Il Decameron.
Amsterdamo: [Elsevir], 1665. First Elzevir edition. Early red calf elaborately stamped in gilt and blind.
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The Lady in the Lake.
Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First edition, first printing. Known for cannibalizing his short stories, Chandler drew upon his previously published "Bay City Blues," "No Crime in the Mountains," and the eponymously named "The Lady of the Lake." Fueled by his patriotism and written shortly after the attack on.....
The Story of Little Dombey.
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.....
All the Light We Cannot See.
Scribner, 2014. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Number 47 of Powell's Indiespensable Series. Interview booklet included.
The Wind in the Willows.
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.....
The Wind in the Willows.
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.....
The Torrents of Spring.
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.
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The Iliad [and] The Odyssey.
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.....
When We Were Orphans.
Faber and Faber, 2000. First UK edition, first printing.
That Hideous Strength : A Modern Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups.
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.....
A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark, Written in Prose and in Verse.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890. Limited edition. Tan paper boards over tan cloth. Stamped in brown, gilt title with sword emblem, top edge gilt. Along with George MacDonald, William Morris rests at the genesis of the genre of modern fantasy. Morris' works were the first to be set in an entirely.....
Cannery Row.
Viking, 1945. First edition, first printing. Variant canary yellow binding, as opposed to the originally selected light buff cloth, which ran out during production (Goldstone and Payne A22b).
The Grimoire : And Other Supernatural Stories.
London: The Fortune Press, [1936]. First edition, first printing. A timeless compilation of some of the most famous supernatural horror stories, including Polidori's "The Vampyre" and Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades"
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