Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930. First edition thus: illustrated with 6 color lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Number 211 of 350 numbered copies on Rives paper in the "American Edition" (from a total edition of 790 copies in Europe and the U.S.). Oblong 4to gilt-stamped 3/4 red leather; whimsically patterned paper..... Item #72635 More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1866 and 1872. First UK edition to be regularly published of ALICE IN WONDERLAND (after the suppressed 1865 edition) and first edition of THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS with correct first-issue/printing point present on p.21, "wade" for "wabe" [Williams 10 & 21, respectively]. Each volume finely bound..... Item #72399 More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First edition. In lovely polished red calf binding by Root with original buff-colored covers and spine bound in at rear. 12mo full red leather with covers triple ruled in gilt; gilt decorated raised spine bands, 4 floral design gilt-stamped spine compartments and 3 brown leather..... Item #72447 More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First edition. INSCRIBED BY CARROLL on half-title page, "Mrs. Bell/ from the Author./ Mar. 29, 1876." Rebound in early 20th century binding by Roycrofter Lorenz Schwartz of 12mo full blue leather with gilt-stamped nautical designs on both covers; gilt-ruled turn ins; marbled endpapers; all edges..... Item #72400 More
(London): Folio Society, 2016. First edition thus. Number 923 of 1,000 copies numbered and SIGNED BY VAN SANDWYK on original copperplate etching tipped in at front (from a total edition of 1,030). Issued to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first edition. Text follows the revised edition of 1897 with..... Item #72713 More
Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1920. First Canadian edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK and first to feature Belgian private detective Hercule Poirot. Issued from sheets of the true first edition (NY; John Lane, 1920) and preceding the London edition (Bodley Head, 1921). We record only one other copy offered for..... Item #52258 More
(New York): Viking, (1985). First edition. National Book Award winner and basis for the 2022 movie starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, et al. INSCRIBED on half-title page, "To Barbara [underlined]/ Don DeLillo," Near fine with black page opposite the title page showing few light spots (appears they occurred..... Item #72137 More
![Item #72395 LADY FREEDOM AMONG US; [signed by author and artist]. Rita Dove](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72395.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727567705)
(West Burke, VT: Janus Press, 1994). First edition, and only edition. Just 110 copies in total. The thought-provoking poem written (and read) by Dove in commemoration of the return of the repaired and refurbished "Freedom" statue to its perch atop the then-newly restored Dome of the United States Capitol, October..... Item #72395 More
![Item #72065 SISTER CARRIE; [Scarce first British edition]. Theodore Dreiser](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72065.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670450871)
London: Heinemann, 1901. First UK edition. One of only 1500 to 2500 copies printed (estimates vary) of “the MOST INTERESTING, AND PERHAPS THE SCARCEST (except the first American) of all Dreiser books” (Vrest Orton, DREISERANA: A Book About His Books, NY: 1929). Issued as the 6th volume in the short-lived..... Item #72065 More
Edinburgh: W. Sutherland, 1823. First edition. Although this particular edition issued for the Caledonian is not listed in Albert M. Cohn's bibliography of Cruikshank's works, this is Cohn's own copy with his bookplate on front pastedown and penciled note, "of the greatest rarity/ have seen no other copy/ AMC." Cohn..... Item #54555 More
New York: The Vanguard Press, (1934). First edition. TWO-PAGE INSCRIPTION (recipient not named) beginning on the front endpaper and continuing on the pastedown -- "Here are some of my first stories, written between 1927 and 1934. They contain -- obvious to a reader who is fair minded and intelligent --..... Item #54602 More
![Item #72350 THE AFRICAN QUEEN; [full leather design binding by Fitterer]. C. S. Forester](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72350.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724186586)
London: William Heinemann, (1935). First edition. Basis for the classic film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Beautifully rebound in full leather with riverboat-on-the-water design, spine lettered in gilt, all edges speckled, and marbled endpapers. Gentle toning to spine otherwise quite fine. Item #72350 More
[London]: Michael Joseph, (1937). First edition. First book in his Hornblower series. Only 12,000 copies printed. SIGNED BY FORESTER on the half-title page. 8vo green cloth boards stamped in silver on spine; 287 pages. Very good with spine mellowed but lettering still bright, light foxing to page edges, and spine..... Item #72351 More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., (1924). First U.S. edition. One of his best-known novels. Winner of the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, selected as one of the 100 great works of English literature by the Modern Library, and included on Time Magazine's "100 Best English-language Novels..... Item #72349 More
Kiel | Altona | Hamburg: Royal School Book Printing Office | J. G. Salomon | J. H. Krogmann, 1819 [and circa early 1800s]. Three books bound in one. Includes a HYMNAL (1819, 24th edition), PRAYER BOOK, and book of EPISTLES AND GOSPELS. (The latter two are undated without statement of..... Item #72740 More
London: Faber and Faber, (1954). First edition. In second issue or impression dust jacket with reviews for this title on both flaps (vs. description of this title on front flap and ad for another title on rear flap). His first and most famous book, which was not a great success..... Item #72432 More
Cambridge, et al: Granta Publications, 1980 to 2014. First edition of the "new series" issues 2 - 126 lacking issues 3, 13, 14, 20, 49, 63, 104, and with 4th edition of issue 1 published May, 1994 (originally published 1979) and 2nd edition of "The Granta Book of Family." In..... Item #54388 More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1881. First edition. First issue with "presumptive" in last line page 9 (versus "presumptuous"). An enduring though controversial Southern classic illustrated by Frederick S. Church & James H. Moser. Small 8vo brown cloth boards; gilt-stamped spine; front cover stamped in black with pictorial of..... Item #72010 More
Seattle: Winn Books, 1986. First edition. Number 38 of 350 numbered copies SIGNED BY HARRISON and the illustrator, RUSSELL CHATHAM. Together with a suite of FIVE 14 x 18" PRINTS, EACH SIGNED BY CHATHAM. The prints are all designated "AP" (i.e., Artist's Proof") and numbered "31/40." A separate colophon sheet..... Item #52697 More
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition. First issue with 3 p's in "stoppped" page 181, line 26. Front and spine labels slightly darkened and showing few nicks and rubs, spine a little shaken, cloth at spine a touch dulled and lightly worn at ends, and offset to half-title and..... Item #72431 More
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. First edition of his first book. [Clarkson p.17, Blanck 16270]. The title was taken from Lewis Carroll's poem, "The Walrus and the Carpenter," which, along with situations encountered by O. Henry himself in Honduras in the late 1890s, provided inspiration for characters and..... Item #72345 More
![Item #71575 SOME SOLDIERS OF THE WORLD WAR [who are] DESCENDANTS OF HEROES OF FORMER WARS:...](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/71575.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1631159660)
[No-place: no-publisher, no-date] circa 1920s. First edition. 197-page manuscript of an unpublished work. Horton’s stated intent was to “record the names of many soldiers of the World War and show their descent from soldiers of former wars”; and, in doing so, she brought together numerous “sketches” (brief biographies) of Tennesseans..... Item #71575 More
(New York: 1951). First edition. One page on Hughes' personal, printed letterhead watermarked "Old Edgeland Bond." Dated May 8, 1951, it reads in part, "Carl Van Vechten showed me copies of Swanson's 'IN TIME OF SILVER RAIN' and 'PIERROT' the other day, which I had not seen before. I'd love..... Item #56044 More
New York: Random House, (1968). First edition of his first book. Decorative bookplate SIGNED BY IRVING laid in. Fine in near fine to fine dust jacket with touch of minor wear and few light creases to corner of front flap. Housed in custom, molded clamshell case lettered in gilt on..... Item #55106 More
[Austin, TX]: Privately printed by John S. Mayfield, 1928. First edition. One of a stated 96 copies of this fragile, privately printed production. The first appearance of Jeffers' poem, "An Artist," preceding its appearance in a revised version in CAWDOR the same year. Also includes "Robinson Jeffers: The Man" by..... Item #55971 More