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New York: Random House, (1952). First Edition. Hardcover. Based on the Novel by John P. Marquand.
New York: Random House, (1952). First Edition. Hardcover. Based on the Novel by John P. Marquand.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth; xv, 397 pages. Letters to Scott from Byron, Goethe, and many others. Entertaining introductory letter by Hugh Walpole about acquiring the letters at auction and his experiences at book auctions. Illustrated. Small bookplate of Lafayette Butler on the front pastedown and.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1951. Edmund Dulac. Hardcover. Large octavo (7-1/4" x 10-3/8") bound in full white vellum with gold stamping. A re-telling of a story from Apuleius's THE GOLDEN ASS illustrated in water-color by Edmund Dulac. One of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1951. Edmund Dulac. Hardcover. Large octavo (7-1/4" x 10-3/8") bound in full white vellum with gold stamping. A re-telling of a story from Apuleius's THE GOLDEN ASS illustrated in water-color by Edmund Dulac. One of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.....
New York: Heritage Press, (1951). Edmund Dulac. Hardcover. Decorated cloth. A re-telling of a story from Apuleius's THE GOLDEN ASS illustrated with color plates by Edmund Dulac. A less expensive version of the Limited Editions Club edition.
(Oxford): Clarendon Press, 1906. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Parchment over boards imitating vellum. Part of the Tudor and Stuart Library. Originally published in 1690, this edition has an introduction by Tanner.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. The Eighth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael.
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1974. First American Edition.
Boston: Little Brown, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by both Pinter and John Fowles who wrote the introduction.
Rapallo: n.d. Letter. One-page letter on Pound's personal stationery (8-7/8" x 7") SIGNED with his initials. Apparently a letter to the editor of the TRIBUNE "to print if you like," as Pound has typed in the upper left margin. In full: "Now that the TRIBUNE has (editorial April 17) definitely.....
[circa October 1933]. Manuscript. Holograph MANUSCRIPT, 23 pages written on rectos of separate 8-1/2" x 11" sheets, SIGNED in the byline. Complete draft of his essay titled "Detachment," with numerous additions and deletions throughout, and with a holograph note at upper right of the first page: "Published in 'The Aryan.....
[London]: E. Lahr, 1930. First Edition. Printed wraps. Printed wraps. Powys's first book, in remarkable condition.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. First Edition. hardcover. A collection of stories. Title page drawing, reproduced on the front of the dustwrapper, by Gilbert Spencer.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. First Edition. hardcover. A 57-page story bound in attractive pictorial boards.
n.p. [@1970]. Manuscript. Handwritten Manuscript SIGNED "VS Pritchett" twice, at the upper left of the first page and again after the text. Complete draft of his book review titled "Victorian Studies in Scarlet," with numerous additions and deletions throughout: 4-1/2 pages written on the rectos of separate 8" x 11".....
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd./Aldine House, 1930. Arthur Rackham. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo (5-3/4" x 7-3/4") handsomely bound by Birdsall in 3/4 red morocco leather and boards with gilt rules and a gilt-lettered and decorated spine with five raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Illustrated with 12 full-page.....
(Waltham Saint Lawrence): The Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. Eric Ravilious. First Edition. Hardcover. Original Sangorski and Sutcliffe morocco leather-backed boards with Ravilious illustrations on both covers. The text is illustrated with a wood-engraved title, decorative borders, and 29 lovely wood-engravings by Eric Ravilious printed in brown and gray/green. Copy #261.....
London: R. Ackermann, 1817. Thomas Rowlandson. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (6" x 9-1/2") bound in 19th century half polished green calf leather with matching corners and marbled boards; gilt rules; gilt-decorated spine with a gilt-lettered morocco spine label and five raised bands; marbled endpapers and edges; [iv], ii, ii, 285.....
London: R. Ackermann, 1821. Thomas Rowlandson. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (5-3/4" x 9-1/2") bound in full burgundy morocco leather by W. Root and Son, neatly rebacked with the original spine; gilt rules and gilt floral decorations in each corner of both covers; gilt-lettered and decorated spine with five raised bands;.....
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1903. Thomas Rowlandson. New Edition. Hardcover. Three octavo (5-1/4" x 8") volumes handsomely bound in 3/4 black morocco leather and burgundy boards with gilt rules and gilt-lettered and decorated spines with four raised bands. One of only 50 copies on Large Paper, the best.....
London: R. Ackermann, 1815. Thomas Rowlandson. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (5-3/4" x 9-1/2") in 20th century half blue morocco leather and blue cloth boards with matching corners and a gilt-lettered spine with five raised bands, marbled endpapers; 400, [12] pages. A collection of 20 letters written by the author while.....
London: Flamingo, (1997). First Edition. wraps. Uncorrected proof in pictorial wraps of the First British Edition, preceding the American, of her first book, winner of the Booker Prize.
Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes in original boards with paper spine labels. Essays on Art Education, Architecture, J. M. W. Turner, Women: Their Work and Dress, and other topics. With a two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED with an ORIGINAL DRAWING by Ruskin to "My dear.....
Oxford: 7 February 1876. Letter. One-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "J Ruskin" on one side of an 8-3/4" x 7" sheet of Corpus Christi College stationery folded in half addressed to a Miss Rudkin. Ruskin requests that she send a bill [for the dress she purchased for him to give as.....
Hernehill: 4 January 1837. Letter. An early one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "J Ruskin," written when he was just 17 years old, on one panel of a 10" x 8" sheet folded in fours addressed to W. H. White, Secretary of the British Meteorological Society. In full: "I take the liberty.....