Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. Early edition, 1st published in 1870. Cf BAL 7634. 2 volumes: 410; 393, [3 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 7-3/16" x 4-1/8". Green cloth binding with gilt title lettering and decorations to spine. More
London: Andre Deutsch, 1959. 1st UK edition. 319, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. Red cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Red dust jacket. Duddy Kravitz was very well received, and after its publication, according to The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Richler became "one of the foremost writers of his..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1873. 1st US edition (cf. NCBEL III, 1070). [2], 494, [8] pp. 6 pp of adverts follow text. Crown 8vo. 7-3/8" x 4-5/8". Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine. Light peach colored eps. More
Deya Mojorca / London: The Seizin Press / Constable & Co. Ltd., 1935 [but 1936]. 1st Edition. 67, [1 (blank)] pp. Errata slip tipped in prior to ToC page. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 6". Linen cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Verse preface by Riding, who..... More
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1949. 1st Edition. 70 pp. 8vo. Orange cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Blue dust jacket. More
Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1989. 1st Edition. SIGNED / LIMITED, #85 of 100 numbered copies. 64 pp. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-5/8". Hand bound in full brown morocco with blindstamping to front board, gilt stamped spine lettering. Marbled eps. TEG. Marbled paper slipcase with tan cloth edges... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California [the Lemoncheese Press], 2022. 1st printing thus. #28 / 50 cc. Broadside, 13" x 9-1/4". Poem, 4 stanzas printed in red ink, 18 lines total. 5 line colophon at bottom, printed in black ink. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "This poem appeared..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1913. 1st US edition (Gallatin & Oliver 12a). Unpaginated. 49 [of 50] tipped in plates. Lacking #35. 8vo. 9" x 7-1/8". Green cloth binding with elaborate gilt stamping. More
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. The Knickerbocker Press, 1902. 1st Edition (Smith, CONRAD 7). v, [1 (blank)], 204, [5] pp. 4 pages of publisher adverts conclude volume. Frontispiece & 5 inserted plates by Maurice Greiffenhagen. 12mo. 7-5/16" x 4-7/8". Pictorial dark green cloth binding with orange lettering..... More
London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1955. 1st Edition. [6], 181, [5] pp. 4 pages of adverts conclude volume. 7-1/2" x 5". Blue cloth binding with silver stamped lettering to spine. Multi-color dust jacket. Hamilton, "was an English playwright and novelist. He was well regarded by Graham Greene and J. B...... More
London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1951. 1st Edition. vi, 7 - 308 pp. 7-1/2" x 5". Blue cloth binding with silver stamped lettering to spine. Blue pictorial dust jacket, with drawing of West Pier to front panel [artwork by Chadwick]. Hamilton, "was an English playwright and novelist. He was well..... More
London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1947. 1st Edition. [4], 142, [2] pp. 7-1/2" x 5". Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Brown dust jacket. Hamiton, "was an English playwright and novelist. He was well regarded by Graham Greene and J. B. Priestley, and study of his novels..... More
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1831. 1st edition (BAL 3850). 3 volumes: [2], iv, 292, [2 (blank)]; [2], 309, [3 (blank)]; [2], 286, [2 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 7-3/4" x 4-7/8". Period brown half-calf bindings with marbled paper boards. Black spine label. Red speckled edges... More
Canton, New York: Published by Dreambooks, (1975). 1st Edition. 89, [3] pp. Half-tone photographic image of the author at rear. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Light brown paper covers printed in orange. More
London: Nicholson & Watson, 1946. 1st "Uniform" edition (Gibbs A24e). 142 pp. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Blue dust jacket. More
London: Stephen Swift & Co., Ltd. 10 John Street, Adelphi, 1911. 1st Edition. 169, [7] pp. 6 pages of adverts conclude text. Partially unopened. 12mo. 7" x 4-3/8". Original publisher's dark green vertically ribbed cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. TEG. Fore-edge, bottom edge untrimmed. Grierson a gay..... More
London: Stephen Swift & Co., Ltd. 10 John Street, Adelphi, 1911. 1st Edition. 204, 4 (adverts) pp. Photographic frontispiece image of the author. 12mo. 7" x 4-3/8". Original publisher's dark green vertically ribbed cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. TEG. Fore-edge, bottom edge untrimmed. Grierson a gay author..... More
Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1932. 1st Edition. SIGNED / LIMITED, #603 / 695. PRESENTATION copy, INSCRIBED BY Wescott & his wife [nee Barbara Harrison] to Hugh & Therèse Ford. 239, [5 (blank)] pp. Index. Mostly unopened. The signs of the Zodiac by Pavel Tchelitchew [1898 - 1957]. 8vo. 9" x...... More
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1841. 1st UK edition (BAL 3895n). The BAL cites published evidence that the Bentley UK edition may, in fact, have precedence over the 1841 US edition issued by Lea & Blanchard. 3 volumes: viii, 329, [1 (blank)]; [2], 333, [1 (blank)]; [2], 344 pp..... More
London: Published by Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1833. 1st Edition. 3 volumes: xlii, [6], 331, [3 (blank)]; [2], [4], 336; [2], 352 pp. Index at rear of Vol. III. Frontispiece portrait of Goethe in Vol I. Vol. II with frontis of "Reverse of Medal of Goethe". Vol. III frontis displays..... More
London: Smith Elder & Co., 65, Cornhill, 1850. 1st Edition in English. 2 volumes: iv, 444; [2], 443, [1] pp. Index at rear. 8vo. 7-7/8" x 5". Later 19th C. brown polished half-calf bindings with light brown cloth boards, gilt stamping to spine. Marbled eps. TEG. Ribbon page marker. The..... More
New York: Duffield and Company, 1910. 1st US Edition. x, 289, [1 (blank)] pp. Crown 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5". Green cloth binding. Pictorial onlay to front cover. Gilt stamped lettering. More
New York: Frank Tousey, 1904. First printing in this series. Rear advert lists through # 234. 30, [2 (adverts)] pp. Text double column. 11" x 8". Color pictorial wrappers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. OCLC records just one institutional holding of this edition: Univ of S FL..... More
New York: Frank Tousey, 1904. First printing in this series. Rear advert lists through # 234. 30, [2 (adverts)] pp. Text double column. 11" x 8". Color pictorial wrappers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. OCLC records no institutional holdings of this edition. More
New York: Frank Tousey, 1902. First printing in this series. Rear advert lists through # 234. 28, [4 (adverts)] pp. Text double column. 11" x 8". Color pictorial wrappers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. OCLC records just 2 institutional holdings of this edition, Univ of FL &..... More
