New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First American edition, utilizing English sheets, first printing of James Joyce's first prose work--a collection of short stories all unified by a common place, depicting Irish middle class. The stories were written while Irish Nationalism was at its peak and the search for a......
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1924. First edition, first printing of the seminal dystopian novel. xiv, [2], 286 pp. Bound in publisher's black ribbed cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. Near Fine with very light wear and soiling to cloth, rubbing to spine gilt; binding square and firm.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First edition, first printing, American issue. (No ads at rear. As per Garrison later US printings had ads at rear.) [vi], 533 pp. with frontispiece and seven illustrated plates. Bound in publisher's red ribbed cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight lean to.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. An absolutely superlative copy of the first British edition, first printing of Orwell's iconic novel. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth with maroon lettering to spine. Trace erased pencil to front free endpaper and rear pastedown, still easily Fine with bright cloth and stamping, vivid.....
London: Printed [by Samuel Simons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker [...] Robert Boulter [...] and Matthias Walker, 1667. First edition, first issue, Amory's state 1(b) of the title page (the traditional first state), dated 1667 and with Milton's name spelled in full and in larger type than.....
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First edition, limited issue. Number 326 of 525 copies signed by Antoine de Saint-Exupery on the limitation page tipped in at front. 94 pp. Bound in publisher's salmon cloth stamped in maroon. Near Fine with light wear to extremities, very slight intermittent dampstaining to.....
New York: The John Day Publishing Company, 1931. First edition, first printing, first issue with "The John Day Publishing Company, Inc." on copyright page. Error "flees" that was present in the first three printings on p. 100, line 17. [vi], 375, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First edition, first printing with "seep" for the word "sleep" at p. 209. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine blocked in red and blue and blue mask motif to upper board. Near Fine with toning to boards in an unusually Fine unclipped dust.....
[New York]: [Dead Language Press], [1962]. First edition. Signed by Jack Smith on verso of front wrap, inscribed to poet Kirby Congdon "To Kirby with choked up strangled emotions...... Jack." [20] pp. Illustrated with 19 gelatin silver contact prints, comprising 18 photographs by Smith mounted on yellow pages, and one.....
[Various places]: [No Publisher], 1937-1966. A vast archive of correspondence featuring approximately 395 letters, postcards and correspondences from the iconic American author John Steinbeck sent to family members over the course of twenty-nine years. The scope is incredible, spanning from the publication of his masterpiece Of Mice and Men to.....
London: John Murray, 1816. First edition, first printing of Austen's beloved fourth novel and the last to be published during her short lifetime. [vi], 322; [ii], 351, [1, printer's imprint]; [iv], 363, [1, publisher's adverts]. Three volumes uniformly bound in emerald green straight-grain morocco finely tooled and lettered in gilt.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition, first printing of Dashiell Hammett’s first novel. Signed by the author on the fly-leaf and inscribed to the Arizona bookseller Billy Greer Hobson: "Keep a notebook and pencil — the story of the other fellows' crime pays. Dashiell Hammett." Hobson's bookplate on.....