Galsworthy John Sinjohn (30 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. White/green paper covered boards. Limited edition, #19/30. Gift inscription to ffep to Gene Fowler, American journalist, author and dramatist, by Earle Bernheimer. Ex-college library copy with bookplate, pencilled numbers, no other library markings. Very slight soil to spine, mildly softened top corners. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Signed by Author. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition. Hardback, original cloth with title label cloths laid in to spine and upper board. 19.5 × 12.5cm, 257pp. John Galsworthy's second novel, published under the pseudonym of John Sinjohn (used by Galsworthy to test the literary waters, and to protect his wealthy family's reputation). It is a novel about the is about the clash between passion, particularly artistic pursuits (such as painting), and the mundane world of money, business, and social expectations. Condition: A good reading copy. The covers are heavily tanned, and the pages are age-toned throughout. There is a little wear to the front hinge but essentially this copy remains in strong readable condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: good. . no dustjacket, 1/4 leather bound, 1897 Thackeray Hotel limited ed, marbled boards, some foxing to end papers, light tanning to pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. [Galsworthy, John) Sinjohn, John (pseud.) A MAN OF DEVON. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1901. FIRST EDITION of the author's fourth and rarest book, a first edition which, in terms of survival and as a condition-rarity, ranks #1 out of all Galsworthy's major works. This is the NEAR FINE (one corner bumped, tiniest bit of wear) copy which belonged to Florence Henniker, Thomas Hardy's collaborator and love-interest, a woman who was part of Galsworthy's literary circle (her bold ink ownership signature on half-title). An excellent ASSOCIATION COPY and particularly desirable in the light of Galsworthy's later refusal to reprint or acknowledge any his first four "John Sinjohn" pseudonymous books (which fictionalized poorly-veiled personal life details, including the illicit affair he had with his cousin's wife). Curious Florence Henniker may have found out about Galsworthy's authorship of A MAN OF DEVON on the sly as Galsworthy did not present, as far as we know, a single copy of the four Sinjohn first editions to friends or family. This copy's provenance further includes the legendary collection of Oliver Brett, 3d Viscount of Esher (1881-1963, bookplate). A MAN OF DEVON consists of four short stories, one of which contains the first appearance of a Forsyte Character: "The Salvation of Swithin Forsyte." This short story was the seed that launched the nine legendary Forsyte novels as well as two TV miniseries (1967 & 2002). So here you have it: his rarest book in superb original condition, with an alluring association, and the first place one can read the story that launched a literary saga which still has relevant and iconic value to our 21st century. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. First Edition. 246 pages. The first book published by the Nobel Prize winning author. A collection of short stories. First edition (first printing). Cover stained and unevenly faded. Tidemarks to front pastedown. Hinges cracked. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Both titles printed in a limited edition of 60 copies and then the plates destroyed. The two titles have been handsomely rebound together in full tan leather with gilt lettering and marbled endpapers for a private library. Original contents lightly tanned but still in fine condition with new leather binding in fine condition. Photographs upon request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Scarce first edition of John Galsworthy's second novel, released under pseudonym John Sinjohn, published in 1898 by Duckworth & Co., London. Includes an apparently custom-made (though possibly original to publication?) green cloth case whose spine features same gilt typeface as book spine; spine appears glued on the structure. Case is a full enclosure with fold-out pocket; has sustained some damage, including some mottling to cloth and partial tear and fraying to cloth along right edge of spine, but is intact and usable. Book itself bound in green buckram, features dent at bottom right corner of front board, partial fade to gilt on spine, some rubbing/color loss toward base of spine, apparently reconstructed front/rear hinges; rear board features some moderate staining and mottling. Binding solid, pages free of markings.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. 257pp. 1st edition, 1st issue 1900. Spine sunned. Boards a little marked. Slight foxing to first and last few pages, with occasional foxing thereafter. Private ownership. (bs55).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. White/green paper covered boards. Limited to 60 copies, this being #32. Small stain to top edge, trace shelfwear, else tight and square. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Near fine. Sm 4to [21] Rare. One of 60 copies, privately printed for Earle J. Bernheimer; with a facsimile of Galsworthy's typed manuscript and Ada Ga lsworthy's ALS to Bernheimer concerning the publication.facsims (incl ALS).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Green/white paper covered boards. Slight darkening to white paper interior board edges, trace shelfwear. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Green/white paper covered boards. Limited edition #28 of 30 copies. Inscribed to the ffep by Earle Berhneimer to Bertram Rota, bookseller. Near fine with trace rubbing/soil to covers, slight split to paper at gutter near heel. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Near fine. Sm 4to [21] Rare. One of 60 copies, privately printed for Earle J. Bernheimer; with a facsimile of Galsworthy's typed manuscript and Ada Galsworthy's ALS to Bernheimer concerning the publication.facsims (incl ALS).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Near fine. Sm 4to [21] Rare. One of 60 copies, privately printed for Earle J. Bernheimer; with a facsimile of Galsworthy's typed manuscript and Ada Ga lsworthy's ALS to Bernheimer concerning the publication.facsims (incl ALS).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. 246pp. 1st edition 1897. Gilt titles to spine and front board. This is the author's first book and issued in an edition of only 500 copies. Spine and boards marked and slightly rubbed. Corners bumped and scuffed. Some splitting to front inner hinge. A little spotting to pastedowns. A scarce book. Private ownership. (p2).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. Near fine. Sm 4to [21] Rare. One of 60 copies, privately printed for Earle J. Bernheimer; with a facsimile of Galsworthy's typed manuscript and Ada Ga lsworthy's ALS to Bernheimer concerning the publication.facsims (incl ALS).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Near fine. Sm 4to [21] Rare. One of 60 copies, privately printed for Earle J. Bernheimer; with a facsimile of Galsworthy's typed manuscript and Ada Ga lsworthy's ALS to Bernheimer concerning the publication. Mylar DJ supplied.facsims (incl ALS).…

Hardcover. First edition. Unpaginated. 27 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 59 of 60. An article written by Galsworthy in 1899 in a now nonexistent newspaper with the original corrections made by Galsworthy. Spine slightly toned. Quarter vellum spine and green boards. Near fine.

257 pp. 8vo, publisher's rose cloth with white cloth labels. First edition, first state of binding. A very good copy with some fading to spine, some very slight fraying to spine label, and some overall soiling. Slight foxing to text.

246 pp. 8vo, publisher's green cloth. First edition. Tiny impressed bookseller's label to front free endpaper; light browning to preliminaries; otherwise good to very good with some darkening and rubbing to cloth. There are a few small stains to the back board; front hinge cracked; but a sound copy. Author's first book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of probably his most uncommon book. 8vo. 306pp + [ii] + xxxii publisher's catalogues at rear. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and in black at the upper board. Top edge dust soiled. Spine ends and corner tips rubbed. The cloth a little dust soiled, and the spine lettering just fractionally defective. W.H.Smith subscription library label partly removed from the front free endpaper (but with no further indications of institutional ownership). The binding cracked and tender at the half-title, and with some spotting and soiling to occasional leaf margins. Quite a bright copy of a notoriously scarce title: the author's fourth book and the final one published under his 'John Sinjohn' pseudonym. Includes the story 'The Salvation of Swithin Forsyte', the first appearance of a Forsyte character, entering here five years before 'A Man of Property'.…

First edition of the author's first novel, dedicated to Joseph Conrad. John Sinjohn was the early pen name of the Nobel Prize-winning writer John Galsworthy; the pseudonym was abandoned in 1901. First edition; 8vo; title page printed in red and black, 2pp ads at rear, library bookplate to front pastedown, else unmarked internally; publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, corners very slightly rubbed, else very good; housed in custom red cloth chemise and quarter red morocco gilt slipcase, lightly rubbed.…

309 pp. 8vo, full green morocco, gilt panelled spine, t.e.g., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. First edition. A few light marks to rear board, otherwise a nice copy. Author's second book.

First Editions. Three titles in original green boards, white cloth spines. The Rocks and Corduroys published in 1937 and limited to sixty copies, both #52, P. E. N. Club published in 1939, limited to 30 copies and signed by Bernheimer. Near Fine collection in vintage cloth clamshell case.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Green cloth stamped in gilt, TEG. . First edition of Galsworthy's first book; only 500 copies were printed (Marrot p. 3) PO stamp to rear endpage. Cloth rubbed, slightly soiled, edges/corners lightly bumped. Sound and square copy. In cloth folding box and slipcase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good to very good (cloth rubbed, sl stains). Sm 8vo [8]+306+ads Marrot, pp7 -8; One of 1050 copies printed. Beautifully housed in a custom maroon half morocco slipcase; matching folding chemise.None.

First edition, first impression. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and foliate design gilt to spine and front board, top edge gilt. Extremities rubbed, spine faded, bottom corners of p.77-82 clipped but not affecting text block. A very good copy.

First edition, sole impression. Galsworthy's third novel introduced the Forsyte family, who later served as the basis of the Forsyte Saga. It was also his "first work which somewhat satisfied him" (Dupré, p. 33). The Nobel Prize-winning writer dropped his John Sinjohn pseudonym the following year. One of 1,000 copies produced, this copy is in the second issue binding, the cloth in light pink as opposed to cherry, with slightly more ornamental lettering at the foot of the spine, and with the publisher's device on the rear cover stamped using a different block. Marrot, pp. 5-6. Catherine Dupré, John Galsworthy: A Biography, 1976. Octavo. Original pink cloth, white cloth labels on spine and front cover, fore and bottom edges uncut. Housed in custom pink cloth folding box. Spine faded, ends bumped, light marks to cloth and rubbing to extremities, tiny wear to lower corner of front cover, light browning to front free endpaper, sporadic internal foxing, still a very good copy overall. …

First Edition. JOCELYN, Duckworth & Co., 1898, first edition, spine lettering faded, inner hinges tender, but a vg copy of this, the authors first novel. Housed in a slightly worn custom slip-case.

[GALSWORTHY, John]. Sinjohn, John. From the Four Winds. Orig. green cloth stamped in gilt. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. [with] Jocelyn. Orig. gray-green cloth. London: Duckworth and Co., 1898. [with] Villa Rubein. Orig. red cloth, paper labels. London: Duckworth and Co., 1899. [with] A Man of Devon. Orig. blue cloth. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1901. Lovely editions of Galsworthy's first four books, all published under a pseudonym as he did not wish to use his real name while his father was still alive. From the Four Winds is a first edition. Villa Rubein is a first edition, first issue, in the first binding, of which only 250 copies were produced and thus is quite rare to find in such nice condition. A Man of Devon is notable for the inclusion of the short story "The Salvation of Swithin Forsyte," introducing the Forsyte family of characters for whom Galsworthy would become most famous. All with slight edgewear, else a very good or better set of Galsworthy's first published works.…