The Gates of Wrath
Bolinas: Grey Fox Press, 1972. 8vo. 56 pp. Original pictorial wrappers, the cover with a photographic self portrait. Minor shelfwear. FIRST EDITION.
Bolinas: Grey Fox Press, 1972. 8vo. 56 pp. Original pictorial wrappers, the cover with a photographic self portrait. Minor shelfwear. FIRST EDITION.
Paris: Bernard Grasset, [1929]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, unopened; plain glassine; publisher's slipcase. First edition, one of 12 numbered (this no. 5) 'hors commerce' copies on vélin sur fil creme Lafuma (the smallest limitation in the edition). A fine copy of Giono's first novel and.....
Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1922. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Brown levant morocco by Tchekeroul, spine gilt-lettered, green morocco linings, marbled paper flyleaves, original printed wrappers preserved, all edges gilt; brown board and leather-edged open-face case. First edition, one of 30 lettered copies (this "AJ") on Holland paper. Bound at.....
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.....
N.p. Juxtaposition Press for the Author, 1992. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, edges untrimmed, by Carolyn Chadwick and Kiki Bourneuf; printed acetate jacket. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, one of 50 copies printed by Jennifer Magee-McGovern, this copy unnumbered out-of-series. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Charlotte Ricks "In memory of words and.....
Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1924. Quarto. Printed in red and black. Musical illustrations by Gladys Evans, engraved on wood by W.M.R. Quick; decorations engraved on wood by Robert Gibbings. Original vellum-backed boards, gilt-lettered on spine (vellum mottled, some light wear and toning to boards, engraved bookplate on pastedown). LIMITED.....
Seal Harbor, ME: High Loft, 1983. Tall narrow 8vo. 45, [4] pages. Woodcuts by Karen MacDonald. Original canvas backed blue boards, printed paper spine label. Number 33 of 50 copies for sale, from an edition of 150. Designed, illustrated, and put through the press by Karen MacDonald.
Boston: J.E. Hickman, [1844]. Near contemporaneous reprint. 8vo. 320pp. Wood-engraved frontispiece of a Chinese encampment, additional title with vignette, illustrations in text. Publisher's blind-decorated cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Goodrich's text opens with an early history of Asia, and is followed by chapters on Babylon, Hindostan, Persia, Zorosaster, the destruction of.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 6 pages, 4to; and 2 1/2 pages, folio, two of the manuscripts on stationery with engraved vignettes. (BA).
New York: David Lewis, 1970. 8vo. [23] pages. Original burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; plain glassine wrapper. One of 500 copies designed and printed on Charter Oak paper by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press, bound by A. Horowitz & Son.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965. 8vo. 570 pages. Original black cloth; printed dust jacket designed by Günter Grass. First American edition. Translated by Ralph Manheim. This is the third and last volume of Grass's Danzig trilogy (the others are The Tin Drum and Cat and Mouse). It consists.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 4 individual cards, each about 1 3/4 by 2 1/2 inches. Unsigned illustrations by Kate Greenaway, printed in colors. The illustrations show mother, children, and a dog in winter scenes on the cards. Corresponds to Schuster 293, illustrated on Schuster page 200. Thomson 296.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1955. First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing of the dust jacket with 25s NET on the inner front flap. The Comedians is Greene's farce set in Port-au-Prince Haiti, under the dictatorship of Papa Doc Duvalier. Wobbe A48a.
Francestown, NH: The Golden Quill Press, [1978]. 8vo. 77 pp. Original red cloth; dust jacket. One small stain on front panel of jacket, rear panel with short closed tear, spine toned. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by the author with a lengthy inscription on the front free endpaper to a......
[New York]: Grenfell Press, 1984. Tall 8vo. Title design drawn by Louisa Chase. Original cloth, printed paper label on spine. FIRST EDITION, number 13 of 115 copies signed by Lauterbach and Chase from an edition of 130.
New York: The Grenfell Press, 1986. 8vo. Sewn in wrappers; dust wrapper with woodcut by Joel Shapiro. FIRST EDITION, number 13 of 150 copies signed by Cole and Shapiro.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1955. 8vo. Unpaginated. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, a copy from Gropper's own library with his Croton-on-Hudson inkstamp. Gropper was a Leftist illustrator, and this work an early graphic novel about a tailor's pursuit of success.
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1925. 8vo (21 x 13.4 cm). 395 pages. Frontispiece, plates. Contemporary blue straight-grained morocco gilt, all edges gilt. Later edition.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co, 1919. 8vo. Contemporary half red morocco. Later reprint.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co, 1919. 8vo. Contemporary half red morocco. Later reprint.
New York: Hurst & Co., [1892?]. 8vo. Modern faux leather. Reprint, likely a rebound copy of the first edition in wrappers (1892).
New York: Hurst and Co., [ca 1892]. 8vo. Modern faux leather. Reprint, likely a rebound copy of the first edition in wrappers.
New York: E. P. Dutton, [1924]. 12mo. v, 93 pages. Original blue cloth, printed paper labels. First American edition of Haldane's first book, a major inspiration to Huxley's Brave New World.
Paris: Floury, 1947. 10 x 6.5 inches. 140 pages. Wrappers.
Providence: s.n., 1886. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Tall 8vo. Portrait of Henry B. Anthony. Contemporary blue half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, by B. P. Sanford. Presumably a large paper copy (measuring 10 3/4 x 7 1/8 inches). With cut signature of Anthony affixed to verso of.....