In Between the Sheets and Other Stories
London: Jonathan Cape, (1978). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 144pp. Tiny bump on top edge, else fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by McEwan, his second book. More
Literature, Photography, and Miscellany
Catalog 254 contains 134 items, including signed and inscribed first editions, manuscripts, broadsides, hand written letters, and more!
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Forms of Exile
(Dublin, Ireland): The Dolmen Press, (1958). Hardcover. First edition, clothbound issue. 12mo. 24pp. Blue cloth spine stamped in gilt with crimson cloth boards. Near fine with faint shadow on the lower front cover and touch of edgewear. One of 50 Signed and numbered copies. This is copy 33. Montague's first..... More
Bukowski: Photographs 1977-1991
Hollywood: Bukskin Press, 1993. Hardcover. First edition. Folio. Glossy boards with applied portrait photograph. Fine in fine slipcase. Copy letter X of 26 lettered copies (of a total hardbound edition of 100) Signed by Montfort and Signed by Bukowski with a small self-portrait, with a dog and the sun. Laid..... More
Selected Poems
London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1935). Softcover. Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Introduction by T.S. Eliot. Octavo. 140pp. Unprinted buff wrappers. "Selected Poems by Marianne Moore" in red pencil on front wrap, Scottish publisher's ink rubberstamp on front flyleaf: "From Robert MacLerose & Co. Ltd. 30 Nov. 1934..... More
My Uncle Dudley
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 210pp. Spine label faintly tanned else just about fine in a modestly worn, near fine dust jacket with a short tear on the upper flap. Wright Morris's copy, with his ink owner Signature on the front fly. Additionally Inscribed..... More
Mimeographed and Typed Letter Signed, Regarding a Mexican Oil Investment
Point Loma, California: [1927]. Unbound. Mimeographed letter with typed greeting. [3]pp., printed rectos only, on Mundy's Tilgaun stationery. Old folds, first leaf with a tiny bit of marginal loss in the lower corner, near fine. Signed by Mundy at the conclusion. Nearing the disastrous end of an ambitious business venture..... More
Autograph Manuscript Page Signed from "Notes on Will and Duty"
[No place]: [circa 1990?]. Unbound. Autograph Manuscript Page Signed. One sheet of 8¼" x 11½" lined paper, hole-punched in the left margin. Murdoch's manuscript on both sides, a bit more than 1¼pp. Old horizontal fold, light wear, a bit of faint soil in the blank portion of the verso, about..... More
Rachel Dyer: A North American Story
Portland [Maine]: Published by Shirley and Hyde, 1828. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 276pp. Publisher’s original quarter cloth and paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label. Contemporary owner’s name in light ink on front free endpaper, boards are modestly toned, spine label darkened, very good with scattered foxing. John Neal’s masterful novel..... More
Levitation
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Five short stories by an important voice in American Fiction. This copy Inscribed to another noted American author: "For John Cheever - In homage & awe. Cynthia Ozick." A significant association. More
Poem-Scapes
Highlands, North Carolina: Jonathan Williams, Publisher, 1958. Hardcover. First edition, signed issue ("The Gold and Gray Edition"). Small octavo. [50]pp. Gray paper-covered boards, with publisher's yellow-gold printed paper wraparound cover label printed in black, on handmade paper stating "Poemscapes" on front cover. Covers have light fading and a touch of..... More
Moments Preserved
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1960). Hardcover. First edition. Folio. Fine in very good dust jacket toned along the spine, with modest tears at the spine folds, and shallow loss at the crown, in lightly worn, near fine publisher's illustrated slipcase. Nicely Inscribed by Penn to a collaborator: "For Paul..... More
Oiseaux
Paris: Au Vent D'Arles, (1962). Softcover. First edition. Hors commerce issue limited to 155 copies. Quarto. [37]pp. Tan printed wrappers. Covers are slightly toned with very faint foxing, else a near fine, unopened copy. An elusive title in this 1962 edition, published by Au Vent D'Arles, and issued with the..... More
Á la Recherche du Temps Perdu: The Proust Screenplay
London: Eyre-Methuen / Chatto & Windus, (1978). Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. Bottom corners a bit bumped else fine in a trifle worn, fine dust jacket with corresponding bumping. Inscribed on the title page: "To Michael Curtis from Harold Pinter." Pinter's film adaptation of Proust's novel, written in collaboration with..... More
Fiesta Melons
Exeter: The Rougemont Press, 1971. Hardcover. First edition, signed issue. Poems and Drawings by Sylvia Plath. Introduction by Ted Hughes. Quarto. 21pp. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Publisher's printed prospectus and mimeographed slip noting "heavy demand" for the book, laid into the book..... More
The Shipping News
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Fine in printed blue wrappers. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for fiction. John Updike's copy with a letter to Updike laid in from the publisher Barbara Grossman sending the book and noting "Try to not..... More
Books: What They Represent to Some of Those Who Have Written, Read and Loved Them
[No place]: Privately Printed for Bruce Rogers and His Friends, 1945. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Unpaginated. Papercovered boards with printed paper label. Small tear on the spine, a little sunning at extremities, else near fine. Inscribed by Rogers to fine press printer Joseph Blumenthal and family: "To The Blumenthals with..... More
The A B C of Atoms
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, (1923). Hardcover. First American edition, published in the same year as the English edition. Octavo. 162pp. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Brief gift inscription dated in the year of publication on front flyleaf, spine lettering a little dull, overall near fine in very good..... More
Franny and Zooey
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1961). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 201pp. Gray cloth. Topedge foxed, near fine in price-clipped near fine dust jacket with a bit of rubbing and a small smudge on the spine. A brighter than usual copy. More
The Equilibriad
London: The Hogarth Press, 1948. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated with five black and white plates by Lucian Freud. Light edgewear, endpapers tanned as usual, boards a bit splayed at the corners, near fine. One of 750 copies Signed by Sansom. An early appearance of book illustrations by Lucian Freud. More
The Get-Well-Quick Coloring Book. Drawn and Written for you by William Sansom
(London): Andre Deutsch Limited, (1963). Softcover. First edition. Quarto.. [32]pp. Illustrated by William Sansom. Stapled yellow pictorial wrappers. Publisher's small cancel price label on rear cover "5/-" net, slightest soiling, else a fine, bright copy. Very scarce. *OCLC* locates a single copy. More
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
(Covelo, California): Carolyn and James Robertson / Yolla Bolly Press, (1984). Hardcover. First edition thus. Illustrated with woodblock prints by Bill Prochnow. With a new afterword by Herbert Gold. Quarto. xvi, 194, [4] pp. English leather and German linen-covered boards, with hand-marbled endpapers. With an extra suite of eight woodblock..... More
Photographic Portrait of Evelyn Scott with Long Inscription
Paris: Boni & Liveright, 1927. Unbound. Gelatin silver print photograph. Measuring 3½" x 5½". Tipped into an unprinted folded cardstock mat measuring 4¾" x 8¾". The publisher's promotional photograph depicts Evelyn Scott, facing the camera, from the shoulders up. Printed beneath the picture and covered by the mat: "Evelyn Scott..... More
The Emigrants
(New York): New Directions, (1996). Hardcover. First American edition. Translated by Michael Hulse. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the half-title in German using his nickname: “Mit guten wünschen, Max.” The first of the author’s works to appear in English, published in a small edition. The..... More
Cashel Byron's Profession
(London): The Modern Press, 1886. Softcover. First edition, larger variant with the blank leaf bound in at the beginning. Large octavo, measuring 6" x 9¾" (see Laurence for discussion of variant binding sizes). [4], 164pp. Pale blue-green printed wrappers. Fragile wrappers modestly worn with a short split at the crown..... More
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"A Manifesto" [in] Fabian Tracts, No. 2
London: The Fabian Society / Geo. Standring, 1884. Softcover. First edition. One quarto sheet, folded to make four pages. Removed from a larger volume with stab holes and a bit of nicking along the spine, else near fine. Issued unsigned, the Nobel Laureate's first separate publication, issued as "Fabian Tracts..... More