First UK Edition. Hardcover. London: The Cresset Press, 1949. Octavo; 133pp. First UK edition. Pale blue dust jacket with text in red and black. Red cloth binding with text on spine and cover stamped in gold. Dust jacked is price-clipped, with some foxing, toning, and rubbing on edges. Spine is..... More

New York: Random House, 1941. First Edition. Octavo. 199 pages. Illustrated dust jacket is lightly chipped along edges with heavier chipping at top of spine. Flaps are pasted down, and obscuring a bookplate at front pastedown. Blue boards are lightly worn at visible edges. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper..... More

First Edition. New York: The Overlook Press, 2003. First Edition. Signed by author without inscription and dated 2003 on title page. Illustrated dust jacket with original $22.95 price intact; book in white and orange boards with spine in gilt. Some very light shelfwear to edges of dust jacket..... More

London: Frederick Muller, 1942. First Edition. Octavo; 279 pp. Photo inserts throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with 12/6 net price intact; book in beige boards with red lettering to spine. Materials obviously in keeping with wartime rationing, as the boards are a bit limp and the paper thin. Jacket shows a...... More

Amsterdam: Chez Jean Frédéric Bernard, 1715. 12mo; Vol I Tome I [xiv] + 352pp + 10pp of bound-in hand-transcribed text; Vol II Tome II [ii] + 156pp; Vol II Tome III [xxviii] + 200pp. Vol I frontis. engraved by Bernard Picart; title pages of both volumes have engraved allegorical vignettes;..... More

Hardcover. New York: Rinehart., 1949. First edition with publisher's mark on copyright page. Octavo; 480pp. Red/orange dust jacket with price marked through in black marker. Orange binding with lettering stamped in gold and black on spine. Dust jacket has several small, closed tears along top edge and rubbing on head..... More

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1912. First Edition. 12mo; 148pp. Brown card softcover with lettering and borders in black on face and spine. Reglued spine; hinges eroded but still holding. All corners bumped with some crimps to corners of textblock, now straightened. All outer surfaces lightly soiled. A...... More

Text on poster: Teatr im. Jana Kochanowskiego w Opolu // Opowieski Kanterberyjskie [The Canterbury Tales] // Geoffrey Chaucer // dla Tadka N. [for Tadka N.]. Date: 1976. Height x width: 84cm x 59cm (33” x 23”). Printing information: lower left corner: PZGraf Wrocław 528-78 8-4 0000 B; lower right corner..... More

New York: Random House, 1955. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 162pp. Photo-illustrated title page with scene from the Broadway production. Beige and red dust jacket over gray cloth-covered boards with mounted performance photo to front and gilt and black lettering. Price-clipped jacket shows a couple small tears at top back, toning..... More

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1952. First Edition. Octavo. 260 pages. Signed by author on front free endpaper, "For Pat and Jim, / with the warm regards of / John Loftis / March 2, 1952." Unclipped illustrated dust jacket with original $4.00 price; book in red cloth-covered boards..... More

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1872. New and Revised Edition. Quarto. 860 pages. Rebound in contemporary half leather with gilt decoration, five raised bands, and red leather label to spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. Clarke worked on the concordance for 16 years, and, although it was called 'as..... More

N.p.: [Walter Wanger, prod.], [1936]. Suggested screen treatment, largely in prose, for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. Blue paper covers bound by brass brads with typed titling. 44 numbered leaves. Likely earliest draft of what would become the 1939 film produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by William Wyler, which..... More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1900. Library of English Classics. Octavo; viii, 455pp. Rebound in textured blue leather with gilt rules and red title card with gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers with gilt-ruled leather overlays, and gilt to all page edges. Binding unsigned. Boards bowing outward a bit at fore-edge..... More