1941. 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..... More
1959. 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..... More
1961. Toronto: Hawkshead Press, 1961. Small thin 4to, [16pp.], loosely inserted (once glued) into stiff white card wrappers with a black and white design on the upper cover repeated in reverse on the lower cover. Staining where the glue bled through the cover, otherwise in very good condition as issued..... More
1937. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1937. 8vo, xiv, 211 pp. Original blue cloth, faded, spotted and dusty but still sound. Without dust jacket. Good. § First American edition of Nightwood. Introduction by T.S. Eliot. A good only copy, but interesting for being from the library of the great..... 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
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
1962. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. 8vo, 368 pp. Original green cloth with gold stamping on spine and cover; original dust jacket. Near fine copy, in a very good dust-jacket, unclipped (priced $5.00) with light rubbing and edgewear. Bookplate of Alfred Knopf and occasional marginal marks and one annotation (presumably his)..... 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
1931. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, [1931]. 8vo., [x], 358 pp., title-page printed in black and red. Original quarter red cloth, and silver-gray cloth, lettering in silver to backstrip, top-edge silver, uncut, with tissue dust-jacket as issued. Jacket has a few small chips, otherwise a very fine copy..... More
1931. New York: Random House, 1931. 8vo., [1]-17, [1 colophon] pp., title-page printed in red and black. Original marbled paper boards with inlaid printed paper label to upper board, uncut, unopened. Remnants of the original glassine wrapper are still clinging to the boards, a fine copy that appears to have..... More
1932. Dallas: The Book Club of Texas, 1932. 8vo., xi, 29, [1 colophon] pp., title-page and colophon printed in black and brown. Original adobe-red cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, deckled edges. Faint finger smudges to upper board, otherwise a bright beautiful copy. § First edition, number 99 of 300..... More
1938. New York: Random House, [1938]. 8vo., [vi], [1]-293 pp., title-page printed in black and red with vignette, and seven headpieces. Original gray cloth with vignette stamped in red and dark-blue to upper board, and lettering in red and dark-blue to backstrip, top-edge red, original dust-jacket of similar design. A...... More
1934. 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..... More
1970. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. 8vo, (8), 422 pp. Original green cloth, dust-jacket (1st state). A little musty and dusty, dust-jacket edge wear and a small tear on the back cover. Generally a good copy as issued but not fine. Ink signature at front "Nancy Gail Schwarz". §..... 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
1963. 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..... More
1929. New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. 8vo, black cloth over purple boards, lettered in gilt; in the original green dust jacket, with an illustration of Judas to the upper in blue. Near fine, unclipped dust-jacket very good with a darkened spine panel and a little edgwear. Inscribed by Jeffers on..... More
1939. London: Faber and Faber and New York: The Viking Press, 1939. 8vo, 628 pp. Original brick red cloth, backstrip titled in gilt, top edge gilt others untrimmed, modest bookplate on front pastedown. Backstrip slightly faded, otherwise a fine copy in the original yellow cloth slipcase which is a little..... More
1964. New York: Viking Press, 1964. 8vo, 628 pp. Original cloth, dust-jacket. In dust jacket, with couple of chips at top of archival protected cover. A very good copy. § First edition, first issue text and jacket. (Publisher’s logo on half title; not variant with logo on second half-title, no..... More
1930. Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. 8vo, unpaginated. Original stiff card wrappers printed in red and black, in scarce original glassine wrapper and silver card slipcase. Backstrip a little worn, spine panel of glassine lost, entirely clean within, slipcase lightly worn. Very good. § First Continental edition, number 32..... More
1918. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1918. 8vo, x, 147, (1), (2, ads) pp. Original brown paper wrapped boards printed in dark green, white endpapers, original gray dust-jacket printed in black. Paper lightly bubbled, dust-jacket toned with a little wear to the top edge of the front panel, spine..... More
1922. 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..... More
1971. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Col, Inc., 1971. 8vo, 569 pp. Publisher's cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket with just a hint of rubbing and edgewear and lightly soiling to the spine panel. Pulitzer sticker on upper panel. § First edition, signed by Stegner..... More
1945. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1945. 8vo, 340 pp. Publisher's cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Very good copy in a good only dust jacket with tape repairs. § First edition. "A text-and-picture study" commissioned by Look magazine, "of eight of the most colorful minorities which together make the majority of our..... More
