THE ODES OF KEATS: And Their Earliest Known Manuscripts
First edition of Gittings's commentary on the five odes of Keats published in 1820, with facsimile reproductions and transcriptions of the earliest known manuscripts.
First edition of Gittings's commentary on the five odes of Keats published in 1820, with facsimile reproductions and transcriptions of the earliest known manuscripts.
Beautiful signed limited first edition of Golding's complete sea trilogy, set on board a British ship transporting migrants to Australia; the first volume, RITES OF PASSAGE, won the Booker Prize for 1980.
Signed limited first edition of this annotated collection of epigraphs (opening quotes) from Greene's novels.
First edition, first issue of this enormously influential Lost World work, formative in its genre.
Signed first edition of Hamilton's third historical adventure featuring ex-crusader Richard Straccan.
Signed and kissed first printing of this hilarious cozy mystery, following a TV newswoman forced to navigate a motley crew of New York City characters after a man she meets briefly winds up dead.
Signed first edition of this so-called "tart noir," a distinctly Y2K comic thriller and the sixth of Henderson's seven Sam Jones novels.
First edition of this tender story of the life of an old schoolmaster, adapted into an Oscar-winning film in 1939 and again in 1969.
Beautiful Edwardian-era set of the Ancient Greek epic, bound in rich full goatskin by Roger de Coverly and Sons.
First edition of this scarce novel by the English-born West Indies writer, about a woman in Jamaica with a Black mother and a white father.
Signed first UK edition of this Silver Dagger-winning and Booker Prize-nominated Adam Dalgliesh mystery, in which the inspector/poet must piece together the twin murders of a local vagrant and an ex-Minister of State.
Fourth edition of this collection of all the issues of THE ADVENTURER, a bi-weekly paper featuring some of Bluestockings member Hester Chapone's earliest writing.
New edition of this episode that would later be incorporated into FINNEGANS WAKE, containing the iconic river conversation.
First UK edition of this pair of pieces that partly form the enormous puzzle that is FINNEGANS WAKE, in lovely condition.
Ninth printing of James Joyce's masterpiece, one of the great works of literature in English.
First printing of this early James Joyce poem about his infatuation with a student, composed around 1914 but long unpublished.
Beautiful first printing of this important collection of correspondence from one of the greatest authors of the 20th century.
First edition thus of this annotated version of James Joyce's iconic collection of short stories dealing with identity and epiphany during a pivotal time in Ireland.
First printing of this sizable reproduction of the original notebooks in which James Joyce wrote his masterwork.
First edited of this early draft of PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, taken from Joyce's original manuscript now held by Harvard.
First printing of this collection of portraits of James Joyce, from the iconic to more obscure vernacular photos.
First edition of this epic novel of the colonial Great Game, one of Kipling's most beloved works.
Scarce first printing of these Knoxian verses, variously Etonian, Oxonian, and Sherlockian.
First edition, first issue of the notorious bungled literary hoax, purporting to have discovered portions of PARADISE LOST plagiarized from earlier works by Hugo Grotius et al., which Lauder had found, but only after putting them there himself.
First printing of Le Carré's masterpiece of moral ambiguity in Cold War espionage.