London: Heinemann, 1901. First UK edition. Conrad and Ford's collaborative quasi-science-fiction novel exploring a societal shift in power. Two volumes: the first issue without dedication page [Cagle A6(3)a] together with a copy of the seldom seen remainder issue [Cagle A6(4)]. FIRST ISSUE is in Cagle's binding "a" with top edge..... Item #53845 More
London: Alston Rivers, 1905. First edition. 12mo gilt-stamped red cloth boards; top edge gilt; 176 pp. Fading to spine and edges, endpapers considerably darkened, small chip and tear to front endpaper, hinges starting but still tight; altogether good. Item #71839 More
F. Madox Brown. London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1892. Stated "Second edition," though we assume this is actually a second printing or even the first edition, first printing with a new title page inserted (see below). His first book, written to amuse his sister Juliet and published when he was..... Item #53794 More
London: Longman, Green and Co., 1917. First edition. This relatively scarce pamphlet printing Ford's translation of Pierre Loti's work is heavily illustrated with photographs of the devastation to France by Germans during WW1. In his introduction, Ford says "today the tall wheat rises over that field behind Becourt Wood; for..... Item #53781 More
London, New York, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton [George H. Doran Company], 1915. First U.S. edition. Not recorded in Harvey [A48]. Issued with British sheets, including the Hodder & Stoughton title page; in red cloth (vs grayish-brown) with Doran imprint at base of spine; lettered in black on front cover and..... Item #53816 More
London: Blackwood and Sons, 1900. First edition, one of only 525 copies [Harvey A8]. Cinque Ports is a confederation of maritime towns and coastal villages in Kent and Sussex originally formed for military and trade purposes. It lies at the eastern end of the English Channel, where the crossing to..... Item #53776 More
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1907. First edition. Ford's impressionist examination of England and Englishness. Contents revised by Ford for this U.S. omnibus edition, the publication of which precedes the UK publication of the final volume in the trilogy, SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE. In 1905, the Daily Mail called..... Item #71537 More
London/ New York: Duckworth & Co./E. P. Dutton, [1905]. First edition. Holbien (c.?1497 - 1543) was a German and Swiss artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style [Wiki]. Like his earlier artists' studies, this one is published in the "Popular Library of Art" series (later printing copies..... Item #53785 More
London: Duckworth & Co., 1911. First edition. Scarce volume of poetry published during the run-up to WWI. "[Two of the poems] are true music. They are rare music." (Ezra Pound, Poetry Review, March 1912). Original tan paperwraps lettered and decorated in green. This copy without errata leaf; no priority established..... Item #53782 More
London/ New York: Duckworth & Co./E. P. Dutton, [1907]. First edition. Like his earlier artists' studies, this one is published in the "Popular Library of Art" series (later printing copies are in the "Masters of Painting" series). INSCRIBED, "For George Keating / Ford Madox Ford," most likely in the 1930's..... Item #53788 More
London/ New York: Duckworth & Co./E. P. Dutton, no-date [1902]. First edition. His second Pre-Raphaelite study, following his 1896 his work on Rossetti's teacher and Ford's grandfather, Ford Madox Brown. Published in the "Popular Library of Art" series (later printing copies are in the "Masters of Painting" series). In an..... Item #53786 More
New York and London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1915. First edition [Harvey A49]. "A lively, personal, and extremely persuasive indictment of modern Prussianism" (Daily Telegraph). INSCRIBED on the half-title page, "For George Keating / Ford Madox Ford." After Ford's heart attack in 1931 left him broke, Keating offered to pay his..... Item #53793 More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1913. First edition. Not published in the U.S. 32 pages of publisher's ads at rear, as called for [Harvey, A41]. In his entry for this book, Harvey quotes a letter from Ford effusing over YOUNG LOVELL as "a pretty big and serious historical work, rather like..... Item #53757 More
New York / London: John Lane / Bodley Head, 1915. First edition, American issue. One of his most famous and most scarce works, a novel set before World War I chronicling the tragic lives of two couples using intricate flashbacks. Provenance, R. P Blackmur, poet, critic and teacher, with his..... Item #53152 More
London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1921. First edition. Stapled paperwraps. A good copy only with covers somewhat darkened and worn and spine fold splitting at ends. Still, wholly intact and interior nearly fine. Item #71744 More