[London]: Bloomsbury, 1992. 8vo, (10), 307pp. Original blue cloth, backstrip gilt, dust-jacket, top edges lightly spotted otherwise as new. First edition of this landmark novel, which was the winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize at the closing event of the Man Booker 50th Anniversary Festival. The winner of this...
London: Methuen & Co., 1908. 8vo, (6), 302 pp., frontispiece by Graham Robertson with tissue guard. Original blue green cloth with pictorial gilt designs on backstrip and upper cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Recased, backstrip relined, new endpapers, small stain in the top right margin up to p. 71...
Yonkers: Alicat Bookshop,1946. 8vo, 21p., lacks the photographic wrappers First Edition. First issue, printed in purple, but lacking the wrappers and the 3/4 length photo of the author in men's clothing. With a postcard from Anais Nin to Jane Kastner: "May the New Year fulfill all your wishes. Anais."
New York: Dutton, 1948. 8vo, 182pp. Original black cloth, dust-jacket chipped at head and overall a bit scruffy. First American edition, presentation copy inscribed: ""For Jane Kastner Nothing is lost but it changes... Anais Nin."
New York" Dutton, 1947. 8vo, 182pp. Original black cloth, dust-jacket chipped at head and overall a bit scruffy. First American edition, presentation copy inscribed: ""For Jane Kastner In the world of the dreamer there is solitude... Anais Nin."
Yonkers: Alicat Bookshop, 1947. 8vo, 29pp. Original printed wrappers, browned (as usual?). First edition, 1000 copies set up and printed at the Gemor Press.
[San Francisco]: Gemor Press, [1947]. Slim sm. 8vo, 52 pp. Original orange cloth, upper cover decorated and printed in black. Initially self-published in Paris in 1936, this novella was also self-published a decade later when Nin as unable to find a U.S. publisher. This copy is inscribed: "For Jane Kastner...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1981. Sm. folio,. xv, [1], 319, [3] pp. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's full wine linen with gilt-stamped medallion and gilt lettered spine. Dust jacket. A very fine copy. Edition limited to 950 numbered copies, this being copy no. 867. A well printed and illustrated updated bibliography of...
Great Neck NY: Minkoff, 1970. Slim 4to, 70pp. (12), 60pp. Portrait frontispiece of Harry and Carese Crosby. Original black cloth, as new. Edition limited to 1250 copies. A well produced and useful study of this iconic expatriate press which published so many famous authors -- Joyce, Pound, Lawrence, Crane, Hemingway etc.
New York and London: Printed for subscribers only by M. Walter Dunne, 1904. 10 vols., 8vo (9 x 6 in.; 228 x 153 ). Frontispieces and numerous plates by Clare Victor Dwiggins in 2 states with lettered tissue-guards. Original half red morocco, backstrips richly gilt, gilt tops, a very good...
London and New York: A.R. Keller, 1907. 15 vols., 8vo, illustrations in every volume. Original de luxe binding of half dark green morocco, gilt tops, backstrips uniformly ages to brown, gilt decorations and lettering still bright. In all, a very good set Limited to 800 sets, usually found in cloth...
Berkeley: Koch Editions, 2003. 8vo, 11 x 5.5 inches, unpaginated. Stiff card wrappers oversewn, upper wrapper illustrated, in card portfolio and slipcase. As new. Number 24 of an edition of 150 copies signed by Seibert and McNeill. Bound by John DeMerritt in paper made at the Magnolia papermill. Peter Koch...
Newtown: The Gregnyog Press, 1930. Small 4to, xliii, 107, (1, colophon)pp. Wood engraved portrait of Christina Rossetti and shadow initials by R.A. Maynard. Half tan calf and marbled boards. Spine slightly scuffed and darkened, as often, otherwise a very good, unopened copy. Number 237 of 300 copies. A very good...
Newtown: The Gregynog Press, (1934). Sm. 4to, 75 pp., printed in red, green and black. Original full brown morocco, Boleyn's falcon badge in gilt to upper cover, backstrip lettered in gilt, small ticket of the The Lakeside Press bindery, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Training Department, to front pastedown. A few...
Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Whitestone, Chamberlaine, Watson, et al., 1776. 3 vols., 8vo, [viii], [1]-391; [viii-, [1]-524, [3, ads]; [iv], [1]-412 pp. Diced calf with gilt rules, recently rebacked. Lady Davy’s bookplate and inscription in each vol., purple ink signature of a later owner upon each bookplate, occasional marginal staining...
London: Faber and Faber, 1939. 8vo, 628 pp. Original brick red cloth, backstrip titled in gilt, top edge stained yellow others untrimmed, original dust-jacket neatly repaired. Untrimmed edges aged toned, pencil name on front free endpaper. A near fine copy in a professionally restored dust-jacket that presents very well. First...
New York: HBJ, 1980. Thin 4to, 45pp. Illus. in color throughout. Original cloth, clipped dust-jacket, fine and protected in glassine. First edition, second printing (“BCDE” on copyright page, no Caldecott medal on jacket). Children’s book by a Blake aficionada - but of direct Blake interest for a good deal of.....
Amsterdam: Nico Israel, 1976. 4to, 253 pp. [12] pp of plates, ills (some in color). Grey cloth with pictorial dust-jacket. Fine in a fine dust-jacket with original prospectus laid in. First edition of the “first work in English on the entire production of an early illustrated printed book, from concept...
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1957. 8vo, (10), (50, including 33 illustrations of the holdings on display), pp. Lightly thumbed, wrappers toned with some spotting on the lower panel, good. “Nine drawings for Paradise Lost, accompanied by a verse for each one; Eight drawings for the masque, Comus, accompanied by...
London: Macmillan, 1895. 8vo, viii, 184pp. 4pp. ads. Frontispiece and twenty-two other plates, coloured full-page map. Original red cloth, gilt, very good. First edition, third impression. “The book narrates in detail how the death of Chitrals ageing Chief Aman ul-Mulk in 1892 caused uncertain conditions in the region, leading to...
Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson, 1841. 12mo, engraved frontispiece and t/p (not by or after Blake), viii, 280pp. Full period dark red polished calf, gilt edges. A sweet (and seemingly very uncommon) edition of this long-lived crowd pleaser first published in 1742, later illustrated by William Blake, and still in print in...
New Castle: Oak Knoll, 1999. 8vo, xxiii, 285pp. Illustrated throughout, including all the known portraits of Dibdin. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt, Jeffrey Thomas’s copy inscribed to him by Windle and with a few ephemeral items about Dibdin inserted in xerox copies. First and to date the only edition.....
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 8vo, 24 cm, xvi, 71 pp. Illustrated with a tipped-in color frontispiece portrait, two other portrtaits, and b/w illustrations of the title-pages of the books. Original red cloth lettered in gilt, as new. Inscribed to Jeffrey Thomas by the author. This second edition (of...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902. 8vo, xiii, 504, (6, ads) pp. With 8 black and white illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Original beige cloth titled in red and gilt and with design of holstered pistol intertwined with a lariat. Cloth slightly toned, backstrip with minor wear to foot and...
San Francisco: Helen Gentry, 1930. 12mo, printed self-wrappers, (15)pp. Unopened, as new. A scarce little pamphlet based on material suggested by Wilbur Macey Stone who had it from the New York Sun, January 18, 1914.
