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Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton; Finely Bound
NIMROD (CHARLES JAMES APPERLEY); ILLUSTRATED BY HENRY ALKEN,.
Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq.
London: Downey & Company, 1899.
Quarto, bound in full read leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels. Twenty colour illustrations with tissue guard, by Henry Alken, all present. In excellent condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 3922
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First Edition of Wodehouse On Golf; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Wodehouse On Golf.
New York: Doubleday, Doran& Co., Inc, 1940.
First edition of this classic collection of golf stories by Wodehouse. Octavo, original cloth. Contemporary name to the front free endpaper, very good in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 83456
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"Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone": First Edition of Ravelstein; Inscribed by Saul Bellow
BELLOW, Saul.
Ravelstein.
New York: The Viking Press, 2000.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's final novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Tina Gotte Saul Bellow." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 174
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Olivia, Signed by Ian Falconer
FALCONER, Ian.
Olivia.
New York: Atheneum Books, 2000.
First edition, early printing of the author's first book. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout.Boldly signed by Ian Falconer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 647
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First Edition in English of Xingjian's Snow in August; Inscribed by Him
XINGJIAN, Gao.
Snow in August.
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2003.
First edition in English of the Nobel Laureate's play that is based on the legendary Huineng, the sixth patriarch of Zen Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Gao Xingjian on the title page. Review copy, with slip laid in, fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated by Gilbert C.F. Fong.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 1234
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First Edition of The Poetic Species; Signed by Edward O. Wilson and Robert Haas
WILSON, Edward O. & Robert Haas.
The Poetic Species: A Conversation With Edward O. Wilson and Robert Haas.
New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2014.
First edition of this "wonderful read in its entirety, short yet infinitely simulating" (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings). Small octavo, original half cloth. Signed by both Robert Haas and Edward O. Wilson (who has drawn a picture of an ant) on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 3300
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"MAY YOU LIVE ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE": The Works of Jonathan Swift; finely bound in full polished calf
SWIFT, Jonathan.
The Works of Jonathan Swift.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1864.
Finely bound example of the Swift's complete works, with a memoir of the author by Thomas Roscoe. Royal octavo, two volumes, bound in full polished calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, double gilt ruling to the panels, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, tissue-guarded frontispiece of Swift to volume one. In very good condition. Bookplates.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 141076
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First edition of Susan Cheever's Looking For Work; inscribed by her to Ken Burrows
CHEEVER, Susan [Erica Jong].
Looking For Work.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.
First edition of the author's first novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Burrows with love Susan." The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989. Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written in the throes of the Sexual Revolution of the…
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 142332
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"If my bed grew wings I would fly to a thick forest where there was an old broken-down castle that no one knew about, hidden in trees": First edition of Michael Rosen's Under the Bed: The Bedtime Book; Inscribed by him
ROSEN, Michael.
Under the Bed: The Bedtime Book.
London: Walker Books, 1986.
First edition of Michael Rosen's charming book of bedtime stories, illustrated by Quentin Blake. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by Michael Rosen on the dedication page, "Michael Rosen was here 23 Aug 89." In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 88122
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"FREEDOM CAN BE OURS, HERE AND NOW": FIRST EDITION OF PAUL ROBESON'S FIRST BOOK, HERE I STAND
ROBESON, Paul.
Here I Stand.
London: Dennis Dobson, 1958.
First edition of Robeson's powerful first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 133146
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First edition, first printing of the Pennyroyal Press edition of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
CARROLL, Lewis; Illustrated by Barry Moser.
Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
Berkely: Published by the University of California Press, 1983.
First Pennyroyal Press edition of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated by Barry Moser. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 140106
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First Edition of Doris Lessing's Martha Quest; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author
LESSING, Doris.
Martha Quest.
London: Michael Joseph, 1952.
First edition of the author's first book in the Children of Violence series. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Name on the front pastedown, near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some chips and wear. Jacket design by Peter Rudland.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 16012
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First edition of Albin Lesky's Greek Tragic Poetry; from the library of English classicist Bernard Knox with his ownership signature
LESKY, Albin. Translated by Matthew Dillon. [Bernard Knox].
Greek Tragic Poetry.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1972.
First edition in English of Lesky's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Bernard Knox with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. English classicist, author, and critic Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox was the first director of the Center for Hellenic Studies. In 1992 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Knox for the Jefferson Lecture, the United States federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 134264
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"Madeline, Madeline, where have you been? We've been to London to see the Queen": First Edition of Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline In London
BEMELMANS, Ludwig.
Madeline In London.
New York: The Viking Press, 1961.
First edition of the final book in the Madeline series published in Bemelmans lifetime. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. A nice example.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 105672