(New York: Mulholland Books / Little, Brown, 2013). True first edition, preceding the UK. SIGNED BY BOTH ABRAMS AND DORST on front endpaper at a NYC ticketed signing event, Nov. 23, 2013. Original event program included. A story within a story conceived by Abrams and executed by Dorst. A copy..... Item #55430 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. First edition. **MISSING PAGES 37-43.** The book that grew from Agee's 1936 assignment for Fortune Magazine documenting conditions faced by sharecropping families in the south during the "dust bowl." Agee and Evans (on loan from the federal government, according to the jacket flap) spent eight weeks..... Item #54584 More
Boston: Ticknor & Co., 1888. First edition. First issue with printer's imprint "J. J. Arakelyan" on copyright page and "wore" for "were" p.210:8. His famous Utopian novel. Included in Bleiler's Science Fiction, Grolier's 100 American Books before 1900, Merle Johnson's High Spots of American Literature and many others. In brown-orange..... Item #55166 More
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874. First edition. His third book. Dark fairy tales collected from his appearances in the British periodical "Fun"; illustrated with satirical wood engravings by the Dalziel Brothers. It should be noted although Starrett (4) contends an 1873 paperback precedes this hardcover, BAL (1100) proved the..... Item #54109 More
Berkeley, CA: Editions Koch, 2003. First edition, DELUXE limited issue. All twenty fragments – ranging from a few words to 66 lines – of the poem generally referred to as "On Nature" by pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides of Elea (active circa 475 BC) translated from the Ancient Greek and with..... Item #55883 More
New York: The Center for Book Arts, 2005. First edition. The Center's 30th-anniversary publication, a stunningly innovative work. NUMBER 3 OF 60 COPIES offered for sale from a total edition of 75 (five of which are artist's proofs). INSCRIBED BY BRINGHURST, the author and book designer, " for Allen Mears..... Item #55884 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
(La Jolla: circa 1958). Undated TYPED LETTER SIGNED "RAY." To the British mystery writer who was Chandler's London solicitor, friend and frequent correspondent, Michael Gilbert, on 6 x 9" off-white paper with return address of the small cottage rented by Chandler near the end of his life at 824 Prospect..... Item #54900 More
New York: William Morrow, (1991). First edition. THE ELUSIVE HARDCOVER ISSUE -- SIGNED on the title page by Collins and dated "Jan 1992." The book was issued simultaneously in softcover and even that issue is scarce. An early selection of poems from the eventual Poet Laureate, exhibiting his usual wry..... Item #53538 More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. 1857 and 1858. First edition, in the original, untrimmed and unopened monthly parts: TEN OCTAVO PARTS IN PICTORIAL PAPERWRAPS, housed together in gilt-lettered green-cloth chemise with bookplate of Maude M. Monell and matching green-cloth slipcase. Pale yellow pictorial paperwraps each with woodcut after..... Item #54014 More
London: Published for the artist by David Bogue, [1847]. First edition. The six-shilling superior-paper issue was stitched into wrappers (vs being offered on one large sheet for a single shilling). Eight plates on heavy paper with tint block added for shading (vs untinted). Includes original title page and paper covers..... Item #56024 More
(London): Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition. Issued in 4 monthly parts. This copy with four parts bound together by Bradstreet; cover of first part (only) bound in at front. 5 full-page illustrations by Cruikshank and numerous illustratrations in the text. Bound by Bradstreet in three-quarter leather over marbled boards;..... Item #54534 More
Pasadena: Upton Sinclair, (1920). First edition, presumed later issue or state of the binding with "By Upton Sinclair" on front cover deeply and elaborately stamped over in gilt. INSCRIBED BY DEBS on front endpaper, "For Roland A. Gibson, a college student with vision and courage and with a high purpose..... Item #71536 More
Isaac Robert Cruikshank. London: John Lowndes, 1822. Two volumes. (VOLUME 1) FIRST EDITION: Folding hand-colored frontispiece etching, "Mr. Wilkinson, Mr. Burroughs & Mr. Wrench, As Logic, Jerry & Corinthian Tom...," by Robert Cruikshank. Bound (together with Songs, Parodies etc below) in 8vo gilt-stamped polished calf by Riviere & Son with..... Item #54607 More
Lisbon, Iowa: Penumbra Press, 1977. First edition. Number 126 of only 200 copies of the former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning POET'S FIRST BOOK. Number four in Penumbra's "Manila Series." Unprinted, brown, string-tied paperwraps; housed in publisher's printed envelope. This copy INSCRIBED, "For Jeff, with warm wishes from one book..... Item #52919 More
London: Faber and Faber, (1957-60). First edition of each of the four volumes comprising his most critically acclaimed work. JUSTINE shows light foxing to page edges but is otherwise near fine in very good or better dust jacket with slight toning to spine, light soiling and tanning and tiny chips..... Item #53820 More
London: Knight & Lacey, 1827. First edition thus: with hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and 12 hand-colored aquatint plates by Theodore Lane. Bound by Baynton in straight grain red morocco with raised gilt-stamped spine bands and compartments with gilt-lettering and rule as well as four ornaments of a sporting motif -- fox..... Item #54559 More
London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1822. Second edition. IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS. Thirty-six hand-colored etchings by Robert and George Cruikshank. 6.5 x 10.25" gray paper boards printed in black; five vignette scenes from the play on front and back covers; 376 pages plus two separate eight-page booklets of publishers ads..... Item #55563 More
New York: Random House, (1952). First edition. His National Award-winning first book. Ranked 19th on the Modern Library list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century and one of Time Magazine's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Anthony Burgess called it "a masterpiece." Crisp and..... Item #54193 More
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(Torrance, CA): Labyrinth Editions, 1980. First edition. Deluxe issue. Two volumes, the second being a PORTFOLIO OF BROADSHEETS WITH EACH ONE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR & ARTIST and including an AUTOGRAPH POEM SIGNED BY EVERSON. A stunningly beautiful production. Selected for inclusion in surveys of fine contemporary press work by..... Item #55585 More
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1939. First edition. One of only 100 copies of his second book and first to be hardbound. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY EVERSON TO HIS FRIEND AND OYEZ PUBLISHER, "for Bob Hawley/ very happy to inscribe this copy of/ San Joaquin/..... Item #55619 More
New York: The Vanguard Press, (1934). First edition. INSCRIBED but we don't not know to whom. Long, hand written, filling pastedown and front end paper, also signed on next blank. "Here are some of my first stories, written between 1927 and 1934." then discussion about the titles of the stories..... Item #54602 More
London/ New York: Duckworth & Co./E. P. Dutton, [1907]. First edition. Like his earlier artists' studies, this one is published in the "Popular Library of Art" series (later printing copies are in the "Masters of Painting" series). INSCRIBED, "For George Keating / Ford Madox Ford," most likely in the 1930's..... Item #53788 More
New York and London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1915. First edition [Harvey A49]. "A lively, personal, and extremely persuasive indictment of modern Prussianism" (Daily Telegraph). INSCRIBED on the half-title page, "For George Keating / Ford Madox Ford." After Ford's heart attack in 1931 left him broke, Keating offered to pay his..... Item #53793 More
(New York: Knopf / Spiral Press, 1933 -1937). Small archive documenting a friendship between Frost and Phillips Palmer. Includes a chapbook, THE LONE STRIKER (1933), presentation copy INSCRIBED, "For Phillips Palmer / from Robert Frost / 1933." Number eight of The Borzoi Chap Books. Thin, tan, handsewn paperwraps printed in..... Item #55069 More