LITERATURE
THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT: An Arabian Entertainment.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1856. First edition of his first novel. Meredith, known chiefly as a Victorian novelist and poet, is considered important in the evolution from Victorian to modernist novels, for his narrative technique and development of female characters. This appears to be the "B" variant in Carter's "More..... Item #45178 More
ZOMBIE JAMBOREE.
New York: William Morrow and Company Inc., (1986). First edition. His second book, INSCRIBED by author on the half title page. "Lew - A little light reading for the happiest of birthdays. Bob Merkin 26 Aug 86." Fine in white dust jacket with a faint crease in front flap, spine..... Item #36366 More
THE COLOSSUS OF MAROUSSI; [Inscribed, in facsimile dust jacket].
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1941). First edition. This non-pornographic piece must have disappointed publishers anticipating something more lurid from Miller after his "Tropic of Cancer" because ten New York publishers rejected it before Colt Press accepted it with an advance of only 100 USD [Shifreen & Jackson A26b]. INSCRIBED..... Item #53844 More
THE COSMOLOGICAL EYE.
Norfolk: New Directions, (1939). First edition, first issue, with eye on front cover of book. This collection contains a number of Henry Miller's most important shorter prose writings. They are taken from the Paris books Black Spring (1936) and Max and the White Phagocytes (1938) and were for the most..... Item #51815 More
THE HUGE SEASON.
New York: The Viking Press, 1954. First edition. Fine in lightly soiled dust jacket with light foxing to edges of rear flap and two small closed tears to bottom edge of spine with tape repair on verso. Item #35902 More
MY UNCLE DUDLEY.
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1957). First edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Cross country trip in the mid-1920s narrated by Dudley's nephew, The Kid, who recalls how his uncle recruits a group of seven passengers traveling east and uses their deposits to purchase a rattletrap car. Along the way, they..... Item #51957 More
SONG OF SOLOMON.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1978. First UK edition. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with slight sticker shadow on front flap. Item #48574 More
LAUGHTER IN THE DARK.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1938). First edition. Published in England under the title, "Camera Obscura." The first book by Vladimir Nabokov to be printed in the United States. Variant binding in orange cloth stamped in black--one of three variant bindings. Very good with lightly soiled cover, small mark to bottom of text..... Item #51808 More
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1986). First edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To --- in appreciation - with best wishes always! Phyllis Naylor." Page edges slightly age darkened, otherwise fine in dust jacket with minor edge rubbing. Story set in the Chesapeake Bay area..... Item #36374 More
THE THANATOS SYNDROME.
New York: Farrar Straus, (1987). First edition. One of 250 SIGNED numbered copies. A doctor uncovers a criminal attempt to "improve" behavior patterns through drugs in the water. Fine as issued, without dust jacket in slipcase which is a little faded on edges. Item #35528 More
MR. ZOUCH: SUPERMAN: From a View to a Death.
New York: Vanguard Press, [1934]. First U.S. edition of FROM A VIEW TO A DEATH, and first edition with this new title. Very good with spine label a touch faded and rubbed and minor offset to endpapers. Lacking dust jacket. Item #51944 More
MR. ZOUCH: SUPERMAN; From a View to a Death.
New York: Vanguard Press, [1934]. First U.S. edition of Powell's third novel. Issued from the UK sheets of FROM A VIEW TO A DEATH. Very good to near fine with spine label and endpapers a little darkened. In somewhat soiled dust jacket with professional repair to edges and flap folds..... Item #53628 More
SKINNY LEGS AND ALL.
New York: Bantam Books, (1990). First edition. Uncorrected proofs in cream-colored, printed paperwraps. Fine. Item #32509 More
THE IMMORTAL GIRL.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925. First edition. Some shelf wear, otherwise near fine in price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing, some soiling and shallow chipping to spine ends and tips. A bright, attractive copy of an uncommon book and scarce dust jacket. Item #38144 More
FANNY BY GASLIGHT.
London: Constable, (1940). First edition. Fanny's adventures as a "nice girl" through the somewhat tawdry neighborhoods of London. Olive boards and slightly cocked spine lightly rumpled, light offset to pastedowns from the dust jacket, page edges a touch soiled. The darkened, period-style dust jacket has some minor losses to the..... Item #48789 More
ALL THE NAMES.
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (1999). First U.S. edition. Near fine uncorrected proof in paperwraps with a touch of soiling on page edges. Item #28980 More
THE PRIDE OF THE BIMBOS.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1975). First edition of the filmmaker's first book. The story of a five-man traveling softball team that plays in drag. Fine in dust jacket with the author's name in red on spine faded but still readable. Item #36052 More
CASHEL BYRON'S PROFESSION.
New York: Brentano's, 1899. First U.S. hardbound edition. This edition was unauthorized, with the first authorized U.S. edition not published until 1901. Spine ends and tips slightly rubbed and tips lightly bumped, otherwise bright and near fine. Item #33864 More
ACT OF FAITH: And Other Stories.
New York: Random House, (1946). First edition. Very good with foxing on endpapers and light soiling on cloth; in dust jacket with spine tanned, shallow chipping (two chips on top edge of back panel slightly larger) and closed tears. Item #29392 More
ACT OF FAITH: And Other Stories.
New York: Random House, (1946). First edition. Endpapers lightly offset and name and date on front free endpaper, otherwise near fine in dust jacket with spine vey slightly tanned. A bright, attractive copy. Item #30301 More
FRUCHTE DES ZORNS [Grapes of Wrath].
Stuttgarter: Duetscher Bucherbund, no-date. German translation; later printing, as the first was published in Zurich in 1940. Very good with rubbing along the edge of the cover, light soiling to the back board, and a tiny puncture in the cloth binding the size of a pen point on the front..... Item #51354 More
JOURNAL OF A NOVEL: The East of Eden Letters.
New York: Viking Press, (1969). First edition. One of 600 copies. Published the year following Steinbeck's death. Text comprised of letters written to Pascal Covici, his old friend and editor, while working on EAST OF EDEN. 4to silver-stamped half blue cloth and blue paper boards; 182 pages. Illustrated with seven..... Item #52356 More
THE LAST ENCHANTMENT.
New York: William Morrow and Company Inc., 1979. First edition. Fine in dust jacket with very light edge wear. Review copy with review slip and publisher's promtional letter laid in. Item #36193 More
THE WIDOWS OF THORNTON.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, (1954). First edition. Light rubbing to tips and spine ends, otherwise fine in very good to near fine, bright, price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and nicked tips. Item #35655 More