Rawdon's Roof
London: Elkin Mathews, 1928. 8vo. Original boards; dust jacket. Number 458 of 530 copies signed by Lawrence.
London: Elkin Mathews, 1928. 8vo. Original boards; dust jacket. Number 458 of 530 copies signed by Lawrence.
New York: House of Books, 1933. 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine. First edition, and the first appearance of this story. Number 177 of 300 copies. Hannenan A11A.
London & Edinburgh: Adams and Charles Black, 1892. 3 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles, one-leaf ads at end of vol. 3. Green half morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt, by Bayntun. First edition. An intellectually superior man born into a socially inferior milieu, based loosely on Gissing's own early life. Coustillas A11.1.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924-1927. 28 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth; glassine; publisher's slipcases with paper labels. Limited edition, number 924 of 1050 sets for America of the Atlantic Edition, signed by Wells in the first volume.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1924-1927. 28 volumes, 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spines, top edges gilt, others uncut. Limited edition, number 531 of 520 sets for Great Britain of the Atlantic Edition, signed in volume one by Wells.
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, [1949]. 8vo. Original tan cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, one of 999 copies. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Don Paquette – Book IV now at the printer. / William Carlos Williams / 11/16/50." According to Mariani's biography of Williams, this was the.....
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, [1946-48-49-51-58]. 5 volumes, 8vo. A complete set of Williams' epic poem, each volume in original printed dust jacket. First editions, volume one boldly signed by Williams in an early hand. "I started to make trips to the area. I walked around the streets; I went on.....
New York: Random House, [1954]. 8vo. 90 pages. Original pale green cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition of Williams's late lyrical masterwork, collecting five-years of work, and signed on the front free endpaper in his characteristic post-stroke shaky hand. The Desert Music shows William's continued evolution of the variable foot.....
New York: The Alcestis Press, 1935. 8vo. 68, [3] pages. Original printed French-fold wrappers. First edition, number 95 of 135 copies on Strathmore Permanent All-Rag Paper signed by Williams on the colophon from an edition of 165. "[Ronald Lane] Latimer published for me An Early Martyr, superbly, lavishly printed on.....
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1928. 8vo. 37, [4] pages. Color frontispiece after a drawing by Lawrence. Original printed wrappers, glassine, gilt chemise with silk tie. Provenance: C. C. Sampson (bookplate). First unexpurgated edition (it was first published in 1926). One of 150 copies on Holland Van Gelder Zonen to.....
West Hatfield, Mass. Pennyroyal Press, 1987. 8vo. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Original crimson morocco. Number 37 of 150 copies signed by Welty and Moser.
Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press, 1985. 8vo. 356, [1] pages. Illustrated by R. Crumb. Special edition bound in red cloth; slipcase with mounted picture. Limited edition, one of 250 copies, but this copy out-of-series and lettered "A" with designation as "Publisher's Presentation Copy." Signed by Abbey. With an unpublished.....
New York: Books of Wonder / William Morrow & Company, 1989. 8vo. Original green cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition illustrated by Moser, and signed by him on the title-page.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986. Square 4to. Grey cloth with black simulated leather spine; pictorial dust jacket. First trade edition, first printing, jacket preserving $19.95 and $25 prices. SIGNED by Moser on the title-page.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. 8vo. Illustrated by Pauline Bynes. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, first printing. The dedication copy, inscribed "Love Abigail Homans" on the half-title beneath the ownership inscription of George Casper Homans dated August 1966. The printed dedication reads "To my son / George Caspar Homans.".....
New York: Viking, 1988. 8vo. Original quarter cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, first printing.
New York: Viking, 1988. 8vo. Advance reading copy in wrappers.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. 8vo. Original quarter cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing, $13.95 price on inner jacket flap.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992. 8vo. Advance uncorrected proof in wrappers. With a warm inscription by Stone on the half-title in the year of publication. Sold with: a fine copy of the first edition in a fine jacket.
New York: Harcourt, 2006. 8vo. 396 pages. Original quarter cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, boldly signed with a small sketch on the half-title.
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1968. 8vo. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin. Original boards; slipcase.
Penland, NC: Visualternatives, 1983. Folio. 47 pages. Original white cloth. First edition, one of 3000 copies. Inscribed in Spring, 1986 by Dickey on the front free endpaper: "To André at the beginning from James Dickey."
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. 8vo. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, first printing of Dickey's first novel and the basis for the classic 1972 film with Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Jon Voight.
London: William Heinemann, 1930. 8vo. Original green gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Inscribed for F. Richardson very cordially by John Galsworthy Oct. 6. 1930." The novel deals mostly with the older Forsytes before the events chronicled in The Man of Property. Galsworthy states.....
New York: Viking, 1985. 8vo. Original quarter cloth; dust jacket. First edition, third printing. Presentation copy, inscribed to a Viking editor: "For Andre, across the hall, behind the partition, Best – Garrison Keillor 9.5.85." The editor and Keillor had worked at nearby desks at Viking. Accompanying the copy is a......