Modern Literature & History

First edition, first impression, trade issue, inscribed by the author; large 8vo; trivial spotting, otherwise unmarked internally; publisher's green cloth, boards decorated in blind, title to spine gilt, pictorial endpapers, tape stain to front free endpaper, spine very rolled; a bright, sharp copy in the price-clipped dust jacket, with a minor piece of internal repair.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; 4pp. publisher's advertisements; publisher's orange cloth, titles to spine in black, with the dust-jacket designed by Fenwick, correctly priced 7'6 on the spine panel. Some partial browning to the endpapers but a very nice copy in the somewhat faded dust jacket with a number of short tears and several small pieces of internal repair.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's pictorial wrappers, some neat repair at the spine, early ownership signatures to inside of front wrapper and the first leaf, a few smudges and scuffs. Very good.

First edition, first impression, signed and dated by the author with a signed note by him laid in; 8vo; publisher's purple cloth, titles to spine gilt, with the dust jacket, endpapers rather browned but a very good copy in the somewhat nicked, rubbed and sunned, price-clipped dust jacket missing a very small piece at the top of the spine panel.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's purple cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt (but the imprint in blind) purple topstain, with the dust jacket, some mottling to the cloth, topstain a touch faded, very good in the tanned and rubbed and spotted dust jacket with a piece missing at the head of the spine panel.

First edition, first impression, one of 100 copies specially bound and signed by the authoR, ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED; publisher's red cloth, titles to spine gilt, with the original plain acetate dust jacket; a fine copy in the lightly chipped acetate.

First edition in English, first impression; 8vo; light spotting to margins and fore-edge; publisher's grey cloth, gilt lettering to spine, spine and edges slightly faded, with the original pictorial dust jacket designed by Edward Bawden, neatly repaired tear to front panel, slight edge-wear, spine ends slightly chipped, some toning to edges, overall a very good example.

First edition, one of 750 copies; small 8vo; illustrated with photogravure portrait and facsimiles; original buckram-backed blue boards with printed label on spine, spine and label slightly darkened and rubbed as usual, boards a little tanned at the edges, bookplate to front pastedown signed in an indistinct hand; withal a more than decent copy.

First editions, first impressions; 4 vols, 8vo; comprising Justine, publisher's red cloth with gilt title on a pale blue background, pale blue topstain, dust-jacket; Balthazar, publisher's blue cloth with gilt title on a red background, dust-jacket; Mountolive, publisher's yellow cloth with gilt title on a purple background, dust-jacket; Clea, publisher's red cloth with gilt title on a dark green background, dust-jacket, ownership signatures to front endpapers of Justine and Mountolive, a good set in rubbed and somewhat faded dust-jackets.

First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author; 8vo; publisher's grey boards, purple spine and topstain, titles to spine gilt, with the pictorial dust jacket; an excellent copy in the lightly rubbed dust jacket, housed in somewhat faded quarter purple morocco box.