Poignant Postscript

New York: no-publisher, 1977. Farrell’s 1971 novel, INVISIBLE SWORDS, is considered a thinly veiled autobiography drawn from his personal experience of having -- with his then-wife, stage actress Hortense Alden -- a child born with an intellectual disability who was institutionalized shortly after birth, a standard practice at the time..... Item #72788 More

[New York]: (Dressmakers' Joint Council, ILGWU, 1967). First edition. Rare, presumed unique, tribute book for Charles Sasha Zimmerman (1897 – 1983), published “as an expression of affection and respect for the Council's General Manager” in honor of his 70th birthday. Zimmerman was involved with labor, civil rights, and social welfare..... Item #72785 More

London: Allan Wingate, (1954). First edition in hardback. Preceded by a 1946 softcover edition published in Stockholm. The horrors Peake witnessed as a war correspondent at the end of World War II are said to have influenced the surreal illustrations herein (Vanessa Thorpe, “Mervyn Peake’s Queen of Hearts,” The Observer..... Item #72783 More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1885. First edition in book form. Contents originally appeared serially in “The Monthly Packet” magazine edited by Charlotte Yonge. Six illustrations by Arthur B. Frost added for the book. Collects all ten of Carroll’s brief humorous stories presenting mathematical problems to be solved (or “Knots,” as..... Item #72781 More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. First UK edition. Preceded in the U.S. by just one month. The tale of a railroad tycoon's spoiled fifteen year-old son who is washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by the crew of a fishing schooner. Unable to convince them of his family's..... Item #72779 More

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1908]. First edition thus: with lavish color illustrations by Rountree throughout, both full plate and in the text. Of this edition, bibliographer Sidney H. Williams remarked, "Astonishing pictures, quite sui generis and unexpected. What would Lewis Carroll have thought of them?." No publication date in..... Item #72776 More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. First edition of this collection. In addition to the title poem includes poems and verses from "Rhyme and Reason," "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," "Through the Looking-Glass," and "Sylvie and Bruno." Deluxe issue. 8vo gilt-stamped white paper boards; top edge gilt; color frontispiece and black-and-white..... Item #72774 More

New York: various publishers, 1936 - 1957. First edition of each volume. Her three most popular novels. Finely rebound in matching full red leather aptly embossed with an industrial pattern; each with gilt-stamped leather spine label and marbled endpapers. WE THE LIVING (New York: Macmillan, 1936): small chip to lower..... Item #72771 More

New York: Theodor Herzl Press, 1958. First edition. "Farrell's observations made in the course of a recent study trip to Israel" (from the dust jacket flap). INSCRIBED BY FARRELL on the front endpaper, "To Charles Zimmerman/ With fraternal regards/ Jim Farrell." Charles S. Zimmerman (1897 – 1979) was a social..... Item #72769 More

(Toronto): Viking, (1995). First edition. Text in English and French. SIGNED BY ATWOOD on p. 3 beneath the French version of her one-page foreword (the English version is on p. 2). Includes profiles and portraits of over 100 exceptional Canadians, including Atwood, Leonard Cohen, k. d. lang, Donald Sutherland, Wayne..... Item #72766 More

[No-place: no-publisher, no-date [circa 1910s]. Charming, circa mid 1910s four-page autograph poem comprised of fourteen four-line stanzas each employing the simple rhyme scheme of ABCB. Written on plain off-white 8 x 10” note paper lightly lined in blue and tied together with 2 mustard-colored ribbons at top. The poem alludes..... Item #72764 More

New York: The Modern Library, (1938). Later printing, circa 1950s, of Modern Library Giant G41. Collects the three volumes in Farrell's "Studs Lonigan" trilogy: Young Lonigan; The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan; and Judgment Day. INSCRIBED TO CHARLES “SASHA” ZIMMERMAN on front endpaper, "To Charles Zimmerman/ With affectionate regards/ Jim..... Item #72762 More

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, (1945 – 1948). Inscribed association copies of 1940s reprints (first published in the 1930s). From the collection of famed sportswriter Paul “Dr. Z” Zimmerman. ALL THREE VOLUMES INSCRIBED TO ZIMMERMAN’S FATHER, CHARLES “SASHA” ZIMMERMAN, Farrell’s “old friend and comrade.” Charles S. Zimmerman (1897 – 1979)..... Item #72760 More