A very good copy, jacket price-clipped and a little chipped at spine ends, otherwise very good.
Jacket artwork by Barnett Freedman.
£125
London, Faber & Faber, 1936.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
The first UK edition of US author Saroyan’s second book, a short story collection. In excellent Barnett Freedman illustrated dust-jacket.
In stock
A very good copy, jacket price-clipped and a little chipped at spine ends, otherwise very good.
Jacket artwork by Barnett Freedman.
London, Faber & Faber, 1972.
First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author, with author's autograph additions in the text. 8vo. Original wrappers.
Inscribed on the half-title, 'To Rosemary from Ted'. Presumably Rosemary Goad, the first woman to become a director of Faber & Faber, who worked closely with Hughes.
Detective Fiction
London, Faber & Faber, 1956.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards lettered in yellow. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A Professor Daly title by prolific Irish author Eilís Dillon.
Weird & Supernatural
or They Walk Again. A Collection of the Best Ghost Stories
London, Faber & Faber, 1934.
First cheap edition, second impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Introduction by Walter De La Mare.
and other poems London, Faber & Faber, 1941.First Faber edition, first impression. 8vo. Original red boards. Blue dust-jacket, priced 2/6.This Faber & Faber anthology collects twenty-eight poems from the last years of Lawrence's life, reflecting the author's preoccupation with mortality: written when he was dying of tuberculosis, it urges readers to prepare a symbolic ship to carry their souls and portrays death as an unexpected voyage.
Modern Literature
London, Faber & Faber, 1939.First trade edition, first impression. Royal 8vo. Original red cloth ruled and lettered in silver to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 25s.A near fine first edition of Joyce's key work of literary modernism, a hallucinatory, dream-like narrative centred on the Earwicker family that weaves myth, history and language into a cyclical structure.