THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE
New York: Sun, 1982. First Edition. Wraps. Pictorial wraps. His first full-length prose work.
Biography
LYTTON STRACHEY
Cambridge: University Press, 1943. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps; 27 pages. The Rede Lecture for 1943, a critical remembrance of Strachey.
THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D
London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. First Edition. hardcover. Three octavo (6-1/4" x 10") volumes bound in full Winterbottom linen buckram with red leather spine labels stamped in gold. Printed at the Curwen Press, this is an important edition of this classic in that it is the first published edition to.....
AN AFTERNOON AT COLONUS. A RECOLLECTION OF EDWARD DAHLBERG
New York: Pequod Press, 1978. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps. IIllustrated by Leni Fuhrman with a print tipped-in opposite the title page. One of 100 numbered copies with handset type SIGNED by the author and the artist on the colophon page.
BOARDMAN ROBINSON
University of Chicago, (1946). Plates. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. With a chapter by Adolph Dehn & a catalogue raisonee.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. YOUNG STATESMAN 1901-1914
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First Edition. hardcover. The second volume of what would become the eight-volume "definitive biography" of Winston Churchill, and the last of the eight written by his son. Illustrated with plates. Small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of noted collector La Fayette Butler on the front pastedowns and.....
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. YOUTH 1874-1900
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. The first volume of what would become the eight-volume "definitive biography" of Winston Churchill, and the first of two of the eight written by his son. Illustrated with plates. Small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of noted collector La Fayette Butler on the front.....
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CALVIN COOLIDGE
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth-backed boards. Copy #148 of 1000 SIGNED by the author. Owner inscription on the front endpaper dated 1929 mentioning a "letter of sympathy when the President's son Calvin Coolidge died," which was once glued to the gutter of the half.....
BECAUSE I WAS FLESH
New York: New Directions, 1964. First Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected Proof in printed white wraps. Wonderful book about growing up as the son of a lady barber in Kansas. SIGNED by the author's widow who did extensive editing for this book.
BECAUSE I WAS FLESH
New York: New Directions, 1964. First Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected Proof in printed white wraps. Wonderful book about growing up as the son of a lady barber in Kansas.
THE CASE OF SALVADOR DALI
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1959). First American Edition. Hardcover. An early illustrated biography of the eccentric artist, uncommon in dustwrapper.
THE DISCOVERER. A NEW NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND HAZARDOUS ADVENTURES OF THE GENOESE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1928. First Edition. cloth. An attempt to see Columbus as a man rather than an "animated monument." Illustrated with ten plates.
THE BOY'S LIFE OF EDISON
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1911). First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's sage green pebble-grain cloth with front cover stamped in blind and lettered in gilt with oval photographic portrait of Edison pasted to center; "Published November, 1911" on the copyright page. Illustrated with 8 photographic plates including a frontispiece portrait of.....
THE DIARY OF DOSTOYEVSKY'S WIFE
New York: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1928. First American Edition. Cloth. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Dostoyevsky. An account of a trip from Russia through Germany to Switzerland with her famous husband. Hannah French's copy with her signature on the front endpaper.
PENTIMENTO
Boston: Little, Brown, (1973). hardcover. Second Printing. A book of portraits, one of which, "Julia," was the source of the movie of the same title.
LYTTON STRACHEY. A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY: Volume I: THE UNKNOWN YEARS 1880-1910 and Volume II: THE YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT 1910-1932
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1968). First American Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Illustrated with color and black-and-white plates. Holroyd was the first person to have unrestricted access to Strachey's papers including previously unpublished correspondence from many who comprised the Bloomsbury group.
THE POISONED CROWN
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944. First Edition. cloth. Biographies of Hitler, Elizabeth I, Cromwell, Napoleon, and Lincoln. An uncommon book.
SEVEN FRIENDS
London: The Richards Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Portraits of Oscar Wilde, Frank Harris, Aleister Crowley, John Cowper Powys, T. F. Powys, Llewelyn Powys, and William Somerset Maugham. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette.....
THE HEADMASTER. FRANK L. BOYDEN, OF DEERFIELD
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1966). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's second book, a biography of a remarkable educator. Illustrated with photographs.
PATHS THROUGH THE FOREST. A BIOGRAPHY OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1971). First Edition. Hardcover.
ARTHUR RACKHAM. HIS LIFE AND WORK
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1960). Arthur Rackham. First American Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") in publisher's cloth. Profusely illustrated with many color plates, some tipped in, by Rackham.
WHERE'S THE REST OF ME?
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. Fourth Printing of Reagan's first book. Illustrated with photographs. Written prior to Reagan's successful 1966 run for Governor of California, this book recounts Reagan's career in Hollywood. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the late President on the front endpaper: "To Margaret.....
WHERE'S THE REST OF ME?
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. Fourth Printing of Reagan's first book. Illustrated with photographs. Written prior to Reagan's successful 1966 run for Governor of California, this book recounts Reagan's career in Hollywood. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the late President on the front endpaper: "To Helen.....
THEODORE ROOSEVELT THE CITIZEN
New York: The Outlook Company, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Printing, in publisher's original decorated cloth. Illustrated with plates. This copy virtually unique as it is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by both the author and the subject, as President. Riis's inscription is dated 5 August 1908. Roosevelt writes: "with the best.....
THE LIFE OF HARMAN BLENNERHASSETT. COMPRISING AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE BURR EXPEDITION: AND CONTAINING MANY ADDITIONAL FACTS NOT HERETOFORE PUBLISHED
Chillicothe, OH: Ely, Allen & Looker, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-decorated cloth; duodecimo (4-3/4" x 7-1/2"), 239 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece view of Blennerhassett's mansion. Howes S-12; New Howes S-13 "b". The first attempt by this early expert to unravel the Burr-Wilkinson Conspiracy. General James Wilkinson, the Commanding.....