Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1970. First edition. Author's first novel and basis for the 1972 movie of the same name. From the collection of sportswriter Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his brief penciled notations about the text on last page and corresponding passages marked in pencil in margins. Crisp and..... Item #72715 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
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Paris: The Obelisk Press, (1953). First edition. Two volumes. Number 1,078 of 2000 numbered copies "printed for private circulation." Second book in his Rosy Crucifxion trilogy of SEXUS, PLEXUS and NEXUS, a fictionalized account his life in Brooklyn before leaving for Paris in 1928. Initially banned in the U.S. and..... Item #54373 More
New York: Putnam's Sons, (1963). First edition in English. From the collection of sportswriter Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his copious penciled notations about the text on rear endpaper and corresponding passages lightly marked in pencil in margins throughout. Also, with anonymous penciled notes on half-title page discussing Nabokov's story..... Item #72710 More
New York: Random House, (1941). First edition. His first and most famous book. Novel based on his father's life, made into the long-running Broadway musical. SIGNED BY SCHULBERG WITH CRYPTIC "46-61-72" beneath his signature on back of a portion of paper torn from a form still retaining partial name and..... Item #54187 More
London: Robert Hale, (1956). First edition in English, preceding the U.S. by 13 years. Originally published in Germany in 1926. Translated by Eleanor Brockett. His second book. Set in Mexico, as were so many of his books. Bright and fine with just a touch of spotting to page edges; in..... Item #54060 More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First edition. The final novel from the Irish-American raconteur, INSCRIBED on front endpaper, "To Comet Brooks/ a lover of Books/ and my friend/ Jim Tully" and with Brook's attractive silver bookplate with long quote from Thomas Wolfe's OF TIME AND THE RIVER on front..... Item #54186 More
New York: Jonathan Cape / Harrison Smith, (1930). First U.S. edition, published March, 1930 (the UK was published January). Waugh's working title for the book was "Bright Young Things," a tabloid nickname for the hard-partying young aristocrats and socialites of 1920s London whom he satirizes herein. 8vo green cloth-backed, decorated..... Item #54585 More