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London: Martin Secker, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Gilt cloth. Later printing of the Secker "Thin Paper" Edition. Spine slightly sunned, gilt very bright, 1934 ownership signature of poet/publisher James Laughlin, else very good.

London: Chatto & Windus, 2004. First edition. Octavo. Gray cloth, gilt spine. First edition. 216 pp. Signed by the author on the title page. About fine, in a highly pictorial dust jacket.  Domestically sequestered Mary Lamb spends her life in the company of her brother Charles, who is equally constrained by having to work at the East India Company while trying to write. Mary accompanies Charles to a bookseller's shop and therein falls for the bookseller's son, seventeen-year-old antiquarian William Ireland. Charles buys a book from the young bookseller that once belonged to William Shakespeare, or did it? .

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards, printed labels. First edition. Sixteen page catalogue of publications from the "To-day and To-Morrow" series of distinguished English thinkers, scientists, philosophers, doctors, critics, artists, etc. included at the conclusion of the text. Extremities rubbed, splotch on upper trimmed edge, without dust jacket, otherwise very good (and edifying). HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A21a.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Gilt medium brown cloth. Frontispiece portrait. First edition. Twenty-seven plates; illustrations by Eric Kennington, four maps, printed in red and black, by Herry Perry. Prospectus for Charles M. Doughty's "Travels in Arabia Desert" tipped in between pages 448 and 449. Cloth lightly soiled, offsetting to endsheets, tiny UK booksellers label to rear pastedown; a good, sound copy. HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A26a.

Tavistock Square, London: by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1932. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. John Blanchard. Cream pictorial sewn wrappers printed in black and green, designed by John Blanchard. First edition, issued as Hogarth Letters No. 8. Some soiling along edges, an effusive gift inscription in ink on the front free endpaper, but a good copy.   This epistolary essay was first published in "The Yale Review," and thereafter as a separate title in the Hogarth Press "Letters" series. Woolf was indeed addressing a particular young poet: John Lehmann, who was working as an apprentice at the Press founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf in 1917. The wolf, i.e., Woolf logo on the title page represents the earliest interpretation of the illustration. KIRKPATICK A17a. WOOLMER 314.

Tavistock Square, London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1931. Buff paper, hand-sewn wrappers, printed in black and blue. Cover design by the surrealist artist John Banting. 27pp. 7⅜ x 4¾. Black and white engraving of Prince Lee Boo Second Son of Abba Thulle. First edition, published October 1931 at 1s.; 5,000 copies printed of which 500 copies were bound up in the collected  edition of The Hogarth Letters. Edges tanned, some scattered foxing, else very good. From the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American animator, illustrator, children's-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions. . WOOLMER 254..

London: Cecil Woolf, 2000. First edition. Yellow card wraps printed and decorated in red, green, and blue. Cover design by Robert Campling. 21 x 14.5 cm. 28 pp., 4 unnumbered pages of 8 color plates; one b&w half-tone photo, one illustration by Dora Carrington. Crease on lower wrapper fore-tip, small binding pinch at lower edge of spine, else about fine.  No other copies currently available in commerce [March 2024]. First edition. The Bloomsbury Heritage Series No. 26. Asham House in East Sussex was the country retreat for the Woolfs from 1912 to 1919. Standing hidden from the road, it played host to some of the most influential writers, artists and intellectuals of the time, and was the setting for Virginia Woolf's short story, "A Haunted House." The house was demolished in 1994 to make way for an extended landfill. OCLC: 47883271.

New York: New Directions, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Gilt cloth. First U.S. edition, clothbound issue. Edited with an introduction by Sandra Whipple Spanier. Issued in the New Directions Revived Modern Classics series. Fine, in a near fine pictorial dust jacket featuring Marcel Duchamp's "The Chess Game." HARRISON, NEWTH & CANDIDO, p.121.

New York: Viking, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. Overlapping vertical stripes on paper over board. First edition, first impression. Publisher's Review Copy slip laid in. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a slightly sunned spine. ABBOTT A14a.1. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1902. Brown wrappers, printed and decorated in black and red; sewn binding. 6 x 4 in. Three issues. Frontispiece portrait of the artist printed on Japan Vellum laid in to each issue. Artists represented in this collection are Botticelli, Thorwaldsen, and Velasquez. Each issue in very good condition, some leaves unopened and some others roughly opened, they are remarkable for their advertisements that include testimonies for Grape Nuts, the prices for original Arts and Crafts furniture at the turn of the last century, and the offer for Life Memberships in the "American Academy of Immortals.

East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1902. Brown wrappers, printed and decorated in black and red; sewn binding. 6 x 4 in. Five issues. Frontispiece portrait of the artist printed on Japan Vellum laid in to each issue. Artists represented in this collection are Antonio Allegri Correggio, Giovanni Bellini, Benvenuto Cellini, Edwin Abbey, and James Whistler. Each issue in very good condition, some leaves unopened and some others roughly opened, they are remarkable for their advertisements that include testimonies for Grape Nuts, the prices for original Arts and Crafts furniture at the turn of the last century, and the offer for Life Memberships in the "American Academy of Immortals.

East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1901. Brown wrappers, printed and decorated in black and red; sewn binding. 6 x 4 in. Four issues. Frontispiece portrait of the musican printed on Japan Vellum laid in to each issue (except for Wagner, someone has nicked his portrait). Composers and musicians represented in this collection are Richard Wagner, Nicola Paganini, Frederick Chopin, and Sebastian Bach. Each volume in very good condition, some leaves unopened and some others roughly opened, they are remarkable for their advertisements that include testimonies for Grape Nuts, the prices for original Arts and Crafts furniture at the turn of the last century, and the offer for Life Memberships in the "American Academy of Immortals.

East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1901. Brown wrappers, printed and decorated in black and red; sewn binding. 6 x 4 in. One issue. Frontispiece portrait of the musician printed on Japan Vellum laid in to the issue. Composer and musician Franz Liszt is represented in this issue of the volume. Very good condition, remarkable for its advertisements that include testimonies for the wellness-giving attributes of Grape Nuts, the prices for original Arts and Crafts furniture at the turn of the last century, and the offer for Life Memberships in the "American Academy of Immortals.

Guben / London: F. Fechner / Joseph, Myers & Co., 1850. Original silk decorated boards, floral onlays. Faintly imprinted endpapers. 80 x 50 mm. All four volumes present. Four hand-colored frontispiece plates, and three additional hand-colored plates illustrate the "Little Tales," Volume 3 contains a frontispiece only. Each title page numbered with blind stamp "Polizei-Verwaltung zu Guben." Hand coloring is bright and fresh, onlay on Vol. 3 is not present, and the toe of the spine is chipped.  A very lovely set of tales, probably printed in Germany for the English juvenile; very good or better. Eighth edition. Contents as follows: 1. Story of Flora; The Ape; The Two Mice; 2. Alibée; The Young Princess; The Bee and the Fly; 3. A Journey to Fairyland; The Story of the Old Queen and a Young Peasant; 4. The Island of Delight; The Cat and the Rabbits; The Meeting of the Animals to Choose a King. Spielmann 152 Welsh 2798.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1982. First UK edition. Small octavo. Reddish-grey cloth boards, lettered in gilt, edges trimmed. White illustrated dust jacket by Angelica Garnett, printed in yellow, brown, and black. Fine, in equally fine dust jacket.  First UK edition of essays originally written for "Good Housekeeping" magazine in 1931-1932, and previously only published in book form in an American limited edition of 750 copies in 1975 by Frank Hallman, New York. The five essays of the title are, The Docks of London, Oxford Street Tide, Great Men's Houses, Abbeys and Cathedrals, and This is the House of Commons. A lovely, collectible volume. KIRKPATRICK A43b.

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1950. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Second impression, printed photo-offset from the 1940 edition because the type had to be melted during the second world war, which prevented them from making corrections or adding footnotes - as noted in a long "Note to the Second Edition" by the authors. Endsheets a trifle foxed but a very good copy, nonetheless, in a lightly worn dust jacket.

London: Martin Secker, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Octavo. Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt spine. First English trade edition, preceded by a limited edition by the Nonesuch Press in 1930. Includes "A Reminiscence" by David Garnet. Pencil ownership inscription on front free flyleaf, else near fine.

London: Cassell & Company, Ltd, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Laraçuen, Aemilia:. Small quarto. Black cloth and charcoal grey cloth over boards. Very good, in good dust jacket with tanning at edges and damp stains at lower corners that have not transferred to book. One of the 30 unsigned out-of-print series copies reserved for review and editorial purposes. Scarce. First edition. Thirty-three poems published in celebration of the poet's seventieth birthday. The poems, and much of the preliminary matter, were handwritten by the author for this book, and, together with the illuminations by Aemilia Laraçuen, have been reproduced lithographically. HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A113a.

New York: Henry Holt, 1998. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Printed wrappers. Frontispiece. Photographs. Uncorrected page proof of the first edition, being the shooting script of the eponymous film starring Harvey Keitel, Vanessa Redgrave, Mira Sorvino, and Willem Dafoe. Publisher's review letter laid in. Spine end faintly sunned and a bit bothered, small nick at front edge, else near fine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First American edition. Near fine./Good.. Mauve paper covered boards, printed paper label on spine and onlay to upper board. 37pp. First American edition. Printed by Peter Beilenson at the Walpole Printing Office, typeface designed by W. A. Dwiggins. Near fine in good printed dust wrapper with a small chip at crown of the sunned spine, and a few stray finger smudges and stray red pencil marks. From the private collection of a dedicated Bloomsbury scholar.