Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. 8vo, 471 pp. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver on backstrip, in dust jacket. Dust jacket chipped at top of spine. Very good. § First edition. Publisher’s complimentary copy, with enclosure slip. One of the most important 20th-century literary and photography books, an extended essay on..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. 8vo, (vi), 242, (1) pp. Original quarter cloth with blue boards lettered in gilt, a few light marks to the backstrip. Original unclipped dust-jacket, spine panel faded, some worming, largely to the rear panel. § First US edition. Based on the New Zealand novelist’s..... More
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 Benét's..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. 8vo, 202 pp. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt, lacking dust-jacket. A good plus copy with faded backstrip and some offsetting to the title page from a laid in photograph of Bolton clipped from a newspaper; text block clean and square. § First edition..... More
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. 8vo. Original publisher's stiff green wrappers, without the illustrated dust-jacket. A near fine copy with sharp corners and clean pages; moderate spotting to top text block edge and a small, faint stain on the lower wrapper. § First edition, first printing with original price "Francs..... More
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 the..... More
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”. § First..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1923. 8vo, 317 pp. Green cloth lettered in gilt, unillustrated dust jacket lettered in black within a cartouche. Edges spotted. Jacket a bit soiled and worn, but largely intact and as it should be. § First British edition, first issue with the word “go” lacking..... More
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1958. 8vo, 382 pp. Publisher's green patterened boards with title labels on upper cover and backstrip, red endpapers, original color-printed dust-jacket with the flaps cancels as always. A near fine copy with only a little foxing to the textblock edge and very light wear to the..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. 8vo, 408 pp. Original dark green cloth, with gilt on spine still bright. Very good condition, light shelf wear, prior owner's name and gift inscription on front fly-leaf and no other markings. With rare, first state dust jacket, albeit unrestored and faded. Housed in..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1989. 8vo, (4), 313 pp. Publisher's black cloth backstrip lettered in silver, illustrated unclipped dust-jacket priced £11.95. Near fine copy with slight age-toning to the pages and jacket as usual and no marks of previous ownership. § First edition, signed by Golding on the half title..... More
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933. 8vo., [x], [1]-244 pp. Original black cloth with inlaid gold paper labels to upper board and backstrip, top-edge red, and original backstrip. Some minor chipping to jacket, otherwise a very good copy. § First edition, first printing, first issue jacket quoting Laurence Stallings's review..... More
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. 8vo, unpaginated. Quarter red cloth with buff-colored boards, original illustrated unclipped dust-jacket. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Gift inscription on front end paper. A few light scuffs to jacket, slight weakening of first signature but much less than usual..... More
Garden City, NY: Double Day and Company, 1963. 8vo, xi, 176 pp. Original red cloth in original red, blue, and black printed dust-jacket, slightly rubbed, spine panel faded. Very good. § First edition signed by the author with an inscription: “To Ruth (but not Ted) Because Ruth obviously shares my..... More
Paris: John Rodker for the Egoist Press, 1922. 4to, [15], 732, (1)pp. Later half black morocco, gilt top, backstrip richly gilt, original Aegean blue printed wrappers bound in. A very good copy tastefully bound and preserving the iconic wrappers. § First UK edition, number 715 of 2,000 copies printed (500..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. 8vo. Original beige cloth lettered in black, illustrated unclipped dust-jacket. Near fine with minimal age-toning and no edgewear or marks of previous ownership. § First edition, first printing, signed by McEwan on the title page. More
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955. 2 vols. 8vo, 188, 223pp. Original green printed wrappers, backstrips slightly worn, some edge-wear to the joints, and with a small portion of the lower left corner of the upper wrapper of vol.1 sympathetically repaired. New quarter green morocco clamshell box lettered in gilt. A...... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. 8vo, (6), 410 pp. Original green cloth stamped in gilt and blue. A near fine copy in a very good original unclipped dust-jacket, priced $3.00, with very minimal wear to spine panel, a few pencil marks to upper panel. § First edition of Roberts'..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1938. 8vo. Illustrated in color. Original quarter linen with blue cloth boards; a fine copy in the original plain dust-jacket and numbered card slipcase. Dust-jacket slightly age-toned, slipcase slightly soiled and with some joints split. § No. 705 of 1075 "Arundel" large-paper edition, signed by..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. 2 vols., thick 8vo, [x], 532; [iv], 533-1067 pp. Blue buckram with paper spine labels, labels slightly browned, lacking slipcase. § Limited to 1000 sets of which this is #345. Sandburg's first attempt at a novel, telling the story of America from the..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1922. 8vo, viii, 75 pp. Original burnt orange cloth with small ticket of Gotham Book Mart at the foot of the rear pastedown. Slight fading to the backstrip and lower cover, top of text block a little dusty, binding tight, pages clean, very good..... More
New York, Random House, 1934. 8vo, 270 pp. Grey cloth with printed foil band and black backstrip. A very good copy with just a little toning to the cloth in the original unclipped dust-jacket (priced $2.50), toned and with some edewear and minor chipping along top edge. § First edition..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1941. 8vo, 598 pp. Illustrated. Original green cloth lettered in silver, map endpapers, unclipped dustjacket (priced $5.00). Boards marked and scuffed, dust jacket worn and a little faded with moderate edgewear but no major chips, endpapers toned, scattered foxing. Custom cloth slipcase, somewhat spotted. A good..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1969. Narrow 4to, 148 pp. Yellow card wrappers, lettered in black, with folding box. Upper wrappers numbered "11" in top left corner. very light wear to spine of wrappers, box spotted, else very good. § Unrevised proofs. Steinbeck's day-by-day account of the writing of East..... More
Salerno: Ente Provinciale..., [1954] Slim 8vo, 30 pp. Original cream stiff wrappers, small color illustration on upper cover, in the glassine. Small ownership signature dated 1958 on front blank. Near fine, glassine secured with tape at flaps. § First French language edition of the first separate printing of Steinbeck's Italian..... More
