anti-Catholic sentiment..... More
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1929. First Edition. First printing, in the first issue binding. 12mo (19cm). Publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt, with white and black dust jacket; plain endpapers; [256]pp; list of titles facing t.p., ad to rear jacket flap. A straight, tight copy, rubbed at head and tail..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1976. First Edition. First printing. Signed on a pasted-in label on half-title. Octavo (24cm). Cloth hardcover, dustjacket, 136pp. Fine, in a VG dustwrapper with a closed tear at upper flap fold, clear tape shadow on verso. Merrill's ninth published collection, awarded the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry..... More
Jamestown, RI: September Press, 1986. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover, dustjacket, 338pp, illus. Warmly inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "For Richard / Thanks for your interest. Hope you enjoy this story, which was written by my daughter," signed and datemarked "Pocono 500 '86." Clean, tight..... More
New York: The McClure Company, 1908. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Publisher's green cloth, stamped in white and gilt; plain endpapers; [vi],182pp; frontispiece and 3 color plates. Straight but rubbed, minor restoration to lower front edge, pencil erasures to endpapers, occasional discoloration: Good or better. EHRSAM 2230. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1936. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo; blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 123pp. Cloth mildly toned at extremities; a few specks of foxing to front endpapers, still a tight, Very Good or better copy. In the original dustwrapper, all four corners..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1904. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (20cm). Publisher's glazed blue cloth, stamped in gilt; black endpapers, front free endpaper renewed; x,361, [3]p; 2pp publisher's ads at rear. Straight but rubbed, subtle circular stain to front, f.f.e.p. renewed, rear hinge (internal) repaired, minor foxing: Good only. Basis..... More
[London]: Anthony Blond, [1966]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20.5cm). Original red cloth, in white pictorial dust jacket; plain endpapers; [192]pp. A straight copy, light dustiness and rubbing to edges, minor pencil erasures to f.f.e.p., else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced 25/-), lightly browned and soiled along edges, slight dustiness..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953. First Edition. "A young Mexican-American attempts to break out of the povery of the Los Angeles Olvera district by becoming a boxer. He finds he lacks the skill and the prize ring becomes for him a "square trap" (Baird 2239). First Printing. Octavo (21cm);..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); green cloth, with printed title label mounted to spine; red topstain; patterned endpapers; dustjacket; [4],5-199,[1]pp. Topstain slightly dulled, one board corner gently tapped, else Near Fine. in the original dustjacket, priced $2.00 at lower spine; panels uniformly..... More
London: Gollancz, 1953. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (22cm). Original green buckram, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 288pp. Mild tanning to text, but a tight, straight copy, Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly soiled with some shallow chips to extremities and a 1" closed tear to front..... More
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1979. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Brown cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 138pp. Tiny indentation at bottom edge of front board, else a tight, Fine copy in a fine, unclipped dustwrapper (priced $15.00 on front flap). More
Cambridge: University Press, 1965. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm). Original black cloth, in burnt orange dust jacket; plain endpapers; [viii],[157]pp; publisher's ad to rear of jacket. Bookseller's ticket of Foyles, London, to front pastedown. A tight, straight copy, pushed at head and tail, tiny touch of sunning to extreme upper edges..... More
Sherborne, Dorset: Dorset Publishing Company, 1980. Limited Edition. A loose bookplate, generically inscribed by Fowles, datemarked Lyme Regis 1996, laid in at title page. First edition thus, limited to 595 subscription copies. Quarto (30cm). Brown cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 600pp. Facsimile, with glosses by Fowles and Legg, of Aubrey's 17th-century manuscript..... More
New York: Pantheon, 1963. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 592pp. Tight, straight and Fine in a slightly spine-faded and price-clipped dustwrapper, Very Good. The Nobel Prize-winning novelist's best-known book, and one of the great classics of German post-War literature. More
