Shakespeare & Co

First edition, first printing, number 187 of 800 copies signed by the author; device to title, contemporary ink name to front free endpaper; publisher's brown cloth, blind-tooled borders, gilt device to upper cover, gilt spine, slightly rubbed at spine ends, fore-corners slightly bumped, top edge gilt, others uncut.

8vo; full complement of blank pages; printing department binding of green cloth, gilt lettered lettering-piece to spine (later addition), plain paper endpapers to front (paste-residue showing and offsetting), heavier, more finished salmon ones to rear, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, soiling and fading to boards and spine but sound and solid; hand-written letter loosely inserted (215 x 140 mm), folded horizontally twice, creased at corners, short split to right margin of each fold, otherwise very good.

First edition, first printing, review copy with ink stamp and publisher's ink note to title; 8vo; publisher's red cloth, a fine copy, dust-jacket, minor superficial rubbing to one corner and spine ends, but overall a fine example.

First edition; large 8vo (215 x 150 mm.); some toning to margins as usual, small closed tear and ink stamp to final blank leaf; publisher's printed wrappers, 2 minor tape reinforcements to inside of each wrapper with small closed tear to top edge of lower wrapper, but overall very good.

First edition; 8vo; publisher's green printed wrappers, minor rubbing to spine edges but overall very good.

First edition; 8vo; neat bookplate to front free endpaper, tape reinforcement to rear hinge; publisher's green printed wrappers, spine slightly dulled, price stamp NF 18 to lower cover with original price scored through.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; browning to text block as usual; publisher's pictorial wrappers, very mild rubbing to extremities, overall a fine, bright copy.

First edition, number 107 of 200 copies printed by François Bernouard for Nancy Cunard's Hours Press on Canson-Mongolfier Soleil velin M.R.V. Paper, inscribed presentation copy from the author; 8vo; decorative initials in oriental style by Dorothy Shakespear Pound; publisher's linen cloth, lettered in red, some mild fading and toning, but overall very good.

First edition. folio (31 x 22.5 cm), limited to 150 numbered copies (this number 58), signed and dated by Burroughs, 7 multicolour screen-print images with text, photograph of the author by Robert Mapplethorpe, original dark morocco binding with onlaid 'shot' balsa wood panel, original packing carton numbered 58/150, a fine copy.

First edition; signed by the author on half-title; 8vo; lacking front free endpaper but secondary one extant, mild marginal toning as often; publisher's pictorial cloth backed with brocade cloth, photographic portrait to front cover by Carl Van Vechten, paper spine label, light dust-soiling, a few marks to upper cover but overall very good.