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Oxford: Oxford University Press and Humphrey Milford, 1926. First Edition. Profusely decorated throughout with 106 full-page plates and textual illustrations, and 19 maps including a large multi-folding map at the end of the volume. 8vo, publisher's original dark-green cloth, the spine decorated and lettered in gilt, the upper cover with gilt ornamental device at the center, both covers blocked in blind. xx, 357 pp. A fine copy, bright and clean, the maps and illustrations all in excellent condition, the text-block and hinges beautifully preserved. FIRST EDITION. The chief purpose of this important work, awarded the Conington Prize for 1924 is a reconstruction of the earlier history of the North Aegean coastline and its hinterland. The region is a large one, extending from the Adriatic coast to the Black Sea, and from the Save and Danube to the Peneios and the Dardanelles. The period covered extends from the earliest times down to the appearance of Philip II, son of Amyntas. The work is… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence, 1984. First edition, third printing. 8vo, white cloth and boards in dustjacket. 331. Very fine. Phillips received the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for BLACK TICKETS, a collection of stories. This is her first novel.

Paris: Louis Conard, Libraire-Éditeur, 1902. First Printing, in the collection Oeuvres Complétes de Gustave Flaubert. A copy with FINE PROVENANCE having come from the books owned by John Dos Passos with his autograph ownership inscription and date to the initial blank leaf. A rare early inscription prior to the publication of his first novel. With an engraved frontispiece of Flaubert printed on Papier du Chine. 8vo, in a handsome French binding of three-quarter crushed blue morocco over blue marbled paper covered boards, the spine with raised bands, the compartments with multi-ruled gilt framed panels, two compartments lettered in gilt, marbled endleaves, top edge gilt. Original paper wrappers and original spine panel bound in at the front and rear of the volume. xxvi, 630, [1, Table des Matičres] pp. A handsome and pleasing copy, well preserved with only light evidence of age or use, the hinges are strong and the text-block is clean. A very collectable copy of an iconic work with… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original plum cloth over gray boards, lettered in gilt on the spine. 617 pp. A very good, sound copy. FIRST EDITION. "A major work of mounting tensions in which the human mind is the guinea-pig...Mr. Fowles has taken a big swing at a difficult subject and his hits...are on the bull's eye" - Sunday Telegraph

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. First edition, with 49 perfect, folio 54 complete and unbattered and the “y” in may imperfect. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth with orange lettering panels on the spine and upper cover lettered in blue and ruled in orange. (8), 451 pp. A very handsome copy, very well preserved, tight and in pleasing condition at the extremities. The cloth is dark and clean but for a bit of age to the rear cover, the orange panels and lettering are complete and especially fresh and well preserved, some old tape residue at the rear pastedown. Overall, a pleasing and very collectable copy. FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT AMERICAN NOVEL OF THE 20TH CENTURY. A HANDSOME AND WELL PRESERVED COPY. MAIN STREET is important for a number of reasons — among them is the portrayal of a strong female protagonist, and what one might now call feminist themes by a male writer. MAIN STREET was initially awarded the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, but was rejected… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth with orange lettering panels on the spine and upper cover lettered in blue and ruled in orange. (8), 451 pp. An unusually well preserved and handsome copy, tight and in very nice condition at the extremities. The cloth is dark and clean, the orange panels and lettering are complete and especially fresh and well preserved. FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT AMERICAN NOVEL OF THE 20TH CENTURY. MAIN STREET is important for a number of reasons — among them is the portrayal of a strong female protagonist, and what one might now call feminist themes by a male writer. MAIN STREET was initially awarded the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, but was rejected by the Board of Trustees, who overturned the jury's decision. The prize went, instead, to Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence. In 1926 Lewis refused the Pulitzer when he was awarded it for ARROWSMITH.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989. First edition. A PRESENTATION COPY, Inscribed to G....., and signed by the author. Tall 8vo, publisher's original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and with gilt crowns on the upper cover, in the original brightly decorated dustjacket. 407pp. A fine and bright copy. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, being the first novel by a United States-born Hispanic to do so. It is also winner of the 1990 National Book Award. At the top of the best-seller lists for months on end, this is a hot and spicy novel of ethnic life in New York City and the world of performing arts. The novel develops one of Hijuelos' most common themes: how immigrants adjust to coming to the United States and how they see themselves in relation to their new culture. Also, the book showcases Hijuelos' distinctive, richly detailed description of his characters' lives written in a prose-style that evokes the rhythms of Cuban music and it is, without doubt, a really great read.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989. First edition. Tall 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth in the original dustjacket. 407 pp. A very fine and bright copy. FIRST EDITION AND A FINE COPY. The author's second novel, winner of the National Book Award. At the top of the best-seller lists for months on end, this is a hot and spicy novel of ethnic life in New York City and the world of performing arts and it is, without doubt, a great read.

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1934. 2 volumes. First edition. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs on glossy plates and several maps printed in black and red, as well as a fold-out map at the rear of volume one printed in black and blue. Large 8vo, in the original green cloth with gilt vignette of two zebras in chase on the upper covers, and gilt lettering on the spines, in the very scarce original dustjackets printed in black and red and also featuring the zebra vignettes on the upper covers. xxv, 437; ix, 439-779 pp. A bright, handsome and clean set, with almost none of the typical foxing, the green cloth bright with just some very minor age mellowing to the edges and extremities. The very rare jackets with mellowing, some edge-wear and a bit of chipping but still preserving the books well and remaining significantly complete and sound. FIRST EDITION AND AN EARLY COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF SOUTHWESTERN AFRICA’S “AMAZING VARIETY” OF MAMMALS. In this volume,… Read More

London: MacMillan and Co. Limited, 1911. First edition, WITH AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION FROM THE AUTHOR. Extensively illustrated with over 200 engravings on wood. 8vo, publisher's original red cloth with a gilt vignette on the upper cover, the spine lettered and ruled in gilt, t.e.g. xii, 419, including index pp. A handsome and pleasing copy, no foxing to the text other then a hint at the prelims, the cloth clean and well preserved, the gilt bright, the spine mellowed just a tad, only very light rubbing or wear to the extremities, in collector's condition. SCARCE SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. RARE IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. AUTOGRAPHED COPIES APPEAR VERY RARELY ON THE MARKET. The author has inscribed the title-page and has signed his name above the printed author line of the page. The account of Bland-Sutton's voyage with Dr. Comyns Berkeley from Mombasa to the Victorian Nyanza and the great Rift Valley, with descriptions of the birds, mammals, reptiles and humans… Read More

London: Botolph Printing for Martin Secker, 1931. First Edition, a very attractive printing limited to only 2000. Tall 8vo, publisher's original green cloth, the spine lettered in gilt and with the phoenix in gilt to the upper cover, the cloth with bevelled edges, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. 97, (1) pp. A pleasing copy, the book tight and strong and clean, light mellowing to the spine panel, the dustjacket complete with some wear FIRST EDITION AND A VERY FINE COPY. This work was originally titled THE ESCAPED COCK and was published in Paris by the Black Sun Press in 1929, Lawrence decided upon this new title shortly before his death. The text of the two is substantially similar but some technical differences were made. The Secker printing is quite attractive, essentially as a fine press work of the period, limited and on especially nice paper.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First American edition, same year as the British. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, the upper cover embossed with the phoenix. 103pp. A nice copy, lightly mellowed. This work was originally titled THE ESCAPED COCK and was published in Paris by the Black Sun Press in 1929, Lawrence decided upon this title shortly before his death. The text of the two is substantially similar but some technical differences of note. As THE ESCAPED COCK was limited to 450 copies and the British edition was limited to 2000, this edition can honestly be called the first general trade edition of the work. The story is Lawrence’s retelling of the events after Jesus (never referred to by name) awakens in his tomb. It was meant to be Lawrence's ultimate critique of Christianity. It is often held that the reason he never refers to the central character as anything but "the man who had died" was because he feared the story being banned as… Read More

New York: Dial Press, 1967. First Edition, Book Club issue. 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in the original dustjacket. 312pp. A near fine copy, the book and jacket both. Bourjaily’s moving novel following a small handful of Americans through the first six months that followed the killing of President Kennedy.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1916. A handsome early reprint of Little, Brown and Company’s separate printing. 8vo, publisher’s original sea-foam green course cloth, lettered and decorated with a pleasing and attractive pictorial decoration of a sailing ship on the upper cover in white and gray, lettered on the spine in white. 60pp. A near fine copy An attractive and appealing vintage edition of one of the most famous novellas in American literature. This short tale was written to inspire patriotism during the Civil War. Although the story is entirely fictitious, there was a real Philip Nolan (the main character in this work), whose true history is the basis for Hale's complementary novelette, PHILIP NOLAN'S FRIENDS. THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY is among the best examples of fiction being used to promote a political cause. “As Hale intended, the short story created significant support for the U.S. as a country, identifying the priority of the Union over the individual… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1925. First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth, the spine and upper cover lettered on beige labels. 404 [2 ads] pp. A very good and handsome copy, some light evidence of age, the front letter label slightly scuffed at the corner, but overall in clean condition. CONSIDERED ONE OF DOS PASSOS'S GREATEST WORKS. D.H. Lawrence said it was, "the best modern book about New York.

Paris: Editions du Sagittaire, Chez Simon Kr, 1924. First Edition of Breton's first Surrealist Manifesto. This copy is an RARE INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY from Breton to the author Pierre Ličvre, noted French writer and biographer of the period, WITH "sympathique hommage". 8vo, in the publisher's original orange paper wrappers printed in black on the upper cover and spine. 190 pp. A beautifully preserved copy, just a bit mellowed at the edges and corners and with very minor toning mostly at the prelims. AN IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST OF BRETON'S SURREALIST MANIFESTOS, issued in 1924 during the Surrealist movement. Leading up to 1924, two rival surrealist groups had formed, each claiming to be true successors of the revolution launched by Guillaume Apollinaire. One group was led by Yvan Goll, and the other, led by Breton, included Louis Aragon, Robert Desnos, Paul Éluard, Jacques Baron, Jacques-André Boiffard, Jean Carrive, René Crevel and Georges Malkine,… Read More

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1948. First Edition, Limited to 500 copies only. With a frontispiece portrait of Thomas Wolfe and twelve page reproduction of a holograph letter by him about the play. 8vo, publisher's original cloth in the dusjacket and publisher's slipcase. A very fine copy in a very fine dust jacket housed in the original slipcase which has some light wear. FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 500 COPIES ONLY. A Civil War play written while Wolfe was studying playwriting at Harvard with George Pierce Baker. MANNERHOUSE expresses Wolfe's personal credo "that man does not live for truth but for divine falsehood." It is the story of a great southern mansion built in that faith, the house falls into the hands of speculation and materialism. It is arguabley Wolfe's sole use of non-autobiographical material.

London: John Murray, 1878. 3 volumes. The new and best edition, revised and corrected. With over 645 finely accomplished plates throughout the three volumes presented in the text, as full-page cuts and with many lithographic coloured plates on separately printed pages as well as with many multi-page illustrations and folding maps and plans. Large, thick 8vo, publisher’s original dark-green cloth, beautifully decorated with gilt pictorial vignettes on the upper covers and lettered in gilt on the spines and upper covers, ruled in blind. xxx, 510; xii, 515; xi, 528 pp. A fine, handsome and very pleasing set in the original publisher’s beautifully decorated cloth bindings. The bindings are bright and fresh with no fading, internally clean and very sturdy. The plates are in excellent condition. An excellent set. AN IMPORTANT AND CORNERSTONE WORK and of the most important works on the ancient Egyptians. Wilkinson’s acute observations and use of exhaustive illustrations of the manners… Read More

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1918. Second Edition, Revised 8vo, publisher's original light blue cloth, the spine and upper cover lettered in black. xxviii, 239, [1], 8 publisher's catalogue pp. A fine copy, the text-block is clean, the binding very well preserved, hinges strong, some minor evidence of age or use. RARE ISSUE OF F. MATTHIAS ALEXANDER'S FIRST BOOK. John Dewey wrote of the author's work that "Mr. Alexander's book is not concerned with setting forth instrumental, pragmatic, or evolutionary philosophy, with which is wrapped a personal intuition of quasi-magical personal knack. His critical contention is that the remediable ills from wihch humanity suffers on the physical side (with the intellectual and moral ills that result) are due to disassociation of the 'higher' nervous structures and functions--those which are the basis of our conscious life--from the 'lower'--those which are involved in the execution of bodily postures and movements. Roughly speaking, the latter… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, 1982. First edition. SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION. One of 500 copies only. 8vo, publisher's original red crushed buckram, lettered in gilt and housed in the original slipcase, with tipped in plate of a Picasso engraving to the cover. 196 pp. A pristine copy. As mint. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND NUMBERED AND LIMITED.