New York: Harper & Brothers, 1932. First edition. Review copy with stamped on front cover of dust jacket, "RELEASE DATE FOR REVIEW NOV 16 1932." Very good with foxing on top page edges, soiling on cover and light offset on endpapers. In a soiled dust jacket with spine tanned and..... Item #39886 More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1993). First edition. INSCRIBED on title page "To Doris [Grumbach] - | With admiration & affection, | Liz [printed "Elizabeth" crossed out] | April 2, 1993 | NYC". Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #30774 More
New York , Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., (1943). First edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped, aged dust jacket, a little darkened on spine and with a small closed tear and very slight edgewear, and old tape reinforcements on verso in a few places. Item #41497 More
London: A. M. Philpot, Ltd., 1925. First edition. Frontis portrait of Bennett. Page top edges gilt. Illustrated with a few photographs. Very good in the scarce dust jacket, with spine sunned, marginal chipping, and splits at folds mended on verso with archival tape. Item #46536 More
New York: Atheneum, 1967. First edition. SIGNED BY BENTLEY on front endpaper. More essays from "our most distinguished critic of the theatre" (from the dust jacket flap). 8vo gilt-stamped green cloth boards; yellow top edge and endpapers; 241 pages plus brief biography. Fine in very good dust jacket with spine..... Item #72095 More
London: John Morphew and E. Curl, 1713. First edition of the second part bound together with the third edition of the first part, each retaining its original title page. Bentley was an English classical scholar, critic, theologian and Master of Trinity College. He is credited with creating the English school..... Item #52808 More
San Francisco: Franciscan Press | Bray & Beran | Beck-Gerlach Printing Company, Inc. | L'Esperance, Sivertson & Beran, 1930 | 1931 | 1948. First edition of each. Collection of books published, designed and/or printed by San Francisco printer Christopher “Chris” Raymond Beran who, it would seem, quietly worked in the..... Item #71970 More
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New York: Holt, Rinehart, (1974). First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Fine in dust jacket with red spine lightly faded. Item #28963 More
Marcia Erickson. New York: Dodd Mead & Co, 1972. First edition. Review copy with slip laid in. Fine in dust jacket with a creased tear on the bottom-right corner. Item #41180 More
(No-place): Shoemaker & Hoard, (2005). First edition. Collection of Berry's essays plus two others by Daniel Kemmis and Courtney White. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY BERRY on endpaper, "To Walter & Jane/ love & admiration from/ Wendell/ 12/14/05." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on..... Item #72154 More
![Item #72101 WHAT ARE PEOPLE FOR? [Inscribed association copy]. Wendell Berry](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72101.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675286653)
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. First edition. Essays and two poems. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED on endpaper, "To Walter Sullivan/ in return, with thanks/ and many good wishes./ Wendell Berry." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature and one of the founding..... Item #72101 More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986. First edition. INSCRIBED BY BERRY on title page, "Signed for Jane & Walter/ with appreciation & many/ good wishes./ Wendell Berry/ 11/30/94." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature and one of the founding members of..... Item #72181 More
London: John Murray, 1945. First edition. Light edge rubbing, names and dates on front free endpaper, some bubbling to pastedowns near hinges and light offset to free endpapers near hinges, otherwise very good or better in lightly soiled dust jacket with tanned spine, shallow chipping to spine ends (not affecting..... Item #34921 More
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874. First edition. His third book. Dark fairy tales collected from his appearances in the British periodical "Fun"; illustrated with satirical wood engravings by the Dalziel Brothers. It should be noted although Starrett (4) contends an 1873 paperback precedes this hardcover, BAL (1100) proved the..... Item #54109 More
New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1909 - 1912. First edition. Twelve volumes, EACH ONE SIGNED BY BIERCE. (The regular signed limited edition of 250 numbered copies was signed in first volume only.) THIS SET WITH "COMPLIMENTS OF" PAGE SIGNED BY BIERCE IN EACH VOLUME, three of which are signed in..... Item #54511 More
(San Francisco: Tales for Travellers, 1982). First edition thus: Number 11 in the short-lived "Selected Short Stories by Great Writers" series devised by James H. Schmidt in 1982 with the intent of providing quality reading material for daily commuters that was inexpensive enough to share. Originally issued in 4 slipcased..... Item #71815 More
West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, (1991). First edition thus. Reprint of the 1922 limited edition, adding an introduction by Donald R. Burleson. Collects Bierce's letters to Loveman, who he seemed to have taken under his wing, from October 1908 until a few months before he disappeared in Mexico in December..... Item #54069 More
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(London: John & Horace Cowley, 1897). First edition. In the publisher's original pale-green cloth lettered in black and with illustration by Will M.Bradley stamped in red and black on front and rear covers; "Volume 1" at base of both boards blacked out, as usually seen. Illustrated with photographs of contributors..... Item #54079 More
London: John Camden Hotten, [1873]. True first edition, preceding the U.S. [BAL 1096]. Bierce's first book, written while he was living and working in London, and for which he was never paid -- Hotten died before the post-dated check he'd given Bierce came due. 12mo gilt-stamped purple-brown cloth with gilt..... Item #71993 More
New York: Duffield and Company, 1920. First edition. Translated from the Spanish by Jacon S. Fassett, Jr. Herrera (1889-1956) went on to become a famous director and screenwriter in the 1940s and 1950s in Argentina (wiki), however the playwrights and their plays remain as obscure in the US today as..... Item #50982 More
New Y ork: Grosset & Dunlap, [circa 1919]. First of this Photoplay edition, which we assume was issued about 1919, or later, as that is the year the first movie, with Ralph Denny, was made. Another movie, starring Abbott and Costello and with Robert Cummings, was made in 1940 under..... Item #52239 More
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1996). First U.S. edition. Few small separations at hinge of half-title page (hinge is still tight), otherwise fine in bright dust jacket. Item #36155 More
New York: Harper & Row, (1968). First edition. A book of short stories. INSCRIBED, "For Nancy and Roger All the best Stephen Birmingham 1982 & again in '89." Bookplate on front pastedown and cloth a little faded on spine and top edge, otherwise fine in dust jacket. Item #34778 More
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., (1961). First edition of his third book. INSCRIBED (3 times) "For Meg Balcom with warmest good wishes from Bill Steers and me author, Stephen Birmingham." Again on front endpaper, " '61 Nancy and Roger. Here I am again. Stephen Birmingham '89." And again on back..... Item #34775 More