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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1961). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in just about fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. A brighter than usual copy. More
Catalog 259 contains 135 items, including signed and inscribed first editions, photographs, broadsides, manuscripts, original art, and more!
Download PDF of Holiday MiscellanyBoston: Little, Brown and Company, (1961). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in just about fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. A brighter than usual copy. More
(Cleveland, Ohio: Renegade Press, 1964). Softcover. First edition. With prints by d.a. levy. 12mo. [16]pp. White pictorial wrappers lightly toned at the extremities else very near fine. Limited to 105 copies. The first book printed by levy at his Renegade Press. Of the 105 copies, *OCLC* locates a remarkable 25..... More
Hardcover. In 1912 at the age of nine, Kay Boyle was photographed by the noted impressionist painter and photographer Morton Schamberg. Over 60 years later, Kay Boyle wrote about her meetings with Schamberg and his friend Charles Sheeler and of Schamberg's final ghostly deathbed visit. Present are the following: 1)..... More
London and New York: Cambridge University Press and The Macmillan Company, 1945. Hardcover. First edition, American issue with Macmillan on the spine of the book. Small octavo. 91pp. Green cloth gilt. Spine lettering a little dull, near fine in very good or better dust jacket with toning and some rubbing..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [circa 1932]. Hardcover. First edition. 231pp. Black and white illustrations. Slightly bowed boards and bumped spine ends else about near fine in a very good dust jacket with a small tape repair, tiny tears, and edgewear. According to the tile page, this volumes includes..... More
London: John Calder, (1965). Softcover. Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Flexible unprinted fabric wrappers, with the title and author name inked on the spine. Top corner bumped, a little thumbing on the leaves, very good or better. Selby's first novel which, because of its frank portrayal of homosexuality..... More
[No place: circa 1961]. Unbound. Typescript. Five quarto sheets, typed rectos only. Old folds for mailing, first leaf trifle soiled, about fine. Signed by Sexton on the final page. An early, five-page Signed typescript for Anne Sexton's poem "The House," which first appeared in the December 1961 issue of *Poetry*..... More
New York: George D. Swartz & Company, (1923). Hardcover. First edition of this novelization based on the 1923 film featuring Lon Chaney and Patsy Ruth Miller, stated "An Original Motion Picture Edition" on the front board. Small octavo. 144pp. Illustrated from stills from the film. Contemporary neat gift inscription, near..... More
Boston: Richard G. Badger, Publisher / The Gorham Press, (1925). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 131pp. Textured paper over boards with printed paper labels. Small nicks at the edges of the labels, else near fine. Self-published, the author's most important book on cosmology, written by an extraordinary prodigy and by some..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, (1951). Hardcover. First edition, code "K-A." Lyrics by Dorothy Field. Music by Arthur Schwartz. Pages a little toned, near fine in very good or better dust jacket, with shallow loss at the crown and a modest closed tear. A handsome copy. The novel was a...... More
Everett, Penna. Fantasy Publications, [1935]. Softcover. First edition. 12mo. 38, [2]pp. (mispaginated, as apparently all copies were). Wrappers. Cheap paper a little toned, else a just about fine copy of this amateur press collection of two fantasy stories. Includes a mention of H.P. Lovecraft in an ad at the end..... More
London: Andre Deutsch, (1958). Hardcover. First English edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author: "To Francoise with best wishes for much happiness. Terry S." The recipient is Francois Lasquin, a translator who has translated Stephen King and Raymond Carver, among others, into French. More
New York: Covici Friede, 1937. Hardcover. First edition, first issue. Fine in fine and bright dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of this poignant, classic novella of two Depression-era drifters whose dreams of a better life are not supported by fate. By way of illustration of this volume's scarcity, 2500 copies of..... More
New York: Viking, (1957). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrations and jacket art by William Pene du Bois. A little foxing on the endpapers, light soiling on the boards, and a modest "discard" stamp on the front fly, a sound, very good copy in very good or better dustwrapper with a couple..... More
New York: Robert O. Ballou, (1933). Hardcover. First edition, first issue. Topstain bright, a fine copy with the slightest of fading at the extremities, in an especially fine and bright dustwrapper with negligible toning at the spine. An exceptional copy of the author's third book, one of only 598 copies..... More
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, (1978). Hardcover. First edition, signed issue. Introduction by Willard Van Dyke. Quarto. 144pp. Illustrated. Fine in fine dust jacket. This issue limited to 20 numbered copies and designated "Milwaukee Center For Photography Limited Edition" Signed by Steiner: "Ralph Steiner. February 8, 1978 (my 79th birthday)"..... More
(Boston): Vahan S. Malkasian, 1923. Softcover. First edition thus. With a two-page introduction by the publisher, Vahan S. Malkasian (or Malkhasian). Translated by Hovhannes Tsovikian. Illustrated with three stills from the 1920 film. Text in Armenian. Small octavo. 100 [4] pp. Printed wrappers over a stapled textblock. Spine a bit..... More
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. Hardcover. First American edition. Octavo. 378pp. Tan cloth boards with blue lettering on the spine and front board, and illustration on the front cover of Dracula's castle on a hill with the setting sun in gilt. Very good with moderate edgewear and rubbing..... More
London: Printed for Benj. Motte, 1726. Hardcover. Third octavo edition (Teerink’s “B” edition). Four parts in two volumes. Vol. 1. pp. viii, [4], 148, [6], 149-310; Vol. 2. pp. [6], 154, [8], 155-353 [1 (blank)]. Illustrated with seven engraved plates: Frontispiece portrait of “Captain Lemuel Gulliver” (second state) and six..... More
New York: Random House, 1971. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrations by Ralph Steadman. Much less of the usual sunning at the edges of the boards, else fine in fine dust jacket, and with none of the usual fading on the red spine lettering. A bright and attractive copy of the Gonzo..... More
New York: Random House, (1967). Hardcover. First edition. Neat owner name and address on front fly, else fine in fine, bright dust jacket. Author's first book, in nicer than usual condition. More
New York: Lion, (1952). Softcover. First edition. Paperback original. Noncolor-breaking creases at the lower corners and hint of green ink along the spine, very good or better copy with supple white pages. The author's best-known work, a classic of the noir tradition. A heartwarming little tale of a Texas sheriff..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., (1889). Hardcover. First authorized American edition, the first edition translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole (there was an unauthorized Clara Bell translation in 1886, translated from the French). Four volumes in two, as issued. 12mos. 359, [ii], 392pp.; 424, [ii], 408pp..... More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. Hardcover. First edition. Foreword by Walker Percy. A fine and unusually tight copy (with none of the usual splaying of the boards) in fine first issue dust jacket. Housed in a custom quarter morocco gilt and cloth clamshell case. Posthumously published novel that..... More
Santa Barbara: Neville, 1983. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Printed yellow boards. Fine, issued without dust jacket. The screenplay for the celebrated film, illustrated from stills from the film. Copy number 156 of 350 numbered copies Signed by the author. More