New York: The Grolier Club, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 201 p. Frontispiece etching, with 34 plates. New York: The Grolier Club, 1930. First edition, #8 of 325 copies. Octavo. Printed on Fabriano paper, at the... More about CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS OF RUDYARD KIPLING EXHIBITED AT THE GROLIER CLUB FROM FEBRUARY 21 TO MARCH...
London: Chatto & Windus, 1974. Hardcover. 312 p. Reprint. Small octavo. Original teal cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Bookplate to the front pastedown, which is concealed by the flap of the dust jacket. The contents... More about The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: TEXTS AND PRETEXTS
New York: New American Library, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Written at the zenith of Bond-mania in the 1960s, this is the first thorough, albeit tongue-in-cheek, literary analysis of Ian Fleming's strengths and weaknesses as a.... More about THE JAMES BOND DOSSIER
London: Hutchinson, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. #89 of 250 copies signed by the author. Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize. Octavo. Original marbled paper-covered boards over a brown cloth spine, with gilt titles. A fine... More about THE OLD DEVILS
New York: The Viking Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition. A manual for prospective agents on how to live like Agent 007, interspersed with excerpts from the Fleming canon. Brilliant design and... More about THE BOOK OF BOND, OR EVERY MAN HIS OWN 007
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 2,000 copies. Features illustrations in color and black and white by Jean de Bosschere (1878-1953), the Belgian painter whose work reflects a fascination with the... More about ARISTOPHANES: The Eleven Comedies: Literally and Completely Translated from the Greek Tongue into...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. More about THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO JAMES JOYCE
London: Duckworth, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. The recipient of the WH Smith Literary Award in 1999, this historical novel deals with the British experience in the Crimean War. Signed by Bainbridge on the title page... More about MASTER GEORGIE
Shelton, Connecticut: The First Edition Library, circa 1995. Hardcover. An exact facsimile of the 1953 first edition published by Alfred A. Knopf. FEL facsimiles have the same weight, size, typeface, art, dust jacket, finish, and... More about GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden]: Elzevirios, 1637. Hardcover. Presumed to be the first edition thus: Elzevier produced two editions in 1637; in this example, pages 207 and 209 are erroneously numbered 107 and 109 which, according to... More about EUPHORMIONIS LUSININI SIVE IOANNIS BARCLAII SATYRICON PARTES QUINQUE CUM CLAVE. Accessit...
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980. Second Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by Barnes to sculptor Helene Webb on the front flyleaf. This selection of writings includes Barnes' fiery and enigmatic masterpiece, Nightwood (1936), one of... More about SELECTED WORKS OF DJUNA BARNES: Spillway / The Antiphon / Nightwood
Denver, Colorado: The Author & Journalist Publishing Co., 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Practical advice for the aspiring writer from the prolific writer and journalist. Bedford-Jones (1887-1949) contributed numerous stories to The Argosy, Blue Book, Golden... More about THE GRADUATE FICTIONEER, With an Introduction by Erle Stanley Gardner
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1895. Second Edition. Hardcover. An early work by the prolific American novelist and travel writer. Inscribed by Bell to George H. Yenowine on a Yenowine bookplate affixed to the front pastedown... More about A LITTLE SISTER TO THE WILDERNESS
Ellensburg, Washington: Vagabond Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 93 p. Textual photographs, with erotic woodcuts by Richard Denner. The Premier Issue, featuring contributions by Jack Saunders, Alfred Perles, Norman Mailer, Erica Jong, Jan Kerouac, etc.... More about BLACK MESSIAH: A Tribute to Henry Miller
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 362 p. First edition, published in the United States as The Far-Away Bride. This, Benson's last novel, is widely considered to be her finest work. It... More about TOBIT TRANSPLANTED
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. This is number 40 of 250 copies signed by the author. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding by Marianna Blau, with gilt stamping. Issued without a dust... More about GRANTED WISHES: Three Stories
San Francisco and New York: Western Authors Publishing Company, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. A volume of satirical verses and sketches collected from Bierce’'s journalism. A reviewer for the Californian Illustrated Magazine observed that the "black..... More about BLACK BEETLES IN AMBER
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's second and most successful novel, a tale of primitive emotions set in the isolated home of Judge Stawell Ball La Place above a bend... More about SEVEN DAYS WHIPPING
Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. An American joins the British Intelligence, takes on the identity of a German prisoner, and goes in his place to rejoin the German army... More about I MET A MAN
Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. #206 of 1,500 copies signed by the artist, Rockwell Kent. Also, laid in is a typed letter signed by Rockwell Kent on... More about THE DECAMERON OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO: Translated by Richard Aldington
London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Clifford Odets based his screenplay for the 1936 American film starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll on this novel, which was unpublished at the time... More about THE GENERAL DIED AT DAWN
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 14 volumes: Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763 (1950); Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764 (1952); Portraits by Joshua Reynolds (1952); Boswell on the Grand Tour, Germany and Switzerland, 1764 (1953); Boswell... More about THE YALE EDITIONS OF THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF JAMES BOSWELL
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Novel set aboard a U.S. Navy vessel in the Mediterranean during World War II. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with blue and gilt... More about THE NINETY AND NINE
London: Andre Deutsch, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Story of the complex and progressively tenuous friendship between F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) and Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), from their first meeting as Expatriates in Paris in 1925 to... More about FITZGERALD AND HEMINGWAY: A Dangerous Friendship
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Story of the complex and progressively tenuous friendship between F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) and Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), from their first meeting as Expatriates in Paris in... More about FITZGERALD AND HEMINGWAY: A Dangerous Friendship