[Colorado Springs, CO]: The Press at Colorado College, nd [1988]. First edition, 1/100 copies (this #52). Small 4to (26 cm). (43)pp., printed on one continuous sheet, folded accordion-style; addendum containing copyright information laid in. Two typed letters, signed by Sally Hegarty, the book’s designer, to its editor Ernest Kroll, concerning..... More

Garden City, NY: Henry and Longwell, 1926. First edition, 1/107 copies signed by the author and the publishers. 12mo. (6), 13 pp. An essay on a spirit in poetry. Issued as "Briefcase Breviaries – 1." Very good. Original light brown boards, printed paper label on upper board, matching dust jacket..... More

Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1766. First edition in French of Ridley's Tales of the Genii (first published London, 1764). Small 8vo. 3 volumes: xlviii, 283; (4), 335; (4), 331, (5, table) pp. Illustrated with 13 engraved plates; with half-title for each volume. With the engraved bookplate of "John Somers, Lord..... More

Paris: Chez Le Normant, pere, libraire, 1828. Seizième (sixteenth) edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: xxiv, 735; (4), 710, (2) pp. Very good. Later French flame calf (a little rubbed), boards bordered with an ornamental gilt roll, spines gilt with ornaments, leather spine labels, marbled endpapers and edges. (7212). More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., (c1952). First American edition of the author's first book. 8vo. 252 pp. "A novel of love in a Welsh valley," first published as "Three Bear Witness" the same year in London. Very good. Gray cloth, illustrated dust jacket (rubbed, somewhat darkened, several short tears..... More

Dublin, Ireland: The Cuala Press, 1941. First edition. 1 of 250 copies. 8vo. 41pp. Original cloth-backed blue boards (somewhat faded), paper spine label (edges chipped without loss). Very good. More

New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. Limited edition SIGNED by O'Flaherty. 8vo; 50 pp. Review copy, with some pencilled emendations (by the reviewer or publisher's staff) to one of the illustrations. Very good in brown cloth. More

London: Secker and Warburg, 1984. First trade edition. Small folio. xx, 381, [3] pp. Full maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, white printed dustjacket. Housed in publisher's plain card slipcase. Very good in dust jacket and slipcase. The manuscript (the only existing Orwell manuscript) originated with Orwell's..... More

(London and Aylesbury: Printed in Great Britain by Hazell, Watson & Viney), 1925. First edition in English. 8vo. 143 pp. Frontispiece from a photograph. Palamas (1859-1943) was a Greek poet and a co-founder of the New Athenian School, a central figure in the Greek literary scene of the late 19th..... More

Verona, (Italy): Limited Editions Club (Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega), 1965. First edition with the Salvadori illustrations, 1/1500 copies (this #192) signed by the illustrator and the printer Giovanni Mardersteig. 4to. xiii, (1) 369, (1) pp. Black-and-white illustrations from line drawings. With the LEC Monthly Letter tipped to a rear..... More

The first of the moral essays to be published, Of Moral Taste (1731) is not included here. Each folio, bound in later marbled wrappers, the three pamphlets housed together in a folding blue cloth portfolio, gilt-stamped “Pope / Moral Essays” on the upper board All very good. a. OF THE..... More

Paris: Editions des Quatre Chemins, 1925. Two volumes, housed in a plain drab paper on cardboard slipcase. Facsimiles of two works by Rabelais, originally printed in Lyon in 1552, bound in vellum, gilt illustration on front cover [7 in. (40) pp.], limited edition, copy #215 of 300; ink note tipped..... More

New York: Philip D. Duschnes, 1945-1950. First edition. 8vo. 12 parts in nine volumes: 8vo. 420 pp. [paged continuously through the parts]. The nine volumes housed together in a homemade slipcase of marbled cardboard. Original printed wrappers (several sunned, some soiling), stapled. Very good. (#6413). More