Crossing the Water
London: Faber and Faber, (1971). Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Slight age-toning, else fine in wrappers. 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: Faber and Faber, (1971). Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Slight age-toning, else fine in wrappers. More
New York: J.S. Redfield, 1850. Hardcover. First edition, first printing, binding E (as called for on the first printing in *BAL*). Thick octavo. 607, [1]pp. Publisher's blue-gray cloth gilt. Contemporary label for Child's Book Store in Terre Haute, Indiana on the front pastedown, a couple of insignificant spots on the..... More
[Greencastle, Pennsylvania: The Valley Echo, 1872]. Softcover. Octavo. Sewn mustard yellow printed wrappers. 7pp., ads on both inside wraps. Illustrated with four engravings by David Scattergood. Very good with a crease at the corners, a few ink stains, and some wear to the yapped edges. A New Year's Day carrier's..... More
New York: Vanguard, (1935). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 188pp. Very near fine in very good dustwrapper with light even soiling and shallow wear at the spine ends. Exceptionally scarce novel by noted Arkansas folklorist Vance Randolph, about a German-Russian girl who comes to the Ozarks by way of Kansas and..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., (1973). Hardcover. First edition, hardcover issue. Very slightly cocked else fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Rich to another American poet. Winner of the National Book Award. The hardover issue is very uncommon, especially with an association inscription. More
New York: Rae D. Henkle, (1934). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 320pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper designed by Nat Falk, with miniscule wear. The story of notorious criminal John Goode. Born in Boston, he ran away to Denver at age 11 where he joined a gang of "yeggman" as a lookout..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1981). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper lightly rubbed, tiny tear and a touch of wear at the corners. Signed by the author on a publisher's card laid in. More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1918). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrations by B.J. Rosenmeyer. Octavo. Green cloth decorated in gilt, dark green, and light brown; titled in gilt with applied illustration on front board. Tiny bookstore label front fly, near fine with very light wear. A handsome copy lacking the..... More
New York: Bobbs-Merrill, (1934). Hardcover. First American edition. Trifle sunned at the top of the boards else fine in handsome very good plus dustwrapper with some modest chipping at the spine ends. By the author of *Bambi*. Scarce in jacket. More
Rochester: Craftsman Press, 1917. Hardcover. First edition. Endpapers slightly foxed, still fine in very good dustwrapper with a few modest chips and slight loss at the crown. Exceptionally scarce in jacket. Not in *Bleiler.*. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1972. Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely, unread copy of a very scarce title. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Hardcover. First trade edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by both Stern and Potok, and scarce thus. More
London: Faber & Faber, (1967). Hardcover. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with the slightest of toning at the spine. Signed by the author. The author's best-known work, exceptionally uncommon, especially signed. More
(New York): New Directions, (1952). Hardcover. First edition, trade issue. Fine in very good or better dustwrapper with some overall age-toning and stress at the flap folds. Laid in is an invitation from the Gotham Book Mart to a May Day Party for Thomas. Inscribed by Thomas six months before..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. Hardcover. Third printing. Octavo. pp. [1-2] 3-357 [358-360 (blank)]. With a map inserted after page 306, and a 24-page publisher's catalog at the back dated September 1865. Bound in publisher's purple cloth, gilt spine, boards stamped in blind. With light blue-gray glazed endpapers. Early ownership..... More
New York: Viking Press, (1964). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 180pp. A little offset on the front endpapers from a clipping else fine in very near fine dustwrapper with slight age-toning. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. The author's first book, the non-fiction account of the integration of two..... More
New York: The Ullman Mfg. Co., 1908. Hardcover. First edition(?). 12mo. Illustrated in color. Color illustrated paper over boards. Modest tears on a couple of successive pages, edgewear on the board thus very good in a good or better illustrated paper dustwrapper with several small chips and tears. ABC book..... More
New York: Random House, (1971). Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with small chips, tears, and a small stain on the rear panel. Inscribed by Warren to his wife, the author Eleanor Clark, first (and difficult to read) on the black front fly: "For Eleanor with all..... More
San Jacinto Monument TX: San Jacinto Museum of History, 1959. Hardcover. First edition. Cloth and papercovered boards as issued. Small stain at the bottom of the front board, thus near fine, issued without dustwrapper. The very scarce hardcover issue, only 512 copies were printed. More
New York: Random House, (1981). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with a couple of small tears. Inscribed by Warren to his wife, the author Eleanor Clark: "To Eleanor all love, as always, Red." More
New York: Albondocani Press, 1969. Softcover. First edition. Fine in marbled self-wrappers. Copy number 4 of 4 copies marked "out of series" and Signed by the author. The out of series copies were given to personal friends of the publisher. A beautifully produced little volume of Welty's splendid essay on..... More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1947). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with a shallow chip on the front panel. Warmly Inscribed by the author in 1954. Wilbur's first book, one of 750 copies. More
[No place: no publisher], April 1981. Softcover. First edition. Illustrations by Brian Bilby. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Fine. Briefly Inscribed by the author: "Kenyata, Keep the Faith. Rock." The story of a young soldier in Vietnam investigating rumors of a giant spider "as large as a football field." According to the..... More