Abbey's Road.
E. P. Dutton, 1979. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the ffep.
E. P. Dutton, 1979. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the ffep.
E. P. Dutton, 1979. First pbk edition, first printing. Endearingly inscribed by the author on the half title page in the year of publication.
E. P. Dutton, 1977. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the ffep.
Colorado Associated University Press, 1974. First edition, first printing.
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.....
Amsterdamo: [Elsevir], 1665. First Elzevir edition. Early red calf elaborately stamped in gilt and blind.
Collins and Harvill Press, 1967. First UK edition.
Hamish Hamilton, 1955. First English Translation, first printing. It's difficult to find a more beautiful copy of this monumental absurdist text. Originally written in 1942, Th eMyth of Sisyphus is, in many ways, the literary companion to The Stranger––published that same year. As an introduction to.....
Random House, 1968. First edition, first printing. A musical, with lyrics and music by Harold Arlen.
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: George G. Harrap & Co., [1910]. First Trade Pogany Edition, Beautifully rebound in crushed olive morocco, spine embossed and gilt with sea themes, front panel elaborately gilt with triple decorative gilt rectangular panels and elaborate centrall panel enclosing a sailing ship in rough seas with red and green onlays.....
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.....
London: Faber & Faber, 1960. First edition, Signed/Limited. Marbled paper-covered boards over white vellum spine, in matching publisher's slipcase. Signed by T.S. Eliot. Limited to 290 copies, of which this is #189.
Random House, 1940. First edition, first printing.
Random House Australia, 2013. first edition first printing. Nicely signed and dated on the title page in year of winning the Booker Prize, 2014.
[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.....
London: Methuen & Co., 1908. First edition, first printing. Contemporary blue half-calf backed blue cloth, six-paneled spine, title and author panels in red and green, respectively, gilt decorations. Fore- and lower edges untrimmed, top edge trimmed and gilt. Margins remain wide and largely unaffected. This is the first appearance of.....
London: Nonesuch Press, 1931. First edition thus. Full tan and brick red morocco, five raised bands to spine, gilt title panel, double gold filleting to front and rear boards. Fore- and lower edges untrimmed, top edge trimmed and gilt. Marbled endpapers. Lacking slipcases. Limited to 1450 copies (Iliad) and 1300.....
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. First edition, ninth printing. TEG, three-quarter polished red calf over red buckram, gilt title, author and decorations within 5 raised bands on spine. Original paper wraps bound in. The extensive revisions and corrections made to the eighth printing of the first edition were maintained through.....
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.....
Harper & Row, 1988. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the title page.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1858. First edition, supposed 2nd printing. Half red crushed morrocco, over marbled paper, top edge gilt. Supposed second printing, as ads in rear are dated July 1859. From the family of George MacDonald! The bookplate on the front paste down belonged to Christopher.....
Granata, 2007. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page.