Literature from Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA)

London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2013. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. From the Publisher: "Joanna Trollope's much-anticipated contemporary reworking of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility launches The Austen Project and is already one of the most talked about books of the year. Two sisters could hardly be more different. Elinor Dashwood, an architecture student, values discretion above all.… Read more about this item

London: Constable, 1936. First UK. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Condition. Dawn Powell (1896 - 1965) was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer. Known for her acid-tongued prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh satiric tone." Nonetheless, Stella Adler and author Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays.… Read more about this item

London: Constable, 1943. First UK. Hardcover. Very Good. Dawn Powell (1896 - 1965) was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer.  Known for her acid-tongued prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh satiric tone."  Nonetheless, Stella Adler and author Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays. Her work… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. Standard collected edition. Hardcover. Good to Near Fine. Thomas Carlyle (1795 -1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher from the Scottish Lowlands. A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature, and philosophy. Virtually all of his important work was published between the 1820's and… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1940. First. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Strangers and Brothers is the first volume of what became C.P. Snows 11 novel series of the same name.  Published in the early days of WWII, it is by far the scarcest volume in the series, and dust jackets are extremely scarce.  Paper was in short supply during… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1949. First. Hardcover. Near fine/Good minus. The third novel in C. P. Snow's monumental Strangers and Brothers series, but first in the series' narrative chronology.  Near fine in orange cloth with gilt titles on the spine.  The gilt has some fading and slight bumping at the corners, but otherwise no marks or damage.  The… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1947. First. Hardcover. Very Good/Good-. The second novel published in C. P. Snow's monumental Strangers and Brothers 11 novel series.  Published just after WWII, dust jackets are uncommon, since the jacket paper quality was not particularly good. This copy is very good in blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine.  Slight… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. !866 "remainder edition" bound from leftover pages from the 1862 1st edition. Hardcover. Fair. Orley Farm was first published by Chapman and Hall in 1862, but in 1866 a "remainder edition" was published, using leftover printer's sheets from the original print run, but adding new title pages.  Most copies of the 1866 edition… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1859. First European copyright edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Barchester Towers is generally considered Anthony Trollope's most important novel, and the work that established him as one of Britain's most important authors of the Victorian era.  Trollope was a champion of copyright protection, which was just beginning to be legally implemented, country by country.  In order to… Read more about this item

New York: Putnam, Harcourt. All Firsts. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez (born 1951) is a Spanish novelist and journalist.  He is well known outside Spain for his "Alatriste" series of novels, which have been translated into multiple languages. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.  His novels are usually centered on one strongly defined… Read more about this item

Chicago: ABAA, 1995. First. Softcover. Fine. An interesting little booklet of Larry McMurtry's comments on his long life, mixing his successful writing career with his involvement in the the bookselling world.  It records the address he gave at the Annual Meeting of the ABAA in Chicago in 1995.   Issued in a limited edition of 750. This copy… Read more about this item

Madrid: En la Oficina de la Viuda de Manuel Fernandez, 1772. 1772. Good +. La Galatea was Cervantes' first book, published in 1585. Under the guise of pastoral characters, it is an examination of love and contains many allusions to contemporary literary figures. It enjoyed modest success, but a promised sequel was never published. This 1772 edition is… Read more about this item

London: National Book Council, 1943. First. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. An Annotated Guide to 1300 Classics. An interesting little volume listing 1300 works in English that were considered to be "Classics" at the time (1943), as an aid to anyone wanting to know what was recommended reading for aspiring students of grear literature. This copy is near… Read more about this item

Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1927. First. Softcover. Very Good. University Extension Meeting July-August 1927. This work is based on "A catalogue of the Shakespeare exhibition held in the Bodleian library to commemorate the death of Shakespeare, April 23, 1616", which was published in 1916, and which had been out of print.  It was the focus of an extension meeting… Read more about this item

London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1891. First thus, Limited to 100 sets. Hardcover. Very Good to Near Fine. This is a full 10 volume set of the complete novels of the famous British author, Thomas Love Peacock, in the definitive collected, large-paper edition, limited and numbered (this set is No. 58 of 100). Thomas Love Peacock (1785… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press. Oxford World's Classics. Softcover. Near Fine to Fine. Here are four of Anthony Trollope's classic novels of Victorian England.  Two, Framley Parsonage and The Last Chronicle of Barset, are from his much-loved Barsetshire series, one, The Duke's Children (the recently discovered original complete text version), from his Palliser series, and what many consider his… Read more about this item

Various. Hardcover. Good to Fine. This is a small archive of books about the esteemed Victorian author, Anthony Trollope.  It is a treasure trove for the Trollope aficionado.   The group includes a variety of works by various respected academic authors. 1. Anthony Trollope, Aspects of His Life and Art, by Bradford A. Booth, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1958,… Read more about this item

London: Tinder :Press, 2017. First UK ("True" 1st). Hardcover. Fine/Fine. From the publisher: "An extraordinary memoir - told entirely in near-death experiences - from one of Britain's best-selling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking. We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of… Read more about this item

Savage, MD: Barnes and Nobel Books, 1991. First. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. From the publisher: "These essays comprise the first extensive reappraisal of Charles Lever for over 50 years. Once regarded as the equal of Dickens, Trollope and Thackeray, Lever's public turned their backs on him when he changed style and genre after making his name with comic… Read more about this item

Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923. First. Hardcover. Near fine/Good. Dr. Johnson: A Play" is a dramatic portrayal of the life and times of Samuel Johnson, the famous 18th-century English writer, lexicographer, and literary critic. The play follows Johnson's journey from his humble beginnings in Lichfield, through his struggles with poverty, depression, and illness, to his eventual rise… Read more about this item