New York: Viking Press, 1958. First edition. Three holiday-themed stories--"Christmas Party," "Easter Parade," and "Fourth of July Picnic"--plus one more for good luck, "Murder Is No Joke." Minor crimp to base of spine, otherwise fine in very good dust jacket with spine toned from red to gray though lettering still..... Item #49695 More
Norfolk: New Directions, 1954. First edition of this, the first separate book appearance of his account of Christmas from his own childhood in a small town in Wales. Tiny stain to page fore edge but stiill fine in near fine dust jacket with a bit of darkening to spine and..... Item #55252 More
1954-1963. Typed correspondence signed simply "Nelson" with the exception of the Christmas card which is signed in full. To poet and long-time friend John Ciardi (1916 - 1986), a poetry editor for the Saturday Review and Breadloaf Writers' Conference director. 1954 postcard from Algren notifies Ciardi he's sending Italian translations..... Item #53851 More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., (1948.). First edition, limited to 1500 copies. Privately printed for the friends of the author and publisher as a New Year's Greeting for 1949 [Gallup A52a]. Black boards show tiny scrapes to the unprinted spine and at corners, still very good or better. Issued..... Item #47363 More
![THE HUMORIST: A Companion for the Christmas Fireside [Two volumes]. W. H. Harrison](/pictures/thumb/54541.jpg?v=1576034585)
London: R. Ackermann, 1831 and 1832. First edition of each of the two volumes. The first volume, published in 1831, contains 31 stories and poems and is illustrated with 50 engraved plates and numerous vignettes from designs by T. Rowlandson. The second volume, published in 1832, contains 21 (different) short..... Item #54541 More
(Dublin): Dolmen Press, (1953). First edition. The Beginninng of the Gospel of Saint John; illustrated with wood engravings by Elizabeth Rivers. One of only 500 copies. Small 8vo (5.25 x 8"); 8 pages plus endpapers; pages unopened. Tan card covers printed in black and dark red; white dust jacket printed..... Item #52526 More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1990). First separate edition, a limited issue of the first story in Tilghman's collection IN A FATHER'S PLACE. Issued as a New Year's greeting to friends of the publisher. Fine in white, stapled paperwraps. Item #51292 More
Chicago: Lakeside Press/Donnelley & Sons, 1961. First edition, a Lakeside Classic issued for Christmas 1961 with historical introduction by Harwell. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover and spine, gilt top edge, tissue-protected frontispiece portrait of General J. E. B. Stuart. Fine. Item #52666 More
(San Francisco): Centaur Press, 1949. First edition. Limited to 1000 copies. Broughton's play illustrated by Daniel Harris in his first appearance as "Zev." The first book from the press founded by Broughton and Kermit Sheet. SIGNED BY BROUGHTON on half-title page and INSCRIBED WITH A LARGE DRAWING BY ZEV on..... Item #53548 More
(No-place: Privately printed, 1956). First edition. A poem. Single leaf, folded twice to make four pages including covers. Printed in red. Front cover prints a Christmas and New Year's greeting and notice of the couple's upcoming move to Farnham, Surrey, on January 2, 1957. SIGNED "Sylvia & Leonard Strong" in..... Item #1424 More
(New York: Knopf / Spiral Press, 1933 -1937). First edition. Small archive of a friendship between Frost and Phillips Palmer. Includes a chapbook, THE LONE STRIKER (1933), presentation copy INSCRIBED, "For Phillips Palmer / from Robert Frost / 1933." Number eight of The Borzoi Chap Books. Thin, tan, handsewn paperwraps..... Item #55069 More
![THE WILD GARDEN; [Advance excerpt from WIND, SAND AND STARS]. Antoine de Saint Exupery](/pictures/thumb/55482.jpg?v=1566082305)
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1938). First edition. Scarce advance excerpt from WIND, SAND AND STARS issued as holiday greeting. One of 1,000 copies "privately printed for the friends of the author and his publishers as a New Year's Greeting. The story is taken from the forthcoming book, 'Wind, Sand..... Item #55482 More
[No place: No publisher, circa 1930s]. First edition. Thin, stapled, silver-flecked, red paperwraps printed in black. Includes "Scurrilous Clerihews," "Anagrams on Eminent Authors." "Relaxed Crossword Puzzles," and more. About fine. HOLIDAY GREETING. Item #49479 More