HALFWAY.
New York: Privately Printed, 1947. 1st Edition. SIGNED by the author on the ffep. 64 pp. Woodcut illustrations by Hester Sainsbury. 8vo. Original publisher's maroon cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering.
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DEATH Of A HERO. A Novel.
Paris: Henri Babou and Jack Kahane, 1930. 1st edition thus, the "Authorized Unexpurgated Edition". 1 of 300 cc [unnumbered]. 2 volumes: xii, 194; 212, [2] pp. 10-1/4" x 8". Original publisher's printed buff paper wrappers, glassine dust jackets; marbled paper chemise & slipcase. Gilt stamped lettering to exposed side of...
ESSAYS In EUROPEAN And ORIENTAL LITERATURE.; Arranged and Edited by Albert Mordell.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1923. 1st UK edition (cf. BAL 7979n). xiii, [5], 339, [3 (blank)] pp. Crown 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5". Dark blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine.
STRANGE ROADS - With The GODS In SPRING.
London: The Classic Press, 1923. 1st edition, 2nd issue (Goldstone & Sweetser A25b). Cf. Bleiler, p. 130. 54, [2 (blank)] pp. Illustrations by Joseph Simpson. 8vo. 6-3/8" x 4-1/2". Dark green cloth with gilt lettering. TEG. Lavender marbled eps. 'Strange Roads' first published in Out and Away, Vol I, Dec...
The ANGEL Of MONS. The BOWMEN And Other Legends of the War.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1915. 1st book edition (Bleirer, p. 129; Danielson, p. 43; Locke I, p. 147; NCBEL IV, 646). 86, [2 (blank)] pp. 16mo. 6-3/4" x 4-1/4". Pale blue boards printed in dark blue. Per Locke, "A celebrated short ghost story of the first...
SESAME And LILIES. Three Lectures.
London: George Allen, 1902. Fifty-sixth Thousand. xxxvi, [2], 228, [2 (blank)] pp. 12mo. Tan full calf binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine. AEG.
The ETHICS Of The DUST.; Ten Lectures to Little Housewifes on the Elements of Crystalization.
London: George Allen, 1902. Twenty-third Thousand. xv, [5], 269, [3 (blank)] pp. 12mo. Tan full calf binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine. AEG.
The EAGLE'S NEST.; Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872.
London: George Allen, 1902. Thirteenth Thousand. x, 297, [3 (blank)] pp. 12mo. Tan full calf binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine. AEG.
The SECRET GLORY.
London: Martin Secker, [1922]. 1st edition (Danielson, p. 49; NCBEL IV, 646). [4], 308, [4 (adverts last 3 pages)] pp. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's black buckram cloth binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Green topstain.
THINGS NEAR & FAR.
London: Martin Secker, 1923. 1st edition (NCBEL IV, 646). 175, [1] pp. Unopened. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's lime green cloth binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Green topstain.
The SPECTATOR. In Eight Volumes.; New Edition, Carefully Corrected from the Originals, with Historical, Biographical, and Explanatory Notes, Contents, and a General Index. To Which are Prefixed, The Lives of the Authors.
London: Printed for J. Bumpus, Holborn-Bars, 1819. 8 volumes. Frontis in Volume I. 8vo. Period black half-calf binding with marbled paper boards, edges & eps. Spine gilt decorated, with maroon title label in second compartment, volume label in 4 compartment. "The Spectator was a daily publication founded by Joseph Addison...
The LONDON ADVENTURE. An Essay in Wandering.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. 1st US Edition (NCBEL IV, 646). 170, [6] pp. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 4-3/8". Original publisher's yellow cloth binding with printed paper title label to spine. Green & yellow patterned paper eps.
DR. STIGGINS: His Views and Principles. A Series of Interviews.
Westminster: Imprinted for Francis Griffiths, and Published at the Sign of the Griffin, 1906. 1st edition (Danielson, p. 33). [4], 141, [11] pp. 10 pages of publisher adverts conclude volume. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-1/8". Brown quarter cloth over printed light brown paper wrapped boards. Gilt stamped spine lettering. From Machen...
STRANGE ROADS.
London: The Classic Press, 1924. 1st edition thus, "Autographed Edition". #72 / 300 cc SIGNED by the author. [4], 63, [1 (blank)] pp. Unopened. Frontispiece of the author. Sketches by Joseph Simpson, R.B.A. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-7/8". Original publisher's vellum spine over light purple cloth boards. Gilt stamped title to...
PRE-RAPHAELITE And Other Poets. Lectures by Lafcadio Hearn.; Selected and Edited with an Introduction by John Erskine.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1923. 1st UK edition thus (cf. BAL 7974n). ix, [3], 432, [2 (blank)] pp. Crown 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5". Dark blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Hearn's lectures [ca 1896 - 1902] on Rossetti, Swinburne, Browning, Morris, Meredith ["his having written ... one of the greatest fables"], Buchanan, & Bridges.
SOME STRANGE ENGLISH LITERARY FIGURES Of The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.; Edited by R. Tanabe.
Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, [1927]. 1st edition (BAL 7999). 140 pp. Color frontis, and 10 inserted plates. Japanese colophon tipped in. Crown 8vo. 7-1/2 x 5-1/8 in. Green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. TEG. Dust jacket. William Blake the subject of two of the 11 essays contained herein.
ALTON LOCKE, Tailor and Poet. An Autobiography. In Two Volumes.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1851. 2nd edition. Cf. NCBEL III, 936 for the 1st edition issued the year prior. iv, 306, [2 (blank)]; iv, 300 pp. 8vo. 8" x 5". Original publisher's light brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine, and boards blocked in blind. Pale yellow eps.
TOWER Of HELVIN: or, The Last of the Beaumanoir.; Translated from the French of M. Keratry, Deputy of Finisterre.
Philadelphia: R. DeSilver, 1827. 1st US edition (American Imprints 29417). 2 volumes (201; 240 pp). Untrimmed. 12mo, in 6s. 7-3/4" x 4-1/2". Original drab boards with printed paper title labels to spine.
The GLORIOUS MYSTERY.
Chicago: Covici - McGee Co., 1924. 1st edition (Bleiler, p. 130). [12], 219, [1 (blank)] pp. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamping. No dust jacket.
The TERROR. A Fantasy.
London: Duckworth & Co., 1917. 1st edition (Bleiler, p. 130; Danielson, p. 47; Locke I, p. 147). 190, [2] pp. One page advert follows text. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's pale blue paper-wrapped boards, with black lettering. Printed white paper dust jacket. Per Locke, "Science fantasy short novel of sudden hostility...
WRITE IT RIGHT. A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults.
New York: Walter Neale, (1909). Later edition, cf. BAL 1128 for the 1st edition of 1909. 73, [3 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5". Red cloth binding with black stamped lettering.
LIFE At THREESCORE And TEN.
New York: American Tract Society, (1871). Early, if not first, printing. 148, [2 (adverts)] pp. 12mo. 6" x 4". Original publisher's green cloth binding with black & gilt stamping.
The TRAGICAL COMEDY Or COMICAL TRAGEDY Of PUNCH And JUDY.; With an Introductino by Charles Hall Grandgent and Illustrations by George Cruikshank.
Cambridge: Washburn & Thomas, 1925. 1st edition thus. 49, [1] pp. Illustrations from Cruikshank's 19th C efforts. 12mo. Black cloth spine over green paper-wrapped boards. Printed paper title labels to spine & front board. Printed green paper dust jacket.
The HOTEL.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1939. 1st edition (Woolmer 462). 104 pp. 12mo. Rose colored cloth blinding in a pale pink dust jacket printed in blue. Leonard was not a dramatist, this work never produced.
NAVEL REVUE.
[Philadelphia?]: Published Posthumously by the Heirs of the Author, (1930). 1st Printing. [2 (blank)], 20, [2 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with two inserted plates [with the "K" monogram]. 12mo. Original publisher's green cloth binding, stamped in black, with a "K" monogram. "Navel fetishism, belly button fetishism, or alvinophilia is a partialism...