Typhoon And Other Stories by Conrad, Joseph - 1903

Paris: A La Librairie d'Education d'Alexis Eymery, 1826. Oblong color Boards with Cloth spine lettered Decorated Gold Gilt Chipping Wear, HB NODustJacket ISSUED, 1826, 2ND ( Seconde ) Edition, Revue et Corrigee, VG-/GOOD, SOLD AS-IS, NODJ, Front Cover DETACHED, SPINE chipping edges & top, Wear, Interior Aging, FoX, Wear , few Dogears O/W Nice Condition, 129 pgs, some pgs have chips Extremities Margins . includes Avant-Propos, Childebert 1st, clotaire 1st, Carlovingiens, Philippe III, Charles VII ETC. Hard Cover.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World 1966 New York, 1969. Near fine (page edges a bit tanned) in very good dust jacket (sunned spine, edgewear at top and bottom of spine). SIGNED by author on title page in 1997. Author's third book.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

C. Elkin Mathews at the Sign of the Bodley Head.,1889. LIMITED EDITION, one of only 250 copies. First book to be published under the Bodley Head Imprint. The authors second book. Blue paper covered boards with cream paper spine. Degree of chipping on spine with uniform discolouration. Light foxing to some pages only. Overall a near very good copy.:

London: Collins, 1988. Signed by the author on the title page. First British edition / First printing. Paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Uncommon in the British edition, especially signed.

Printed for F. Style. London.,1739. FIRST, AND ONLY, EDITION. 8vo. Front wrapper, ii,28pp. Lacking the half title but with the rare printed front wrapper (showing the price of Six Pence) laid down and bound in. Text complete. Top edge of pages have been cut and gilded, the others are untrimmed. Pages a bit marked and rubbed but overall a very good example. The original front wrapper has some small areas of loss to the edges and corners and has been professionally laid down. Bound in modern half red crushed morocco by C. Walters. Spine with raised bands, ruled in blind. Compartments lettered in gilt. Boards with dark red cloth. Burgundy endpapers. Previous owners bookplate (Douglas Peter Crossman, Earl Stonham) on front pastedown endpaper. Overall a very good copy of this uncommon political satire, mocking the supporters of George II and Prince James Stuart, the Old pretender. Not in Halkett & Laing.:

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition Charles Scribner's Sons; New York; 1931 "A" 8vo size tan clothbound hardcover with blue title and decorations and dust jacket; 314 toned pages. The back of the dust jacket features a small photograph of the author and his biography. From jacket flap: "His stories concern love in the springtime, courting, jealousy, an accident, a lynching, old age, a death. Some of them are very short, yet the reader finds within their brevity all the flavor and mood of some American incident which, in Caldwell's hands, becomes a story - interesting, individual, authentic." Price sticker on fep. Jacket is separated into two pieces on front spine seam with edgewear and chipping, particularly to head and heel and edges; small abrasion on fep from sticker. Top and bottom of spine are bumped and the bottom of spine is frayed. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for… Read More

Chapel Hill: Lillabulero, Spring 1967. Signed by Russell Banks on title page. First edition / First printing. Stapled blue wrappers. Very good. Sunning and light wear to covers, short tear to top front cover, no loss. Includes Portfolio 2: The Shaker Dove, by Daniel Patterson inserted into a sleeve on inside rear cover. Also includes William Faulkner: a Story and Five Poems. Poetry by Lucius Shepard, Dabney Stuart, etc.

"LITTLE PAUL" from the "Dombey and Son" of Charles Dickens. Circa 1850's (there is no date of publication stated); Redfield; New York. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. Scarce volume from the 6-volume "DICKENS' LITTLE FOLKS" series which was "undertaken with a view of supplying the want of a class of books for children, of a vigorous, manly tone, combined with a plain and concise mode of narration." "With this view, the career of [Little Paul has] been detached from the large mass of matter with which [he was] originally connected, and presented, in the author's own language, to a new class of readers, to whom the little volumes will, we doubt not, be as attractive as the larger originals have so long proved to the general public."Condition:Clean covers and spine with no stains; 1" cloth tear at the top-right corner of the spine; horizontal crease across the front cover which is also visible on the opposite side of the board. Occasional foxing and staining to the pages (heaviest on end… Read More

FARTHER AWAYJONATHAN FRANZENSIGNED FIRST PRINTINGSCARCE HARDCOVERLIKE NEW CONDITION

New York: Scribner, 2016. Signed by the author on the first page following the end-paper. First edition / First printing. Black paper spine, beige paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.