London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1929. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19.5cm); purple cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; viii,208 + 8pp ads. Early ink name to upper front endpaper, light wear to extremities, with a touch of dust-soil to upper edge of textblock;..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1950. First American Edition. First printing. 12mo (19.5cm). Tan cloth-covered boards, titled in red on spine; dustjacket; xvi,[1]-247pp. Clean, straight and tight; small shadow to front free endpaper from laid-in clipping (now removed), still Near Fine. In the original unclipped (priced $2.75) pictorial dustwrapper; lightly..... More
New York: R. F. Fenno and Company, [1895]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). In light green cloth, stamped in red and green, titled in gold on spine; plain endpapers; [i]-vi 7-298; frontispiece portrait. From the Mark Skinner Library, Manchester, VT, with bookplate to front pastedown, embossed stamp to t.p., stamp to..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). In red publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt on front board and spine, top edge gilt, signed binding by Margaret Armstrong, partly unopened; plain endpapers; xii, 217pp; list of works opposite half-title; frontispiece, 11 plates on inserted leaves, and..... More
![Out of the Mouths of Graves [Limited Edition, Signed]. Robert BLOCH](/pictures/medium/55241.jpg?v=1632090124)
New York: Mysterious Press, 1979. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.3. Octavo (21.5cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; publisher's slipcase; xvi,193,[17]pp. Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket, with a...... More
Chicago: Advance Publishing Co., 1898. A later edition. Octavo (20cm). In brick red cloth, stamped in silver on front and spine, binding design by Margaret Armstrong; green and red patterned endpapers; [1-7] 8-267, [3]pp; one page of publisher's ads at rear. Straight and sound, with cloth partly lifting off upper..... More
Topeka: F. M. Steves & Sons, 1905. Revised edition. Octavo (21.5cm). Stapled volume in original paper wraps, printed in black, with halftone image of Nation holding a hatchet on front and hatchet device on rear; 201, [1]pp; with ads at rear for this volume and for her self-published paper "The..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1950. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Navy cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 265pp. Clean, straight and tight with a trace of rubbing to cloth at spine ends; Very Good+. In the original unclipped (priced 9s.6d.) patterned dustwrapper, unclipped; somewhat mottled on spine panel with..... More
Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Company, 1880. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). In grey cloth, stamped in black with "Brewster for President" on front board and in gold on spine; chocolate brown coated endpapers; 368pp. A tight, unfaded copy, front board lightly warped at lower edge, gently rubbed, with minor..... More
Boston: Bela Marsh, 1854. Second Printing. 12mo (19.5cm). In original purple-brown cloth, blind-stamped on both boards, titled in gold on front; plain endpapers; [1-5] 6-122; steel-engraved portrait frontispiece with paper guard tipped in. Ownership inscription of M. E. Fitzgerald, Rockland, Mass., and embossed stamp of a Boston binder to f.f.e.p...... More
Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, Publisher, 1983. First, Limited Edition. Regular issue. Number 28 of 64 copies in wrappers, from a total edition of 100 copies (There was a simultaneous lettered issue in boards). Octavo (23cm); olive-green thick-paper French wrappers, with paper title label to front cover; 22pp. Title page..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1942. First Edition. First printing. Second issue, in wire-bound wrappers. Octavo (23cm). Staple-bound, printed mauve wrappers; 16pp. A clean and attractive copy, with typical sunning at bound edge and extremities of wrappers. There is a faint impression, presumably from postal cancellation, to upper forecorner of rear..... More
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1980. First Edition. Cloth issue (simultaneously issued in paperback). Octavo (23cm); cloth boards; dustjacket; lxiv,176pp. Review copy, with publisher's card laid in. Straight and tight, Near Fine in lightly edge-rubbed dustwrapper. A nice copy. Includes a substantial and scholarly foreword by the editor. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. First American Edition. Octavo (23cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; xxxi,235pp. Fine, unread copy in unworn dustwrapper. Review copy, with publisher's card laid in. More
[Bethlehem, PA: Quarter Press, 1976]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 4,[18]pp. Fine. A somewhat hard-to-find work by the San Francisco Marxist/Leninist poet and social critic, and the only separate edition in English of Cocteau's post-WW2 long poem. Includes a 4-pp introduction by Hirschman, worth the price of admission..... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1973. First Edition. First impression. Small octavo (20.5cm). Coral cloth, titled in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; 221pp. Tight, clean copy; mild bump to bottom edge of text block at final six leaves, a bit of foxing to upper edge, Very Good Plus. In the original..... More
![Animae. With Drawings by Lynn Schroeder [Signed Copy]. W. S. MERWIN, William Stanley](/pictures/medium/55224.jpg?v=1631744949)
San Francisco: Kayak, 1969. First Edition. First printing. Edition of 1200 copies. Octavo (24cm); decoratively patterned card wrappers; 31pp; illus. Signed in ink by Merwin on title page. Bit of mild wear and creasing to wrapper edges, but a Near Fine copy. With five full-page illustrations by Lynn Schroeder; designed..... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1964. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (21cm); 214pp. Fine in the publisher's turquoise cloth, in a bright, clean, unclipped dustwrapper, just a shade sunned on the spine panel. The Anglo-Irish author's eighth novel. More
Patavii [Padua]: Typis Pauli Frambotti, 1651. Second Edition. Quarto (24cm). Bound in contemporary full brown leather, tooled in gold in six compartments on spine, all edges sprinkled red and brown; plain endpapers; [xvi], 1-522, [18] pp; engraved title page and 23 illustrations by Giovanni Georgi (fl. 1617-63), including 18 full-page..... More
[New York]: New Directions, 1963. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm); green cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; 246pp. Small spot of fading to cloth at base of spine, else a Fine copy in the publisher's pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.95), a half-shade darkened on spine, still bright and Near Fine. Three of..... More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Ltd / New Canadian Library, 1970. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (18.5cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 64pp. Trace of edgewear to wrappers; text mildly tanned; on the better end of Very Good. Paperback original. Attractive copy of this very early Ondaatje title, a critical work on his countryman..... More
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. First, Limited Edition. One of 400 copies. Crown octavo (20cm); cloth-backed, paper-covered boards; 85pp. Hint of fading to board edges, else a tight, Fine copy in original (or contemporary) unprinted glassine protector, slightly darkened and lightly chipped at extremities. Designed by Frederic Warde, printed at..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1972. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm); cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 172pp. Clean, tight, Near Fine copy in unclipped (priced $6.00) dustwrapper, lightly used with a faint damp-mark at base of spine panel, a small (ca. 1/2") closed to to upper extremity of front panel..... More
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1980. First Edition. One of 250 numbered copies (this being copy no.13). Slim octavo (22.5cm); letterpress printed sheets, string-tied into card wrappers; [16]pp. A Fine copy of this pamphlet, reprinting a story which originally appeared in The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling. Printed by..... More
![The Redundancy of Courage [Limited Edition, Signed]. Timothy MO](/pictures/medium/55219.jpg?v=1632177632)
London: Chatto & Windus / London Limited Editions, 1991. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 150 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.136. Octavo (24cm); marbled paper-covered boards and maroon cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; publishers glassine dustjacket; [viii],408,[4]pp. Light..... More
