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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927. First edition. Spine fading, otherwise very good in dust jacket with edge wear and chips on spine ends and corners. Item #42359 More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927. First edition. Spine fading, otherwise very good in dust jacket with edge wear and chips on spine ends and corners. Item #42359 More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. First edition. INSCRIBED BY KENT on tipped-in leaf, "To my friend John J. Kozoy[?]/ with all good wishes, / Rockwell Kent / Asgaard, August 5, 1965." Kent’s own writings on art illustrated with over 130 black-and-white reproductions, including 90 full-page, and a full-color..... Item #55611 More
New York: Winchester Press, 1972. Facsimile reprint, reduced in size from the 1879 edition. Number 380 of 1000 copies. Oblong, 19 x 12.75” portfolio. Gilt-stamped blue paper boards, unprinted black leatherette spine. 47 pp. including map with the 20 reproduction watercolor plates in paper chemise attached inside front cover. Illustrated..... Item #71660 More
New York: Covici Freide, (1933). True first edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Illustrated with photographs from the stage production. Basis for the 1934 film starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy. Faint pale-green stain to lower cover edges (not affecting spine) otherwise would be a crisp near fine copy of..... Item #54807 More
Aldershot: Printed by Gale & Polden, (1933). First edition, for "Private Circulation Only." A brief history of the United Services Proprietary College at Westward Ho!, Kipling’s preparatory school with a preface by his old roommate, Major-General Lionel "Stalky" Dunsterville. Includes Kipling's poem "The Song of the Exiles," which first appeared..... Item #54671 More
New York: American Art Association. 1922. First edition. Auction catalog for items "To Be Sold at Unrestricted Public Sale" on January 26th and 27th, 1922, at the American Art Galleries in Madison Square. 795 items. Hammer prices recorded by hand in margins. 8vo perfectbound paperwraps printed in black and red;..... Item #54538 More
New York: B. W. Dodge, 1909. First edition, unauthorized. Third issue with red lettering printed vs stamped (or gilt); in dust jacket--the only one of the three to be issued in one. Short stories and one poem. Very good in good dust jacket with old tape repair to chips and..... Item #54088 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
Woodside, Heyeck Press, 1990. First edition. The Flowering Quince Poetry Series Number 6. One of 200 copies handsewn in “Heyeck hand marbled paper” from a total edition of 950 (the rest were issued in plain gray stapled wraps). Although not called for, this copy SIGNED by Kleinschmidt on page preceding..... Item #71934 More
[New York]: HarperCollins Publishers, (1998). First edition. Translated and introduced by Joel Agee. Uncorrected proof, fine in tan paperwraps. Includes glossy pictorial dust jacket, with drawings by Maurice Sendak. Item #33314 More
London: Secker & Warburg, (1982). First edition. Former Spectator editor Hamilton writes the first full biography of the life of Hungarian-born writer Arthur Koestler, and his reputation, revolving around the themes of science and communism; and in each area his contribution has been controversial. A review copy with review slip..... Item #55199 More
May Wilson Preston. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1919. First edition. Illustrated by May Wilson Preston and M. L. Blumenthal. More stories from Jack the Kaiser Killer continuing his letters from the ship and on shore in France. Nice copy of the book which is near fine with the barest wear..... Item #55206 More
New York: Random House, (1967). First edition. Based on the novel by Patrick Dennis and the play "Auntie Mame" by Lawrence and Lee; music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. INSCRIBED BY LEE on the title page, "For -- With friendship, admiration and a woeful lack of cleverness! Bob Lee 8..... Item #14216 More
Newark, VT / Portland, OR: Janus Press / Charles Seluzicki, (1986). First edition. Limited to 260 copies including 10 hors commerce. SIGNED BY LE CARRE. Fine, as issued, in marbled paperwraps. Item #71736 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937. First edition. Offset from binding glue has darkened the endpapers, there is soiling to pp.6-7 and p.7/8 is loose, the spine ends are rubbed through to boards, plus the dust jacket is backed with brown paper and has a 2 x 1/2" chip to..... Item #53558 More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1943). First edition of Jane Lewis Brandt's third book, under a pseudonym using her mother's maiden name and her own last name at the time. Murder of a vegetarian. Name on front endpaper, otherwise very good to fine in a nice bright dust jacket with a few..... Item #40261 More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., (1927). First edition. Basis for the film of the same name. Second-state binding with clear "G" in "GANTRY." Bookplate with Keats quote, "The poetry of earth is never dead," on front endpaper. Light marks on pastedowns where items previously removed, corner creases to few..... Item #48166 More
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1966. First edition. One of 3,500 copies. A collection of stories and essays by and about Lovecraft. Also includes August Derleth, C. M. Eddy, Fritz Leiber, et al, Illustrated with a few black-and-white photographs and with full-page illustrations by Frank Utpatel, et al. Fine in..... Item #55216 More
New York: Street & Smith, 1948. First edition. Includes "When You Got a Pigeon" by MacDonald and "Death Between Dance" by Woolrich. Also includes Maxwell Grant, Ken Lewis and Norman Daniels. Pages age darkened, spine ends worn, otherwise near fine in pictorial paperwraps. Item #39976 More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1927). First American edition. His first book to be translated into English. Translated by Lambert Armour Shears. Klaus was the son of Thomas Mann. An opponent of fascism, he was one of the first German writers to go into exile. He went on to become..... Item #33589 More
London: Constable & Co Ltd., (1924). First edition, second issue (the first is very rare) with "First published, 1924" on copyright page. Light offset to endpapers, minor soiling to page edges, touch of rubbing to spine ends and corners, small crease on front bottom edge, otherwise very good to near..... Item #48790 More
Old Westbury: The Feminist Press, (1983). First edition, a paperback original. Sshort stories preceded by introductory headnotes written by Marshall expressly for this collection. Also includes an autobiographical essay, "From the Poets in the Kitchen," and "Merle," a novella reshaped from her 1969 novel "The Chosen Place, The Timeless People."..... Item #42060 More
London, Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd., (1944). First Australian edition (so stated). There is minor unavoidable offset on the endpapers. The front pastedown has a very small bookstore bookplate. Otherwise, fine in dust jacket with slight edgewear and a little age darkening to spine and back panel. Item #43854 More
London: William Heinemann, (1944). First UK edition, preceded by the U.S. The story of a former American fighter pilot searching for meaning in his life. Basis for the 1946 movie starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, and Anne Baxter (who won an Oscar for her role), as well as the 1984..... Item #54201 More
Woodside, Amherst, and Berkeley: Heyeck Press et al, (1987 – 1999). First edition of each. Archive from the collection of Allen K. Mears. 10 bound volumes, including two magazines; 4-page TYPED LETTER SIGNED, AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, brief AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED, AUTOGRAPH POSTCARD SIGNED, and printouts of 2 emails; as well..... Item #71932 More