Collection: UK Literature

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First American edition. 784pp. Octavo; oatmeal cloth stamped in gilt to front board and spine; light blue topstain; dust jacket. A few spots of soiling to boards; light sag to textblock. Very good or better in very good jacket, unclipped,... More

Second UK edition of Ackerley's celebrated account of his sixteen year relationship with a pet German shepherd. London: Bodley Head, 1966. Second edition, following the Secker & Warburg first of 1956. Octavo, 8 x5-3/8 in. 157pp. Green textured-paper boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Damp... More

First UK edition of this novel, set in feudal Japan, by the American writer and poet. London: Faber and Faber, 1963. First edition. Small octavo, 7-5/8 x 5-1/8 in. 198pp. Green textured-paper boards; white spine lettering; dust jacket. Former owner's bookplate on ffep. Else fine... More

Reprint edition of Fermor’s second book and only novel, first published in 1953. NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1977. Octavo, 8-5/8 x 5-5/8 in. 139pp. Green textured-paper boards; gilt spine lettering; pictorial map endpapers; in dust jacket. Fine in a fine jacket. More

Attractive first American edition of the German-born English writer's debut novel, a semi-autobiographical family tale about the clash of Catholic and Jewish cultures among the pre-WWI German aristocracy. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1957. First edition. Small octavo, 7 5/8 x 5 in. 311pp. Blue papered... More

London: The Hogarth Press, 1983. First British edition, following the Canadian edition of 1982, and also printed by the University of Toronto Press. Octavo, 10 x 6.75 in. 429pp. total (introduction and appendix paginated continuously to 63pp. on either side of the independently paginated manuscript).... More

London: John Calder, 1961. 8vo. Light green, textured paper boards; gold spine lettering; in dust jacket. 187pp. A few minor dings to the base of the textblock, else very fine: neat, sharp, and unmarked. In a very good (+) price-clipped jacket, with moderate edgewear, and... More

First trade paperback printing of this collection of five dramatic piece--a stage play, two radio plays, and two pantomimes--written after "Waiting for Godot." NY: Grove Press / Evergreen, 1960. Octavo (5.25 x 8 in.); 141pp.; signature-bound in glossy printed wraps. Very good (+), with light... More

An attractive first printing of this gripping novel of a steamship caught up in an open-ocean hurricane, by the author of "A High Wind in Jamaica." London: Catto & Windus, 1938. First edition. Octavo (7.75 x 5. 25 in.); 273pp.; blue cloth boards, in dust... More

London: Hogarth, 1945. Second printing. 12mo (7.25 x 5 in.); 229pp.; blue cloth boards, in dust jacket. Cloth shows a striking degree of fading, from dark to light blue, everywhere but on the spine. (Having seen this on other second printings, we surmise that it... More

A sharp first printing of the first volume of Fermor's lauded travel memoir, which recalls his youthful foot journey across interwar Europe, from Holland to Constantinople. London: John Murray, 1978. First edition. Octavo (8.75 x 5.75 in.); 291pp., indexed; blue textured-paper boards, in dust jacket.... More

Edinburgh: Canongate, 1985. First thus; limited "definitive" edition, following the first edition of 1981. No. 195 of one thousand copies signed and numbered by Gray on the front free endpaper. Octavo (9.5 x 6.5 in.), 560pp., black textured paper boards, gilt-stamped on boards and spine,... More

London: Faber and Faber, 1974. First edition. Octavo; 256pp; blue textured paper boards; dust jacket. Fine in a very good, unclipped jacket with moderate fading to the blue ink on spine and along fore-edges. Signed by Priest to the title page.  A collectible copy of... More

NY: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1972. Hardcover. First American edition. 8vo. 214pp. Green textured paper boards. Light bump at base of spine, a touch of fading at head of spine, else fine in a fine, price-clipped jacket with very minor browning around flap perimeters. A collectible copy... More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1977. Hardcover. Reprint of the New and Revised Edition. Large octavo. 860pp. Top gilt. Tipped onto the front flyleaf is a signed 1881 note from Clarke's Villa Novello estate in Genoa, Italy, in which she expresses her "kind greetings and... More

London: Haslewood Books, 1924. Hardcover. Essays individually paginated. First this, being an "exact reprint, page for page and line for line, of the first edition of Bacon's Essayes." Hand-numbered copy 348 of a limited edition of 975. Faux-vellum boards show a touch of bowing. Former... More

NY: Little, Brown, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. 328pp. Reprint of the Periscope-Holliday 1952 edition. This copy undated but purportedly from 1965. Very light tanning to textblock edges, former owner's name inked on front free end paper, which also shows one small spot of soiling. Else fine... More

NY: Sheed & Ward, 1936. Hardcover. Presumed first American edition (lacks the "first published" statement on the copyright page of British edition). Vi+278pp. Octavo; grey cloth boards; dust jacket. Presumed first American edition. Light board soiling; ffep with two ownership stamps; minor moisture wavering to... More