Random House, 1950. First edition, first printing. Signed/Lined by Auden on the title page. Taking its name from Shakespeare's Othello, this book contains Auden's three Page-Barbour Lectures delivered at the University of Virginia in 1949. The principal works he examines are Coleridge's The ancient Mariner, Lewis.....
Los Angeles: Tight Lines Publishers, 1932. Deluxe edition, 500 copies. Full wraparound decorated leather. Moire silk endpapers, double full page map front, tipped in frontispiece portrait of the author, black and white photographs and pen and ink sketches throughout. This is one of three important books Bandini wrote chronicling his.....
Dial Press, 1964. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page.
Amsterdamo: [Elsevir], 1665. First Elzevir edition. Early red calf elaborately stamped in gilt and blind.
Collins and Harvill Press, 1967. First UK edition.
Random House, 1965. First edition, first printing (first issue dust jacket).
Henry Colburn, 1838-39. First editions. 3/4 patterned burgundy leather, stamped in gilt on spine over marbled boards. The veracity of these memoirs came under the scrutiny of the Press, and was forcefully defended in the Editor's Preface in Volume Three. Caroline was popular with the public, and they were sympathetic.....
London: Gibbings and Co. Ld. 1895. First Brangwyn edition. One-half green crushed morocco over marbled boards spines simply gilt with title and central devices.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. First printing thus. Full crushed red morocco, bound by Riviere & Son. Double gilt fillet to front and back, elegantly gilt spine with five raised bands, half-inch decoratively gilt inner dentelles. Deep blue endpapers, original green wrappers bound in rear. Dickens began public readings of.....
Scribner, 2014. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Number 47 of Powell's Indiespensable Series. Interview booklet included.
Random House, 1940. First edition, first printing.
Archive Press and Communications, 1999. First English Translation. Les Demeures Philosophales is perhaps the most important alchemical work of the past two centuries. Originally published in 1929 and previously only in French, it has now opened a most important alchemical door for the English-speaking world.
[ca. 1979]. First edition, first printing. Handmade Custom Binding by California Bookbinding. Brown leather, tan sail cloth, title gilt. Measuring 13" x 15" Signed and dated by the photographer, Willie Gibson. Limited to 20 copies, this photo album, purchased directly from the photographer, contains over 70 unpublished photos of Neil.....
London: Methuen & Co., 1908. First edition, first printing. Publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth, fore- and lower edges untrimmed, top edge trimmed and gilt. This is the first appearance of one of the most important imaginative texts of the 20th century. Kenneth Graham's beautifully bucolic bedtime-story-turned-book rests in the influential background.....
Book Lab, 2017. First edition, first printing. Black cloth, stamped in white, in matching publisher's slipcase. Signed by Grarup on the title page. This copy also comes with a signed and numbered photograph in frame. The first print run was limited to 4,000 copies.
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition, first printing. First issue dust jacket with nine titles on rear panel. All first printing points present (Hanneman, A.4.a). First printing was limited to 1250 copies.
Faber and Faber, 2000. First UK edition, first printing.
Faber & Faber, 1929. First English Edition from French sheets. Mediterranean blue cloth. All edges of text block and top of boards lightly toned, former owner's name and date front free endpaper, near fine in near fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Essays written in defense of Joyce's "Work in.....
Princeton U. Press, 1944. First English Translation edition. Kierkegaard is widely considered the father of Existentialism and is perhaps the most important Christian philosopher of the past 200 years. Either/Or is largely considered Kierkegaard's magnum opus and contrasts the Aesthetic Life and the Ethical Life. Though his first major philosophical.....
U. of Hawaii Press, 1966-1968. I, reprint; II, second printing; III, first printing.
U. of Nebraska Press, 1983-1999. Vols. 1-6: First editions, second-fourth printings; Vols. 7-13: First editions, first printings. Since the Reuben Thwaites edition of 1904-1905, numerous new manuscripts and maps have been uncovered leading the University of Nebraska Press to the decision that it was time for a new edition of.....
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1946. First American edition, first printing. The third and final book of Lewis' Space Trilogy, That Hideous Strength is part fantasy, part dystopia, part philosophy, and part educational philosophy. Not only is it the narrative climax to his science fiction trilogy it is, as Lewis.....
London: George Allen & Co., 1912. First Detmold printing. Cream cloth stamped in gilt.
London: George Allen & Co., 1912. Second Detmold printing. Cream cloth stamped in orange.
Harper & Row, 1970. First printing, second issue dust jacket. With no number line to rear endpaper and period at end of first paragraph on jacket flap.