Something of Myself; for My Friends Known and Unlknown by Kipling, Rudyard - 1937

London: the Fleuron Ltd. [1927], a numbered copy from a limited edition of 310. (4to) 65pp. Very good plus. Black cloth with color patterned boards designed by Paul Nash. Printed on Zanders' hand-made paper, with five pouchoire tinted illustrations (two full page). There is a previous owner's bookplate. This is a nice copy with minimal wear. Illustrations by Paul Nash. (Fiction).

New York: E. P. Dutton. 1929. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Cover has light soiling. Spine weak; B&W Illustrations; 237 pages .

4 vols bound as 2. Very Good HCs, no DJs. Full fine-grain calf leather over slightly beveled boards, very dark blue on covers, dark brown on spines; covers gilt stamped with frames of double rules enclosing acanthus roll enclosing dotted roll with a large central fleur de lis; spines gilt stamped with titles and floral, double rule and acanthus rolls; untrimmed text block edges; end papers of gilt fleur de lis pattern on white/gilt background; vol 1 with tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author; ribbon markers. Bright, clean covers and spines; covers showing some very light scuffing, spines are intact with some surface crackling lines; joints are sound, leather remains supple; tightly bound; both volumes with owner name and date (1899) on front fly leaf; some foxing on frontis tissue and title page in vol 1; interiors very clean and bright. Unsigned fine binding with booseller's small ticket on front pastedowns 'George A. Cole | Stationer & Bookseller | 17 Via Tornabuoni. 17 | Florence'.… Read More

Hutchinson, 1961. First UK edition-first impression. Hardcover. Very good/No Dj cover. VGC plus.Hutchinson,1961.First UK edition-first impression.Translated from the French by Xan Fielding.Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,two small nicks and scratch on the edges of the cover and spine)in VGC, no Dj cover.Nice and clean pages with a couple of small foxing marks and nick on the outer edges,two small foxing marks and a couple of creases and nicks on the edges of the pages. The book is in VGC plus for its age with light shelf wear.487pp including Author's note.A collectable and scarce first edition but without the Dj cover.

New York: Viking, 1992. Signed in gold ink and dated 1992 by Ken Kesey. First edition / First printing. White cloth spine, beige paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

London: Routledge, 1879. 25 volumes (complete). 8vo, contemporary half tan calf, spines with gilt thistles with corner ornaments within raised bands with red and black lettering pieces; a very pretty set in excellent condition. With the armorial bookplate of J. Monro Walker on front pastedowns.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. First Edition. Original Cloth. As New/No Jacket as Issued. Jonathan Cape, London, 2005. Hardback. Book Condition: As New. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardback. Book in in MINT/UNREAD condition. No dustjacket, as issued. Complete with promotional bookband which is also in MINT condition. SIGNED by Julian Barnes shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Baltimore: The Hill Press, 1998. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, paper cover and spine label. Hill Press. large 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, paper cover and spine label. (vi), 73+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 125 numbered copies each signed by the printer Stephen Heaver. A fine copy. This is one of the one hundred copies bound in cloth and paper. Finely illustrated with nine wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec, which were printed from the original blocks. A collection of provocative and philosophical essays from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, written by Francis Bacon, Thomas Fuller, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Paine, Charles Lamb, Henry David Thoreau, John Ruskin, and Thomas Henry Huxley.

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Signed on the title page by James Welch. First edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in a dust jacket with minor wear, else fine. The jacket is much more attractive than usual for this book. The scarcest of Welch's novels, especially in nice condition.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. Signed on the second blank page following the free end-paper by the author. First U.S. edition / First printing. Plum cloth spine, red paper-covered boards. Fine in near fine to very good dust jacket, with abrasion to the lower spine around the publisher's name. The author's masterpiece, and one of the most important books of the seventies.