Visiting Cards.
London: Constable and Company, 1990. Hardcover. 8vo. White cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 224pp. Near fine/near fine. First edition. More
British Literature
"Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks.
New York: The Century Co., 1897. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and black, gilt and orange pictorial and decorative stamping. viii, 323pp. Frontispiece, 20 full-page called-for plates. Very good. Internally tight and near fine, though binding is a bit edgeworn and the cloth "flecked," with a few..... More
Captains Courageous.
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Hardcover. Illustrations by Ben F. Stahl. 8vo. Full red calf with gilt lettering, raised bands and gilt decorations. 227pp. All edges gilt. Line drawings, green moire endpapers and matching sewn-in page marker. Very good. Spine mildly sunned. A tight and attractive volume (unspecified..... More
"Captains Courageous."
New York: The Sun Dial Press, [1937]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with silver spine lettering and decorations. viii, 322pp. Frontispiece, line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Binding faintly edgeworn, with spine lightly sunned. Tight and decent edition issued in conjunction with the 1937 release of the Spencer Tracy/Lionel Barrymore/Freddie..... More
The Light That Failed.
New York: Triangle Books, 1940. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 355pp. Very good/very good. Slight jacket edgewear; nonauthorial gift inscription on front flyleaf; pages lightly age toned, as usual. Tight and handsome umpteenth reprint, with catchy jacket cover art featuring a swashbuckling Ronald Colman from the film..... More
'They.'
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. Hardcover. Illustrations by F.H. Townsend. 8vo. Light grey cloth with gilt lettering and front board color plate. 80pp (rectos only). Tissue-guarded color frontispiece, 14 full-page tissue-guarded color plates (as called for). Very good. Faint binding wear, else internally fine; 1906 nonauthorial gift inscription..... More
Tales from Shakespeare.
New York: George Routledge and Sons, n.y. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Tan cloth with black, blue and green lettering and pictorial stamping. 400pp. Tissue-guarded color frontispiece, 5 full-page color plates, numerous illustrations. Very good. Faint binding edgewear and just a tad soiled, with rear inner hinge archivally, expertly strengthened, thus tight..... More
Imaginary Conversations.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1936. Hardcover. Selected and edited by R.H. Boothroyd. Small 4to. Tan decorative cloth with gilt spine lettering. xii, 304pp. Very good. Lacks dust jacket and slipcase; touch of age toning to preliminary leaves. A tight and attractive copy of the title for which this..... More
Sugar in the Air: A Romance.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue blind-embossed cloth with gilt lettering and decorations, pictorial dust jacket. 447pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn, with several tiny edge chips (mainly at head and foot of spine). A tight and quite nice first edition in sharp jacket..... More
Assorted Articles.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Orange cloth. 258pp. Very good. Tight, clean, attractive first edition. More
Birds, Beasts and Flowers.
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923. Hardcover. 8vo. Salmon cloth with paper spine label. ix, 180pp. Very good. Binding and spine label typically lightly age toned. Tight and internally near fine first American edition of this lovely verse collection. More
The Collected Poems of D.H. Lawrence.
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. 232pp, 304pp. Very good. Faintest of edgewear; rear endpaper a bit age toned. A tight and attractive first edition of this poetry pair, the first volume subtitled "Rhyming Poems" and the second volume..... More
The First Lady Chatterley.
New York: Shakespeare House, [1951]. Hardcover. 16mo. Quarter dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and light blue paper over boards with giltstamped Shakespeare portrait, dust jacket. 220pp, (4pp). Top edge gilt. Sewn-in purple silk page marker. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. First of this edition. Tight, handsome copy..... More
Lady Chatterley's Lover.
New York: Penguin Books, [1946]. Paperback. 12mo. Stiff tan pictorial wrappers. 260pp. Very good. Slightest bit of mild edgewear. First Penguin paperback edition (#610), tight and clean and attractive. Clear new mylar wrapper added. More
The Merry-Go-Round: A Play in Five Acts.
[Charlottesville]: The Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 1941. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff orange wrappers. 44pp. Very good. Mildly soiled, with light sunning along the spine; front and rear flyleaves each show two mysterious 1½" tape stains. Supplement to this publication's Christmas Number, the entire issue devoted to Lawrence's play. A tight..... More
Sea and Sardinia.
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1921. Hardcover. Illustrations by Jan Juta. Small 4to. Yellow cloth spine with paper label and green paper over boards. 355pp. Color frontispiece, map, 7 full-page tissue-guarded color plates. Good plus. Binding a bit edgeworn, with chip at lower right of front board and spine slightly toned;..... More
Sons and Lovers.
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Blue cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. xix, 420pp, (6pp ads). Very good/very good. Minor jacket edgewear; non-authorial gift inscription on half-title page. Tight, attractive later printing of #333. More
Sons and Lovers.
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by John Macy. 12mo. Grey cloth, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 491pp, (8pp ads). Decorative endpapers Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with spine quite sunned. Tight, attractive later printing (ca. 1950) of #109. More
Sons and Lovers.
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by Alfred Kazin. 12mo. Brown cloth with silver spine lettering, dust jacket. xix, 420pp, (6pp ads). Near fine/near fine. Tiny front pastedown ownership signature. Tight, attractive later printing (ca. mid-1960s) of #333, first published in 1962; in 1922 they published an earlier..... More
Lady Chatterley's Lover.
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by Mark Schorer. Preface by Archibald MacLeish. 12mo. Red cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxxvii, 376pp, (2pp ads). Grey decorative endpapers. Fine/near fine. Small ownership signature on front pastedown. First issued by ML in 1959, this tight, sharp, bright..... More
The Night Manager.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 429pp. Near fine/fine. Tiny red remainder dot on bottom page edges. Tight, handsome first edition. More
A Sea-Grape Tree.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 160pp. Near fine/very good. Quite minor jacket wear. Handsome first edition. More
Briefing for a Descent into Hell.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with gilt lettering and decorations, pictorial dust jacket. 308pp. Near fine/near fine. Tight, superb first edition of the Nobel Prize winner's best known novel. More