On Beyond Zebra.
Quarto. Publisher’s pictorial paper-covered boards, titles to spine and front cover white, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout the text by Dr. Seuss. Spine ends lightly...
View ArticleMy Early Life.
First edition, first impression, first state (without the cancel half-title). With Churchill's signed inscription to the front free endpaper: "Inscribed for Oliver Baldwin by his colleague at...
View ArticleHere on a Darkling Plain.
First edition, first printing, the publisher's copy inscribed to him by Derleth, "To Bill McElwee, who bears stolidly with me - Cordially, August Derleth", additionally inscribed with three lines of...
View ArticleMarlborough:
First edition, limited issue, number 25 of 155 copies signed by Churchill on the limitation statement (verso of the half-title in volume I). Peter Clarke has recently described Marlborough as "a...
View ArticleSignéponge.
First French edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the half-title: "Pour Serge et [indecipherable] fidèlement, J. Derrida". Derrida's tribute to the poetry of Francis Ponge was...
View Article[Part 1 of] The Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings.
Part 1 of the definitive third edition of Frazer's classic work of social anthropology. With the author's clipped signature dated 19 February 1921 mounted to both front pastedowns. First published as a...
View Article[Part 2 of] The Golden Bough: Taboo and the Perils of the Soul.
Part 2 of the definitive third edition of Frazer's classic work of social anthropology. With the author's clipped signature dated 19 February 1921 mounted to the front pastedown. First published as a...
View Article[Part 3 of] The Golden Bough: The Dying God.
Part 3 of the definitive third edition of Frazer's classic work of social anthropology. With the author's clipped signature dated 19 February 1921 mounted to the front pastedown. First published as a...
View Article[Part 4 of] The Golden Bough: Adonis Attis Osiris. Studies in the History of...
Part 4 of the definitive third edition of Frazer's classic work of social anthropology. With the author's clipped signature dated 19 February 1921 mounted to both front pastedowns. First published as a...
View Article[Volume 12 of] The Golden Bough: Bibliography and General Index.
Volume 12 of the definitive third edition of Frazer's classic work of social anthropology. With an autograph letter signed by the author and dated 19 February 1921 pasted onto the front free endpaper,...
View ArticleWanderer and Minstrel Under Moons of Cathay.
First edition, number 30 of 50 copies printed on Japan vellum, signed by one of the translators Edna Worthley Underwood. "This is the first edition in the world of Tu Fu to beprinted outside China,...
View ArticleThe Books in My Life.
First edition, first printing, presentation copy to one of Miller's book-contributors, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For Bob Carlock with all the best from henry, 9/17/52". Robert H. Carlock...
View ArticleThe Witches.
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To John & Sheena, Love, Roald, 19/10/83". Sheena Wilkinson was a family friend and...
View ArticleGroup of three inscribed works.
The first and last first editions, the second the ?third printing of 1919, first published 1917. All three in bindings for Thomas Rénaud Rutter, and each signed and inscribed by Lindsay on the first...
View ArticleMoths of the Limberlost.
Second US printing, first published 1912. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper; "For Leafie Sloan-Orcutt from Gene Stratton-Porter, Christmas 1921". Stratton-Porter was a prolific and highly...
View ArticleThe Theory of the Leisure Class.
Inscribed by the author in pencil on the front free endaper: "John S. Mayfield, Thornstein Veblen, April 1924". John S. Mayfield (1904–1983) was an American bibliophile and collector who was curator of...
View ArticleFlowers in House and Garden.
Quarto. Original green cloth, title to spine gilt, top edge red. With the dust jacket. With 39 plates and decorations to text by Rex Whistler. Minor foxing to edges of text block; an excellent copy in...
View ArticleWhen The Sleeper Wakes.
First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "Henry Hick, from H. G. Wells". Dr Henry Hick came to know Wells through his old school friend George Gissing. When Wells...
View ArticleThe Prophet.
First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and dated 1923 on the rear free endpaper, upside-down. This first printing, which ran to just 2000 copies, is a scarce book in any condition, and...
View ArticleA Roving Commission.
First US edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Inscribed for Edna Leila Rothschild, by Winston S. Churchill. Atlanta City, 1932." Churchill...
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