(Lexington): The University Press of Kentucky, (1971). First U.S. edition. Translated from the Spanish and edited by L. Clark Keating and Robert O. Evans. "What began as a guide to study for [Borges'] Argentine students becomes for Americans a fresh and many-faceted view of their literature" (from the dust jacket)..... Item #72673 More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1986). First edition. 8vo, quarterbound black cloth over beige boards with gilt-stamped spines, pp. 501. Near fine with barest shelfwear and faint foxing on page fore edges; in near fine dust jacket with slight toning along flap edges. Item #72523 More
(Roanoke): Hollins College, 1966. First edition. FOURTEEN [14] COPIES. Twelve pages, stapled; sketch of Capote by Lewis O. Thompson on cover. Includes Garret's article on IN COLD BLOOD, brief biography of Capote and checklist of his books. Also includes poems by Margaret Leigh Fergusen and Louis Coxe. Altogether near fine..... Item #71710 More
London: Longmans, Green & Co., (1950). First edition. Literary criticism by Murial Clara Bradbrook, literary scholar, authority on Shakespeare, and first woman to become professor of English at Cambridge University. Published for The British Council and the National Book League and issued by Longmans as a supplement to "British Book..... Item #42302 More
(Stanford: Stanford University Press), 1986 - 1988. First edition. High-quality copy of an advance typescript draft preceding publication of the book by two years, INSCRIBED BY EVERSON ON TITLE PAGE, "Specially inscribed for John Knight/ who helped mightily in [expediting] this project/ Bill Everson/ July 21, 1986/ Kingfisher Flat." Perfect-bound..... Item #72530 More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1987). First edition. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of Faulkner's own art work showing "how the painstaking efforts of the young poet, calligrapher, and illustrator foreshadow the verbal art of his great poetic novels" -- from the dust jacket flap. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY HONNIGHAUSEN to the..... Item #71750 More
New Brunswick / New York: Rutgers University Press / Random House, 1958. First edition. Two volumes. The first one, published by Rutgers in 1958, is the first collection to include all 16 of the fictional pieces written by Faulkner for the Times-Picayune in 1925. Also includes a compilation of short..... Item #72589 More
(Vancouver): Tanks, (1986). First edition. Published by the inimitable Bill Hoffer, the first in his series of books published "in objection to the continued creation of State Literature through government subsidies to the Arts." The whole series was re-issued the following year in a boxed, signed, "subscriber's edition" as "Tanks..... Item #51294 More
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Columbia: University of Missouri Press, (1992). First edition. Critical study of Nobel Prize-winner Sigrid Undset’s SAGA OF KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER, “a wonderful addition to the corpus of Andrew Lytle, as well as a meaningful contribution to the study of Nordic literature” (from the jacket flap). INSCRIBED BY LYTLE in a somewhat..... Item #72160 More
Baltimore: Enoch Pratt Free Library, 1962-2002. First edition of each. Stapled paperwraps. "Each issue contains one hitherto unpublished item written by H. L. Mencken, original contributions by Menckenthusiasts, and Bibliographic Check List of current Mencken items to form a supplement to the published Mencken Bibliography" (Adler, inside front cover No..... Item #56096 More
Los Angeles: Darami Press, (1998). First edition. Presentation copy INSCRIBED, "To Paul, with love, Phyllis." From the collection of sportswriter Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his penciled notations about the text on rear endpaper and corresponding passages marked in pencil in margins. "Most of the evidence [about "Frankenstein"]...points to Mary's..... Item #71627 More