One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Kesey, Ken - 1962

First edition, limited issue of 100 numbered copies issued signed by Mandela on the title page. Copy #42. Published to benefit the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund. Edited with a Preface by Penny Silva. Dark blue full morocco, gilt lettering, satin pagemarker, limitation page. Issued without dustjacket. Cloth-covered slipcase. Slipcase with one corner with slight bump; otherwise, an unread copy in Fine condition. The first dictionary of South African English, mapping the development and changes of "that variety of English which is particular to South Africa."

Steinbeck, John. The Long Valley. New York: Viking Press, 1938. First Printing of the First US Edition. First Printing. A Near Fine copy with the usual age darkening to the front pastedown in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with gentle wear to the extremities, and a short closed edge tear at the head of the spine. A collectible copy of this collection of classic Steinbeck fiction. This volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck's characteristic interests: the tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present. Included here are the O. Henry Prize-winning story "The Murder"; "The Chrysanthemums," perhaps Steinbeck's most challenging story, both personally and artistically;… Read More

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1906. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (10.2 x 7.7 inches). Illustrated with a colour frontis and forty nine full colour plates, all mounted onto thick art paper pages at back of book, each one with a printed tissue guard. Decorative endpapers with map of Kensington Gardens. A near fine, bright and clean copy throughout in original russet cloth binding with gilt stamped decoration and lettering to front board and spine. Very minor rubbing to hinges and a small bump to the lower front board at the outer corner, but overall a beautiful clean copy of this classic. Among the very best of Rackham's work.

1938 Sheridan House first edition. Uncommon with the dust jacket.Condition of the book is Very Good Minus. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked. The book shows light wear from age and storage. There is some loss of cloth at the head of the spine (see photo).Condition of the dust jacket is Very Good. The DJ is complete, not price clipped. It shows light shelf wear and edge wear. The DJ is protected in a new mylar cover.Please message me with any questions.

First edition, published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press. The Years is the eighth novel by Virginia Woolf, the last published in her lifetime. Cream coloured dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell.
Hardcover, 479 pp. Pale sage green cloth binding, guilt lettering on spine. Very light wear on edges of spine and corners. Very good condition. Front cover detached from rest of the jacket, with small chips at top and bottom of spine and corners. Despite this, dust jacket is in otherwise very good condition, complete and preserved in archival sleeve.

Longmans, Green, and Co. London and Bombay. 1902. FIRST EDITION. Colonial Issue. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with sixteen mono plates by Sidney Paget. Tisue guard to the frontispiece. A few of the plates are bound in different places than listed on the contents page but all are present. 4 pages of publishers adverts for the colonial library at the rear of the book. The text and illustrations are fine, clean and bright throughout and look unread. Publishers decorative green cloth which has dark blue illustration to the front board and spine. Gilt lettering to the spine. Decorative light blue and white floral endpapers with ship and swan designs. There are a couple of small closed tears to the spine and the cloth is a bit rubbed and bumped and has a few small marks but is generally in very good condition with the gilt on the spine still quite bright. Previous owner's small typed name label on the plain verso of the front free endpaper, reading H. B. Rattray. This is almost certainly Captain… Read More

John Murray. London. 1927. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5 inches). A fine clean copy throughout. Finely bound, by Zaehnsdorf for Asprey and Co, in recent full black morocco. Spine with five raised bands, each with gilt wavy lines. Compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Boards with gilt ruled border. Board edges with single gilt ruled lines. Turn-ins with elaborate floral gilt decoration. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A highly attractive leather binding.

NY: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1910. Signed first edition, limited to 525 numbered copies in England and America, #137, signed by Pogany on limitation page. Full brown morocco with gilt cover design, gilt spine titles, top edge gilting, pictorial end papers, sewn in silk bookmark. Published NY: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1910. Folio, 9 1/2" x 13", printed on Japan vellum, unpaginated, Illustrated by Pogany with 20 tipped-in color plates, calligraphic text, decorative borders plus illustrations in color and line throughout the text. A stunning work. Some scuffing, wear along the edges of boards, small, previous owner bookplate on front pastedown, internally near fine, pages clean, no foxing or markings, page block crisp, all plates present, binding tight. Rare.. Signed by Illustrator. 1st. Hard. Very Good. Illus. by Pogany, Will. Folio. Numbered, Limited Edition.

London: Martin Secker, First edition 1916.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 324 pages. Original maroon cloth in good tight clean condition, lettered and ruled in black Top edge slightly dusty Front pastedown with two neat owners' signatures. Endpapers slightly browned. Dustjacket, unclipped, with only minor wear and rubbing to edges. The spine slightly browned. Despite these minor blemishes the volume presents very well. Important first novel by Welsh author Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan, 1870-1948. A rare dystopian science fiction work in which a vellum scroll is found in a metal cylinder in the Andes. This relates the dystopian history of the miniature planet Meleager, where the practice of eugenics ensures the death of defective children and where women have no power or political rights A rare book with a possible influence on Charlotte Haldane's Man's World and feminist dystopian literature generally, especially in the areas of eugenics and male patriarchy

George Newnes, Limited. London. 1905. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.1 inches). viii, 404, 4pp of publishers adverts at rear. Illustrated with sixteen mono plates by Sidney Paget. Some light spotting to a few pages but overall a very good copy in recent leather binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for Asprey. Half dark blue morocco, five raised bands to spine, each with gilt dotting. Compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Blue cloth on boards with single gilt ruled border on leather edges. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Housed in a felt lined slip case with blue cloth covering. Fading to the spine but still overall a very good copy in an attractive leather binding. --- Gibson & Green A29a. .