The Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist.
T. S. Eliot's copies, with his engraved armorial bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume, and his inked ownership inscription dated 1909 to the front pastedown of George Pierce Baker's The...
View ArticleThe Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Octavo. Original red cloth, coloured plate pasted to front board, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 3 coloured plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by...
View ArticleLes Femmes de ce temps.
Limited edition of 500 copies, this one of 450 "standard" copies on vergé, numbered 498. René Kerdyk's portrait of the Parisian woman of the Roaring Twenties, beautifully illustrated by Guy Arnoux....
View ArticleGenius and the Mobocracy.
First edition. This copy inscribed on the title page, "To Albert Sincavitch, Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin, '49". Excellent copy of Wright's combined biographical essay on his mentor Louis H. Sullivan...
View ArticleThe Fat Man in History.
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author "For Philip Murray, with my west wishes, Peter Carey, Sydney 22/8/88" on the title page. The Fat Man in History and Other Stories was Carey's...
View ArticleThe Last Testament of Oscar Wilde.
First edition, first impression of Ackroyd's second novel. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, "Peter Ackroyd, London: November 25, 1990". Provenance: from the library of Irish...
View ArticleDon’t Tell Dad.
First edition, signed limited issue. Out-of-series publisher's copy from an edition of 1,250 copies signed by Fonda on the limitation page. This copy also inscribed by the author "To Dink, with love,...
View ArticleThe Songlines.
Octavo. Original brown cloth-backed marbled boards, title to spine gilt, boards ruled gilt. With the glassine dust jacket. Top and fore edges fox, a couple of pale spots to fore edge of half-title and...
View ArticleTwo letters signed, one typed, the other autograph, to Sir John Bradford.
In the first letter, dated 25 August 1930, Kipling thanks Sir John for his invitation to a dinner of the College on 18 October and confirms that he would like to attend; in the second, fully autograph...
View ArticleAesop’s Fables.
Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in terractotta morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, pictorial title block to front board gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, floral...
View ArticleLes Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse.
First edition, first impression, of one of the author's most influential works, his sociological study of religion. "In his last great work, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, Durkheim gave...
View ArticleThe Works.
13 volumes, octavo (215 x 143 mm). Contemporary red crushed morocco, titles and floral decoration to spines gilt in compartments separated by raised bands, elaborate floral corner-pieces to boards...
View ArticleThe Writings.
11 volumes, octavo (212 x 144m). Finely bound at The Riverside Press in green half crushed morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt separated by raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top...
View ArticleLe Voyage de Babar.
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author at the head of the title page, "A Madame Eleanor Ewing. En souvenir de Vermala. Hommage respectueux de l'auteur Jean de...
View ArticleRenascence.
Quarto quires, loose as issued, in the original half vellum chemise with marbled paper sides and green silk ties, titles gilt to spine. Illustrated title page and vignettes by Crane. Internally fine,...
View ArticlePoems and Drawings.
First edition, presentation copy inscribed by Albers, one of 500 copies printed, in the very scarce dust jacket. This copy has a rare inscription by Albers to front free endpaper, "Margaret Schaack,...
View ArticleThe Year’s at the Spring
Quarto. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, front cover design heightened with yellow and purple, top edge gilt, others uncut. Without the slipcase. Colour...
View ArticleThe Foundations of Mathematics
First edition, first impression, of this collection of Frank P. Ramsey's essays on mathematics and logic, some of which are published here for the first time. Ramsey (1903–1930) was a Cambridge-based...
View ArticleA Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz.
First edition, first impression, of Russell's third book, based upon his first set of lectures at Cambridge University. Russell wrote this work on Leibniz in the years between his mathematical...
View ArticleGiles Goat-Boy.
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "John Barth, with good wishes to Dr. P. Murray, 5/84". With a typed letter signed dated 29 February 1984 from John Barth to the...
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