Catalog 228 contains 120 items, including signed and inscribed first editions, broadsides, posters, flyers, original art, typewritten manuscripts, and more!
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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1972). Hardcover. First edition (with no equivalent American edition). Very slightly cocked, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a short, rubbed tear on the front panel. Three long stories that first appeared in *Playboy* magazine. Inscribed by Shaw to fellow writer James Jones and..... More
Philadelphia: Carey, Lee and Blanchard, 1833. Hardcover. First American edition. Two volumes. Octavos. 4pp. inserted publisher's ads, 201pp.; 197pp. followed by [23] inserted publisher's ads. Half-titles in each volume. Original publisher’s muslin backed boards with paper spine labels. Housed in a quarter morocco and cloth clamshell case. Contemporary owner's name..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1957). Hardcover. First edition. Very good only with dampstains on the boards and the lightest of foxing to some pages in very good jacket with matching dampstains, spine-toning and light wear at the extremities. The Dedication Copy of this collection Inscribed on the dedication page..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1973). Hardcover. First edition. Top of the spine very slightly bumped else fine in spine-faded else near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Sondheim: "For Harold Merry -- with best wishes from Stephen Sondheim 3/15/89" followed by a measure of music from the play. The original..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, (1977). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated from photographs from the production and an illustration by Al Hirschfield. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear. Inscribed by Sondheim with two measures of music from the play. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1963). Hardcover. First edition. Slight foxing front fly and page edges, near fine in a spine-faded very good dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by Sondheim using most of the front fly: "To Harold Merry - Best wishes from Stephen Sondheim 4/28/90." The inscription is followed by..... More
New York: Dutton, 1947. Hardcover. First edition. Bumping at the corners else fine in near fine price-clipped dustwrapper with typical sunning to the spine and very light wear at the edges. Spillane's first book, the first Mike Hammer mystery, and the progenitor to a whole generation of books featuring ultra-violent..... More
![Item #416073 [Broadside]: Advance Notice 25th Reunion of the Class of Dartmouth '28 at Hanover...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/416073.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1494350013)
Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1953. Softcover. Measuring 12" x 18". Illustrated in green ink on buff or off-white paper. Fine. A dozen vignette drawings interspersed with information (some of it humorous: "This space for names of those whose 'bosses' won't let them come:"). Most of the drawings appear to be by..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, (1918). Hardcover. First American illustrated edition. Illustrated in color by Nandalal Bose, Surendranath Kar, Abanindranath Tagore, and Nobendranath Tagore. Introduction by W. B. Yeats. Purple cloth decorated and titled in gilt. Tiny neat owner's stamp on the dedication page, modest uniform sunning on the spine, else..... More
New York: Minton, Balch, & Company, 1928. Hardcover. First edition, first state, with his poem *Ode to the Confederate Dead* tipped-in. Octavo. Cloth with applied printed label. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell cased with morocco gilt label. Boards very slightly splayed and rubbed, short tear on one leaf, else..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, (1940). Hardcover. First edition. Very slight soiling on the boards, very near fine in a visibly fine dustwrapper but with some very slight and barely noticeable professional restoration mostly near the crown. More
![Item #60792 [Broadside]: English Train Compartment. John UPDIKE](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/60792.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1492440829)
London: The Turret Bookshop, 1993. Unbound. First edition. Measuring 8.25" x 12". Tiny bump at one corner, still fine. Although not called for, this copy is Signed by John Updike. Very uncommon. *OCLC* locates five copies. *De Bellis & Broomfield* A142. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1953). Hardcover. First edition. Edges of the boards very slightly rubbed, still fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears at the spine ends. Signed by the author. A bright and fresh, very nice copy of the author's first book, one of a...... More
![Item #368334 [Original Dust Jacket Art]: Spider Boy. Carl VAN VECHTEN, Ronald McRAE](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/368334.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1603004121)
[New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928]. Unbound. Original tempura painting for the dust jacket of Carl Van Vechten's novel *Spider Boy* by noted gay artist and designer Ronald McRae. The image measuring 6.5" x 7.5", matted and framed to 17.5" x 13". Unsigned (as is the finished dust jacket). Fine..... More
1944-1973. Unbound. A collection of 12 letters, cards, and publicity photos from Alberto Vargas and his wife, Anna Mae Clift, to a devoted collector, including an Autographed Note Signed (“Alberto”) and three Christmas cards Signed with his stylized signature. Overall fine. The letters and notes begin in 1961 and end..... More
New York: Delacorte, (1981). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a single short tear on the front panel. Author Tim O'Brien's copy with his ownership Signature dated in the year of publication. More
![Item #423264 [Original Playscript]: The Skin of Our Teeth: Play in Three Acts. Thornton WILDER](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/423264.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1621454489)
New York: Michael Myerberg, [1942]. Softcover. Quarto. Brad bound mimeographed leaves printed rectos only in blue wrappers. p. 1-39; 2-41; 3-31. Slight wear on the yapped edges, else very near fine. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which ran for over 10 months and 359 performances at the Plymouth Theatre, was directed..... More
[No place: no publisher], (1976, 1977). Softcover. Tall octavo. Original rice-paper wrappers in Japanese-style binding with an original collage by Emmanuel Navaretta reading "Jargon 25" (measuring 4" x 5"), pasted to the front cover with original unprinted mylar dustwrapper. Very good with rubbing at the edges of the wrappers and..... More
New York: New Directions, 1947. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine with light edge wear and one corner bumped in bright near fine dustwrapper with touch of spine discoloration and a tear at the front spine fold. Pulitzer Prize-winning drama highspot, basis for innumerable revivals and the explosive Elia Kazan film..... More
![Item #418483 [Broadside]: The Seventh Yeats International Summer School. W. B. YEATS](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/418483.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1539962105)
Sligo, Ireland: The Yeats Society, 1966. Unbound. Measuring 8" x 10". A couple of light creases, near fine. Broadside for the Seventh Annual Yeats International Summer School held in Sligo, Ireland from August 6-20, 1966. Lecturers in attendance included Edmund Blunden, Donald Davies, Brendan Kennelly, and Raymond Lister, among others..... More