Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925, First Edition in original dust wrappers. octavo, red cloth with gilt title on spine. xx, 631 pp.; viii, 662 pp. Houghton Mifflin, "...I have followed a rather unusual method in dealing with the two aspects of his character, the personal and the poetic. I have given..... More
New York: Library of America, (2010), First Edition thus. octavo, red cloth in printed dust jackets, in slipcase. not paginated. Library of America, Edited and with an introduction by Art Spiegelman. Extensively illustrated. A forerunner of the graphic novel.As new copy. More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1834, First Edition. octavo, full leather decoratively blocked in gilt, a.e.g. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, "Nineteen beautifully finished engravings, from drawings by the first artists." Each full page engraving with a tissue guard. Covers and spine bright, scuffing at..... More
St. Louis, MO: The Anvil, March-April, 1935, First Edition. quarto, original printed heavy paper wrappers. (34)pp., stapled. The Anvil, Edited by Jack Conroy and Walter Snow. No. 10. March-April, 1935. With contributions by Erskine Caldwell, Jack Conroy, Saul Levitt, and others. Wood cuts by Dan Rico. Vertical fold through center..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1895, First Edition. octavo, three-quarter cream cloth lettered in gilt and silver with silver stamped butterflies, light green silk deocrated with lavendar irises. (59) pp. Frederick A. Stokes Company, Illustrated in black and white in whimsical fashion of combined photographs of young girls embellished..... More
Spingfield, MA: McLoughlin Brothers, Inc., 1927, quarto, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. (16) pp. McLoughlin Brothers, Inc., Illustrated in black and white and in full color. Gift inscription on front endpaper, wear to cloth at top and bottom of spine. Covers and interior clean. More
London: Putnam, (1955), First Edition. small octavo, black boards in dust jacket. Putnam, With the earlier bookplate of Dr. Eugene S. Flamm, neurosurgeon, bibliophile and former president of the Grolier Club, designed by Enrico Arno in 1967 and with Dr Flamm's holograph notation, "Chicago 28 October 1965". Spine of jacket..... More
(San Francisco): City Lights Books; Beach Books, (1968), First Edition, one of 5,000 copies printed. tall octavo, pictorial wrappers. [40], (ii) pp. City Lights Books; Beach Books, Cook, 70. Wrappers very slightly sunned with mild bends at corners. More
(San Francisco): City Lights Books; Beach Books, (1968), First Edition, one of 5,000 copies printed. tall octavo, pictorial wrappers. [40], (ii) pp. City Lights Books; Beach Books, Cook, 70. A very fine, clean copy. More
New York: The Grolier Club, 2017, First Edition. octavo, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. (136)pp. The Grolier Club, Illustrated in color. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Grolier Club, November 16, 2017-January 13, 2018. Introduction, followed by eight chapters on American literary publishers and authors, each with detailed descriptions of..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1980), First Edition. quarto, grey cloth in dust jacket. Harper & Row, Review copy with publisher's slip and with promotional photograph of Vonnegut and Chermayeff. A very fine, clean copy in a very fine dust jacket which is not price clipped. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1980), First Edition. quarto, boards and cloth in dust jacket. Farrar Straus Giroux, Very fine copy in very fine dust jacket which is not price clipped. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943, First Edition. octavo, grey cloth stamped in dark blue, in dust jacket. (xii), 667 pp. Charles Scribner's Sons, Illustrated by the author. "A collection of tales about Marines the world over, some from previous books (Fix Bayonets! Marines and Others, etc.) some from magazines..... More
Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill & Company, (1979), First American Edition. octavo, boards and cloth in dust jacket. Lawrence Hill & Company, Minor foxing to top and bottom of text block. Minute scuffing to color at bottom of dust jacket spine, else a very fine copy in very fine jacket which..... More
Recipient's name indecipherable. Regarding the sale of a Hewlett manuscript,"I don't particularly want to sell an MS. at all, but I can let you have that of Idylls of the Huntress, published in Artemision [1909] if you please. [Indecipherable] 66 foolscap pages, and I shall want L100...no copyright is included...."..... More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, (1986), First Edition, First Printing. octavo, boards and cloth in dust jacket. Naval Institute Press, A novel. New, without flaw, jacket not price clipped. More
(Berkeley: 1948), octavo, printed wrappers. (112) pp. With a poem by Robert Duncan. The last issue published. Fine. More
(Berkeley: 1946), octavo, printed wrappers. (160) pp. This double issue has a cover design by George Barrows. Contents includes oetry and prose by Robert Duncan, Anais Nin, Bern Porter, Kenneth Patchen, Thomas Hughes Ingle, Bern Porter, Henry Miller and others. An important Bay Area magazine. Fine. More
London: Duckworth and Co., no date (circa 1915), Reprint of the 1897 first edition. square octavo, pictorial boards printed in black and brown. Duckworth and Co. , Illustrated by B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood). 1/2" chip at top of spine, Mild weakness at hinge to some gatherings. Paper lightly..... More
New York: The Eakins Press, (1968), First Edition. octavo, green cloth in printed dust jacket. (288)pp. The Eakins Press, With an essay by Robert F. Sayre. Designe by Edith McKeon. A very fine, clean copy. Jacket not price clipped. More
New York: The Eakins Press, (1966), First Edition. octavo, buckram in printed dust jacket. (104)pp. The Eakins Press, Book and jacket designed by Editrh McKeon. Printed at The Stinehour Press. Inscribed and signed by McKeon inside the back endpaper facing the colophon noting her worek on this book: "For Roley..... More
New York: The Eakins Press, (1966), First Edition. octavo, green buckram in printed dust jacket. (96)pp. The Eakins Press, Printed at The Steinehour Press. Nearly as new copy, jacket not price clipped. More
New York: The Eakins Press, (1966), First Edition. octavo, gold buckran in printed dust jacket. (120)pp. The Eakins Press, Printed at The Steinehour Press. Very slight fading to back of jact, a very fine, nearly as new copy. Jacket not price clipped. More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1971, First Edition. quarto, blue cloth with large paper label on front cover, in dust jacket. David R. Godine, Introduction by Alfred Kazin. Illustrated with 133 Civil War photographs and Selected portraits. Light sunning to spine of jacket which is not price clipped. Book very fine..... More