THE ENGRAVED DESIGNS OF WILLIAM BLAKE by Binyon, Laurence - 1926

London: Ernest Benn, 1927. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Small name stamp of a noted collector on the front fly, else fine in fine, first issue dustwrapper with the 7'6 price on the spine. A very uncommon title, six long stories with elements of the Victorian about them.

London: Ernest Benn, 1933. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. A tiny, faint spot on the front board else fine in a nice, very good or better dustwrapper, but for an old internal tape repair that has bled through near the crown. Inscribed by the author. A very uncommon title in the first edition. Basis for the 1937 film directed by Jacques Feyder, adapted by Frances Marion, and featuring Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat. Dietrich herself claimed to have directed a few scenes of this rousing film of the Russian Revolution, to the delight of the film's producer, Alexander Korda, who on seeing the footage told his star, "You can direct here any time you want.

London: Ernest Benn, 1932. 16ff. First edition of this selection. Binding A, in wrappers with the title page as the front cover. Together with a copy in the second binding, in which a simulated red linen paper is pasted over the wrappers, with a rectangular cut-out in the front which shows only the "Robert Frost" portion of the original wrappers. Crane notes that leaves on examined copies measure 219 x 134 mm: the present copy of binding A measures 219 x 138 mm, and the second binding is 209 x 134 mm. Both copies are fine. (Crane A16).

London: Ernest Benn, 1933. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Foxing on the foredge and title page, else fine in very good or better dustwrapper with slight overall age-toning. An uncommon title in the first edition. Basis for the 1937 film directed by Jacques Feyder, adapted by Frances Marion, and featuring Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat. Dietrich herself claimed to have directed a few scenes of this rousing film of the Russian Revolution, to the delight of the film's producer, Alexander Korda, who on seeing the footage told his star, "You can direct here any time you want.

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1927., 1927. First edition. First edition. 8vo. One of only 250 copies signed by the author. Fine copy in printed wrappers. Queen's Quorum says "... a decade before, Susan Glaspell had written a one-act play called 'Trifles,' suggested by a murder account she had read in an Iowa newspaper. After the play had become famous, Miss Glaspell recast the material into a short story and titled it A JURY OF HER PEERS. Like the play, the short story became a celebrated piece of literature. It was first printed in 'Every Week,' issue of May 5, 1917, and later reprinted by Edward J. O'Brien in his THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1917. The story, however, has never been included in any of Susan Glaspell's own books published in America; but what is not generally known ... and this is an important bibliographic revelation .... is that the story has had a separate book publication in England. The first edition of A JURY OF HER PEERS is one of the series of… Read More

London: Ernest Benn, 1927. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Small name stamp of a noted collector on the front fly, else fine in fine, first issue dustwrapper with the 7'6 price on the spine. A very uncommon title, six long stories with elements of the Victorian about them.

London: Ernest Benn, 1933. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. A tiny, faint spot on the front board else fine in a nice, very good or better dustwrapper, but for an old internal tape repair that has bled through near the crown. Inscribed by the author. A very uncommon title in the first edition. Basis for the 1937 film directed by Jacques Feyder, adapted by Frances Marion, and featuring Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat. Dietrich herself claimed to have directed a few scenes of this rousing film of the Russian Revolution, to the delight of the film's producer, Alexander Korda, who on seeing the footage told his star, "You can direct here any time you want.

London: Ernest Benn, 1932. 16ff. First edition of this selection. Binding A, in wrappers with the title page as the front cover. Together with a copy in the second binding, in which a simulated red linen paper is pasted over the wrappers, with a rectangular cut-out in the front which shows only the "Robert Frost" portion of the original wrappers. Crane notes that leaves on examined copies measure 219 x 134 mm: the present copy of binding A measures 219 x 138 mm, and the second binding is 209 x 134 mm. Both copies are fine. (Crane A16).

London: Ernest Benn, 1933. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Foxing on the foredge and title page, else fine in very good or better dustwrapper with slight overall age-toning. An uncommon title in the first edition. Basis for the 1937 film directed by Jacques Feyder, adapted by Frances Marion, and featuring Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat. Dietrich herself claimed to have directed a few scenes of this rousing film of the Russian Revolution, to the delight of the film's producer, Alexander Korda, who on seeing the footage told his star, "You can direct here any time you want.

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1927., 1927. First edition. First edition. 8vo. One of only 250 copies signed by the author. Fine copy in printed wrappers. Queen's Quorum says "... a decade before, Susan Glaspell had written a one-act play called 'Trifles,' suggested by a murder account she had read in an Iowa newspaper. After the play had become famous, Miss Glaspell recast the material into a short story and titled it A JURY OF HER PEERS. Like the play, the short story became a celebrated piece of literature. It was first printed in 'Every Week,' issue of May 5, 1917, and later reprinted by Edward J. O'Brien in his THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1917. The story, however, has never been included in any of Susan Glaspell's own books published in America; but what is not generally known ... and this is an important bibliographic revelation .... is that the story has had a separate book publication in England. The first edition of A JURY OF HER PEERS is one of the series of… Read More