The Death of the Moth and Other Essays by WOOLF, VIRGINIA - 1942

London: Whishart & Co., 1933. Book. Very Good. Blue Cloth. First English Edition. 8vo. Revised English edition, preceded by the Contact edition. Some discolouration to cloth along edges, spine slightly cocked, foxing to outside edges of pages; former owner's signature and date to front pastedown. Dust-jacket browning slightly with spine darkened and some foxing to edge rear flap; 4 cm closed tear to bottom edge of front panel, some paper loss at head and heel of spine and corners; light scratch to rear and overall light dust soil..

Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press, 1998. First Edition. Glossy Pictorial Cover. Very Good. In clear mylar Brodart cover - Owners single name also. Flat signed by author on title page. First editions/first printings have no mention of any awards on the cover and have the number line ending with a 1 Publisher Notes A novel of angels, wine, and love without boundaries set in nineteenth-century Burgundy. One summer night in 1808, Sobran Jodeau sets out to drown his love sorrows in his family's vineyard. Drunk, he stumbles on an angel: "Someone had set a statue down on the ridge. Sobran blinked and swayed. For a second he saw what he knew--gilt, paint and varnish, the sculpted labial eye of a church statue. Then he swooned while still walking forward, and the angel stood quickly to catch him." Once he gets over his shock, Sobran decides that Xas, the male angel, is his guardian sent to counsel him on everything from marriage to wine production. But Xas turns out to be a far more… Read More

New York: The Armchair Detective, 1991. Signed by Richard Condon on the colophon. Limited Edition / First Printing. Number 87 0f 100 copies. Maroon cloth in a Maroon cloth slipcase Very fine in a very fine slipcase. With a new introduction by Richard Condon. Basis for the 1962 John Frankenheimer film, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury.

London: Faber & Faber, 2001. Signed on the title page by Orhan Pamuk. First edition / First printing. The British edition is the correct first English language edition. Illustrated wrappers. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A paperbound original in a dust jacket. Pamuk was the 2006 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Award in 2003.

Paris: J.-J. Dubochet et Cie, 1836. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Vol.1. 1836, Vol.2. 1837. Richly gilt red half morocco with orange letterpiece. Top edges gilt. Patterned board covers with leather corner pieces. Patterned endpapers. (4),744; (4),758 pp. 2 wood engraved titles, 2 engraved frontispieces and about 800 wood engraved illustrations in the text by Tony Johannot. Table of contents at the end of each volume. French language. Rius I, 542; Vicaire II, 155/156; Sander 148. Near fine copy with lightest edge wear. Inside fine, no marks or inscriptions and without any foxing. 27 x 18 cm. .

London: Whishart & Co., 1933. Book. Very Good. Blue Cloth. First English Edition. 8vo. Revised English edition, preceded by the Contact edition. Some discolouration to cloth along edges, spine slightly cocked, foxing to outside edges of pages; former owner's signature and date to front pastedown. Dust-jacket browning slightly with spine darkened and some foxing to edge rear flap; 4 cm closed tear to bottom edge of front panel, some paper loss at head and heel of spine and corners; light scratch to rear and overall light dust soil..

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, [1910].. Olive cloth, spine stamped in gilt, blind device on upper cover. Foxing, extremities and spine a bit rubbed, with short snags at crown, but a good, sound copy. First edition, second binding, of Pound's first major volume of criticism. This is an interesting association copy, with the ownership signature of Schuyler B. Jackson, dated "15/8/21." A total of 1250 sets of sheets were printed, of which three hundred sets were used for the American issue, and an unspecified number of copies were bound up in this slightly later binding. GALLUP A5a.

Rouen, France: Jacques Amiot, 1710. Hardcover. Good +. 2 volumes ([2], 367, [3] p.; 348 p.); 17 cm. Signatures: A6(A1+x1) B-2H6 A-2F6 (12m0). Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments. Leather label in second compartment of vol. 2 with gilt-tooled title: Jean de Bourbon; lacking on vol. 1. Gilt-tooled volume number in third compartments and gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Gilt-tooled board edges. All page edges speckled red. No date of publication; Privilege du Roy dated May 1710. Title pages in red and black. Remains of armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper of vol. 2 with motto "Aedes Ca??? in Usum Carthusia ??" The author, Marie-Catherine le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy (1651-1705), wrote historical novels (of which this is one), travel accounts, and histories, as well as fairy tales for which she originated the term "contes de fées." Her success as an author led to her admission to the Accademia del Ricovvati of… Read More

Hardback. Very Good. Cornish Brothers, Birmingham, 1880, [first edition, privately printed]; 8vo, pp [viii], (9)-577; good later binding in half brown pigskin, green marbled boards and end papers, spine decorated gilt and with raised bands, top edge gilt; lacks half title; slight browning or dust marking in places but nevertheless a very good copy of what was to become a minor Victorian classic, the story set in the time of Charles I. Shorthouse, 1834-1903, came from a Quaker manufacturing family in Birmingham (actually Edgbaston), duly entering the family business. However, he and his wife moved to the Church of England in 1861 identifying themselves with the "Oxford School of High Churchmen". He also began to suffer from epilepsy and duly left his industrial work to write, spending the decade to about 1876 working on "John Inglesant". As he was unable to interest a publisher Shorthouse decided to have the book printed on his own account and it appeared in 1880 in a… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First edition / First printing. Green paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.