The Lost World
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1966). Hardcover. First English edition, with an appreciation of the author by Robert Lowell that does not appear in the U.S. edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful, as new copy. More
Catalog 219 contains an eclectic assortment of items perfect for purchasing this (or any) holiday season. The 98 items in this catalog are almost all modern first editions, many of which have been signed or inscribed. Notable authors include Pat Conroy, Hart Crane, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Harper Lee, Edgar Allen Poe, and Henry David Thoreau.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1966). Hardcover. First English edition, with an appreciation of the author by Robert Lowell that does not appear in the U.S. edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful, as new copy. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1951). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with some rubbing at the front flap fold. A very nice copy. More
(Monterey, California: Peters Gate Press, 1966). Unbound. First edition. One sheet folded to make four pages. Fine in fine original envelope. One of 500 numbered copies. A previously unpublished poem. More
New York: Grove Press, (1958). Hardcover. First edition. Cloth and papercovered boards. A light stain on the rear board and a little age-toning, a very good or better copy. One of 100 numbered copies. This is copy 46. More
New York: Hill and Wang, (1960). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. The playwright's first play directed by Jerome Robbins and starring Sam Waterston. It was the winner of the 1962 Drama Desk Award and the basis for the 1967 film starring Rosalind Russell. An..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 1999. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine with some light bumping at the corners in near fine price-clipped dustwrapper with similar bumping and tiny tear on rear wrap. Signed by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) in Tibetan. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1960). Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with a tiny nick on the front panel. Author's first book. One of 1131 copies printed. *Bloomfield* A6b. More
New York: Harper and Brothers, (1954). Hardcover. First edition. Modest offsetting on the endpapers from the jacket flaps else fine in spine-sunned, very good or better dustwrapper with a few modest chips, mostly at the spine ends. A nice copy of this western classic, the basis for the John Ford..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1960. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a nice very good plus dustwrapper with one tiny nick, and some rubbing at the spine folds, but which is original to the book and completely untouched by restorers. Advance Review Copy with publicity photo laid in featuring the iconic image..... More
[Spingfield, Illinois: The Author, 1910]. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. [12]pp. Stitched illustrated wrappers. Neat vertical crease, else near fine. Inscribed by Lindsay at the top of the front wrap, with the recipient's name partially erased. Uncommon. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948. Hardcover. First edition. Contemporary bookplate on the verso of the front fly, modest edgewear on the boards, very good or better in about very good dustwrapper with three internally repaired tears and small nicks and tears at the extremities. Signed by the author on the..... More
Indianapolis, Indiana: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937. Softcover. Magazine. Cover by Margaret Brundage. Octavo. Illustrated paper wrappers. Near fine with a crease on the front wrap, light wear to the wraps and typical nicks and tears to the yapped lower edge; spine intact and relatively bright with off-white interior pages..... More
New York: Farrar Straus & Cudahy, (1959). Hardcover. First American edition, with a prose piece not included in the English edition. Near fine in very good or better dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip and photograph laid in. Also laid in is a letter from the publisher sending the book..... More
New York: Caterpillar, 1967. Softcover. First edition. Quarto. Cover art by Iris Lezak. Stapled decorated orange wrappers with canvas tape spine as issued. Multilith leaves printed rectos only. Slight soiling on the wrappers, else about fine. One of 300 copies. This copy Inscribed by Mac Low to Judith Malina and..... More
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1980. Hardcover. First edition. Quarter cloth and marbled papercovered boards. Fine. One of 400 copies, this copy is press marked as a "Presentation Copy" and is Inscribed by Mailer to editor Gordon Lish: "To Gordon for his enthusiasms. Cheers, Norman. April 1982." Lish provided the..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1953. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Small square quarto. 661, [4]pp. Illustrated. Printed in France. Quarter canvas and stitched signatures with paper label affixed on front wrap. Slight soiling and stains on front wrap, else very near fine. An ungainly format, presumably rare thus and unlikely to..... More
Claremont, California: Aleatory Press Ltd., (1972). Softcover. First edition. Foreword by Dick Higgins. Large octavo. 24pp. Quarter cloth and printed card wrappers. Fine. All mail art elements present and in fine condition. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1924). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little soiling, and some small tears. Nicely Inscribed by the author, presumably to a bookseller: "For J.J. Mullen – God will punish him for selling such stuff! H.L. Mencken. 1924." A very nice copy..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1978. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip and promotional letter laid in. Inscribed by Merrill to a noted american poet and Signed as "Jimmy." *Mirabell* won the National Book Award. More
New York: Atheneum, 1962. Hardcover. First edition, hardcover issue. Spine lettering with the usual tarnishing, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip and promotional material laid in. Warmly Inscribed by the author to another poet. Merrill's scarcest trade publication. More
New York: Robert Whitehead, Dowling-Whithead Stevens, [circa 1971]. Softcover. Quarto. Mimeographed leaves with printed rectos only in bradbound blue plasticized Studio Duplicating Service wrappers titled in gilt. Some wear and tear at the edges of the yapped wrappers, thus very good; internally fine. Signed by Miller on the title page..... More
Baltimore: I. & M. Ottenheimer, 1914. Hardcover. First edition, hardcover issue. 12mo. 62; 64pp. Illustrated cloth. A couple of ink letters on the front fly, light spotting to the bottom of the front board and tiny ink splashed on topedge, very good or a little better. Relatively common in wrappers..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1952). Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with a small chip on the front panel, a small tear, and slight offsetting on the flaps and inside the jacket from adhesive used on an old homemade jacket protecter. Still a nice and..... More
New York: Blanche C. Gregory, Inc., [circa 1990]. Softcover. Revised edition. Quarto. 88pp. Photocopied leaves bradbound into CAA wrappers. Rubbing on the wrappers, else near fine. Signed by Oates on the title page. Originally optioned by Martin Scorsese and producer Arthur Sarkissian, it is so far an unproduced script by..... More
New York: Jargon / Corinth Books, 1960. Softcover. First combined edition, limited issue. Cloth and printed paper wrappers applied to the cloth. A touch of age-toning, still easily fine. Copy letter Z of 26 lettered and Signed copies. More