Newark: Printed and sold by S. and J. Ridge, 1807. First edition, first issue. Leather. This is the first edition, first issue, of Lord Byron's first published volume of poetry. First issue is confirmed by: repetition of "where" at page 5, lines 2-3; absence of a footnote at p.22 and..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1798. Second Edition. Full leather. This is the spectacularly handsome, finely bound, two-volume, second edition of Tyrwhitt's landmark Chaucer. This edition was produced posthumously, incorporating Tyrwhitt's own "emendations and additions". As explained by the publisher, "The Delegates of the Clarendon Press having been applied to, that the..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. This is a jacketed first edition, first printing of acclaimed American poet Mary Oliver’s fifth published collection of poems. This is not only a significant early collection, but also aesthetically appealing, the binding a charcoal cloth with silver spine print and..... More
London and New York: Longman and Co. / Wiley and Putnam, 1846. Hardcover. This is the gorgeous 1846 edition, noteworthy for being the first book issued in the elaborate "relievo" binding patented by Frederick Leake and for the spectacularly illustrated contents executed using a chromolithographic press to achieve a fully..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing of Longfellow’s epic poem. This first printing of 22 November 1855 is definitively distinguished from the the second and later printings by issue points at pages 32 ("In the moon..."), 96 ("Dove..."), 268..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, 1990. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is an exceptional copy of the first edition, first printing, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is clean, bright, tight, and square, with sharp corners and bright silver lettering on the spine. We note..... More
London: Day & Son, 1860. Owen Jones, Henry Warren, Albert Warren. Leather. This is the spectacularly illustrated and sumptuously produced 1860 edition of Irish poet Thomas Moore’s popular tale from his 1817 “oriental romance” epic Lalla Rookh. The edition was designed and illuminated by pioneering Welsh architect, designer, design theorist..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, 2005. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. This is a signed copy of the first edition, second printing of the second volume of Mary Oliver’s New and Selected Poems. Oliver signed “Mary Oliver.” in black ink just above her printed name on the title page. Condition is near..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a first edition, first printing of the work that won Mary Oliver the National Book Award for Poetry in 1992. Condition is very good plus in a very good dust jacket. The binding, featuring green cloth spine over green..... More
Portland, Maine: The Mosher Press, 1925. First, limited, and numbered edition. Hardcover. This first edition 1925 collection of Dartmouth Verse connects two great American poets of the twentieth century - Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg. This is Sandburg's personal copy, inscribed and gifted to him. The inscription is inked in..... More
New York: The Ecco Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. This is a signed, jacketed copy of the first edition of Nobel Prize-winning poet Czeslaw Milosz's collection spanning more than half a century of his work. The poet signed his name in blue ink at the center of the title page..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, second printing of Longfellow’s epic poem. This first printing of 22 November 1855 followed the first printing of 2 October 1855 and is distinguished from the latter by issue points at pages 32, 96, 268..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986. First edition, first printing, wraps issue. Paperback. This is the first edition, first printing of the paperback edition of Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Mary Oliver’s Dream Work, “possibly her best book”. Somewhat unusually, Atlantic Monthly Press chose to issue both a hardcover first edition and..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1939. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a lovely, jacketed first edition, compelling for both condition and provenance. Profits, Interest and Investment was published the year after Hayek became a naturalized British citizen and just months before the outbreak of the Second World..... More
Basrah: Printed and published by the Superintendent, Government Press, Basrah, 1917. First edition, wraps issue. Wraps. This item – the only we have offered or examined – is the wraps (softcover) issue of Gertrude Bell’s The Arab of Mesopotamia, which differs in multiple particulars from its hardcover counterpart. The work..... More
Basrah: Printed by E. G. Pearson at the Times Press, Bombay, and published by the Superintendent, Government Press, Basrah, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. This first edition of The Arab of Mesopotamia is triply compelling – for condition, provenance, and curiosity. The work was published in Basrah in 1917 to inform..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916. First edition, limited and numbered large paper issue. Hardcover. This is an extraordinary example of the 550 copies of the limited issue of the first edition. These are strikingly different in appearance than their trade issue first edition counterparts, being roughly one inch taller, one..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This first printing of the first trade edition of the chronicle of John Muir’s environmental awakening is a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. This was an attractive edition, bound in a smooth, medium green cloth, printed..... More
Berkeley, CA: Parnassus Press, 1968. Ruth Robbins. First trade edition, second issue. Hardcover. This is a jacketed first edition, second issue of the author’s foundational Earthsea novel, accompanied by a custom bookplate signed by Le Guin, laid in.Per Currey, there were both trade and library issues of the first edition..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930. First edition. Hardcover. This jacketed first edition features a compelling contemporary gift inscription from Sir Lionel Fletcher to the officer who served as French Military Attache in London during the First World War. Both were significant figures involved in the logistical and diplomatic planning for..... More
London: British Official Photograph, Crown Copyright Reserved, published by The Daily Telegraph, 13 May 1944. Photograph. This original 13 May 1944 Second World War British Official Photograph captures British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, accompanied by Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, Prime Minister William Mackenzie..... More
ACME NEWSPICTURES Inc., 5 September 1939. Photograph. This original press photograph was captioned and circulated by ACME Newspictures Inc. on 5 September 1939, two days after Britain declared war on Nazi Germany and Winston S. Churchill was re-appointed First Lord of the Admiralty.The head and shoulders image, taken when Churchill..... More
Washington, D.C. ACME NEWSPICTURES, 20 July 1945. Photograph. This original press photograph captures Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill and Clementine Churchill on a French beach, Victory in Europe having been secured and the results of the General Election that would remove him from office yet to be made known. This..... More
London: Printed and published by Sir Emery Walker, Wilfred Merton and Bruce Rogers, 1932. First and Limited Edition. Full leather. In 1932, T. E. Lawrence “of Arabia” published a translation of Homer’s The Odyssey designed by celebrated American typographer and type designer Bruce Rogers (1870-1957). Lawrence’s Odyssey was a masterpiece..... More
Salisbury, England: Castle Hill Press, 2003. Quarter goatskin. This is the finely bound, first one-volume limited edition of the full 1922 'Oxford' text from Castle Hill Press, the premier editors and fine press publishers of material by and about T. E. Lawrence, founded by Lawrence’s official biographer, Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017).This..... More