Literature & Classics from Archives Fine Books

Lewisburg; London: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses, 1978. Cloth. Very good/very good. Hardcover : 8 volumes : Vol 1, A-B, 1978, 208pp; Vol 2, C-Ec, 1978, [206]pp.; Vol 3, Ed-Hi, 1978, [199]pp.; Vol 4, Ho-La, 1978, [218]pp.; Vol 5, Le-N, 1979, [206]pp.; Vol 6, O-Po, 1979, 216pp.; Vol 7, Pr-Sl, 1979, [208]pp.; Vol 8, Sm-Z, 1980, 205pp.… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1949. First Edition. Good. Hardcover : pp. [4] 255 [256] : magenta cloth covered boards : tail of block untrimmed. Spine quite sunned; head of spine pushed and a little nicked; red ink ''C'' to front paste-down; block edges tanned, marked and foxed; foxing to endpapers and occasionally throughout; occasional smudge. Roald Dahl's first adult… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1920. Second Edition, fifth printing. Very good. Very good. Octavo, 549pp, 24 coloured plates tipped onto grey card mounts with titled guards, 12 illustrations with tint, and 66 in-text line drawings, illustrated cloth covers. Head and tail od spine tender; lower corners lightly bumped; foxing to half title, last leaf and edges of… Read more about this item

Privately Printed, 1930. Pirate copy. Hardcover : pp. [2, blank] [vi] VIII (Introduction) 365, [368, last three pages blank] : plain leather covers. Leather covers are rubbed at the edges, joints and corners; minor spotting to the e.p.s; previous owner signature in pencil to f.f.e.p. Internally consistent with Paris Popular edition of 1929 [MacDonald (42)] except for the… Read more about this item

London: Secker and Warburg, 1990. First Edition. Near fine/good. Hardcover : pp. [4] 256 : illustrated : rich green cloth covered boards : gilt to spine : dust jacket design and illustration by Beverley Newman. Top and fore-edge of text block foxed; dust jacket has lines of delamination running from head to tail. Contributions include, Samuel Beckett,… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. Revised Edition. Very good/very good. Hardcover : pp. [6] 7- [262] : erratum slip tipped in : top edge dye : green boards with gilt decoration of a streetlamp to top board and gilt lettering to spine : green dust jacket illustrated in blue and lettered in white and light green. Jacket has… Read more about this item

London: Viking Press, 1988. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Very good/very good. Hardcover : pp. [x] [2] 546 [550] : blue cloth covered boards : gilt lettering to spine : dust jacket image shows detail from Rustam Killing the White Demon Spotting to text block edges, mostly at top; slight curl to jacket edge.

London, Reading and Fakenham: Panther Books in association with Secker and Warburg, 1969. First Edition. Twenty-seven paper sections, temporarily held together by a removable mauve wrapper : housed in an illustrated hinged box lettered in black. Unopened, lightly foxed; box a trifle marked. According to the publisher (verso of the top of box) the first and last sections… Read more about this item

Boston; Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1974. First English Language Edition. Very good/very good. Hardcover : pp. [viii] [3] 292 [296] : rich green endpapers : pale green cloth covered boards : gilt to spine : green illustrated jacket designed by Gerry Hoover. Block edges foxed; head of spine toned and gently pushed; jacket spine sunned, verso… Read more about this item

Sydney: Ure Smith, 1962. First Edition. Very good/good. Jennifer Murray. Hardcover : pp. [4] 125 [128] : illustrated by Jennifer Murray : green and blue motif design cloth covered boards, repeated on jacket with additional illustration : pictorial endpapers. Head and tail of spine gently pushed; toned block edges; chipping to jacket edge.

Port Melbourne: Mandarin, 1996. Second Edition. Very good. Softcover : pp. [viii] [3] 327 [328] : cover illustration by Geoff Cook. Toned and foxed block edges; occasional fox spot but mostly clean throughout; edges of cover a little rubbed.

London: Peter Owen, 1994. Near fine/fine. Hardcover : pp. [4] 5-184 : e.p.s illustrated with a rat : dark green boards lettered in silver : Green dustwrapper illustrated in black & white. Top edge lightly toned. The sequel to Faldbakken's widely acclaimed "Twilight Country

New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2005. First Edition. Fine/fine. Hardcover : pp. [vii] viii [1] 246 [248] : black boards : argent lettering to spine : jacket design by Emily Mahon. "Professor Green's Late Postmodernism should be welcomed by those who still regard literary fiction as one of the great American art forms. It makes a compelling argument for… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Institute of Cultural Inquiry, 2007. Trade Edition. Fine. Softcover : pp. [9] 631 [632] : illustrated throughout : includes essays by Richard Crownshaw, Deborah Cullen, Adrian Daub and many more : this volume also includes the first English translation of a landmark interview with Sebald in which he discusses his use of images : illustrated French… Read more about this item

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 2011. Near fine. Hardcover : pp. [viii] [3] 181 [184] : illustrated : mostly blue glossy boards. Board corners pushed. "When a reader picks up a book, the essence of the text has been translated into the visual space of the cover. Using Umberto Eco's bestseller The Name of the Rose… Read more about this item

London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Edition. Good/fair. Hardcover : pp. [viii] [2] 3-386 [388] : brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine : thick black paper dust jacket lettered in grey. Jacket brittle and in two pieces (now protected in plastic); corners bumped; all edges foxed and foxing to the first and last leaves. Van Vechten's… Read more about this item

London: Quartet Books, 1988. First Edition. Near fine/very good. Hardcover : pp. [vi] [2] 148 [2 blank] translated from the German by Ewald Osers : blue cloth boards : gilt to spine : pale grey illustrated jacket. Block edges toned; head of spine pushed; jacket faintly scratched and edges creased.

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874. Hardcover. Near Fine. Octavo : [512]pp. : original half-bound leather : marbled boards : elaborate gilt decorations and lettering to spine : frontispiece : marbled endpapers and page edges. Small signed ownership label on front endpaper bearing the signature of J. S. Rumsey, Chicago; light edge-wear. Although Lord Lytton (1803-1873)… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1961. Very good. Softcover : pp. [4] 188 [192] : translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser : illustrated cover. Toned block edge; bookplate pasted to half-title page; sinned spine; booksellers stamp to verso of front cover; cover a little grubby. Robert Musil was an Austrian philosophical writer.

Melbourne: Macmillan, 2004. First Edition. Near fine/near fine. Hardcover : pp. [6] 111 [112] : richly illustrated : orange cloth boards with blind stamped title : gilt to spine : illustrated glossy silver grey dust jacket : Australian Society of Miniature Art (QLD) stapled booklet loosely inserted. Two pin size fox spots to top edge of block;… Read more about this item