THE LOTTERY: A Play in One Act.
Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, (1953). First edition thus, one-act play based on the Shirley Jackson story of the same name. Near fine in stapled paperwraps. BASED ON JACKSON'S STORY. Item #49572 More
Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, (1953). First edition thus, one-act play based on the Shirley Jackson story of the same name. Near fine in stapled paperwraps. BASED ON JACKSON'S STORY. Item #49572 More
JacksonS.pdf. Item #42848 More
New York: Viking Press, (1968). First edition. Posthumous collection edited by her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman. From the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his penciled notations on rear endpaper and contents page and corresponding passages lightly marked in pencil in margins. Page edges moderately foxed otherwise..... Item #54982 More
New York: New Yorker, 1948. First edition. First appearance of Jackson's best-known story, "The Lottery," the publication of which prompted hundreds of letters and subscription cancellations from outraged readers. Collected the following year in the book of the same name. Good to very good in pictorial paperwraps with staining to..... Item #71738 More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Co., 1948. First edition. Her first book. Loosely based on her childhood in an affluent California neighborhood. Very good to near fine with the usual darkening of the pages (due to the high pulp paper used during and after WWII), small tear near hinge of..... Item #55196 More
Dallas, TX: Kaleidograph Press, (1940). First edition. A Poet Laureate and prize-winning poet herself, Jacobsen's poetry was praised by Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky for its "reserve, stoic timbre, and its high precision." Near fine in very good to near fine dust jacket with shallow chipping to spine ends and..... Item #35635 More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First edition. Short, offbeat stories illustrated with drawings by David Bromige. Number Number 24 of 200 numbered copies SIGNED BY JAFFE (of 226 total). Lower corners gently bumped still fine in original acetate. Item #54880 More
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1894. Third edition. Gilt page edges, decorations and lettering. Near fine with offset on endpapers. Item #29696 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. First U.S. edition of the novel James considered to be his best. Differs somewhat from the UK edition. Very good to near fine with corners lightly bumped, board visible at upper front corner (just a tiny spot), and first and last few leaves faintly..... Item #54955 More
JamesH.pdf. Item #22825 More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. First edition. An almost very good copy with spine and edges sunned, inscription on front endpaper, offset on endpapers and title page, light foxing and newspaper clippings affixed to back endpaper and pastedown. Item #30048 More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1883. First edition, first issue in primary binding of blue-green smooth cloth with "JAMES" in uniform letters on spine. 1,000 copies. Precedes the American edition. Light scattered foxing, boards rubbed on corners and a few light spots, back hinge starting to crack, small thin strip of..... Item #42805 More
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1948. First edition. Edited and with an introduction by Allan Wade. Light rubbing to spine ends and tips, otherwise fine in dust jacket with slightly soiled spine and spine lettering faded (barely legible). Item #34157 More
Paddington Station, London: The Great Western Railway, 1925. First edition. Additional chapter on "Monastic Life and Buildings" by A. Hamilton Thompson. Illustrated. Great Western Railway map in pocket on back paste down. About very good with offset shadow on front board, corners rubbed, endpapers lightly foxed, name on front endpaper..... Item #52473 More
JamesP.pdf. Item #22826 More
Conway, Arkansas: Seven Oaks Publ. Co., (1994). First edition. Early, or perhaps the first, poetry selection from the writer, author, singer/songwriter, and professional treasure hunter known for his "Buried Treasures of America" series. INSCRIBED TO LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY, "To L.D.--...one who know the words, the language, the joys, the pains..... Item #54260 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First edition. His only novel. Uncorrected proof in blue, printed paperwraps labeled "Advance Copy" at top. About very good with covers somewhat soiled, spine slightly tanned and crease and tear to top edge rear cover. Newsclipping with notice of his death from the NY..... Item #35619 More
New York: Knopf, 1954. First edition. SIGNED BY JARRELL on front endpaper. 8vo emerald-green boards with blind-stamped front and gilt-lettered spine, top edge pale orange, 277 pages. Spine slightly toned with gilt a bit dulled but readable, otherwise very good in about very good dust jacket with rubbing to edges..... Item #71734 More
Auburn, CA: Blue Oak Press, (1975). First edition, limited issue. Number 81 of an unstated number of copies SIGNED BY HOTCHKISS on title page. Analysis of Robinson Jeffers' poetry by Hotchkiss, a poet, novelist and the founder of Blue Oak Press. Includes prefatory note by Donnan Jeffers, foreword by A...... Item #55746 More
No-place: no-publisher, 1967. Mimeographed short paper likely used at a reading on Robinson Jeffers at the Intersection Creative Arts Center in San Francisco, California. Also in this packet are bios of Vaughan, Glenn-Charles Musagetes and Jean Ulmer Hochberg, the three people who presented "The Poetry of War & Peace by..... Item #55733 More
No-place [Salt Lake City, UT]: The Western Humanities Review, 1958. First edition. Offprint of Drew's article on Jeffers, "The Gentleness of Robinson Jeffers," from Western Humanities Review Vol. XII, No. 4, Autumn 1958. SIGNED BY DREW, an author and English Education Professor at Buffalo State College, to scholar and printer..... Item #55726 More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. First edition. Paperback original. Biography covering the people, issues, and events that helped to shape Jeffers and his work. From the collection Allen K. Mears with an INSCRIPTION FROM KARMAN tipped in, "For Allen --/gentleman, soldier,/ cherished friend./ With warmest best wishes,/ Jim Karman." 8vo..... Item #55759 More
Monterey, Calif: Old Monterey Book Co., 1996. First edition. Miniature book measuring 2.5 x 2.25". Number 43 of 100 numbered copies, this one INSCRIBED BY O'BRIEN on leaf preceding half-title, "It is my pleasure/ to inscribe this/ book for/ Allen Mears/ Jean O'Brien." Bound and printed by Roger Hilleary and..... Item #56016 More
(Covelo, CA): Carolyn and James Robertson / (Yolla Bolly Press, 1983). First edition from this press of Adamic’s essay originally published in 1929. Adds a “reminiscence of the period ... written by Garth Sherwood Jeffers, the poet’s surviving son, and a collection of sixteen photographs of the family never before..... Item #55750 More
Amador City, Ca: Quintessence Publications, 1980. First edition. Number 170 of 300. Included with this item are an announcement card for the 1980 exhibit of The Phoebe & Hans Barkan Collection of Robinson Jeffers, the funeral keepsake "To Remember Blanche," that contains her last poem "Not-Mind," in an edition of..... Item #55915 More