New York: Somerset Publishing Co., 1936. First edition, INSCRIBED, "For Herbert B. Elliston from L. L. B. Angas." Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas was born into a family with a banking background. He was educated in both England and France and earned a Master of Arts degree at Oxford University before..... Item #54595 More
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., (1960). First edition of the New Yorker magazine editor and contributor's first book; first appearances of all thirteen of short stories included herein. Dust jacket design by Edward Gorey. Near fine in very good dust jacket with light rubbing to spine and corners, spine ends..... Item #55164 More
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1989). First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Review copy with publisher's information and photo laid in. Top page edges slightly darkened near spine, otherwise fine in dust jacket. Item #21850 More
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[New York]: (Serendipity Press, 1978). First edition. One of 150 copies in slipcase per the publisher (copy of "Bookways" article in which the publisher states there were 150 copies included). The complete collection of 36 small pamphlets and broadsides printed as keepsakes by presses in the U.S., Canada and UK..... Item #55502 More
(La Quercia, Italy: John Van Sickle and Giulia Battaglia, 1971). First edition. Number 116 of 180 numbered copies. An additional 20 copies were printed on varying colored paper. THIS COPY INSCRIBED TO PRIZE-WINNING POET ANTHONY HECHT, "For Anthony Hecht, with great esteem, this volume that provoked my life-long study of..... Item #54273 More
New York: Viking Press, (1978). First edition. Review copy with slip, photograph and publisher's letter laid in. INSCRIBED and dated on front endpaper. Laid in is a TLS from Apple "...I also remember that years ago when you were at The New Republic you were, I think, the first person..... Item #30775 More
New York: R. H. Russell, 1902. First edition, presumed trade issue without frontis or small "Finis" design [Gullans & Espey, 71B]. Selections from Longfellow's translation. Illustrated with 39 large and 4 small decorations by the Armstrong sisters -- Margaret, the esteemed designer and illustrator known for her Art Nouveau book..... Item #54547 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Top page edges soiled and light shelf wear, otherwise fine in bright dust jacket with closed edge tear and light wear to spine ends and tips. Item #38199 More
London: Macmillan, 1864. First edition. Arnold argues for a state system of middle-class education. Red pebbled cloth over limp boards; lettered in gilt. Minor cover wear but still very good or better. Item #49962 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition. A novel of the American revolution. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #38143 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First edition. Very good with faint foxing and some wear along the edges, most noticeably at the spine ends. In a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and soiling, and small chips at the spine ends and corners. Item #50780 More
New York/London: Doubleday, Page/William Heinemann, 1922. First edition. The Doubleday, Page issue, with Doubleday on spine. Good to very good with minor wear on corners and spine ends and spine shaken, lacking dust jacket. Item #50461 More
(Winston Salem): Palaemon Press, 1984. First edition. The only edition of this set of 22 broadside poems, printed in red and black, with each broadside SIGNED by the poet. Reportedly one of only 50 unnumbered copies. Issued as a tribute to the founder and president of the Academy of American..... Item #53650 More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1967). First edition. Second state with "Now reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press. c[opyright] 1959, 1962, 1957, and 1960 (respectively) by John Ashbery" pasted onto copyright page. According to the printer, there were 1000 copies total: 250 of the first state, 250 of the second state..... Item #35556 More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956. First edition of the poet's first regularly published book. In the Yale Series of Younger Poets, with a foreword by W.H. Auden. Award-winning poet Anthony Hecht's copy with his ownership signature on front endpaper. The book is fine in near fine dust jacket with..... Item #53616 More
New York: The Viking Press, (1984). First edition. INSCRIBED by prize-winning poet Ashbery to Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht and wife on title page, "for Tony and Helen with love, John Ashbery / May 23,1984." Spots of excess ink to fore-edges of last several leaves (appears to..... Item #53732 More
London: The Medici Society, (1930). First edition thus. Very good with rubbing along the edges and faint offset to the endpapers, but otherwise in excellent condition. Dust jacket is tanned and split along the spine (but repaired with archival tape on verso), with several small closed tears and a chip..... Item #51581 More
New York: Association Press, (1973). First edition. Brooks on 82 plays from the period with Hirschfeld's drawings. Fine in lightly soiled, very good dust jacket with rubbing along the edges and spine ends but still an attractive copy with no chips or tears. Item #51198 More
(Dickerson: Quill & Brush, 2004). Includes a facsimile of the author's signature; a brief biographical sketch; list of the author's first editions (American and British) current to the date of publication of the guide, with entries for limited and trade editions; number of copies (if available); how to identify the..... Item #22926 More
AtwoodM.pdf. Item #22738 More
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, (1961). First edition. "Letters revealing his life as a painter," selected and with foreword by W.H. Auden. Illustrated with 8 tipped-in color plates of paintings and 24 drawings in black and white. Bright and fine in very good dust jacket with creased tear to top..... Item #54492 More
(London): Faber & Faber, (1933). First edition. One of only 1200 copies in the first printing. Green paper-covered boards stamped in black on front and spine. Near fine with few inconspicuous nicks to paper covering; in near fine dust jacket with clean tear to spine internally repaired with tape. A...... Item #35592 More
London: Faber & Faber, (1948). First British edition of his Pulitzer Prize winner. Preceded by the American edition published the previous year, Fine in slightly aged dust jacket with spine just a bit darkened. Nice copy. Only 3,000 copies. Item #43662 More
AudenW.pdf. Item #43904 More
