Literature from The Accidental Bookseller, IOBA, FABA

Complete in ten volumes. Limited edition 1030 sets of which 1000 were for sale. Beautifully bound by Bayntun binders in half morocco. Top edge gilt; spine with raised bands, compartments lettered and decorated in gilt. A fine set. Note: additional postage required

One of two known copies, unpublished thus and potentially a pre-publication copy (see below). From the personal library of author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, an avid book collector whose sizable library included many items by and about Henry James. Sendak did not sign or affix his bookplate in most of his books. Provenance slip laid in from a Sendak auction on… Read more about this item

First Edition, limited to 300 copies. Though not called for, signed by Smith at the bottom of the Editor's Note page. Additionally, Smith has written a couplet ("But oh, what labour, O prince, what pain!") from The Strayed Reveller by Matthew Arnold, a close friend of Smith's, and signed again on the front free endpaper. Bookplate indicates this copy belonged to Sam… Read more about this item

Macmillan and Co., Ltd: London, 1938. The Scholar's Library, first printing. Inscribed by Wright to Geoffrey L. Bickersteth, translator of Dante's The Divine Comedy and The Paradiso. Affixed to the half title is a 125 word ALS from Wright to Bickersteth that accompanied the book: "The book has just appeared in its original sin: the errors in facts, solecisms and… Read more about this item

London: Smith, Elder, & Co 1903. Second Edition. A remarkably nice copy, green boards, some light uneven tanning to the end sheets, unread and fine in similarly fine dust wrapper save for a small tear to rear flap and some light soiling. The dust wrapper bears the imprint of publisher John Murray, who bought all book rights… Read more about this item

London: The Casanova Society, 1926. Limited Edition 1236/1500 copies on deckle-edge laid watermark paper, translated and with a long postscript by Ezra Pound. GALLUP A22b. A very good copy, top corners bumped, edge worn spine a little faded in a very good dust wrapper showing only a little evidence of the soling that seems to be endemic to this… Read more about this item

London: Minerva Press, 1973. Facsimile edition. Like the original 1893 edition, the facsimile is limited to 250 copies. This is copy #244. Decorative green binding designed by Charles Ricketts who also contributed several interior designs. Very small piece missing from front endpaper otherwise fine. Dust wrapper externally smart with a small chip on rear,… Read more about this item

London: Selwyn & Blount, Ltd, 1921. First Edition. A superior nearly flawless copy. Uneven tanning to front and rear endpapers else fine in the very rare dust wrapper, which is equally fine save for a couple of minor edge tears.

Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, 1937. First Edition. Top Edge Gilt; offsetting to front and rear pastdown and endpapers, as well as to half-title page, otherwise a very fine copy in bright red boards and crisp gilt titles in a very nearly fine dust wrapper with slight dust soiling.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1974. Limited Edition 1717/2000 copies. Bound in eighteenth-centrury style, with a three-quarter binding of top-grain cowhide and French marbled paper sides. Titling is stamped in gold leaf between spine hubs. A externally attractve copy in slipcase, fine save for an unobtrusive, difficult to notice owner's blind stamp on front free… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Published anonymously, this is the author's second publication, following Princeton Stories (1895). Williams went on to win the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1917. Tiny gift book, paper wraps with string binding. A surprisingly nice copy with a few small creases but otherwise fine.

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1964. Later Printing. A fine copy in dust wrapper with little spine toning but is otherwise fine.

New York: Crosby Gaige, 1929. Limited Edition 632/ 742 copies (700 for sale), printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press on Zanders handmade paper. Slight browning to board edges else fine without dust wrapper as issued.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. Limited Edition 1323/1500 printed on Kelmscott handmade paper. Vellum back and tips, marbled boards, top edges gilt. Vellum a bit soiled and browned otherwise about fine lacking slipcase.

New Haven (CT): Yale University Press, 1982. First edition. Part of the Yale English Poets series. Fine in fine dust wrapper.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1934. Centenary Edition. This copy is dated 1934 on title page with no mention of printing on the obverse and is accompanied by a plain, undecorated dust wrapper priced at 8 shillings and 6 pence; other copies we've seen for sale as first editions have no date on title page but have a first… Read more about this item