Death is My Trade by MERLE, Robert - 1954

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart [1935], 1st Canadian Edition. (Hardcover) 311pp. Very good in good to very good dust jacket. Small stain on front cover, dust jacket torn and edgeworn with loss to bottom inch of spine. (Humor).

London: Herbert Jenkins [no date], 1st edition. (Hardcover) 252pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Some spotting on front cover, edgewear to dust jacket. (Humor, Modern Firsts).

John Murray, 1941. First [Stated]. Hardcover. top dusty and first few and last few pp a little browned as ususal else a nearly fine copy with a wonderful bright d.j.. Publlisher's compliments slip laid in.

SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN DUST JACKET. First printing of the first book from Pulitzer Prize-winning autho

London: Ernest Benn, 1926-1927. First Edition thus. Cloth. Near fine. The thin-paper edition, a complete set of the first 12 volumes to be issued. Sm 8vo (17.5cm). With the faux engraved title pages. The publisher states in a page to rear, "Further volumes will be issued monthly until the edition is complete." In all, 28 volumes were published. The titles in this set are, in order: The History of Mr Polly (Vol I), Kipps (II), The New Machiavelli (III), The Invisible Man (IV), a small, just under 1cm tear to spine; The Food of the Gods (V), The Stolen Bacillus (VI), Tono-Bungay (VII), The First Men in the Moon (VIII), Love and Mr Lewisham (IX), front gutter cracked; The Sleeper Awakes (Vol X), Twelve Stories And a Dream (XI), In the Days of the Comet (Vol XII). All in the uniform tan cloth, top edges stained brown, gilt titles to spines, with decorated gilt panels and gilt motif to upper board. There are no inscriptions or ownership marks. Tips of a few volumes slightly pushed. Bindings remain firm,… Read More

New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954. First printing of the first American edition, 669pp, with index. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with faint toning to spine and cover margins, a small slightly rubbed spot near lower back spine, and soft creasing to spine ends, else fine.

UNCORRECTED PROOF in tan wraps. Fine

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978. First edition / First printing. Gray cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket with slight wear. Fresh clean copy, gray boards have no fading and sharp corners. The author's third book and one of his best. Winner of the 1979 John Burroughs Medal for a distinguished work in the field of Natural History. National Book Award Finalist. Lannan Literary Award. Guggenheim Fellowship.

London: Ernest Benn, 1926-1927. First Edition thus. Cloth. Near fine. The thin-paper edition, a complete set of the first 12 volumes to be issued. Sm 8vo (17.5cm). With the faux engraved title pages. The publisher states in a page to rear, "Further volumes will be issued monthly until the edition is complete." In all, 28 volumes were published. The titles in this set are, in order: The History of Mr Polly (Vol I), Kipps (II), The New Machiavelli (III), The Invisible Man (IV), a small, just under 1cm tear to spine; The Food of the Gods (V), The Stolen Bacillus (VI), Tono-Bungay (VII), The First Men in the Moon (VIII), Love and Mr Lewisham (IX), front gutter cracked; The Sleeper Awakes (Vol X), Twelve Stories And a Dream (XI), In the Days of the Comet (Vol XII). All in the uniform tan cloth, top edges stained brown, gilt titles to spines, with decorated gilt panels and gilt motif to upper board. There are no inscriptions or ownership marks. Tips of a few volumes slightly pushed. Bindings remain firm,… Read More

London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1898. First Edition. Printed wrappers. Good. 8vo., (17cm). Number Six in the Bodley Booklets series. pp. 118 [8]. To flyleaf, an old bookseller's pencilled note and what appears to be a name; on first blank, in a fine hand, the name Hugh M Tosh, dated 1908. The backstrip has worn away, with just a strip with the title remaining, and the rear wrapper is detached. Wrappers somewhat chipped, worn to tips, with creases to front, darkened, a few minor marks. Even so, if somewhat fragile, the binding is holding perfectly well. Rolfe's first major publication after Tarcissus some 18 years earlier and which launched his career as a writer.