New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1941]. 8vo. 438 pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION. Original tan cloth with pictorial end-papers in dust-jacket, slightly chipped at top edge and worn at folds; uncut interior excellent. A NOVEL OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND. First edition, preceding the English printing by two years. This novel is..... More
New York: Creative Age Press, [1945]. 8vo. viii, 320 pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Original tan cloth in tattered dust-jacket. First American edition. Set in early nineteenth century Virginia, this is the first of Gogarty’s novels to take place in America. A tale of bookies, jockeys, fortune-hunters and revenge. NCBEL, IV..... More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, Ltd., [1923]. 8vo. 57, [3] pp., including frontispiece. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Original blue cloth; end-papers browned. Small stamp to front paste-down, “Printed in Great Britain.”. First English edition, preceded by the Irish edition printed by the Cuala Press; both include the same preface by Yeats. This..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. 8vo. 317 pp. FIRST EDITION, THIRD IMPRESSION. Frontispiece illustration of Gogarty. Original gray cloth in dust-jacket, small tear to top front edge, otherwise an excellent copy. First edition, third impression. Gogarty was called by Yeats “one of the great lyric poets of the age.” A fine..... More
London: Joseph Cundall, 1857. 8vo. 46, [2] pp., including 2 pages of publisher’s advertisements. With 35 text engravings. Full brown morocco, decorated in blind and gilt, with gilt dentelles; first 2 blank leaves detached. From the library of James Hale Bates with his engraved bookplate on the paste-down. A nostalgic..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1859. 8vo. 46, [2] pp., including 2 pages of publisher’s advertisements. With 35 text engravings. Full red morocco over beveled boards, decorated in blind and gilt, title done in a thorn branch design, with marbled endpapers; rubbed at corners, head and foot of spine..... More
London: Noel Douglas, 1927. 4to. [iv], viii, [i], 23 pp., including half-title. Original boards; light scattered foxing. Small bookseller’s stamp to rear paste-down. Facsimile of the British Museum’s copy of the first edition. NCBEL, II, 1198. More
London: I. & F. Rivington, B. Law, G. Robinson, S. Bladon & T. Evans, 1775. 12mo. [ii], 248 pp. Title vignette. Full calf with morocco spine label, outer joints rubbed, chipped at head of spine, slightly worn at edges and corners; occasional spotting. Ownership inscriptions on fly-leaf and front paste-down..... More
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1928. Two volumes. 8vo. 277; 188 pp. Each volume with half-title, frontispiece and engraved title. Vellum-backed boards, with matching slip-case; endpapers slightly browned, some off-setting from titles and frontispieces, otherwise a very nice uncut copy from the library of Louise Ward Watkins with her bookplates. Limited..... More
Glasgow: Blackie and Son, [1840]. Two volumes. 8vo. xxviii, 564; viii, 664 pp. Each volume with frontispiece and additional engraved title. With 35 full-page engraved plates (1 folding) and numerous text woodcuts. Diced russia, spine labels (torn on Volume 2); interiors with some spotting and light foxing to preliminaries and..... More
London: George Routledge and Co., 1859. 8vo. xvi, 160 pp. FIRST EDITION. Engraved title with gilt borders, numerous text woodcuts in contemporary colour, decorative initials, borders, ornaments, text within gilt rules. Original bright green cloth over beveled boards, decorated in blind, central panels in leaf sprays, central frame and title..... More
London: John Van Voorst, 1843. 4to. xv, [i], 306 pp., including half-title. With 32 text engravings. Full red morocco, boards gilt-ruled, gilt edges and dentelles, with white and gold patterned end-papers; an exquisite copy from the library of James Anderson Rose (see below) with his armorial bookplate. ENGRAVINGS BY WILLIAM..... More
London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1914. Folio. xvi, 345 pp. With colour frontispiece and 60 plates (12 colour). Half-morocco and cloth; a lovely untrimmed copy. First edition containing the illustrations of Edmund J. Sullivan. A limited printing, this copy is number 53 of 500 signed by the illustrator. More
New York: The Heritage Press, [1939]. 4to. vii, [v], 210 pp. Frontispiece and 7 colour plates. Original red cloth in dust-jacket. This edition includes a short biography of the author and plates by the illustrator John Austen (1886-1948). Austen’s earlier work was heavily influenced by the great illustrator Aubrey Beardsley..... More
London: F. Newberry, 1766. Two volumes. 8vo. [vi], 214; [iv], 223 pp. SECOND EDITION. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, -gilt decorated ribbed spines; interior excellent. Armorial bookplates of Sir Henry Streatfield of Chiddingston Castle, Kent. Second edition of Goldsmith’s most enduring work. Painting a picture of village life, the novel is narrated..... More
London: Constable & Company, 1910. 8vo. vi, [ii], 492 pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION. Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard and 8 plates. Original green publisher’s cloth, decorated in blind and gilt at spine; an excellent uncut copy. First edition of Moore’s biography of Goldsmith. It includes an extensive index as..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans; John Murray, 1854. 8vo. xii, 468; [vi], 487, [1]; [iv], 447, [1]; [iv], 450; xlv, [iii], 454; xii, 548 pp., including index for each set. FIRST EDITION OF WORKS; SECOND EDITION OF LIFE. First four volumes with half-title and second engraved title; Volume IV with engraved..... More
Alma [Michigan]: The Geo F. Butler Publishing Co., [1900]. 8vo. [x], 194 pp. FIRST EDITION. Title in red and black. Frontispiece. Original green cloth; overall a very nice, uncut copy, t.e.g., with the inscription of J.H. Goodhue on fly-leaf. First edition of this series of short essays, tales and poems..... More
London: Chiswick Press, 1867. 4to. xvi, 415, [2] pp. Thick paper copy. Contemporary full morocco by Riviere. From the library of Eton College with two dedications. With four original photographs tipped into the book, including frontispiece portrait of the author. More
London: The Chiswick Press, 1867. 4to. 415 pp. Illustrated with 3 mounted photographs and numerous woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary full calf with gilt boards, rebacked with the original spine laid down, spine with 5 raised bands with gilt tooled panels and morocco spine label, inner dentelles, marbled end-papers, all..... More
Havana: Guairas Book Institute, 1967. 8vo. 104 pp., including half-title, plus 8 leaves of plates. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Original white cloth in dust jacket; small bookseller’s price tag from the “Cuban Boutique Cubaine” tipped onto front fly-leaf. An excellent copy. First edition in English. This scarce Havana imprint chronicles..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1879. 12mo. 84 pp. FIRST EDITION. With engraved frontispiece. Original rust-colored cloth over beveled boards, gilt title on top board. Bookplate of Harris Collection of American Poetry, Brown University, with “withdrawn” stamped in small red print near foot, small red “withdrawn” stamp to foot of..... More
Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel, 1892. 8vo. [v], 141 pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION. Original cloth-backed decorated boards, gilt spine, front hinge cracked; half-title detached, some offset to title from newspaper article by Helmuth tipped in to verso of half-title. Inscribed on title page by the author to E.M.B. Van Allen..... More
New York: Scribners, 1929. 8vo. 355 pp. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE WITHOUT THE LEGAL DISCLAIMER. Original black cloth, gold labels, in the dust jacket. An exceptional copy, light dust spots on top edge, the binding mint, the dust jacket bright and near fine. First edition, first issue, without the legal..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. 8vo. [viii], 118, [2] pp. FIRST EDITION. Original publisher's cloth, gilt-stamped title to spine and blind-stamped to upper board, with dust jacket (torn), otherwise a very good copy. First edition in book form of Hersey's classic story of six people who survived the atom..... More
