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FORSTER, E. M. The Eternal Moment and Other Stories.London : 1928
First edition. This collection includes the first book appearance of Forster's renowned short story "The Machine Stops" (1909), which sees the "first full-scale emergence of the 20th-century anti-utopia" (Hillegas, p. 82).
Prefiguring an environmentally blighted world in which the human race lives within a subterranean machine that... Learn More -
CARY, Henry Francis (trans.); ARISTOPHANES. The Birds.London : 1824
First Cary edition, being the the first metrical translation of the Greek comedy into English. It contains the first appearance of the term "cuckoocloudland" (p. 76). Cary (1772-1844) is best known for his translations of Dante. Learn More -
CLARK, Fred G. Magnificent Delusion.New York : 1940
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Albert Strass, with best regards, Fred G. Clark, Aug 2, 1940". Clark (1891-1973), a radio personality and founder of the free-market American Economic Foundation, was a consistent opponent of what he saw as America's slide towards socialism under the... Learn More -
STENDHAL. On Love.London : 1928
First British edition of this translation by the only son of Oscar Wilde, Vyvyan Holland. This philosophical treatise was originally published in French in 1822, translated into English in 1914, and Holland's translation was first published in America in 1927. Learn More -
MATISSE, Henri. Portraits.Monte Carlo : 1954
First edition, number 1,227 of 2,850 copies. The work was entirely planned by Matisse, who designed the cover, chose which portraits would be reproduced, and created an original lithograph for the frontispiece. Matisse also contributed the introduction, where he sums up that a portrait "appears to me as though every charcoal stroke was removing... Learn More -
THOMAS, Dylan; BOX, Leonora (illus.). Me and My Bike.London : 1965
First edition, limited issue, 341 of 500 copies numbered copies of Dylan Thomas's unfinished screenplay, illustrated by Leonora Box.
The father of the illustrator, Sydney Box, explains in the foreword, "Me and My Bike was written during the autumn of 1948 when Dylan was on contract to Gainsborough Pictures, of which company I was at that... Learn More -
KEYNES, John Maynard. A Treatise on Money.London : 1930
First edition. The Treatise is Keynes's most comprehensive work on monetary theory, anticipating many of the ideas of the General Theory.
It was "the product of a long intellectual struggle to escape from the ideas in which he had been reared, later dubbed 'classical economics'; for example, the Ricardian view that supply creates its own... Learn More -
HEMINGWAY, Ernest - HOTCHNER, A. E. Hemingway and His World.New York : 1989
First American edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Anita Bers - a pleasure meeting you - all the best, A. E. Hotchner", of this highly visual biography by a close friend of Hemingway. Learn More -
GEOFFREY, Drage. The Unemployed.London : 1894
First edition, with "presentation copy" blind-stamped on the title page. This work analyzes past efforts to help the unemployed and proposes solutions by transforming scattered official data into actionable public policy. Its author, Geoffrey Drage (1860-1955), MP for Derby from 1895 to 1900, served as Secretary to the Royal Commission on Labour. Learn More -
FITZGERALD, Edward; BULL, René (illus.). Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.London : [1913]
Signed limited edition, number 145 of 250 copies signed by the illustrator and bound in vellum. "A capable and assured draughtsman with a distinct comic talent, [Bull] used his first-hand knowledge of Eastern costume and custom to achieve striking effects in the richly coloured illustrations for The Arabian Nights and The Rubáiyát of Omar... Learn More -
FLEMING, Ian. Dr No.London : 1958
First edition, first impression, of the first Bond novel adapted for cinema. Starring Sean Connery in 1962, the film established the iconic theme music and opening gun barrel sequence used throughout the franchise. Learn More -
POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse.London : 1918
First edition, with the 'N' dropped from London on the title page. The tale is based on the Aesop fable "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" and is the most autobiographical of Potter's books. "Cobbled together in wartime, it reflects her deep understanding of animal nature, but its subtext is her own happiness as a 'country mouse'" (Lear, p.... Learn More -
BRUNHOFF, Jean de. Babar's Travels.London : 1935
First British edition of the second Babar story. The Babar books began as bedtime tales told to Jean de Brunhoff's sons Mathieu and Laurent who asked their father, a trained artist, to illustrate them. De Brunhoff obliged and six Babar titles were subsequently published in French before his death in 1937.
Babar's Travels was published in... Learn More -
LOWRY, L. S. Drawings of L. S. Lowry.London : 1973
Second edition, signed by the artist on the title page. This book collects 64 art works from 1908, when Lowry was a student at Manchester art school, to 1962, the year in which he became a member of the Royal Academy. Learn More -
WILDE, Oscar. De Profundis: A Facsimile.London : 2000
Signed limited edition, number 56 of 95 copies signed by Merlin Holland, Wilde's only grandchild, dated 30 November 2000, the centenary of his grandfather's death. This edition reproduces the prison paper manuscript of Wilde's only literary work from his time at Reading Gaol, published posthumously in 1904. Learn More -
JOYCE, James. Ulysses.Paris : 1924
First edition, fourth printing, the second issued by Shakespeare and Company.
The first seven printings of Ulysses were carried out by Darantière in Dijon from the same plates. The first printing was issued in Paris by Shakespeare and Company on 2 February 1922 (1,000 copies); the second and third printings were published abroad by the... Learn More -
McMURTRY, Larry. Sin Killer [together with] The Wandering Hill.Texas, : 2002 & 2003
First editions, limited issue, both copies 'F' from 26 hand numbered and signed by the author, issued with a slipcase. These books constitute the first two parts of McMurtry's Berrybender quartet, concerning an ill-fated hunting expedition in the American West.
50 copies numbered and signed by the author were also issued. Learn More -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: MALORY, Sir Thomas. Le Morte d'Arthur.London : 1936
Signed limited edition, number 1,164 of 1,500 signed by the illustrator. Gibbings was the owner of the Press between 1924 and 1933, often working alongside Eric Gill and commissioning illustrations from Eric Ravilious and David Jones among others. His own engravings adorn the full breadth of Malory's romantic epic, here printed in Gill's Golden... Learn More -
WAGENKNECHT, Edward (ed.). The Fireside Book of Christmas Stories.Indianapolis : 1945
First edition, in a handsome Maurin binding. This festive anthology has passages from authors including Charles Dickens, Wasington Irving, and Daphne du Maurier. Learn More -
ROWLING, J. K. The Tales of Beedle the Bard.London : 2008
First edition, deluxe issue. Published simultaneously with the first trade edition, this volume reproduces the binding of Rowling's original manuscript offered for sale at auction.
In 2007, Rowling wrote and illustrated six manuscript copies that were finely bound and given to people who had been important in the publication of the Harry... Learn More
