New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988. 8vo. Original cream linen, red leather lettering-pieces; original blue slipcase with image mounted. First edition, limited issue, number 187 of 250 specially printed and bound copies signed by Carver. One of the greatest American writers of the 1980s, and one of the greatest short.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. 8vo. 534, v, [1] pp. Original maroon cloth, abstract design on front cover and spine in gold, silver-lettering on front cover and spine; printed dust jacket. In a later board slipcase. First edition, limited issue, number 1843 of 2,500 copies. With the exception of.....
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962. 8vo. Original grey cloth; printed dust jacket. First UK edition of the first collection of Borges's work translated into English. After Anthony Kerrigan's introduction are the sections 'The Garden of Forking Paths' (1941) and 'Artifices' (1944).
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of the author. 60 pages. Original black cloth; printed dust jacket, with $2.50 price intact. First edition, first printing (F-Y on copyright page) of the author's second book. Signed "Sincerely Gwendolyn Brooks" on a sticker applied to the front free endpaper.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. 8vo. 339 pages. Original blue cloth; dust jacket. First edition. Presentation copy, signed by Merrill on the title-page (crossing out his printed name) and inscribed: "For Joe McCrindle generous friend of the Yale Review with the editor's compliments and every good wish from the.....
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1901. 4to. 343 pages. 26 plates by Archibald Thorburn and others. Original quarter vellum, gilt-lettered on spine. A reissue of Gimble's two earlier works, collecting them in one handsome volume.
Deya, Majorca: The Seizin Press, 1930. Small folio (283 x 210 mm). [6], 27 pages. Quarter cream calf, gilt-decorated paper cover boards. First edition, one of 200 copies signed by Len Lye (this copy unnumbered), hand-set and printed on hand-made paper by Robert Graves and Laura Riding, and issued as.....
Chicago: Big Table Inc., Spring 1959. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. First edition of this infamous first issue of Big Table – founded after editors Irving Rosenthal and Paul Carroll resigned from The Chicago Review in protest to harsh criticisms of their printing portions of the then-unpublished novel Naked Lunch by.....
Paris: E. Dentu, 1864. 8vo. [i-xvi; I]-XX; [21-]439, [1 ]. Text in French. Publisher's pictorial wrappers, largely unopened (slight lean to spine, tear at edge of front cover, moderate creases, wear and soiling, moderate foxing to bulked edges and front and rear pages). First edition. a superior copy and quite.....
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London: Nottingham Court Press, 1979. 8vo. Original vellum with silk ties in imitation of the original Kelmscott bindings; slipcase. Number 42 of 100 copies printed on specially made antique paper by Kingprint Limited and bound by W. T. Morrell. The original Kelmscott edition was printed in 300 copies on paper.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. 8vo. Original black cloth, printed gold paper labels on front cover and spine; printed dust jacket. First edition of Hemingway's second collection of short stories. Among the fourteen stories are some of his finest: "In Another Country," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "The Killers.".....
Denver: Chain, Hardy & Co., 1884. 8vo. 151 pages. Frontispiece map, small cuts in the text. Publisher's green cloth over beveled boards, decorated in gilt-and black. Provenance: George W. Deschler, contemporary printed presentation label from his father Charles D. Deshler on pastedown to the "Public High School of his Native.....
London: Charing Cross Publishing Company Limited, n.d. 2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles. Publisher's green cloth, decorative seaweed design in black on covers, spines gilt-lettered. Provenance: Douglas C. Ewing (bookplates; sold Christie's New York, 7 April 1978, lot 92). First Edition in English. Translated from the Italian, with the author's permission, by.....
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.....
Comprising: Cleveland Abbe (U. S. Weather Bureau); Luther Burbank (botanist); W. Martin Conway (explorer); J. A. Fleming (engineer); Kelvin, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (mathematician and physicist); Joseph Lister, 2 (surgeon); Hiram S. Maxim (inventor of the first automatic machine gun); Hudson Maxim, on photo postcard (inventor and chemist); John.....
New York: Printed for the Author, 1881. 8vo. xii, [2]. 636 pages. 16 illustrations in text (of which 8 are full-page), folding map at end showing the original lots and farms of Harlem. Original brown blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, the author's advertisement leaf mounted on rear pastedown. First edition.....
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.....
Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, [1546]. 4to (196 x 146 mm). 8 leaves. Woodcut medallion portrait of Martin Luther on title, two full page portraits of Luther (dated 1546) and Johann Friedrich I, Elector of Saxony after Lucas Cranach the Younger. 19th-century German decorated paper boards. Provenance: W. Jackson (book label). A.....
