London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1905. First edition. Selections from The Spectator by Symons with an introduction by him. Illustrated by H. M. Brock. 12 mo, 310 pages. Bound by Bayntun in three-quarter red leather with marbled boards and endpapers, gilt-lettered spine with five raised bands, and top edge..... Item #54023 More

New York: Atheneum, 1967. First edition. SIGNED BY BENTLEY on front endpaper. More essays from "our most distinguished critic of the theatre" (from the dust jacket flap). 8vo gilt-stamped green cloth boards; yellow top edge and endpapers; 241 pages plus brief biography. Fine in very good dust jacket with spine..... Item #72095 More

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. First edition. Essays and two poems. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED on endpaper, "To Walter Sullivan/ in return, with thanks/ and many good wishes./ Wendell Berry." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature and one of the founding..... Item #72101 More

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2001. First edition. Advance, "limited edition excerpt," SIGNED by Brown on title page. Limitation unstated. 28 pp., fine in stapled paperwraps. Item #52252 More

London: Methuen, (1906). First edition. Only 1,500 copies printed [Wise 16]. Essays recounting memories and impressions from his time at sea. 8vo green cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt; top edge gilt, rest untrimmed [Cagle A11a, binding a]. This copy with 40-page publisher’s catalog dated August 1906 at rear..... Item #53770 More

New York: John Lane, (1916). First edition. First issue text and binding with "The War! The War!" They were chasing" in last paragraph p.173 and green buckram spine (versus blue). Small 4to green paper-covered boards stamped in gilt and brown; gilt-stamped green buckram spine; top edge gilt; 513 pages; illustrated..... Item #54029 More

Grants Pass, Oregon: Castle Peak Editions, 1992. First edition, the simultaneous paperwraps issue of which there were only 200 copies. (An additional 100 copies were issued in hardcover.) Quarto glossy white perfect-bound paperwraps printed in blue; 441 pages including index. Essays, poems and reminiscences by friends, scholars, and fellow poets..... Item #55770 More

New York: Basic Books, (1978). First edition. The author's goal, he felt, was to take moral stands, especially on social issues, which he felt his peers weren't doing, thus endearing him to many of them. Fine in fine dust jacket with the barest wear. Review slip laid in, indicating publication..... Item #52001 More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First edition. Personal copy of author Doris Grumbach with her initials on front endpaper. Review copy with slip laid in. Near fine in dust jacket with one short closed tear and slight soiling. Item #29467 More

New York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc., 1921. First edition. Translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf. Three essays: “Fragments of Recollections,” by Gorky; “To Chekhov’s Memory,” by Kuprin; and “A. P. Chekhov,” by Bunin. Good to very good with abrasion and small hole to upper spine gutter affecting edge..... Item #42268 More

London: Wm. Heinemann, 1922. First edition, first issue in yellow cloth. Unavoidable offset to endpapers, page edges very faintly foxed, rear cover lightly soiled and spine ends just slightly darkened, still very good or better in very good, tanned dust jacket with shallow chipping, few inconspicuous tears and spine extremities..... Item #52311 More

(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2007). First edition. SIGNED BY HAZO on title page. Hazo's February 1, 2007, lecture for the university's American Experience Lecture Series. Stapled paperwraps, 16 pages. Fine. Dr. Samuel John Hazo, a National Book Award finalist, founded the International Poetry Forum and served as Pennsylvania's first State..... Item #55571 More

Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1858. First edition. Collection of essays originally published in The Atlantic Monthly 1857-58. Correct first printing per BAL with period following "Company" in publisher's imprint on title page, extra-illustrated vignette title page present, and pp. [375-6] blank (versus with ads). In binding "A" with spine..... Item #55554 More