We Think the World of You
New York: New York Review Books, 2000. First edition thus. 12mo. 209 pp. Softcover binding, pictorial cover, fine condition. (101812). Introduction by P. N. Furbank. More
Literature-English
Albion; The Origins of the English Imagination
New York: Anchor Books, 2004. First Anchor Books edition. 12mo..[xxx], 524 pp. Photographic illustrations. Softcover binding, pictorial cover, very good conditton. (10306). English Literature: History and Criticism. More
Guardian; Volume the First • Volume the Second
London: Jacob & Richard Tonson, 1750. 1750. 8vo. 2 volumes. v1: 512 pp. / v2: 518+Index. Full leather bindings, spine labels, raised bands, upper hinge of vol.1 reinforced with archival linen tape, else very good set. (95553). Bookplates of Edward Kenelm Digby, 11th Baron Digby, was a British peer, soldier..... More
Einstein's Monsters
New York: Harmony Books, 1987. First edition. 8vo. 149 pp. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (10349). More
Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility
New York: Everyman's Library / Alfred A. Knopf, 1991-92. Later printings. 8vo. Six Volumes. Emma. Intro. by Marilyn Butler. [xlvii], 495 pp. / Mansfield Park. Intro. by Peter Conrad. [xxxvii], 488 pp. / Northanger Abbey. Intro. by Claudia L. Johnson. [xxxvii], 241 pp. / Persuasion. Intro. by Judith Terry. [xxxvii]..... More
Dense of an Ending
New York: Vintage International, 2011. First edition. 12mo. 163 pp. Softcover binding, french flaps, very good condition. (101580). More
Selected Poems; 1800—1886
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1950. First edition. 16mo. [x], 296 pp. Frontispiece. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good copy. (91528g). Muses' Library. Edited with an introduction by Geoffrey Grigson. More
Death's Jest-Book; The 1829 Test
UK: Carcanet Press / Fyfield Books, 2003. First edition. 8vo. [xxxii], 123 pp. Softcover, pictorial wraps, very good condition. (96457). Edited with an Introduction by Michanel Bradshaw. More
Plays and Poems
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1950. First edition. 18mo. [lxxxiii], 416 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (80635). Edited with an introduction by H. W. Donner. More
Fro Chaucer to Tennyson
Meadville, PA: Flood and Vincent, 1898. First edition. 12mo. [v], 325 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Selections from 30 authors. 29 portraits. Hardcover binding, cover vignette, very good condition. (100383). More
Old Friends
London: Cassell Biographies, 1998. First edition thus. 12mo. 200 pp. Softcover binding, very good condition. (101779). More
Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century
New York: Oxford University Press, 1954. Later printing. 8vo. [vi], 326 pp. Cloth binding, gilt lettering, no jacket, else very good copy. (85197g). More
First Clerihews; with C. K, Chestertom, L. R.F. Oldershaw, Edward Chesterton, W.P. H. d'Avigdor, Maurice Solomon
New York: Dxford University Press, 1982. First edition. 12mo. [xxviii], 59 pp. Frontispiece of E. C. Bentley. Illustrated by G. K. Chesterton. Hardcover binding in clipped dustwrapper, else very good condition. (101462). Includes a facsimile reproduction of a ms. notebook entitled 'Dictionary of Biography'. –– Biography – Poetry – Humorous..... More
Poetical Works of William Blake; A New and Verbatim Text from the Manuscript Engraved and Letterpress Originals
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947. First edition thus. 8vo. [xxxvi], 384 pp. Illustrations. Cloth binding, gilt lettering, no jacket, very good copy. (94914g). Variorum readings and bibliographical note sand prefaces by John Sampson. More
Memoir of Sir Philip Sidney
London: Chapman & Hall, 1862. First edition. 8vo. [xv], 557 pp. Cloth binding, gilt lettering & decoration, surface wear, else good copy. (93946g). More
Chaucer and the Medieval Book
San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1973. First edition. 8vo. [xi], 165 pp. Illustrations. Cloth binding in clipped dustwrapper, very good copy. (79688). More
Augustan Reprint Society; William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Los Angeles, 1961-68-70-71-72-73-74-75-76-77-78-79-81-82. First editions. 34 issues. #87: Daniel Defoe of Captain Misson. 48pp. • #132. Essay on Satire, Walter Harte. 46pp. • #141: Selections from the Observator, Sir Roger L'Estrange. 38pp. • #142: Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing, Anthony Collins. 77pp..... More
Testament of Beauty
Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1949. Second impression. 12mo. [xix], 168 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (80637). Introduction, notes and commentary by Arundell del Re. More
Wuthering Heights
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1940]. First edition thus. 12mo. 408 pp. Hardcover binding, quarter cloth on patterned boards, very good condition. (100780). Collector"s Edition. More
Poetical Works of Robert Browning
New York: Macmillan, 1894. First editions. 16mo. 9 volumes. Approx. 600 pgs. each. Leather backed marbled boards, gilt lettering, decoration, t.e.g., raised bands, light wear along front hinge lines, else very good set. (95002g). Head of spine partially torn away on volume 1. More
Grace Abounding and The Pilgrim's Progress
Cambridge: University Press, 1907. First edition thus. 8vo. [viii], 432 pp. Hardcover binding, Gilt lettering and vignette cover and spine, overall very good ondition. (100673). Text edited by John Brown, D.D. More
Wakefield Pageants
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1963. Later printing. 8vo. [xxxix], 187 pp. Frontispiece. Cloth binding in clipped dustwrapper, good copy. (79506). More
History of the Works of the Learned; An Impartial Account of Books Lately Printed in all Parts of Europe, with a Particular Relation of the State of Learning in each Country
London: H. Rhodes; T. Bennet; J. Harris; A. Bell; D. Midwinter; T. Leigh, 1699. First edition. 12mo. Vol. I. [2], 60 pp.(age toned). Marbled boards, overall very good condition. (90883). More
Canterbury Tales
New York: Viking, 2009. First edition. 8vo. [xxii], 436 pp. Illustrated by Nick Bantock. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, fine copy. (93650). More
William Morris; Stories in Prose * Stories in Verse * Shorter Poems * Lectures and Essays
London: Nonesuch Press, 1946. First edition. 12mo. [xxiv], 671 pp. Half green morocco on cloth, gilt lettered, decorative spine, t.e.g., very good condition. (97126). More