London/Oxford: Humphrey Milford/University Press, (1936). First edition. Edited by Herbert Strang. Includes the second appearance of the first published story by Patrick O'Brian, "Wang Khan of the Elephants," which was written under the name Richard Patrick Russ. The first appearance was in a 1933 anthology for scouts. Gift inscription (a..... Item #49674 More
(London): HarperCollinsPublishers, (1992). First edition. SIGNED BY O'BRIAN on title page. The third of a five-novel circumnavigation of the globe, this one set during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. Other novels in this voyage include The Thirteen Gun Salute, The Nutmeg of Consolation, The Wine-Dark Sea, and..... Item #55232 More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1950. First edition. Includes eighteen essays ranging frm "A Hanging" which appeared in 1931 and "Reflections on Gandhi" in 1949. The book is fine with the barest wear in dust jacket with minor wear and chipping on corners and spine ends. Item #55236 More
London: Faber and Faber, (1957). First edition of his first published play. AUTOGRAPH PERSONAL NOTECARD SIGNED BY OSBORNE laid in. The "angry young men" were a group of mostly working- and middle-class British playwrights and novelists who became prominent in the 1950s. The group's leading figures included Osborne was one..... Item #54205 More
New York: Dodd Mead, 1929. First edition of her first book. A novel about a Jewish family's progress in the early 20th century along the coast of Lake Michigan, where the author grew up. Fine in price-clipped Arthur Hawkins dust jacket, which is a little faded and has three small..... Item #46344 More
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, (1969). First edition. Fine in about very good, price-clipped dust jacket with edgewear and chips on corners and spine ends. Item #49519 More
London: Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1931. First edition. One of only 160 copies. Illustrated with numerous full-page facsimile title pages. 4to gilt-stamped red cloth boards; top edge gilt. Good only with hinges starting but still tight; front matter which shows evidence of old glue repair at joints detached and..... Item #55139 More
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1935. First edition thus. Number 565 of 750 numbered copies. Fine in the fragile dust jacket which is good though complete and shows chips, tears, shadows from old tape repair and internal archival-tape repair. Item #55136 More
Dijon, France: Imprimerie Bernigaud Privat, University of Dijon, 1932. First edition of Powell’s first book. He earned his doctorate with this dissertation on Jeffers. Creme wrappers. Map by M.F.K. Fisher. White wove paper throughout, frontispiece of coated paper. One of 225 (one of the 60 trade). Of the 225, 85..... Item #55505 More
New York: Scribner's Sons, (1992). First edition. Her second book of fiction and first novel. Small erasure at top of front endpaper, otherwise fine in dust jacket. Her first books were all non-fiction and issued in small first printings. Item #34035 More
London: Navarre Society Ltd., no-date[1921]. First thus. Two volumes with nearly 100 illustrations by Robinson including the two frontis pieces. Originally published by Grant Richards in 1904 in a quarto edition, privately reprinted for the Navarre Society in this reduced (octavo) format. Geoffrey Beale (Book Collector No. 40) notes: "To..... Item #9528 More
Pompano Beach, FL: Exposition Press, (1985). First edition. Written by an educator, administrator and past president of the PW YWCA, this history of the independent Young Womens Christian Association of Washington DC founded by and for black women chronicles its struggles with the all-white National Capital YWCA at the height..... Item #56056 More
San Francisco, Calif. The Auerhahn Press, 1962. First edition. The book that brought Andrew Hoyem of Arion Press into publishing. A most unusual book of illustrations and poems (more like snippets than poems), each one with a distinct Japanese-style red "stamp." One of 1,000 copies. The images of fish are..... Item #55628 More
New York: Knopf, 1925. First edition. The eighth volume in the author's "Pilgrimage" series. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper, foxing to the uncut front page edges, otherwise the book is very good to fine and with top edge color very good. Half-inch chip at top of front panel of..... Item #49665 More
New York City: Chelsea House, (1925). First edition. Very light foxing on page ends and offset on front endpaper, otherwise fine in very good dustjacket with lightly soiled spine and a chip at top of spine affecting "Wh" in "Whispering." Item #43003 More
New York: Random House, (1953). First edition. A "Random House Play" illustrated with photographs of the stage production. Book and lyrics by Hammerstein, music by Rodgers. "An affectionate survey of footlight life. The town's most skillful showmen pay a fervent salute to the boys and girls who make the business..... Item #19723 More
London: Bloomsbury, (2003). First edition thus, a "Deluxe Edition" issued simultaneously with the first trade edition. 8vo maroon cloth lettered in gilt on front and spine, with front cover pictorial onlay, all edges gilt, and ribbon place marker. Issued without a dust jacket. Fine. Item #56119 More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1938). First edition. Scarce advance excerpt from the first American edition of WIND, SAND AND STARS. 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..... Item #55482 More
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1918. First edition, second state (with page 3 unnumbered). A good or better copy that looks better than it sounds--old damp stains to paper boards, shallow chip in paper at head of spine; in price-clipped, water-stained dust jacket with only minimal edge wear. Item #52959 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938. First edition of her first novel, SIGNED on dedication page in 1981. Cloth a little darkened on spine, otherwise very good to fine in dust jacket worn on edges, with small chips on corners and spine ends (affecting the top of the "S" and "T" at..... Item #30818 More
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1857. First edition. Howes H-178. Including his services as Chaplain in the French and Indian War, and in the War of the Revolution. 1716 to 1790. Frontispiece of author's home with tissue. About very good in decorative dark brown boards with gilt lettering on spine, rear..... Item #52586 More
New York: Random House, (1941). First edition. His first and most famous book. Novel based on his father's life, made into the long-running Broadway musical. SIGNED BY SCHULBERG WITH CRYPTIC "46-61-72" beneath his signature on back of a portion of paper torn from a form still retaining partial name and..... Item #54187 More
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1901. First U.S. edition thus: the revised and "Authorized Edition" adding Shaw's play version and "A Note on Modern Prizefighting." 8vo brown cloth boards stamped in black and white; top edge gilt. Spine darkened and lightly stained, endpapers tanned, otherwise very good. From the..... Item #55060 More
Albany, N.Y. S. Shaw, 1824. First edition. An early Albany imprint. Wright credits Edward Hull as the author. The book was copyrighted by the publisher Shaw but is also credited by some to John Johnson, who was the printer. A narrative tale: Edgar and Caroline, after 280 pages or so..... Item #52532 More
San Diego: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1996). First edition. A Harvest paperback original. INSCRIBED to Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht and wife, "For Tony & Helen: with best wishes, Charlie / Nov 14, 1996 / Strafford, N.H." Fine in pictorial white paperwraps printed in black and red..... Item #53744 More