Kerouac, Jack: On the Road. New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First edition, third printing. 8vo., pp.[iv], 310. Black cloth, white title to spine and upper board, top edge red. Endcaps a little dusty, tiny 2mm hole to upper joint, lower corners mildly bumped, very good. Dust jacket a little tattered at edges and upper joint with a few chips and creases, some repaired with tape on the inside, still very good. First edition, third impression of the seminal Beat Generation novel. Based on his travels around America in the late 1940s, Kerouac wrote several unsatisfactory versions of the novel before writing the first draft of what eventually became On the Road in three weeks in April 1951, a year after the publication of his first novel, The Town and the City. Kerouac continued to work on the manuscript for several years, deleting some contentious passages and adding more literary sections. Its eventual publication in 1957 caused tremendous debate about the novel's content, style and the whole generation it was assumed to represent, and thrust instant fame upon Kerouac. Ref: 54976show full image..
Kerr, Philip: Field Grey London: Quercus, 2010. First edition, first printing. Black cloth, silver title to spine. Top edge a little dusty, fine. Dust jacket a little rubbed, price intact, very good. Book seven in the Bernie Gunther series of thrillers. Ref: 54681
Kerr, Philip: Prague Fatale. London: Quercus, 2011. First edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.[vi], 439, [i]. Black cloth, silver title to spine. A few tiny dents to upper board, near fine. Dust jacket with scratch to upper, price intact, very good. Book eight in the Bernie Gunther series of thrillers. Ref: 54682
Lemire, Eugene: A Bibliography of William Morris. Delaware & London: Oak Knoll Press / The British Library, 2006 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 55073
Liebler, Naomi Conn (ed.): A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. First edition. Large 8vo., pp. xvi, 214. Illustrations. Hardback, laminated decorative boards. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 55293
Maholay-Jaradi, Priya: Fashioning a National Art: Baroda's Royal Collection and Art Institutions (1875-1924). New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. xlvi, 304. Illustrations. Hardback. Dust-jacket. Light signs of use, otherwise very good. Ref: 54751
Marquez, Gabriel Garc?a: (Grossman, Edith, trans:) Love in the Time of Cholera. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. First UK edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.352. Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine. Endcaps a little creased, a few tiny marks to front endpapers, very good. Dust jacket spine very slightly sunned, edges softened with a couple of small closed tears, small mark to upper perhaps from a label, price intact, still very good. First appearance in English, translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman. The novel was first published in 1985 as El amor en los tiempos del c?lera. This copy is the first of three printings from 1988, with another two following in 1989. Ref: 54664
Marquez, Gabriel Garc?a: (Rabassa, Gregory, trans.:) One Hundred Years of Solitude. New York: Harper and Row, 1970. First English-language edition. 8vo., pp.[viii], 422. Dark Green cloth, gilt title to spine, fore-edge untrimmed, green endpapers. Endcaps a little creased, a couple of tiny greyish marks to upper board, edges of text block a little foxed, front paste-down discoloured where it has been in contact with the dust jacket, very good. Second state dust jacket (full stop instead of an exclamation mark after 'Latin America' on the front flap), price-clipped, a little worn at head and tail of spine, slightly rubbed particularly to the rear board, still very good overall. Book label of SU Libreria, Carlos G. Liebmann, Quito - Guayaquil. Karl Wilhelm Liebmann (1900-1985) arrived in Ecuador with his family in 1938, having fled the persecution of Jewish people in his native Germany. His changed his name and established a successful publishing business and bookshop, SU Libreria, which continued until his death in 1985. First edition of the English translation that brought M?rquez's work to an international audience. First published in the original Spanish as Cien a?os de soledad in May of 1967 in Buenos Aires by Editorial Sudamericana. Ref: 54973show full image..
Martin, George R. R.: A Dance with Dragons. London: Harper Voyager, 2011. First edition thus, first printing, signed by the author. Heavy 8vo., pp.[xiv], 1184. Dark and light blue textured cloth, gilt title to spine, strip of gilt emblems to each board along fore-edge, blue ribbon bookmark. Single scrape to spine approx. 3 x 2.5cm, which has been partially repaired. Very good indeed. Matching blue cloth slipcase with gilt dragon emblem to upper side (no dust jacket as issued), a little rubbed but near fine. Special signed, slipcased edition of the fifth book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series. Ref: 54869show full image..
Martineau, Harriet: Dawn Island. A Tale. Manchester: J. Gadsby, 1845. First edition. 8vo., pp.94 + engraved frontispiece and additional title page, with tissue guard between. Engraved vignette headpiece to chapter one.. Engraved title and frontispiece a little foxed, a few tiny marks here and there. Red cloth neatly rebacked, boards blind stamped with gilt centrepiece to upper, a.e.g.. Small ink blot to upper board, cloth a little darkened at edges, corners frayed, very good. Ownership inscription of William Walls(?) dated 1845 to ffep. Harriet Martineau's (1802-1876) allegorical story, found here in red cloth, is more often seen in green or blue and, according to Sadleir, may also have been issued in other colours. The engraved title-page adds: 'Written for the National Anti-Corn Law Bazaar, May 1845'. The Bazaar was one of a number of popular events arranged by the Anti-Corn Law League, an early model for modern pressure groups, which was founded in 1839 as part of the campaign to repeal the Corn Laws. The first Bazaar was held in Manchester at the Theatre Royal in 1842. The second iteration in May of 1845, for which this volume was issued, was an event in the style of the Great Exhibition, and was held at Covent Garden in London. Sadleir 1631. Ref: 55009show full image..
