New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., (1956). First edition of his scarce second novel. Basis for the 1962 movie, “Lonely Are the Brave,” starring Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands and Walter Matthau. A presentable ex-library copy with extensive professional repair. Endpapers replaced; color touched up where tape and labels were removed..... Item #72129 More
New York: John Day, (1967). First U.S. edition. SIGNED BY ACHEBE on the title page. Final book in his acclaimed African trilogy. Winner of the first-ever Jock Campbell/New Statesman Prize for African writing. Near fine to fine with gilt spine lettering just slightly dulled; in near fine dust jacket with..... Item #72287 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. First edition. Illustrated with 31 haunting black-and-white photographs by Evans. “...a violent and beautiful book; a supremely moving picture of one stratum of American life and of the effect of this life on two sensitive observers.”—from the dust jacket flap. 8vo silver-stamped black cloth boards; 471..... Item #72066 More
(Winston Salem): Palaemon Press, 1984. First edition. The only edition of this set of 22 broadside poems, printed in red and black, with each broadside SIGNED by the poet. Reportedly one of only 50 unnumbered copies. Issued as a tribute to the founder and president of the Academy of American..... Item #53650 More
London: Faber & Faber, (1930). First edition. One of only 1,000 copies. As issued in 8vo plain white, stiff paperwraps with blue dust jacket lettered in black and bordered in red on front only affixed at spine. Publisher's "Poetry" prospectus/flyer advertising this and two other titles laid in. About very..... Item #72306 More
New York: Viking Press, (1968). First edition, in second-issue dust jacket with 2 reviews below the (shortened) Louis Untermeyer blurb and "SBN 670-41908-7" in bottom right corner of rear panel. (Note: 9-digit SBN's were a precursor to the ISBN system in use today). His second novel and best-known work. The..... Item #72658 More
London: Calder and Boyars, (1967). First edition in English, limited issue. Number 93 of only 100 numbered copies SIGNED BY BECKETT. (Note: limitation unstated and not in Federman & Fletcher). Illustrated with photographs by Ilse Buhs from the January 1966 production at the Schiller Theater in Berlin. Small 8vo buckram..... Item #72371 More
New York: Grove Press, (1961). First edition, a paperback original preceding the UK and French editions. Not issued simultaneously in hardcover, as often seen with these Grove Press productions. INSCRIBED BY BECKETT, "For/ Goddard & Brigitta/ Lieberson/ from their friend/ Sam Beckett/ Paris Oct. 1961." Goddard Lieberson headed up Columbia..... Item #72285 More
(Paris): Editions de Minuit, (1951-1953). First edition of each, in the original French. A set of limited deluxe copies printed on finer paper before the regular copies in the first edition. The three novels in his trilogy later published in English as MOLLOY (1955), MALONE DIES (1956), and THE UNNAMABLE..... Item #72704 More
![Item #72363 MURPHY; [in scarce first-issue binding]. Samuel Beckett](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72363.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724186585)
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1938. First edition of his first published novel. In the first-issue binding of smooth green cloth -- from a total of only 1,500 copies in the first edition, reportedly just 718 were in this first-issue binding and the remainder were issued later in a "cheap..... Item #72363 More
![Item #72362 MURPHY; [signed, limited edition]. Samuel Beckett](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72362.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1752693673)
New York: Grove Press, (1957). First U.S. edition of his first published novel. Number 52 of 100 specially bound copies SIGNED BY BECKETT. 8vo gilt-stamped quarter brown cloth; flecked paper boards with small circular design stamped in gray and pink on lower front corner; 282 pages. Near fine with spine..... Item #72362 More
London: Calder and Boyars, (1967). First UK edition. Number "B 68" of 100 numbered copies SIGNED BY BECKETT. There were also 100 copies in the "A" series (bound in full calf, per Lake). 8vo quarter white calf; light green cloth boards; gilt-stamped front and spine; all edges gilt; 168 pages..... Item #72373 More
New York: Grove Press, [1957]. First U.S. edition of his first regularly published book. Number 5 of 250 specially bound and numbered copies SIGNED BY BECKETT. 8vo gilt-stamped quarter brown cloth; flecked paper boards with small circular design stamped in gray and pink on lower front corner; 72 pages. Near..... Item #72369 More
![Item #72688 STIRRINGS STILL; [signed, limited edition]. Samuel Beckett, illustrated by Louis Le...](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72688.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1777502104)
New York / London: Blue Moon Books / John Calder, (1988). First edition. His final prose piece. Written for his publishers Barney Rosset and John Calder. Number 189 of 200 numbered copies SIGNED BY BECKETT AND LE BROCQUY (from a total edition of 226). Folio gilt-lettered imitation leather (vs. parchment)..... Item #72688 More
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, (1989). First edition. Unifies three novellas in a trilogy "which describe old age (Company), the ending of the world (Ill Seen Ill Said), and the creation of life (Worstward Ho)--John Calder, essay in the Monthly Newsletter (laid in). Number 156 of 550 numbered copies SIGNED..... Item #72689 More
New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1909 - 1912. First edition. Twelve volumes, EACH ONE SIGNED BY BIERCE. (The regular signed limited edition of 250 numbered copies was signed in first volume only.) THIS SET WITH "COMPLIMENTS OF" PAGE SIGNED BY BIERCE IN EACH VOLUME, three of which are signed in..... Item #54511 More
London: Printed for William Innys, Richard Ware, Aaron Ward, et al, 1747. First edition. Two massive full-leather folio volumes with A TOTAL OF 68 MAPS AND 2 PLATES. Lacking only 1 map in first volume. VOLUME ONE -- includes 27 of the 28 maps called for with 9 folding maps;..... Item #71742 More
[Chicago: circa 1986]. Brooks’ letter is written in red ink on the lower third of the recto and upper half of the verso of Henderson’s typed letter dated August 20, 1986 (her response is undated). Her letter reads in part, “I, too, hope the package your aunt sent you will..... Item #72134 More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857 - 1858. First edition. In the ten original monthly parts, each with two full-page illustrated plates at front. Twenty plates in all; plus woodcut illustration by Cruikshank on front of each wrapper. Most with PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION blindstamp on front cover. All lacking..... Item #54140 More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857 - 1858. First edition. The life of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff as imagined by Brough, a writer of satires, burlesques, and radical poetry, as well as more conventional forms of prose. IN THE ORIGINAL 10 MONTHLY PARTS with woodcut illustration on front..... Item #54014 More
![Item #72274 A CLOCKWORK ORANGE; [first-issue binding & dust jacket]. Anthony Burgess](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72274.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718222869)
London: Heinemann, (1962). First edition. In the first-issue black cloth binding and first-issue dust jacket with the wider flaps. Set in a not-so-distant future society with a culture of extreme youth rebellion and violence. Basis for the 1971 movie (reportedly something Burgess was none to happy about as it was..... Item #72274 More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. First edition. Burke's scarcest book with reportedly only 500 copies of the hardcover issue printed. Fine in fine dust jacket. Virtually as new. Item #72098 More
New York et al: Various, 1987 - 2018. First edition -- unless otherwise noted -- of each of the 39 volumes, 24 of which are SIGNED BY BURKE. Covers 17 titles in total with, in some cases, a signed limited edition, first UK edition, and/or advance reading copy provided in..... Item #71680 More
![Item #72304 T ZERO; [inscribed]. Italo Calvino](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72304.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727567706)
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1969). First U.S. edition, preceding the UK. INSCRIBED BY CALVINO on front endpaper, "for Sam Goldberg/ Italo Calvino." Short story collection translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Published in the UK in 1970 as TIME IN THE HUNTER. Fine in fine dust jacket..... Item #72304 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. First edition. A Gideon Fell mystery. Bright and fine in equally bright, very good dust jacket with rubbed edge creasing and tears. A scarce book, especially so in the jacket. Item #54756 More