The Happy Prince and Other Tales WILDE, OSCAR
David Nutt, London, 1888. Paper Boards. Book Condition: VG. No Jacket. Walter Crane & Jacomb Hood (illustrator). 1st. Octavo. Cream paper covered boards with black and red titles to spine and front panel.Slightly darkened spine rebacked with most of the original preserved. Some restoration to one inch portion of front end paper. Otherwise this is a very good copy.
Five tales; The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend and The Remarkable Rocket. First appearance of these stories in a print run of 1000 copies only and thus scarce.
Inventory # 16923
Price: US$ 2000.00
Thoughts and Adventures CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.
Macmillan, London, 1942. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. There is a little soiling to the outer page edges and a very slight fade to the spine. Dustjacket somewhat worn and soiled, with a large bite out of the upper left front panel at spine panel edge. Some paper loss to the head and heel of spine panel.
The book itself is not particularly collectable; however, it is inscirbed by Churchill on the title page as follows: "To James ' from / Winston S. Churchill / Sept 26 1942". It is interesting to note that Churchill stopped inscribing books with full dates after the war. The identity of the inscribee is unknown, however it is known that Churchill would only inscribe to a first name only of a colleague. Since the book was found in the Maritimes, one possibility as to the individual to which it was inscribed is Sir James Dunn, who was a friend of Lord Beaverbrook. This, however is strictly speculation. Inscribed By Author.
Inventory # 9481
Price: US$ 3575.00
Poems
YEATS, W.B.
T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1895. Book Condition: VG. 1st. Octavo. Original cream cloth with gilt celtic image on panels and spine. The Cloth has darkened somewhat but is otherwise in great shape. Top edge gilt.
Bookplate and the ownership signature of Milton Bronner dated 1896. "This book contains all the writer cares to preserve out of his previous volumes of verse." From the preface by Yeats. 750 copies printed. Rare.
Inventory # 16484
Price: US$ 4500.00
Atlas Shrugged RAND, AYN
Random House, New York, 1957. Custom Leather. Book Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st. Octavo. Full charcoal leather binding, with various coloured inlays and gilt stamp in Art Deco style. Top edge speckled gilt. Endpapers in patterned Japanese rice-paper and felt.
A beautiful custom binding job by James Tapley.
Inventory # 16595
Price: US$ 4500.00
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man SASSOON, SIEGFRIED
Faber & Gwyer, London, 1928. Vellum. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: About Fine. William Nicholson (illustrator). 1st. Octavo. Decorated vellum in a dust jacket that is faded on the spine.
Limited to 300 copies of which this is #45. Signed by Sassoon and Nicholson. Vellum is slightly warped. An almost fine copy of a very attractive book that is difficult to find in its original dj. Signed By the Author and Illustrator.
Inventory # 16644
Price: US$ 3000.00
To Kill a Mockingbird LEE, HARPER
Heinemann, London, 1960. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First UK Edition. 8vo. Maroon boards with silver lettering to spine, creased at heel. Previous owner's bookplate on f.f.e.p. Edges of text-block age toned, extremities lightly rubbed, otherwise boards and dj are VG+ indeed.
An excellent copy of the first British edition of this Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
Inventory # 13005
Price: US$ 1500.00
Night of the Jabberwock BROWN, FREDRIC
E.P. Dutton, New York, 1950. Cloth. Book Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 1st. Octavo. Black cloth in wildly illustrated dust jacket that is faded on the spine, shallowly chipped at the edges and corners and creased on the back panel. o/w vg. There is slight staining to the interior first 50 pages not affecting text.
Hard-boiled mystery that flirts, but never quite seals the deal with fantasy.
Inventory # 16619
Price: US$ 250.00
Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes GREENAWAY, KATE
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1881. Cloth. Book Condition: VG. No Jacket. Kate Greenaway (illustrator). 1st Lattice Edition. Octavo. Pinkish cloth spine and cream paper boards with lattice design on front and rear panels.
Presentation copy Signed and dated 1888 by Kate Greenaway. 42 colour illustrations and rhymes.Clean copy with slight soiling to covers. Signed by Author.
Inventory # 16590
Price: US$ 2000.00
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The Conquest of Plassans ZOLA, EMILE
London: Chatto & Windus,1900. 2nd Edition in English. Octavo, decorated cloth, no Jacket. Inscribed By the Author. Very good. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half title. Introduction by Ernest Vizetelly, whose previous 1887 edition was banned for obscenity. Spine professionaly recased, retaining original cloth.
Inventory # 16269
Price: US$ 1500.00
Can Such Things Be? BIERCE, AMBROSE
Washington: Neale Publishing Company, 1903. 2nd Edition. Octavo, cloth, no jacket. Inscribed By Author. Very good. Red cloth lettered in gilt and white with big question mark on front panel and spine with light wear to extremities. 320 pages.
Inscribed by Bierce to "T.T. Williams to whose powerful and friendly pen the author of this book is more indebted than he can say. Ambrose Bierce Washington D.C. June 27, 1903".
