Il Decameron.
Amsterdamo: [Elsevir], 1665. First Elzevir edition. Early red calf elaborately stamped in gilt and blind.
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.....
Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author.
Random House, 1940. First edition, first printing.
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.
Thornwillow Press, 2021. Limited edition. Leaf patterned paper-covered boards over yellow cloth spine and corners. #117/250 copies signed by the publisher on the colophon page. Laid in are several publisher's printed pamphlets including a list of subscriber's to the press, in separate mylar sleeve.
Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. First edition, first issue with "I" in date on copyright page in perfect type. Green cloth titled in cream and with pictorial cover illustration stamped in black, cream and pale orange. Non-personally inscribed by the author, "Sincerely, Upton Sinclair."
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. First Wyeth edition, first printing. Fine in near fine to fine dust jacket with a small, light stain, tiny tears and short creases to upper spine tip and a tiny chip to lower spine end, in mylar cover.
Genesis Publications Limited, 1984. Signed/Limited. Half calf backed cloth boards, red morocco spine label, title and ruled in gilt, compartments decorated in gilt. Illustrated endpapers (by Derek Taylor), edges gilt. In publisher's brown paper slipcase, paper title label. Signed and Limited to 2000 copies of which this is 1200. Signed.....