J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit

London, George Allen and Unwin, 1937. Custom Clamshell Case (Book not included). No Binding. Custom Clamshell Case (Book not included). No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine, & features a blind embossed [sculpted] THE HOBBIT 'Mountains and Dragon' design, raised across three panels with GILT stamping inspired by the first edition outstanding graphic cover & is finished inside & out in elegant Black Nuba®, a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck® leather and Hand crafted marble paper sides. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for over a hundred cornerstone generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available. Book definitely NOT included. Not a Book .

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Tolkien, J. R. R.

Trilogy: The Lord of the Rings Custom Clamshell Collector's Case or Slip Case for the Trilogy (Not a Book)

London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1955. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. NO BINDING. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. NO BINDING. First Edition Clamshell Case. Exclusive Custom Clamshell Case for Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy. Three Volume Custom Clamshell Case for the British first editions. Available in Red or dark Black Nuba, gilt stamped titles to the spine with exquisite gold stamping on the side designed from the illustrated dustwrapper. A very handsome case. And just in case, only the case. Books are definitely not included. Protect your investment. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for over 100 in-stock titles. Custom Craft available. .

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Toole, John Kennedy

A Confederacy of Dunces Custom Clamshell Case

Louisiana State University Press, 1980. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. Pulitzer Winning Book- Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Beautiful Custom Leather Clamshell first edition Bookcase. [Not with Book] Hand-Crafted by our conservation team, each box is gilt-stamped at the spine in black leather features an embossed / 'sculpted' cover designed after the memorable illustration. Each box is finished with blue cloth sides and black velour finished interior The box is perfectly sized to accommodate the first edition. Protect your investment. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for more than 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available. All our cases can be adjusted to a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. FEATURECLAMSHELL/First Edition Clamshell Case.

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Book number: 32858

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Vlaminck, Maurice. [ANDRE DERAIN]

A la Sante Du Corps. Poeme Par Maurice Vlaminck, Decore Par Andre Derain. Signed by Derain

Paris, François Bernouard, 1919. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Rare first edition. Thin 4to. unpaginated [24] + printed stiff card covers. 1 of only 104 numbered copies [4 on Japon & 100 on Arches]. This copy lettered "G" and signed by Derain although no lettered copies are indicated which might account for a possible 26 additional copies printed]. Designed with four full page black & white Derain illustrations. A bit of offsetting to the prelims, heavy cover stock mildly aged with light soiling. Very uncommon. Vlaminck's satirical 'poeme' about "life" has 4 chapter headings in French: Spring, Summer, Autumn & Winter - Derain's "Fauve" sketches illustrate the chapters & are typical of his heavier lines - bold & thickly rendered. A fine example of Fauvism in spirit & illustration. A movement said to have begun in June 1909 when Vlaminck first met Andre Derain at Chatou resulting in the formation of the school of Chatou & ultimately the birth of Fauve art - joined formatively by the likes of; Matisse, Gaugin, Van Dongen, Camoin, Dufy, Marquet & others. The important collaboration between Derain & de Vlaminck was not a solitary happening as their association & friendship lasted a lifetime resulting in many important works. "Quand c'est le printemps et qu'on n'a pas d'argent ça a moins d'importance qu'a quarante ans On court après la blonde on prend la brun on a vingt ans aux prunes. .

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Book number: 33676

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Vonnegut, Kurt

Cat's Cradle [Collector's Custom Clamshell Case Only - Not a Book]

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Vonnegut, Kurt CAT'S CRADLE Collector's Clamshell Case. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1963.[Book Date]. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. The case is finished in rich black Nuba® with a 'sculpted design [after the book's distinct illustrated wrapper] on the side. Velour finished interior. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Handsome Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. Generally over 100 in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. Book definitely NOT included. Photographs Upon Request. .

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Book number: 32838

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Wade, Henry. (Aubrey-Fletcher, Henry L.)

The Verdict of You All

New York, Payson & Clarke, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of the author's first book and one of the earliest courtroom dramas in the genre. A just about fine copy in green cloth, navy titles to the spine and front board, in a bright, fresh pictorial dustwrapper with some minimal use (the design quite similar to the British first). 8vo. 307 pp. Barnes, Murder In Print. Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue Of Crime. A very nice copy in the uncommon original dustwrapper. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 32944

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Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge]

The Passionate Friends: A Novel Presentation to G.B. Shaw

London, MacMillan, 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. The [GB] Shaw Copy. First edition, first issue with all the correct points. A fine copy in the publisher's patterned sage green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. [very minor offsetting to the endpapers & a small stain at the outside bottom of the front pastedown - still a remarkable fresh copy & an extraordinary example, Inscribed by Wells with a flourish for Charlotte Shaw & George Bernard Shaw through her with good humored advice as follows: "Mrs. Shaw / with warm regards / HGW / and do make GBS try a novel" - The inscription in rebuttal to Shaw having earlier admonished Wells to try writing a play. Green calf clamshell protective presentation case, gilt decorated & lettered at the spine. THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS was produced as a movie by Stoll in 1923, again by David Lean in 1948 (script by Eric Ambler), & again by Paramount in 1952. Wells Soc. 51; Hammond A9. "Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells were both dedicated to reshaping the world: as Shaw commented in one letter to Wells, " The first volume of [Karl Marx's] Capital (all I ever read of it) changed the mind of Europe; a thing we two have been trying to do all our lives." 1 Although (apart from some satiric fantasies) Back to Methuselah is Shaw's only direct attempt to picture what this change might mean, H. G. Wells was very much in the futures business with almost a third of his voluminous writings being explorations from the present into visionary alternatives. Titles like The World Set Free or Men Like Gods offer much the same ecstatic hope for change as Shaw's "metabiological Pentateuch"; and a comparison between the ways in which each envisaged the future is illuminating. It encapsulates the extremes of the turn-of-the century revolutionary movement in which they were both involved, as well as throwing the nature of Shaw's beliefs into high relief by the contrast. The links between the two writers, both of whom aspired to be the intellectual leader of the new century, are well known: their common membership in the Fabian Society, and the Wells forced resignation after publicizing the scandal of his affair with Amber Reeves (at that time the secretary of the Society) in his novel Ann Veronica, their extensive correspondence from at least 1901 right up to just three days before Wells' death in 1946, which shows that each read the other's work, even sending drafts of some pieces to one another. What has not been as fully realized is the degree to which both Wells' novels and Shaw's plays were written as direct responses to each other's work. There are enough overlaps or cross-references to qualify several of their works as a serious literary conversation, and significantly, the subject of their artistic argument was specifically their idea of the perfect society, and the means through which it might be." - Innes, C. D. "Utopian Apocalypses: Shaw, War, and H. G. Wells" SHAW The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies - Volume 23, 2003, pp. 37-46, Penn State University Press. .

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Book number: 21238

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Sackville-West, Vita

The Garden. Signed

London, Michael Joseph Limited, 1946. First Edition. First Edition. Signed by Author. Sackville-West, V. ( Vita ). THE GARDEN. Signed. London: Michael Joseph Limited, 1946. 8vo. 135pp. publisher's decorated gilt buckram. Top edge gilt. Signed Limited Edition. Number 101 of an edition of only 750 signed & numbered copies by The Author and printed on handmade paper. Brownish /oatmeal cloth covered boards with gilt titles within a decorative flower & rope border to the front cover & gilt titles to the spine with top edge gilt. Illustrated headings by Broom Lynne. Four poems, one for each season. A very good. The book block is tight & sharp, the pages clean & free of any blemish. A very nice copy for all Vita Sackville-West collectors. .

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Book number: 33191

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Sackville-West, Vita

The Heir - a Love Story Signed and Numbered #60

London, William Heinemann, 1922. First Edition, Limited Edition. First Edition, Limited Edition. Signed by Author. First Edition, Limited and Rare Edition, Size: 8vo, 9 3/8" x 5 3/4" 128 pp. including fp, with Vita Sackvllle-West's iconic signature below the portrait by William Swaine THE HEIR - A LOVE STORY had a run of 100 copies. 1-50 were for public sale. This limited edition only contained the one story. Copies numbered from 51-100 were for private circulation. Numbered and Signed by Vita Sackville-West. This is the unique and rare number 60. Binding: hand-made paper and all edges uncut. Bound in "patterned" covered boards, quarter bound in white imitation vellum, with white paper tile label on the spine, printed black. Mild partial browning to endpapers, very light, occasional spotting but an exceptionally rare copy. The private circulated edition had varied decorative patterns. This particular edition as mentioned in Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A7.(b2). "No. 60: Diagonal rows of flowers with brown petals and white centres, on a mustard background, and with white dots scattered throughout". A wonderful addition to any VSW collector's library. .

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Book number: 33152

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Wolfe, Thomas

From Death to Morning. Inscribed by Wolfe to Paulette Goddard

New York, Charles Scribner's & Sons, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Wolfe, Thomas. FROM DEATH TO MORNING. Inscribed Presentation Copy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. 8vo. 304pp. First Edition, first issue with Scribner's "A" on the copyright page and "rer" for "her" on page 59, line 21. Wolfe's first collection of short stories. Lovely Presentation Copy, neatly inscribed in blue-black fountain pen on the front free endpaper, "For Paulette Goddard / Sincerely / Thomas Wolfe / Nov 16 1935". (2 days after the date of publication). Laid in is a Certificate of Provenance dated and signed by Jonathan Meredith, the son of Actor/Director Burgess Meredith certifying that this book came from the collection of his father, who was married to Paulette Goddard in the 1940's. One of Wolfe's most esteemed collections of short stories inclusive of, Death The Proud Brother, Only the Dead Know Brooklyn, The Four Lost Men and The Web of Earth. One of 7500 copies, published November 14, 1935. A very good example showing modest use, in a very good or better bright dustwrapper that has been very neatly restored, primarily at the extremities, housed in a custom TBCL clamshell presentation case in very fine condition. Preston 4, Johnston A4.I.a. Pauline Goddard was one of the most colourful actresses of her day; married to & worked with Meredith, 1943-1949. A Ziegfeld showgirl in the '20's, has an affair with Chaplin and marries him, has an affair with Gershwin, hangs out with Spencer Tracy and David Niven, Howard Hughes, has a fling with Clark Gable; has her portrait painted by Diego Rivera, becomes tight with Anita Loos, and marries Erich Maria Remarque for the long haul. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 33718

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Woolf, Virginia

The Common Reader

New York, Harcourt Brace, (1925), 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. by Author. Very scarce First American Edition Neatly Signed by Virginia Woolf on the front free endpaper. The First Series not the more Common Second Series. 8vo. 332 pp. A fine fresh copy in a beautifully crafted black leather and cloth binding with gold stamping on the spine and gold leaf edging on the top pages, with dynamic purple marbled patterned endpapers. A very Rare copy indeed. An erudite collection proving Woolf at her critical best. Includes her now famous, On Not Knowing Greek, Modern Fiction, Jane Austen & Montaigne, with whom both Virginia and Leonard Woolf harboured a special sympathy for, culminating in, Leonard Woolf"s autobiography, The Journey Not The Arrival Matters. Kirkpatrick & Clarke A8b. .

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Book number: 33291

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Woolf, Leonard

Hunting the Highbrow. The Hogarth Essays. No 5

London, Hogarth Press, 1927. First Edition. First Edition. First Edition of Leonard Woolf's HUNTING THE HIGHBROW published at The Hogarth Press, 52 Tavistock Square. Small 8vo. Beautiful cover design by Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf's sister on beige boards with black printing. Covers and inside slightly aged. Issued as No.5 of 'The Hogarth Essays, Second Series'. Woolmer, 152: 1,000 copies were printed. A lovely discreet label on the inside cover "The Times Bookclub.

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Book number: 33173

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Woolf, Virginia

The Letters of Virginia Woolf. (Complete in Six Volumes). Inscribed and/or Signed by Nigel Nicolson in 4 Volumes

London, The Hogarth Press, 1975-1980, 1975. First Edition. First Edition. Woolf, Virginia. THE LETTERS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF. (COMPLETE IN SIX VOLUMES). Signed. London: The Hogarth Press, 1975-1980. First Editions. Inscribed by Nigel Nicolson on Volume 2 and Volume 6 to Joanne Trautman [his co-editor] and signed on Volume 1 and 3. "To Jo Finally and with love from her co-editor Nigel September 1980" "Inscribed for Joanna and Donald by Nigel Nicolson October 1977" Fine copies in peacock-blue cloth, gilt titles to the spine in truly lovely unclipped pictorial dust wrappers designed by Angelica Garnett, Virginia Woolf's niece, Vanessa Bell's daughter. 8vo. Each volume with an introduction by Nigel Nicolson, son of Vita Sackville-West. Black and white photographs throughout. A rare find for any collectors. Her diaries as companion, truly Virginia Woolf's masterpiece. Kirkpatrick And Clarke A44a, A47a, A51a, A53a, A54a and A56a. .

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Book number: 33497

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Woolf, Virginia

Mrs. Dalloway

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925. First American Edition, First State. Hard Cover. First American Edition, First State. Hard Cover. First American Edition, First Printing of Virginia Woolf's MRS. DALLOWAY released in the UK by Hogarth Press the same year. This scarce American dust jacket has not been seen before which lists other publications on the back which is unique to the other more common dust jackets. This very precious unclipped creme dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell is printed in black and yellow. There is some minor rubbing and chipping at the heel and crown of the spine as well at the folds. Some minor tears and sunning at the spine and edges. Original orange cloth boards with white paper and label on spine printed in brown with some sunning on the pages. Protected in mylar. Published May 14 1925, 2100 copies printed -$2.50 Kirkpatrick A9b. Size: 8vo - 7 1/2"x 5 1/8" Very Good Previous library dedication on inside cover and small tag on inside back cover. MRS. DALLOWAY provides a snapshot of post-World War I English society, addressing themes such as class, gender roles, and the effects of war on individuals and society. Woolf's portrayal of the characters' internal struggles reflects broader societal concerns of the time, making it a significant work in the modernist literary canon. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 33731

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Woolf, Virginia

Signed Photograph, Circa 1933

N.p. n.d. [London], N.p. n.d. [c. 1933], 1933. First Edition. First Edition. Signed by Author. Woolf, Virginia. Signed Photograph, Circa 1933, [6" 1/2 x 5"], Signed in black ink: "Yours / Virginia Woolf" on the lower right of the image. Good photographic portraits of Virginia Woolf do come onto the market periodically, signed ones rarely appear. A near fine image [publisher's very minor retouched enhancement under VW's right eye.] published in Virginia Woolf And Her World, by John Lehmann, 1975. p.55. Publisher's notes to production on the verso. Outstanding. .

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Book number: 32506

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