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
1956. London: Faber & Faber, n.d. [1956]. 8vo, 94 pp. Publisher's yellow cloth lettered in red, price-clipped dust-jacket. A near fine copy with a little toning to the pastedowns. Small Foyles Bookshop label on front pastedown. Publisher's note tipped in. Dust-jacket near fine with light rubbing and a touch of..... 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
1975. New York: Viking Press, [1975]. 8vo, (7), 487pp. Original printed yellow wrappers, tiny stain on backtrip, edges just browned. § Advance reading copy with insert from the publisher. Signed by Bellow, who won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year. The..... 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
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
1966. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966. 8vo, 218 pp. Original red cloth; a near fine copy with just a hint of foxing to the endpapers, in a near fine unclipped dust-jacket ($4.95) with a miniscule amount of edgewear to the rear panel. § First edition. More
1971. New York: Random House, 1971. 8vo, 303 pp. Original brown cloth. A near fine copy in a fine, price-clipped dust-jacket. § First edition. Doctorow's third novel, a finalist for the 1972 National Book Award. More
1975. New York: Random House, 1975. 8vo, 270 pp. Original brown cloth boards and dust-jacket. A very good copy, small stain to tip of bottom corner of endleaves and first 15 pages, in a very good, lightly age-toned, unclipped dust jacket priced $8.95, also with a small stain on the..... More
1960. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. 8vo, 180, [1]pp. Publisher's quarter cloth and orange boards lettered in black, pictorial dust jacket. Very good copy, age-toned as usual, name and address on front free endpaper. Dust-jacket unclipped (priced $3.50), a little soiled and edgeworn but generally very good. § First..... More
1958. 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..... 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
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..... 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
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
1933. 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..... 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
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
1911. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. 8vo, 340, (2), 4, ads) pp. Title page tipped in as is the page between 270 and 271 (as called for). Publisher's blue ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt, with mounted color plate, top edge gilt, backstrip a little dulled and worn, boards faintly..... More
