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Philadelphia: R & T. Desilver, 1812. First American edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf. Near fine. 2 vols. 352, 256 pages. 18 x 11 cm. A variety of curious and interesting particulars, relative to painting, sculpture and architecture. The author Thomas Nugent was an erudite Irish historian and travel writer. The English edition was published in 1772. Elegant… Read more about this item

Np: Hen Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pebble grained light brown cloth decorated in a dark brown motif. Fine. 10 leaves. 26 x 17 cm. Ellor-gast, or alien spirit explores the theme of the monster in Beowulf. The book was hand-set Baskerville type and printed on Rives mould-made paper. A relief etching from one of the plates… Read more about this item

London: Printed for James Knapton, 1693. First edition. Hardcover. Modern green cloth, back strip lettered in gilt. Very good. 144 pages. 16.5 x 12 cm. Complete with half title, and with imprimatur on verso of half-title. Dennis was the first professional literary critic, and best remembered as the leading critic of his generation, and as a pioneer of… Read more about this item

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth lettered in black. Very good. 314 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. Rubbing to corners and backstrip, interior contents clean.

New York: G.P. Putnam, 1934. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. publisher crimson morocco. Fine. 568 pages. 25 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 45 of 125 copies on Strathmore Permanent rag paper, signed by Lionel White and Philip C. Blackburn in ink. Appendix. Almost pristine copy, mostly unopened, extensively decorated and lettered in gilt.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth spine lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 257 pages. 22 x 17.5 cm. First edition. Limited edition, copy 366 of 560 signed by Huxley. Spine sunned, edges of boards slightly faded. printed at the Florence Press with wide text margins. Interior clean.

New York: Knopf, 1943. 1st American edition. Boards. Pale mauve boards, front cover paper label. Fine in fine dust wrapper covered in clear acetate. 37 pages. 21 x 13.5 cm. Printed by Peter Beilenson at the Walpole Printing Office. The Rede Lecture of 1943 delivered at Cambridge University.

London: William Heinemann, 1920. First edition. Boards. Orig. yellow boards, backstrip paper label. Very good. 320 pages. 20 x 14.5 cm. Two bookplates one armorial in colors (Vincent LLoyd Russell). Endpaper toning., spine slightly faded.

London: Dropmore Press, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine. 70 pages. 23 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 189 of 500 printed on a hand press on paper made by J. Barcham Green of Maidstone. Binding by Evans of Croydan. Title page printed in red and black, wide text margins, an almost… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1951. Third edition Enlarged. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Very good with backstrip head nick and at head of slightly darkened dust wrapper spine. 516 pages. 22 x 14 cm. 20s price noted on dust wrapper. First published 1932. In his Preface Eliot states, "I have expanded the original volume.....by including a few more essays… Read more about this item

New York: Heritage Press, 1963. Hardcover. Orig. decorated cloth. Fine in fine in fine slipcase. 409 pages. 24 x 16 cm. List of Illustrations in color. As new copy with four page Sandglass insert.

New York: Viking Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth spine and dark gray boards, front cover paper label. Fine in matching fine slipscase. xxvii pages. 22.5 x 16 cm. With four full-scale pages from the manuscript and reduced reproductions of the other pages. Written one half century ago in Trieste.

London: Faber and Faber, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth spine lettered in gilt. Fine in very good dust wrapper nicked at backstrip head. 35 pages. 22 x 14 cm. 7s. 6d. price noted on dust wrapper. This address presented at The Theodore Memorial Lecture Harvard University November 21, 1950. Clean, crisp copy.

Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. With orig. glassine wrapper in near fine box. 40 pages. With facsimile of Hardy's letters. Newton's proceeds from the printing of this monograph went to erect "a suitable monument of Thomas Hardy, either on Egdon Heath or elsewhere." Newton ranked "The Return of the Native" as Hardy's finest novel. Beautifully printed… Read more about this item

Hurst, Berskshire: Peacocks Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated patterned boards. Fine in fine clear plastic wrapper.. 20 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition, one of 350 copies on Barcham Green "Medway" paper. Lecture by the author at an American university approximately 15 years prior to this publication. Owner inscription free front endpaper.

New York: Macmillan, 1924. New and Revised Edition. Hardcover. Orig. teal cloth spine, textured brown boards, front cover and spine paper labels. Fine. 474 pages. 25.5 x 14 cm. Limited edition, copy 72 of 250 signed by Yeats. Pristine, unopened copy, frontispiece portrait of Yeats at a young age drawn by John Singer Sargent with seven additional illustrations… Read more about this item

New York: Limited editions Club, 1981. Hardcover. Orig. quarter brown cloth spine and decorated boards. Fine in fine matching slipcase. 386 pages. 24 x16. Limited edition, copy 1967 of 2000 signed by Malcolm Cowley and Berenice Abbott. Photographs selected by Laurie H. Ripon, including those by Man Ray, Andre Kertesz and Walker Evans. Printed by the Wild Carrot… Read more about this item

London: Henry Hooper, 1840. First edition. leather_bound. Later 19th century full tan calf. Aeg. Very good. Cruikshank, George. 59 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. 17 etchings, 39 woodcuts. This appreciation by Thackeray prompted by his boyhood admiration for Cruikshank who would "forego tarts" to be able to afford a book, or set-up a "joint stock company of boys"… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth.. Rogers, Bruce. 115 pages. 21.5 x 16 cm. Printed in red and black with typography by Bruce Rogers. A vivid glimpse of life in the ninth century; a hitherto scarcely known piece of mediaeval literature. ROGERS 285.

Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Peter Davison. The Fountainwell Drama Texts Series. Critical Introduction. Textual Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Having collected all extant copies of the 1605 quartos, Davison believes this to be the definitive text of the play.