New York: Gnome Press, 1951. First edition, first printing, first issue. Hardcover. This is a jacketed first edition, first printing, first issue of one of the most celebrated works of science fiction. Isaac Asimov’s Foundation is the first book in his genre-defining Foundation Trilogy, a landmark of the genre’s twentieth... More
Fordingbridge, Hampshire: Castle Hill Press, 2004. Limited, full-morocco issue of the third English edition. Hardcover. This is the beautiful Castle Hill Press limited edition of parallel French and English texts of Lawrence's first published translation, Adrien Le Corbeau's novel The Forest Giant. Of a total edition of 352, only 40... More
Fordingbridge, Hampshire: Castle Hill Press, 2000. First and Limited edition. Hardcover. This is the publisher's full goatskin binding of the limited edition. Of a total planned edition of 702 copies (as printed on the limitation statement), only about 500 were ultimately issued, of which 40 were bound thus in full... More
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. Half leather. This is a finely bound 1927 ninth printing of a cornerstone of modernist literature. The beautiful, contemporary binding is half red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards with generous corners, blind ruled transitions, hubbed spine, gilt ruled spine bands, alternating single and triple gilt... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. First American edition in wrappers. Wraps. Heaney inscribed this first American wrappers (paperback) edition in Gaelic in three inked lines on the front free endpaper: “A Moira, | Slan agus Beannacht! | Seamus.” Rough translation: “To Moira, Goodbye and Blessings!” – ostensibly a personal... More
Leipzig, London, New York: Karl Baedeker, T. Fisher Unwin, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. Eleventh Edition, Revised and Augmented. Stiff wraps. This strikingly well-preserved little book is an English language copy of an atlas of Austria-Hungary produced in the last years of the empire. This book is in near fine, apparently... More
Johannesburg: Hortors Limited Printers, July, 1923. First edition. Pamphlet. Here we offer a 1923 pamphlet concerning gold mining in South Africa. This pamphlet bound tête-bêche in English and Afrikaans is in good plus condition. The wire stitched, pale pink wraps covers are complete and free of tears and loss, with... More
New York: Crown, 2017. Uncorrected Proof / Advance Reader's Copy. Paperback. This is a signed Uncorrected Proof Advance Reader’s Copy of the author’s second published novel. Condition is immaculate, as-new and unread. Weir signed in black felt tip on the title page directly below the printed designation “UNCORRECTED PROOF”. Artemis... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. This first edition first printing of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell’s Yourself and Your Body is signed with a drawing by the author. The upper two-thirds of the front free endpaper is filled with a simple ink drawing of a lone wolf looking... More
New York: Doubleday, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. This is a first edition, first printing of the second book in Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos. This copy is very good in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. The book, bound in quarter brown cloth over raspberry paper-covered boards with dark orange endpapers... More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. This is the first edition, signed by the author in blue ink on the front free endpaper: “Randolph S. Churchill.” Randolph Spencer Churchill (1911-1968), Winston and Clementine’s only son, had Churchillian gifts which he ultimately failed to fully refine and apply. British... More
New York: Bantam, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. This is an inscribed first edition, first printing of the third book in Dan Simmons’ four-part Hyperion Cantos. This volume is near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The inscription, inked in blue in two lines on the title page, reads: "To... More
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1971. First edition. Hardcover. This is a first edition of Minorities, a collection of poetry assembled by T.E. Lawrence between 1919 and 1927, edited with extensive Acknowledgements by Lawrence's official biographer, J.M. Wilson, and with a Preface by C. Day Lewis. The book is in near... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1985. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is an inscribed first edition, first printing of the fourth published novel by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author David Brin. Brin's tale of improbable hope and recovery in a post-apocalyptic America pivots on a lie propelled into truth by... More
New York: Bantam, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. This is a signed first edition, first printing of David Brin’s novel of impending environmental disaster, Earth. This book is in as new condition. The binding of quarter navy cloth over blue paper-covered boards is square, clean, bright, and tight with sharp corners... More
New York: Bantam, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. This is a first edition, first printing of the final book in Dan Simmons’ four-part Hyperion Cantos. This volume is very good plus in a near fine dust jacket. The book, bound in quarter gray cloth over navy paper-covered boards, is tight and... More
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd. 1951. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This first edition, first printing of the fourth volume of Churchill’s history of the Second World War is noteworthy - a working copy from the publisher’s archives, stamped “Editorial” on the front free endpaper and top edge. This copy... More
London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd. 1933. Hardcover. This is a jacketed 1933 first printing, first binding state, of the "Keystone Library" issue, produced by the publisher from first edition plates less than a year after publication of the first edition. Churchill's collection of 23 engaging essays on an incredibly wide variety... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1933-1938. First edition. Hardcover. This is a finely bound, four-volume set of Winston Churchill's monumental biography of his great ancestor, John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough. This excellent, full set of first edition, first printings is sumptuously bound by the renowned Bayntun-Riviere bindery... More
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930. First edition, first printing. Full leather. This is the first edition, first printing, first state of Churchill’s autobiography, finely bound. The beautifully grained dark plum morocco binding is deferential to the original plum cloth. The binding features hubbed spine with gilt-decorated raised bands framed by... More
London: Odhams Press Limited, Ernest Benn Limited, 1948. First edition, first printing. Half leather. This is the British first edition, first printing of Painting as a Pastime, Churchill's essay about his famous hobby. This copy is finely bound in half morocco, featuring dark red and beautifully textured goatskin over marbled... More
London: Longmans, Green, & Co. 1900. First edition, first printing. Half leather. This is the British first edition, second and final printing of Churchill's fifth published book, finely bound by the renowned Bayntun-Riviere bindery of Bath, England. The binding is half-brown calf over tan cloth boards with hubbed spine, red... More
London: The Diner's Club, 1974. "Centenary First Edition" Full leather. This time capsule is the finely bound “Centenary First Edition” of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, a pristine, as-new set that was held in the Cassell and Company Limited archives, perfectly preserved within the original cardboard mailing cartons. For... More
London: Library of Imperial History, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. This is Volume II of the Centenary Edition binding of The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill. In 1976, the Library of Imperial History issued The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill as a welcome follow-up to the Collected Works, which... More
London: Library of Imperial History, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. This is Volume I of the Centenary Edition binding of The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill. In 1976, the Library of Imperial History issued The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill as a welcome follow-up to the Collected Works, which... More
