Catalog 247 contains 108 items, mostly signed and inscribed first editions, but also includes broadsides, manuscripts, original art, and more!
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New York: Century Co., 1910. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 363pp. Illustrated with photographs. Tan cloth, lettered in green, and illustrated in brown. Modest overall soiling on the boards, else near fine. Camp was the Coach of the Yale football team and probably did more than anyone else to popularize the..... More
(Gantt, Alabama: Whipporwill Publishers, 1973). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with the very slightest of rubbing at the edge of the spine. The rare true first edition of the author's first novel, preceded only by a pamphlet biography of Alabama Governor Lurleen Wallace. According to one source, only..... More
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. Softcover. Uncorrected Proof. Fine in wrappers. The author's first novel, and very scarce. More
![Item #444564 [Broadside]: Coming! The Cook & Harris High Class Exhibition of Moving Pictures and...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/444564.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1611597031)
[No place]: B. Albert Cook, [circa 1905]. Unbound. Photographically illustrated broadside or poster printed in black, red, and grayscale on thin cardstock. Approximately 11" x 14". Some scraping in lower margin and soiling in margins, near very good. A poster for an itinerant showman who exhibited genuine motion pictures (as..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891. Hardcover. First edition in the rare publisher's gift binding. Half white calf and floral patterned paper over boards with morocco gilt spine labels. Myerson's binding "C," variant noted by him with gathering "a" omitted. Good or better with minor staining on the boards, some rubbing and..... More
Tokyo: ggg Books, 1993. Hardcover. First edition. Small octavo. 63, [1]pp. Illustrated in color. Decorated glazed boards. Text in English and Japanese. Fine in fine printed wraparound band. Artist monograph published in Japan as part of a series on American designers and graphic artists, this was the first monograph published..... More
(Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado, 1947). Unbound. Offprint. Fine. A printed letter from Farrell to Melvin Mencher, editor of *The Window*, containing Farrell's opinions on the controversy over the disbanding of the American Youth for Democracy, an allegedly Communist organization at the University of Colorado. Signed by Farrell. More
Boston: Four Seas Company, (1924). Hardcover. First edition. Preface by Phil Stone. Small octavo. Green paper-covered boards with printed label. Cardboard spine lacking as is frequently the case, the printed label is chipped at margins, a sound, good copy of an exceedingly fragile book. In a specially made quarter morocco..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Hardcover. First edition. Very light wear on the cloth, else a fine copy in an about very good dustwrapper with shallow chipping at the extremities, particularly the spine ends (the largest about thumbnail-sized), minor internal conservation at the folds, and with the spine toned..... More
![Item #455443 [Broadside]: "To the Voters of Oxford" [The Beer Broadside]. William FAULKNER](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/455443.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1610124117)
[Oxford, Mississippi]: William Faulkner, Private Citizen / [Oxford Eagle, 1950]. Unbound. Broadside. One leaf. 8" x 11". Faint creases from once being folded, else fine. In 1944, Faulkner's hometown of Oxford outlawed beer. A few years later a letter from most of the town's clergymen appeared in the *Oxford Eagle*..... More
London: John Murray, (1958). Hardcover. First edition. Frontispiece and title page vignette by John Craxton. Map by John Woodcock. Photographs by Joan Eyres Monsell. About fine in a lightly age-toned and soiled, very good or better dustwrapper. Account by a respected English traveler. More
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1972. Unbound. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies. Seventeen loose illustrations in folder and envelope. Fine. More
(New York): [no publisher, 1978]. Softcover. First edition. Sixteen postcards in a printed envelope. Envelope flap sealed (as issued) and envelope a little age-toned, near fine. *Toledano* A68. More
(London: Max Parrish, 1950). Hardcover. First edition. Oblong quarto. Boards a little bowed with rubbing at the edges, very good in papercovered boards in about very good dustwrapper. The second of Greene's four children's book collaborations with his sometime lover Dorothy Craigie. This copy is Inscribed by Greene to bibliographer..... More
New York: Cambridge House, 1943. Softcover. First edition. Small octavo. 125pp. Original goldenrod paper wrappers printed in black. Slight smudging on the wrappers, faint crease on a couple of leaves, likely a printer's error, else near fine. This guidebook includes chapters on everything from sports and detective fiction plot development..... More
New York: Random House, (1959). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a nice near fine dustwrapper with slight fading of the usually washed out red lettering on the spine, and a couple of tiny nicks and tears. The first book by an African-American to win the New York Drama Critics' Circle..... More
Cambridge, Mass. Privately printed, 1943. Softcover. First edition. 12mo. 14pp. Stapled printed gray wrappers. Slightest age-toning, else fine. Signed by the author on the title page. Hawkes' first book, one of 100 copies printed, of which half were reportedly destroyed by the author. More
(New York): New Directions Books, (1961). Hardcover. First edition, hardcover issue. Introduction by Leslie A. Fiedler. Near fine with bumping at the corners in very good or better wrappers with moderate wear at the edges including nicks, tears, and creases. Inscribed to author and *Sewanee Review* editor Andrew Lytle and..... More
(New York): New Directions, (1969). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in sunned, else fine slipcase. Copy numbered 9 of 150 numbered copies Signed by the author. More
Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1945. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a bright unfaded near fine dustwrapper with a few closed tears. A better than usual copy of the author's first book. Cheaply produced during wartime, and seldom found in presentable condition. More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1960). Hardcover. First edition. Faint stain on the foredge, near fine in modestly rubbed, else near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author. A nicer than usual copy of the author's uncommon second book, a novel about a boxer fallen on hard times. More
New York: Random House, 1969. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author. More
![Item #78020 The Sins of the Fathers [Der Eid des Stefan Huller]. Felix HOLLAENDER](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/78020.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1457633312)
New York: Payson and Clarke, 1927. Hardcover. First American edition, translated from the German by Sara J.I. Lawson. Small spot on the rear board, else fine in an about fine dustwrapper with a small internally repaired tear. The first chapters of this novel were filmed several times, most influentially in..... More
Richmond, Virginia: Davi Det Hompson, [1976 and 1977]. Softcover. Four pamphlets. Octavos. Each [16]pp. Stapled printed self-wrappers. Overall near fine with light rubbing, spine creases and a few scattered spots. A collection of four mail art pamphlets from Davi Det Hompson, the pseudonym of Fluxus artist and Concrete poet David..... More
Unbound. Portrait of Housman matted to approximately 4" x 5½". Cut signature "A.E. Housman" is matted below the portrait. Unexamined out of the frame. Light wear to the frame; the paper bearing the signature is a little browned, else fine. More