Shakespeare & Co

First edition, first impression; 8vo; ownership inscription to front free endpaper date 'Day of Publication' with a poem written out in pencil beneath, foxing to endpapers; publisher's grey cloth, titles to spine in red, with the dust jacket. A very good copy in the tanned and little marked and stained dust jacket.

8vo; full complement of blank pages; printing department binding of green cloth, gilt lettered lettering-piece to spine (later addition), plain paper endpapers to front (paste-residue showing and offsetting), heavier, more finished salmon ones to rear, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, soiling and fading to boards and spine but sound and solid; hand-written letter loosely inserted (215 x 140 mm), folded horizontally twice, creased at corners, short split to right margin of each fold, otherwise very good.

First editions, first impressions; 4 vols, 8vo., comprising Justine, internally fine save for mild signature erasure shadow to front free endpaper, dust-jacket, with two small, closed tears to rear panel to spine faded and ends chipped, light dust-soiling, otherwise very good and a better than usual example, 1957; Balthazar, internally fine, corners for boards a little worn, dust-jacket toned at extremities and on spine, wear to extremities of panel folds, restoration to head and base of spine, small chips to top of same, otherwise near-fine, 1958; Mountolive, internally fine, dust-jacket toned, more so to spine, rubbed at extremities, otherwise near-fine, 1958; Clea, internally fine, dust-jacket, slight fading to spine, and chipping to upper corner folds, otherwise very good, 1960; original cloth, bright, in all a very good-plus set.

First edition, first printing; 8vo; title printed in black & brown, plates and facsimiles; publisher's brown cloth, a fine copy, printed dust-jacket, some very mild toning to extremities but overall an excellent example.

First edition, first printing, review copy with ink stamp and publisher's ink note to title; 8vo; publisher's red cloth, a fine copy, dust-jacket, minor superficial rubbing to one corner and spine ends, but overall a fine example.

First edition; large 8vo (215 x 150 mm.); some toning to margins as usual, small closed tear and ink stamp to final blank leaf; publisher's printed wrappers, 2 minor tape reinforcements to inside of each wrapper with small closed tear to top edge of lower wrapper, but overall very good.

First edition; 8vo; publisher's green printed wrappers, minor rubbing to spine edges but overall very good.

First edition; 8vo; neat bookplate to front free endpaper, tape reinforcement to rear hinge; publisher's green printed wrappers, spine slightly dulled, price stamp NF 18 to lower cover with original price scored through.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; browning to text block as usual; publisher's pictorial wrappers, very mild rubbing to extremities, overall a fine, bright copy.

First edition, number 107 of 200 copies printed by François Bernouard for Nancy Cunard's Hours Press on Canson-Mongolfier Soleil velin M.R.V. Paper, inscribed presentation copy from the author; 8vo; decorative initials in oriental style by Dorothy Shakespear Pound; publisher's linen cloth, lettered in red, some mild fading and toning, but overall very good.