Search Results: Authors starting with J from Biblioctopus

London: Macmillan, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 2 vols. 1st edition (vol. II contains 2 short stories, Louisa Palant and The Modern Warning). Original dark green cloth (almost British racing green). A fine set, razor sharp, extraordinary in the context of a 650 copy 1st printing, and I seldom see common Victorian double deckers that look like this anymore. James was always confident with small lives and big themes, so in The Aspern Papers he tries his commanding hand at Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Bibliomania but Were Afraid to Ask. An American editor, obsessed with the work of an early 19th century Romantic poet, Jeffery Aspern, travels to Venice seeking the love letters that Aspern wrote to his mistress, Miss. Bordereau. He devises a false identity to veil his aims and finds her living in poverty with her niece (Tina), alienated from the world. He becomes their lodger and since Bordereau wishes to protect her niece's future, he eventually takes Tina into his confidence. As… Read More

London: J. Dodsley, 1777. First Edition. Boards. Very good. 1st edition, the first appearance anywhere in England (the arrival) of The Declaration of Independence (printed on pages 261-270), an announcement perceived as delusional arrogance, and a state paper primarily viewed with amusement by the British public at the time, but one that would soon reverberate throughout Britain and around the world. Original paper backed boards, ink script '1776' to the spine with trace of label and ink above, extremities worn, hinges starting but strong, uncut and untrimmed, the contents fresh and clean. Rare in boards.

New York: St. Martin's, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 1st edition of the first William Murdoch novel, begetting the CBC television series that began in 2008 and continues today in its 17th season.  Signed on the title page.  Fine in fine dustjacket. It's usually safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they appear.

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1895. First Edition. Cloth. Fine. 1st edtion. Fine in the blue cloth trade binding by Sarah Wyman Whitman, all stamped in gilt. A book of ten short stories. BAL 10906.