A Border Station
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Author's highly acclaimed first book - a collection of short stories set in Ireland near the border with Northern Ireland.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Author's highly acclaimed first book - a collection of short stories set in Ireland near the border with Northern Ireland.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Author's highly acclaimed collection of stories set in Ireland near the border with Northern Ireland. Author's first published book.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. A lyrical tale of growing up in Ireland near the border with Northern Ireland.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine / fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Irish author's first novel.
London: The Bodley Head, (1958). First edition. Hardcover. Good / Good. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. The dust jacket is complete. The text block is clean and bright and the hinges strong. The difficulty with this copy is that the rear panel of the jacket adhered itself to the rear board, most likely from dampness. The.....
London: J. M. Dent, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original green cloth with embossed blind design on front board with J. C. in the middle. Lettered in gilt on the spine. Top and fore-edge smooth, bottom edge rough cut. "Sea" on page ix is perfect and "Privately Printed" does not appear on page iv. The complete.....
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and attractive copy of this nautical adventure novel. Original green cloth. The jacket is complete save for a minor chip to the foot of the spine which has been professionally repaired.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Bound in original dark green cloth with lettering in gilt to the spine. In the complete and lovely illustrated dust jacket. This is the nicest copy of this title that I have handled. With a very lightly tipped in (easy to remove) book-plate to the front paste-down.....
London: Fisher & Unwin, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. The dust jacket's spine is darkened though it remains quite readable. The jacket is not price-clipped. Laid in a promotional pamphlet from Fisher & Unwin praising and promoting Conrad.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, (1923). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Fine. Original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the front panel and the spine. In an extremely nice example of the alternate full color dust jacket. With Conrad/Unwin promotional pamphlet laid in. Mild foxing along the top edge, else fine. Agrees with all points as listed in Smith.....
London: Metuen & Co., (1915). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright, and solid copy of the first English edition. Published in September of 1915 in an impression of 8000 copies, including Canadian and Colonial export editions. Last page of ads dated 8/15/15. Some pages in the middle of the book remain uncut. 'Methuen's Popular.....
New York: D. Appleton, Century, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. A very nice copy in a somewhat darkened dust jacket. Original orange cloth. Cover art by Peggy Bacon.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Some minor overall wear to the jacket which is price-clipped. Jacket art designed by Merle Armitage.
London: Chatto & Windus, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Author's acclaimed first book. Already reprinted. Unopened and unread. A novel of war time London during the Blitz.
London: Simon & Schuster, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page. Authors second book.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near fine. The jacket is price-clipped, else fine. Previous owner inscription on the ffep, else fine. A very bright and pleasing copy. Cover art by Biro.
Nouvelle Librairie De France, 1948. Paperback. Near Fine / Very Good. Wrappers in original glassine. Illustrated by Joseph Hemard. Preface by Marcel Schwob. The illustrations for this edition are quite lovely.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Re-issue. Tie-in with the Warner Brothers film starring Gary Cooper. This copy shows a contemplative Cooper from a scene from the movie. A nice copy of the book with previou owner inscription to the front free endpaper. The jacket shows moderate edge-wear. Original copyright date is 1922 by.....
London: The Bodley Head, (1938). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. 8vo - 297pp, 4pp of ads. In a very nice example of the complete dust jacket. Original wood engravings to the dust jacket by Joan Hassell. There is a large image on the front panel and a smaller.....
New York: McDowell Obolensky, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A fine copy in all respects of this short story collection.
New York: Donald Fine, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread.
New York: The MaCaulay Company, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very bright and clean copy of this scarce title. A Pro Prohibition novel. The cover art shows a police officer walking towards a parked car where a couple is engaged in matters prurient - brought on, we can suppose, by the evil influence of alcohol.....
London: Orion, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page. The final volume of the highly acclaimed trilogy.
New York: Arthur A. Levine, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A very clean, bright and attractive copy. Unopened and unread.
London: Orion, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. A fine copy in all respects.