Literary
Oh What A Paradise it Seems
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [9], 3-99, [7] pp. Grey cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $10.00 on front flap of dust jacket. More
The Wapshot Scandal
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers (1964), 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-309, [3] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering blocked in black on the spine. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. A tiny wrinkle on the rear board, else Very near Fine in a Near Fine..... More
The World of Apples
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 3-174, [2] pp. Bound in black cloth with gold decoration on the front board and gold lettering on the spine, light orange topstain. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 016b. A very..... More
Shadows and Light
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc. [1968], 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [6], 7-122, [6] pp. Quarter olive-green cloth over beige cloth boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $2.95 on front flap of dust jacket. With a few full-page, colour illustrations by..... More
Southern Cross the Dog
[New York]: ecco [2013], 2013. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 1-324, [4] pp. Quarter white cloth over white paper boards with orange lettering on the spine. Price of $25.99 on the front flap of the dust jacket. The author's first novel, an epic tale of a man's journey through the..... More
The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-345, [1] pp. Quarter white paper over light green paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $24.00 on front flap of jacket. Inscribed and dated by the author on the title page. More
Ready Player One
New York: Crown Publishers [2011], 2011. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 2-374, [2] pp. Black paper boards with white lettering on the spine. Price of $24.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A tour de force of 80's nostalgia, and the basis for the Steven Spielberg film. Cline's..... More
Crazy Heart
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1987], 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-248, [2] pp. White cloth with grey lettering on the spine and a grey guitar on the front board. Price of $15.95 on front flap of dust jacket. An attractive copy of the author's first novel, basis..... More
Age of Iron
New York: Random House [1990], 1990. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 4-198, [2] pp. Quarter black cloth over green patterned-paper boards, silver lettering on the spine. A remainder dot on the bottom textblock. More
Disgrace
New York: Viking [1999], 1999. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 1-220 pp. White paper-covered boards quarter bound in white paper with blue metallic lettering on the spine. Price of $23.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Winner of the Booker Prize. A sharp copy of Coetzee's eighth..... More
From the Heart of the Country
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1977], 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 138, [2] pp. Quarter brown cloth over orange paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. A nice copy..... More
Red Sky in the Morning
New York: The Macmillan Company (1935), 1935. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 288 pp. Teal cloth with gold lettering and a red decoration on the front board and spine; red topstain. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Bound in green boards with a red topstain..... More
The Poetical Works of S.T. Coleridge
New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1889. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], iv-xiv, [1], 2-674, xxi-xvi, 679-680 pp. Bound in green cloth with a leather band lettered in gold on the spine; top edge gilt. With memoir, notes, etc. Includes a contemporary typewritten copy of a poem by Michael Field, published..... More
Man and Wife
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1870. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 239, [1], 3 and [1] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Original brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several in-text drawings. Andrew Gasson, "Man and Wife" (accessed 7/27/2020). Parrish 80. The first American trade edition..... More
Doctor Syntax's Three Tours; In Search of the Picturesque, of Consolation, and of a Wife
London: Chatto & Windus, 1895. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], iv-xlviii, [3], 4-354, [1]-32 pp. Green publisher's cloth ruled in blind with a gold decoration on the front board and spine, gold lettering on the spine. Green coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and with 77 color..... More
The Way of the World and Love for Love; Two Comedies
London: John Lane the Bodley Head LTD., 1929. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v, [3], 2-222, [2] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece, eleven plates, and with in-text decorations by John Kettelwell. A...... More
The Last of the Mohicans
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1864. Later edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [4], v, [2], 4-272, [2] pp. Contemporary half blue calf over marbled boards with the spine in five compartments, gilt lettering and decorations on the spine, red morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine; all edges marbled. Marbled..... More
The Deerslayer or The First War-Path
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small 4to. [4], v-x, [2], 462 pp. Black cloth with an inset Wyeth illustration on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; brown topstain. Book illustrations include a pictorial title page, pictorial endpapers and pastedowns, and nine additional bright..... More
The Last of the Mohicans; A Narrative of 1757
London: The Folio Society, 2011. First edition thus. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [6], vii-xiv, [6], 3-389, [1] pp. Brown cloth with black and gold decorations and gold lettering on the front board, black and gold lettering and a black decoration on the spine. Housed in a black slipcase. Purple endpapers and..... More
The Pilot; A Tale of the Sea
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 6-184, [2] pp. Green cloth with a gold decoration on the front board and gold lettering and a decoration on the spine; all edges decoratively stained red. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece and a few engraved..... More
The Pagan Lord
[New York]: Harper [2014], 2014. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [16], 3-299, [5] pp. Black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $27.99 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a full-page map. A chronicle in The Saxon Tales, featuring Uhtred of Bebbanburg. More
Sharpe's Siege; Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign, 1814
London: Collins, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-319, [1] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £10.95 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with two full-page maps. Signed by the author on the title page. Difficult to find signed in the..... More
Sharpe's Trafalgar; Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805
London: Harpercollins (2000), 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 276, [3] pp. Navy blue boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £16.99 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a map. Signed by the author on the title page. More