Tolstoy. A Russian Life.
London: Profile Books, 2010. 8vo. First edition. Original purple hardcovers. Black and white photographic plate section. Mint in d/w.
Literature
The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett Volume III Krapp's Last Tape. With a revised text. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by James Knowlson.
London: Faber and Faber, 1992. Royal 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. In slipcase as issued. With facsimiles of the author's production notes. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
The Novel of the Century. The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Miserables.
London: Particular Books, 2017. 8vo. First edition. Original sand hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Exchanging Hats. Elizabeth Bishop Paintings. Edited, with an Introduction, by William Benton.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996. Small 4to. First edition. Original terracotta textured hardcovers, lettered in black. Illustrated throughout in colour. Contents clean. Clipped d/w is a bit tanned and spotted. Fine in near fine d/w. From the library of Charles Tomlinson, CBE (1927-2015). Poet, translator, illustrator and academic.....
The Pilgrim's Progress. From this World to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a Dream.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1956. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1902. First published in two parts in 1678 and 1684. Original quarter blue polished morocco over blue cloth boards, gilt. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Patterned paper endpapers. In cloth-covered slipcase. Boards slightly.....
The Pilgrim's Progress. From this World to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a Dream.
London: Oxford University Press, 1963. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1902. First published in two parts in 1678 and 1684. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Roy Morgan. Top edge a little spotted. D/w slightly faded on the spine. Near fine in near fine.....
Hudibras. Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by John Wilders.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1967. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Portrait frontispiece. Spine just a little faded and with some very light spotting to the top edge. Pencil ownership of Christopher Hill on fly, with scattered pencil lines in the margins and pencil notes on both sides of.....
The Complete Miscellaneous Prose. Edited by Andrew Nicholson.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Pencil note on fly, 'William St. Clair, Oxford DNH Weekend July 1992 Dept National Heritage'. Scattered pencil marginalia by William St. Clair and notes on the rear endpapers. Near fine. From the library of William St. Clair (1937-2021), the.....
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A Biographical Study.
Oxford: The Clrendon Press, 1963. 8vo. Reprint. First published in 1938. Reprinted lithographically from corrected sheets of the first edition. Original green buckram, gilt. Price-clipped d/w has a few small tape repairs. Fine in very good + dust-wrapper.
Joseph Andrews. Edited by Martin C. Battestin.
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, [1984]. 8vo. Reprint. First published in this edition in 1967. Original red cloth, gilt. D/w slightly faded on the spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. From The Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding.
Don Juan and Regency England.
Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1990. 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Pencil ownership of William St. Clair on the fly. Near fine in near fine d/w. From the library of William St. Clair (1937-2021), the distinguished historian and author.
Collected Essays.
London: The Bodley Head, 1969. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Top edge stained pink. Jacket design by Michael Harvey. Very slight foxing to the fore edge. Price-clipped d/w is tanned on the spine. Near fine in near fine d/w.
The Lost Childhood and other essays.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951. 8vo. First edition. Original buff cloth, gilt. Top edge stained red. D/w faded on spine, worn at edges, lightly soiled and chipped at corner tips and head of spine. Near fine in very good + dust-wrapper. A selection of literary criticism.
Our Exagmination Round His Factification For Incamination Of Work In Progress. With Letters of Protest by G. V. L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1929]. 8vo. First UK edition using sheets printed in France in May 1929. Original turquoise cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Covers just a little rubbed and marked. Large bookplate, of Norman Nicholson, on the front pastedown. Ink presentation, 'Best wishes for Xmas 1936.....
My Friend H. John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton of Broughton de Gyfford.
London: John Murray, 1948. 8vo. First edition. Original light grey/blue cloth. Frontispiece and 15 further plates. Covers a little bumped. Neat ink ownership of William St. Clair on fly and his occasional pencil marginalia. Very good +. From the library of William St. Clair (1937-2021), the distinguished historian and author.....
The Complete Works of Walter Savage Landor. Edited by T. Earle Welby and Stephen Wheeler.
London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1927-36. Royal 8vo. Limited edition of 525 sets, of which 500 were for sale in England and America. Original maroon buckram, gilt. Top edge stained red, others untrimmed. Frontispiece illustrations. Slight fading to the lower half of the spine of volume 1 where the d/w.....
His Very Self And Voice. Collected Conversations of Lord Byron. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Ernest J. Lovell, jr.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954. 8vo. First edition. Original maroon cloth, silvergilt. Ink ownership of William St. Clair on the front pastedown and his pencil ownership, dated 10 May 1976, on the fly. His scattered marginalia especially in the first half of the book and extensive notes on the.....
The Works of Sir Thomas Malory. Edited by Eugene Vinaver.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1947. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed and partially unopened. Endpapers very slightly foxed. Dust-wrappers on volumes 1 & 2 are unclipped. Near fine in near fine d/ws.
The Works of Thomas Nashe. Edited from the original Texts by Ronald B. McKerrow. Reprinted from the original edition with corrections and supplementary notes edited by F. P. Wilson.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958. 8vo. 5 volumes, set. First published between 1904-10 in a limited edition of 750 copies. Revised, reprint. Original green cloth, gilt. Price-clipped d/ws are a little rubbed and slightly tanned on the spines. Near fine in near fine d/ws. Uncommon. A nice, clean set.
"To Lord Byron" Feminine Profiles based upon unpublished letters 1807-1824.
London: John Murray, 1939. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Top edge stained green, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and 11 further plates. Covers a bit bumped and slightly rubbed. Pencil ownership of William St. Clair on the fly, his occasional marginal notes and both rear endpapers covered with his notes.....
The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 8vo. First edition. Original hardcovers. Mint. The novelists featured range from Daniel Defoe to William Golding.
Make It New. Essays.
London: Faber and Faber, 1934. Tall 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Top edge stained black, others untrimmed. Slightly rubbed at extremities, a little dust-soiled and with a very short split, neatly repaired, at the bottom of the spine. Contents clean. Very good +.
Sagetrieb Volume 15 Numbers 1 & 2 Spring & Fall 1996. A Journal Devoted to Poets in the Imagist/Objectivist Tradition.
Orono, Maine: University of Maine, 1996. 8vo. First edition. Original printed wraps. Near fine. A double issue devoted to H. D. and including her story 'The Suffragette'.From the library of Charles Tomlinson, CBE (1927-2015). Poet, translator, illustrator and academic.
The Poems and Plays of Isaac Rosenberg. Edited by Vivien Noakes.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Fine.
Letters. Edited by William Maxwell.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1982. 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. D/w spine faded. Fine in near fine d/w.