VOYAGE AU BOUT DE LA NUIT. Signed [Journey To The End Of The Night] by Celine, Louis-Ferdinand - 1933

London: MacMillan, 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. The [GB] Shaw Copy. First edition, first issue with all the correct points. A fine copy in the publisher's patterned sage green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. [very minor offsetting to the endpapers & a small stain at the outside bottom of the front pastedown - still a remarkable fresh copy & an extraordinary example, Inscribed by Wells with a flourish for Charlotte Shaw & George Bernard Shaw through her with good humored advice as follows: "Mrs. Shaw / with warm regards / HGW / and do make GBS try a novel" - The inscription in rebuttal to Shaw having earlier admonished Wells to try writing a play. Green calf clamshell protective presentation case, gilt decorated & lettered at the spine. THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS was produced as a movie by Stoll in 1923, again by David Lean in 1948 (script by Eric Ambler), & again by Paramount in 1952. Wells Soc. 51; Hammond A9. "Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells were both dedicated… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First edition / First printing. Green cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. No restoration, a remarkable copy. Chandler's fourth book. $2.00 Net Price present on front jacket flap.

Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1920. First edition, first printing. One of only 400 printed. Octavo. Original blue paper boards with buff linen spine. All edges untrimmed. In the original plain tan dust jacket, preserved in glassine wrap, with chipping to dust jacket (particularly to spine). Preserved in a custom clamshell box. A brilliant first printing of this monumental work in the exceedingly rare original dust jacket.. A remarkably bright first printing-in the scarce original dust jacket-of one of W.B. Yeats's (1865-1939) most important poetry collections. One of only 400 printed. Michael Robartes and the Dancer includes the first book printing of some of Yeats's most famous poems, including "The Second Coming," "Easter, 1916," and "A Prayer for My Daughter." The book was printed and published by Yeats's sister, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, and, according to its colophon, was completed on All Soul's Day (November 1st) 1920-although Wade (a Yeats editor and bibliographer) claims the book was not… Read More

Paris, Didot, 1814.
4 volumes 8vo [216 x 132 mm] of : I/ (1) bl. l., (2) ll., 1 portrait, xxiii pp., (1) bl. p., 175 pp., (1) bl. p., 1 full-page plate, 164 pp., (1) bl. l. ; II/ (1) bl. l ., (2) ll., 1 full-page plate, 460 pp., (1) bl. l. ; III/ (1) bl. l., (2) ll., 1 full-page plate, 395 pp., (1) bl. l. ; IV/ (1) bl. l., (2) ll., 1 full-page plate, 496 pp., (1) l. of errata.

Contemporary blue straight-grained morocco, richly decorated covers with diverse blind-stamped and gilt borders, richly decorated ribbed spines, gilt inner border, gilt edges. Contemporary binding signed Thouvenin.
"This edition well printed and on vellum paper, should be preferred to all the others". (Brunet, III, 1175).
First edition given by Meon, dedicated to the count Daru, illustrated with 4 superb engravings by Monnet and a Gothic portrait of Jean de Meung by Girardet.
Bulletin Morgand an Fatout, 11334 ; Graesse, IV, p. 263.
"Which surprises every time we approach the 'Romance of the Rose' is that it's a work of… Read More

[Paris, Jubert, 1787].
24mo of 1 frontispiece and 12 engraved vignettes by Dorgez that is 13 etchings.
Red morocco, triple gilt fillet around the covers, flat spine decorates with gilt fleurons, grenne morocco lettering piece, gilt edges. Contemporary binding.
The illustration includes : 1. Vénus and Mars ; 2. Jupiter and Calisto ; 3. Pluton and Proserpine ; 4. Venus and Comus ; 5. Le Triomphe de la Beauté ; 6. Bacchus and Ariane ; 7. L'Aurore and Céphale ; 8. L'Amour and Psyché ; 9. Diane and Endimion ; 10. Neptune and Amymone ; 11. Vénus and Adonis ; 12. Junon and Ixion.
All the illustrations have been finely colored at the time.A precious copy preserved in its elegant red morocco contemporary binding.
Références : Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle / Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes. Tome VII, Deny (Mlle Jeanne)-Du Duy-Delage / par Marcel Roux,... ; avec la collab. d'Edmond Pognon,... - Bibliothèque nationale (Paris), 1951, article DORGEZ, n. 14 =… Read More

London: MacMillan, 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. The [GB] Shaw Copy. First edition, first issue with all the correct points. A fine copy in the publisher's patterned sage green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. [very minor offsetting to the endpapers & a small stain at the outside bottom of the front pastedown - still a remarkable fresh copy & an extraordinary example, Inscribed by Wells with a flourish for Charlotte Shaw & George Bernard Shaw through her with good humored advice as follows: "Mrs. Shaw / with warm regards / HGW / and do make GBS try a novel" - The inscription in rebuttal to Shaw having earlier admonished Wells to try writing a play. Green calf clamshell protective presentation case, gilt decorated & lettered at the spine. THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS was produced as a movie by Stoll in 1923, again by David Lean in 1948 (script by Eric Ambler), & again by Paramount in 1952. Wells Soc. 51; Hammond A9. "Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells were both dedicated… Read More

Cairo: Dar ul Kutub al- Misriyya, 1932 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Arabic text, 2 parts in one volume, 108 p introduction by the editor, the proffesor in the Egyptian University, Abd ul Wahhab Azzam, 389, 343 p with several fine illustration plates of miniatures. Limited edition to 1200 copies. The Shahnama was originally written by the Persian poet, Abu al Qasim al Firdawsi. This important Arabic edition was translated by al- Fatih b. 'Ali al- Bindari (al- Bundari?) D. 643 AH- 1245 AD. Compaired with the original persian text, translation is partly completed, corrected, annotated and introduced by A. Azzam. Contamporary hard cover binding. Inventory no. 000441 for the Persian work Printed by the name of Abu al Fatih Shah Qajar..

London : T Cadell Jun. and W Davies, 1802 A good to very good copy of the first translation into English of Dante's Divine Comedy. This copy retains the original marbled boards, with new calf spines and corners, so the bindings are clean, sound and tight with some light scuffing to the boards. The translation was completed by Henry Boyd, then Vicar of Rathfryland in County Down. The contents are complete with frontispiece portrait by Stothard and titles and half titles to each volume. Vol I: frontispiece; title; dedication; half title to Inferno; text 408pp. Vol II: title; half title; preliminary essay and text 384pp. Vol III: title; half title; preliminary essay and text with index, errata and addenda 420pp (more detailed collation available on request). All the volumes retain their original endpapers with repair at the joints and stamped ownership details of Richd Hopkins of Huntingdonshire. All the endpapers have some marking and Vol II has lost the corner tip of the rear free endpaper.… Read More

New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first issue. Signed by Mahlon Blaine, whose illustrations appear on the the dust jacket, endsheets and title page. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine. Cloth lightly sunned through jacket at spine, and along top and bottom edges. Pages toned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear at the spine ends, and a short closed tear along the top edge of the front panel with some faint associated creasing. A lovely copy, signed by the illustrator. In the early '20s, Blaine met a young John Steinbeck on the Panama Canal, and the two quickly became friends. Blaine would go on illustrate the dust jacket and endsheets for Steinbeck's first novel, Cup of Gold, as well as for this title. Goldstone & Payne, A3a.

Paris, Didot, 1814.
4 volumes 8vo [216 x 132 mm] of : I/ (1) bl. l., (2) ll., 1 portrait, xxiii pp., (1) bl. p., 175 pp., (1) bl. p., 1 full-page plate, 164 pp., (1) bl. l. ; II/ (1) bl. l ., (2) ll., 1 full-page plate, 460 pp., (1) bl. l. ; III/ (1) bl. l., (2) ll., 1 full-page plate, 395 pp., (1) bl. l. ; IV/ (1) bl. l., (2) ll., 1 full-page plate, 496 pp., (1) l. of errata.

Contemporary blue straight-grained morocco, richly decorated covers with diverse blind-stamped and gilt borders, richly decorated ribbed spines, gilt inner border, gilt edges. Contemporary binding signed Thouvenin.
"This edition well printed and on vellum paper, should be preferred to all the others". (Brunet, III, 1175).
First edition given by Meon, dedicated to the count Daru, illustrated with 4 superb engravings by Monnet and a Gothic portrait of Jean de Meung by Girardet.
Bulletin Morgand an Fatout, 11334 ; Graesse, IV, p. 263.
"Which surprises every time we approach the 'Romance of the Rose' is that it's a work of… Read More