New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a signed first edition, first printing of the first novel published by one of the twentieth century’s pioneering and preeminent science fiction authors. The author signed “Robert A. Heinlein” immediately below his printed name on..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1912. The finely bound, limited, and numbered "Old Stratford Edition" Full leather. These 18 finely bound volumes are a full set of "The Old Stratford Edition" of 1912 of the works of Shakespeare. Per the limitation statement, "This set is number 4" of the edition..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This remarkable publisher’s review copy is the first edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, signed by the author, Robert Sherwood, and 48 cast and crew members, including Raymond Massey, who played Lincoln in both the..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. This is a lovely, signed first edition of then-First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s Christmas story for children. The author signed “Eleanor Roosevelt” in blue ink on the half-title page. Condition is fine in a near fine dust jacket. The illustrated binding is..... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. First edition. Hardcover. This inscribed and jacketed first edition of Bradbury’s first major work and enduring classic, The Martian Chronicles, is inked in blue in four lines on the title page: "BILL! | BEST FROM | RAY BRADBURY | OCT. 1966". First edition..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. John Lockwood Kipling. First edition. Hardcover. This is a compelling set of British first editions of perhaps Kipling’s most famous works – the first and second Jungle Books. These copies were previously owned by Churchill’s friends and publishers, Frank and Nelson Doubleday, and apparently used..... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. A superior first edition with impeccable genre association. This is a Donald A. Wollheim’s publisher’s review copy, a collector-worthy example in dust jacket and an important association copy that belonged to “one of the most important editorial influences on sf”. Doubleday..... More
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886. First edition. Full leather. This first edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped is finely bound in full oxblood calf. The binding features raised spine bands, double gilt-rule framed and gilt-tooled compartments, twin black spine title and author labels, gilt rule-bordered covers, red and green..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1906. Harold R. Millar. First edition. Hardcover. This is a magnificent copy of the British first edition, second printing in the exceptionally scarce dust jacket. The second printing was issued the same month as the first printing and is nearly identical. The dust jacket differs..... More
London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1961. First English language edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a jacketed copy of the first English-language edition, both the jacket and volume in very good condition. The red and black cloth binding remains clean, bright, and tight, with sharp corners, vivid spine gilt, and..... More
New York: Tor, 1986. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a superlative, double signed first edition, first printing of the novel that won Orson Scott Card back-to-back Hugo and Nebula Awards – making him the only author to win both of science fiction’s top prizes in consecutive years. Speaker..... More
London: Gyldenal, 1922. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. This is an exceptional copy of the first English edition of Sigrid Undset's The Garland, the first volume in her Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, which was the basis for her being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928. This copy is scarce..... More
Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2013. Full leather. This is a strikingly handsome limited edition of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, with illustrations by Edmund Dulac, published by The Easton Press, 2013. Condition is unequivocally as new; this copy is still hermetically sealed in the publisher’s shrinkwrap and housed in the publisher’s shipping..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Vita Sackville-West's 1924 novel Seducers in Ecuador is seldom seen thus, in near fine condition and still bearing the original dust jacket. One of 1,500 copies, this copy features a beautifully bright, square, and tight binding, with sharp corners, paper spine label..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. James Stephens was both a poet and novelist, and in this presentation copy both skills are on display. This author’s presentation copy of the first edition is inscribed in sixteen lines filling the front free endpaper recto: “Dear Major Whitall: |..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. This is an inscribed first edition copy of the author’s best-known novel. Stephens inked his three-line presentation on the front free endpaper recto: “James Stephens | to | Stephen Gywnn”. Condition is good plus, sound and complete, the defects..... More
London: John Murray, 1850. Full leather. This is a handsome, finely bound, school prize presentation copy of publisher John Murray’s 1850 edition of the Poetical Works of Byron. The binding, excellent edition, and contemporary school prize provenance render this a compelling example of poetical works of perhaps the best known..... More
Dublin and London: Maunsel & Company, Ltd., 1916. First, limited, and numbered edition. Wraps. This is an inscribed, dated, and hand-emended author's presentation copy of the limited and numbered first edition, copy 193 of 500. Inked in four lines on the half title, the author’s inscription reads: “To | The..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1970. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing of Heinlein's novel about a rich and powerful man who has the power to purchase a new body, but is faced with moral and philosophical consequences beyond his expectations. Condition is..... More
Atlanta, Georgia: Filament Elven Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. This is a presentation copy of the first edition of Elder Craft Legends from the Dragon Scribe, "written by The Dragon Scribe, translated by Andre duBignon Furin", with illustrations by Adele Newton Furin. This copy is signed and inscribed by both..... More
Johannesburg: Cape to Cairo Publications, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. This is an anthology of short stories from South African writers with a Foreword by Lord de Villiers. Condition is very good in a very good dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is tight, clean, and square, retaining bright spine gilt..... More
New York: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1890 (nd). Limited Edition. Hardcover. The Last Days of Pompeii is Lord Lytton's 1834 novel inspired by the namesake painting by Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Lytton had seen in Milan. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873), was an English..... More
New York: Random House, 1937. Hardcover. "James Justinian Morier, (born c.1780, Smyrna, Tur. - died March 19, 1849, Brighton, Sussex, Eng.), English diplomat and writer whose fame depends on The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (1824), a picaresque romance of Persian life that long influenced English ideas of Persia;..... More