London: Macmillan and Co., 1891. First U.S. edition with imprint of New York printer at base of copyright page. First issue sheets without "October" on copyright page; in second issue binding [Richards A58]. Short stories and a poem. 8vo half light-olive cloth stamped in gilt and black, dark-olive cloth lettered..... Item #54277 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
Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co., [1888]. First edition. “Indian Railway Library, No. 2.” Rebound in full leather by “C. Fox” with original, first-issue front cover bound in, 2 pages of ads as called for at front, and first 6 pages of ads called for at rear (lacking final leaf with..... Item #54564 More
Santiago De Chile: Hume & Co., 1900. First edition. An unauthorized collection of seven poems and two sketches previously printed in newspapers. First book appearances for the sketches and two of the poems [Richards A166]. Also includes journalists' articles. 12mo cream paperwraps lettered in black and red; 169 pages. Light..... Item #54117 More
![Item #55777 THE GYPSY TRAIL; [Together with motto card printing Stevenson’s poem “Envoy”]....](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55777.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1656104231)
Boston: Alfred Bartlett / (The Village Press), No-date [1905]. Second edition. But first edition to be printed by the Goudys at their Village Press. Corrects several mistakes in the printing done by Carl Rollins. Both editions and a third done by Cornhill Press in 1909 were unauthorized printings of Kipling's..... Item #55777 More
London: Secker & Warburg, (1982). First edition. Former Spectator editor Hamilton writes the first full biography of the life of Hungarian-born writer Arthur Koestler, and his reputation, revolving around the themes of science and communism; and in each area his contribution has been controversial. A review copy with review slip..... Item #55199 More
New York: Coward-McCann, 1929. First edition. A survey of American poetry with an entire chapter, "Shine Perishing Republic," devoted to Jeffers' work. According to Kreymborg, if Whitman closes out the first half century of American poetry, Jeffers closes out the last half and "Whitman and Jeffers afford parallels: both are..... Item #55598 More
New York: Communist Party of the U.S.A/ Workers Age Publishing Assn., et al, 1930 -1938. First edition. Collection of over 200 original newspapers bound in six plain hardcover folios covering 1930 (Vol 1, 11 issues only), 1932-1934 (Vols. 2 & 3, complete), 1936 (Vol. 5, 48 issues), and 1937-1938 (Vols..... Item #56177 More
Chicago: P.F. Volland & Co., (1915). First edition. His first regularly published book. Illustrated by Fontaine Fox. Slim, brown cloth boards stamped in gold and white on front only. Near fine lacking the publisher's box. Item #55089 More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., (1921). First edition. Frontispiece illustration by May Wilson Preston. Lardner's satire of big city life.Spine ends a little rubbed and worn otherwise near fine lacking the rare dust jacket. Scarce. Item #55907 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
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First edition. A follow-up of sorts to his YOU KNOW ME, AL. Letters between a baseball rookie and a girl in his hometown. Very good to near fine with endpapers a little darkened and subtle rubbing to boards; in good to very good, price-clipped..... Item #55203 More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1919. First edition. Illustrated by May Wilson Preston and M. L. Blumenthal. More stories from Jack the Kaiser Killer continuing his letters from the ship and on shore in France. Nice copy of the book which is near fine with the barest wear in a very..... Item #55206 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
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1920). First edition. Lardner’s spoof of Daisy Ashford's juvenilia, "The Young Visitors," published under the name of his then four-year-old son, "with a preface by the father." The book chronicles the Lardner family’s move from Goshen, Indiana, to their new home in Greenwich, Connecticut. Near fine..... Item #55161 More
Andover, Mass. [Phillips Academy], 1932. First edition. Program for the June 11, 1932, annual baseball game between longtime rivals Phillips Academy (aka "Andover") and Phillips Exeter, two New England boarding schools both founded by members of the Phillips family. First and only appearance of Lardner's 40-line poem about Andover --..... Item #72752 More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1919. First edition. Humorous essays by Lardner with illustrations by cartoonist Fontaine Fox. Slender 12mo paper-covered boards. Very good or better with light soiling, spine slightly toned and small chip from head of spine. Reportedly issued without dust jacket. Item #71671 More
New York: Scribner's Sons, (1962). First edition. Clipped signature from a check SIGNED BY LARDNER pasted at head of front endpaper with inscription below signed by Lardner's son: "To Larrry Barsten,/ With warm regards and/ gratitude. The above signature/ (from a canceled check)/ makes you the owner of/ the only..... Item #55207 More
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1916). First edition. The book consists of stories that were written as letters from a professional baseball player, Jack Keefe, to his friend Al Blanchard in their hometown of Bedford, Indiana. It was subsequently a nationally syndicated comic strip scripted by Lardner and drawn..... Item #55209 More
[Isla Vista, CA]: Turkey Press, 1985. First edition. Number 103 of 200 numbered copies SIGNED BY LAUGHLIN (from a total edition of 250). Collection of 24 poems followed by a section of Laughlin’s “anecdotal jottings about them.” The 41st book from the press, hand printed by Sandra Liddell Reese and..... Item #55636 More
London: Heinemann, (1965). First edition. An incompetent British intelligence agency known as "The Department" and its multiple botched attempts to verify a Communist defector's story of a Soviet missile build-up in East Germany. INSCRIBED BY LE CARRE on front endpaper, "S. Sanders/ best wishes/ John le Carre." Page edges foxed..... Item #55552 More
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., (1947). First edition of lawyer, novelist, historian and essayist Auchincloss’s first book. Near fine with minor shelf wear to spine ends; in near fine dust jacket with touch of minor rubbing and few tiny nicks. Item #55559 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First edition of the author's third book, a western. Ex-library with only markings being to fly-title page ("withdrawn" stamped in red over light blindstamp and short black line at base of page). Finely and freshly rebound in brown cloth boards with gilt-stamped leather spine label and..... Item #54281 More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, (1922). First edition, first issue with "Purdy" for "Lyte" on p.49:4 and "my" for "any" on p.49:5. About very good with spine a touch rubbed and toned, fraying to cloth at head of spine, and endpapers showing some tanning and scattered foxing. Lacking scarce..... Item #72736 More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. First edition, second issue with "Copyright, 1905, by the Metropolitan Magazine Co." rubber stamp on copyright page. Story of twenty-year-old boxer, Joe, who meets his death in the ring. Illustrated by Henry Hutt. London was a sports reporter for the Oakland Herald and we..... Item #55213 More