1946-49. Typescript working drafts, plus the final typescript used as publisher's setting copy, for The Man With The Golden Arm (published 1949), many pages of the drafts with Algren's extensive autograph additions (some on versos), corrections and deleted passages (pencil and ink); the final setting typescript with publisher's editorial markings, compositor's directions.....
New York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc., [1921]. First edition. 8vo. 7 plates of Eugene Hutchinson's photographs of the clay impressions of Tennessee Mitchell. Original cloth; dust jacket; black cloth slipcase with morocco label.
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New York: Syrian-American Press, [1928]. 8vo. Frontispiece by Kahlil Gibran. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front flyleaf in Arabic: "Ila Akhiy Jawaad ‘Arid [To my brother Jawaad ‘Arid] Rashid Ayyub." This is the second of the three volumes of verse published by the Lebanese-born poet Rashid.....
London: Sampson, Low, Son, and Marston, 1869. 4to (10.75 x 8.5 inches). 217 pages. Oval bust portrait albumen photograph of William Gilpin, Governor of Colorado, mounted as frontispiece (mount foxed). Large folding map: "Map of the Trenchara and Costilla Estates forming the Sangre de Christo Grant Situate in San Luis.....
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 1855. 8vo. 216 pp. Lithographed folding frontispiece map. Modern green gilt-lettered cloth. Map a bit worn at edges, otherwise very good internally. FIRST EDITION of the second book on the Kansas Territory, and the first made from first-hand observation. The work includes a voyage.....
Göttingen: Steidl, 2016. Oblong folio (36 x 29 cm) 31 color photographs. Cloth; slipcase. Additional photograph in cloth chemise. DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, number 25 of 50 copies signed by Burtynsky with an original photograph, from an edition of 150 (three sets of 50 copies, each with one of three images).....
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. 8vo (8 x 5.5 inches). 165 pages. Original cloth-backed boards; unclipped dust jacket (priced $6.50) designed by Arnold Skolnick. First Edition in English, translated by William Weaver. Calvino's masterful deconstruction of the travel narrative and a prime example of his use of.....
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Milan: Achille Mauri, 1968. Thermoformed plastic multiple: 11.75 x 11.75 inches; 30 x 30 cm. Some minor age darkening at the edges, generally in fine condition, without cracks or abrasions. The book: 44 pages. Text by Vincenzo Agnetti. In Italian, French, and German. Photographs by Giorgio A. Colombo, Franco Angeli.....
London: Published by the Author, 1841 [but 1892 reprint]. Two volumes, large 8vo (10 x 6.25 inches). 400 color plates and 3 maps. Publisher's brown cloth gilt (rebacked preserving original spine panels). The 1892 reprint from the 1841 sheets of Catlin's important narrative of his travels in the Mississippi and.....
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. 8vo (200 x 128 mm; 7 7/8 x 5 in.) . [ii, ads], [vi], 391, [1] pages. Title-page printed in red and black. Publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others uncut. A near-fine copy, the top gilt lightly abraded in a few.....
Denver: Rocky Mountain News Printing Company, 1879. 8vo. [17]-440 pp. Illustrated advertisements at front and back, included in pagination. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt title and illustrated Seal of Colorado on front cover, gilt title with small decorations on spine. Pale stain on cover, generally fresh and bright. FIRST EDITION. Detailed.....
[New York]: First Day of Locust Song, 1955. Two variant copies: 12mo (6.25 x 4.75 inches; 159 x 121 mm). Identical settings of type and imposition, with varying wrappers, together in a cloth folding case: First volume: [16] pages, including printed wrapper, stapled. On wove paper. No collaged materials tipped-in.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. Small 8vo. Preliminary advertisement leaf, engraved frontispiece and additional title after D. Maclise, 11 wood-engravings after R. Doyle, J. Leech, and C. Stanfield. Publisher's red cloth gilt, edges gilt. First edition, second state of the additional title with publisher's name outside the engraved border. Dickens's.....
London: Enitharmon Editions, 2016. Oblong 4to (9.25 x 11.25 inches). 19 original ilthographs by Jim Dine in text. Original black cloth, by The Fine Book Bindery; slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, one of 10 artist's proofs, signed by Jim Dine, one of 15 copies for Enitharmon from an edition of 30. Designed.....
Two pages, 4to. On Dreiser's letterhead. Small stain on verso, otherwise in fine condition. Dreiser writes in to Geoffrey Parsons, the editor of the New York Herald Tribune from 1924-1952, describing a writing submission that he has attached with the letter: “Your general and varied courtesies to me, but more.....
London: R. Cobden-Sanderson, 1926. 8vo. xv, [1], 99 pages. Original black cloth, printed paper spine label; printed dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of this play in verse by T. S. Eliot’s mother, one of 300 copies printed. Laid-in is a signed calling card from “Mrs Henry W. Eliot” inscribed “Compliments of.....
London: The London Chronicle, 10 April to 17 May 1760. Comprising: Vol. VIII, nos 514, 517, 520, 525, and 529. Each 8 pages, small folio (11 x 8 inches). Disbound. Includes the ad for the pamphlet, "This day published...," April 17, 1760; review and excerpts from the pamphlet, praising it.....
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket. As-new. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Frazier on the title-page.
London: David Nutt, 1913. Small, thin 8vo. ix, [3], [1]-50, [2] pages. Original tan printed wrappers (Binding D); cloth folding box. FIRST EDITION, second issue. The author's first book, preceded only by the legendary Twilight [1894] of which only one copy is known. Frost has the distinction of being one.....
Northampton, MA: The Apiary Press, 1964. 8vo. [15] pages. Wood-engravings by Thomas Bewick in text. Hand-bound in marbled wrappers over stiff card. Scarce first book designed and printed by Ronald Gordon, whose future Oliphant Press would print many celebrated fine press books of the 1970s-90s. One of only 25 copies.....
London: Richard Griffin and Company, 1861. 8vo (21.8 x 15.7 cm). Publisher’s original green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to the upper board and spine, gilt to all page edges. Illustrated with 20 mounted albumen prints. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest works of poetry to be illustrated.....
6 7/16 x 9 13/16 inches. Gelatin silver print. Stamped on verso with Ernst Haas's Magnum Photos inkstamp. On a mount with corners (photo removable) with Elaine Steinbeck's manuscript identification in white ink: "Photographer Robert Capa and singer/actor Burl Ives visit John Huston in the hospital ... 1953." A superb.....
Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1963. Large 4to (13.25 x 10 inches; 336 x 254 mm). 12 double-page gauffraged (embossed without inking) prints. Loose as issued in original soft red morocco portfolio, upper cover with embossed design after Hajdu; original cloth folding case, lettered on spine. LIMITED EDITION, an unnumbered copy from.....
Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841. 16mo (12 x 8 cm) 158 pages. Original plum cloth, embossed with a basket weave pattern. Provenance: Herschel V. Jones (bookplate; his sale Anderson Galleries, 20 November 1916, lot 278). FIRST EDITION. The second title in Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair series for children: stories on American.....
Boston: Tappan and Dennet, 1842. 12mo (15.5 x 9 cm). 139 pages, 5-page advertisements at end. Frontispiece, one full-page illustration in text. Original brown ribbed cloth, covers blindstamped with a floral frame, gilt chair at center of front cover, gilt-lettered on spine, cream coated endpapers. Provenance: William Harvey (booklabel). Second.....
