New York: Barnes & Noble Books / Harper & Row Publishers, Inc, 1976. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 152pp. Author's inscription to title page: "Peter Ackroyd - to Howard, with love. 20 June, 1976". Pencilled note to..... More

Paris: Jean Jacques Pauvert, 1965. First French Edition. Octavo. 25cm. Publisher's printed glossy card wraps. 642pp.; [6]. Light wear and scuffing to corners and spine ends, with some chipping and wear to the head of the spine, some soiling to the white rear panel, sunning to spine panel; internally clean..... More

Lyon, France: Par HECEY [For the Editor], 1952. Octavo. 22cm. Original card wraps with collage and paint titles to front and rear cover. 30pp. Covers a little sunned to the extremities with some wear and soiling to the collage additions, bright and attractive; Mimeographed page block originally stapled to wraps..... More

[Belmont, NC: Sacred Heart Junior College], [1941]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Blue cloth titled in gilt; [xiv],190pp; frontispiece portrait and 5 inserted plates. With a card laid in signed "Frances C. Fisher, Christian Reid." Sound and clean, with external signs of biopredation along edges: Very Good. Christian Reid was the..... More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939. First Edition. First impression. Demi octavo. Rose-pink publisher's cloth; dustjacket; 258pp. Tight, clean, unmarked copy, Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unpriced (as issued), slightly toned at spine and margins; Near Fine. A lovely copy of Bronowski's first regularly-published book (following only a privately-printed pamphlet..... More

London: John Calder, 1978. First U.K. Edition. First impression. Inscribed on title page: "To Edward," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xv,765pp. Mild soil to text block edges; faint reading crease to spine, still solidly Very Good. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced £15..... More

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1934]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in red and tan decorative dust jacket; 308pp. Light wear to extremities, jacket spine rather toned, front free endpaper browned from previously-removed newspaper clipping (?), else a Very Good copy, much nicer than generally seen. Bookplate signed..... More

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial cloth-covered boards; x,[3],4-251,[252-254]pp. This copy is from the library of to Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Marquez, with his ink markings and notations throughout the text, and inscribed to him by the author on..... More

London: Faber and Faber, 1965. Uncorrected Proof. Issued prior to publication. Octavo; printed brown wrappers,189pp. Small publisher's note in pencil to front cover, giving projected publication date and price. Expected toning to text; tiny nick to upper edge of front wrapper; still a clean and Very Good copy. Uncommon proof..... More

London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928. First Edition. First impression; edition of 1500 copies. 12mo. Blue buckram with printed paper spine label; dustjacket; xii,13-143pp. A clean, tight and unmarked copy, free of notable wear; very Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 6s. net on front flap), slight toning and..... More

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1982. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); green cloth spine over green paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 220pp; illus. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper spine-faded with trivial surface wear, else Near Fine. Discusses Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1890. Stated thirty-eighth edition. Contemporary half-morocco with marbled paper, stamped in gilt on spine, top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; [viii],419pp. Lightly rubbed, spine mildly faded, but sound: a handsome, Very Good copy. Reminiscences by a noted American publisher, the literary partner for Ticknor & Fields, discussing Thackeray..... More

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. First American Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's grey cloth spine over dark grey paper covered boards, titled in black to spine. Dustjacket. [ix]; 250pp. Clean and sharp, the very lightest of cosmetic wear; internally clean and fresh with bookplate to front pastedown; in a...... More