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London: Fisher, Son, & Co., [1841]. 3 volumes. First Edition. With engraved frontispiece portrait, numerous engraved two page illustrations, a great profusion of engravings within the text and a fine folding map. 8vo, very handsomely bound by Bayntun of Bath, England in polished mottled tan calf, the spine panels intricately gilt in compartments separated by raised bands, central gilt ornamental devices of American eagles within the elaborately gilt panels, two compartments with citron lettering labels gilt, the covers all richly gilt with gilt tooled borders and elaborate corner pieces in gilt, top edges gilt, gilt tooled board edges, turnovers richly gilt, marbled endleaves. xvi, 504; [viii] 563; [xii], 596, index. A very fine and handsome set, beautifully bound, with just a slight bit of rubbing to the extremities, and some light evidence of age. A beautiful set. FIRST EDITION, LUXURIOUSLY BOUND AND SIGNED BY BAYNTUN OF BATH, ENGLAND. J.S. Buckingham was a renown author and traveller.… Read More

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1892. First Edition, with tipped in autographed calling card signed and dated by Randolph Churchill. Illustrated with 29 plates including a portrait frontispiece, 37 illustrations in the text, folding color map at the rear. 8vo, handsomely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in three-quarter red morocco over red cloth covered boards, gilt-lettered and with pictorial gilt decorations of lions between raised bands of spine. xv, 337, including index pp. A fine copy, very well preserved, clean and bright. FIRST EDITION OF THIS ELUSIVE WORK, VERY HANDSOMELY BOUND BY BAYTUN-RIVIERE. Lord Randolph Churchill, the legendary father of the equally legendary Winston Churchill, traveled to South Africa at the invitation of Sir Henry Loch and Cecil Rhodes, Governor and Prime Minister, respectively, of South Africa. He toured the diamond and gold mines at Kimberly and Johannesberg, and spent some time shooting in Mashonaland, a thousand miles inland. The letters that… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth inthe printed dustjacket. 159, (Listing of the Cast) pp. A fine copy, the dustjacket a bit faded on the backstrip and edge of the upper cover. FIRST EDITION, AMERICAN ISSUE. Eliot's fourth verse drama.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First American edition, p. 94 in first state and pp. 35-36 cancelled. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered on the spine in gilt, in the original dustjacket. 190, [2]. A very good copy of the book, the jacket presents itself well though there is some chipping at the extremities THE COCKTAIL PARTY is a comedic play in verse form first produced on stage in 1949. The original cast of the production included [Sir] Alec Guinness and Irene Worth and debuted at the Edinburgh Festival. It was his first play since 1939’s FAMILY REUNION and his first work of verse since 1943’s Four Quartets.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1935]. First Edition, American Issue. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, in the printed dustjacket. 86 pp. A fine copy, the dustjacket only lightly aged. FIRST EDITION, AMERICAN ISSUE. Eliot’s tragic story of Thomas Becket., Archbishop of Canterbury for production at the Canterbury Festival in 1935. The scarcest of Eliot’s verse plays.

New York: Street & Smith, ca. 1890. First Edition. With drawings included throughout the text by the author. 8vo, publisher's original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover, the front cover also pictorially decorated in black. t.e.g. iv, 234 pp, 16 ads. A very nice copy, bright and clean and in very pleasing condition . A CHARMING BOOK BY GILBERT OF "GILBERT AND SULLIVAN" FAME. These Ballads were originally published in the columns of Fun. Later they were published in book form in 2 volumes. This is the first issue of the one compact illustrated volume including only the best ones.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1975. First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original brown cloth, lettered on the spine in gilt, in the original dustjacket. 253 pp. A fine copy with just a touch of spotting to the top edge and a few very small and unobstrusive markings in ink on the fly and title-page, the dustjacket also fine but for some shelf rubbing to the rear panel and a small ink marking to a line in the text on the front flap. FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE AUTHOR'S MOST COMPLEX BOOKS AND CERTAINLY HIS MOST SUSPENSEFUL. Modeled after the author's native Trinidad, it is a tense, violent and tragic look at a postcolonial British dominated Island.

London: Collins, 1947. First Edition. With 8 colour plates and 23 black and white illustrations. 8vo, bound in the original publisher's illustrated boards, and with the colour dustjacket. 48 pp. A copy in very fine condition, the jacket with just a bit of age evidence, some normally encountered browning at the pastedowns. FIRST EDITION. FROM THE BRITAIN IN PICTURES SERIES BY THE FOUNDER OF THE FAMOUS NONESUCH PRESS. "A University should surely be wide enough and catholic enough to educate men and women in the art of living as well as in the arts and science. The Universities of today are modeled on an old tradition and even the youngest of them have taken over something of the traditions of the oldest foundations which date back to the twelfth century.

London: Victor Gollancz LTD., 1932. First Edition. With over 60 illustrations from photographs on 48 plates and 3 maps, one of which is large, folding and printed in colour. Tall 8vo, publisher's original black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine,. xvi, 420 pp. A fine copy, the cloth well preserved, the gilt bright, hinges perfect and sharp, the textblock clean, some of the inevitable foxing to the prelims and edges as is typical. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ASCENT OF KAMET. While attempts to climb Kamet began in 1855, the first ascent was not made until 1931 by Frank Smythe, Eric Shipton, R.L. Holdsworth and Lewa Sherpa, members of a British expedition. Kamet was the first summit over 25,000 feet to be climbed, and was the highest summit reached until the first ascent of Nanda Devi five years later. Due to its position near the Tibetan Plateau, Kamet is remote and not as accessible as some Himalayan peaks. It also receives a great deal of wind from the Plateau. Early explorers of the… Read More

London: Victor Gollancz LTD., 1930. Scarce First Edition. With over 40 illustrations from photographs on glossy plates. 8vo, publisher's original green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. 464 pp. A very good and attractive copy, the cloth just lightly age mellowed and the text with only light and occasional evidence of the usual spotting due to paper content. THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS PERSONAL ACCOUNT, of the attempt to climb Kangchenjunga (28,156 feet) and the successful ascent of the Jonsong Peak (24,344 feet) in 1930. Smythe was not only a superb mountaineer but was also an excellent writer, making his making his many books on mountaineering the best for reading. On the Kangchenjunga Expedition Smythe was one of three representing Great Britain of a party made up of British, Swiss, German, and Austrian climbers.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1950. First edition in this format, being the first issue of the Uniform Edition. Illustrated with 24 of the author's photographs nicely reproduced on glossy double-sided plates, and with a map of the route taken over Mont Blanc. 8vo, in the original red cloth, lettered on the spine in black and in the original dustjacket. xi, 229 pp. A very pleasing copy, the text is essentially fine and very fresh, the binding strong and sturdy with very little wear but with some mottling and fading to the red dye, the jacket a bit toned on the spine and rear and with some very minor edge-rubbing but in all quite attractive and complete. FIRST PRINTING OF THE TITLE IN THE FORMAT UNIFORM WITH OTHER WORKS OF THE AUTHOR. The textblock of the Uniform Edition is somewhat larger then the original and uses a larger, bolder typeface. Smythe was one of the greatest mountaineers of his age, and was also a pioneer in mountain photography. In this book he recounts a mountaineering… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. First Edition With a colour frontispiece and 35 illustrations by the author from paintings in colour, drawings in black and white and from photographs. Three maps included as called for. 8vo, publisher's original navy cloth, the covers and spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. xxv, 306 pp. A beautiful copy, pristine and near as mint. A VERY FINE COPY, SCARCE THUS, OF THIS FIRST EDITION WORK ON THE LIBYAN SAHARA. Charles Furlong (1874-1967), American explorer, writer and photographer, was the first American to explore the Tripolitan Sahara.

Chicago: Encyclopedia Brittanica, Inc., 1964. First edition. 17 illustrations including a previously unpublished watercolor painting by Jacqueline Kennedy reproduced from the original. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, the cover and spine stamped in gilt, including a copy of Kennedy’s signature, in the publisher’s original slipcase. 164 pp. An excellent copy, fresh, clean and as pristine. FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL SLIPCASE. “It is the fate of this generation- of you in Congress and of me as President- to live with a struggle we did not start, in a world we did not make. But the pressures of life are not always distributed by choice. And while no nation has ever faced such a challenge, no nation has ever been so ready to seize the burden and the glory of freedom.” - John F. Kennedy to Congress, 1962. John F. Kennedy , in acknowledging that the United States had been an “experiment” in democracy, also recognized the need for practice and participation (the… Read More

New York: Viking, 1988. First American edition. 8vo, black cloth and boards in the dustjacket. 547. Very fine. A unique book in the history of modern literature, in that its publication resulted in a death sentence for the author being decreed by Islamic fundamentalists (which is still in effect). Inspired in part by the life of Muhammad, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters. In the United Kingdom, The Satanic Verses received positive reviews, and was a 1988 Booker Prize Finalist and won the 1988 Whitbread Award for novel of the year. However, conservative Muslims accused it of blasphemy and mocking their faith. The outrage among them resulted in a fatw calling for Rushdie's death issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran. The result was several failed assassination attacks on Rushdie, who was placed under police protection.

London: For John Stockdale, 1787. 2 volumes. First edition in complete and separate form of Johnson's first major literary project, his satirical takes on Parliamentary politics. 8vo, in antique three-quarter calf over marbled boards, the corner-pieces and back trimmed in gilt, the spine with flat bands gilt ruled, gilt trimmed and ruled green morocco labels gilt lettered, additional gilt lettering in a separate compartment, marbled endpapers. xv, [2], 394; [2], 516 pp. A very handsome set, the text all but free of any foxing, the paper still quite fresh and with very little evidence of use, the bindings are solid and tight, some unobtrusive rubbing to the marbled boards, the calf in very fine condition. A VERY HANDSOME SET OF THE TRUE FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM OF WHAT IS CONSIDERED BY KORSHIN TO “form [Johnson's] first major literary project..." Prior to 1738 coverage of Parliamentary debates often appeared in journals and magazines; but in that year laws were pasted to suppress… Read More

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955. First Edition in English. 8vo, in the publisher's original black, blue and green printed wrapper over stiff white covers. 241 pp. A fine copy with just a touch of rubbing along the edges. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF THE FIRST MOLLOY BOOK. Beckett’s highly distinctive, despairing and yet curiously exhilarating voice has earned him a vast and diverse following. Molloy was originally written in French, the author collaborated with Patrick Bowles for this translation, whereas the later Molloy books were translated only by the author. MOLLOY marks the beginning of an influential trilogy.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. First edition of Beckett’s second book. 8vo, original cream boards extensively decorated with pictorial designs on both covers and the spine in brown, in the original and scarce dustjacket of cream paper decoratively printed in blue. Now housed in a red cloth slipcase with morocco label gilt and chemise. 72 pp. A very fine and attractive copy, the cloth and jacket as pristine and essentially mint, the text-block equally fine. FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY SCARCE EARLY WORK BY SAMUEL BECKETT, ONLY HIS SECOND BOOK, ESSAYS ON THE WRITINGS OF PROUST. Beckett wrote 'Proust' during his stay at the École Normale in Paris in the summer of 1930. Written in response to a commission set forth by Richard Aldington, Thomas MacGreevy and Charles Prentice. Beckett states, on behalf of his subject, “We cannot know and we cannot be known.” The language is both allusive and dense, and served as Beckett's aesthetic and epistemological manifesto. The essay is far more… Read More

London: John Murray, 1816. First Edition, second issuance of the book, same year as the first issuance. 8vo, printer’s original drab wrappers, unbound and untrimmed. vii, 64, (4)pp. ads dated May 1816. An unusually well preserved copy, the wrappers untouched and unrestored, some chipping or loss to the spine panel of the wrapper confined to the lower section, quite clean and showing just occasional age internally. VERY SCARCE IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS UNTRIMMED AND UNBOUND. Coleridge began to write these poems in 1797 in Stowey (Somerset). He wrote ‘Kubla Khan’ after returning from Germany in 1800 and finished the last work, ‘The Pains of Sleep’, shortly before publication. Coleridge states that although it may appear that the metre of ‘Christabel’ is irregular, in truth he has created a new principle--that of counting the accents in each line rather than the syllables. “Though the latter may vary from seven to twelve, yet in each line the accents will be found to be… Read More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, ca 1930. A pleasant pocket edition. Small 8vo, publisher's original red wrappers printed in black. 48 pp. A well preserved copy with some age mellowing. A CHARMING COPY OF THE OXFORD PLAIN TEXTS EDITION. Coleridge’s RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature. Its dark and brooding themes were most likely inspired by James Cook's second voyage of exploration.

London, Paris, New York, Edinburgh: Goupil & Co., Jean Boussod, Manzi, Joyant & Co., 1899. First Edition, Numbered and Limited to 1475 copies. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Cromwell in colours and 45 other finely engraved full-page plates, head and tail-pieces and illustrations in the text as well as with elaborately decorated grand initials to the chapters, engraved title-page printed in red and black. Folio, handsomely bound and signed by Bickers and Son of England in three-quarter red crushed morocco, the turnovers and corner pieces double gilt ruled, the spine with raised bands gilt ruled, the compartments of the spine with richly gilt panel designs incorporating central gilt devices and elaborate tooling in gilt, two compartments lettered in gilt, marbled end-leaves, the upper cover with elaborate gilt heraldic device at the center, top edge gilt, silk ribbon marker. xii, 260. A very handsome copy with minimal evidence of age or use, some light rubbing to the upper hinge.
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