With the Collaboration of Michael Sadleir.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (for the National Book League), 1947. tall 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. xiii, 50 pages. With the Collaboration of Michael Sadleir. No plates in this edition. READ MORE about VICTORIAN FICTION, AN EXHIBITION OF ORIGINAL EDITIONS
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 2917
London: Oxford University Press, 1948. 8vo. cloth. viii, 160 pages. First edition. A tribute book presented to this publisher to the University of Oxford. With articles by Michael Sadleir, S.C. Roberts, R.W. Chapman, Simon Nowell-smith, A.L.P. Norrington and others. Spine slightly faded. Ink inscription in corner of free endpaper. READ MORE about ESSAYS MAINLY ON THE NINETEENTH CENTURY PRESENTED TO SIR HUMPHREY MILFORD
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 23658
Paris: La Nouvelle Edition, 1949. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, wrap-around advertising band. 341, (3) pages. First French edition. Noted bibliophile Michael Sadleir's novel "These Foolish Things" translated into French by Jules Castier. Includes song "These Foolish Things Remind Me of You" with music on page (9). Pages unopened. With Sadleir's pencilled note "1949" on front free endpaper. Wrap-around band slightly torn. Browned throughout and wrappers darkened, but a nice copy. READ MORE about BAGATELLES
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 59739
London: Constable, (1940). 8vo. paper wrappers. vii, 490, (2) pages. Rare advance proof copy of this title. (Nowell-Smith A36). Heavily darkened and browned throughout due to the exceedingly poor paper used, wrappers and edges of some leaves creased and frayed and backstrip frayed at spine ends. READ MORE about FANNY BY GASLIGHT
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 59576
Paris: Le Nouvelle Édition, (1947). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 522, (6) pages. First French edition (retaining the English title) and first edition of this translation. Browned throughout. READ MORE about FANNY BY GASLIGHT ROMAN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 59670
London: Constable, (1947). small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xi, 501 pages. First edition. A long novel by this bookman on the London underworld of the 1870s. The dust jacket and frontipiece were drawn by John Piper. Tear in jacket and chipping around edges. READ MORE about FORLORN SUNSET
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 10288
Toronto: Longmans, Green and Company, 1947. (1946), 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. xi, 501 pages. First Canadian Edition. Soiled and frayed dust jacket with piece of back cover missing at the top. Presentation from Sadleir on half-title "John Arlott from Michael Sadleir Dec. '46." READ MORE about FORLORN SUNSET
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 59578
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. 8vo. cloth. xi+(i), 339, (5) pages. First U.S. edition of this novel by the writer of essays of books about books (Not noted by Nowell-Smith). Contains an "Advertisement to the American Edition" by the author in four pages at the beginning. Spine and covers faded. READ MORE about PRIVILEGE, A NOVEL OF THE TRANSITION
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 59658
Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1980. 8vo. cloth. vi, 154 pages. First edition. In every area of study, a few names are recorded as those who transformed the world in which they worked. Michael Sadleir will always be associated with the bibliography and collecting of 19th-century books. This volume contains selections of Sadleir's works as well as a lengthy biography and checklist of his writings. Volume Five of the Great Bibliographer Series. READ MORE about MICHAEL SADLEIR, 1888-1957
Price: $18.50 Order nr. 10290
London: Constable & Co., 1934. 8vo. parchment backed marbled boards. x, 144 pages. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Volume 7 of the 10 volume Bibliographia Series edited by Michael Sadleir. A few facsimile title pages. Minor cover rubbing. READ MORE about POINTS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY VERSE, A BIBLIOGRAPHER'S AND COLLECTOR'S SCRAPBOOK
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 7832
London: Constable & Co., 1934. 8vo. parchment backed marbled boards. x, 144 pages. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Volume 7 of the 10 volume Bibliographia Series edited by Michael Sadleir. A few facsimile title pages. Covers rubbed. Foxed. READ MORE about POINTS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY VERSE, A BIBLIOGRAPHER'S AND COLLECTOR'S SCRAPBOOK
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 21320
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1937. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xi, 104 pages. First edition (Nowell-Smith A31(a)). Interesting talk on a bibliomaniac. Has a bibliography of Wrangham's writings. Light wear along front hinge. READ MORE about ARCHDEACON FRANCIS WRANGHAM 1769-1842
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 59581
