GREY, Zane

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, N.d. [1917]

8vo, pp. 335. 4 pp. advertisements at rear. Original illustrated blue-green boards, lettered in purple on front panel and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

MANN, Thomas

New York: Knopf, 1936

8vo, pp. 567. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine and in blind to front board. Leading edge uncut. Top edge stained red.

First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

[ed. WIERSBE, Warren]

Wheaton: Miracle Books, 1959

8vo, pp. 32. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.

First edition.
'Whether you're "solid" (according to the rock 'n roll dictionary ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

FRENCH, Allen

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917

8vo, pp. 310, uncut. Original olive green boards, lettered in blue on front panel and spine. Small patch to spine, possibly a... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

DEPEW, Albert N.

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1918

8vo, pp. 312. Original dark blue boards, lettered in gilt on front panel and spine. Two small stamped names to front pastedown and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

PULLMAN, Philip

London: Scholastic, 2000

8vo, pp. 550. Original black boards, lettered in gold on front panel and spine.

First edition.
The third book in Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.

BIMSON, Walter R.

N.p. 'Privately printed by Walter R. Bimson for a few of his hunting and fishing companions' February 1, 1965

20 pp. pamphlet, stiff paper wrappers.

First and only edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'Taylor Smith /... [more]

PARR, Martin

London: Phaidon, 2000

4to, pp. 144. Original red boards, in a photographic dustwrapper. Blue endpapers.

First edition.

A fine copy in a fine,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

[intro. McEWAN, Ian] PARR, Martin

London: Cape, 1993

Oblong 4to, pp. 57. Original photographic stiff paper wrappers.

First edition. Parr's photographic study of holidaymaking, at home and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

[AUDEN, W.H.]

Menston: Scolar Press, 1973

4to green stiff paper folder, printed in black, holding green pamphlet and 25 loose pp. printed on Amalfi, and bearing the pamphlets contents in... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

London: Faber, 1986

8vo, pp. 307. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition of the author's first book, a novel written entirely in... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

ISHIGURO, Kazuo

London: Faber, 1986

8vo, pp. 206. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition, second issue (printed by Richard Clay). Winner of the Whitbread... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

DONVILLE, G. [Illus. HEROUARD, Charles]

Paris: Aux Galants Passe-Temps, 1939

8vo, pp. 229. Rebound in red boards lettered in gilt on spine, half-title, index and page of advertisements bound in.

Second edition. French text. No. 1316 of 2225 copies.
Lesbian spanking novel from the stable of Jean Fort, the clandestine publisher of mostly sado-masochistic

INNES, Hammond

New York: Knopf, 1971

8vo, pp. 319. Original off-white boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Bull device to front panel. Leading edge uncut. Top edge stained... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

[St. Jerome]

Cambridge: Cygnet Press, 1928

Small 8vo, pp. 36. Illustrated with woodcuts. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on black spine. Paper label lettered in black to front... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

BURNS, John Horne

New York: Harper & Bros., 1952

8vo, pp. 276. Original grey and blue three-quarter cloth, lettered in white on spine.

First edition.
Published a year before Burns' death in Florence of a cerebral haemorrhage,... [more]

WILLINGHAM, Calder

New York: Vanguard Press, 1947

8vo, pp. 240. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First UK edition of the author's first book, in a striking dustjacket designed by Roy Sanford.
Slide 49

[pseud. GOLDBERG, Hyman] PENNY, Prudence

New York: Prentice-Hall, 1939

Large 8vo, pp. 385. Original tan boards, lettered in blue on spine. Some browning to text block.

First edition.
Prudence Penny was the Home Economics Editor of the Los Angeles... [more]