Here and Now. Letters 2008-2011.
London: Faber and Faber & Harvill Secker, 2013. 8vo. First edition. Original printed boards. Mint. No dust-wrapper was issued.
Diaries and Letters
The Letters of Samuel Beckett. Volume 1: 1929-1940. Edited by George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 8vo. Second impression. Original black cloth, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Letters of James Boswell. Collected and Edited by Chauncey Brewster Tinker.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1924. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. First editions. Original maroon cloth, gilt. Portrait frontispiece and a facsimile of Boswell's first legal document. Spotted fading to cloth. Corners and spines gently bumped. Bookplates on front pastedowns with some offsetting. Very good.
The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell.
London: William Heinemann, 1951-60. 8vo. 6 volumes. De luxe limited editions. Original quarter vellum with navy buckram boards, stamped with Boswell's coat of arms in gilt on the upper covers and leather labels on the spines. Top edges gilt. Deckle-edge antique laid paper. Silk marker ribbons. 'London Journal' (1951) #423...
The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell (Research Edition). Correspondence: Volume 1. The Correspondence of James Boswell and John Johnston of Grange. Edited by Ralph S. Walker.
London: Heinemann, 1966. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
The Bukowski / Purdy Letters 1964-1974. A Decade of Dialogue. Edited by Seamus Cooney.
Sutton West & Santa Barbara: The Paget Press, 1983. 8vo. First edition. Original paper covers. Covers faded on spine and along the top edge of the front panel. Near fine. Private correspondence between Charles Bukowski and Al Purdy.
The Letters of William S. Burroughs. 1945-1959. Edited and with an Introduction by Oliver Harris.
London: Picador, 1993. 8vo. First edition. Original quarter black cloth with paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Selected Letters and Journals. In One Volume from the Unexpurgated Twelve Volume Edition. Edited by Leslie A. Marchand.
London: John Murray, 1982. 8vo. First edition. Original red hardcovers, gilt. Bookplate on front paste down. D/w spine slightly faded. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
The Letters of Charles Dickens. The Pilgrim Edition. Edited by Madeline House, Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson, K.J. Fielding, Nina Burgis, Angus Easson et al.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, [2002]. 8vo. 12 volumes, set. First published between 1965 and 2002. Four volumes are third impressions, the others are fourth impressions. No dates are given for the reprints but publication of the set was completed in 2002. Original red buckram, gilt. D/ws uniformly slightly faded on...
Jan's Journal.
London: William Campion, 1949. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Frontispiece and illustrations by Betty Swanwick. Near fine. Collected articles from the Evening Standard, arranged by the seasons, describe a farmer's life in post-war Devon.
A World of my Own. A Dream Diary.
London: Reinhardt Books in association with Viking, 1992. 8vo. First edition. Original grey paper boards, gilt. Jacket design after Carol Carson. The author's own selection from more than 800 pages of dream diaries kept between 1965 and 1989.
Yours etc. Letters to the Press 1945-89. Selected and Introduced by Christopher Hawtree.
London: Reinhardt Books in association with Viking, 1989. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Jacket by Michael Harvey. Neat ink ownership on fly. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
The Gymnasium of the Mind. The Journals of Roger Hinks 1933-1963. Edited by John Goldsmith with a Foreword by Kenneth Clark and a Portrait Memoir by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Wilton: Michael Russell, 1984. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt. Portrait frontispiece in black and white. Lettering faded on spine, else fine in fine dust-wrapper.
The Gymnasium of the Mind. The Journals of Roger Hinks 1933-1963. Edited by John Goldsmith with a Foreword by Kenneth Clark and a Portrait Memoir by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Wilton: Michael Russell, 1984. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt. Portrait frontispiece in black and white. Corners pushed. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Ink ownership of Frances Partridge on fly leaf.
The Gymnasium of the Mind. The Journals of Roger Hinks 1933-1963. Edited by John Goldsmith with a Foreword by Kenneth Clark and a Portrait Memoir by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Wilton: Michael Russell, 1984. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt. Portrait frontispiece in black and white. Light spotting to top edge of text block. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
The Gymnasium of the Mind. The Journals of Roger Hinks 1933-1963. Edited by John Goldsmith with a Foreword by Kenneth Clark and a Portrait Memoir by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Wilton: Michael Russell, 1984. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt. Portrait frontispiece in black and white. Bookplate on front paste down. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Selected Letters of Henry James. Edited with an Introduction by Leon Edel.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. 8vo. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt. Top edge stained red. Slightly rubbed d/w with a few nicks along the top edge.
The Letters of Samuel Johnson. With Mrs. Thrale's Genuine Letters to Him. Collected & Edited by R. W. Chapman.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1952. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. First editions. Original maroon cloth, gilt. D/ws price-clipped, faded on spines and edge worn. Tear to d/w of volume 1 at the top of the spine. Near fine in very good + dust-wrappers.
The Letters of T. E. Lawrence. Edited by David Garnett.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. 8vo. First edition. Original brown buckram, gilt. Top edge stained red. With 16 plates and 4 maps. Covers a bit rubbed and marked. Ink ownership on prelim. Hinge cracked but firm at half-title. Top corners of first few pages creased. Very good +. From the library...
The Diaries. 1. Ancestral Voices; 2. Prophesying Peace; 3. Caves of Ice; 4. Midway on the Waves; 5. A Mingled Measure; 6. Ancient as the Hills; 7. Through Wood and Dale; 8. Deep Romantic Chasm; 9. Holy Dread; 10. Beneath a Waning Moon; 11. Ceaseless Turmoil; 12. The Milk of Paradise.
London: Chatto & Windus, Faber and Faber, and John Murray, 1975-2005. 8vo. 12 volumes, set. First editions (except Beneath a Waning Moon which is, as usual, a second impression). Original hardcovers, gilt. All volumes have the bookplate of Lord Carrington (1919-2018) on the half-title or front endpaper, with the exception...
The Letters of Nancy Mitford. Edited by Charlotte Mosley.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. 8vo. Third impression. Original black cloth. Ink ownership on fly. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
The Mitfords. Letters between Six Sisters.
London: Fourth Estate, 2007. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
The Letters of George Meredith to Alice Meynell. With annotations thereto 1896-1907.
London and San Francisco: The Nonesuch Press, 1923. 8vo. Limited edition. #107 of 850 copies. Original quarter natural canvas with brown Fabriano Ingres paper boards and endpapers, gilt. Fine. The second publication by the press.
The Letters of Samuel Pepys and his family circle. Edited by Helen Truesdell Heath.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1955. 8vo. First edition. Original maroon cloth, blind-ruled, gilt. End papers and d/w lightly foxed. D/w tanned on spine with short closed tear to upper edge of lower cover. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
Journals. 1982-1992.
London: William Heinemann, 1995-7. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. First editions. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. Mint in dust-wrappers. Begun when a novel had become stuck, these journals make interesting companions to the four volumes of autobiography.