A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor - 1955: and other stories

Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1997. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. Copy #297. Edited with a Preface by Danis Rose. Introduction by John Banville. Cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped lettering on spine in cloth-covered slipcase. Satin pagemarker. Issued without dustjacket. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine slipcase. The first edition of this title produced in Ireland.. First Thus. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.

Dublin, Ireland: R. Reilly, on Cork-Hill, for George Risk, George Ewing, and William Smith, Booksellers in Dame-Street, 1735. Complete three volume set in contemporary calf bindings with armorial seal with the script "Coll. Sanctae Individuae Trinitatis Reg. Elizab. Juxta Dublin" in gilt on each front and rear cover, raised spine bands bordered in gilt with gilt decoration in compartments, elaborate Jacobean armorial prize bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume, the name Richard Dickinson filled in by hand in each. Decorative design woodcuts in volume I, ten plates of "medals illustrated by the antient poets" in volume II, additional woodcuts of medals scattered in the text of volume III; [6], xvi, [3], 2-322; [13], 12-323; [9], 2-266, [10] pages; each volume with its own title page plus series title and advertisement in volume I. Externally scuffed with minor chipping to spine ends, joints cracked but secure, spine labels absent, spines lightly crackled from dryness but… Read More

London: Remington & Co Publishers, 1890. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. [vi], 270. Original grey cloth binding with black lettering and decoration to the front board, gilt lettering to the spine, a little general wear and some rubbing to extremities and joints, a couple of pin-prick holes to the front joint, cloth a little marked. Contents clean and tight, original patterned end papers to both front and back, somewhat browned also affecting the half-title page, paper to front hinge partially cracked but expertly repaired, contemporary pencil name and address to head of half-title page. A very good copy. A very scarce book - the first edition of the first novel of Anthony Hope (Hawkins) and paid for by Hope. He writes of it in his autobiography "I had already published one novel - on commission, at my own expense; it cost me fifty pounds, and the royalties amounted to thirteen" Few copies seem to have survived and Copac only list two British libraires with copies..

1879 1st ed Thomas Hardy Return of the Native Egdon Heath Witchcraft Clym & Vye

"The Return of the Native" was admired for its powerfully evoked setting of Egdon Heath, which was based on the somber countryside Thomas Hardy had known as a child. Egdon Heath, a fictional location created by Hardy, is known for widespread witchcraft and superstitions.
This is his 6th novel which was known for its sensationalism and controversial themes quickly becoming one of Hardy's most popular and highly regarded novels. The novel portrays the tragic marriage of Eustacia Vye and Clym Yeobright, the returning native, who is blind to his wife's needs by his naive zeal and moral fervor.
This 1879 edition is 2 volumes in one published as a part of Tauchnitz's collection of British Author printings.

Item number: #13541
Price: $750
HARDY, Thomas
The Return of the Native
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1879. 1st European edition

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes in 1
o
Vol. I – 320
o… Read More

1565 1st ed ITALIAN Great Men Dionigi Atanagi Letters Paolo Giovio Flaminio
Dionigi Atanagi was a 16th-century Italian author who is best-known for 'Pleasant Letters by Great Men' – a collection of letters of iconic Italian men. This 1565 first edition of Atanagi's "Letters" contains the correspondence of figures such as Paolo Giovio and Marcantonio Flaminio.
Item number: #20149
Price: $795
ATANAGI, Dionigi
De le lettere, facete et piacevoli di diversi grandi huomini, & chiari ingegni.
Venetia : Appresso B. Zaltieri, 1565. 1st edition

Details:

·
Collation: Complete with all pages;
o
[16], 438, [8]
o
Fine, engraved initials
o
Signatures: *8 2*4 A-Z8 AA-DD8 EE4
· Provenance:
o
Armorial Bookplate – S&B
Includes a styled '&' of rope, with an English earl's coronet.
o
Handwritten – [Lre. Burlesche] on bottom fore edge
·
References: USTC 811371
· Language: Italian
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~6.25in X 4in (15.5cm x… Read More

Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1997. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. Copy #297. Edited with a Preface by Danis Rose. Introduction by John Banville. Cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped lettering on spine in cloth-covered slipcase. Satin pagemarker. Issued without dustjacket. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine slipcase. The first edition of this title produced in Ireland.. First Thus. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.

Dublin, Ireland: R. Reilly, on Cork-Hill, for George Risk, George Ewing, and William Smith, Booksellers in Dame-Street, 1735. Complete three volume set in contemporary calf bindings with armorial seal with the script "Coll. Sanctae Individuae Trinitatis Reg. Elizab. Juxta Dublin" in gilt on each front and rear cover, raised spine bands bordered in gilt with gilt decoration in compartments, elaborate Jacobean armorial prize bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume, the name Richard Dickinson filled in by hand in each. Decorative design woodcuts in volume I, ten plates of "medals illustrated by the antient poets" in volume II, additional woodcuts of medals scattered in the text of volume III; [6], xvi, [3], 2-322; [13], 12-323; [9], 2-266, [10] pages; each volume with its own title page plus series title and advertisement in volume I. Externally scuffed with minor chipping to spine ends, joints cracked but secure, spine labels absent, spines lightly crackled from dryness but… Read More

London: Remington & Co Publishers, 1890. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. [vi], 270. Original grey cloth binding with black lettering and decoration to the front board, gilt lettering to the spine, a little general wear and some rubbing to extremities and joints, a couple of pin-prick holes to the front joint, cloth a little marked. Contents clean and tight, original patterned end papers to both front and back, somewhat browned also affecting the half-title page, paper to front hinge partially cracked but expertly repaired, contemporary pencil name and address to head of half-title page. A very good copy. A very scarce book - the first edition of the first novel of Anthony Hope (Hawkins) and paid for by Hope. He writes of it in his autobiography "I had already published one novel - on commission, at my own expense; it cost me fifty pounds, and the royalties amounted to thirteen" Few copies seem to have survived and Copac only list two British libraires with copies..

1879 1st ed Thomas Hardy Return of the Native Egdon Heath Witchcraft Clym & Vye

"The Return of the Native" was admired for its powerfully evoked setting of Egdon Heath, which was based on the somber countryside Thomas Hardy had known as a child. Egdon Heath, a fictional location created by Hardy, is known for widespread witchcraft and superstitions.
This is his 6th novel which was known for its sensationalism and controversial themes quickly becoming one of Hardy's most popular and highly regarded novels. The novel portrays the tragic marriage of Eustacia Vye and Clym Yeobright, the returning native, who is blind to his wife's needs by his naive zeal and moral fervor.
This 1879 edition is 2 volumes in one published as a part of Tauchnitz's collection of British Author printings.

Item number: #13541
Price: $750
HARDY, Thomas
The Return of the Native
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1879. 1st European edition

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes in 1
o
Vol. I – 320
o… Read More

1565 1st ed ITALIAN Great Men Dionigi Atanagi Letters Paolo Giovio Flaminio
Dionigi Atanagi was a 16th-century Italian author who is best-known for 'Pleasant Letters by Great Men' – a collection of letters of iconic Italian men. This 1565 first edition of Atanagi's "Letters" contains the correspondence of figures such as Paolo Giovio and Marcantonio Flaminio.
Item number: #20149
Price: $795
ATANAGI, Dionigi
De le lettere, facete et piacevoli di diversi grandi huomini, & chiari ingegni.
Venetia : Appresso B. Zaltieri, 1565. 1st edition

Details:

·
Collation: Complete with all pages;
o
[16], 438, [8]
o
Fine, engraved initials
o
Signatures: *8 2*4 A-Z8 AA-DD8 EE4
· Provenance:
o
Armorial Bookplate – S&B
Includes a styled '&' of rope, with an English earl's coronet.
o
Handwritten – [Lre. Burlesche] on bottom fore edge
·
References: USTC 811371
· Language: Italian
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~6.25in X 4in (15.5cm x… Read More