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New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop / Telemachus Press, 2011. [Crime novel] DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Number 89 of 100 copies thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.324. Publisher's gilt-stamped blue leather-cloth over marbled paper covered sides, light grey endpapers. Fine / as-new. Mystery novel featuring New York private eye Matt Scudder.

[Columbus, Ohio]: Creative Writing Program at The Ohio State University, 1992. Unbound. Fine. Pictorial broadside. Illustrated with a woodcut by Jay Bolotin. Prose fragment from *YONNONDIO From the Thirties*. Measuring approximately 12" x 18". Blank verso with a bit of light soil else fine. Copy number 1 of 200 copies Signed by Olsen and Bolotin. Nicely printed at the Logan Elm Press & Papermill on the occasion of Tillie Olsen's residency in the creative writing program at The Ohio State University, Spring 1992. Artist Jay Bolotin is also a noted country musician and songwriter.

First limited edition first printing of the seventeenth novel in the Matt Scudder series. SIGNED and Numbered by the author. Number 45 of 100 copies. No dustjacket as issued. In fine unread condition.

New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, 2011. First Edition, First Printing, Limited Edition #10/100. Hardcover. Octavo, 2 Volumes. In Near Fine condition, both Volumes wrapped in publisher's paper coverings. Both Volumes have navy blue leather spines with gilted lettering and designs covered with paper coverings. Both Volumes signed flat by Lawrence Block on publisher's tipped in limitation pages, limited editions both #10/100. CONTENTS: Vol. 1, "A Drop of the Hard Stuff", 319 pages - Vol. 2, "The Night and the Music", 237 pages. JW consignment. Shelved in hallway. 1384789. Special Collections.

London: John Murray, 2018. First editions, first printings of The Drop and The Catch by Mick Herron, published by John Murray in London, 2018. 'The Drop; is a fine copy, the boards are tight and free from wear, with slight browning to the text block. The dust wrapper with minor pushing to the foot and head of the spine and dons the iconic Herron silhouette design, it has not been price clipped and shows the original £9.99 net price. SIGNED to page on grey background by Herron. 'The Catch' is also fine copy, with slight pushing to the head and foot of the spine, bumping to the corners and similarly slight browning to the text block. The unclipped wrapper is fine. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Becoming increasingly scarce

[s.i.]: [s.n.], [s.d.,1838?] 10pp. Stitched, as issued. Remnants of original publisher's powder blue wrappers to spine. Spotted. Signed and annotated by the author. [Together with:] A single sheet typescript letter, dated 4th May, 1837, informing Stirling both that his paper on the Seychelles has been read before the Bombay Geographical Society and that he had been elected a member. Three old horizontal folds. An apparently unrecorded offprint, with annotations by the author, of a paper addressed to the Bombay branch of the Royal Geographical Society, 'relating to a shipwreck and a subsequent visit to the Seychelles'. The son of plantation owner Charles Stirling of Ardoch Penn, St Ann's, Jamaica, William Stirling (1794-1871) became an East India Company Bombay Cadet in 1811, achieving the rank of Major in 17th Native Infantry. In 1836, whilst returning to India from London, Stirling and his wife found themselves shipwrecked on Astove Island, an atoll in the Seychelles, where they survived for six months until recused. The paper, which initially appeared as an article in the second volume of the Bombay Geographical Society's transactions (August 1838 to May 1839), contains Stirling's observations made on the local flora, fauna, and climate whilst stranded. In 1843, he published, for private circulation, a full account of his ordeal Narrative of the wreck of the ship Tiger, of Liverpool, (Captain Edward Searight), on the desert island of Astova, on the morning of the 12th of August 1836; to which the text of the present letter from the secretary of the Bombay Geographical Society was appended. Provenance: From the recently dispersed property of the Stirlings of Keir, including books from the library of historian, art historian, and book collector, Sir William Stirling-Maxwell (1818-1878). . 8vo.

London: H.M.S.O.,, 1813. First edition thus of Newton's reports to the Privy Council or the Treasury during his position of Master of His Majesty's Mint, the report signed and dated in print 21 September 1717. Newton was first appointed warden of the Mint in May 1696, rising to the position of Master following the death of Thomas Neale in December 1699. "Macaulay avers in his history that Newton - independently, I suppose, of his public action in reference to the Re-Coinage - has left no exposition of his opinions touching the currency. The eloquent historian thus leaves out of view the well-known report of 1717, upon which was based the reduction of the Guinea from 21 shillings and 6 pence to 21 shillings. It would seem, then, that the doctrinal importance of this Report had escaped recognition from the English historian, though as I have had occasion to ascertain, it was the subject of appreciative comment in France and Prussia more than a century ago. Indeed, I read it first in a German translation, printed at Berlin in 1762." (Horton, quoted in Gray). Foolscap folio (332 x 202 mm), pp. 3. Docket title printed on final blank for folding. Disbound, two sewing holes as issued. Two small sewing holes to centre fold; in excellent condition. Gray 350; Wallis 350.6. World Cat and Library Hub Discover record a 4-page version with the title "Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 1 March 1813; - for copies of all reports, or memorials; made by Sir Isaac Newton, when Master of his Majesty's Mint, to the Privy Council, or to the Treasury, on the state of the coin of these realms: so far as relates to the Treasury." taken from the series of British Parliamentary papers; Accounts and papers, Great Britain, Parliament. (Session 1812-13). House of Commons; 77. We can find no record of the present version.