The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by FitzGerald, Edward (translator)
London: Methuen & Co, 1901. Later edition. Fine. One of sixty copies on handmade paper, fifty of which were for sale. An excellent, Fine copy. Beautifully bound in full brown crushed morocco with boards elaborately decorated in gilt. Upper board with delicate floral design inlaid in red and green morocco. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Hand-painted endpapers. Turn-ins ruled in gilt. A lovely, wide-margined copy in a very attractive binding. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, compiled and... Read More
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Fitzgerald, Edward; Illuminated by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
London: Siegle, Hill & Co, 1910. First trade edition. Near Fine. Bound in tan cloth with a lovely full gilt peacock design to the front board. A lovely, Near Fine example of the first trade edition. This edition reprints the famous Sangorski and Sutcliffe, illuminated edition, with both Sangorski and Sutcliffe signing on the limitation page. Complete with all 12 color plates. This edition is slightly smaller than the signed, limited edition and uses a thinner paper-stock. Some... Read More
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and the Salaman and Absal of Jami
by [Fine Binding - Zaehnsdorf] [Edward Fitzgerald]
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1879. Fourth edition. Near Fine. Full green crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf. Elaborately stamped in gilt on the front and rear covers with a floral border and intricate vine patterns in the central compartments. Orange silk end papers and paste-downs, top edge gilt. With the Zaehnsdorf gilt exhibition stamp on the rear paste-down. Spine faded to brown and slight rubbing to the joints but a Near Fine copy overall. Housed in a marbled paper slipcase. ... Read More
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by [Fine Binding - Unknown] Edward Fitzgerald
Stratford-Upon-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1927. Later edition. Near Fine. Exquisitely bound, apparently by an amateur binder, although possibly an apprentice at Sangorski. Full maroon crushed morocco with an elaborate peacock design in gilt and inlaid morocco on the front board. Rear board in a more muted style, reminiscent of the Dove's Bindery. All edges gilt, with silk endpapers and paste-downs, and then with a second set of patterned endpapers. Very slight rubbing along the front and rear... Read More
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John Jackson's Arcady
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Boston: Walter H. Baker, 1928. First edition. Fine. First separate edition and first edition in book form, following its publication in The Saturday Evening Post on July 26, 1924. An excellent, Fine copy of a Fitzgerald rarity. 192 x 126 mm. 8 pp. Publisher's orange wrappers printed in bluish-gray and black. Bookplate (Charles John Muto, 1962) to inside of front cover. Fresh and unmarked throughout. This scarce publication has only appeared at auction five times, and only once... Read More
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This Side of Paradise (Presentation copy)
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Later printing. Very Good. Inscribed by Fitzgerald to Carma Freeman on the front free endpaper: "Best wishes ('Now you just go right to sleep') from Old Insomniac Fitzgerald to his old childhood nurse, Mrs. Freeman." A Very Good copy. Publisher's blindstamped dark blue-green cloth. Some edgewear and fraying. Minor toning to endpapers. This copy of This Side of Paradise is a rare survival of the summer of 1934, one of... Read More
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The Vegetable
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy in a Very Good+ dust jacket. A tight, square copy with bright gilt to spine. Dust jacket with minor rubbing and wear at the spine ends and one small chip from the lower spine fold. Front flap fold splitting at the lower edge (about 2.5"), but generally an attractive example, and unrestored. Fitzgerald's only play, a satire on the American Presidency. "A resounding... Read More
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You Only Live Twice (Presentation copy)
by Fleming, Ian
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. First impression, first state (the copyright page giving "First Published 1964" rather than "First Published March 1964"), presentation copy to Cyril Connolly, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To 'Great Ox' Connolly-san, from 'Butterfly' Fleming-san". This is one of eighteen known presentation copies recorded by Gilbert "from the early bound stock." Fleming had first met Connolly at Eton. They met again in Kitzbühel in Austria during 1938,... Read More
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Octopussy and The Living Daylights
by Fleming, Ian
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. First edition. Fine/Fine. A Fine copy in like priceclipped dust jacket. A remarkably bright and attractive copy in an equally appealing jacket. Containing two of the final James Bond stories. Octopussy traces Bond's work to apprehend a WWII hero involved in the theft of a cache of Nazi gold. Told largely from the perspective of Smythe, whose flashbacks track Bond's work to arrest him, the story poses a dilemma for 007, who wishes... Read More
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Moonraker
by Fleming, Ian
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First printing, later state with "shoot" corrected on page 10. A Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket. Some foxing to edges of closed text block, endpapers, and first and last page. Foxing to dust jacket, with some fading to spine. The third novel in the Bond series, Moonraker features James Bond working to prevent a ballistic missile hidden deep in the heart of London from destroying... Read More
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Goldfinger
by Fleming, Ian
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. First edition. Fine/Very Good. First state binding, with the extra detail on the skull. A Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket. Publisher's black cloth effect paper over boards, front cover with a blind-stamped skull and gilt coins in the eye sockets, spine lettered in gilt, plain endpapers. First state dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping. First state dust jacket with wear to crown, spotting to fold of front panel, and staining to back... Read More
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The Man With the Golden Gun
by Fleming, Ian
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition. Fine/Fine. First printing. Second state binding without the gilt gun to the upper board. A Fine copy in like dust jacket. Pinpoint smudge to closed edge of text block, otherwise an excellent example. Price-clipped dust jacket clean and vibrant. A very attractive copy. Published a year after Ian Fleming's death, The Man with the Golden Gun is the final James Bond novel written by its original creator. Fleming's health rapidly decreased... Read More
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The Man With the Golden Gun
by Fleming, Ian
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First impression, second state binding without the gilt gun to the upper board. A nearly Fine copy in like dust jacket. Book with a bit of foxing to the top-edge of the text block, otherwise a lovely example overall. Published a year after Ian Fleming's death, The Man with the Golden Gun is the final James Bond novel written by its original creator. Fleming's health rapidly decreased while... Read More
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Matthew Flinders Narrative of His Voyage in the Schooner Francis
by Flinders, Matthew
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1946. First Thus. Limited to 750 numbered copies (this copy being 547). Folio (12 1/4 x 7 7/16 inches; 310 x 189 mm.). Publisher's full green buckram. Front cover pictorially stamped in gilt with a schooner designed by John Buckland Wright, spine stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Small red ink stamp on front free endpaper. Collating 100, [2], [2, blank]. Nine wood-engravings by John Buckland Wright (including frontispiece,... Read More
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A Vision for America (Signed limited edition)
by Ford, Gerald R.
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1980. First edition. Fine. Number 25 of 100 copies specially bound (of 500 copies total, signed by the 38th President of The United States, Gerald R. Ford). Large octavo (9 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches; 251 x 162 mm.). [16] pp. Title-page printed in blue and gilt, portrait frontispiece. Publisher's full blue calf, front cover and spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy housed in the original blue cloth slipcase. This publication... Read More
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Churchill Lecture: An Address by Gerald R. Ford at the English Speaking Union, London England November 30th, 1983 (Signed limited edition)
by Ford, Gerald R.
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1984. First edition. Fine. Presentation copy, outside of the 350 signed numbered copies (250 bound in linen & 100 in vellum), signed by Ford on second half title. A Fine copy bound in red boards with beige linen backstrip, with gilt title on spine and gilt 'signature" on front cover. Interior as new. A reproduction of a lecture given by Gerald R. Ford, 38th American president, at the English Speaking Union (an educational... Read More
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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacrament, According to the use of the Church of England..
by [Fore-edge painting] [Martin Frost, artist]
London: Printed by T. Davidson for L. Wayland, 1792. First thus. Near Fine. Handsomely bound in contemporary full dark blue straight-grained morocco. Small quarto (250 x 155 mm.), collating complete with thirteen fine engraved plates (including frontispiece). Geometric gilt design to boards, gilt spine with five raised bands, and turn-ins with gilt floral roll. With a very fine double fore-edge painting by Martin Frost. The painting, which fans open to 4 in. (100 mm.), captures two views: the... Read More
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The Seasons
by [Fore-Edge Painting]; Thomson, James
Edinburgh: James Ballantyne, 1809. Twelvemo (6 3/8 x 3 3/4 inches; 163 x 95 mm.). [iv], [i]-xxii, [2, contents, verso blank], [1]-262 pp. Including engraved vignette title. Bound ca. 1809 in the style of or possibly by Taylor & Hessey. Full green straight-grain morocco, covers elaborately bordered in gilt with gilt floral pieces. Spine with three wide raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments and lettered in gilt on the raised bands. Gilt decorated board-edges, gilt ruled turn-ins,... Read More
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The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham
by [Fore-Edge Painting] Young, Lyman (artist); Robert Southey
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816. Seventh edition. Two volumes bound in one. Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 214 x 133 mm.). [i]-viii, [1]-376; [i]-viii, [1]-316 pp. Volume one with an engraved portrait frontispiece and additional vignette title; Volume two with an engraved view of the islet which he had often forded when the river was not knee-deep. Some offsetting from plates to title-pages. With a fine fore-edge painting (ca. 1935) by Lyman Young depicting... Read More
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith
by [Fore-Edge Painting] Currie, Miss C.B. (artist); Oliver Goldsmith
London: Macmillan and Co, 1902. The Globe edition. Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 180 x 121 mm.). [ii, Miss Currie signed limitation, verso blank], [i-v], vi-lx, [ii], [1]-695, [1] pp. Inserted photogravure portrait frontispiece of "Mr. Quick as Tony Lumpkin". Laid-in is the original catalog description and receipt from Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, Los Angeles, dated March 5th, 1986. Bound ca. 1931 by Rivière & Son for Henry Sotheran. Full dark blue straight-grain morocco, covers elaborately tooled... Read More
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The Forsyte Saga
by [Fore-Edge Painting] Currie, Miss C.B. (artist); John Galsworthy
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1933. Later printing. Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 180 x 117 mm.). [ii, Miss Currie signed limitation, verso blank], [i]-xvi, [1]-1104 pp. Including folded "Forsyte Family Tree". Inserted limitation leaf at front "This is No. 172 of the Books/with Fore-edge Paintings/by/Miss Currie/The Painting under the gold/is a view from/Richmond Hill./Signed/ C.B. Currie". Bound ca. 1933 by Rivière & Son for Henry Sotheran. Full dark blue straight-grain morocco, covers elaborately bordered in gilt and... Read More
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A Modern Comedy
by [Fore-Edge Painting] Currie, Miss C.B (artist); John Galsworthy
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1929. First edition. Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 180 x 117 mm.). [ii, Miss Currie signed limitation, verso blank], [i]-xxvii, [i, blank], [1]-1088 pp. Inserted folded "Forsyte Family Tree" (small neat repair to one fold). Inserted limitation leaf at front "This is No. 160 of the Books/with Fore-edge Paintings/by/Miss Currie/The Painting under the gold/is a view of/Mapledurham./Signed/ C.B. Currie". Bound ca. 1930 by Rivière & Son for Henry Sotheran. Full dark blue straight-grain... Read More
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Evenings at Haddon Hall, A Series of Romantic Tales of the Olden Time
by [Fore-Edge Painting] Currie, Miss C.B. (artist); Catherine Ball
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1848. First edition. Octavo (8 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 219 x 143 mm.). [viii], [1]-453, [1, blank] pp. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title-page and twenty-four fine engraved plated by George Cattermole. Bound ca. 1910 by Rivière & Son in full maroon straight-grain morocco, covers elaborately bordered in gilt and blind, spine with five raised bands, elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, and lettered in gilt in compartments. Gilt-ruled board edges, gilt decorated turn-ins, pink... Read More
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Scott and Scotland
by [Fore-edge painting] [Scott, Sir Walter] Ritchie, Leitch
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1835. First edition. Very Good. Featuring a pretty double fore-edge painting by Samuel E. Stevens (fl. 1945-1962) with two charming views: when viewed one way, an isolated estate in a field foregrounded by a river and a bridge; the other way, the steeple of a church rising over a riverwalk and a grove of trees. Contemporary red leather tooled and titled in gilt. Twelvemo. iv, [4], 256 pp. Complete with... Read More
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A Passage to India
by Forster, E. M.
London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1924. First edition. Near Fine. A Near Fine copy in the original publisher's red cloth with black stamping on the spine and front board. A previous owner's bookplate on the front paste-down (Edward J Roleson). Slight separation to the text block at the title page and very minor foxing to the preliminary and terminal leaves. But a handsome, fresh copy overall. Three pages of ads at the end. Based on Forster's... Read More
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