California 2022

Limited edition, one of 600 copies, this being copy number one; folio (34 x 26 cm); 127pp., with 30 plates by Bakst, including 20 coloured by pochoir, 5 colour printed and mounted and 5 plain, lettered tissue guards, black and white and colour illustrations in the text, some restoration to gutter, very minor spotting; original cloth backed boards with vignette printed to centre of upper cover, slight browning, original printed dust jacket with Bakst's design, spine replaced and covers repaired, a very good copy.

First edition, 8vo, xiv, 249 pp., 2 folding tables, inscribed copy, contemporary half calf, marbled sides and edges, joints cracked, spine rubbed, a very good clean copy.

8vo, ix, 309 pp., engraved folding map by Samuel Neele (very light waterstain), contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, vellum tips, red morocco lettering piece, light wear, an excellent copy.

Second edition. 4to, xxiii, [iii], 344, [xiv] index, [2] ads pp., folding plate and 4 folding maps, slight spotting, contemporary tree calf, expertly rebacked, original spine richly gilt, with red morocco label, laid down, a fine example.

First edition, 3 vols; 8vo (21 x 15.5 cm); [1], 366pp. including title and half-title, [1] blank; [1] 493pp. including title and half-title, [1] blank; [1], 413pp. including title and half-title, [1] blank, minor stains in each volume, small ink inscriptions to verso of title-page and final leaves in vol.I; contemporary quarter brown morocco over marble boards, spine gilt lettered and ruled, some skilful restorations, morocco entry slipcase, a fine set.

First edition, limited edition, one of 150 copies signed by Barbier, this being number 20; folio (37 x 29 cm); illustrated half-title with colour wood-engraved design, limitation verso, title with colour wood-engraved Harlequin vignette, 12 full wood-engraved colour plates, text in French by Flament, 2 large vignettes, 22 wood-engraved colour four-line initials as well as decorative devices in the text, engraved by Schmied after Barbier, many heightened in silver and gold, final wood-engraved colour vignette, list of plates and colophon, each leaf of text surrounded by decorative frame, marbled endpapers; original pictorial wrapper bound in, contemporary vellum over boards hand-coloured with oriental floral design, signed 'houy pinxit 1929' on the lower cover, marbled chemise with brown morocco label to spine with matching slipcase, slipcase and chemise slightly worn but otherwise an excellent copy.

First edition, folio (41.3 x 28.5 cm); photographic portrait frontispiece, & 77 plates tipped-in (including 50 colour); very occasional marginal spotting; original publisher's half vellum over marbled boards; small stains to vellum.

First edition; 8vo; author's copy with corrections on 13 pages, signed and annotated 'Graham Greene / Author's corrected copy', with a letter from Nicholas Dennys of The Gloucester Road Bookshop, dated 11 January 1989, giving provenance; original green boards gilt, dust jacket.

First edition, first impression, first issue, signed by the author on front free endpaper; 8vo; publisher's boards with gilt Japanese lettering to upper cover and silver lettering to spine, dust-jacket with wraparound artwork design by Richard Chopping, a fine example.

5 volumes, small 8vo (16 x 10.5 cm). Original green printed wrappers. Housed in a cream cloth chemise and matching slipcase. Engraved folding map to rear of volume 1. Early gift inscription to half-title of volume 1. Wrappers a little soiled, chipped, and creased, with some staining to front wrapper of volume 5, contents occasionally spotted and foxed, else a very good set.