London: Gerald Duckworth and Company Limited, 1976. First Edition. Octavo, xv, 240 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine pictorial yellow with black lettering. Exterior has slight plus wear including faint scuffs and crinkling to the head edge. Previous bookshop's small price sticker to the price clipped front flap. Boards have very slight wear including slight cocking to the spine and minor edge wear. Text block has slight wear including faint soiling to the edges and sparse foxing to the end papers. Illustrated. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Column CC. More

Roma [Rome]: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca Dello Stato, 1988. Limited Edition: #523/1400. Large Octavos, Two Volumes. In Very Good plus condition. In matching pictorial full paper bindings with black titling on covers and spines; housed in a slipcase with same paper side panels and tan cloth on top, bottom, and spine. Some mild scuffing and wear to slipcase. Volumes show negligible wear to boards. Text blocks show very faint foxing on the top edges. Interiors clean. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Multi-Volume Area (ND-MV). More

Lima: Impreso en Aleph Impresiones S.R.L., 2017. First Edition. Large Octavo, 459 pages. In Very Good condition. Paperback binding. Spine red and black with red and yellow lettering. French flaps. Covers have slight wear including few scuffs/scratches and light edge wear. Text block has slight wear including slight age toning and soiling to the edges. Illustrated. Text in Spanish. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Column Y. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xiv, 345 pages. In Very Good with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine yellow and blue with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering, price uncut: "$27.95." Light shelf wear and soiling. Inscribed by Wright on title page: "To Sarajane." Shelved in Israel Palestine. More

London, UK: Headline Review, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 312 pages. In Very Good condition, issued without dust jacket. Spine is yellow with metallic bronze lettering and plant motifs. Boards have mild shelving wear along spine head and tail, mild bumping to fore corners and faint brown staining along front tail edge. Textblock has mild age-toning along edges and throughout interior. Signed flat on title page by Andrea Levy. Shelved Room C overflow. More

London: Published by Authority; Printed for A. Millar, 1758. First Edition. Octavo, 3-61, 64-116 pages. Pages 1-2, including title page, are missing. Page numbers 62-63 are excluded from the pagination; despite this error, all pages from p. 3 onward are present. In Poor condition. Significant loss of material to leather spine, boards missing. Partial paper wrapper is loose due to splitting near the spine, and bears a handwritten inscription in black ink: "Inquiry on War Between England + France / 1757". Last signature is loose due to damage to spine. Text block shows moderate wear and scuffing to edges. Age toned and moderately foxed and soiled throughout. Housed in a new card-back archival sleeve. Shelved in Room A. More

Surrey, UK: Alma Books, 2006. Limited Edition #216/250. Octavo, 285 pages. In Very Good condition with Near Fine condition dust jacket. Spine is dark blue with white lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "£18.99" on front flap. Signed flat on publisher's limitation page by Mike Stocks. Shelved Room C overflow. More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. First Edition. Octavo, 320 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine pictorial red and black with off-white and yellow lettering. Exterior has moderate plus wear including slight sunning, some scuffs, several chips to the head/tail edges and slight soiling. Age toning, minor offsetting and tape mends interiorly. Protective cellophane adhered to the exterior, clipped flap corners. Previous bookshop's small price sticker to the front flap. Boards have slight wear including faint sunning and slight edge wear. Text block has modest wear wear including age toning to the fore/tail edges with head edge colored black. Few, slight marks the front end paper. Illustrated. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column U, ND-U. More

London: Printed for John Stockdale...et. al. 1784. First Edition. Octavo, four volumes bound in two books. In Good minus condition. Bound in full tree calf. Brown spines have red and black labels with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Spines have moderate cracking and chipping, mild red rot, a loss of leather to spine head/tails resulting in exposed endbands (all endbands present), and missing the black volume number labels. Gilt ruled boards and gilt ornamentation to edges. Boards have cracking to joints, moderate rubbing wear, minor soiling, minor worming, chipping to edges, and bumping to fore corners resulting in exposed boards. Volume 1 front board is almost fully detached from the spine. Textblock has marbled end papers and the bookplate of Plowden Weston (1821-1864), the 50th Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, on the front pastedowns. Textblock has age toning, light plus foxing and soiling to some pages throughout, creasing to corners of some pages, and bumping to edges. Volume 1 has pencil marks on some pages from page v to 48, and minor yellow discoloration to some fore edges of pages from the front free end page to page 66. Volume 2 (bound in book 1) is missing the top corner of page 96, and has moderate foxing to pages 62-82. Volume 3 (bound in book 2) has very small tears to the top edges of pages 211-214. Lacking plates and maps. CGT Consignment. Shelved in Room A. CONTENTS: Book I: Contains volumes 1 and 2; VOL. I (xii, 370 pages, plus an illustrated frontispiece);-- VOL II (xii, 359 pages). Book II: Contains volumes 3 and 4; VOL III: (xii, 400 pages);-- VOL. IV: (xii, 310, [60] pages). More

New York: Printed by G. and R. Waite, for the author, 1810. First Edition. Small Sexto, 168, 8 pages, [2]. In Very Good condition. Disbound, leather spine with morocco label largely preserved. Some light consistent toning throughout text block. Title page with small pencil marks. Verso of title page used for ink accounting, dated 1826. "An address to the mayor and corporation of New York, by Dorothy Ripley. New York, 2d, 7th month, 1810": 8 p. at end. "The end of the first volume."--p. 168. Presumed no more published. Last page blank. DF consignment. Shelved case 1. More

New York, New York: Nan A. Talese, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 712 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is beige with dark green and white lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "$35.00" on front flap and has mild creasing along spine head and tail. Boards have mild shelving wear along extremities. Text block edges moderately foxed (interior unaffected). Signed flat on title page by Thomas Keneally. Shelved in Room C. More

New York, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 257 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is black with dark red and light green lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "$13.95" on front flap, has mild general rubbing wear, shelving wear along spine head and tail, and light age-toning along extremities of flaps. Boards have light bumping to tail fore corners, mild shelving wear along extremities and foxing along head edges. Textblock edges have moderate foxing; endpapers lightly foxed. Signed flat on title page by Breyten Breytenbach. Shelved Room C. More

London, UK: Collins Harvill, 1985. First UK Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 320 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is black with white and orange lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "£12.95" on front flap, has mild foxing along rear flap, mild chipping along spine tail and rear spine joint, mild bending and creasing along spine head, a small closed tear along front head fore corner, and moderate sun-fading along spine. Boards have mild shelving wear along extremities. Textblock edges have mild scuffing and soiling; faint brown liquid staining along head edges of front pastedown, front free-endpaper, and half-title page and mild foxing along half-title page fore edge. Signed flat on title page by Peter Matthiessen. Shelved Room C. More

Early U.S. Edition. Octavo, xxii, 601, pages. In Good condition. Spine is bound in red cloth, somewhat brown from sunning, with gold lettering. Boards are bound in same red cloth, and show extensive, faint discoloration on covers. Moderate shelf wear to edges of boards and fore corners. Bumping to fore corners and ends of spine. Small stains on spine. Text block shows expected age toning, with foxing on fore edge and minor shelf wear on bottom edge. Foxing on endpapers and lightly on page faces throughout book. Splitting at front hinge. Gutters are cracked in some places, most heavily at the gutter between pages 466-467. Shelved in Room A. More

Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2005. First Edition. Octavo, v, vi, viii, 245 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine green with yellow and white lettering. Exterior has very slight wear including faint scuffs and minor edge wear. Boards have very light wear. Slight tilt to the spine. Text block has minimal wear. Illustrated. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column T, ND-T. More

Toronto: Bantam Books, 1995. Reprint. Small octavo, 287 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine white with black and pink lettering. Minor shelf wear. Slight age toning to interior pages. Inscribed by Tutu on title page. Shelved Front Counter. More

Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xi, 408 pages. In Near Fine condition with Near Fine condition dust jacket. Spine is brown and a multicolored African Kente pattern with white, yellow, and red lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering. Boards bound in maroon cloth. Signed flat by Peter M. Rutkoff. Shelved in hallway. More

Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 180 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Minor shelf wear. Interior pages clean. Shelved Literary Criticism. More

London and New York: Edward Arnold, 1896. First Edition. Octavo, xviii, [2], 636, 32 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in publisher's full red cloth with gilt titling to spine and gilt ornamentation to front board. Light plus shelf wear and fraying to edges and corners of boards; light general rubbing and shelf wear to surfaces of boards and spines. Minor bubbling of cloth on front board. Text block lightly age toned with minor scattered foxing. Bookplate of English barrister Henry Devenish Harben to front pastedown. Front hinge split with mull intact; rear hinge starting. Minor dent to deckled for edge. SW Consignment. More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First Edition. Octavo, xvii, 310 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine dark brown with beige, orange and blue lettering. Dust jacket shows slight wear including faint sunning and minor edge wear. Boards have mild wear including faint foxing and slight edge wear. Text block has slight wear including slight age toning/foxing to the edges. Mild age toning interiorly. Pictorial end papers. Previous owner's information to the front free end paper. Light foxing to few pages, as is. Illustrated. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column M, ND-M. More

1867. Folio, 10 leaves with hand-written text (seven of which are also hand-painted) and 6 sepia-toned printed plates. In Good condition. Bound in full black leather with gilt titling to front board. Front board nearly detached. Moderate plus rubbing and wear to edges and corners of boards, resulting in loss of pigment in some areas; light overall rubbing and wear to board surfaces. Head and tail of spine chipped. Text block age toned with moderate staining to fore edges of some pages. The handwritten text consists of extracts from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King, alongside a dedicatory leaf near the beginning of the volume and a signature leaf at the end. The seven hand-painted illustrations range from ornamented dropped capitals to full painted scenes around the text, echoing the content of the text and in some cases elements of the adjacent printed plate. The album was created for Adria Fanny Heath (1845-1926), in honor of her marriage to General Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford (1827-1905). The artist, Lieutenant-Colonel John North Crealock (1836-1895) fought alongside Thesiger during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and during the Anglo-Zulu War (1879). [Oversized book. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. EH Consignment. Shelved Room A Oversized. More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 282 pages. In Very Good condition. Pictorial spine with yellow and red lettering. Barcode sticker on back cover. Back cover warped. Minor shelf wear. Interior pages clean. Shelved in Israel/Palestine. More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1931. Octavo, 485 pages. In Good condition with Good minus dust jacket. Off white spine with black text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has spine edges chipped off, chipping to edges, tearing and chipping to corners, tearing to spine and both covers, large open tear on rear cover, and toning to covers. Boards have rubbing to corners and mild edge wear. Textblock has light age toning and marking in pencil on many pages. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column Q (ND-Q). More

Kingston, Jamaica: The Arawak Press, 1952. Second Edition. Octavo, 304 pages. In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. spine yellow with blue and red lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: '21/- net (Three dollars)'. Some general shelfwear and rubbing, small water-stain to front cover, fading and chipping to spine. Shelved Caribbean. More

London, United Kingdom: Chatto & Windus, 1965. First Edition. Octavo, x, 354 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Mottled green spine with navy blue lettering. Covers have mild shelving wear, front cover has mild staining, mild wear along edges, a tear on front board head edge and rear board tail edge, moderate staining along spine, and mild wear along spine head and tail. Boards have mild finger-staining, mild wear along edges, bending along tail corners, and mild wear along spine head and tail. Textblock has splitting to gutter between pages 162-167, bending along map attached to rear pastedown, pencil inscription on front end-page, mild wear along edges, mild age-toning along edges, and mild staining along head edge. A map of Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe) attached to rear pastedown. Shelved ND-A. More