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Rabbit, Run
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Rabbit, Run

by UPDIKE, John (1932-2009)

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London: André Deutsch, 1961. First British Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A stunning First Impression (unread and virtually pristine) of the author's second novel (after The Poorhouse Fair), the first installment in the Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom series. Crown 8vo (196 x 130mm): [8],307,[3]pp. Publisher's medium brown cloth-effect paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gold; later state variant dust jacket (not noted by De Bellis & Broomfield), illustrated by Frances Corby and priced 18s. Cover tips bumped, else Fine. De Bellis & Broomfield A4.b.1. First published the previous year in New York, Rabbit, Run gives voice to the many influences that shaped Updike's literary approach, "from its Joycean use of internal monologue to the protagonist's status as a Kierkegaardian "Knight of Faith". The novel focuses on a 23-year-old former high school basketball star named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom who, upon returning home one day after losing his job, decides on impulse to abandon his pregnant wife and their… Read More
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The Ragman's Daughter [Signed, Peter Apap Bologna's copy]
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The Ragman's Daughter [Signed, Peter Apap Bologna's copy]

by SILLITOE, Alan (1928-2010)

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London: W. H. Allen, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine. First Impression of the author's second short story collection, after The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Crown 8vo (196 x 123mm): 190pp. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gold; illustrated dust jacket by Patrick Tilley, priced 16s. Signed by Sillitoe on title page, with book plate to front paste-down of Peter Apap Bologna, whose collection of modern first editions was auctioned at Christie's in 1999. An excellent example (text block lightly toned and spotted), tightly bound and clean throughout, with the bright dust jacket. Gerard A9. Collects seven stories previously published in periodicals. The title story, in which a young Englishman reminisces about his wild teen-age days, was filmed in 1972, directed by Harold Becker and starring Simon Rouse and Victoria Tennant. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully… Read More
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The Rainbow
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The Rainbow

by LAWRENCE, D[avid]. H[erbert], 1885-1930

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New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First Edition. Original Cloth. Near Fine+. First American Edition of the title "universally considered by dealers and collectors alike Mr. Lawrence's scarcest book." (MacDonald) 8vo: [8],467,[1]pp. Publisher's original dark tan coarsely woven cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Near Fine or better (dust-soiled and spotted top edge, a touch shelf-worn). Neither Roberts nor MacDonald gives a separate entry for the New York edition, but both note its appearance under the entry for the London edition.) Roberts A7. MacDonald 7. ML 100, 48. The Observer's 100. Although the title page bears the date 1916, this edition was first published November 30, 1915, in order to establish the legitimacy of the American copyright date. "The Rainbow and Women in Love were originally intended to form one novel entitled The Sisters, which was begun in 1913 when Lawrence was living in Italy, but as the novel developed across 1913-14—whilst… Read More
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Rapin of Gardens. A Latin Poem. In Four Books. Englifh'd by Mr. Gardiner
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Rapin of Gardens. A Latin Poem. In Four Books. Englifh'd by Mr. Gardiner

by RAPIN, René (1621-1687)

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London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, at the Cross-Keys between the Temple Gates, Fleetstreet, 1728. Three-Quarter Calf. Fine. Translated by James Gardiner. Crown 8vo (192 x 115mm): liii,[1],200,[10], with frontispiece portrait of Gardiner engraved by Vertue after a painting by Johann Verelst, folding copper-engraved parterre, and full-page engraved frontispiece, engraved by Elisha Kirkall, to each of the four books (Of Flowers, Of Trees, Of Water, The Orchard). Concluding with index and advertisement leaf. Rebound recently in three-quarter calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spine, in six compartments between raised bands, decorated in gilt, red leather lettering piece gilt, end papers renewed. An excellent example, tightly bound, fresh and bright throughout, with rich impressions of the plates. Foxon G14. Henrey II, p. 411, and III 1255. Hunt 414. Third Edition of the Gardiner translation (originally pubolished in 1706). First published by Rapin, in 1665, as Hortorum libri quattuor, in imitation… Read More
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[Red Night Trilogy, comprising] Cities of the Red Night, [together with] The Place of Dead Roads,...
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[Red Night Trilogy, comprising] Cities of the Red Night, [together with] The Place of Dead Roads, [and with] The Western Lands [All Signed]

by BURROUGHS, William S. (1914-1997)

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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston / Viking [through 1987], 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine. Three volumes, all First Printings and all signed (but not inscribed) by Burroughs on title pages. Demy 8vo (228 x 150mm): xviii (including frontispiece and title page),332; [12],306, with double-page map; [12],258pp. Red Night: Publisher's beige paper-covered boards initialed in blind, terracotta cloth spine stamped in gold, illustrated end papers; pictorial wraparound dust jacket (detail from painting by Pieter Brueghel), priced-clipped but with correct 0381 publisher's code on front flap. Fine and unread. Dead Roads: Publisher's brown cloth, upper covers blind-stamped with author's name, spine lettered in bronze, illustrated wraparound dust jacket priced $15.95. Fine and unread. Western Lands: Publisher's black paper-covered boards, marine blue cloth spine lettered in bronze and black, illustrated end papers and title page; wraparound illustrated dust jacket priced $18.95.. About Fine (top… Read More
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Reflections in a Golden Eye [Inscribed to H. Tatnall Brown, Jr.]
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Reflections in a Golden Eye [Inscribed to H. Tatnall Brown, Jr.]

by MCCULLERS, Carson (1917-1967)

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin [Riverside Press]??, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Fine-. First Printing of McCullers's second novel, a "hothouse tale of twisted desire and simmering violence." (Terrence Rafferty) Crown 8vo (202 x 129mm): [6],182,[2]pp. Publisher's two-tone grey and beige cloth lettered in yellow and black on front cover and black on spine, fore- and bottom edges rough-trimmed, double-page title printed in yellow, black, and beige. First Issue dust jacket (with die-cut glassine window on front panel) printed in yellow, black, and beige and priced $2.00. Housed in bespoke green cloth-covered slip case and chemise, brown leather spine label stamped in gilt. Inscribed by the author to front fly leaf to H. Tatnall Brown, Jr. (1900-1983), author, bibliophile, and dean of Haverford College: "For H. Tatnall Brown, Jr. / with best wishes from / Carson McCullers." Scattered spotting to spine, faint offsetting to end papers, but a superlative example, tightly bound (apparently unread)… Read More
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The Reign of King Charles : An History Faithfully and Impartially delivered and disposed into Annals
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The Reign of King Charles : An History Faithfully and Impartially delivered and disposed into Annals

by L'ESTRANGE, Hamon (1605-1660)

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London: printed by E[llen]. C[otes]. for Edward Dod, and Henry Seile the younger, and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivie-lane, and over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, 1655. First Edition. Full Calf. Fine-. First Edition of this rare history of the reign of Charles I to May 1641. Crown folio (267 x 178mm): [8],266,[6]pp, with woodcut device on title page and additional engraved title page ("The history of King Charles by H: L: Esqr."), signed G. Faithorne. Contemporary speckled calf, covers elaborately paneled and decorated in blind, spine in six compartments divided by raised bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt. Title page stub-mounted with neat name in manuscript to top (John Bournes?). An excellent example in handsome period binding, securely bound and generally clean throughout. Wing L1189. Lowndes III, 1346 ("A book of considerable merit, written in a bad style."). A second enlarged and revised edition, in which L'Estrange answered the criticisms of Peter Heylyn, who had… Read More
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Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud aux côtes du Chily et du Perou, fait pendant les années...
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Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud aux côtes du Chily et du Perou, fait pendant les années 1712, 1713 & 1714 : dediée à S.A.R. Monseigneur le Duc D'Orleans, Regent du Royaume / par M. Frézier, ingenieur ordinaire du roy ; ouvrage enrichi de quantité de planches en taille-douce

by FRÉZIER, Amédée François (1682-1773)

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Paris: chez Jean-Geoffroy Nyon, quay de Conti, au coin de la rue Guenegaud, au Nom de Jesus, Etienne Ganeau, rue Saint Jacques, aux Armes de Dombes, vis-à-vis la Fontaine de S. Severin, Jacque Quillau, imprimeur-juré-libraire, rue Galande, aux Armes de l'Université, 1716. First Edition. A defective first edition (missing one map and one plate) of this classic in the literature of Pacific voyages of exploration. 4to: xiv,298,[2]pp, with 35 (of 37) maps, plans, and plates (18 of which are folding); ornamental engraved vignettes, and woodcut musical notation in the text (never bound in were the map of Détroit de le Maire, no. v, and the plate of Indiens en habits simples, no. ix); plate xvi was bound in twice). Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in six compartments, brown leather lettering piece gilt, "Caissotti" in gilt script on upper board, all edges stained red, marbled end papers, red silk page marker. An exceptional, wide-margined copy, text, maps, and plates fresh and clean, marred only by… Read More
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[Religion] Religio, Medici
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[Religion] Religio, Medici

by [BROWNE, Sir Thomas, 1605-1682]; John Merryweather (translates)

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Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Franciscum Hackium, 1650. Full Calf. Near Fine+. Early issue of the first Latin edition of Browne's first and most celebrated work, a spiritual testament and meditative essay originally not intended for publication. 12mo (128 x 73mm): 235,[5]pp, with engraved title page after a design by William Marshall of a figure falling headlong into the sea (but reversed with figure falling to the left). A5 and K4 erroneously signed, respectively, D5 and C4). Contemporary calf, boards double-ruled in gilt, spine richly gilt in five compartments between raised bands, titled in gilt direct to second compartment. An excellent example, securely bound and clean throughout. Keynes 62. First published, in 1642, in an unauthorized edition; the first Latin edition appeared in 1644. "This edition closely resembles Hackius' second edition of 1644 [Keynes 61] and is to a certain extent printed from the same type. Alterations have, however, been made and the orthography is modernized."… Read More
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Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views, (relative chiefly to picturesque beauty)...
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Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views, (relative chiefly to picturesque beauty) illustrated by the scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire. In three books

by GILPIN, William (1724-1804)

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London: printed for R. Blamire, Strand, 1791. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Edition of this seminal work, complete in two volumes. Tall 8vo's: [4],vii,[1],328,iv,7,[1]; [4],308,iii,[1],xxpp, with 32 leaves of tinted aquatints and soft-ground etchings by Samuel Aikin. Recent cinnamon ribbed cloth spines stamped in gilt, beige paper-covered boards. Remarkably well-preserved set: bindings pristine, pages fresh, clean and completely free of foxing with only light offsetting from the plates. Provenance: bookplates of Walter Charles James (1816-1893), 1st Baron Northbourne, laid in. James was elected to the House of Commons for Hull as a Tory. He acquired Betteshanger House, in Kent, in 1850, and commissioned George Devey to oversee extensions and alterations. James was a friend of William Ewart Gladstone and in 1884, during Gladstone's second term as Prime Minister, was raised to the peerage as Baron Northbourne, of Betteshanger in the County of Kent. Abbey (Scenery) 149. Henrey, pp. 531-34.… Read More
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Remembrance Rock [Inscribed]
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Remembrance Rock [Inscribed]

by SANDBURG, Carl (1878-1967)

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New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1948. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine-/Near Fine+. First Trade Edition of the poet's first novel, published when Sandburg was seventy. Thick 8vo: [10],1067,[1]pp. Publisher's navy blue finely woven cloth, spine stamped in gold; wraparound illustrated dust jacket by Paul Sample, priced $5.00. Inscribed by Sandburg (in Swedish) and signed on the fly-leaf. About Fine (spine ends bumped), still square and tight; Near Fine or better jacket (tips rubbed to spine panel, which is gently toned). In all, an excellent example. Originally commissioned by MGM as a movie script. Instead, "Sandburg produced a massive thousand-page epic covering the whole sweep of American history from colonial times through the Revolutionary and the Civil wars. "Imperfect as a novel, the book is nevertheless a great American document, presenting in human terms and in the idiom of Carl Sandburg's 'swift and furious people' the growth of the American Dream through more than three centuries of our national… Read More
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Researches on Light: an examination of all the phenomena connected with the chemical and...
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Researches on Light: an examination of all the phenomena connected with the chemical and molecular changes produced by the influence of the solar rays; embracing all the known photographic processes, and new discoveries in the art [Robert Were Fox's copy]

by HUNT, Robert (1807-1887)

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London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, 1844. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First Edition of this key scientific study of the action and effect of solar rays on various chemicals used in photography, and generally considered the first history of that art, uncut and entirely unopened in the original binding. Demy 8vo (222 x 139mm): vii,[1],303,[1],32pp, with folding hand-coloured frontispiece and the publisher's advertisements dated April 1844. Original brown blind-stamped ribbed cloth by Edmonds & Remnants (their ticket to lower inside corner of rear paste-down), pale yellow end papers. Book plate of Robert Were Fox of Falmouth (1789-1877), geologist, natural philosopher, inventor, and fellow of the Royal Society. A spectacular example, soundly bound and virtually pristine. Gernsheim 668. Sennett 96. Eder, pp. 269, 325-26. Johnson (Nineteenth-Century Photography) H1157. Bolton, p. 547 (citing second edition). Boni, p. 140. Roosens & Salu 7952 (noting second [1854] and third editions… Read More
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The Return of A. J. Raffles [Signed]

The Return of A. J. Raffles [Signed]

by GREENE, Graham (1904-1991)

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London: Bodley Head, 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. No. 132 of 250 signed limited-edition copies bound in boards (of which only 170 were for sale); the first trade edition was issued as a paperback original. Small, slim 8vo (189 x 113mm): 80pp. Publisher's copper-colored paper over boards, spine lettered in gold, tan end papers; copper dust jacket (unpriced) printed in brown. A very fine copy (pristine and apparently unread) in a Fine Jacket. Not in Wobbe (see A62a for the paperbound issue). Miller 56. An Edwardian comedy in three acts, which opened at the Aldwych Theatre, in London, on December 4, 1975. Set in the late summer of 1900, it centers on the infamous gentleman burglar and cricketer, A. J. Raffles—presumed dead in the Boer War—who returns to Albany where, with his friend Lord Alfred Douglas, he plots to rob the Marquess of Queensberry. Raffles was the creation of E. W. Hornung, who was brother-in-law to Arthur Conan Doyle, and Raffles was one of the chief rivals of… Read More
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Rhymes of a PFC [Inscribed to Edith Sedwick Gibson] [Baldpate]
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Rhymes of a PFC [Inscribed to Edith Sedwick Gibson] [Baldpate]

by KIRSTEIN, Lincoln (1907-1996)

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New York: New Directions, 1964. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Edition (so stated). Square 8vo: [viii],179,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven beige cloth, spine lettered in black, brown paper-covered boards decorated in blind with PFC stripes, brown laid end papers, brown pictorial dust jacket printed in yellow and black. Fine in a just about Fine jacket, lightly rubbed. Inscribed by Kirstein on the front fly-leaf to Edith Sedwick Gibson (August '67) "talking about Louis [Agassiz] Shaw—Baldpate, p. 157." Shaw, grandson of the Harvard paleontologist, geologist and innovator in the study of Earth's natural history, was a dancer turned psychiatrist who lived in Newton, Mass. Baldpate was a sanitarium in Georgetown, Mass, where Shaw may have practiced. Kirstein's reference to p. 157 remains obscure. Simmonds, Silverstein & Lassalle 12. Best known for his long association with the New York City Ballet, which he founded with George Balanchine, Kirstein was also a distinguished author and… Read More
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Ring for Jeeves

Ring for Jeeves

by WODEHOUSE, Sir P[elham]. G[renville]., 1881-1975

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London: Herbert Jenkins, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine. First Impression of the only Jeeves novel in which his employer, Bertie Wooster, does not appear. Small 8vo: 222,[2]pp. Publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in black; dust jacket priced 9/6 and illustrated by Sax. About Fine, square and tight, contents clean throughout; Fine jacket, only lightly rubbed at spine ends. Jasen 73. McIlvaine A74a. Set in the early 1950s, the story concerns Bill Belfry, Lord Rowcester, an English aristocrat deep in debt. His financial future depends on the problem-solving abilities of Jeeves, who is temporarily serving as Belfry's butler. Wodehouse adapted the story from a play, Come On, Jeeves, he had written with his friend and collaborator Guy Bolton. 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 care and posted promptly. Satisfaction… Read More
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River Niger, a Novel. With a Prefatory Letter by T. E. Lawrence

River Niger, a Novel. With a Prefatory Letter by T. E. Lawrence

by JESTY, Simon [W. W. Vickery]; Lawrence, T. E. (Preface)

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London: Boriswood, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Impression of "this deservedly forgotten novel." (O'Brien) With a prefatory letter by T. E. Lawrence. Crown 8vo: (188 x 120): [8],11-287,[1]pp, with three publisher's promotions laid in. Original saffron linen, spine decorated and lettered in scarlet and French blue, top edge stained faded French blue, wanting the dust jacket. A spectacular unread survival of the author's second book, virtually flawless, tight, square, and clean throughout. O'Brien A163. Lawrence was asked to comment on this novel's suitability for publication. His report was less than favorable ("Jesty's world is incredibly small. It holds only about eight named characters who bump together whether they stay put or wander abroad. Wilkie Collins and his generation flourished on coincidences but Jesty out-Victoria's them. He has not one but twenty incredible coincidences"), but the publisher rather curiously decided to publish the book, with Lawrence's report as a… Read More
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Road to Volgograd

Road to Volgograd

by SILLITOE, Alan (1928-2010)

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. First American Edition (so stated). 8vo: [4],176,[4]pp. Publisher's turquoise cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge stained gold, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust jacket priced $3.95 with correct 10/64 date of publication on front flap. As New and unread, a superb copy without flaw. Gerard A11. From the author of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959), which both became classic British New Wave films. This is his account of a visit to the Soviet Union, as guest of the Soviet Writers' Union, where Sillitoe was feted as a proletarian writer. His memoir includes impressions of Moscow, Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Volgograd (Stalingrad), Irkutsk, Lake Baikal and Siberia. Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders… Read More
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The Road to Xanadu : A Study in the Ways of the Imagination [Signed and Unopened]
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The Road to Xanadu : A Study in the Ways of the Imagination [Signed and Unopened]

by LOWES, John Livingston (1867-1945)

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Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. Hardcover. Fine-. Limited Edition (one of 300 copies) of Lowes's most famous work, examining the sources of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan." Signed and dated (1929) by Lowes to fly leaf. Royal 8vo (239 x 160mm): xvii,639,[1]pp, with frontispiece, title-page vignette, and 15 further full-page plates inserted. Publisher's linen-backed boards, decorative paper labels printed in black to spine and upper cover, edges entirely uncut, title page in green and black. Spine mildly toned, covers lightly rubbed, but a superb example, tightly bound, pristine throughout, and entirely unopened. Litt, "Book of a Lifetime: The Road to Xanadu" (The Independent, 29 February 2008). Using Coleridge's notebooks and other papers at the Bristol Library, Lowes assembled a list of books that the poet read as he composed his poems. Later critics have disputed Lowes's findings and method, but The Road to Xanadu, according to the British… Read More
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[Robinson Crusoe] [Hand-Colored] The hermit: or, the unparallel'd sufferings and surprising...
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London: printed for J. Wren, opposite New Exchange Buildings in the Strand; S. Crowder, H. Woodgate, J. Fuller, and J. Warcus, 1768. Early Reprint. Quarter-Calf. Near Fine+. Fourth Edition of one of the "best of the English imitations of Robinson [Crusoe]." (Gove) 12mo: xii,263,[1]pp (wanting one quire, pp 83-86, provided in excellent facsimile on old paper), with hand-colored frontispiece and map. The final page is signed "Ed Dorrington," an invention of the publisher. Later quarter-calf over marbled paper-covered boards, marbled end papers. Near Fine or better, light finger-soiling and occasional small stain to text, manuscripts ex-libris to end papers and title page, otherwise excellent. Negley 1462. Gove, pp.262-68. Cox II, p.479 (citing Dorrington as author). Sabin 66952. Howgego V, L45. Ullrich, pp. 118-122. Charming hand-colored edition of this popular tale relating a fictitious British hermit's escape from apprenticeship and subsequent life on a deserted island off the Pacific coast of… Read More
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Room at the Top [with Uncorrected Proof]
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Room at the Top [with Uncorrected Proof]

by BRAINE, John (1922-1986); John Minton (1917-1957)

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London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. First Edition. Fine-/Fine-. First Impression of Braine's first book, offered with the scarce uncorrected proof. Crown 8vo (189 x 122mm): 256pp. Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gold, in the striking dust jacket (price-clipped) illustrated by John Minton. An excellent example (spine ends very lightly bruised), tightly bound and clean throughout (apparently unread). Proof: Crown 8vo (190 x 125mm). Original deep tan wrappers, paper title label printed in black to upper cover, with handwritten publication date (March 14th) and notice that "names of people & places will be changed after publication" in blue ink. Soft creases to wrappers, else about Fine. Burgess 99, p. 66 (of "considerable historical interest," citing its "hypergamy [or bedding a woman from a class superior to one's own"]). On publication of this, his first novel, Braine was classed among the Angry Young Men, the mostly working- and middle-class British playwrights and novelists (including… Read More
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