Search Results: Authors starting with S from Fine Editions Ltd

Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: apud Ioh. Ianssonium Iuniorem, 1659. Early Reprint. Vellum. Fine. Pocket edition of the most important anti-Machiavellian book of the seventeenth century, as well one of the most popular and most beautiful Spanish seventeenth-century emblem books. Text in Latin. 12mo (127 x 70mm): [24],832,[4]pp, with engraved title page, 101 nearly full-page copper-engraved emblems within borders of varying designs after Johannes Sadeler at the beginning of each chapter as pictorial statement of the chapter's lessons, and a final unnumbered plate beneath a brief obituary of the author ("Magni Politici"), showing skull, tomb, and other images of death with the banner "Ludibria Mortis." Contemporary vellum, faded title in manuscript to spine, page edges sprinkled blue; cloth-covered slipcase with brown morocco lettering piece gilt. An exceptionally crisp, clean copy. Modeled after the Milan issue of 1642, which corrects the errata discovered in the first edition of 1640. Not to be confused… Read More

London: Michael Joseph, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Impression of this squeal of sorts to the author's The Land, winner of the Hawthornden Prize, with decorations by Broom Lynne. Demy 8vo (214 x 137mm): 135; [1]pp. Publisher's russet cloth, titles in silver to spine, top edge red, decorative end papers; illustrated dust jacket priced 8/6. Signed by Sackville-West to half-title. About Fine, jacket just a shade sunned to spine panel, lightly scuffed to top of front fold. Also issued as a signed limited edition of 750 copies, but scarce as a signed trade edition, as here. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A.44a. Like The Land, The Garden is divided into the four seasons. It is more personal and less sweeping than the earlier poem, and tries to sum up Sackville-West's horticultural aesthetic as displayed in the garden at Sissinghurst, with its linked sections "distinguished by predominant colour themes (such as the influential white garden), or by concentration on the flowers of a certain… Read More

London: William Heinemann / Michael Joseph [through 1946], 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. A splendid set (two first impressions) of the author's long narrative poems, each evoking a bucolic idyll. The Land: 8vo: [10],108pp. Publisher's burnt orange buckram, paper title label printed in red to spine (extra label, as issued, attached to colophon leaf), fore- and bottom edges uncut, in the marvelous cream dust jacket printed in black and illustrated by George Plank (who also created dozens of covers for Vogue magazine in an art-deco style), priced 6/- on spine panel. An exceptional copy, one of only 1,000 printed, tight, square and unread; about Fine jacket (back panel lightly dust-soiled). Chosen for the Hawthornden Prize, in 1927. The Garden: Tall, slim 8vo: 134,[1]pp, with title-page vignette, section openers, and tailpieces by Broom Lynne. Publisher's burnt orange cloth, spine stamped in silver, top edge stained terracotta, terracotta floral end papers; matching illustrated dust… Read More

London: Michael Joseph, 1946. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. No. 321 of 750 copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the author, published the same month as the trade issue. Demy 8vo (230 x 140mm): 134,[2]pp, with title-page and and section vignettes by Broom Lynne. Publisher's coarsely woven ochre cloth, spine and upper cover lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. An exceptional copy (apparently unread), virtually pristine inside and out. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A.44b. A poem in five parts (an introductory "The Garden" and four seasonal verses), plus a dedicatory poem to Katherine Drummond. The Garden sums up Sackville-West's horticultural aesthetic as displayed in the garden at Sissinghurst, with its linked sections "distinguished by predominant colour themes (such as the influential white garden), or by concentration on the flowers of a certain season . . . " (ODNB) Chosen for the Heinemann award for literature, in 1946, which Sackville-West spent on azaleas for… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Edition (so stated) of the author's fourth of five semi-autobiographical novels, uncommon in this condition. 8vo: [8],364,[2]pp. Publisher's black cloth decorated in red and lettered in gold, top edge stained red, others untrimmed; illustrated dust jacket. An excellent example (jacket's back panel very lightly toned, hint of rubbing to spine panel), tightly bound and clean throughout. Sackville-West's novels were reviewed politely but made little stir. Simpson: A Life, about a children's nurse, was the best received: "impressive and in its way original, the more so because Simpson has such a cool, aloof quality and so little resembles the conventional Nanny of fact or fiction." (The Times, 2/10/1931) His more lasting books are a biography of Thomas De Quincey and The Record Guide, Britain's first comprehensive guide to classical music on record, first published in 1951. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we… Read More

Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers [through 1942], 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine-/Very Good+. First Edition, second issue (with 1943 copyright), of this World War II-era collection of "favorite stories, verse and cartoons for the entertainment of servicemen," including Salinger's first appearance in book form. Small 8vo: 336pp, with numerous color and black-and-white cartoon illustrations. Publisher's red, white, and blue pictorial boards (issued without dust jacket), in original pictorial shipping carton. About Near Fine, rubbed with minor loss of color to corners and tips and browning to wartime paper; Very Good or better shipping box (unused), reproducing book's cover image, rubbed along all edges. Not uncommon, except in the shipping carton (as here), very few of which have survived. Slawenski, p. 38. Originally published in the July 12, 1942, issue of Collier's. Salinger's story, "The Hang of It," begins on p. 332, and was carried into battle by countless soldiers." (Slawenski)… Read More

London: printed for Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge; and Thomas Sawbridge at the Three Flower de Luces in Little-Brittain, 1685. Early Printing. Full Calf. Near Fine. The most popular of Salmon's numerous books, here in the greatly expanded fifth edition. Thick crown 8vo (186 x 109mm): [64],767,[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait of Salmon at age 27 and additional engraved pictorial title page (both by W. Sherwin) and 23 numbered leaves of plates. Contemporary brown calf boards beautifully rebacked to style, spine in six compartments between gilt-ruled raised bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt, end papers renewed. Small old ink blot at lower right corner of plates (never entering image), plate xvi embrowned, else a handsome, tightly bound copy, generally clean throughout with only occasional light foxing and stains and toning to page edges. Wing S448. Lowndes III, 2180. Levis (Bib of Engraving), pp. 14-15. Originally published in 1672, this edition "enlarged with above a… Read More

Stuttgart: J. Engelhorns Nachf, 1931. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First Printing of this pioneering photobook by one of the originators of photojournalism. Tall 8vo (250 x 185 mm): 46,[1]pp, with 116 full- and half-page plates with picture legends in German, English, French, and Italian on versos. Original French blue cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, without the photo-illustrated dust jacket. Edges very lightly spotted, else a Fine firmly bound copy, clean and bright throughout. Roth (101), pp. 74-75. Roth (Open Book), pp. 104-105. Parr & Badger I, p. 131. Auer, p. 166. Fotografia Publica 519. Candid black-and-white photographs of statesmen, scientists, painters, writers, and conductors (William Randolph Hearst playing solitaire at San Simeon, Albert Einstein listening to a Reichstag speech, Benito Mussolini conferring with German statesmen in Rome), caught in unguarded moments, yawning, dozing, slouching. In 1928, Salomon "began to use the miraculous new Ermanox camera with… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1948. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine-/Near Fine+. First Trade Edition of the poet's first novel, published when Sandburg was seventy. Thick 8vo: [10],1067,[1]pp. Publisher's navy blue finely woven cloth, spine stamped in gold; wraparound illustrated dust jacket by Paul Sample, priced $5.00. Inscribed by Sandburg (in Swedish) and signed on the fly-leaf. About Fine (spine ends bumped), still square and tight; Near Fine or better jacket (tips rubbed to spine panel, which is gently toned). In all, an excellent example. Originally commissioned by MGM as a movie script. Instead, "Sandburg produced a massive thousand-page epic covering the whole sweep of American history from colonial times through the Revolutionary and the Civil wars. "Imperfect as a novel, the book is nevertheless a great American document, presenting in human terms and in the idiom of Carl Sandburg's 'swift and furious people' the growth of the American Dream through more than three centuries of our national… Read More

Los Angeles: Grafton Publishing Corporation, 1918. First Edition. Card Covers. Fine. First Printing of these six accounts of the Old Southwest. Thick foolscap 8vo (178 x 123mm): 134pp, with portrait frontispiece and eight further illustrations from half-tones. Publisher's pictorial card covers printed in pale blue and brown. An exemplary example (barely noticeable damp spot to foot of first few leaves), tightly bound and clean throughout. Descriptions of a culture and a way of life that were passing out of view, recording the author's experiences and providing information on people and events. Covers the hunting of buffalo and antelope, conflicts with Native Americans, cattle drives (New Mexico to Kansas City), ranching, and cowboys and their ponies, with details handed down by the author's father. William Perry Sanders was born in Texas and moved with his family to Magdalena (Socorro County), New Mexico, sometime around 1890. After about twenty-five years in New Mexico he moved to Southern… Read More

London: Hogarth Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine+/Fine+. First Impression of the author's fifth novel. Small 8vo: 221,[1]pp. Publisher's forest green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust jacked, priced 13s/6d, strikingly illustrated by Charles Mozley. Very Fine and unread. "William Sansom was once described as London's closest equivalent to Franz Kafka. He wrote in hallucinatory detail, bringing every image into pin-sharp focus. . . . He fell from favour, but now there is a movement to rediscover his finest works." (The Independent) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.

London: Hogarth Press, 1948. Hardcover. Fine. Signed limited edition of Sansom's early novella about a man who wakes one morning to discover himself physically and psychologically aslant, illustrated with five superb full-page plates after drawings by Lucian Freud. Number 479 of 750 copies signed by Sansom on limitation page. 8vo: 45,[1]pp. Publisher's buckram-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gold, beveled edges, fore-edge uncut, title page printed in black and red. Ownership signature to front free end papers of New York figurative painter Sigmund Abeles, whose paintings are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Whitney, among many other institutions. Initials "A. B." inked to rear paste-down. Without the scarce original glassine dust jacket. Embrowning to end papers, spine tips very lightly rubbed, else Fine. The great figurative artist Lucian Freud made numerous drawings throughout his twenties, before switching predominantly to oil painting. The… Read More

London: Hogarth Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. First Impression of the author's first novel. Small 8vo: 232pp. Publisher's scarlet cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained vermilion, bottom edge untrimmed; dust jacked, priced 9s/6d, strikingly illustrated by Ruth Sheradski. Fine and unread, in a Near Fine or better jacket with slight edge wear and lightly dust-soiled back panel. "William Sansom was once described as London's closest equivalent to Franz Kafka. He wrote in hallucinatory detail, bringing every image into pin-sharp focus. . . . He fell from favour, but now there is a movement to rediscover his finest works." (The Independent) The Britannica lists four novels as his "most important": The Body, A Bed of Roses (1954), The Loving Eye (1956), and Goodbye (1966). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged… Read More

London: Hogarth Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression of one of the author's early collections, of 10 short stories. Small 8vo: viii,250pp. Publisher's tangerine cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained deep pink, bottom edge untrimmed; dust jacked, priced 8s/6d. Very Fine and unread. "William Sansom was once described as London's closest equivalent to Franz Kafka. He wrote in hallucinatory detail, bringing every image into pin-sharp focus. . . . He fell from favour, but now there is a movement to rediscover his finest works." (The Independent) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.

London: Hogarth Press, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine+/Fine+. First Impression of one of the author's "most important" novels, with the red Book Society wraparound band. Small 8vo: 239,[1]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained deep pink, bottom edge untrimmed; dust jacked, priced 13s/6d, strikingly illustrated by Charles Mozley. Very Fine and unread. "William Sansom was once described as London's closest equivalent to Franz Kafka. He wrote in hallucinatory detail, bringing every image into pin-sharp focus. . . . He fell from favour, but now there is a movement to rediscover his finest works." (The Independent) The Britannica lists four novels as his "most important:" The Body, A Bed of Roses, The Loving Eye, and Goodbye (1966). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly.… Read More

London: Faber and Gwyer / Faber and Faber [through 1936], 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. An uncommonly handsome set of Sassoon's celebrated World War I trilogy, one of the great classics of English literature (Fox-Hunting Man was awarded both the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Prize). First Impressions of the three separately published volumes. Crown 8vo (186 x 122mm): 395,[1]; 334,[2]; 280pp. Uniformly bound in publisher's French blue cloth, spines lettered in gold, top edges stained, respectively, saffron, pink, and reddish brown; plain paper dust jackets, all priced 7/6, cream printed in blue (Fox-Hunting Man), pale yellow printed in black (Infantry Officer), and French blue printed in black and red. Fox-Hunting Man: Published anonymously, in an edition of only 1500 copies. Misprint on line 1 of p. 191 ('merey' for 'merely'), but 'platoon' spelled correctly on penultimate line of p. 365. (According to Keynes, the "typographical irregularities have no significance… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 1930. First Impression. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Trade Edition of the second installment in Sassoon's lightly fictionalized autobiographical trilogy. 8vo: 334,[2]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine lettered in gold, top edge stained pink, fore-edge rough-trimmed; pale yellow typographic dust jacket printed in blue and priced 7s/6d. Loosely laid in is a letter on Faber and Faber stationary, replying to a question asking why some copies of the first edition have uncut [rough-cut] page edges and others do not {Keynes describes the edges as "trimmed."]. "As a matter of fact, it was the author's wish that some part of the first edition should be produced with uncut edges and some 3,000 odd were published in this manner. However, as far as we are concerned there is no difference at all between the cut and uncut edges; both issues were printed simultaneously, the only difference being when the sheets reached the binder's cutting room." According to Keynes, 20,000 copies of… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1927. Hardcover. Fine-/Near Fine-. Two thousand sets of this book have been printed at the Riverside Press . . ." Tall, thick 8vo: xvi,[2],8-368; viii,423,[1]pp, with frontispiece, folding plate and 98 further full-page illustrations (chiefly facsimiles of title pages), many with tissue guards. Vol. I: Caxton to Johnson; voI. II: Gray to Kipling. Publisher's red buckram, spine stamped in gilt, covers framed in blind with double fillet; top edges gilt, others untrimmed; title page in red and black; tan typographic dust jackets lettered in black. About Fine (spine ends bumped), fresh, bright, unmarked and only lightly read; about Near Fine jackets (spine panels tanned, ends of which are lightly chipped). Discusses the high points of collecting English Literature, in an "attempt to show—chronologically, except for some pages on special subjects—which type of English book and, within strict limits, which books are today considered desirable by the book-collector; and, so far… Read More

Sacramento: State Office, A. J. Johnston, Supt. State Printing, 1891. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First edition of this combined report, featuring original prints of some of the earliest photographs to document a solar eclipse. Demy 8vo (227 x 142mm): [4],121,[1]; 121*,[1]pp, with frontispiece ("Silver print of the Total Solar Eclipse of December, 1889), 10 further plates (including 2 additional mounted original silver prints), and illustrations and charts in the text. Bound with Catalog of the Library of the Lick Observatory of the University of California. Part I - To July 1, 1890. Prepared by Edward S. Holden (separate title page and pagination). Publisher's black pebble-grained cloth, spine lettered in gilt, sides paneled in blind. Stamp of Imperial College Physics Library to title page. An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Not in Margolis & Moss. In 1888, Schaeberle became one of the inaugural astronomers at Lick Observatory. He led expeditions to witness the solar eclipses at… Read More

Hamburg: Kellner Verlag, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Printing (of four) of this "gentle mediation on death." (Parr & Badger) In German. Tall, slim 8vo (339 x 237mm): unpaginated [24]ff, with 13 full-page black-and-white photographs. Publisher's scarlet paper-covered boards, spine and front cover lettered in black, small black-and-white photograph mounted on cover. Without dust jacket, as issued. Parr & Badger II, p. 270. A very fine copy, virtually as new. Preface by Jean Cocteau ("Vom Tod"); interview with Gerhard Bott and Rudolf Schäfer. "Schäfer photographs the head of each corpse, with the obligatory white sheet pulled down to reveal it, so that each individual in the 13 portraits, varying from young to old, might be lying in bed asleep. The warm-toned gravure in which the series is printed gives the images the quality of etchings, which also mitigates the full reality." (Parr & Badger) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition,… Read More