Literature And Modern Firsts from tinyBook

UK: Penguin, 2008. First edition thus. Trade Paperbacks Box Set. Near fine to Fine/(Box) Very good +. The box set of all 14 007 novels, issued by Penguin to mark the centenary of the author's birth in 1908. In the pictorial glossy laminated box, 19 x 27 x 12cm. Minor rubs to the edges of box and a… Ler mais sobre este item

London: The Hogarth Press, 1959. Reprinted, January 1971 (Eleventh imp.). Original Cloth. Near fine/near fine. Sm 8vo (20.5cm). In the John Ward designed clipped dust jacket, but with publisher's original printed price (£1.50) above clip, housed in a removable sleeve. With Ward's illustrations. Jocularly inscribed on flyleaf by Lee to Peter Spurrier (1942–2005), onetime Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Hogarth Press, 1933. First Edition. Cloth over boards. Very good. 8vo (18.5cm). Publisher's original orange quarter cloth binding over pictorial paper covered boards, designed by John Banting. Black lettered title to spine. Published at the press of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Containing the eleven letters originally published in separate volumes in The Hogarth Letters Series through 1931 and 1932.… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Simon & Schuster, July 2008. Third Printing. Book. Very good/near fine. 8vo. Boards, gilt titles to spine. Unclipped wrapper. pp. 259. With a remainder mark to upper page edges.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 13 Jan 2006. First Edition. Hardback. As new/fine. 8vo. Black boards, silver titles to spine. Unclipped wrapper. xiv, 295.

London: Strange Attractor Press, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 8vo. Blue boards, silver titles to spine, grey endpapers. xiii, 466. W/ bibliography, footnotes and scarce illustrations. Unclipped dustwrapper with faint rubs to upper tips. Minor bump to lower rear tip. Appears unread, a very nice copy in like dust jacket. Essays on some of the people who featured… Ler mais sobre este item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909. First Edition. Half Buckram. Very good. 4to (33cm). A plain pale reddish buckram to spine over plain boards. No. 56 of 350 copies, printed on handmade paper and set in Cambridge type. Vol I: Books I to III. pp. 544, including to rear the two pages of Errata. Vol II: Books IV to… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Folio Society, 1966. First edition. Original Cloth. Near fine. Illustrations by B S Biro. 8vo. pp. 181. A very well kept copy, in slipcase with a few minor marks.

New York: Tanam Press, 1980. First English edition. Trade Paperback. Very good. Translated from the German by Martje Herzog and Alan Greenberg. A diary by the German film director, originally published in German in 1978, of a pilgrimage he undertook from Munich to Paris. Herzog undertook the walk on being told that a close friend, German film historian… Ler mais sobre este item

London: John Murray, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Original Cloth. Near fine/near fine. 8vo (24cm). In publisher's original black cloth, gilt titles to spine. xxv, 469. Illus with b&w photographs. Unclipped dust wrapper, with Hatchard's Signed Copy wraparound bellyband. Signed by Sisman to title page. Some light wear, use, very minor edgewear to wrapper. Faint toning to page… Ler mais sobre este item

Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1946. First Edition. Boards. Near fine/Very good +. John Leech. Slim 8vo (18.5cm). Printed paper over boards. With gilt decoration to cover. No. 32 in the King Penguin series. Illustrations in colour and b&w by John Leech. pp. 138. In the scarce, price clipped dust jacket with slight rubs, to folds and edges, small… Ler mais sobre este item

Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1889. First Edition, first state. Original Cloth. Very good +. A. Fredericks. A masterpiece of Victorian comic writing, gently poking fun at convention, with several renowned setpiece scenes. Original publisher's blue grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, black stamped title and silhouette of a boat to front cover. Small… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Macmillan & Co., 1932. Reprint. Half Leather. Near fine. John Tenniel. 8vo (19.5cm). Gilt top edges, pale blue linen over boards, dark blue morocco to spine and outer corners. Gilt rules to leather edges on covers, five raised bands to spine, with gilt titles and date to base. Matching pale blue marble card endpapers. The bindings… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Folio Society, 1983. Second impression, 1984. Cloth. Very good. 8vo. Introduction, Christopher Falkus. Drawings by George Adamson. In the houndstooth yellow and red cloth boards, brown cloth spine with gilt titles. pp. 371. In a well kept slipcase, with a couple of small marks to one side. Faint sun fade to spine, front gutter a little slack,… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2003. First paperback edition, with revisions. Trade Paperback. Fine. Illustrated card wraps. pp. 144pp. 122 illustrations. All but as new.

London: Methuen & Co, 1932. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very good. 8vo (19.5cm). Publisher's cloth, gilt titles to faded spine. b&w frontis author portrait. viii, 402. A prize label to flyleaf. Light wear, else a clean, tight, sound copy.

London: Picador, 2012. First Edition, thus. Laminated Boards. Fine/fine (slipcase). 8vo (24cm). In the illustrated slipcase. pp. 277. Appears unread. Numberline starts at 1. The slipcased issue appeared after the paperback original in 2011. Unpublished in Bolano's lifetime. A very well kept copy, appears unread, in a bright, clean, slipcase.

London: Folio Society, 1972. First edition thus. Original Cloth. Near fine. Drawings Ian Ribbons. 8vo. Bright yellow pictorial cloth, gilt titles to spine. A very bright, sharp copy, with slight fade to spine, in a slipcase with a crack to base of one side of slipcase.

UK: Allen Lane, 2015. First edition, 6th printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 8vo. pp. 293. In unclipped dust jacket with a little edgewear to topmost edge. Signed by author to title page. A bright, fresh copy.

London: Vintage Classics, 2017. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 8vo. (20.5cm). Pale yellow boards, black lettered titles to spine. Pictorial patterned endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket, illustration by Levente Szabo. Introduction by John Cork. pp. 303 + "From the Archives", illustrations of 'Live and Let Die' ephemera. An all but immaculate copy, unread and a very tight… Ler mais sobre este item