1922. London: William Heinemann, 1922. 8vo, xvi, 1104 pp. Folding genealogical chart following the dedication. Original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, upper cover with blind-ruled border, gilt title and decorative stamp, lower cover with Heinemann windmill blind-stamp, top edge stained green. Foot of backstrip turned in slightly, a few... More
1928. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. 8vo, (x), 377 pp. Original plain tan boards, lettered in brown on the backstrip, top edge stained dark brown. Boards unevenly browned as usual, with a few spots and nicks, internally a fine, unopened copy in the original, lightly worn slipcase... More
1940. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1940. 8vo, (viii), (1)-167 pp. Original black cloth, backstrip titled in silver, in the original unclipped dust-jacket printed in red and dark purple. Endpapers toned, name and dates in pencil on front free endpaper, dust-jacket toned, spine panel more so, a few closed tears and... More
1932. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1932. 8vo., [iv], 480 pp., with title-vignette. Original tan cloth lettered in orange to upper board, backstrip lettered in blue, top-edge orange, with original unclipped ($2.50) pictorial dust jacket. Dust-jacket faded and with a few marks and a short closed tear to... More
1853. London: Bradbury and Evans, October 1853 - August 1855. 8vo, 24 parts in 23, with etched titles, frontispieces, 44 etched plates, 43 wood-engraved vignettes, and 76 wood-engraved initials, all by Doyle; original yellow printed wrappers, all more or less worn at edges and heels, plates uniformly aged. Enclosed in... More
1950. New York: Charles Scriber’s Sons, 1950. 8vo, 308 pp. Original black publisher’s cloth, in the original unclipped dust-jacket. Cloth sunned at crown and foot of backstrip, corners bumped, spine a little cocked, endpapers toned, name in pencil on front free endpaper, dust-jacket rubbed in a few places and neatly..... More
1945. New York: Random House, 1945. 8vo, 128 pp. Original lilac boards, lettered in violet and cream, name in ink on front free endpaper, original unclipped dust-jacket, toned and with light edgewear. § Fourth printing. A satyrical, fictionalized account of Isherwood's work on the screenplay for the 1934 film, Little... More
1940. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, [1940]. 8vo, xviii, 299 pp. Original blue cloth with paper backstrip label (toned and very slightly chipped), internally near fine with name in pencil on front free endpaper. A very good copy without the dust-jacket. § First US edition, translated by Edwin Muir, preface... More
1940. New York, Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1940. 12mo, (iv), 8 pp. One copy in original wraps, near fine with a little toning, signed by Benét on the half title. One copy in original boards, boards toned, backstrip worn and dampstained. § Both formats of the first edition of... More
1938. London: July 1938. 8vo, 98 pp. Original white wrappers printed in red and black. Slightly toned as expected with the paper stock, spine slightly wrinkled, pages are clean without any marks of former ownership, a very good copy. § With reprints of five newspaper dispatches by Hemingway on... More
1963. New York: Frederick A Praeger, 1963. 8vo, xxiv, 210 pp. Original black cloth, backstrip stamped in gilt, white and red, upper cover stamped in white with image of eyes, cloth a little rubbed and faded, name and date in pencil on half title. Original dust-jacket faded and with some... More
1980. New York: Stein and Day, 1980. 8vo, 129 pp. Original plain boards with red cloth backstrip lettered in gilt, original unclipped dust-jacket. Inscribed by Mary Cheever, dated June 22 1981, autograph letter from her to the same recipients laid in. Dampstaining to the letter, upper and outer margins of... More
1979. New York: Simon and Shuster, 1979. 8vo, 188 pp. Original yellow boards with black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt, near fine in a original unclipped dust-jacket, partly toned. Inscribed by Cheever on the front free endpaper “For Ted and Ruth with love and thanks for many things, Susan”. §... More
1940. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1940. 8vo, 382 pp. Original blue cloth, very ends of backstrip faded, pastedowns toned, very good in the original unclipped dust-jacket (priced $2.50), lightly worn. § First edition of the sequel to White Mule. The saga of an immigrant family in New York. More
1935. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935. 8vo, (xii), 304 pp. Original brown cloth ruled and titled in gilt, backstrip bears a sun-faded ghost of dust-jacket's lettering and the cloth is sunned along the very edge of the crown and foot; a little old tape residue on the front free... More
1944. New York: New Directions, 1944. 8vo, 234 pp. Original green paper wrapped boards with black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt, a touch of fading to the backstrip ends, small mark on upper board, pages clean without marks of former ownership, in the original unclipped dust-jacket toned and lightly worn... More
1982. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1982. 8vo, 67 pp. Original wrappers with design in pink, faded, pages clean, name in pencil to front free end paper. Very good. § First edition of this collection by the San Francisco poet and former poetry reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle. Laid into... More
1941. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1941. 8vo, (vii), 386 pp. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt and green, small mark to foot of the upper board, in the original unclipped dust-jacket (priced $2.50), faded and with some chips and edgewear. § First edition of Wolfe's posthumously... More
1939. New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1939. 8vo, vi, 312 pp. Original blue cloth, original unclipped dust-jacket, Faded patch at the foot of the backstrip, dust-jacket faded and with edgewear. § Sixth edition in the sixth printing of the dust-jacket, original published as a stand alone novel, The... More
1958. New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1958. 8vo, (viii), 677 pp. Original blue, gilt-stamped cloth, in original unclipped dust-jacket. A very good copy in a toned and edgeworn dust-jacket. § Later printing in a third printing of the dust-jacket. A slightly revised collection of the first three parts of... More
1923. New York: Scribner’s, 1923. Folio, xii, 99, (1, colophon) pp. With woodcuts in the text throughout by H.W. Willard. Original decorated cloth and printed paper label in a matching slipcase. Label chipped, slipcase lightly worn else a fine, unopened copy. § Number 372 of 380 copies. Printed by John Henry Nash. More
1914. Ryton, Dymock, Gloucester: February, April, August, December 1914. 8vo, 4 vols.: [1]-59; (3), [60]-108; (4), 109-152; 153-203, (7, index) pp. Original blue printed wrappers. Spines a little darkened. No. 1 lightly soiled and edgeworn, wrapper detached; No. 2 very good with some faint creasing; No. 3 very good with... More
1936. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1936. 8vo, unpaginated. Original wrappers printed in red, yellow, and black, backstrip faded, internally fine. § First edition of the first volume in this influential series of anthologies, edited by James Laughlin. With contributions by Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Jean Cocteau... More
1944. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944. 8vo,191 pp. Original green cloth, lettered in brown on backstrip and with publisher’s device on upper cover, cloth faded in places, internally very clean. Original clipped dust-jacket, faded in places and with some wear to the top edge. Very good. § First Edition... More
1939. Los Angeles: The Albertson Press in Association with Bunster Creely, 1939. 8vo, 17 pp. Original red boards with gold paper title label on upper cover, frontis. plate present but detached, boards irregularly faded, some paste action to front blanks. § Edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Bennett... More
