Search Results: Titles starting with U from Fine Editions Ltd

London: Elkin Mathews, 1920. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine+. First Trade Edition (one of 1,000 copies), collecting previously published early poems ("All that he now wishes to keep in circulation") and some translations. Crown 8vo (190 x 138mm): 128pp. Publisher's fawn quarter-bound canvas over grey paper-covered boards, upper cover and spine stamped in navy blue, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Wanting the rarely encountered duck-egg blue dust jacket. Ex-libris of Leolyn Louise Everett and contemporary London bookseller's ticket to front paste-down. Spine darkened just a degree or two, end papers toned, first and final leaves very lightly spotted, but a collectible copy with excellent provenance. Gallup A20. A signed limited issue was published the same year. Pound's poetic farewell to London, published before leaving for Paris and turning to writing more or less nothing but cantos for the rest of his poetic career. With translations from Guido Cavalcanti and Arnaut Daniel and poems by T.… Read More

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. Fourth Printing (first published 1939) of the fifth Blandings Castle novel and the first to star Uncle Fred. . Small 8vo: 311,[1]pp. Publisher's bright orange cloth stamped in black; pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Fenwick. Fine (probably unread), bright, tight and square, with slightly dust-soiled top edge; better than Near Fine jacket with slight edge wear and one very short closed tear. Jasen 60a (for first impression). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Boston / Cleveland, Ohio: Published by John P. Jewett & Co. / Jewett, Proctor & Worthington [from 1852], 1853. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine. A striking set of this early printing ("Two Hundred and Sixty-Third Thousand") in original bindings, published one year after the first edition, offered with a First Edition of Stowe's rebuttal to the Southerners and other apologists who had attacked her portrait of enslavement. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Complete in two crown octavo volumes: 4,x,13-312; 322,[2],12pp, with title-page vignettes (repeating cover motif) and six full-page steel-engraved plates (three in each volume). Publisher's brown T cloth (BAL binding B, no known priority), upper cover decorated in blind with center vignette in gilt, spine lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, lower cover repeating upper-cover design in blind, cream end papers. Inscribed in an elegant hand on both front fly leaves: "Mrs. Margaret Burnet / Elizabeth, N. J." An excellent set, light wear to spine tips and… Read More

Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers [through 1998], 1988. First Edition. Fine/Fine. A trio of publications (Advance Reading Copy, Advance Excerpt, and First Printing), all unread and virtually pristine, documenting four years of litigation in state and federal courts that ended in a stop-publish order barring a volume of uncollected short stories by John Cheever. Demy 8vo (228 x 151; 228 x 151; 227 x 140mm): xx,534; iv,5-23,[1]; xii,363,[1]pp. The uncorrected proof was suppressed prior to publication due to a legal dispute with Cheever's estate. Original sky-blue blue wrappers printed in black. The excerpt was permitted publication in lieu of the first trade edition. Stiff blue card printed in orange on upper cover. Miller's account, Uncollecting Cheever, appeared in 1998. This collection of 68 stories (legally barred from publication or even circulated to reviewers in the form of this scarce advance ready copy) begins with Cheever`s first published story, ''Expelled,'' from a 1930 issue of the New… Read More

London: Chapman & Hall, 193, Piccadilly [from 1860], 1866. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. Fine. New Edition of this collection of literary sketches and reminiscences. Crown 8vo (190 x 121mm): viii,204pp, with frontispiece by G. J. Pinwell. Original green cloth, covers elaborately stamped in blind with publisher's medallion: "The Works of Charles Dickens. Cheap Editions;" spine richly gilt, pale yellow end papers. Terrific bookseller's ticket to corner of rear paste-down. Perhaps a later issue, with the final sketch correctly numbered xxviii (according to Eckel, the final sketch was at first incorrectly numbered xviii). Virtually pristine, soundly bound and clean throughout, gilt bright. Smith II, 11 (see especially note 9). Eckel, pp. 132-34. Jarndyce 560. Flake & Draper 2829a.5. The first seventeen sketches collected here appeared originally in 1860, in All the Year Round and were first published in book form the following year; this is the first appearance of the final eleven sketches.… Read More

Allahabad / London: Published by Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ld., St. Dunstan's House Fetter Lane [from 1888], 1890. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine+. First English Edition (third overall) of this collection of short stories. Indian Railway Library Number 4. Demy 8vo (214 x 135mm): 96pp, with Indian title page. Publisher's grey-green illustrated paper wrappers (design re-engraved from the first Indian edition, with carriage umbrella tipped to left and several other modifications) printed in black, "Price One Shilling" top of front cover, back cover with vignette of lady's face partially covered by fan. Pages occasionally spotted, but a collectible copy of this fragile production, tightly bound in original wrappers and generally clean throughout. Richards A37. Stewart 48. Martindell 31 (misdated 1889). Livingston 39. Grolier 91. First published in 1888, in Allahabad, collecting six stories, which originally appeared earlier that year in The Week's News. This… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Near Fine+. First Impression. 8vo: 319,(1)pp. Publisher's pale olive cloth, spine stamped in gilt, top edge stained slate-blue; illustrated dust jacket by Christopher Comford, priced 21s. About Fine (spine tips lightly faded, one corner bumped), Near Fine or better jacket (back panel toned). Fletcher & Bove A0629. "The isolated west coast of Ireland, with its ancient dolmens and megaliths, great cliffs of black sandstone, dark coastline, killing sea, dangerous bogs, caves, and underground rivers, provides the compelling setting of The Unicorn. Although Murdoch eschews the term Gothic novel as being too narrow, five of her novels strongly emphasize Gothic motifs, and The Unicorn is among those that have received critical acclaim." (Literary Encyclopedia) Note: With few exceptions (always noted), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. Fletcher & Bove.

Victor, Colo: Copyrighted . . . by Mrs. Emma F. Langdon, 1904. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine. True First Printing (Great Western Publishing Co. editions are reprints) with "unanimous endorsement of the Colorado State Federation of Labor" on p. [5]. Demy 8vo (198 x 150mm): [12],248pp, with tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece of Langdon, folding plate of United States Reduction and Refining Plant at Colorado City, and 48 further full- and partial-page plates (mostly views and portraits from photographs, including many union officers). Publisher's forest green pictorial cloth, upper cover decorated and lettered in gilt. A superb survival, binding fresh with bright gilt, pages and plates virtually pristine. Contemporary account of the Colorado Labor Wars, one of the bloodiest labor strikes that led to the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905. Dedicated to the Western Federation of Miners, who "have made a lawful, law-abiding and manly fight against the lawless, corrupt and… Read More

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. First Impression. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Impression of this forerunner of the Jack Aubrey series. 8vo: 256pp. Fine publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in black; about Fine (lightly rubbed with no loss) first-state dust jacket, priced 15s, without a trace of fading to spine panel and very uncommon thus. Cunningham A7a. One of two historical novels O'Brian wrote for juveniles. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A spectacular copy of the third installment in the classic Adam Dalgliesh mystery series, from the "reigning mistress of murder" (Time). First Printing, with publisher's code A - 8.67 [MC] on copyright page. 8vo: Publisher's coarsely woven French blue cloth, spine and upper cover lettered and decorated in white; first-issue dust jacket (with only mention of James's first two novels on back panel), priced $3.95. Remarkably Fine, square, tight and unread, in a Very Fine Jacket. Barzun & Taylor, Catalogue of Crime 1920. "The country-house setting and the characterization of the unfortunate criminal are excellently handled, and the powerful ending under rushing waters is both credible and mysterious, but the method of murder as well as its cause is farfetched." (Catalogue of Crime) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in… Read More

Hafinae & Lipsiae [Copenhagen and Leipzig]: Printed By Pelt, Friedrich Christian, 1766. Early Reprint. Full Leather. Near Fine+. Fourth Edition, in Latin, of one of the most popular eighteenth-century utopian novels (second only to Gulliver's Travels), eventually reaching some 60 editions in 13 different languages. Small 8vo: [10],360pp, with portrait frontispiece, engraved title-page, folding map and six full-page plates engraved by Brühl (the 1741 first edition, published in Copenhagen, contained only 3 three plates in addition to the frontispiece; the first English edition, none). Contemporary dark brown mottled sheep, elaborately gilded spine sewn on five bands, green and tan lettering pieces gilt, red paste-paper end papers, marbled edges. Spine rubbed with some loss of gilt, else an extremely pleasing and collectible copy of this satirical romance in the style of Gulliver's Travels (although Bleiler notes that "Holberg's satire is wider in scope, more penetrating in analysis, and less local… Read More