(Santa Cruz, CA: University of California, 1965). First edition. Address written for the 1965 opening of the University of California Santa Cruz campus. The only other copy recorded is at UCSC. According to OCLC, this was a keepsake given out at the 3rd annual UCSC charter banquet, so presume actually..... Item #55392 More
London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1905. First edition. Selections from The Spectator by Symons with an introduction by him. Illustrated by H. M. Brock. 12 mo, 310 pages. Bound by Bayntun in three-quarter red leather with marbled boards and endpapers, gilt-lettered spine with five raised bands, and top edge..... Item #54023 More
New York: Walker & Co., (1991). First edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by him on the front endpaper. Photograph of Albert laid in. Fine in a bright dust jacket. Item #29818 More
New York: Macmillan Company, (1963). First edition. His travel writings -- of a sort -- focusing on trips to England, Seville, Crete, Istanbul, Paris, et al. LARRY McMURTY'S COPY with his signature dated "1964" at head of front endpaper. Touch of foxing to endpapers and few bumps to lower front..... Item #55008 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1942). First edition. INSCRIBED BY ALGREN, "For Jimmy Cannon, Who knows it's from the depths the stars shine clearest, God bless his Merry Christmas. Nelson Algren, '57." Journalist Jimmy Cannon (1909-1973) was inducted to the International Boxing Hall of Fame for his coverage of the..... Item #54153 More
New York: Coward-McCann, (1938). First edition. A novel by the playwright most famous for his plays "Holiday" (1928) and "The Philadelphia Story" (1939), which were both made into films starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant (Wiki). Rough, light-brown cloth covered boards lettered in gilt on front and spine. Endpapers a...... Item #41774 More
New York: Viking Press, 1983. First edition. His first novel. SIGNED by Bell on the title page. Near fine in dust jacket with barest shelf wear to edges. Item #48503 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
New York: Harbinger House, (1942). First edition. Poetry collection from the "King of Greenwich Village Bohemians" who descended into dereliction after making a name for himself in the 1920s and '30s (Wikipedia). ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED, "To [William] Saroyan/ A poet to another poet/ --- is there/ any difference?/ Maxwell Bodenheim."..... Item #55982 More
New York: Dial Press, 1958. First edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. "The sexual, moral and intellectual lives of four people of his generation, from the 1920's, through the depression, WW II and the 1950's." Fine in bright dust jacket with a touch of light wear at spine..... Item #32558 More
New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, (1933). First edition. Dark blue cloth cover and gilt lettering very good to fine in very lightly soiled dust jacket slightly tanned at spine, with two small chips and one small closed tear. Item #23866 More
Berkeley, CA: Editions Koch, 2005. First edition. Presentation copy of this limited edition, No. 52 of 200 SIGNED and numbered copies. INSCRIBED on the title page "for Allen Mears: / an ancient bottle of old wine / Robert Bringhurst / 6 October 2005." The book is a sequence of 12..... Item #55877 More
New York: Coward McCann, (1932). First edition. Second book in his tetralogy about one man's escape from the coal mining life in fictional Wiggam's Glory, Ohio. Near fine in like dust jacket with tiny chips on corners and spine ends. A nice copy of a scarce book. Item #54402 More
Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1977. First edition thus. Two volume set. Casa Guidi Windows is edited with an introduction by Julia Markus. Sonnets From the Portuguese is a facsimile edition of the British Library manuscript, edited with an introduction by William S. Peterson. Both have color frontispieces. Number 977 of..... Item #51595 More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1936). First edition. Very good to near fine with very subtle spotting to covers and a touch of light foxing to prelims. In bright dust jacket with scattered foxing to spine and few inconspicuous tears, otherwise near fine. Item #53949 More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. First edition. Uncorrected proof in pale peach printed paperwraps. Includes the laudatory poem "Jeffers" which opens with "his blood-smeared horizons/ his hawks casting shadows of/ doom/ his stallions greater than/ men" (p.177) and lists Jeffers among other authors he holds in esteem in "nowhere"..... Item #55513 More
New York: Knopf, 1946. First edition. INSCRIBED on front endpaper. Near fine with spine ends bumped, minor rubbing along the edges, and a few small marks of soiling to the spine. In a very good or better dust jacket with a touch of soiling and rubbing, and shallow chipping to..... Item #51509 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. First U.S. edition. Translated from the French "with a supplementary chapter, narrating the most recent events" by John Oxenford. Dark (green?) cloth boards decoratively blind stamped on covers and with gilt lettering on spine. Tissue map--a facsimile of a Chinese map of the course..... Item #52561 More
New York: Macmillan, 1925. First U.S. edition. Translated from the Czech by Lawrence Hyde. The story of an engineer who discovers "Krakatit" -- an explosive powerful enough to destroy the world. Bright and nearly fine with barest wear and one small stain to page fore edge. In dust jacket with..... Item #53967 More
(New York): Random House, (1951). First edition, in the first-issue rough-cloth binding. Faint offsets to pastedowns (from jacket flaps) otherwise near fine to fine; in very good price-clipped dust jacket with light stain on front panel affecting final "S" in "GRASS," edges and folds a bit rubbed, few small tears..... Item #55016 More
London: Michael Joseph, (1949). First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket and the "Book Society Recommend" wrap-around band, as issued. Item #54219 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First edition. Cloth at spine slightly faded and spine label lightly tanned, otherwise near fine in very good or better, lightly edge worn and rubbed dust jacket with small scrape on spine. Item #28096 More
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1958). First edition, preceding the U.S. edition. First issue boards stamped in silver versus yellow. The final (complete) Philip Marlowe. Near fine in price-clipped dust jacket lightly rubbed at spine ends, tips and folds. Bottom half rear flap clipped out, good only thus. Item #53943 More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953. First edition of his second book. Very minor cover wear and neatly written name on front endpaper; in dust jacket with minor wear on corners and spine ends. Item #50372 More
Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1920. First Canadian edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK and first to feature Belgian private detective Hercule Poirot. Issued from sheets of the true first edition (NY; John Lane, 1920) and preceding the London edition (Bodley Head, 1921). We record only one other copy offered for..... Item #52258 More