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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Pink cloth-textured boards, gilt spine lettering. First edition. Black and white photographs and plates. Near fine in very good, price-clipped pictorial dust jacket.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1998. Collector's Edition. Fine. Alan Reingold. Octavo. Brown leather, 22k gold inlaid on hubbed spine and panels, a.e.g. Moiré endpapers, satin-ribbon page marker, acid-neutral paper, all pages sewn. 359,[1] pp. Color frontispiece and black and white illustrations in text by Alan Reingold. Fine; without dust jacket, as issued.  First edition, thus. Native Son, originally published in 1940, is considered a classic of African American literature as a whole and with having a significant influence on subsequent writers. The novel is a powerful social commentary on racial inequality, and the effects of poverty and discrimination on both individuals and society.

[New York]: Forum, 1927. Printed and decorated orange, grey & black wrappers. 9 ½ x 6 ½ in. Numerous illustrations, five color plates. Fore-edges yapped with small tears and chips, spine quite chipped and missing at crown and toe. Interior is in unusually bright and in seemingly unread, very good condition. Exceptionally scare, there does not appear to be another copy of this edition presently available in commerce. Formerly in the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American animator, illustrator, children's-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions. Virginia Woolf's short story "The New Dress. " was written in 1924 while she was writing the novel Mrs. Dalloway, published in 1925. Critics, in the nearly 100 years since publication, have entertained the possibility that the story may originally have been a chapter of the novel because some of the same characters and events appear in both… Read More

London: Cassell & Company, Ltd, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Gilt cloth. First edition. Publisher's editorial copy stamp on front free endsheet. Near fine in good, bright dust jacket. HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A101a.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1968. About fine./Good.. Octavo. Brown gilt cloth. Former owner's neat signature and date on front free endsheet, else about fine, in a provocative unclipped dust jacket designed by John Ward that has a rumple along the top edge and a small closed tear.   First edition. "Murdoch's eleventh novel -- her longest and most richly peopled -- is a domestic comedy revolving around a happily married couple ... " -- from the book flap. If you have read Murdoch you won't be surprised that flying saucers, violent death involving blackmail and suspected espionage, a disused crypt under Whitehall used for the Black Arts, people trapped in a cave with the tide coming in, etc., are the makings of a domestic comedy.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1929. Octavo. Plum pebble cloth, gilt spine lettering within decorative border. 275 pp. Dora Carrington designed (and placed) bookplate for Lytton Strachey, and  pencil notation for personal library placement on front pastedown. Spots along fore-edge, spine sunned, else very good in a very good, dusty dust jacket. From the collection of William Beekman.  First edition. David Garnett was an intimate friend to both Carrington and Strachey. The bookplate designed by Carrington for Strachey, ca. 1929-31, is printed in black bearing the legend "Lytton Strachey" set on a rococo cartouche with folded edges, against a trellised background, approx. 1 x 3/4 in. Carrington wrote of this bookplate in her diary, 20 March 1931, "As I stuck the book plates in with Lytton I suddenly thought of Sothebys and the book plates in some books I had looked at, when Lytton was bidding for a book and I thought: These books will one day be looked at by those gloomy faced booksellers and buyers. And… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1980. Fine./Fine.. Pale blue gilt boards. First edition. Fine, in a fine dust jacket printed in red and black.  Twenty-first novel by the prolific Oxford don who nonchalantly starts this novel that is sometimes referred to as a romance for highbrows, with, "'Wittgenstein -- ' 'Yes?' said the Count." Murdoch is complicated and seem to be working out her own demons through her throngs of characters, but it is a long and deep exploration of appearances and reality that will deposit you at its conclusion either thoroughly confused or prepared to teach metaphysics at Oxbridge.

London: Hogarth Press, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Duncan Grant:. Gilt purple cloth boards. Frontispiece and five additional illustrations by Duncan Grant. A faint trace of foxing to endsheets, otherwise a near fine, bright copy, without printed dust jacket, as issued. From the famed collection of Bloomsbury/Hogarth Press collector William Beekman. Essential to a complete Virginia Woolf/Hogarth collection.   First separate edition in book form (4000 printed). "Foreword: Mr. Wallace Hildick, when examining the MS of Virginia Woolf's MRS DALLOWAY, now in the British Museum, discovered the short children's story which is here published under the title NURSE LUGTON'S GOLDEN THIMBLE. The story appears suddenly in the middle of the text of the novel, but has nothing to do with it. It was in fact written for Virginia Woolf's niece Ann Stephen when she, as a child, was on a visit to her aunt in the country. The story was first published, with an explanatory note by Mr. Hildick, in THE TIMES… Read More