Search Results: Titles starting with T from Fine Editions Ltd

Boston: Little, Brown, 1954. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First and only Edition (never published in the United Kingdom), including the first American appearance of Love Among the Ruins (published in England as a separate book). 8vo: [6],289,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven sea-green cloth, spine lettered in gold, dust jacket illustrated by Lester M. Peterson and priced $3.75. A clean, fresh copy (apparently unread); about Fine unfaded jacket (spine ends gently rubbed, white lettering on spine panel lightly toned). Davis XXXIX. A collection of short pieces, opening with "The Curse of the Horse Race," which Waugh supposedly wrote when he was seven years old. Eight of the other twelve pieces were written before and during the Second World War, including the title story, then titled "The Wish. Also included are "Love Among the Ruins," a fantasy of the future and satire set in a dystopian quasi-egalitarian Britain, featuring Miles Plastic, who falls in love with Clara, a bearded woman and… Read More

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine/Near Fine+. First Printing (no additional printings noted). 8vo: xviii,346pp. Publisher's brown pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt within blue title block, upper cover lettered in gilt with vignette of farmhouse and barn, top edge stained black, fore-edge untrimmed, title page printed in blue and black; cream-colored pictorial dust jacket printed in green and black and priced $3.00. Fine, bright copy, virtually As New, in jacket with shallow chipping, touching lettering at base of slightly tanned spine. Sheehy & Lohf 39. A fictionalized memoir constructed of episodes in the childhood of Edgar Moorehead (nicknamed Tar-heel, or Tar, because of his father's North Carolina origin), though fictional location of Tar bears a resemblance to Camden, Ohio, where Anderson was born and spent his first year. An episode from the book later appeared, in revised form, as one of Anderson's finest short stories, "Death in the Woods." N. B.… Read More

New York: Rinehart, 1952. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First American Edition (preceding the English edition) of the author's first novel, the opening installment of the Salterton Trilogy (followed by Leaven of Malice and A Mixture of Frailtie). 8vo (135 x 207mm): [6],307,[1]pp. Publisher's green cloth-effect paper-covered boards, spine stamped in red and yellow, fore- and bottom edges rough-cut; pink and green dust jacket illustrated by Edwin Schmidt and printed in black. A tight, crisp, clean copy; about Fine dust jacket (very mild edge wear). First book of the Salterton Trilogy, "written while Davies was deeply immersed in his report on the lamentable status of Canadian theatre for the Massey- Lévesque Commission, and while he was writing his deeply satirical Marchbanks columns [in which Davies vented his frustrations about the puritanism of Canadians and Canadian culture]. Indeed, the novels that make up the Salterton Trilogy are markedly different from the rest of Davies's novels… Read More

New York: Phalanx Press, 1935. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Fine. Caldwell's scalding indictment of tenant farming and sharecropping in the Depression-era South, reserving especial contempt for Eugene Talmadge, then governor of Georgia. Signed by Caldwell on the title page. Slim 8vo (195 x 135mm): 30,[2]pp. Drab green stapled wrappers, upper cover lettered in orange. Previous owner's name to inside front cover, else a handsome example with only very light wear to extremities. Somewhat scarce (according to Blanck, "Said to be but 1,500 copies in the first printing). Blanck, p.95. Appears as "Southern Tenant Farmers" in the author's first collection of nonfiction pieces, Some American People. First in a planned series of political pamphlets by prominent authors to be commissioned by this radical publisher, but apparently no others were published. Caldwell concludes: "The landowner-tenant system should not be permitted to exist. . . . No other system has yet appeared on the scene to take its place,… Read More

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1968. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Fine-/Near Fine+. First Edition, Third Printing, of this touchstone of contemporary American avant-garde poetry. Crown 8vo (203 x 152mm): 94,[2]pp. Publisher's gray cloth, spine stamped in red and black, pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) printed in black and salmon pink. Inscribed by Ashbery on title page to book editor and publisher William Targ. About Fine copy, square and tightly bound, crisp and clean throughout, of the scarce clothbound issue. Near Fine or better jacket, spine ends lightly rubbed, back panel slightly dust-soiled. The poet's second trade publication, first published by Wesleyan in 1962, collecting 30 poems. "On one level, 'The Tennis Court Oath' is a poem about the possibilities of poetry itself. For John Ashbery, the purpose of poetry is not communication in the sense of a message delivered or of an idea expressed. It is, instead, communication as the continuous encounter between ideas and things in… Read More

London: James Reynolds & Sons, 174 Strand, 1885. Decorative Cloth. Fine. A beautifully preserved later issue of this multi-folding strip map, showing settlements along the river, from above Cricklade down to London Bridge, with locks, bridges, and rail lines, and including details of toll charges, angling laws, weirs, bathing spots, towpaths, ferries, water mills, and species of fish to be caught. Foolscap 8vo (160 x 100mm): [4]pp of rules and bye-laws, with superbly hand-colored lithographed folding map (160mm x 2600mm) in 26 sections mounted on linen. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt. Virtually pristine. Westwood & Satchell, p. 174 (noting editions of 1861 and 1876). New Edition of the map first produced in 1861 for James Reynolds by Ernest George Ravenstein (1834-1913), a German-born geographer and cartographer, who, in 1872, declined the position of chief cartographer at the Royal Geographical Society because he was refused permission to smoke on the premises.… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 1974. First Impression. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression of the poet's last-published collection. Slim demy 8vo (216 x 137): 57,[1]pp. Publisher's quarter-bound blue cloth stamped in gold, pale blue paper-covered boards; grey and black price-clipped dust jacket. Fine (and unread) in like jacket. Prepared for publication by Auden's literary executor Edward Mendelson. In addition to the title poem, the collection includes "Aubade," "Address to the Beasts," "Archaeology, " and "No, Plato, No," among others. Mendelson also included an "anti-masque" titled "The Entertainment of the Senses," written in 1973 by Auden and Chester Kallman for a planned production of James Shirley's masque Cupid and Death, as as well two lyrics Auden wrote for the musical Man of La Mancha, but which were rejected by the original librettist. "When Auden died, on 29th September 1973, he had already collected the poems in this book, had decided its title and had given it its dedication . . . " (From… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 1974. First Impression. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression of the poet's last-published collection. Slim demy 8vo (216 x 137): 57,[1]pp. Publisher's quarter-bound blue cloth stamped in gold, pale blue paper-covered boards; grey and black dust jacket priced at £1.75. Fine (and unread) in like jacket. Prepared for publication by Auden's literary executor Edward Mendelson. In addition to the title poem, the collection includes "Aubade," "Address to the Beasts," "Archaeology, " and "No, Plato, No," among others. Mendelson also included an "anti-masque" titled "The Entertainment of the Senses," written in 1973 by Auden and Chester Kallman for a planned production of James Shirley's masque Cupid and Death, as as well two lyrics Auden wrote for the musical Man of La Mancha, but which were rejected by the original librettist. "When Auden died, on 29th September 1973, he had already collected the poems in this book, had decided its title and had given it its dedication . . . "… Read More

Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press [through 1992], 1989. First Impression. `. Fine/Fine. True First English-language Editions of Mahfouz's masterpiece, one of the greatest works in Arab literature, complete in three volumes, each inscribed by the lead translator (Hutchins). Translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Olive E. Kenny, and Lorne M. Kenny. Royal 8vo (233 x 151mm): [8],498,[4]; [6],422,[4]; [8],308,[4]pp. Attractively and uniformly bound in quarter cloth (maroon, pale green, and French blue, respectively) over paper-covered boards (mid-brown, deep beige, and pink), spines stamped in gold; saffron, speckled pale green, and pinkish-red end papers (each matching its dust-jacket border); photo-illustrated dust jackets. Briefly inscribed on each half-title page by Hutchins. Presumed first printings, dated 1989, 1991, and 1992 on copyright pages, with no additional printings listed,and with publisher's code BG. Truly a spectacular set, all volumes very tight, square, and giving every… Read More

Basel: Druck und Verlag der Schweighauser'schen Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1860. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First Edition of this classics of Renaissance historiography, from the library of Otto Wesendonck, patron of the composer Richard Wagner. Demy 8vo (221 x 133mm): 4],576pp. Original moire-pattern purple cloth, covers blocked in blind with intricate oval device, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, brown patterned end papers. Wesendonck's engraved book plate to front paste-down, with his contemporary ownership inscription to front free fly-leaf and blind library stamp to tile page . Basel postage stamp laid in. Spine lightened a degree or two, very occasional foxing, otherwise an exemplary example, tightly bound, pages remarkably fresh and bright, virtually pristine. PMM 347. This milestone of cultural history, written by Burckhardt between 1855 and 1858, cast a "powerful spell . . . upon such widely different writers as Ruskin, Nietzsche and Gobineau, as well as upon innumerable lovers of the most… Read More

Padova [Padua]: Appresso Giusseppe Comino, 1766. Early Reprint. Full Calf. Fine. An important reprint of Aldine's first edition of 1528, discarding the extensive alterations to the text that corrupted editions of this classic treatise on etiquette for more than a century. 4to (23 x 16 cm) xxiv, 352pp, with portrait frontispiece of Castiglione after Raphael, illuminated initials and head and tail pieces throughput. Modern vellum and marbled boards, spine titled in gilt. Included is the "best and fullest biography of Castiglione, {which] was written by Abate Pietro Serassi, who had access to the family papers brought to Rome by Cardinal Valenti Gonzaga, secretary to Pope Benedict XIV." (Cartwright) A very scarce, wide-margined survival, tightly bound, contents clean with only light occasional foxing. PMM 59. Razzollini, p. 99. Gamba 296 (for Comino's complete edition of Castiglione's works from 1733, upon which this edition is based). Cartwright, v. 2, pp. 445-447. First printed, in Venice, by Aldine… Read More

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode [through 1959], 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine. A superb set of this fantasy series, rivaling in its compelling verbal creation of an imaginary world even Lord of the Rings. First Impressions in matching publisher's red cloth, spines stamped in gold, in the iconic dust jackets illustrated by Peake. Tall 8vo: 453; 454; 223,[1]pp, with title-page vignettes and head and tail pieces by the author. Titus Groan: edges and end papers lightly foxed, else Near Fine or better; Fine Second Impression jacket (as often), priced 15s. (Far too few jackets were printed for the first impression, so second-impression jackets, then in press, were also used.) Gormenghast: Virtually pristine (probably unread), small smudge to base of spine, Fine jacket, priced 18' with publisher's sticker. Titus Alone: Fine, in Fine jacket, priced 21s. In all, excellent examples. Cawthorn & Moorcock, p. 137. Currey, p. 400. Locke I, pp. 173-74. Gormenghast is a remote and reclusive earldom… Read More

Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers [through 1942], 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine-/Very Good+. First Edition, second issue (with 1943 copyright), of this World War II-era collection of "favorite stories, verse and cartoons for the entertainment of servicemen," including Salinger's first appearance in book form. Small 8vo: 336pp, with numerous color and black-and-white cartoon illustrations. Publisher's red, white, and blue pictorial boards (issued without dust jacket), in original pictorial shipping carton. About Near Fine, rubbed with minor loss of color to corners and tips and browning to wartime paper; Very Good or better shipping box (unused), reproducing book's cover image, rubbed along all edges. Not uncommon, except in the shipping carton (as here), very few of which have survived. Slawenski, p. 38. Originally published in the July 12, 1942, issue of Collier's. Salinger's story, "The Hang of It," begins on p. 332, and was carried into battle by countless soldiers." (Slawenski)… Read More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson [through 1980], 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printings of Manning's second major semi-autobiographical wartime novel sequence, sequel to The Balkan Trilogy, continuing the story of Harriet and Guy Pringle. Publisher's original cloth (French blue, orange, and slate), spines stamped in gold; dust jackets illustrated with works (respectively) by David Hockney, Edward Ardizzone, and Alun Hood and priced £4.25, £4.95, and £5.95 . A superb set, bindings square and tight, contents clean and crisp, jackets fine and bright. Virtually pristine. Olivia Manning is widely regarded as having written one of the three best fictional portrayals (with Waugh and Powell) of the experience of the Second World War in Europe and the Middle East. Anthony Burgess (99 Novels) called the Balkan Trilogy, Manning's first wartime narrative sequence, "probably the most important long work of fiction written by a woman since the war." In the Levant Trilogy, her portrait of a… Read More

London: William Heinemann [through 1959], 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Impressions of the author's first published fiction. Crown 8vo (196 x 128mm): [8],214; [6],221,[1]; [6],237,[1]pp. Original publisher's French blue (first and third installments) and navy blue cloth, spines lettered in gold or silver; illustrated dust jackets by R. F. Micklewright and John Rowland, priced 13s / 6d and15s. Tiger: lightly faded to spine and spine panel, dust-soiled top edge, about Fine. Enemy: bookstore ink stamp to fly-leaf, else Fine. Beds: very tightly bound, apparently unread. A gorgeous set. In 1954, Burgess left England for Malaya as an education commissioner in the British Colonial Service. The Long Day Wanes, his early trilogy, uses the experiences of a young British teacher to illustrate the decline of British imperial prestige and the conflicts between European values and local traditions and practices. "The trilogy is remarkable for its portrayal of the cultural melange of Malaya in… Read More

Garden City / New York: Doubleday, Doran [through 1934], 1931. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine-/Near Fine. Complete three-volume set (two First Editions and a Second) of this major, 1,479-page work of Southern fiction, an important influence on the writing of William Faulkner, rarely found in collector's condition. Thick crown 8vo (202 x 132mm): [6],525,[1]; [6],571,[1]; [6],383,[3]pp. All uniformly bound in publisher's finely woven black cloth, spines and upper covers with pictorial paper title onlays, title pages with vignettes (repeating motif on dust jackets and paper onlays), printed in mustard yellow and black; original dust jackets illustrated by various artists, each priced $2.50. The Forge: Fine (book and jacket), tightly bound (likely unread) and clean throughout. The Store: Second Printing (issued in 1932, as was the first, with no printing statement on copyright page but the year 1932 in roman numerals on title page). Near Fine or better (slight fading to edges and spine, not affecting… Read More

New York: D. Appleton, 1897. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine+. First Printing of Crane's fourth book, widely dismissed on publication as a partly autobiographical potboiler but is now ranked among the author's unfairly forgotten works. Crown 8vo (183 x 118mm): [4],203,[1]pp. Publisher's tan buckram, spine and upper cover ornamented and lettered in red, black and gilt, top edge stained orange, others rough trimmed; ownership signature, dated 1897, on fly-leaf. Spine dust-soiled, topstain lightly faded, one corner bumped, but an excellent example, firmly bound, crisp and clean throughout. BAL 4078. Stallman 13. Williams & Starrett 13. Wright III, 1258. Sorrentino, "Stephen Crane's Struggle with Romance in The Third Violet" (American Literature, Vol. 70, No. 2 [June, 1998], pp. 265-291. Ford Maddox Ford called The Third Violet his favorite of Crane's work, and Crane's biographer, Paul Sorrentino, has called it a "self-conscious parody of the romance novel" and "Crane's thoughtful response"… Read More

London: Collins, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression (no additional printings noted), in the first issue dust jacket with "Thirteen Gun" unhyphenated. Tall 8vo: 319,[1]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt (still brilliant); pictorial jacket illustrated by Geoff Hunt and priced £11.95. Very Fine and unread. Cunningham A22a. Thirteenth installment in the Aubrey-Maturin series of historical novels—20 completed and one left unfinished—set during the Napoleonic Wars and featuring naval commander Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon (and secret agent) Stephen Maturin. This episode opens with Aubrey and Maturin preparing for a diplomatic mission to the Sultan of Pulo Prabang, a fictitious, piratical Malay state in the South China Sea, to convey the envoy who will attempt to persuade the Sultan to become an English rather than French ally. Much of the action centers on the indiscretions of two English traitors—Wray and Ledward—who are assisting the French and… Read More

New York: Equinox, 1932. First Edition. Wrappers. Fine. Only Printing of this poem, illustrated with drawings by Albert Heckman. Slim crown 8vo (203 x 131mm): [8]pp Publisher's string-tied tan paper wrappers printed in brown; wanting original unlettered white mailing envelope. A superlative copy, virtually pristine. Petersen A14.1 and C16. Man Working 754. Revised version of the poem "My Epitaph," which appeared in Contempo #1. An even earlier version, dated October 1924 and titled "Mississippi Hill," exists only in manuscript and typescript. First of four pamphlets published by Equinox for the 1932 Christmas trade. 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 Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1858. First Edition. Three-Quarter Morocco. Near Fine+. First Printings, complete in three volumes, one of only 1,000 sets. 8vo's: iv,340; iv,322; iv,334pp. Three-quarter blue morocco over French blue cloth, spines in six compartments paneled in gilt (four with central gilt ornament, two lettered directly in gilt), top edges gilt, marbled end papers. Provenance: bookplates of bibliophile Joseph Spencer Graydon to front paste-downs. An excellent set, Near Fine or better (spines sunned, but gilt still bright; modest edge wear). Sadleir, Trollope, 6. NCBEL III, 882. Wolff 6796. Trollope's sixth novel, written, according to the Trollope Society, "mostly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office [Trollope joined the London post office at age 19 and worked there in various capacities for the next 33 years] still entailed a good deal of travelling . . . The story is drawn from his memories of his work (as a clerk) at the GPO in St… Read More