KING Francis
Visiting Cards
London: Constable and Company 1990. Hardcover. 8vo. White cloth pictorial dust jacket. 224pp. Near fine/near fine. First edition. Constable and Company hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 1839
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MOORE Doris Langley
E. Nesbit: A Biography
Philadelphia: Chilton 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. Cream cloth dust jacket. xxix 313pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. First of this revised edition of the 1933 text. Chilton hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 30999
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O'BRIEN Edna
Virginia: A Play
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1981. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth spine and grey paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. 69pp. Fine/near fine. First U.S. edition tight and attractive. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 25032
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DURRELL Lawrence
Livia or Buried Alive
New York: The Viking Press 1978. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth spine and black paper over boards dust jacket. 265pp. Near fine/near fine. Handsome first edition. YOUNG 1122. The Viking Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 9998
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WESTALL William
A Queer Race: The Story of a Strange People
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co 1900. Hardcover. 12mo. Burgundy cloth with black and red pictorial gilt and color plate tipped to front board. viii 303pp 7pp ads. Very good. Slightest bit of faint edgewear. Tight clean and attractive undated edition of the first novel by the British author 1835-1903 -- first published in England in 1887. A fantasy about an island people with unusual colored skin. Rather uncommon. Henry T. Coates & Co hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 30716
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MOORE George
In Single Strictness
London: William Heinemann 1922. Hardcover. Small 4to. White and blue paper over boards dust jacket. 311pp many uncut. Very good/very good. Edition limited to 1030 numbered copies this #434 signed by Moore. William Heinemann hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 29842
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MOORE George
Conversations in Ebury Street
London: William Heinemann Ltd 1924. Hardcover. 8vo. Ivory and pale green paper over boards. 277pp. Partly uncut. Near fine. Very slight spine darkening. First edition limited to 1030 signed numbered copies this #489. A handsome tight copy. William Heinemann Ltd hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 2745
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GALSWORTHY John
Captures
London: William Heinemann Ltd 1923. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth gilt. ix 306pp. Very good. Minor shelfwear. Handsome first edition second issue lacking the front flyleaf as called for by Marrot and caused by Galsworthy who objected to some preliminary material and insisted it be removed. Small bookplate on front pastedown of noted Chicago bibliophile Paul Butler. William Heinemann Ltd hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 10659
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Twelve Plays of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century
New York: The Modern Library 1933. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. xxiii 952pp. Very good. Spine and tope edge of binding sunned. Early not first printing tight and clean. The Modern Library hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 6660
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COWARD Noel
Play Parade
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1933. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan decorated cloth. xvii 576pp. Very good. Some soiling to binding. First edition of this collection of seven plays: "Design for Living" "Cavalcade" "Private Lives" "Bitter Sweet" "Post-Mortem" "The Vortex" and "Hay Fever." Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 9160
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MOORE George
In Single Strictness
New York: Boni and Liveright 1922. Hardcover. Small 4to. Ivory and pale blue paper over boards. vi 314pp. Partly uncut. Very good. Slight spine darkening else clean and tight and handsome. First edition limited to 1050 signed numbered copies this #740. Boni and Liveright hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 2744
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MOORE George
Aphrodite in Aulis
London: William Heinemann Ltd 1930. Small 4to. Full vellum gilt. vi 340pp. Near fine. Usual very slight bowing of boards typical of vellum.First edition limited to 1825 numbered copies this #473 signed by Moore. A very handsome copy. William Heinemann Ltd hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 2693
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ALDINGTON Richard
Soft Answers
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press 1967. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth price-clipped dust jacket. xii 242pp. Near fine/very good. Bookplate on front pastedown. Reissue of this 1932 text part of the "Crosscurrents" series edited by Harry T. Moore. Southern Illinois University Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 10710
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GARNETT David
A Shot in the Dark
Boston: Little Brown and Company 1958. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth pictorial dust jacket. 216pp. Near fine/very good. Very slight jacket edgewear. First edition tight and handsome of this novel about an expatriate American "set in the golden olive-studded hills of a small Italian town." Little, Brown and Company hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 17950
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WHEATLEY Dennis
The Man Who Killed the King
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth pictorial dust jacket. 568pp. Map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Ownership signature/date on inner flyleaf. First U.S. edition of this historical adventure set during the French Revolution. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 7267
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HUNT Leigh
The Town; Its Memorable Characters and Events
London: Smith Elder and Co 1848. Hardcover. Two volumes. 8vo. Orange blind-embossed cloth. xii 300pp; viii 311pp 32pp ads. Frontispieces steel engravings. Very good. Bookplates and ownership signatures on front pastedowns. First edition of this two-volume set. Vivid recollections accompanied by entertaining histories of the notable landmarks and characters of London. Smith, Elder and Co hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 529
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WODEHOUSE PG. P. G.
The Week-End Wodehouse
New York: Garden City Publishing Co 1940. Hardcover. 8vo. Pictorial green cloth. Circa 350-400pp. Very good. Reprint edition clean and tight. Mulliner Jeeves Drones and the complete novel "Fish Preferred." Garden City Publishing Co hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 869
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DANE Clemence
Wild Decembers: A Play in Three Acts
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1932. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Grey cloth dust jacket. 101pp. Near fine/good plus. Large chip at tail of jacket spine with mild edgewear throughout. Tight fairly attractive early not first printing of this "Play about the Brontes" inscribed large and bold on the front flyleaf by the author: "for my dear Polly's / mother & father / from her friend / 'Winifred' / Clemence Dane / Christmas 1944." Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 18718
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MASEFIELD John
King Cole
New York: The Macmillan Company 1922. Hardcover. Illustrations by Judith Masefield. Small 8vo. Black cloth spine and blue paper over boards with paper labels dust jacket. 87pp. Line drawings. Near fine/very good. Bookplate on front pastedown. Early not first printing of this play in verse illustrated by Masefield's daughter. The Macmillan Company hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 531
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DAVIES Rhys
A Bed of Feathers & Tale
New York: Black Hawk Press 1935. Hardcover. 8vo. Purple cloth with paper spine label. 99pp. Decorations. Very good. Spine very lightly sunned; text block lightly evenly age toned as usual. First edition limited to 900 copies. Tight and attractive. Black Hawk Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 20068
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MITCHISON Naomi
The Barbarian: The Corn King and Spring Queen
New York: Cameron Associates n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Black paper over boards dust jacket. 721pp. Very good/good plus. Jacket slightly edgeworn and rubbed with several tiny edge chips with spine darkened; text pages age toned as usual and front flyleaf corner clipped. Tight decent reprint edition of the 1931 classic set in ancient Thrace in the third century B.C. YOUNG 2740. Cameron Associates hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 10038
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DEEPING Warwick
Roper's Row
New York: Triangle Books 1938. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. 365pp. Very good/good plus. Jacket edgeworn but colorful and attractive. Umpteenth reprint a clean and tight example. Triangle Books hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 2678
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FIELDING HALL H.
Love's Legend
London: Macmillan and Co 1914. Hardcover. 8vo. Full tan calf with gilt spine panels dentelles. viii 325pp. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Very good. A bit scuffed at edges; front hinge intact but a tad delicate. First edition handsomely bound by Riviere. Macmillan and Co hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 16169
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DAVIES Rhys
Nobody Answered the Bell
New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1971. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Grey cloth dust jacket. 158pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed. Tight and nice first U.S. edition. b. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 9803 ???????? : 039606373X 9780396063735
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O'FAOLAIN Sean
A Nest of Simple Folk
New York: Carol Publishing Group 1990. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey clot spine and green paper over boards. 398pp. Very good. Minor shelfwear; abrasion on front pastedown from bookplate removal. First of this edition. Carol Publishing Group hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 10673
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SHAFFER Peter
The Royal Hunt of the Sun: A Play Concerning the Conquest of Peru
New York: Stein and Day 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. Black and brown cloth price-clipped dust jacket. xii 83pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. First U.S. edition a tight and nice copy. Stein and Day hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 11030
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TROLLOPE Anthony
The Prime Minister
Oxford: Oxford University Press 1977. Hardcover. Preface by L.S. Amery. Illustrations by Hector Whistler. 12mo. Brown cloth dust jacket. 396pp. Frontispiece illustrations. Very good/very good. Very minor wear; light dampstaining to some page edges. Tight later printing of this 1876 novel in the Palliser Novels series. From the uniform "Oxford Illustrated Trollope" series. Oxford University Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 10657
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BENNETT Arnold
The Feast of St. Friend: A Christmas Book
New York: George H. Doran 1911. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green paper over boards with green and gilt decorations slipcase. 117pp. Very good/good plus. Spine slightly age toned else tight and attractive; slipcase neatly archivally strengthened along some separations. Tight attractive first edition. George H. Doran hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 19321
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CLELAND John
Memoirs of Fanny Hill.; Introduction by J.H. Plumb
New York: New American Library 1965. Hardcover. 12mo. Glazed paper over boards. xiv 221pp. Very good. Tight nice later 8th printing of the Signet edition. An erotica classic. New American Library hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 11120
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LAWRENCE DH. D. H.
Sons and Lovers
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Blue cloth price-clipped dust jacket. xix 420pp 6pp ads. Very good/very good. Minor jacket edgewear; non-authorial gift inscription on half-title page. Tight attractive later printing of #333. The Modern Library hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 10984
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USTINOV Peter
Romanoff and Juliet: A Comedy in Three Acts
New York: Random House 1958. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth dust jacket. 110pp. Very good/very good. Slight jacket edgewear. Just the "Fireside Theatre Book Club Edition" but tight and nice. The premier featured Ustinov himself as well as Jack Gilbert and Natalie Schafer. Random House hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 23732
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CECIL Algernon
A House in Bryanston Square
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1945. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth pictorial dust jacket. 360pp. Very good/very good. Reprint of this 1944 novel tight and attractive. Front flyleaf bears an interesting pencilled ownership signature: "Ellen Stevenson Oct. '45 / London." Stevenson 1910-72 was the wife of Illinois's two-term governor and twice presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson II -- who in the fall of 1945 had just moved to London in September 1945 with his family as deputy United States representative on the Preparatory Commission soon to become head of the United States delegation to the U.N. General Assembly. Eyre & Spottiswoode hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 24151
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BENNETT Arnold
The Old Wives' Tale
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1944. Hardcover. 16mo. Red cloth dust jacket. x 518pp 4pp 8pp ads. Decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Some jacket edgewear; ownership signature on front flyleaf. Tight handsome later printing of #919 in Ernest Rhys' lovely "Everyman's Library" series. J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 31105
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McCARTHY Justin Huntly
If I Were King
New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1920. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth pictorial dust jacket. 265pp 7pp ads. Frontispiece illustrations. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and rubbing; ownership signature on front flyleaf. Tight attractive copy featuring photographs from Russell Janney's operetta "The Vagabond King." Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 14644
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CASTLE Agnes and CASTLE Egerton
The Star Dreamer: A Romance
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1903. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with pictorial gilt. xiv 375pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Mild edgewear. First edition of this hip-wader tight and attractive. Frederick A. Stokes Company hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 11167
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BARRIE JM. J. M.
Tommy and Grizel
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1900. Hardcover. Illustrations by Bernard Partridge. Small 8vo. Brown cloth with gold red and green pictorial stamping. vi 509pp 2pp ads. Frontispiece illustrations. Very good. Minor edgewear. First U.S. edition of the "Peter Pan" playwright's novel -- tight clean attractive. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 23703
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GOLDING William
The Pyramid
New York: Harcourt Brace & World 1967. Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow cloth price-clipped dust jacket. 184pp. Very good/very good. Uncommon first American edition. Harcourt, Brace & World hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 539
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HADFIELD John editor
Henry Fielding: Scenes and Characters
London: The Falcon Press 1950. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pictorial paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. 96pp. Near fine/near fine. Slight offsetting to endpapers as usual. Tight handsome first edition of this mini-anthology. The Falcon Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 16201
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O'FAOLAIN Nuala
My Dream of You
New York: Riverhead Books 2001. Hardcover. Small 4to. Cream cloth spine and green paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. 500pp. Fine/fine. A handsome first edition of the Irish columnist's first novel boldly inscribed by the author in black ballpoint on the title page: "Signed for Mary / Nuala O'Faolain." Riverhead Books hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 20814
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DURRELL Lawrence
Monsieur
New York: The Viking Press 1974. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth spine and black paper over boards dust jacket. 306pp. Near fine/very good. First edition. The Viking Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 544
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KAY Teresa
A Crown for Ashes
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company 1953. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth pictorial dust jacket. ix 321pp. Near fine/very good. Slightest bit of mild jacket edgewear. Second printing of this English writer's novel set in Nazi-controlled Budapest. Quite striking jacket. The Bruce Publishing Company hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 23573
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MOORE George
The Coming of Gabrielle: A Comedy
London: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only 1920. Hardcover. Small 4to. Ivory and pale green paper over boards paper spine label.xxx 146pp. Partly uncut. Very good. Usual slight darkening of spine; small bookplate on front pastedown. Edition limited to 100 signed numbered copies this one unnumbered. A handsome copy of this play. Privately Printed for Subscribers Only hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 2748
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MOORE George
Ulick and Soracha
New York: Boni and Liveright 1926. Hardcover. Small 4to. Ivory and pale green paper over boards paper spine label. 235pp. Illustration. Very good. Slight darkening of spine as usual. Edition limited to 1250 signed numbered copies this #548. A clean tight handsome copy. Boni and Liveright hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 2746
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GALLICO Paul
Coronation
Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Red and black cloth pictorial dust jacket. 138pp. Near fine/very good. First edition tight and handsome. Doubleday & Company hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 8445
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SCOTT Walter
The Pirate
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co 1822. Hardcover. Complete three-volume set. 12mo. Half calf and marbled paper over boards. vii 322pp; 332pp; 346pp. Overall very good. Lacks half-title pages; �" chip at head of spine of Volume I. A tight and attractive set of the first edition later state with "Co." on first volume title page followed by a semicolon instead of colon; and in second volume 20th line reading "there" instead of "their". All three front pastedowns bear the handsome armorial bookplate of Thomas Carter Esqr. of Edgcott and on the facing flyleaf the ownership signature of "Glencairn Carter / Edgcott 1823." Archibald Constable and Co hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 20840
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THACKERAY William Makepeace
Thackerayana: Notes and Anecdotes Illustrated by Hundreds of Sketches by William Makepeace Thackeray
London: Chatto & Windus 1901. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth heavily decorated in pictorial black and gilt. xx 494pp. Frontispiece numerous line drawings. Very good. Spine very faintly sunned; some small water spots on rear cover only; horizontal tear on page xv-xvi archivally repaired. Tight clean handsome copy of the "New Edition" of this 1870 title. Chatto & Windus hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 532
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DU MAURIER George
Trilby: A Novel
London: Osgood McIlvaine & Co 1895. Hardcover. Small 4to. Vellum spine and tan cloth over boards. xi 447pp. Numerous engravings by du Maurier. Very good. Large paper edition consisting of 250 numbered copies this #163 signed by du Maurier. Scarce. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 29843
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DU MAURIER George
The Martian
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1897. Hardcover. 12mo. Decorated brown cloth. iv 477pp 2pp ads. Line drawings. Very good. Close to "Near fine" with gold and green pictorial front board stamping bright and fresh and only slightest bit of age toning to spine; nonauthorial period gift inscription on inner flyleaf. First American edition tight and handsome. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 19325
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HUNT Leigh
A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla
London: Smith Elder and Co 1848. Hardcover. Illustrations by Richard Doyle. 8vo. Quarter calf and glazed marbled paper over boards. xxiii 200pp 16pp ads. Top edge gilt. Engraved half-title page numerous small engravings glazed marbled endpapers. Very good. Minor edgewear; front hinge intact but a tad delicate. Attractive first edition of this Christmas book whose subject is Sicily. BREWER 225. Smith, Elder, and Co hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 18827
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TROLLOPE Anthony
The Duke's Children
Oxford: Oxford University Press 1977. Hardcover. Preface by Chauncey B. Tinker. Illustrations by Charles Mosley. 12mo. Brown cloth dust jacket. 643pp. Frontispiece illustrations. Very good/very good. Very minor wear; light stain on outer page edges. Tight later printing of this 1880 novel in the Palliser Novels series. From the uniform "Oxford Illustrated Trollope" series. Oxford University Press hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 10656
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