APG 066.3 (2004)
KerouacJ.pdf. Item #22833 More
KerouacJ.pdf. Item #22833 More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959. First edition. Spine ends very lightly rubbed, otherwise about fine in dust jacket with closed tear. Musical comedy, with lyrics by Joan Ford, Walter and Jean Kerr. Item #33098 More
KeseyK.pdf. Item #22834 More
(New York): Viking, (1986). First edition. "Unrevised and unpublished" proof in green printed wraps. INSCRIBED "For Maxwell/ Further/ Ken Kesey." Fine. Item #45483 More
[New York]: Viking, (1992). First edition. His controversial book; i.e. either his best or his worst. Uncorrected proof, fine in pictorial paperwraps. Item #46273 More
New York: The Macaulay Co., (1928). First American edition. Basis for the French movie "Nuits De Princes." Translated by Jack Kahane, writer and publisher who founded the Obelisk Press in Paris in 1929 after his publisher, Grant Richards, went bankrupt. Kahane mixed serious work with smut in his list of..... Item #49669 More
New York: Winchester Press, 1972. Facsimile reprint, reduced in size from the 1879 edition. Number 380 of 1000 copies. Oblong, 19 x 12.75” portfolio. Gilt-stamped blue paper boards, unprinted black leatherette spine. 47 pp. including map with the 20 reproduction watercolor plates in paper chemise attached inside front cover. Illustrated..... Item #71660 More
London: Bodley Head, (1956). First UK edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. An advance proof, very good in plain brown wraps. A rare item. Item #2028 More
(New York): The New American Library, (1966). First edition. INSCRIBED WITH A QUOTE FROM THE BOOK and SIGNED by the author on the half title page: "It was food for thought, and I chewed it./ Larry L. King/ 3-11-06." Fine in very good to near fine dust jacket with minor..... Item #48584 More
New York: Viking, (1982). First edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author. Fine in near fine dust jacket with tiny tears. Item #48445 More
(New York): Viking, (1986). First edition. INSCRIBED TO KEN LUDWIG, playwright best known for "Lend Me a Tenor" prior to the play's arrival here in the states. (It ran at London's Globe Theatre beginning in March 1986 where it was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for "Best Comedy of..... Item #71678 More
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1996). First edition. SIGNED, limited edition advance reading copy. One of 150 numbered copies. Publisher's letter laid in. Light stain on front cover, otherwise near fine in white paperwraps. Item #30457 More
KingS.pdf. Item #22836 More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. In the Scribner's "Illustrated Classics" series with color illustrations by Wyeth. Early printing with these illustrations, not the first, but in scarce dust jacket with different image on front panel than on book. First published with Wyeth illustrations in 1920. Both book and jacket..... Item #49385 More
New York: Covici Freide, (1933). True first edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Illustrated with photographs from the stage production. Basis for the 1934 film starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy. Faint pale-green stain to lower cover edges (not affecting spine) otherwise would be a crisp near fine copy of..... Item #54807 More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1906. First U.S. edition and the first edition with illustrations by Rackham. A fantasy book for children with frontispiece and four full-page colored illustrations by Rackham tipped in. 8vo green cloth stamped in black and lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. Small hole in..... Item #53962 More
London: A & C Black, (1926). First edition. Two poems, one each by Kipling and De La Mare, "A Rector's Memory" and "A Memory" respectively. First appearance of both poems. The book was published as a fundraiser for the "Student Welfare Scheme." Illustrated with reproductions 16 pencil drawings and etchings..... Item #53947 More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1926. First edition. Collects 14 stories and 21 poems. 8vo gilt-stamped red cloth; top edge gilt. Near fine in dust jacket tanned at spine and with few shallow chips but otherwise near fine. Item #53990 More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1917. First edition. First issue binding with publisher's name at foot of spine measuring over one inch; in second issue dust jacket. Fourteen stories and 14 poems. First appearances for two of the stories and most of the poems. Page fore edges lightly foxed otherwise near..... Item #53934 More
(London: Methuen and Co.), no-date [1919]. First UK edition, preceded by the 1918 U.S. copyright edition. Broadside poem in six stanzas with two on front and remaining four on back. SIGNED BY KIPLING on back beneath the final stanza. 5.5 x 8" stiff cream paper printed in black on both..... Item #54024 More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1920. First edition. Three sections of letters, 24 letters in all. 8vo gilt-stamped red cloth; 284 pp + 4 pp ads; top edge gilt. Hole in last page of text not affecting any lettering, front board bumped at top corner and a little shaken, otherwise near..... Item #54021 More
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932. First U.S. edition, published a few weeks after the UK. Short stories and poems. First appearances for 3 of the stories and 19 of the poems. Near fine in about very good dust jacket with rear panel lightly soiled and pair of..... Item #53939 More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933. First edition, preceding the UK and French editions. Issued in two parts on March 1 and March 15, 1933, respectively, in an edition of only 75 copies each. Part 1 only. [Richards A412]. A childhood recollection of his trip with his father..... Item #53959 More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1899. First edition. Nine stories with previous appearances in various magazines were collected to form this novel about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. 8vo gilt-stamped red cloth; top edge gilt. Bookplate of W. MacDonald MacKay on front pastedown. Good to very good with small..... Item #54020 More
London: Methuen and Co., (1919). First edition. Forty-five poems and a series of epitaphs. First appearance of 3 of the poems. 12mo gilt-lettered plum boards; 258 pages plus 32-page publisher's catalog; top edge gilt. Near fine in good dust jacket that is soiled and torn but free from any significant..... Item #53985 More