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Holiday 2008 |
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Another in a series of award-winning catalogs - click to enlarge >>
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For our year-end round-up we've gone through the shelves and selected the best and most interesting items in our inventory, many of which have never been in a catalog before. So what did we find? How about an outstanding William Faulkner association copy? Or Hart Crane's own copy of his rare first book, in dustjacket? One of only two known copies of The Phantom of the Opera in original dustjacket? Beautiful copies of Hemingway's first two books? Fine and unrestored copies of To Kill a Mockingbird, On the Road, and The Bell Jar? I could go on, but why not see for yourself below... (and while you're at it, make sure to take a look at Tom Bloom's full catalog illustration by clicking on the thumbnail to the right). |
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Catalog 143 |
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Showing catalog: 143 
$5,000.00 Tulsa: A Guide to the Oil Capital. American Guide Series Tulsa: The Mid-West Printing Co. / (Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project) 1938. First Edition. Stapled orange wrappers. Slightly sunned at the spine, still easily a fine and crisp copy. An attractively printed... more>> 
$6,000.00 The Lawyer, or Man as He Ought Not to Be. A Tale Pittsburgh: Printed for and Published by Zadok Cramer, and Sold at his Bookstore [Franklin's Head] 1808. First edition. Small octavo. Contemporary quarter sheep and marbled paper over boards, gilt rules and lettering, untrimmed.... more>> ![Cover Image: Eudora Welty: A Note on the Author and Her Work. Together with The Key, one of seventeen stories from Miss Welty's forthcoming A Curtain of Green [aka] The Key by (WELTY, Eudora). PORTER, Katherine Anne](http://www.betweenthecovers.com/_keepout/_product_images/79b/e7a/86477_thumb.jpg)
$4,500.00 (Garden City): (Doubleday, Doran) (1941). First edition. Stapled photographic wrappers (with photo of Welty on the front wrap). Octavo. 22pp. Slight bend on the right-hand side... more>> 
SOLD Essays Presented to Charles Williams London: Oxford 1947. First edition. With a Memoir by C.S. Lewis. Some foxing to the foredge and preliminary leaves, a small scuff on one page, else fine in... 
$750.00 New York: Crown Publishers 1941. First edition. Quarto. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a bit of rubbing. Very attractively illustrated with, among others,... more>> 
$2,000.00 New York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1928. First edition. Introduction by Percy Hammond. A faint dampstain on the front board, green spine a bit mottled, some scattered foxing... more>> 
SOLD A New Conscience and An Ancient Evil New York: Macmillan 1912. First edition. Just about fine in a lovely, near fine dustwrapper with very slight nicking at the crown. A beautiful example of the... 
$3,750.00 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1941. First edition. Near fine in an about very good, somewhat spine-faded dustwrapper with some internal tape removed, a couple of seamless... more>> 
$450.00 New York: Ives Washburn 1930. First edition. A small erasure on the front fly else fine in a price-clipped, very good dustwrapper with small chips at the... more>> 
$400.00 The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha New York: E.P. Dutton (1978). First edition. Fine in a slightly sunned, fine dustwrapper illustrated by Laszlo Kubinyi. Inscribed by... more>> |
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