![Item #55936 STARS; [among the rarest Jeffers first editions]. Robinson Jeffers](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55936.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727567703)
Pasadena: The Flame Press [Ward Ritchie, printed by], 1930. RARE FIRST EDITION. Although the colophon states 80 copies, this is ONE OF ONLY APPROXIMATELY 15 COPIES bound by Ritchie before the remaining sheets were destroyed due to spelling errors [Broomfield A11a]. Original black paper-covered flexible boards with a star-motif white..... Item #55936 More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1928. First edition. Number 76 of 310 copies SIGNED BY BOTH JEFFERS AND ADAMS, with Jeffers signature at front and Adams at bottom of his frontis photograph of Jeffers. Introduction by B. H. Lehman; decorative initials by Valenti Angelo; printed by The Grabhorn Press..... Item #55932 More
Tor House, Carmel, California: 1939-1947. Includes two 2-page letters, six half- to full-page letters, and 12 postcards (one of which appears in COLLECTED LETTERS OF ROBINSON JEFFERS: WITH SELECTED LETTERS OF UNA JEFFERS, Vol. 3, p. 454). All are entirely handwritten and quite legible. Nineteen are to Robert Gros; one..... Item #55917 More
London: Faber & Faber, 1939. First edition, trade issue. Very good or better with endpapers foxed and first blank and last page of text darkened along hinges; in about very good dust jacket with spine lettering unevenly tanned and somewhat noticeable professional repair along edges. Still, an attractive copy in..... Item #72436 More
New York: Random House, (1934). First U.S. edition to be authorized. Preceded by a 1929 piracy printed in New York for Samuel and Max Roth [Slocum & Cahoon A21]. In first-issue dust jacket with designer's name on front panel. "Complete and unabridged," this U.S. edition adds a foreword by Morris..... Item #72391 More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. First edition. This British version reportedly differs greatly from the U.S. one [Livingston 250]. 8vo gilt-stamped red cloth boards; raised gilt-stamped elephant emblem on front cover; top edge gilt; 413 pages plus 2 pages publisher's ads. Ten full-plate illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling (Kipling's father)..... Item #72433 More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1924. First U.S. edition. SIGNED BY KIPLING on title page. Fine in near fine dust jacket with internal archival tape repair to few splits and tears. Housed in custom cloth chemise and slipcase with gilt-stamped leather titling labels on spine. Scarce to rare signed..... Item #54125 More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1919. First edition. Three volumes. Number 41 of only 100 copies SIGNED BY KIPLING IN EACH OF THE THREE VOLUMES. 8vo full gilt-stamped vellum, top edges gilt, rest untrimmed. Very good to near fine with covers lightly soiled, spine on volume one a little darkened, a...... Item #54119 More
May Wilson Preston. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., (1917). First edition. SIGNED BY LARDNER on half-title page, "Sincerely,/ Ring W. Lardner,/ September 24th 1918." Five short stories: "Carman," "Three Kings and a Pair," "Gullible’s Travels," "The Water Cure," and "Three Without, Doubled." Endpapers and frontispiece illustrations by May Wilson Preston. 8vo., dark..... Item #55200 More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1918). First edition. First issue without the poem by H. H. Howland on page [6]. Brief typed letter SIGNED BY LARDNER affixed to front pastedown. Measures approximately 6.5" x 4"; typed on Chicago Tribune letterhead (where Lardner worked for years) and dated simply "August 30th", it reads..... Item #55208 More
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1935. First edition thus: limited issue of the trade edition, both of which were preceded by two rare limited editions published in the 1920's. Number 701 of 750 numbered copies. "Lawrence of Arabia's" autobiographical account of his experiences serving with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt..... Item #54967 More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, (1965). First Canadian edition. Intended for use as a school text with a note about the author followed by 15 pages of notes and questions by Donald G. Rutledge at rear. 8vo orange paper boards printed in green and white on front and spine; with arresting..... Item #55421 More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., (1952). First edition of his first book. Basis for the 1984 movie starring Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, et al. 8vo gilt-stamped dark blue cloth (also noted in gray and red -- no known priority). Near fine to fine with only..... Item #72273 More
New York: Random House, (1979). First edition. His fourth novel, started well before the publication of his first one and considered by many among his best works. Certainly not as dark as some of the rest. 8vo black cloth-backed cream-yellow boards stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 471..... Item #72554 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1961). First edition. INSCRIBED BY MCMURTRY TO PAUL "DR. Z" ZIMMERMAN, "For Paul, My maiden effort / with Best wishes" and signed "Larry McMurtry" with his usual scrawl. Light foxing to page edges and pastedowns and faint unavoidable offset from the binding to the endpapers..... Item #54149 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. First U.S. edition. Two volumes. His third book and first work of pure fiction -- in his brief preface to volume 1, Melville notes that his first "two narratives of voyages in the Pacific ... were received with incredulity" and expresses hope for this..... Item #72336 More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952. First edition. His first book, one of only 511 copies printed. Edited and foreword by W. H. Auden; issued in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. SIGNED BY MERWIN on the first blank page. 8vo blue-gray paper boards stamped in light blue; 67 pages..... Item #72621 More
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1976. First edition. LETTER "F" OF ONLY 26 SIGNED LETTERED COPIES WITH ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING TIPPED IN. (There were an additional 224 signed numbered copies issued without the drawing.) 8vo full black leather stamped in silver at spine. Foreword by Miller; illustrated with photographs by Jim..... Item #54177 More
Big Sur, CA: 1944 - 1945. Eleven full-page handwritten letters (one on back of brochure for UK edition of MURDER THE MURDERER); one 2-page letter (front and back); an inscribed review-style photo; and 4 postcards. Most of the letters open with either "Dear Rudolph Gilbert" or "Dear friend Gilbert"; each..... Item #71577 More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2002. First edition thus: edited with note on text by John T. Shawcross and introduction by Helen Vendler. The 64th publication of the press, printed by Andrew Hoyem. Number 252 of 400 numbered copies (an additional 26 copies were issued hors de commerce). Small 4to black..... Item #72772 More
![Item #54298 LA COURSE DU FOU [THE DEFENSE]. Vladimir Nabokov, V. Nabokov-Sirine](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/54298.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1578532655)
Paris: A. Fayard et Cie, (1934). First edition of the French translation, preceding the English translation by 30 years. Number 41 of 75 copies on "vellum" (i.e., fine textured) paper with flower on spine (vs. price). 8vo white paperwraps printed in purple and black; 320 pages, most of which are..... Item #54298 More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1938). First U.S. edition in first-issue green cloth. Translated from the Russian by Nabokov, who disliked the translation by Winifred Roy for the 1936 UK edition (published under the title CAMERA OBSCURA). Very good with touch of fading to edges, pp.267-270 roughly opened, and old sticker shadow..... Item #54042 More
![Item #53843 PODVIG [Glory: A Novel]. Vladimir Nabokov](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/53843.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1656190270)
Paris: Contemporary Publishing House, 1932. First edition. In Russian. Not published in English until 1971. One of only 1,000 copies. [Juliar A13.1]. Small 8vo printed paperwraps with over-hanging edges. Very good to near fine with light foxing to covers and page edges and tiny tears to lower over-handing edges. Unopened..... Item #53843 More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1950. First edition of his first book published under this name. SIGNED BY O'BRIAN on the title page. Crisp, clean and very good to near fine with sunning to spine through the dust jacket; in very good to near fine dust jacket with spine lettering a...... Item #72272 More
(West Yorkshire): The British Library, (1994). First edition. Number 16 of only 50 numbered and specially bound copies SIGNED BY O'BRIAN (there was also a "collector's edition" of 250 copies). Handsomely bound in three-quarter leather, with marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. Includes an autobiographical piece, four poems and two..... Item #53332 More