fiction
My Brother's Ghost
New York: Viking, 2001. Single volume, measuring 5.75 x 4 inches: [8], 88. Original green pictorial cloth boards stamped in gilt, red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. With: Puffin postcard for the English first edition.
Price: $30.00
Murphy
New York: Grove Press, (1957). Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [4], 282, [2]. Original cream textured cloth, spine lettered in brown, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in black and grey. Grove Press rubber stamp to copyright page. Spine and edges of jacket toned, with 2.5-inch split at.....
Price: $350.00
Strenna Italiana per l’Anno 1860; with: Le Belle Strenna per l’Anno 1869
Milan: Presso il Tip. Editore P. Ripamonti Carpano; Presso Virginio Bontà, 1859 and 1868. Two cartonnage volumes. Strenna Italiana (1859) measuring 9.5 x 6.5 inches: [8], 182, [2]. Original ivory paper-covered boards with hand-colored pictorial lithographic inlay, boards and spine elaborately stamped in gilt with hand-colored decorations, pale pink endpapers.....
Price: $700.00
Undine
London: William Heinemann, 1909. Quarto, measuring 11.5 x 9 inches: viii, 136. Original full vellum, front board lettered and decorated in gilt with vignette by Rackham, spine elaborately ornamented in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, stiff brown endpapers. Half-title, with limitation signed by Rackham on verso. Title page.....
Price: $2,000.00
Scenes of Clerical Life
Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1858. Two octavo volumes, measuring 8 x 5 inches: [6], 7-366; [6], 381, [1]. Original claret morocco-grain cloth elaborately stamped in blind, spines lettered in gilt, cinnamon endpapers. Neat initials “M.S.D.” to half-titles, penciled bookseller notes to verso of front free endpaper in Volume I. Spine.....
Price: $18,000.00
The Coat-Hanger Christmas Tree
(Oxford): Oxford University Press, 1976. Single volume, measuring 8 x 6 inches: [6], 75, [3]. Original red cloth lettered in gilt, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Lightest toning to edges of jacket.
Price: $125.00
Fables de Florian et de Fénélon, Nouvelle Édition Très-Correcte, Dédiée a la Jeunesse, et Ornée de Vingt-Quatre Jolies Figures
Paris: Chez Saintin, Libraire de la Cour, 1814. Twelvemo, measuring 6.25 x 3.75 inches: [4], iv, 334, [2]. Contemporary straight-grained plum morocco, gilt fillets and corner fleurons to boards, gilt title and ornaments to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Hand-colored engraved frontispiece, pictorial title, and six hand-colored plates; table.....
Price: $750.00
A Likely Place
(London): Macmillan, (1967). Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: [6], 57, [1]. Original black cloth lettered in silver, original clipped orange pictorial dust jacket printed in black and white. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Lightest edgewear and sunning, small tape repair to jacket verso, ghost of bookseller label.....
Price: $50.00
The Name of Action
London: William Heinemann, (1930). Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 4.5 inches: [8], 344. Original navy blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original yellow typographic dust jacket printed in red and black, with price of 7/6 on spine panel. Light wear to jacket spine ends, spine panel faintly sunned, stain to.....
Price: $9,500.00
Stamboul Train
London: William Heinemann, (1932). Single volume, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: [12], 307, [1]. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed on front free endpaper: “For Martin, / from Graham Greene. / Not yet an Entertainment!” Book Society bookplate to front pastedown. Occasional.....
Price: $7,500.00
The Return of the Native
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1878. Three volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: [6], 303, [1]; [6], 297, [3]; [6], 320. Original brown cloth stamped in black and blind, spines decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt and black; cream-coated endpapers. Frontispiece map, after a drawing by Hardy, facing title page.....
Price: $7,800.00
Jude the Obscure
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [2], viii, 516. Original green ribbed cloth stamped and lettered in gilt, “TH” gilt monogram to upper board, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Etched frontispiece, map of Wessex after text. Bookseller label to front pastedown: “Neal’s Library.....
Price: $5,000.00
The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1860. Two volumes, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: xiv, 15-283, [5], 16; 284, [4]. Original full brown ribbed cloth ruled and decorated in blind, spines lettered in gilt, reddish-brown coated endpapers. Publisher’s catalog, dated March 1860, in Volume I. Light wear to cloth, spine ends and.....
Price: $750.00
La Belle Histoire que Voilà...
Nancy: Librairie Berger-Levrault, circa 1920. Single volume, measuring 12.5 x 9.5 inches: [6], 7-60, [4]. Original green cloth spine, color pictorial boards, color pictorial endpapers. Color pochoir illustrations throughout text. Toning and edgewear to boards, short closed tear to front free endpaper, bookseller notes to rear free endpaper. Expert repair.....
Price: $300.00
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(London): Hodder & Stoughton, (1934). Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5.5 inches: 127, [1]. Original royal blue cloth lettered in gilt, endpapers printed in blue with Latin quotations, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in blue and black. Title page printed in blue and black; black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Traces.....
Price: $1,800.00
The Bostonians
London: Macmillan and Company, 1886. Three octavo volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: iv, 244; iv, 226, [2]; iv, 236, [4]. Original dark blue-green cloth, double-rule border and panel stamped in black and blind, spines lettered in gilt with gilt publisher’s device and decorative rules at top and bottom stamped.....
Price: $18,000.00
The Princess Casamassima
London: Macmillan, 1886. Three octavo volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: iv, 252; iv, 257, [3]; iv, 242, [2]. Original dark blue-green cloth, double-rule border and panel stamped in black and blind, spines lettered in gilt with gilt publisher’s device and decorative rules at top and bottom stamped in black.....
Price: $9,500.00
Washington Square. The Pension Beaurepas. A Bundle of Letters
London: Macmillan, 1881. Two octavo volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: viii, 265, [3]; iv, 271, [1]. Original red-brown cloth, double-rule border and panel stamped in black and blind to boards, spines lettered in gilt with gilt publisher’s devices and decorative rules at top and bottom stamped in black, yellow-coated.....
Price: $3,800.00
The Spoilt Kill
London: Michael Joseph, 1961. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: [6], 231, [1]. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt; original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Light toning to spine panel; smudging and short closed tear to rear panel; neat ownership signature to front free endpaper.
Price: $250.00
After Midnight
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [8], 238, [2]. Original black patterned cloth stamped in bright blue, top edge stained blue. Spine panel sunned, no dust jacket.
Price: $250.00
Vera Vorontzoff
Boston and New York: Lamson Wolffe and Co., (1895). Small octavo, measuring 6.75 x 4.25 inches: [2], ix, [1], 3-197, [1]. Original tan cloth elaborately stamped in red, blue, black, and silver in a geometric design incorporating Russian motifs, spine lettered in silver, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Pictorial.....
Price: $300.00
The Princesse de Clèves
London: Euphorion Books, 1950. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.25 inches: [6], 172. Original brick cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Philippe Jullian. Six full-page portraits throughout text. Lightest edgewear and toning to jacket, with partial split to front flap fold; edges.....
Price: $950.00
Original dust jacket art for The Eustace Diamonds
London: Oxford University Press, 1952. Original dust jacket mock-up, measuring 6 x 13 inches fully extended, executed in black and white ink on red paper, heavily annotated, with one printed pastedown flap. Three printer’s separations of varying sizes, printed in black and white. With: single volume, measuring 6 x 3.5.....
Price: $850.00
A Week
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1923. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 247, [1]. Original blue cloth stamped in black, top edge stained yellow, original unclipped typographic dust jacket priced at $1.50 on the spine. Introduction by translator Arthur Ransome. Capwell's Books (Oakland, California) bookseller ticket to lower pastedown. Pinpoint.....
Price: $300.00
Scaf le Phoque
Paris: Flammarion, Albums du Père Castor, 1936. Side-stapled volume, measuring 8.25 x 9 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial wrappers. Seventeen full-page color lithographs; black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Covers toned, occasional faint offsetting from lithographs to text pages.
Price: $85.00
The Pupil of Pleasure: or, the New System Illustrated. Inscribed to Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, Editor of Lord Chesterfield’s Letters
London: Printed for G. Robinson, and J. Bew, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1776. Two twelvemo volumes, measuring 6.5 x 4 inches: xv, [1], 230; [4], 252. Contemporary half-calf, spines ruled and numbered in gilt, red morocco spine labels, pale blue marbled boards with vellum corners. Early book labels of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft.....
Price: $2,200.00
Knock or Ring
London: Jonathan Cape, (1957). Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 255, [1]. Original green textured boards lettered in silver, unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in black, white, and lavender. Ink inscription from Nelson to James Robertson Justice on front free endpaper. Light spotting to jacket.
Price: $300.00
Stories of the Seen and Unseen
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902. Single volume, measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: [8], 316. Original olive green cloth decoratively stamped in blind, lettered in black and gilt. Penciled bookseller notes and engraved bookplate of Lookout Farm to front pastedown. Lightest shelfwear.
Price: $350.00
Sweethearts; with: signed promotional broadside for “Jayne Anne Phillips Reading ‘Sweethearts’”
Carrboro, North Carolina: Truck Press, 1976. Single volume, measuring 10.75 x 6.75 inches: [60]. Original buff photographic wrappers printed in black and sepia, blue endleaves, title page printed in blue and black, frontispiece and section titles printed in blue, author photograph printed in sepia. Signed by Phillips on title page.....
Price: $450.00
Mirror for Magistrates (three volumes); WITH: The Palace of Pleasure (three volumes)
London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co. Finsbury Square; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row; Reprinted for Robert Triphook, St. James's Street, by Harding and Wright, St. John's Square, 1815, 1813. Six quarto volumes, measuring 9.5 x 7 inches. Contemporary full brown crushed morocco gilt, gilt-ruled blindtooled.....
Price: $5,500.00