Search Results: British Literature from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. Paperback. Introduction by Arnold Bennett. 12mo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. xii, 112pp. Frontispiece, 7 full-page illustrations. Very good. Minor edgewear. "Illustrated Souvenir Edition," illustrated with photographs from one of the early productions. Black, white, orange and tan pictorial front wrapper of a famed portrait of a young unbearded Lincoln is exceptionally nifty.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1947. Hardcover. Preface by Sir Walter Scott. Illustrations by Honoré Guilbeau. Small 4to. Quarter black calf with gilt spine lettering and decorative rose paper over boards, decorative gilt slipcase. lii, 232pp; ix, pp. 235-498. Frontispieces, numerous full-page line drawings. Very good/near fine. Slightest of spine wear. Handsome, tight LEC production of the 1824 Persian-set "Arabian Nights" wannabee novel by British diplomat and writer Morier (1782-1849) -- fifth title in the LEC's 17th series. Rear colophon notes limitation of 1,500 numbered copies (this #241) signed by Guilbeau. Printed 5½" X 8½" announcement laid in. NEWMAN 179.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with orange and lavender spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 242pp. Very good/very good. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with spine slightly age toned; text block typically age toned, with light foxing to pastedowns. A tight and nice first edition of this novel involving Chinese orphans and set in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia.

New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth spine and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 219pp. Very good/good plus. Blind-embossed ownership stamp on first few pages; small chunk missing from upper right corner of front jacket panel, which is otherwise bright and attractive. First U.S. edition of Cary's first novel.

New York: The Viking Press, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. Cream cloth spine and black paper over boards, dust jacket. 210pp. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. First edition, tight and nice.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 247pp. Near fine/very good. Light jacket edgewear. A tight and nice early printing of the Irish novelist's second book, first published in 1933.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1930. Small 4to. Full vellum, gilt. vi, 340pp. Near fine. Usual very slight bowing of boards typical of vellum.First edition, limited to 1825 numbered copies (this #473) signed by Moore. A very handsome copy.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1961. Hardcover. 12mo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 252pp. Very good/very good. Minor foxing and age toning on preliminary leaves and page edges. First edition of Wilson's first novel, set in an English public school. Boldly signed and inscribed by the author in blue ballpoint on front flyleaf in year of publication: "To Lynette / With very best wishes / from Guy / 14.4.61.

London: Dent, 1976. Hardcover. Translation by Eugene Mason. Introduction by Gwyn Jones. 12mo. Blue paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 264pp, (4pp ads). Near fine/very good. Jacket rubbed, with spine a tad sunned; ownership name/address on front pastedown. Attractive and tight later printing of volume 578 in the "Everyman's Library" series (first published 1912). Two of the three earliest significant renditions of the Arthurian tales -- notes jacket text, "Wace was one of the first to use the matter in verse form... Layamon followed Wace....

Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Studies, 1972. Hardcover. Edited by Terence Tobin. Small 4to. Brown cloth with silver spine lettering, dust jacket. v, 112pp. Near fine/very good. First modern edition of this Scottish comic play concerning religious hypocrisy, first published in 1722. The front flyleaf is handsomely inscribed by the editor "To the house / of / [huge sketch of family crest with "K" in middle] / Merry Christmas / Terry Tobin.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Orange cloth. 258pp. Very good. Tight, clean, attractive first edition.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1958. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 277pp. Very good/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn and rubbed, with chips at head and tail of spine; binding slightly edgeworn, though internally tight and bright. Nice first British edition of this fiction about a private sanatorium.

London: Privately Printed for Subscribers, 1919. Hardcover. Small 4to. Vellum spine with paper label and grey paper over boards. 310pp. Very good. Spine a bit darkened; colorful bookplate on front pastedown. First edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies (this #513) signed by Moore. A tight, clean copy.

Cambridge: The Limited Editions Club, 1977. Hardcover. Edited and introduced by Jim Lees. Illustrations by David Gentleman. Small 4to. Quarter green cloth with gilt spine lettering/decorations and pale green decorative paper over boards, slipcase. xxiii, 206pp. Color frontispiece, full-page color plates, numerous line drawings. Fine/near fine. Handsome, tight copy of the seventh title in the LEC's 44th Series, with rear colophon noting limitation of 1600 numbered copies (this #1560) signed boldly by illustrator Gentleman. A large gathering of minstrel songs regarding the folk hero from the 1300 to 1500 time period. Publisher's printed announcement card laid in. NEWMAN 508.

London: Oxford University Press, n.y.. Hardcover. 16mo. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. vii, 506pp. Front endpaper map. Near fine. Handsome, tight later printing of #268 in the "World's Classics" series, arguably one of his best and most popular novels. First published in 1857 and in this series 1925 (here undated and post-1949, likely 1970s vintage). This unique copy bears two interesting autograph additions: In 1982 British television aired a 7-part series, "The Barchester Chronicles," an adaptation of the first two titles in Trollope's "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series (the 1855 "The Warden" and "Barchester Towers"), and tipped to an inner flyleaf and another facing the title page are bold signatures of two cast members, each on fine, matching heavy stock 5" X 3" cards: On inner flyleaf is Peter Blythe (1934-2004), who portrays Bertie Stanhope; he signs in black fineline and dates it 26 May 1988 at upper right. Facing the title page is Susan Hampshire (born 1937), who portrays Signore… Read More

New York: Black Hawk Press, 1935. Hardcover. 8vo. Purple cloth with paper spine label. 99pp. Decorations. Very good. Spine very lightly sunned; text block lightly, evenly age toned as usual. First edition, limited to 900 copies. Tight and attractive.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with silver lettering and black/silver decoated paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xxx, 213pp, (7pp). Near fine/near fine. Handsome first edition of this highly-regarded translation, with circular silver foil "Winner / of the / Whitbread / Award" sticker at lower right of front jacket panel.

New York: The Modern Library, n.y.. Hardcover. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 479pp, (9pp ads). Grey patterned endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A tight, attractive later printing (undated, but ca. 1962) of #294, first published in this form in 1956.

New York: The Modern Library, n.y.. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 1350pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A wonderfully tight and bright undated early printing of number 51 in the "Modern Library Giant" series (first published 1940). According to Toledano this rear jacket panel was only in use through 1940, the year this volume was first published, though this copy does not bear the usual Modern Library copyright page first edition statement. Uncommon in such a lovely jacket, in any case.

New York: The Modern Library, n.y.. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 1350pp. Very good/very good. Jacket lightly edgeworn and a bit rubbed. Tight, attractive early printing of number 51 in the "Modern Library Giant" series (first published 1940), based on jacket early 1940s vintage.