Search Results: Literature from The Typographeum Bookshop

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 4to. Boards. Pp. 192. Illustrated. Index. A most fascinating book with examples of writing from the Early and Medieval period--Beowulf and William Langland--to the Twentieth Century--Dylan Thomas and Harold Pinter.

New York: Bantam Books, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Originally published in Great Britain as "Expensive habits".

New York: Pantheon Books, 1984. First American edition. Hardcover. Cloth a bit soiled, else fine copy./Fine. 8vo. Pp. viii, 456. Index. Translation of "La cérémonie des adieux" by Patrick O'Brien.

London: Collins, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Good/frayed and slightly foxed. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 448.

Boston Spa and London: The British Library, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards gilt. Pp. xii, 242, (ii). Illustrated. Bibliography.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Very good copy/very good. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 176. With contributions by David Cecil, Kenneth Clark, Leonard Woolf, Yehudi Menuhin, Raymond Mortimer, Christopher Isherwood and others.

London: Heinemann, 1930. Hardcover. Fine copy. 8vo. Buckram over bevelled boards. Pp. (xiv), 540, (ii). Number 904 of 1025 numbered copies, signed by the author. Frontispiece by Percy Smith.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Price-clipped. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. xiv, 240. Selected and Introduced by Ronald Wells. This is a selection from the dispatches filed to the Manchester Guardian by this famous observer of the American scene.

New York: Dutton, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. x, 326. Source notes. Index.

London: Bodley Head, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. New fine/Price-clipped. Shows some darkening.. . Boards. Pp. 324. This is the third volume of Cooke's celebrated Letters attempting to explain the Americans and their way of life to people listening throughout the world.

Puncknoll, Dorset: Men of the Trees, 1935, 1941. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. A small rectangle has been snipped from the inscription in Volume I. Also there is something poorly erased.. Two large 8vo volumes. Half vellum with buckram sides. Foreword for Volume I is by Theo. A. Stephens and for Volume II by The Bishop of Salisbury. Volume I is number 733 of 1000 copies inscribed by the author. Volume II is number 327 of 500 copies signed by the author.

London: Bodley Head, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Price-clipped. Illustrated by David Villiers.. Small 4to. Boards. Pp. (viii), 132. Illus. Number 1100 of 1500 copies printed by Will Carter at the Curwen Press. Translated by David Villiers. Illustrated by David Villiers.

London: Dennis Dobson, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 208. Checklist. Alan Moorehead's copy with his signature on first free end-paper and brief remarks on dj.

London: Peter Owen Ltd, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dj slightly faded. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 212.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. x, 278. Illustrated: (10) pp. plates. Signed by the author.

New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. (xii), 420. Index. Translated by Terence Kilmartin.

Melbourne: Ruskin Press, 1937. First edition. Paper-bound. Good. Covers soiled and browned. Back-strip badly frayed. Covers separated. 8vo. Paper-bound. Pp. 218. Issued without a dust-jacket. This is a lampoon on the political and social structure of Australia in the 1930s. Alister Kershaw's copy.

New York: Random House, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. x, 306, (ii). The blurb says: "Gore Vidal examines the leaders and lunacies of contemporary America." Alas, things seems to have become worse two decades on.

Draguignan (Var): The MŽlissa Press, 1962. Later printing. Private Press edition. Wrappers. Very good copy (but printed on poor quality paper); part of front cover darkened. /No dj, as issued. 16 pages sewn into wrappers. Includes publisher's advertisements. Printed (very badly) by Count Potocki of Montalk. Aldington was privately dismissive of this slip-shod production which is full of errors.

London: Virgin Books, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xviii, 360, (vi). Includes selections from the work of Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso and many others.