Search results for: 'the works'
-
FIRBANK, Ronald. The Works.
London & New York : 1929
First collected edition, number 33 of 235 sets. "One of Ronald Firbank's last acts before his death in 1926 was to ensure an edition of his collected works. It was a project dear to his heart. His hope - and expectation - that Brentano's would bring out such an edition was dashed by several things: Brentano's disinterest in an American issue of Caprice... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 63370
-
FLAUBERT, Gustave. The Complete Works.
New York and London : 1904
The Mazarine Edition, number 173 of 750 sets. An attractive collected set of Flaubert's collected works. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 145329
-
FREUD, Sigmund. The Complete Psychological Works.
London : 1975
A complete set of the Hogarth Press's Standard Edition. This is the most authoritative collection of the psychoanalytical works of Freud, edited by James Strachey, a former student of Freud's and member of the Bloomsbury Group. Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 133926
-
FIELDING, Henry. The Works.
London : 1882.
A handsomely bound set of the works of Henry Fielding, edited and with a biographical essay by Leslie Stephen, the literary critic and father of Virginia Woolf. One of a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies for sale in Europe and 250 copies for sale in the US. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 68476
-
FRANKLIN, Benjamin. The Works.
London : [1882]
An attractive library set of this important edition, edited by the "pioneering documentary editor" (ANB) Jared Sparks (1789-1866), originally published between 1833 and 1840. Sparks was known to take liberties with original texts and "corrected ... where he thought Franklin guilty of bad taste or vulgarity" (DAB). The publisher, American Benjamin Franklin... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 126630
-
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald.
London : 1958-63
First editions, first impressions, of the only collected edition of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald ever printed. Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 134165
-
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald.
London : 1958-63
First editions, first impressions, of the only collected edition of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald ever printed. Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 138505
-
FISKE, John. The Writings.
Cambridge : 1902
Riverside Press edition. Number 14 of 1,000 sets only. Fiske was considered "one of the most important intellectual influences in the last quarter of the 19th century. He was probably the most admirably fitted among all his contemporaries to lead the fight for evolution among his countrymen, and the charm of his historical writings and lectures not... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 117369
-
FISHER, Irving. Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices.
New Haven & London : 1925
First edition in book form, first impression, author's presentation copy, of the "startlingly original PhD thesis" (Blaug) which expounds the monetary theories for which Fisher became famous and established his international reputation.
This is a photo-engraved reprint of Fisher's doctoral work, first published in the Transactions of the Connecticut... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 131968
-
FUTURE WORLD NOVEL. The Reign of George VI.
London : 1763
First edition of a scarce futuristic novel. "Uncanny in its choice of dates and in its prediction of the emergence of Russia and the United States as world powers, it describes a war between Britain and Russia (1900-01) which escalates into a world war between the British Empire and a coalition of Russia and France (1917-20) who between them have occupied... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 87375
-
FISHER, Irving. Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices.
New Haven : 1925
First edition in book form, first impression, publisher's presentation copy, of the "startlingly original PhD thesis" (Blaug) which expounds the monetary theories for which Fisher became famous and established his international reputation.
This is a photo-engraved reprint of Fisher's doctoral work, first published in the Transactions of the Connecticut... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 121008
-
FRANCIS, Joseph. The Life Saving Appliances of Joseph Francis.
No place : 1887
First edition. Uncommon, WorldCat records just 4 copies - US Coast Guard Academy, Smithsonian, NYPL, and Texas Tech. Francis's name was extremely well-known in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, but his fame waned with the frequency of maritime disasters. He devoted his life to the invention of maritime life-saving devices, his most famous... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 68595
-
FRANKLIN, Benjamin. The Writings.
New York : 1907
A handsomely bound set, rare in a contemporary binding. Includes a comprehensive introduction to his works by Albert Henry Smyth covering Franklin's manuscripts, printed editions, works, philosophical, political and economical works, satires and bagatelles, and his correspondence. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 117529
-
FRANKLIN, Benjamin. The Writings.
New York : 1905
A handsomely bound set which includes a comprehensive introduction to his works by Albert Henry Smyth covering Franklin's manuscripts, printed editions, works, philosophical, political and economical works, satires and bagatelles, and his correspondence. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 96403
-
FORESTER, C. S. [The complete Hornblower:]
London : 1937-67
First editions, first impressions. Forester (real name Cecil Smith) was called to Hollywood to write a pirate film, working under Arthur Hornblower. However, before they had finished the script, another studio released Captain Blood, starring Errol Flynn, and using the same historical incidents that they had counted on. Rather than seeking another position,... Learn More£3,950.00Stock Code: 132989
-
FORESTER, C. S. [The complete Hornblower:]
London : 1937-67
First editions, first impressions. Forester (real name Cecil Smith) was called to Hollywood to write a pirate film, working under Arthur Hornblower. However, before they had finished the script, another studio released Captain Blood, starring Errol Flynn, and using the same historical incidents that they had counted on. Rather than seeking another position,... Learn More£3,950.00Stock Code: 117729
-
FRIEDMAN, Milton. A Theory of the Consumption Function.
Princeton : 1957
First edition, first printing, of what is perhaps Friedman's most significant academic work, in which he argued against the Keynesian use of government policy to regulate the economy. This work resolved several paradoxes regarding the relationship between the wealth and spending habits of consumers and it remains a foundational work in economics. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 141286
-
FRIEDMAN, Milton. A Theory of the Consumption Function.
Princeton : 1957
First edition, first printing, of what is perhaps Friedman's most significant academic work, in which he argued against the Keynesian use of government policy to regulate the economy. This work resolved several paradoxes regarding the relationship between the wealth and spending habits of consumers and it remains a foundational work in economics. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 131457
-
FREUD, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams.
New York : 1913
First edition in English of Die Traumdeutung, US issue, an unusually nice copy of the work that introduced to the English-speaking world the key ideas underlying the therapeutic practice of psychoanalysis via this translation, published simultaneously in London and New York, of the Austrian-born psychiatrist, and the first psychoanalyst to practice... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 140894
-
FISHER, Irving. Stabilizing the Dollar.
New York : 1920
First edition, first printing, presentation copy from the author to his fellow economist John R. Commons, inscribed on the half-title "To Prof. John R. Commons with the compliments and esteem of Irving Fisher. New Years 1920".
Commons, together with Thorstein Veblen and Wesley Clair Mitchell, was one of the three founders of American Institutionalism.... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 142339
-
FLEMING, Ian. Address Given at the Memorial Service for Ian Fleming. St Bartholomew the Great.
Westerham : 1964
First edition, wrappered issue. The South African poet and novelist William Plomer had been publisher's reader for Jonathan Cape from 1937. He was instrumental in the publication of Fleming's work and the dedicatee of Goldfinger. A limited hardcover issue was also produced. Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 118708
-
FISHER, Irving. The Purchasing Power of Money.
New York : 1911
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Fred with the compliments of Irving". The Purchasing Power of Money "completely recast the theory of money, giving a full demonstration of the principles that determine the purchasing power of money in the formal framework of the equation of exchange... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 131452
-
FISHER, Irving. The Money Illusion.
New York : 1928
First edition, first printing. Based on lectures given in the summer of 1927 before the Geneva School of International Studies, this work's aim "is to show how unstable in buying power are all monetary units, including the dollar; what hidden causes produce that instability; what harm results, although ascribed to other causes; and what are the various... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 123994
-
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night.
New York : 1934
First edition, first printing, in the first issue dust jacket with the T. S. Eliot review to the front flap. Tender is the Night was Fitzgerald's fourth novel, appearing some nine years after The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald set out to write an important and in many ways revolutionary work of fiction. Structurally complex, topically dangerous and personally... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 124269
-
FAULKNER, William. Intruder In The Dust.
New York : 1948
First edition, first printing. Intruder in the Dust, which explores the South's racial problems through the medium of a murder mystery, was originally planned as a short story. But the work swelled to the size of a novel and was not completed until April 1948. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 112812
-
FISHER, Irving. Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices.
New Haven : 1892
Original offprint of Fisher's "startlingly original PhD thesis" (Blaug) which contained, among other things, the design of a machine to illustrate general equilibrium in a multi-market economy. This work expounds his monetary theories and established his international reputation.
"Fisher's aim in his Mathematical Investigations, was to present... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 132053
-
FIRBANK, Ronald. The Princess Zoubaroff.
London : 1920
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For J. Kentish, with the Author's compliments." Inscribed copies of this work are notably uncommon. The Princess Zoubaroff, which was published at Firbank's expense, was his only play. It is a key example of the "unprecedented economy, Carrollian fantasy, and absurdist... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 130571
-
FIELDING, Henry. An Enquiry Into the Causes of the late Increase of Robbers, &c.
London : 1751
First edition of the author and magistrate's most important social tract. As the principle judge of the Bow Street Police Court, Fielding drafted several bills to reorganise and reform the constabulary, authorised frequent and successful raids against street gangs, highwaymen, and gaming houses, and formed the group of so-called "thief-takers" which... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 118445
-
FOWLER, Gene. Trumpet in the Dust.
New York : 1930
First edition, first printing, fine presentation from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For Ring Lardner what a sap I'd be to try to tell you what I think of you and your work - you know... Gene Fowler April 3, 1930". A major association. Fowler met Lardner when the two men joined Damon Runyon as writers on Hearst's paper The American.... Learn More£1,600.00Stock Code: 50429
-
FINLAY, Winifred. The Castle and the Cave. [With the original artwork for the dust jacket by John S. Goodhall].
London : 1960
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the title page and with John S. Goodhall's original ink and watercolour artwork for the dust jacket, which bears the publisher's stamp on the back. The Castle and the Cave is the story of a seventeen year old English girl sent to the Dordogne region of France to work as an au pair. Learn More£525.00Stock Code: 101678
-
FORSTER, E. M. The Story of the Siren.
Richmond, London : 1920
First edition, first impression, one of 500 copies printed. This copy has an excellent Bloomsbury provenance, being that of Frances Partridge, with her ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, "Frances Marshall, 1921".
Both Marshall and Forster were closely entangled in the Bloomsbury set and consequently each other. In 1925 Forster... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 139687
-
FRANCKLIN, William. Tracts, political, geographical, and commercial, on the dominions of Ava.
London : 1811
First edition. Scarce with only 4 locations on Library Hub. Inscribed on the front pastedown to Major William Yule, father of Sir Henry Yule, on 28th June 1829. William Yule served in the East India company and "gained some knowledge of oriental literature. He retired from India in 1806, and his valuable collection of Persian and Arabic manuscripts... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 128631
-
FORREST, G.W. (ed.) Selections from the Letters, Despatches, and other State Papers preserved in the Bombay Secretariat. Home Series Vol. I [& II].
Bombay : 1887
First edition. Uncommon. Some of the first fruits of Forrest's archival work which was to lead to the establishment of the Imperial Record Office in Calcutta, in 1884 " he was seconded to examine the records preserved in the Bombay secretariat - a task which bore fruit in a Maratha (1885) and a home (1887) series of state papers. In April 1888, after... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 111543
-
FIELDING, Xan. The Stronghold.
London : 1953
First edition, first impression. Fielding, who was based as an intelligence officer in Crete from January to August 1942 and from November 1942 to January 1944, "described the White Mountains in Crete with vivacity and skill" (ODNB). The photographs in this work were taken by the socialite and author Daphne Thynne, marchioness of Bath, whom Fielding... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 141765
-
FISHER, Irving. The Money Illusion.
New York : 1928
First edition, second printing (two months after the first). Inscribed by the author to the Nobel Laureate and economist Frederick Soddy on the front free endpaper: "To Professor Frederick Soddy with the compliments of Irving Fisher January 1929". Soddy had been awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1921 for his work on isotopes. The Money Illusion,... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 125882
-
FLEMING, Ian. [The James Bond novels.]
Shelton : 1981-93
First facsimile edition, reproducing the original designs and dust jacket artwork of all the James Bond first editions. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 143305
-
FORSYTH, William. A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-Trees; in which a new method of pruning and training is fully described.
London : 1802
First edition. Forsyth (1737-1804), for whom the forsythia was named, was superintendent of the royal gardens at St. James and Kensington. The Observations on the Diseases, Defects, and Injuries of Fruit and Forest Trees had been separately published in 1791. The "particular method of cure" was a "plaister", or paste, whose application would, Forsyth... Learn More£1,100.00Stock Code: 124838
-
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night.
New York : 1934
First edition, first printing, first issue dust jacket, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. This is a superb copy of Fitzgerald's magnificent yet maligned follow-up to The Great Gatsby. It is one of 19 copies specially signed by the author for the booksellers Hochschild, Kohn & Co. of Baltimore, with their ticket on the rear pastedown.... Learn More£30,000.00Stock Code: 136034
-
FORD, Ford Madox, as Ford Madox Hueffer. The Fifth Queen Crowned.
London : 1908
First edition, first impression. With his signed presentation inscription on the front free endpaper to his first wife, "Elsie Hueffer affectionately from Ford M. H. 26th March MCMVIII". Elsie's importance in Hueffer's development as a writer is easy to understate. However his progression from the middle ranking early efforts to the masterful and enduring... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 28463
-
FOGEL, Robert W. The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990.
Baton Rouge : 2003
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the half-title. During this period, a fierce debate raged in the US concerning the interpretation of the slavery era, partly ignited by Fogel and Engerman's 1974 publication, Time on the Cross, in which they concluded that slavery was a profitable and efficient labour system, with benefits for... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 96392
-
FILMER, Sir Robert. A Discourse Whether it may be Lawful to take Use for Money.
London : 1678
First edition under this title, originally published in 1653 under the title of Quaestio quodlibetica. Sir Roger Twysden, the man responsible for its first publication, states in the preface that the work was written "almost thirty yeares since", suggesting a date for its composition in the later 1620s. Filmer here defends the paying of interest on... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 93458
-
FORSYTH, William. A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-Trees; in which a new method of pruning and training is fully described.
London : 1802
First edition. Forsyth (1737-1804), for whom the forsythia was named, was superintendent of the royal gardens at St. James and Kensington. The Observations on the Diseases, Defects, and Injuries of Fruit and Forest Trees had been separately published in 1791. The "particular method of cure" was a "plaister", or paste, whose application would, Forsyth... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 114624
-
FORESTER, C. S. [The complete Hornblower:]
London : 1937-62
First editions, first impressions. Forester (real name Cecil Smith) was called to Hollywood to write a pirate film, working under Arthur Hornblower. However, before they had finished the script, another studio released Captain Blood, starring Errol Flynn, and using the same historical incidents that they had counted on. Rather than seeking another position,... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 109292
-
FERGUSON, Adam. Principles of Moral and Political Science; Being chiefly a Retrospect of Lectures delivered in the College of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh & London : 1792
First edition of Ferguson's mature reworking of his lectures, "an expansion of a sketchy earlier version that he had published as Institutes of Moral Philosophy" (Chuo). It was one of about a dozen books by Scottish authors (of a total of 550) that James Madison selected for importation into America in 1782 for the library of the US Congress.
In... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 121472
-
FORTUNE PRESS: DURRELL, Lawrence; Ruthven Todd, Patrick Evans; Rayner Heppenstall; Edgar Foxall; Oswell Blakeston. Proems.
London : 1938
First edition, first impression. The Fortune Press made most of its money through a steady output of pornography, and also provided its owner Reginald Caton with a convenient tax dodge for his activities as a slum landlord in Brighton. Caton would occasionally commission works of "proper literature" to provide his pornography list with a veneer of respectability... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 109002
-
FRISI, Paolo. Elogi di Galileo Galilei e di Bonaventura Cavalieri.
Milan : 1778
First collected edition, scarce: not in Library Hub, WorldCat locates ten copies. Paolo Frisi (1728-1784) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and physicist who is best know for his work in hydraulics. "His most significant contributions to science, however, were in the compilation, interpretation, and dissemination of the work of other scientists...... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 110130
-
FAULKNER, William. Sartoris.
New York : 1929
First edition, first printing. Sartoris is a revised version of Faulkner's Flags in the Dust, the full text of which was not published until 1973. It was the first of Faulkner's tales set in Yoknapatawpha County, and introduces many of the characters that appear in his later works. Due to the fragile paper stock used for the dust jacket copies in such... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 131845
-
FAULKNER, William. New Orleans Sketches.
[Tokyo] : [1955]
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy inscribed by the editor Ichiro Nishizaki on the front free endpaper, "For Dr. Garland Taylor, with remembrances and gratitude from the editor, Ichiro Nishizaki. Tokyo, Japan", and with a typescript of the English translation of his introduction tipped-in following the Japanese language version. Nishizaki... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 83742
-
FAULKNER, William. Sartoris.
New York : 1929
First edition, first printing. Sartoris is a revised version of Faulkner's Flags in the Dust, the full text of which was not published until 1973. It was the first of Faulkner's tales set in Yoknapatawpha County, and introduces many of the characters that appear in his later works Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 29322
-
FORSTER, George. Geschichte der Reisen, die seit Cook an der Nordwest- und Nordost-Küste von Amerika,
Berlin : 1791
First edition of this "early and important compilation of voyages to the Northwest Coast containing the voyages of Meares, Mortimer, Portlock, and Dixon" (Forbes). The work, which provides an update to the voyages covered in Forster's 1784 Geschichte der Reisen und Entdeckungen im Norden, also includes a series of essays and commentaries by Forster... Learn More£8,000.00Stock Code: 134112
-
FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Œuvres.
Paris : 1773
First collected edition in French of the author's collected works. The first part is entirely devoted to electricity and includes previously unpublished pieces. Translated by Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg (1709-1779) from the fourth edition in the original English. A close friend of Franklin and his translator and publisher in France, Barbeu-Dubourg was also... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 98387
-
FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary.
Paris : 1891
French Édition Définitive, Roger Fry's copy, with his ownership inscription on the first blank dated 1893. Fry, the influential painter, critic, and art historian associated with the Bloomsbury Group, was 27 at the time. He had spent two months studying at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1982 before travelling to Italy, and by 1893 he had become... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 116643
-
FAULKNER, William. Doctor Martino
New York : 1934
First edition, first printing, trade issue. A superb presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the literary critic Malcolm Cowley on the title page: "For Malcolm Cowley William Faulkner Sherman, Conn. 20 Oct. 1948". Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) was responsible for almost single-handedly re-establishing the literary reputation of Faulkner through the... Learn More£19,500.00Stock Code: 130074
-
FRANCE, Anatole. Rabelais.
London : 1929
First separate edition of Anatole France's "exact biography of Rabelais and critique of his masterpieces", first published two months previously in France's posthumous collected works. Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 79710
-
FRANK, Anne. [Anne Frank's short stories:]
Amsterdam & Paris : 1949 & 1959
First edition of Anne Frank's collection of eight short stories, together with the first edition in French, translated by Nelly Weinstein. Frank began writing the stories in 1943, sometimes reading them aloud to her family and friends in hiding with her. She wrote in her diary on 7 August 1943, "a few weeks ago I started writing a story, something I... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 111827
-
FISHER, Irving. 100% Money.
New York : 1935
First edition. 100 Money was Fisher's proposal to eliminate economic fluctuations by requiring that demand deposits be backed by a corresponding amount of cash, an idea which had its roots in the work of Walras, Mises, and the Chicago School. Learn More£900.00Stock Code: 119497
-
FEYNMAN, Richard. Relativistic Cut-Off for Quantum Electrodynamics,
Lancaster, PA and New York : 1948
First edition of Feynman's very first paper on quantum electrodynamics, in which he proposed a mechanism (the 'cut-off') for removing the divergences which had plagued the theory since its development by Dirac. This paper pre-dates his work on Feynman diagrams, which was not published until the following year. This issue also contains the competing... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 83253
-
FOOTE, Shelby. Tournament.
New York : 1949
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author, "Shelby Foote, Greenville, Miss 17 Jan 51", on the front free endpaper. This work is the author's first novel. Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 124727
-
FREUD, Sigmund. Die Traumdeutung.
Leipzig & Vienna : 1900 [1899]
First edition of Freud's greatest single work, The Interpretation of Dreams, one of only 600 copies printed; very rare in the original wrappers. "Die Traumdeutung contains Freud's general theory of the psyche, which he had developed during the past decade. Using his refined understanding of the operation of the unconscious, Freud interpreted dreams... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 131686
-
FRIEDMAN, Milton. Essays in Positive Economics.
Chicago : 1953
First edition, first printing, of this collection of Friedman's papers published in the late 1940s and early 1950s, including Friedman's famous titular essay laying out his methodological approach, which has been called "the most influential work of economic methodology of this century" (Hausman, p. 180). This is the copy of the US banking executive... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 141195