LITERATURE from Adrian Harrington Rare Books

London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. [American Literature] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] 193 [3]. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket after Rene Magritte, priced at £8.50. Internally crisp and clean, with just a little toning to edges and some light general wear. Near fine.

London: John Calder, 1989. [French Literature in Translation] FIRST UK EDITION THUS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.592. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black dust-jacket priced at £19.95. Low grade paper quite heavily toned. Light general wear to extremities, with a hint of toning to jacket spine. Very good. First published in 1936 as 'Mort… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Random House, 1980. [American Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[12] 258 [4]. Number 23 of 350 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to the limitation page. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and light blue endpapers. With the publisher's matching paper-covered slipcase. Internally crisp and clean. Spine… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[14] xviii; 306. Publisher's light orange quarter cloth, with silver titles to spine and brown paper over boards. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at $15.95. Internally crisp and clean, showing just a little toning to edges, and a hint of sunning… Read more about this item

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1925. [Jeeves and Wooster] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's green cloth, with black titles and decoration to spine and boards. Acceptable toning/light spotting within, lacks f.e.p., ink signature and stamp to pastedowns, spine sunned, covers moderately used. Very good. Short capers featuring Wodehouse's most famous beloved characters, the wealthy upper class scatterbrain Bertie… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10] 339 [3]. Publisher's white quarter cloth, with cream paper over boards, and gilt titles to spine and upper. Fore edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket designed by Fred Marcellino, priced at $13.95. Some light general wear to extremities. Near fine. DeLillo's seventh… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1990. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 385 [5]. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine, and grey endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at $19.95. A crisp, clean copy, with a little sunning and toning to spine. Near fine.

London: Charles Griffin and Company, 1872. [Literature] FINELY BOUND REPRINT, the twenty-first thousand. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xxxviii [2] 682. Contemporary brown full morocco, panelled in black to boards and spine. Gilt titles and tooling to spine. Bevelled edges. Turn-ins ruled in black. All textblock edges gilt. Marbled endpapers, two-tone title page. Lightly spotted throughout, mostly just to preliminaries… Read more about this item

London: Chatto and Windus, 1916-1923. [Russian Literature] LEATHER-BOUND COLLECTION, First Impressions Thus. Complete in 15 volumes. Octavo (16 x 11 x 29cm). Recently re-bound in navy half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spines, and matching cloth over boards. Top edges gilt, others lightly trimmed. Crisp, clean copies in attractive new leather bindings. In her lifetime, Constance Garnett… Read more about this item

London: Souvenir Press, 1978. [Action thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.318; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Mike Codd, priced at £4.50. Contents clean, no inscriptions; near fine in similar jacket. The eighth Modesty Blaise spy novel, developed from the popular comic strip series chronicling a streetwise… Read more about this item

London: Viking, 1988. [American Literature] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 456 [2]. Publisher's black quarter cloth, with grey paper over boards, bronze titles to spine, and fore-edge untrimmed. Grey endpapers. With the grey and orange typographic dust-jacket, priced at £11.95. A nice clean copy showing just a little light general wear. Near fine. … Read more about this item

London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1951. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with titles and imprint in black to spine. Typographic dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Contents clean, discreet gift inscription to free endpaper, text block a little toned, jacket with chips and tears to edges, larger triangular loss at crown.… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 1959. [Neo noir mystery thriller] FIRST U.S. EDITION (stated). Octavo (21 x 15), pp.286; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver to spine, cartographic endpapers of Eastern Bloc Rumania, illustrated dust-jacket. A very good copy of the book in a used jacket with some chips and tears, rubbed, with some soiling to rear. An undercover… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Viking, 1985. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.xxvi; 134. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine and blind titles to upper. Grey endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Neil Stuart, priced at $14.95. A touch of general wear, and a little toning to spine. Near fine. A novel gestated during… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1908. [Fantasy drama] First Rackham Illustrated Edition. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.134. With forty tipped-in colour plates, each with captioned tissue guards. Bound in publisher's gilt-decorated light brown buckram. Some acceptable spotting/browning, lacks initial blank, cloth gently toned to spine, minor soil at foot. A very good copy. Shakespeare's story follows four young Athenian lovers and… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xviii; 332. Publisher's light orange quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and grey paper over boards. Pink illustrated endpapers. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Internally crisp and clean, with a little toning to edges. Price-clipped jacket shows a little sunning… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1971. [Murder Mystery] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.286 [2]. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Norman Weaver. A crisp, clean copy, with a touch of sunning to jacket spine. Price-clipped. Very good. Seafaring suspense novel set in the arduous North Atlantic, in which a… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., 1952. [Mystery collection] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.634; [1], ad; [1], blank. Publisher's green cloth blocked in red, with pictorial dust jacket designed by Jarvis, priced at 15s. Contents clean, subtle owner name beneath flap, jacket with some small chips and tears, rubbed at joints, worn at crown. Contains ten… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] Publisher's brown quarter cloth, with grey paper over boards and silver titles to spine and upper. Top edge cyan, others untrimmed. With the dust-jacket designed by Karl Korab and Lidia Ferarra, priced at $8.95. A strip of browning to the reverse… Read more about this item

[London]: Printed by Order of the Masters of the Bench of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, [1902]. [Trial] FIRST EDITION, privately printed. Octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.viii [2] 88 [2] lxxxii (i.e. 73). With an appendix of numerous reproductions such as title pages of plays and literary extracts. With the original cover bound in at rear. Near… Read more about this item