New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1898. First Edition of Dunbar’s first novel. Dunbar's first novel. An orphan boy accepts the study of the ministry, but his inner spirit forces him to rebel against the bigotry of small town life. Read More about The Uncalled. A Novel

vp: vd. Tolstoy, from the library of Edison. Edison personally sent Tolstoy a phonograph in 1908, with a request that Tolstoy record some messages for education purposes. Tolstoy complied but the recordings were lost somewhere in transit. Other recordings of Tolstoy from the phonograph do survive, however.These pamphlets formed a...... Read More about Collection of 8 Leo Tolstoy pamphlets owned by Thomas Alva Edison

London: William Blackwood, 1860. First edition, first state, with the following points: no advert leaf in vol. 1; 16 pp publisher's catalogue at rear lists the 7th edition of Adam Bede. An unusually nice copy of Eliot's second novel, her follow up to Adam Bede. It sold 4600 copies within..... Read More about The Mill on the Floss

New York: American Academy of Music, [copyrigh 1937]. Read More about Caravan. Piano transcription by Norman Ellis

New York: Eastman Lewis, 1897. First edition. Read More about OM. Mammon. A Spirit-Song

Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1886. One of 275 small paper copies (total edition of 350). The author's C0LLECTANÆ ADAMANTÆA - No. XII. Fascinating compilation of graveyard epitaphs by the antiquarian Goldsmid, and very scarce. Read More about A Collection of Epitaphs and Inscriptions Interesting Either from Historical Associations or...

New York [i.e. Paris]: Erotica Biblion Society, [1902-3]. One of 250 copies. Collection of linked sexual adventures, originally published in a shorter version as Tit-Bits, Brussels, 1891. This title was first published ca. 1895 in an edition of 180 pages.The verso of the title page of this printing bears the..... Read More about Lovely Nights of Young Girls Served Up Seasoned and Prepared for Amatory Feasts

London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co, [1870]. Thirty-Sixth Thousand. An allegorical story of Europe and the major European powers represented as school boys: William [William I], the German boy with his sly friend Mark [Bismarck], Louis [Napoleon III], the French boy, and John [Bull or Russell], the English boy. Aleck was..... Read More about The Fight at Dame Europa's School: shewing how the German Boy Thrashed the French Boy; and how...

London: The Mandrake Press, 1929. No. 29 of 550 copies. Read More about Amorous Fiammetta. Reprinted from the Original English edition, translation of Bartholomew Young...

Amsterdam: Chez François vander Plaats, 1701. First edition in French. The Ecstasy of Pain. A historical resumé of and an attack on the practice of self-flagellation, written by Abbé Jacques Boileau (1635-1716), translated from his own Historia Flagellantium which appeared in the preceding year. An abridged version appeared in Cologne..... Read More about Histoire des flagellans, ou l'on fait voir le bon & le mauvais usage des Flagellations parmi...

London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. First edition. INSCRIBED TO FLEMING'S BROTHER-IN-LAW. Presentation copy of the first edition of the first James Bond novel, inscribed on the flyleaf by Fleming to his brother-in-law Hugo Charteris, "To Hugo, This sitting bird, from, the author."Charteris (1922-1970), a novelist and screenwriter, was the brother of..... Read More about Casino Royale

London: Jonathan Cape, (1965). First Edition, First State with gold gun stamped on upper cover. Read More about The Man with the Golden Gun