West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, (1991). First edition thus. Reprint of the 1922 limited edition, adding an introduction by Donald R. Burleson. Bierce's letters to Loveman--who he seemed to have taken under his wing--from October, 1908, until a few months before Bierce disappeared in Mexico in December, 1913, with the..... Item #54069 More
![Item #35247 AH, SWEET DANCER. W[illiam] B[utler Yeats, Margot Ruddock](/pictures/thumb/35247.jpg?v=1547845555)
(London): MacMillan, (1970). First UK edition. The correspondence between Yeats and Margot Ruddock, edited by Roger McHugh. Spine ends slightly rubbed, otherwise near fine in dust jacket with light edge wear. Item #35247 More
New York and Detroit: Glenn Horowitz and Richard Levey, 1987. First edition. One of 200 copies printed at the Kelly Winterton Press in New York of this wonderfully chatty circa 1977 letter offering the upcoming Houghton Mifflin editor (formerly of Kenyon Review) copious words of advice on the best little..... Item #72018 More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1952. First edition. Edited by Dent, with a reluctant preface by Stella M. Beech, daughter of Mrs. Campbell. Near fine in dust jacket showing shelf wear. Item #46858 More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009 - 2015. First edition of each of the three volumes. Edited by James Karman. VOLUME ONE: 1890-1930 (2009, 700 copies printed); VOLUME TWO: 1931-1939 (2011, 525 copies printed); VOLUME THREE: 1940-1962 (2015, 425 copies printed). Collector Allen Mears' copies, each one marked up lightly in..... Item #55447 More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1883. First edition. Two volumes. Deluxe large paper issue. Number 153 of 250 copies. Small 4to (approximately 6.5 x 9.75") orange cloth boards with black paper spines and orange paper spine labels printed in black and red; in orange paper dust jackets with matching..... Item #71897 More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. First edition. Selected, edited and with commentary and introduction by Wheelock. Inner hinges a little darkened (from binding glue), top edge slightly soiled; otherwise near fine in very good dust jacket with spine lettering a little tanned and shallow chipping, particularly to head of..... Item #55079 More
(West Warwick): Necronomicon Press, 1979. First edition. Edited by S. T. Joshi and Marc A. Michaud. Collects letters to the editor referencing Lovecraft and his works from the Weird Tales' column, "The Eyrie, from 1923 to 1953. Includes bibliography of Lovecraft's appearances in Weird Tales and list of contributors --..... Item #55980 More
(Puerto Rico): Carrefour, (1939). First edition. Correspondence spanning the years 1935-1936 between Miller and Michael Fraenkel, the model for Boris in TROPIC OF CANCER. 12mo off-white paperwraps printed in red and black. Near fine in original tattered and worn glassine. Item #55981 More
(Puerto Rico) / New York: Carrefour, (1939 / 1941). First edition. Two volumes. Correspondence spanning the years 1935-1938 between Miller and Michael Fraenkel, the model for Boris in TROPIC OF CANCER. Both volumes in off-white printed paperwraps. Volume I is bright, clean, unopened and very nearly fine with just a...... Item #54037 More
London: Faber & Faber/Harvill Secker, (2013). First edition. One of 100 (of 110 total) numbered and SIGNED copies. The Nobel Prize-winning author Coetzee and the author and director Paul Auster met in person for the first time in February 2008. Soon after, they began exchanging letters on numerous topics. An..... Item #53268 More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co., (1910). First trade edition. The book was also issued in a limited edition of 200 copies. Very minor cover wear, otherwise fine in a very good, age-darkened dust jacket with shallow chips on corners and spine ends, except for the one at..... Item #39883 More
![Item #72110 A LETTER FROM ROBINSON JEFFERS; [Limited edition broadside print]. Robinson Jeffers](/images/noimage-req.png)
No-place: no-publisher, 1964. First edition, first separate appearance [Broomfield A50a]. One of 250 copies "printed for their friends of the Roxburghe Club and for their other friends at Christmas, 1964, by Kerwin Whitnah and Arlen H. Philpott." Prints the text of Jeffers' letter to Sister Mary James beautifully answering her..... Item #72110 More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. First edition. Includes 22 letters by "Celebrated Intellectuals" many of whom were Nobel Prize recipients including Karl Capek, Albert Einstein, Selma Lagerlof, Sinclair Lewis, Maurice Maeterlinck, Thomas Mann, Romain Rolland, Bertrand Russell, Upton Sinclair, H. G. Wells, Rebecca West, Izrael Zangwill, et al...... Item #55651 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First edition. Selected and annotated by the Fogue, with a personal note from Hamilton Owens. Near fine in dust jacket. Item #46986 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
London: Macmillan and Co., 1920. First edition. Three sections of letters, 24 letters in all. 8vo gilt-stamped red cloth; 284 pp + 4 pp ads; top edge gilt. Hole in last page of text not affecting any lettering, front board bumped at top corner and a little shaken, otherwise near..... Item #54021 More
Pacific Palisades: Rasselas Press, 1982. First edition. Frontispiece drawing of Maugham and facsimile handwritten letter. Printed leterpress by Patrick Reagh. Edited and with an introduction by Loren R. Rothschild. One of 26 SIGNED lettered copies (signed by Reagh and Rothschild). There were also 274 unsigned, numbered copies. Gray cloth with..... Item #42721 More
(London): Village Press, (1975). First edition. Introduction by Ronald Hall. Near fine in stiff paperwraps with rubbing along edges. Item #29125 More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. Posthumous collection of Thoreau's letters to family and friends, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, who edited this work. Also includes nine poems. BAL 20116, binding variant A, presumed to be the first one. Original green HC (pebbled) cloth. A good, strong, and still attractive..... Item #56010 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. First edition, presumed second issue or printing with date on title page but "Note" added at bottom page vi, following author's preface, crediting Margaret Preston for material appearing on pages 56-88 ("credit for use of these extracts was inadvertently omitted from the first edition..... Item #72001 More
[Philadelphia]: Presbyterian Board of Publications, 1840. First edition. An unattributed account of the spiritual life of John Blackader interwoven with extracts from his diaries and letters in which he speaks of "Providence" and prayer. 16mo quarter leather; pebble-cloth boards with gilt stamped "Life of Col. Blackader" and "26" just barely..... Item #51638 More
(Lexington, KY: Joe Petro III, 2004). First edition. "Vonnegut's searing and wry recounting [that] laid the foundation for his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five" (publisher Joe Petro). Prints Vonnegut's heartbreaking May 29, 1945, letter to his parents informing them he is no longer missing in action and recounting his capture and escape..... Item #53795 More
(Shavertown, Pennsylvania): Sligo Press, 2004. First edition. One of 110 numbered copies SIGNED by Mailer and Lennon, of which 10 were hors commerce. An additional forty copies were issued for presentation. A selection of letters on the book AN AMERICAN DREAM and his decision to publish it in eight installments..... Item #47966 More
(Shavertown, Pennsylvania): Sligo Press, 2004. First edition. PRESENTATION COPY, signed by Mailer and inscribed by the editor to recipient of the letter appearing on pp.26-27 herein, "To Adeline [Lubell Naiman], Best wishes, Mike." From an edition of 150 copies signed by Mailer and Lennon, of which 10 were hors commerce..... Item #50630 More