A MOMENT OF TIME
London: Chatto & Windus, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of short stories by the author of A High Wind in Jamaica (1929). Signed by Hughes on the half-title. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with..... More
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THE WRECK OF THE MARY DEARE
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition. Signed by Hammond Innes on the title page. The basis for the 1959 MGM thriller film directed by Michael Anderson and starring..... More
AFTER DARK
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, first printing. Signed by Haruki Murakami above his ink stamp on a prefatory blank leaf. The perennial Nobel Prize favorite's 12th work of..... More
A WHITE PAPER, With a Preface and Illustrations by Jean Cocteau
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1957. First Edition. Wraps. The first edition in English. A classic of gay literature, first published anonymously in 1928. The semiautobiographical narrative describes a youth’s love affairs with a succession of..... More
THE WRECKER
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. A mystery revolving around the abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Atoll. Stevenson (1850-94) and his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne (1868-1947), collaborated on the novel..... More
CERVANTES IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND: The Tapestry Turned
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. "...garners well over a thousand English references to Cervantes and his works, thus providing the fullest and most intriguing early English picture ever made of the writings..... More
MY NEIGHBORS: Stories of the Welsh People
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, first printing. A companion to the author's best known work, My People (1915), the short story collection often compared to Sherwood Anderson's..... More
PILGRIMS IN A FOREIGN LAND: Tales of the Welsh
London: Andrew Dakers Limited, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of seventeen short stories largely concerned with the lives of Welsh country folk. Best known for My People (1915), a short story collection often compared..... More
PILGRIMS IN A FOREIGN LAND: Tales of the Welsh
London: Andrew Dakers Limited, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Caradoc Evans on the front flyleaf. A collection of seventeen short stories largely concerned with the lives of..... More
DESOLATION ISLAND
New York: Stein and Day, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, first printing. The fifth novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series. Octavo. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket. More
LETTERS TO MILENA: Edited by Willy Haas
New York: Schocken Books, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English, translated by Tania and James Stern. These letters tell the story of Kafka's love with an astonishing poignancy and truthfulness. As Kafka's..... More
FOUR INFANTRYMEN
New York: Alfred H. King, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, translated from the German by A.H. Wheen. In a similar vein as Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1928), this..... More
BEND SINISTER
New York: Henry Holt, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, first printing (state). The haunting, dreamlike story of Adam Krug, a quiet philosophy professor caught up in the bureaucratic bungling of a totalitarian police..... More
THE REAL LIFE OF SEBASTIAN KNIGHT
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 1,500 copies. Nabokov's first major work in English. A work centred on language and its inability to convey any satisfactory definition, it has been identified..... More
SOME LETTERS CONCERNING D.H. LAWRENCE FROM MABEL DODGE LUHAN, DOROTHY BRETT AND FRIEDA LAWRENCE TO ELIOT FAY
Fallbrook, California: The Weather Bird Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 200 copies printed by Vance Gerry. Fay (1902-55) was a professor of Romance languages whose "voyage of further investigation" into the last years..... More
MOTHER MARY
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, translated from the German by Whittaker Chambers. Novel about the mercenary schemes of a general's wife. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt..... More
THE MAN-EATER OF MALGUDI
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, first printing. Novel revolving around the life of an Indian printer named Nataraj, who lives in a huge ancestral house in Malgudi, a...... More
A PRAYER FOR THE SHIP
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition of the author's debut novel. Reeman (1924-2017), who also used the pseudonym Alexander Kent, was a British author who wrote many historical..... More
THE CASE FOR DE GAULLE: A Dialogue Between Andre Malraux and James Burnham
New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. "This dialogue is a result of conversations that took place between Malraux and Burnham in Paris during the winter of 1947-1948. In it is set forth the..... More
THE CONQUERORS
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition, translated from the French by Winifred Stephens Whale. The author's first novel. Set in the summer of 1925 against the backdrop..... More
OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS: Translation by B. Frechtman
Paris: Morihien, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English, limited to 500 copies. The author's first, and arguably greatest, novel was written while he was in prison, penned on the brown paper which..... More
THE KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition, translated from the Spanish by Harriet de Onis. An important work of Caribbean and Latin American literature, this novel tells the story..... More
THIRST FOR LOVE
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition, translated from the Japanese Alfred H. Marks. A portrait of the corrosive power of frustrated desire, this novel was published shortly after..... More
PRISONER OF GRACE
London: Michael Joseph, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. A psychological exploration of the politics of marriage, this is the first novel in Joyce's Second Trilogy. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. The dust jacket..... More
MARCEL PROUST: Letters to His Mother
New York: The Citadel Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition, translated and edited with an introduction by George D. Painter and with an essay by Pamela Hansford Johnson. "Proust's mother was perhaps..... More