First Light
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1989), 1989. First edition. Fine in very good dust jacket with tiny rubbed spot to bottom of rear panel.
Literature
More Memoirs of an Aesthete
London: Methuen & Co., (1970). First edition. 8vo; 388 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Owner's name; light soiling to fore edge; spine rubbed; else a good copy in original blue cloth, lacking the dust jacket. The second volume of Acton's memoirs.
Fairy Tales and Legends By Hans Anderson
London: The Bodley Head, (1953), 1953. Later printing. 8vo; 470 pp.; ten full-page illustrations and sixty-four head- or tail-pieces by Rex Whistler. Very good in gilt-stamped and decorated green and white cloth from a design by RW repeated on the endpapers and the dust jacket, in a lightly used dust.....
Girogio Bassani: The Garden of Books
New York: Italian Cultural Institute, 2009. Catalgo for a 2009 exhibiton on the life and work of the Italian writer Giorgio Basssani, best remembered in this country as the author of "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis". First American edition. 30 cm; 159 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in wrappers.
Events in the History of New York City with Illustrations from Shakespeare
N.p: N.p., 1881, 1881. First edition. 8vo; unpaginated [approximately 95]. A few leaves opened roughly; else a very good copy in original gilt-stamped green cloth. A calendar with an historical event in the history of New York noted for each day of the year, accompanied by a relevant quote from.....
The Slow Natives
New York: M. Evans and Co., (1965), 1965. First American edition. Slight pencil marking to top edge, else a very good or better copy in good dust jacket with minor edgewear and rubbing.
Paul Auster's New York
New York: Henry Holt, (1997), 1997. First Edition. First edition. Narrow 8vo; 97 pp.; illustrated from photographs by Frieder Blickle; Preface by Luc Sante. Ribbon marker. A mint copy in original pictorial boards without dust jacket, as issued. A collection of selections from Auster's previously published work which deal with.....
Under the Hill
New York: Grove Press, (1959), 1959. First edition thus. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Florentine Locutions: A Study of Blasphemous and Obscene Expressions in Florentine Italian
New York: The Intemperate Stage, 1991. The most popular and common Florentine obscene locutions defined and used in conversational examples. Handy pocket sized edition. 15 cm; 96 pp.; crease to top corner front cover; else a very good copy in wrappers.
The Burning House
New York: Randon House, (1982), 1982. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Thomas Hardy, conservation architect: his work for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, with a Variorum Edition of "Memories of Church Restoration", 1906
Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, 1995. A documentation of 16 cases of preservation involving Hardy as a member of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Included is Hardy's "Memories of Church Restoration" (1906), his rueful memoir of early architectural work. First edition. 25 cm; 85 pp.; illustrated.....
A Christmas Garland
London: Heinemann, 1912, 1912. First edition. 8vo; pp. vii, 197. Slight darkening to spine; else a very6 good copy in original gilt-stamped blue cloth. A collection of Beerbohm's parodies of contemporary writers. (Gallatin 10).
Mainly on the Air
London: Heinemann, (1946), 1946. First edition. 8vo; 132 pp. Owners' bookplates to front and rear pastedowns; else a very good copy or better in original red cloth, in a good dust jacket. (Gallatin & Oliver 34).
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London & New York: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1899, 1899. First edition, possibly second issue; 8vo; 201 pp. Label tipped to rear endpaper. Title page in black ink only; no half-title; spine label printed in uniform size type; darkening to spine label; else a very good copy in oriignal.....
Conversation With Max
London: Hamis Hamilton, (1960), 1960. First English edition. 8vo; pp. xi, 260; nineteen illustrations from drawings. Cancellation stamp, else a very good copy or better in original green cloth in a very good dust jacket with minor edgewear. An informal portrait of the writer and cartoonist Sir Max Beerbohm by.....
The Noble Savage 1
New York: Meridian Books, (1960), 1960. First edition. 8vo; 254 pp. A very good copy or better in original wrappers. The first issue of the periodical of fiction, poetry and criticism, with contributions by Ralph Ellison, Harold Rosenberg, Wright Morris, Arthur Miller, Herbert Gold and others.
The Benchley Roundup: A Selection By Nathaniel Benchley of His Favorites
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1954), 1954. First edition. A very good copy in a good dust jacket. Drawings by Gluyas Williams.
Au Bal Avec Marcel Proust
Paris: Gallimard, 2013. The Princesse was a great friend and devoted correspondent of Marcel Proust. Text in French. Later printing. Originally published in 1928. 19 cm; 142 pp. Soft crease to front cover; else a good copy or better in wrappers.
Haiku Volume Two: Spring
Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1967. Tenth Printing, originally published in 1950. 8vo; illustrated. A good copy in original brown cloth in a good dust jacket with wear and shallow chipping. The second volume of the four-volume set of Blyth's historical collection of Haiku.
A History of Haiku: Volume One from the Beginnings Up to Issa
Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, (1971). The first volume of Blyth's two-volume history. Fifth printing. 8vo; pp. ix, 427; illustrated. A very good copy in original gray cloth, in a very good dust jacket.
Adam and the Train
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1970), 1970. First American edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Buenos Aires Luxury
Buenos Aires: Manzi Publicidad, (1996), 1996. First edition, # 967/3000. 4to; 109 pp.; illustrated from color photographs. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. A promotional piece for the ITT Sheraton Park Tower Hotel, documenting the elegance and luxury available to all in Buenos Aires. Accompanied by brief.....
The Caliph of Fonthill
London: Werner Laurie, (1956), 1956. First edition. 8vo; 219 pp.; map endpapers and thirteen illustrations from photographs and drawings; bibliography. A good copy or better in original grey cloth, lacking the dust jacket. A biography of the legendary writer, aesthete and collector focusing on his residences. With an introduction by.....
Saxe & Bill: The Commins - Faulkner Archive from the Brodsky Collection a Keepsake
Oxford: Williams Library, 1982. First edition, #A-302 of 500 copies. 8vo; 20 pp.; illustratedA fine copy in in original pictorial wrappers. INSCRIBED by Brodsky.
The Military Orchid and Other Novels
London: Faber, 2008. Paperback. Paperback, with The Military Orchid, A Mine of Serpents, & The Goose Cathedral. Intro. by Auden. Ink stain to top corner front cover, else a very good copy in wrappers.