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Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books in Association with Methuen, 1960. First Printing. First Paperbound Edition of the title that launched Morton's In Search of . . . series. Foolscap 8vo (179 x 107mm): 252pp. Publisher's card covers printed in blue and black. Tightly bound and clean throughout, very faint edge-wear, lightly toned, neat gift inscription to verso of half-title, but a beautifully preserved example. Originally published by Methuen in hardcover, with eight color plates and a map, in 1927, recalling ways of life then disappearing at the dawn of a new century, whether through descriptions of ruined gothic arches at Glastonbury or hilarious encounters with the town folk of Norfolk. In Search of England became a bestseller, and was the first of many In Search of . . . series books to follow. Founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and his brothers, Richard and John, as an imprint of the The Bodley Head, Penguin revolutionized publishing with its inexpensive paperbacks, originally sold for… Leer más

London: Little, Brown, 1981. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine. First American Edition (so stated) of this expanded edition of Fowles's A Brief History of Lyme, a 12-page pamphlet issued by the Friends of the Lyme Regis Museum in 1981. Slim, wide 8vo: 52,[2]pp, with numerous images of 19th- and early 20th-century prints and photographs. Publisher's robin's egg blue boards, spine lettered in gold; pictorial dust jacked, priced $13.50. An excellent, unread example (few spots of foxing to preliminaries only). In the late 1970s, Fowles concentrated mainly on nonfiction, producing several long essays, as well as this slim volume, which arose from his interests in local and natural history and a fascination with the southwest region of England. 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 guaranteed.… Leer más

New York: Knopf, 1965. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Stated First Edition. A Fine copy (save for a very sweet inscription in a lovely hand), quarter-bound in publisher's green cloth over green boards, with silver and gilt lettering and a pink top stain, in a bright, Near Fine (nicks to spine ends; two closed 1/4-inch tears on front panel) first-state dust jacket that is price-clipped. The author's fourth novel. 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 guaranteed.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine. First Edition (so stated) of the author's first novel. Publisher's slate-gray linen, spine and upper cover stamped in red and gilt, top edge stained yellow, fore-edge untrimmed; illustrated dust jacket, priced $3.75. An about Fine, unread copy (lower corners bruised), in a Fine jacket. 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.).

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… Leer más

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Advance Reading Copy. Stiff Wraps. As New. Uncorrected Proof, ARC. 8vo: [10],285,[1]. Publisher's stiff wraps, with cover design by Carol Devine Carson, with publisher's reply card laid in. Signed and dated ("June 2/01") by Bock on title page. As New and unread. Bock's first novel, following the 1998 release of Olympia, a collection of short stories. The Ash Garden follows the stories of three main characters affected by World War Two: Hiroshima bombing victim Emiko, German nuclear physicist Anton Böll, and Austrian-Jewish refugee Sophie Böll. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.

New York: Macmillan, 1924. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine. First Printing of the author's first book, preceded by Carolina Chansons, written with Hervey Allen. Crown 8vo: vii,74pp. Publisher's quarter-bound cloth spine lettered in gilt (still bright) over royal blue cloth-covered boards decorated paper title label. Wanting the dust jacket. Very Fine and now protected in a mylar wrapper. 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.).

New York: Saturday Review Press / E. P. Dutton, 1974. First Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition (so stated), a virtually flawless copy of this amusing collaboration. Publisher's oatmeal colored quarter-cloth over orange paper-covered boards, spine lettered in orange; dust jacket designed by Edward Gorey. Apparently a review copy, with price ($5.95) and date of publication (5/74) stamped on front fly-leaf. Toledano B58b. Riffs on the lives of famous composers, painters, poets, and performers, including Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde, Beethoven, and Chopin. Howard Moss was poetry editor of the New Yorker for almost forty years. 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… Leer más

Philadelphia: Prime Press, 1949. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. First Edition (so stated). 8vo: xiii,[1],181,[1]pp. Publisher's grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, grey end papers, pictorial dust jacket by James Gibson priced $3.00. Fine, tight and square (likely unread), in Near Fine or better jacket barely rubbed at spine tips, faint ink offsetting to back panel. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-50. Bond's first book, published originally in the magazine Blue Book, in May 1940, then in this Prime Press edition in a run of 2,112 copies, of which 112 were signed, numbered and slipcased. After archeologists discover a strange bloodstone amulet in an ancient Arabian tomb, native members of the expedition attack non-natives who have refused to abandon the site. When one of these, the archaeologist Lance Vidor, seeks refuge in the tomb, he is transported to a different point in the time circle of Earth. Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition,… Leer más

New York: Periscope-Holliday, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine-. First American Edition of two early novels. 8vo: [4],328pp. Publisher's quarter-bound black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slate grey paper-covered boards; dust jacket, priced $4.75, replicating (separately, on front and back panels) Osbert Lancaster's illustrations for the original wrappers. Near Fine (top edge soiled and stained, gilt a bit faded, gift inscription on fly-leaf); about Fine jacket. Lilley A.10. First collected in 1952 by Rinehart for the Periscope Book Shop and Holliday Bookshop in New York; the unsold stock was reissued in 1965 by Little, Brown, Powell's then American publisher (our copy), with publisher's label pasted to jacket's spine panel. 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… Leer más

London: Michael Joseph, 1971. First Impression. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine. First Printing ("First published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph 1971" on copyright page). 8vo; 194pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, the spine stamped gilt, in a pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Graham Humphreys and priced at £1.75. A just about Fine copy, probably unread, with the spine ends very lightly bumped and some scuffing on the front past down where a book plate was removed; in a Fine jacket just barely rubbed at the spine ends. Nine World War II sea stories, published posthumously. 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.).

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Near Fine. First Printing (stated) of the author's second collection of stories to be published in the United States. Near Fine or better (slight soiling and toning to the spine) quarter cream linen cloth spine with green paper-covered boards and a rich green top stain, in a Near Fine (soiled rear panel, lightly rubbed spine ends) price-clipped dust jacket. Driver A4. Collects 15 short stories, including "The White Goddess and the Mealie Question," which was omitted from the London edition. 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.).

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… Leer más

Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books Limited, 1940. First Printing. Wrappers. Near Fine+. First Paperbound Edition. Foolscap 8vo (179 x 107mm): 224pp. Publisher's card covers printed in orange and black, rear cover with advertisement for Army Club cigarettes. Penguin paper bookmark printed with brief bio of the author laid in. Tightly bound and clean throughout, very faint edge-wear, lightly toned, but a beautifully preserved example. Originally published in hardcover, in 1917. Edith Wherry Muckleston spent her childhood with her missionary parents in Peking, where The Wanderer on a Thousand Hills is set. Founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and his brothers, Richard and John, as an imprint of the The Bodley Head, Penguin revolutionized publishing with its inexpensive paperbacks, originally sold for sixpence from the crypt of Holy Trinity Church Marylebone, bringing high-quality fiction and nonfiction to the mass market. Eschewing the illustrated gaudiness of other paperbacks, Penguin opted… Leer más

London: William Heinemann [through 1959], 1932. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. Revised and reset (first published 1932) edition of Snow's first novel, an ingenious detective story set on the Norfolk Broads—"a murderer making his murder look like a suicide arranged to look like a murder." 8vo: viii,255,[1]pp. Publisher's scarlet cloth, spine gilt, pictorial dust jacket priced 12s/6d. A Fine, bright, unread copy, in an about Fine jacket, lightly toned. According to the "Author's Note," Death Under Sail served as a signal to Snow, "though not to many others," that he proposed to give up scientific work and turn to writing novels, though not detective fiction. His next novel, published anonymously, was science fiction (New Lives for Old), followed by a bildungsroman about the loss of a scientific vocation (The Search). But forty-seven years after publication of Death Under Sail, in his final novel (A Coat of Varnish, 1979), Snow returned to the detective story. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified),… Leer más

New York: Viking Press, 1964. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Trade Edition of the final stage version. Tall 8vo: [8],129,[3]pp. Publisher's patterned paper-covered boards with maroon cloth spine lettered in gilt; typographic dust jacket priced at $3.95. Just about Fine (gilt slightly dulled, top edge a bit dusty), about Fine, very lightly age-toned jacket. Directed on Broadway by Elia Kazan and featuring Jason Robards. 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.).

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1905. Cloth. Fine. Fourteenth Edition, revised and augmented. lxx, 474pp, with 15 maps and 30 plans. A superb copy with bright gilt lettering and 2 ribbon page-makers (one loose and laid in); the red flexible cloth covers clean, unfaded, square and tight, the maps properly folded and free of tears. Hinrichsen E193. "The Romantic movement in Germany had given a new impetus to travel . . . In 1828 Baedeker bought the rights to J. A. Klein's Rheinreise von Mainz bis Köln and, after the death of the author, Baedeker himself revised and updated the work, recreating it for a new market. Using his own travel experiences he guided the tourist to the principal attractions in each place, saving travellers the expense of hiring their own guide. He thus created a new type of guidebook, which was widely copied throughout Europe and opened up tourism to a new class of visitor. The reliability of the information was ensured by annual journeys by Baedeker himself and by reference… Leer más

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1911. Cloth. Fine. Seventeenth Revised Edition. xxxiv, 554pp, 69 maps and 59 plans. A superb copy with bright gilt lettering, 2 ribbon page-makers (one detached and laid in) and lightly faded and soiled marbled edges; the red flexible cloth covers clean, unfaded, square and tight, the maps properly folded and free of tears. Hinrichsen E017. "The Romantic movement in Germany had given a new impetus to travel . . . In 1828 Baedeker bought the rights to J. A. Klein's Rheinreise von Mainz bis Köln and, after the death of the author, Baedeker himself revised and updated the work, recreating it for a new market. Using his own travel experiences he guided the tourist to the principal attractions in each place, saving travellers the expense of hiring their own guide. He thus created a new type of guidebook, which was widely copied throughout Europe and opened up tourism to a new class of visitor. The reliability of the information was ensured by annual journeys by… Leer más

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… Leer más

London: Chatto & Windus, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Fine-. First Impression (no further printings noted). 8vo: 319,[1]pp. Publisher's burnt orange cloth, spine lettered in gold; illustrated dust jacket by Dick Hart, priced 16s. Better than Near Fine (two corners bumped, dust-soiled top edge), square and tight, in about Fine jacket (very light edge wear). Petersen A47.12. Man Working 353. The second installment in the author's Snopes trilogy, and yet another example of the value to be found in the graphically superior designs of most UK editions of American authors' works. Two of the chapters (1 and 16) are revisions of two previously published short stories, "Centaur in Brass" and "Mule in the Yard." 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… Leer más