LITERATURE from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 1891. Warwick Edition limited to 1000 copies: number 372. Bulwer, a popular novelist in the Victorian period, today mostly remembered for coining the phrases "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword" and "the great unwashed". 31 volumes, lacking the last volume "Zanoni". Profusely illustrated by plates with titled tissue… Read more about this item

Boston & New York: Little Brown & Co & Croscup and Company, 1894. Limited edition to 1250 copies. Hardcover. Very good overall. Illustrations by Phiz, Cruikshank and others. 39 of 40 volumes, lacking Vol. 1 of Davenport Dunn. Plates printed on thick paper with two tissue guards with illustrations in the text. Top edge gilt, others deckled. Bound… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1971. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. W.H. Auden [1907 - 1973] was a British-American poet and author. "...A Certain World, wherein one of the greatest living poets selects and comments on the reading that has meant most to him, is the nearest thing to an Auden autobiography as we are ever likely… Read more about this item

London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1890. Hardcover. Fine. A lovely 5 volume set, each volume by a different set of authors. The Irish volume has a frontis of Samuel Lover, 11 stories by various authors including Will Carlton, Charles Lever, Will Crofton Croker, Mr. and Mrs. S.C. Hall, J.B. O'Meara. German volume with frontis of Goethe,… Read more about this item

New York: MacMillan Company, 1947. Stated first issue. Hardcover. Good + overall. [A] collection of tales...told by a young naval officer whose duties... take him up and down the islands." Michener's first novel, based on his experiences in the US Navy in the Pacific theater during W.W.II. After winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1948, it was… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. Stated first edition. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. The second collection of short stories by Eudora Welty [1909 - 2001]. Small 8vo, 214pp, blue cloth with white title on spine, very clean internally. Original dj in black, green, tan. Dj watermarked, not affecting the binding.

New York: Farar, Straus, & Giroux, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. Didion's second novel, which was also made into a screenplay in 1972. 8vo, 214pp, black and orange cloth covers. Front cover has tide mark on upper right. Original dj designed by Janet Halverson, unfaded, slt rubbed at top. Internally clean, binding tight.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. Porter [1890 - 1980] received the first annual gold medal for literature in 1940 from the Society of Libraries of New York University for this collection of novels. 8vo, 264pp, gray/green cloth covers, black titles on spine and front. Spine tips sunned. Original dj price-clipped… Read more about this item

London: Black and Armstrong, 1837. Authorized Foreign Edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. A handsome full morocco gilt decorated binding. 8vo, 827pp, frontis portrait, all edges gilt. Titled "Byron" on spine, gilt inner and outer dentelles. Spine tips slt. rubbed, internally clean and bright. Title page a trifle toned.

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1894. International Limited Edition (limited to 1000 copies). Hardcover. Very good condition. The writings of Victor Hugo in 30 volumes. Handsomely bound in three quarter brown gilt morocco and marbled boards, spines with three raised bands and handsome gilt decoration. Frontispiece with tissue guard in each volume, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Beautiful… Read more about this item

Peekskill, NY: Samuel Huestis, 1835. Hardcover. Good + overall. An early Peekskill imprint of this story which originated in the 8th and 9th centuries A.D. 32mo, 118pp, blue stiff paper cover, stitch bound, spine lacking, with b&w woodcut illustrations. Light foxing throughout, spine tender but holding. OCLC 701787336 shows 1 copy at Yale.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. Stated first edition. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. The author's first book. "There are voyeurs and eccentrics, a silent-screen star and a little rag picking lady from the Bronx whose estate will amount to a hundred thousand dollars..." 8vo, black cloth and cream boards, title on spine in orange and purple,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1895. First printing. Half tan leather. Very good condition. A fine binding in eight volumes including The Man in the Iron Mask; Martin Guerre, The Borges, The Marquis de Ganges, Mary Stuart, The Cenci, Murat, Ali-Pacha, Massacres in the South and more. 8 volumes, small 4to, bound in half tan calf leather and marbled… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1887. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. A set of novels written by Charles Brockden Brown. Brown [1771 - 1810] was an author of multiple genres of writing primarily with Gothic themes. Titles include Arthur Mervyn, Jane Talbot, Wieland or The Transformation, Ormond or The Secret Witness/Clara Howard or The Enthusiasm of Love. 6 volumes,… Read more about this item

London: Hogarth Press, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. This is the last book published in Virginia Woolf's lifetime. First edition, first printing in its original uncommon dj. Dj has 12s. 6d. net price on dj spine and on front flap. Green cloth covers, gilt tile on spine, 307pp, spine tips sunned, rear hinge cracked. Dj in… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Stated first US edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. Sylvia Plath [1932 - 1963] originally published The Bell Jar in London in 1963 under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas"; this edition published in New York, 8 years later and under her own name. Collectors Book plate on inside cover. 8vo, (viii), 296pp, maroon cloth,… Read more about this item

New York: Scribners, 1950. First edition, second issue. Hardcover. Very good condition. The story of an American colonel who pays a visit just after World War II to the site in Italy where he was nearly killed during the First World War. 8vo, 308pp. Black gilt cloth. Scribner's seal and letter "A" on the verso of the title… Read more about this item

New York: Grove Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. With an introduction by M.S. Handler, an Epilogue by Alex Haley, and a Eulogy by Ossie Davis. 8vo, 455pp, bound in black cloth, title in gold on spine, 16pp of photographs. Original dj in cream with orange and black titles, ruffled at spine tips, and tape on… Read more about this item

New York: Nottingham Society, 1900. Limited edition. Half Morocco. Otherwise very good condition. Regarded as one of the the best written history books, this set in publisher's dark burgundy half morocco, from an edition limited to 1000 copies. 6 volumes. 8vo, each volume runs approx. 700pp and includes 48 plates with notes by Dean Milman, M.… Read more about this item

New York: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1903. Hardcover. Very good condition. A fine binding of Emerson's essays on Self-Reliance, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Character, Nature etc. The Concord edition, in three-quarter "green, best French levant, crushed" with raised bands and gilt lettering. Two volumes, small 8vo, v1 445pp, v2 358 pp. Bookplate from the original owner, Murray Witherbee Dodge. Spine… Read more about this item