THE PULL OF THE EARTH
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Uncorrected Proof in light green printed wraps of the author's first book, with promotional material laid in.
Modern First Editions
IMAGES (1910-1915)
[London]: The Poetry Bookshop, [1915]. First Edition. Softcover. Pictorial wraps featuring a hand-colored block print by John Nash. Aldington's first book, a landmark of the Imagist Movement, this copy SIGNED by the poet on the verso of the cover and dated 1917.
HOLY HORATIO! THE STRANGE LIFE AND PARADOXICAL WORKS OF THE LEGENDARY MR. ALGER (Number 38 of the YES! CAPRA CHAPBOOK SERIES)
Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial boards. Copy #27 of 60 numbered and SIGNED copies handbound by Emily Paine. "'I will tell you a story,' said Horatio Alger, Jr., and then he died."
A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, (1956). First Edition. Hardcover. A superb Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author filling the front endpaper to noted bookman and journalist Van Allen Bradley: "For Van,/Whose thoughtful/criticism has afforded/me real footing,/from a little book/about Chicago to/the present, and/in hope any books/I'm lucky.....
BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA
New York: Dutton, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. Her first novel, a finalist for the National Book Award.
THE WOMEN WHO HATE ME
Brooklyn: Long Haul Press, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. White printed wraps. Her scarce first book, a collection of poems issued by a small feminist press.
NIGHT DOGS
(Tucson, AZ): (Dennis McMillan), 1996. First Edition. hardcover. Author's second book and first mystery. With a three-page foreword by James Crumley who calls this book "the best cop novel I have ever read." A small first printing of 1900 copies quickly sold out. SIGNED by the author on the title.....
DARK LAUGHTER
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Original vellum-backed and tipped boards, spine lettered in black, front cover lettered in red. Copy H of 20 Lettered copies (of a total edition of 370) SIGNED by the author. Obviously a scarce issue of this book, a novel that dealt.....
MID-AMERICAN CHANTS
New York & London: John Lane, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Anderson's third book and first book of poetry, this copy a superb Association copy INSCRIBED simply "Miss Marietta Finley" and SIGNED "Sherwood Anderson" in green ink on the front endpaper. Anderson met unmarried, 24-year old "Babs" Finley at the Art.....
THE TRIUMPH OF THE EGG
New York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc., 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. First issue with top edge stained yellow. Illustrated with plates. SIGNED and dated 1929 by the author on the front endpaper below an uknown name dated 1924.
WINESBURG, OHIO
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1978. Ben Stahl. Hardcover. Quarto (9-3/4" x 12") bound in quarter green cowhide leather over brown cloth stamped in gilt, 202 pages. Designed by Harry Rich and printed by letterpress at the Stinehour Press. Introduction by Malcolm Cowley. Illustrated with drawings by Ben F. Stahl.....
WINESBURG, OHIO
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1978. Ben Stahl. Hardcover. Quarto (9-3/4" x 12") bound in quarter green cowhide leather over brown cloth stamped in gilt, 202 pages. Designed by Harry Rich and printed by letterpress at the Stinehour Press. Introduction by Malcolm Cowley. Illustrated with drawings by Ben F. Stahl.....
WINESBURG, OHIO
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1978. Ben Stahl. Hardcover. Quarto (9-3/4" x 12") bound in quarter green cowhide leather over brown cloth stamped in gilt, 202 pages. Designed by Harry Rich and printed by letterpress at the Stinehour Press. Introduction by Malcolm Cowley. Illustrated with drawings by Ben F. Stahl.....
WINESBURG, OHIO
New York (New York): B. W. Huebsch (Collector's Reprints, Inc.), 1919 (1947) [1985]. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Faithful facsimile of the first edition.
WITH MANY VOICES. EUROPE TALKS ABOUT AMERICA
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. A novelist's conversations with people on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette Butler, many of whose books were.....
STORMY WEATHER
(New York): Edwin H. Morris & Company, Inc., (1961) but likely later. wraps. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") in illustrated wraps; 4 pages. Vintage sheet music with words by Ted Koehler and music by Harold Arlen. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the Arlen on the front cover: "For Bob/My always smilin' friend/deep.....
TURANDOT AND OTHER POEMS
New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953. Jane Freilicher. First Edition. Softcover. Ashbery's first book, a 23-page chapbook in sewn decorated paper wraps, one of only 300 copies printed. Illustrated with four drawings by Jane Freilicher. In this copy two of the plates are duplicated giving a total of six.....
TURANDOT AND OTHER POEMS
New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953. Jane Freilicher. First Edition. Softcover. Ashbery's first book, a 23-page chapbook in sewn decorated paper wraps, one of only 300 copies printed. Illustrated with four drawings by Jane Freilicher. In this copy two of the plates are duplicated giving a total of six.....
THE AGE OF ANXIETY
London: Faber & Faber, (1948). First British Edition. Hardcover. Bloomfield & Mendelson A29b: 3000 copies printed, preceded by the American edition published the previous year which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
THE AGE OF ANXIETY
New York: Random House, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. Bloomfield A29: 3500 copies printed, preceding the English edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis of Leonard Bernstein's "Symphony, no. 2," this book is one of Auden's finest accomplishments.
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM (Juvenilia - 4 pages): "Bank Holiday"
[1926]. Manuscript. Exceptionally scarce 4-page AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a poem written by Auden as a teenager. Published in THE OXFORD OUTLOOK in November 1926 and not published in book form until 1994 in W. H. AUDEN JUVENILIA edited by Katherine Bucknell, from which much of the information below was acquired.....
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THE CHRISTMAS ORATORIO [FOR THE TIME BEING]: CARBON COPY OF A TYPED MANUSCRIPT WITH CHORAL SETTINGS
wraps. A 43-page 7-3/4" x 13-3/4" carbon copy typescript laid loosely into a makeshift folder consisting of a large piece of graph paper with the title THE CHRISTMAS ORATORIO/W. H. AUDEN written in pencil in an unknown hand on the front cover. Not dated. Occasional minor ink corrections also in.....
CITY WITHOUT WALLS AND OTHER POEMS
New York: Random House, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Preceded by the English edition. SIGNED by the author below his crossed-out name on the title page.
THE DOUBLE MAN
New York: Random House, (1941). First Edition. Softcover. Bloomfield & Mendelson A24a: 2000 copies printed, precedes the English edition. This copy is likely an Advance Review Copy and consists of loose signatures, never bound. In pencil on the title page is written "Aldington," this likely being Richard Aldington's copy though.....
THE DYER'S HAND
London: Faber & Faber, (1963). First British Edition. Hardcover. Bloomfield A45b: 3000 copies, preceded by the American edition which had a larger printing. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "To/Hedwig [Petzold]/with love/from /Wystan" in 1963 on the front free endpaper and with seven manuscript corrections by Auden in the text. Sensational association copy!.....