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London / New York: Oxford University Press [through 1946], 1944. First Edition. French Wrappers. Fine-. First Impressions of three matching volumes, published consecutively in 1944, 1945, and 1946. Crown 8vo (207x 126mm): 48; 42; 50. Sewn in thick card French self-wrappers (tan, aquamarine, and dark tan, respectively), upper covers printed in brown and black, scarlet and black, and forest green and black, pages printed on cream laid paper watermarked "ADELPHIA," all priced 3s / 6d. Volumes 2 and 3 are tight, bright, unread copies, virtually pristine; back panel of The Walls toned, brief edge wear, neat inscription to half-title, front hinge skillfully repaired, Near Fine or better. Boughn A19a.i, A20a, and A21a. H. D. and Bryher (Winifred) Ellerman, the American heiress and H. D.'s lifelong companion, "spent the duration of World War II in London. While H. D. found the experience to be fraught, it occasioned some of her best and most mature poetry. In particular, H.D.'s long war poem, Trilogy,… Read More

London: Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, at the West-End of St. Paul's; T. Woodward, at the Half-Moon over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street; and J. Peele, at Locke's Head in Amen-Corner, 1740. Full Calf. Fine. A superb set of these classics of experimental science, milestones in the history of hydrodynamics and physiology, with the imprimatur of Isaac Newton as president of the Royal Society. Complete in two crown octavo volumes (198 x 122mm) bound in contemporary calf. Vegetable Staticks: Third Edition, with amendments. [6],x,[4],376pp, with 19 copper-engraved plates. Haemastatics: Second Edition, corrected. [10],vi,xvii-xxii,[26],354,[22]pp. Original boards, beautifully respined to match by Fitterer. Handsome copper-engraved Chippendale-style book plate of Thomas Woodward to front paste-down of volume 1. Both volumes fresh, bright, and virtually pristine. PMM 189 ("remarkable scientific investigations"). Grolier 100 Science 45a and b. Hunt II, p. xlvi. Garrison-Morton 765… Read More

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. First Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Printing (complete number line) of the poet's own favorite. 8vo: 67pp. Original burgundy quarter cloth over grey paper-covered boards, the spine lettered in gilt, pink endpapers; in a pictorial dust jacket priced at $16.95. As New (and probably unread), in an As New jacket. Inscribed, dated and signed by the poet on the title page. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Kelleher A-27. Hall is considered "one of the major American poets of his generation. His poetry explores the longing for a more bucolic past and reflects the poet's abiding reverence for nature. Although Hall gained early success with his first collection, Exiles and Marriages (1955), his more recent poetry is generally regarded as the best of his career. (Poetry Foundation) Of this collection, Hall said, "The One Day is my favorite work of my own, unless Without [1998], and I certainly couldn't tell… Read More

Boston: David R. Godine, 1975. First Printing. Hardcover. As New. First Edition (no additional printings noted.) Slim 8vo: 44pp. Publisher's decorative black-and-white patterned paper-covered boards. No Jacket, as issued. As New (and probably unread). Kelleher A-16. A Godine Poetry Chapbook, Second Series, beautifully printed on laid paper. The title poem concerns a New Hampshire town erased by flood. Hall is considered "one of the major American poets of his generation. His poetry explores the longing for a more bucolic past and reflects the poet's abiding reverence for nature. Although Hall gained early success with his first collection, Exiles and Marriages (1955), his more recent poetry is generally regarded as the best of his career." (Poetry Foundation) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard Advocate, 1955. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Fine/Fine-. First Printing of the poet's first commercial collection published in the United States. 8vo: [4],26pp. Cream stiff wrappers, light blue dust jacket printed in black and priced 65¢. Signed by the poet on the title page. Fine in about Fine jacket, sunned at the edges. Kelleher A5. Published as the inaugural volume in the Pegasus Publication Series (Spring 1955). Hall is "considered one of the major American poets of his generation. His poetry explores the longing for a more bucolic past and reflects the poet's abiding reverence for nature. . . . Often compared favorably with such writers as James Dickey, Robert Bly, and James Wright, Hall uses simple, direct language to evoke surrealistic imagery." (Poetry Foundation) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh and Cadell and Davies, London, 1815. First Edition. Wrappers. Fine. Two original articles disbound from Volume VII of Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (not a reprint, facsimile reproduction, or photocopy). Roman numerals preceding titles refer to order of sequence as published in the Transactions. Demy 4to (273 x 210mm): 79-108,139-211,[1]pp, complete with nine copper-plate engravings. Recently bound by Fitterer in stiff marbled wrappers. An excellent wide-margined example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Geology Emerging 994. Hall founded the field of experimental geology and was a supporter of Hutton's Theory of the Earth. In the first paper, "On the Vertical Position and Convolutions of Certain Strata" (see DSB, vol. 6, p. 55), he conjectured that series of closely packed folds in Lower Paleozoic rocks in southern Scotland had been formed by lateral pressure. To test the theory, he constructed a machine in which layers… Read More

London: James Fraser, Regent Street, 1840. Original Cloth. Fine. Scarce First Edition of this field guide for the "youthful amateur in this pleasing science." Crown 8vo (194 x 124mm):viii,146,[2]pp, with tissue-guarded color lithograph frontispiece and 46 text woodcuts. Original blue cloth, paper label printed in black to front cover, pale pink end papers. An exceptional example (title label spotted), tightly bound and bright throughout. Reprinted in 1842 with a glossary of terms and index to the genera and their localities. Hanley "inherited a small fortune at an early age and devoted a lifetime to conchology. . . . After publishing The Young Conchologist's Book of Species in 1840, he edited a new edition of Swainson's Exotic Conchology in 1841, and in 1842 began his first important work on bivalves . . . But he is probably best known to systematists by his publication on the shells of Linnaeus." (Dance, A History of Shell Collecting, p. 183) Most of Hanley's extensive collection of shells is… Read More

London: Printed by H. Woodfall, 1756. Quarter-bound Leather. Near Fine+. First Edition, "printed for presentation only and not sold." (DNB). The more common second edition, published in octavo, appeared the following year. 4to: [6],201,[5],203-361,[1]pp, with engraved frontispiece and engraved plate opposite the divisional title to the Essay on Tea, both by Thomas Major after Samuel Wale. Modern quarter-calf over plain paper-covered boards, flat spine in six compartments between decorative gilt bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt; all edges stained red, end papers renewed. Title page and preliminaries lightly foxed, but contents otherwise clean and bright, the binding tight and firm. A splendid, wide-margined copy. ESTC Citation No. T127188. Gibson's Library, p. 144. Goldsmiths'-Kress 9083. Cox I, p. 19. Hanway was both a widely traveled merchant, with connections to the Russia Company, and a philanthropist whose causes included foundlings, prostitutes, and the climbing apprentices of chimney… Read More

London: Harper & Brothers, 45 Albemarle Street, 1898. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First Impression of the author's first collection of poems, one of only 500 copies. Crown 8vo (200 x 131mm): xi,[1],228pp, with 31 illustrations (13 full-page, including frontispiece) reproduced from drawings by Hardy. Publisher's original forest green bold-ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt medallion enclosing TH monogram to upper cover, top edge gilt, others uncut. Ex libris of Harald Pedersen (1888-1945), Norwegian metallurgist, politician, and Nazi collaborator. End sheets lightly foxed, else a superlative example, virtually pristine, on heavy paper, very tightly bound. Purdy, pp. 96-106. Hayward 310. Wolff 2998. Webb, pp. 97-98. Hardy considered himself primarily a poet, claiming that his extraordinary novel-writing career was the result of financial expediency. Hardy had been working on this collection of 51 poems since the 1860s. "But it was only on the cusp of the twentieth century, feeling… Read More

London: Sold by Mr. White, bookseller, in Fleet-street, & Mr. Robson, in New Bond street, 1782. Quarter-Calf. Near Fine+. Tall uncut Second Edition (First Issue, with hand-colored allegorical frontispiece of sylvan scene with various insects and animals at foot of pedestal holding statue of Ceres and catchword on p. 40 corrected) of this classic of eighteenth-century entomology. Royal 4to (317 x 240mm): [2],viii,9-166,[4]pp, complete with 50 delicately hand-coloured plates, depicting more than 500 individual moths, dragonflies, damselflies, bees, wasps, and other insects drawn from life, engraved, and colored by Moses Harris; engraved calligraphic title page, and uncolored engraved plate with numbered parts of insects keyed to explanations in the Preface. Text in English and French in double columns. Contemporary quarter green calf, original flat spine (very skillfully relaid) in six compartment divided by gilt bands, title direct to second compartment in gilt, marbled boards. Previous owner 's name… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First printing ("1897" on the copyright page and title page), issued simultaneously with the London edition, of this late Jack Hamlin novel, set in the California Gold Rush. Small 8vo: [4],342pp. Publisher's brown S cloth (also issued in red V cloth, no priority noted), upper cover stamped in black, spine lettered in gilt, olive clay-coated end papers. A Fine, lightly read copy, spine unfaded, gilt lettering bright. Provenance: "Robert Shortz" (perhaps the author of "The Gift of Bonaparte" and "The Girdle of God") in an elegant script to the front paste-down. BAL 7385. Kozlay Collection, 312. Wright 2557. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we… Read More

Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Printing (of three), per BAL, with FO monogram on title page and foot of spine and S.T.K. for T.S.K. in caption p. 136. Small 8vo: vi,7-153pp. Original green publisher's C cloth (also issued in orange and purple cloth, no priority noted), spine and upper cover stamped in gilt, beveled edges, chocolate clay-coated end papers. A Fine, bright copy—superb. BAL 7253. Kozlay Collection, 58 (identifying this as the first issue). Johnson High Spots, p. 37 (also calling this the first issue). Collects new and previously published poems, including "To the Pliocene Skull" and "Her Letter," as well as Harte's tribute to Dickens, "Dickens in Camp" and two of his renowned Civil War Poems, "Reveille" and "How Are You, Sanitary?". Harte's breakthrough came was with the publication three years earlier of "The Luck of Roaring Camp," and although his reputation today rests on the handful of stories he wrote for the Overland in the two and a half… Read More

London: Macdonald [from 1954], 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Near Fine+. Second Impression of this definitive history of English cuisine, a "treasury of information on the gathering, storing, and cooking of food from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. . . . as full of magic and potions as any medieval herbal." (ODNB ) Thick demy 8vo (227 x 150mm): xii, 13-676pp, with 21 plates from photographs on glossy stock and numerous finely executed line drawings, "exact, decorative yet diagrammatic." (ODNB) Publisher's orange cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gold; illustrated dust jacket by Hookaway Cowles, priced 30/- net. Text block edges lightly freckled, very occasionally affecting margins, but an excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout in a handsome briefly nicked jacket. According to historian Lucy Worsley, Food in England is a "curious mixture of cookery, history, anthropology, folklore and even magic . . . It ranges from Saxon cooking to the Industrial Revolution, with… Read More

London: Printed for J Hassell, 27, Richard Street, Islington; and sold by all book sellers, 1819. Full Leather. Very Good +. First Edition of this work issued as a celebration of the newly completed Grand Union Canal. 8vo: viii,147,[5] pp, with hand-colored frontispiece and 23 full-page hand-colored plates "of great topographical interest" (Hardie; according to Abbey, some copies were issued uncolored). Full period black straight-grain morocco, spine elaborately tooled gilt in six compartments, boards tooled in blind and gilt, turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt. A Very Good or better copy, the plates clean and bright, with sporadic, mostly marginal (occasionally heavy) foxing to text. Provenance: book plate to front paste-down of Howard Calhoun Davidson (1890-1984), U. S. Air Force Major General and veteran of both World Wars. Abbey (Scenery) 30. Tooley 252. Martin Hardie, pp. 140-141. Prideaux, p. 272. The Grand Junction Canal's 93 miles of waterway, from Braunston in Northhamptonshire to the River… Read More

New York: Christie's, 2006. Stiff Wrappers. Fine. Auction catalog of this significant collection documenting the history of the book in all its forms. Thick royal 8vo (267 x 209mm): 679pp, with spectacular color photographs throughout and prices neatly noted for each lot. A superlative example (tips barely bumped), tightly bound and virtually pristine. Formed between 1945 and 1965, the Hauck Collection included Babylonian cuneiform tablets, Greek papyri fragments, Persian, Hebrew, and Asian manuscripts, European medieval manuscripts, and fine bindings of all periods. The auction of more than 700 separate lots was held at Christie's in New York on June 27 and 28, 2006. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860. First Edition thus. Vellum. Fine. First Tauchnitz Edition (Todd & Bowden's fourth setting, impression Db), "copyright edition" on title page, of Hawthorne's Italian romance cum travel guide. Two volumes in one, thick foolscap 8vo (155 x 107mm): xii,292; vi,280,[2]pp, with 24 mounted period photographs of Roman monuments, statuary, buildings, and street scenes. Contemporary Florentine vellum, spine decorated and titled ("The Marble Faun") in gilt, upper cover paneled and titled ("Roma") in gilt, marbled end papers, edges stained red. Tightly bound and clean throughout, a virtually pristine example, aside from slight waviness to margins of inserted leaves with photographs, which are printed on heavy coated stock. (The photographs were sold to the tourist trade and inserted by Italian binders into copies, most, as here, with half-titles removed.) Todd & Bowden 515Db & 516Db ("the Tauchnitz book most often found extensively extra-illustrated with photographs and found… Read More

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, And Fields, 1852. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine+. First Printing, one of 3,067 copies, with "lifed" for "lifted," line 3, p. 21; first issue (one of only 3067 copies printed and published November,1851), without the inserted publisher's catalogue at rear. Small 8vo: vi,[7]-256pp, with frontispiece and 6 woodcut plates, protected by tissue guards, "gracefully executed" by Hammat Billings, "add[ing] materially to the charm of the little volume." (Grolier) Publisher's original T cloth (faded to an even brown tone), spine lettered and stamped with floral decorations in gilt, covers elaborately paneled in blind, pale yellow endpapers. An exemplary copy, the binding tight and secure, spine relaid professionally and almost imperceptibly, with all lettering intact; light, scattered foxing and the odd, occasional stain. BAL 7606. Grolier Hawthorne 25. Peter Parley to Penrod, p.6. Clark A18.1.a. Stories for girls and boys based on classical myths (Pandora's box, Hercules,… Read More

Boston: James R. Osgood, 1872. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine-. With a preface by Una Hawthorne. First State (Clark's First Printing, with dropped "I" in "It," l.18, p.42) of Hawthorne's final work, a gothic romance set during the Revolutionary War about a search for the elixir of life. One of only 3000 copies printed. 8vo (172 x 108mm): [4],229,[3,blank, ad leaf]pp. Publisher's decorated blue bold-ribbed moired T cloth (copies were also bound in terra-cotta and green sand-grained C cloth and green and terra-cotta smooth V cloth), front cover and spine decorated in black and lettered in gilt, chocolate coated end papers. Trivial edge wear, slight spine lean, dusty top edge, else an exemplary example. BAL 7638. Grolier Hawthorne 38. Clark A29.2.a. Browne, p. 68. Wright II, 1139. Bleiler (Checklist), p. 96. Bleiler (Guide to Supernatural Fiction) 779. Originally published posthumously in the Atlantic Monthly, taken from an unfinished manuscript discovered by Hawthorne's wife; then in London,… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Printing of the poet's critically acclaimed first commercially published work (preceded by the privately printed pamphlet, Eleven Poems, in 1965), one of only 1,000 copies (bound from sheets purchased from Faber and Faber, Heaney's London publisher). Tall, slim 8vo: 57,[1]pp. Publisher's aquamarine cloth, spine lettered in gilt; typographic dust jacket, in salmon-pink, olive and white, lettered in black and priced $3.75. Signed by Heaney on the title page. A stunning copy, tight, square and likely unread; about Fine jacket, fresh and bright, with usual fading to the fugitive salmon-pink on bottom half of spine panel but all lettering undiminished. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Cholmondeley Award, the Eric Gregory Award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Heaney received the Nobel Prize in literature, in 1995. Brandes & Durkan A2b. A collection of 34 poems largely concerned with rural life,… Read More

Belfast: Ulsterman Publications, 1975. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. First Impression of this sequence of twenty-one "verse paragraphs" or prose poems (a style then new to Heaney), among which are "Nesting-grounds," "England's difficulty," "Cloistered" and other poems that hark to Heaney's childhood. Slim demy 8vo (215 x 153mm): 24pp. Publisher's pale yellow stapled wrappers, front cover printed in orange with dot matrix portrait of Heaney from photo by Fay Godwin. One corner lightly bumped, else a Fine, lightly read (if at all) copy. Brandes & Durkan A10. Also included are "Cauled," "Branded," Hedge-school," "Sinking the shaft," "Waterbabies," "Patrick and Oisin," "Sweet William," "The discharged soldier," "The Sabbath-breakers," "Kernes," "July," "Visitant." "Trial Runs," "The wanderer," "Ballad," "The stations of the west," "Inquisition," and "Incertus." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival,… Read More