!["Ask me about ... P. G. Wodehouse" [Suitably plum-colored license-plate holder]. P. G. Wodehouse](/images/noimage-req.png)
[Chicago: circa 1997]. Among the bounty of magnets, key rings, mugs and other loot distributed to Wodehouse Society convention-goers at the "Chicago and All That Jazz" convention of 1997 held at the International Hotel in Chicago was this plum plastic "Ask me about ..." license-plate holder described by Katherine Lewis..... Item #71659 More
(New York): Warner Books, (1995). First edition. SIGNED WITH A QUOTE FROM THE BOOK, "The only light is artificial." 8vo glossy pictorial boards with Chip Kidd-designed plain brown printed wraparound band covering disturbing pictures of the faces of children. The caped crusader takes on child molesters. Includes afterward on the..... Item #71658 More
(Boston): Godine, (1975). First edition. Dark comedy illustrated by Stan Washburn. Fine in near fine dust jacket with just a touch of rubbing to tips. Item #71657 More
(New York: The Paula Press, 1951). First edition. Three-volume set in slipcase. Volumes are in blue, red, and green (respectively) paperwraps. Each is near fine with light edgewear. The original plain black slipcase is structurally sound but has been rubbed at the edges, including a few spots where the cardboard..... Item #71656 More
New York: Random House, (1951). First edition. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white drawings. Fine in bright near fine dust jacket. Item #71655 More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1893. First edition. Two volumes. Wallace considered this to be his best book. Item #71654 More
London: Navarre Society Ltd., no-date [1921]. First thus. Two volumes with nearly 100 illustrations by Robinson including the two frontis pieces. Originally published by Grant Richards in 1904 in a quarto edition, privately reprinted for the Navarre Society in this reduced (octavo) format. Geoffrey Beale (Book Collector No. 40) notes..... Item #71653 More
Covelo: Yolla Bolly Press, 1984 - 1999. The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by William Saroyan; woodcut illustrations by Bill Prochnow (1984). True Bear Stories by Joaquin Miller; with a foreword by William Everson and woodblocks by Vincent Perez (1985). The Winged Life: The Poetic Voice of Henry..... Item #71652 More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1980 - 2006. LETTERS are both on half-sheet Arion Press stationery: the first is dated 16 May 1988 and reads in part, “Congratulations on your retirement! Now you will have more time for your bookish pursuits. My own set of summer whites was retired in 1960..... Item #71651 More
Chicago: Covici Friede, 1930. First edition thus: with illustrations by Kent. Two folio-sized full-leather volumes; separate extra suite of 5 five-panel plates EACH SIGNED BY KENT. Housed together in publisher's slipcase with dividers. Number 28 of only 75 copies in the deluxe edition, SIGNED BY KENT at end of second..... Item #71650 More
London: Benjamin Motte, 1931. Second issue of the 1727 third edition of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS with 1731 cancel title pages and divisional title pages [Teerink 295]. Includes the four maps, two plans and the four illustrations as in the 1727 issue as well as 12 pages of Verses (Teerink calls alternately..... Item #71649 More
(Hitchin, Hertfordshire): Mandeville, 1983. First UK edition, limited to 450 copies. Although not indicated as such these 10 copies were from Hecht's own collection, presumably sent to him by the publishers. His cycle of poems first appearing in the magazine, Poetry, and published here during his reign as Poet Laureate..... Item #71648 More
Columbia: University of Missouri, 1932. First edition. College yearbook from Williams' final year in school. Includes the first appearance of his poem "Not without Knowledge" (by "Thomas Lanier Williams, Missouri Chapter of the College Poetry Society.) One of his earliest appearances in print. Williams is also listed and presumably pictured..... Item #71647 More
New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 1999. First edition of her first book for children, INSCRIBED on front endpaper, "For Natasha, Warmest regards, Toni Morrison." A book about letting free spirits be free -- and freedom in general. Written with her son Slade. 11.25 x 11.25" glossy pictorial boards; unpaginated..... Item #71646 More
![BELOVED; [Special SIGNED LIMITED edition of the final chapter]. Toni Morrison](/pictures/thumb/71645.jpg?v=1637222226)
(Fyfield): Oak Tree Fine Press, (2010). First edition thus: the haunting final chapter of Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-wining novel illustrated with four, color woodblocks by South African artist Ezequiel Mabote. Number 63 of 200 numbered copies SIGNED BY MORRISON. The first in the publisher's "Open Book" series, "presenting the work of..... Item #71645 More
New York: Hyperion Books for Children, (2002). First edition, ADVANCE ISSUE presumably sent for review. SIGNED BY MORRISON, "Regards, Toni Morrison" on verso of title page. Unbound, folded signatures (three gatherings) laid in TRAIL DUST JACKET. There are a number differences in design between this advance issue and the eventual..... Item #71644 More
![MORTE DARTHUR: [Being] The Byrth, Lyf, and Actes of Kyng Arthur [KING ARTHUR] of His Noble...](/pictures/thumb/71643.jpg?v=1637208505)
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. First edition thus: with an introduction and notes by Southey. "Printed from Caxton's Edition, 1485." Two volumes. Bound by Ringer & Hertzberg. Quarto three-quarter leather over marbled boards; raised spine bands with titling and..... Item #71643 More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. First edition. Edited by Tim Hunt. Update of the 1938 edition incorporating selections from his later volumes, poems left unpublished at his death, and prose pieces in which Jeffers reflects on his poetry. Large 8vo burgundy-backed black cloth boards; gilt-stamped spine; frontispiece photo of Jeffers..... Item #71642 More
New York: William Morrow & Co., (1959). First edition. Near fine in good to very good dust jacket. Item #71641 More
London: James Cochrane and Co., 1832. With illustrations by George Cruikshank, first edition thus. Two volumes; 3/4 leather by Bayntun. Also includes Sternes A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY, "By Mr. Yorick" (vol. II p,p. [235]-357). Item #71640 More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1934. First U.S. edition. Forster's biography of his friend "Goldie," a political scientist and philosopher closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group. 8vo blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 277 pp., including index; illustrated with photographs. Near fine in about very good dust jacket with..... Item #71639 More
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2018. First U.S. edition and first English-language edition. A paperback original. Translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney. Winner of the International Aura Estrada Literature Prize. Illustrated with line drawings throughout by Gerber Bicecci, who describes herself as a visual artist who writes. "How do you..... Item #71638 More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., (1967). First edition thus: first illustrated edition. First published in 1634. This edition translated by Richard Martin from the German version by Franz Kuhn. Fine in fine dust jacket with only barest wear. Item #71637 More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1957). First edition. Essay by Woolf issued as New Year's greeting for friends of the publishers. Slender, small 8vo blue cloth-backed black paper boards stamped in gilt and blind on front cover only; 24 pp. Spine a little toned and tiny stain on title..... Item #71636 More
(New York: Ecco, (2017). First edition. SIGNED BY TAN on publisher's inserted signature leaf. Illustrated with photographs. 8vo white paper boards; 357 pp. Spine ends a little pushed still bright and fine in bright, fine dust jacket with minor crimp to front spine corner. Item #71635 More