Search Results: Titles starting with F from Fine Editions Ltd

London: Printed for J. Rodwell, (successor to Mr. Faulder,) New Bond Street, by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey, 1815. Half-Calf. Near Fine+. A New Edition, Corrected. In three volumes." Crown 8vo (191 x 127mm): [4],xli,[3],223,[1]; [4],272; [2],304pp, with 52 woodcuts (title-page vignettes, head- and tailpieces) by John and Thomas Bewick, Charlton Nesbit, and Luke Clennell. Bound by Orrock & Son in half-burgundy morocco, marbled sides and end papers; top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Provenance: Signature opposite title page of volume one and half titles of volumes two and three of Robert Pitcairn, dated Dec. 1823. Nineteenth century armorial book plate of Walter King (lion sejant erect ppr., holding between its paws an escallop arg.) and a second book plate (possibly Maurice Harlay's) with motto "Deo et regi." An excellent set (preliminaries lightly spotted), tightly bound and clean throughout with rich impressions of the cuts. Hugo 4279. Tattersfield TB2.167. Reprint of the first edition of… Read More

Johannesburg: Silver Leaf Books, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression of the Noble laureate's first book. Crown 8vo: 164,[4]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine stamped with silver foil; illustrated dust jacket by Ernest Ullman, priced 12s/6d. Fine and unread, tightly bound, clean and crisp; Fine jacket, tips of spine panel and flap folds very lightly rubbed. An excellent example. Driver A1. A collection of 16 stories probing the psychological consequences of a racially divided society, published the year after the first Nationalist Government (the party of apartheid) came to power in South Africa. 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 subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Munich: Georg W. Dietrich, 1916. Limited Edition. Full Calf. Fine-. Copy No. 78 of this richly illustrated edition of Strindberg's Fairy Tales, from a bibliophile edition of 200 numbered copies on heavy paper. Volume 9 of the publisher's Treasures of World Literature series. Translated by Emil Schering. Demy 8vo (227 x 181mm): [192]pp, with numerous color lithographs by Thorsten Schonberg. Publisher's wine-red pebbled calf, upper cover bordered in gilt, green oval-shaped title label gilt to spine, top edge gilt. Small book label of Wolfgang Metzner to front paste-down. A beautifully preserved copy, tightly bound and clean throughout. The illustrations are from the Swedish edition, published in 1915. Georg Svensson, in Modern Swedish Book Art (Modern Svensk Bokkonst), calls them "perhaps the very best that Schonberg has done in this area . . . ." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves.… Read More

London: George Redway, 1887. Limited Edition. Original Cloth. Fine. No. 376 of 400 copies printed. Thin, square 8vo: viii,91,[1]pp, with frontispiece ("Frost fair on the River Thames, in 1814") and two full-page engravings ("Frost Fair on the Thames in the reign of Charles II" and "Frost Fair on the Thames"). Publisher's finely woven black cloth, beveled boards, spine and upper cover ruled and lettered in gilt, back cover ruled in blind, top edge gilded, coated and mottled end papers, title page in red and black. Fine copy of this scarce work on the winter festivals of the Little Ice Age. Between 1400 and 1835, the Thames froze over 24 times, and merchants and manufacturers moved their various industries onto the ice (frost fairs were even far more common on the Continent, especially in the Netherlands). During the Great Frost of 1683-84, the worst recorded in England, the Thames was frozen over for two months, with the ice reaching a thickness of 11 inches in London. The final frost, in 1814, when… Read More

London: Collins, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Impression of the scarce tenth installment in the author's popular Aubrey-Maturin series. 8vo: [8],371,[1]pp. Publisher's forest green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; second issue illustrated dust jacket priced £9.95 with publisher's sticker (because of the printer's pricing error, most jackets were price-clipped and repriced). A Fine, apparently unread copy (dust-soiled top edge, toning endemic to text block); about Fine jacket (spine panel with just a degree of lightening to top third only of spine panel). An uncommonly collectible copy. Cunningham A19a. The Aubrey-Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—set during the Napoleonic Wars and centering on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon (and spy), Stephen Maturin. This tenth installment continues the story of Aubrey's exploits during the American War of 1812. The novel provided… Read More

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Impression, translated from the Spanish, of this "landmark of modern literature." (Diefendorf) Edited and with an introduction by Anthony Kerrigan. Crown 8vo (190 x 121mm): [6],7-174pp. Publisher's grey coarsely woven cloth, spine lettered in gilt, typographic dust jacket priced 21s. About Fine lightly read copy, square and tight with former owner's name neatly penned on front fly-leaf; about Fine jacket, the fugitive pinks and yellows still vibrant, spine panel without usual heavy toning, lightly soiled back panel, very short closed tear to lower left front panel. A sharp copy of the uncommon British edition. Diefendorf (NYPL Books of the Century), p. 29. Foster A56.6. A collection of essays and short stories, and the first of Borges books to be translated into English. Ficciones "is composed of two distinct sections, The Garden of Forking Paths and Artifices. The former was first published in 1941, in Spanish, as a… Read More

Norfolk, Conn: New Directions [from 1937], 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Near Fine+. First Printing of the first combined edition, bound from first edition sheets of each novel with separate title pages identical to the originals and no separate general title page added. Short, thick 8vo: [8],293[3]; 382pp. Publisher's gray cloth, spine stamped in crimson, top edge stained crimson, original rough beige paper dust jacket printed in black. About Fine, spine end bumped and small spot of fading to upper cover; Near Fine or better jacket, spine and flaps lightly toned, several tiny nicks and chips to corners not affecting lettering or design. Wallace A21b. During the social crises of the 1930s and early 1940s, Williams explored the social realist argument that art ought primarily to fight economic injustice. His novel trilogy, White Mule (1937), In the Money (1940), and The Build-Up (1952), as his many poems and plays, focused on his fond tolerance of middle-class life and apple-pie America, and… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Stone & Kimball, 1893. Original Cloth. Fine-. First Trade Edition (a numbered edition of 50 large-paper copies signed by the publishers also was issued) of the first bibliography of American authors. Introduced by the poet Eugene Field. Foolscap 8vo (162 x 100mm): xxiv,223,[3]pp. Publisher's olive-green beveled cloth lettered in gilt to front cover and spine; top edge gilt, others uncut; title page in red and black; paper shelf label to spine. Engraved bookplate to front paste down of Harvard professor George Herbert Palmer (1842-1933). Laid in is a brief ALS from E. W. Rollins dated April 22, 1843, announcing a forthcoming class meeting at 18 Beacon Street. An excellent example in original cloth, tightly bound and clean throughout. Kramer 2. BAL 5756. The first bound volume issued by this publisher (called "Stone & Kimball's First Book"), providing bibliographic details of first editions of American authors listed alphabetically (from Henry Abbey to Samuel Woodworth, and including… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Impression of this cornerstone of modern travel writing. Demy 8vo (232 x 155mm): xvi,328pp, with tissue-guarded color frontispiece of the Cathedral of St. Sophia and 24 full-page drawings and photographs (mostly the author's). Publisher's emerald green coarsely woven cloth, spine lettered in gold; later issue Macmillan's Miscellany saffron-yellow dust jacket (as usual: the first-issue jacket is rare) printed in black. An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout (first and final few pages lightly spotted); jacket slightly dust-soiled with small crease to head of spine panel. Here are two separate travel accounts: a cultural tour of Soviet Russia in the 1920's and an excursion along the Indo-Tibetan trade route from Sikkim to Gyantse. Byron traveled to India in 1929, as special correspondent for the Daily Express, and the following year ventured briefly into Tibet. "The first literary result of these experiences was An… Read More

[Cambridge, Mass.]: Printed only for private distribution [Houghton Mifflin], 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Scarce privately printed issue of these letters from a First World War ambulance driver sent from the front. Crown 8vo (180 x 115mm): xvi,129,[1]pp, with photographic frontispiece, tissue-guarded title page, 14 photographs and numerous line drawings in text. Publisher's red cloth-backed grey paper-covered boards printed in red, paper label to spine titled in black, fore- and bottom edges edges untrimmed. Pepperrell family armorial book plate to front paste-down, tiny pencil name of A. P. Andrew (A. Piatt Andrew of Gloucester, Mass, one of the ambulance drivers listed on p. 125) to fly-leaf. Two light marks to covers, else Fine. A trade edition appeared in January, 1916, identifying the author as Leslie Buswell. More commonly encountered in that edition, under the title Ambulance No. 10. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition,… Read More

Leipzig: Heinemann and Balestier, 1900. Vellum. Fine. Later edition of Howells's guide to Florence and Pisa enriched with literary portraits of their most illustrious citizens. Crown 8vo (150 x 109mm): 264pp, with 27 tipped-in full page albumen prints, many by the Florence firm Fratelli Alinari. Full decorated vellum over beveled boards, spine and covers richly gilt, brown leather lettering piece gilt, all edges stained red, decorative end papers, red silk ribbon page marker. Book plate of Jessie Heys and ticket of Florence bookseller Libreria R. Paggie (via Tornabuoni, 15) to front paste down. A superb copy, occasional light spotting to pages, but very securely bound and generally clean throughout. See Stevenson, "With William Dean Howells to Florence," The Critical Flame (accessible online). BAL 9620 (for first edition). First published in Boston, in 1886 (but copyrighted 1885). Visitors to Florence, a requisite stop on Italian sojourns, often purchased a compact memento sold by local booksellers,… Read More

London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1827. Paper-Covered Boards. Fine. New [third] Edition, enlarged, of this pioneering publication, one of the earliest horticultural works written specifically for women. Tall 12mo (186 x 109mm): viii,136 pp, with six hand-colored aquatints, including folding frontispiece (engraved by I. Clark with imprint: "Published for Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1824"). Publisher's advertisement leaf precedes frontispiece. Recent brown paper-covered boards, putty-colored paper spine, and paper spine label printed in black (original label laid in), end papers renewed, edges untrimmed. An excellent wide-margined example, tightly bound and clean throughout with richly colored plates. Henrey II, pp. 583-4 and III, 873. Abbey (Life) 17. Percy, "Maria Elizabeth Jackson and her Floral Manual" (Garden History, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring 1992), pp. 45-56 ("commands attention principally because of the very rarity of any gardening book written not only by a woman but for… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Impression of the author's first book. Small 8vo: 292pp. Original lime-green cloth, spine lettered in red and gold, publisher's reply card laid in; illustrated dust jacked, priced 7s / 6d. About Fine, square, and tight (very slight soiling to board edges), apparently unread; about Fine jacket (spine panel slightly toned with minor creases to crown and slightly dust-soiled rear panel), but an exceptionally striking example of a scarce title. Early fictional account of life in a flying school between the wars. Rhys died young, on 5 August 1940, while serving as a bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force. His three books all reflect a passion for flying, the relationship between pilot and machine, and the human relationships that spring from this shared passion. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene… Read More

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression, signed by Theroux on title page, his second novel (after Waldo). Small 8vo: [8],199,[1]pp. Publisher's turquoise cloth, spine stamped in gilt, dust jacket illustrated by Michael Foreman. Price-clipped and repriced on sticker £8.50, else a virtually pristine unread copy. From the author of The Mosquito Coast and The Great Railway Bazaar, a comic morality tale featuring a Chinese storekeeper in East Africa. 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 subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

[London]: The Tea Centre, 1952. First Printing. Stiff Wrappers. Fine-. Scarce booklet, with decorations (vignettes) by Elizabeth Corsellis, on the history of the British relationship with tea. Crown 8vo (183 x 122mm): [2],29,[1], with two leaves of plates (color photographs of the author's tea-related collection of Derby, Worcester, and Chelsea porcelain). Stapled (as issued) in stiff printed wrappers, upper cover printed in blue, red, and gold with title within elaborate cartouche, back cover priced 5s. About Fine (cream-colored back cover lightly dust-soiled and marginally toned). Gervas Huxley, husband of author Elsbeth Huxley, was a British Army officer and a founder of the Ministry of Information. He wrote a more extensive homage to tea in 1956, titled "Talking of Tea," from cultivation of the plant to brewing and drinking of the beverage. by N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All… Read More

Philadelphia: Richard Gimbel, 1938. First Edition. Card Covers / Wrappers. Fine. Two copies, First and Second Printings, of this curious Poeana. Small 8vo (89 x 137mm): [2],14pp. Original staple-bound dappled purple card covers (first) and salmon pink wrappers (second), both printed in black. Text setting identical in both printings; only wrapper text varies. Title page (both printings): "Edgar Allan Poe stated that: / 'The Tales of the Folio Club / are sixteen in all.' / Fifteen tales are known. / This is the sixteenth. / Uncovered by Richard Gimbel and Published / Philadelphia, July, 1938." According to the colophons (inside back cover): "This First Edition Attributing The Spectacles to Edgar Allan Poe / is limited to / 100 copies" [ours is no. 23.] "This Second Edition Attributing / The Spectacles / by / Edgar Allan Poe / is limited to / 1000 copies." Oddly, the second printing ("edition") is quite rare (no copy can be located for sale online at present, and WorldCat has no listing; what's more,… Read More

London: Collins, 1979. First Impression. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Fine. First Impression of the sixth Jack Aubrey novel. 8vo: 280pp. Publisher's French blue cloth-effect paper-covered boards, spine stamped in gilt; illustrated dust jacket, priced £5.50. Near Fine or better (slight spine tilt, indent to base, board edges barely sunned); Fine jacket, vivid and bright, with spine panel completely unfaded. A collectible copy. Cunningham A15a. The Aubrey-Maturin series of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—are set during the Napoleonic Wars and center on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, polymath and spy. This installment continues the story of Aubrey's exploits during the American War of 1812, recreating in authentic detail two significant historical frigate battles, between HMS Java and USS Constitution and between HMS Shannon and USS Chesapeake. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in… Read More

Glasgow: printed by A. Foulis, and sold by D. Allan, Dickson's Closs, Edinburgh, also by J. Murray, No. 32. Fleet-Street, and C. Elliot, Strand, London, 1788. First Edition thus. First Illustrated Edition of this widely popular pastoral comedy in vernacular Scots, with glossary and evocative engravings by David Allan. Large 4to: [4,including half title],x,[2],111,[3],17(glossary),[1]pp, with portrait frontispiece, 12 numbered uncolored aquatints by David Allan, and 9 engraved leaves of music and words, numbered 1-18. Text based on quarto edition of 1728. Contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked preserving original richly gilt flat spine and red morocco lettering piece gilt. An excellent very wide-margined in a well-preserved contemporary binding, plates in rich impressions, occasional spotting to text but generally clean and bright. Gaskell (Foulis) 688. Abbey (Life) 244. Rothschild 1732. Martin 216. The Foulis Press first published The Gentle Shepherd (which was originally published by, in 1725, in… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. -/Fine. First Printing ("First American Edition" on copyright page) of the first single-volume edition of Eliot's wartime masterpiece (preceding the British edition by more than a year), in the first-issue dust jacket (with nine titles to back panel). Tall, slim 8vo: [8],39,[1]pp. Original black cloth, spine titled in gold; jacket printed in gray and black, priced $2. About Fine (lettering to spine occasionally rubbed); slight toning to jacket's spine panel, crown of spine nicked, else exceptionally well-preserved. Gallup A43. A total of 4,165 copies were printed, but 3,777 destroyed because the margins were incorrectly set, because of unskilled wartime labor. The remaining 788 copies, of which this is one, were issued as review copies and to preserve copyright. Collects four interrelated poems published separately over the previous three years. East Coker is the village in Somerset from which Eliot's ancestors departed for the New World, in… Read More

London: published by S. and J. Fuller, 34 Rathbone Place / privately printed [by Waterlow & Sons Limited] by the Author of "Hunting Hawking Shooting, 1930. First Edition thus. Card Covers. Fine. First Paperback Edition of Alken's most detailed work, the forerunner of Nimrod's The Life of a Sportsman. Oblong folio (348 x 445mm): 10pp, including title-page vignette, colored portrait of Alken and facsimiles of 11 wrappers on one plate, and photographic illustration of the scroll case, followed by 35 colored aquatint scenes (miniature adaptations of plates in National Field Sports), depicting incidents in the life of a squire's son, mounted on five stiff-card leaves. Original publisher's mottled tan card covers lettered in black. Signed by the editor, C. F. G. R. Schwerdt, on limitation leaf. A pristine example in the original publisher's stiff card decorated envelope, lightly nicked. Originally published in scroll form, in 1820, the Panorama is extremely scarce; in the preface Schwerdt states: "apart… Read More