New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. One of 3,000 copies [Boormfield A10a], 8vo pale purple paper boards; gilt-stamped black cloth spine; 129 pages. Rear endpaper a bit darkened otherwise bright and fine in near fine dust jacket with only light wear. Item #55930 More
San Francisco, CA: Grabhorn Press for Gelber, Lilienthal, 1934. First edition. Number 51 of 250 copies [Broomfield A17a].Bound in limp orange paper boards. Very good with old tape shadow to bottom front corner. Item #55948 More
![Item #55793 RHYTHM AND RHYME; [with original photograph of Jeffers, sons and dog laid in]....](/pictures/thumb/55793.jpg?v=1659994281)
Monterey, CA: Peters Gate Press, 1966. First edition. Posthumously published first appearance of one Jeffers last poems. Number 472 of 500 numbered copies. Approximately 10.75 x 4.25" cardstock folded once to make 4 pages including covers; housed in original unprinted envelope. TOGETHER WITH an original 3.5 x 4.5" black-and-white photograph..... Item #55793 More
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1967-72. First edition. Three-volume set, each with a different portrait of the President on the dust jacket. Volume 1 (published in 1967) covers 1822 to 1851; volume 2 (published in 1970) covers 1852 to 1857; and volume 3 (published 1972) covers 1858 to 1860. All..... Item #47222 More
(Newcastle upon Tyne): Bloodaxe Books Ltd., (1986). First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Winner of the 1986 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. Item #40272 More
New York: Random House, (1937). First edition. Satirical political musical with score by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart. Illustrated with photographs from the original staged production. Hinges a little darkened, otherwise near fine in somewhat edgeworn, price-clipped dust jacket with spine ends rubbed and nicked (affecting "Kaufman" at..... Item #49079 More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1935). First edition, later printing. Though the copyright page states 1935, actually date of publication for this copy is 1938 {Farah 1938B]. The twelfth book in the series and ninth by Benson. Very good or better with spine ends softened and small bookshop blindstamp on..... Item #54962 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
Evanston, W. M. Carpenter, 1929. First edition. One of only 100 copies printed for private circulation. [Richards B83]. Includes the first book appearance of Kipling's "Speech on Behalf of the Old Boys" and the first appearance of several Kipling letters. A history of Kipling's prepatory school by Chicago manufacturer William..... Item #54182 More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1926. First edition, trade issue. First appearance of Kipling's introductory poem, "The Downs, The Weald, and The Marshes," followed by 24 selections from Kipling's verses, each accompanied by a full-page color Illustration by Maxwell. Small quarto gilt-stamped blue cloth; top edge gilt. Spine ends and corners..... Item #54567 More
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1890. Fourth edition, but the first edition printed in the UK. The adverts at the end are dated February 1890. This edition includes ten poems in addition to those included in the 1888 3rd edition, and features revisions to others. Deep blue cloth, with elaborate..... Item #54081 More
(London: Methuen and Co.), no-date [1919]. First UK edition, preceded by the 1918 U.S. copyright edition. Broadside poem in six stanzas with two on front and remaining four on back. 5.5 x 8" stiff cream paper printed in black on both sides with exterior double frame rule and interior single..... Item #54121 More
![Item #55777 THE GYPSY TRAIL; [Together with motto card printing Stevenson’s poem “Envoy”]....](/pictures/thumb/55777.jpg?v=1656104237)
Boston: Alfred Bartlett / (The Village Press), No-date [1905]. Second edition. But first edition to be printed by the Goudys at their Village Press. Corrects several mistakes in the printing done by Carl Rollins. Both editions and a third done by Cornhill Press in 1909 were unauthorized printings of Kipling's..... Item #55777 More
New York: The Macaulay Co., (1917). First edition. Near fine in aged and lightly soiled dust jacket with small, internal tape repair and a few shallow chips. Scarce in this condition. Item #40135 More
London: Gollancz Ltd., 1961. First edition of his first book. Endpapers replaced otherwise very good or better with gilt spine lettering strong but unevenly tarnished, text block somewhat aged, offset to half-title from item previously laid in, and minor cover soiling and wear. Lacking original dust jacket but with facsimile..... Item #48949 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914. First thus. Introduction by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. One of 350 numbered copies. Author's undated preface. Minor wear, otherwise very good, lacking dust jacket. Item #39915 More
London: Crime Club / Collins, (1947). First edition. Barest sunning to spine ends otherwise near fine. In good to very good price-clipped dust jacket with internal tape repair, general wear and few small chips (one affecting corner of first letter in title on spine). Item #53559 More
Buffalo: Shroud, Publishers, 1955. First edition in hardback of this, the first separate edition of a novella not published in Lovecraft's lifetime combining elements of horror and fantasy to illustrate the scope of humankind's ability to dream. Introduction by George T. Wetzel. One of the designated "50 Specially Bound Copies"..... Item #55404 More
[No Place]: The Strange Company, (1976). First of this edition. Folio No. 3. Number 10 of 150 copies SIGNED by R. Alain Everts, the publisher. The original holograph version and its transcription with an introduction by Everts. 8 ¾ x 10’ loose sheets laid in heavier printed portfolio. Pages not..... Item #55224 More
New York: Knopf, 1919. First edition. "For which the music has been composed by Reginald DeKoven." Illustrations from the play. Minor soiling on a few pages, otherwise very good in chipped and worn dust jacket. Item #39755 More
New York: The Dial Press, 1965. First edition. From the collection of Adeline Lubell-Naiman. INSCRIBED, "To Adeline - In return for a long letter / Norman / Feb 1965." Spine unevenly faded, otherwise about very good in worn but still presentable dust jacket. Adeline Lubell-Naiman was the editor instrumental in..... Item #49637 More
London: William Heinemann, (1930). First edition. Observations from his travels. Lacking the front free endpaper and rear blank otherwise very good with some offset from binding to endpapers. In about very good dust jacket showing some scattered foxing and general light soiling, a bit of fraying to spine ends and..... Item #54048 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934. First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. About very good with cloth binding lightly rubbed and soiled, spine ends and corners rubbed, spine slightly faded and bumped on ends, small tear in cloth at top of spine, rear endpaper lightly soiled, and a few small..... Item #51856 More
New York: Knopf, (1922). First edition. Slight discoloration to few areas of boards and spine lettering very slightly dulled, otherwise near fine in about very good dust jacket with light soiling and rubbing, a few small tears and tiny holes, and half-inch chip to top edge rear panel (not affecting..... Item #54356 More
New York: Knopf, 1917. First edition. Entertaining auto-"biographies" of the two men. INSCRIBED BY MENCKEN "to George W. Myers Jr." Thin, 5 x 7.5" mauve paperwraps printed in black on covers only. Tiny chips at one corner and base of spine, overall fading most noticeably at spine otherwise about very..... Item #50159 More