Item 314THE SEAGULL ON THE STEP.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. First edition. Yellow cloth. First edition. Slight foxing to endsheets at gutters, else a very good copy in edgeworn dust jacket. Dust jacket designed by Harry Ford.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. First edition. Yellow cloth. First edition. Slight foxing to endsheets at gutters, else a very good copy in edgeworn dust jacket. Dust jacket designed by Harry Ford.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd:, [1948]. First edition. Gilt cloth. Foreword. Offsetting to endsheets, old label mark to front free endsheet, else very good in two-color dust jacket with some bumps along top and bottom edges, smudges to both panels. First UK edition. Dedicated, in gratitude, to her friend Caresse.....
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, [1930]. First edition. Cloth, and decorated boards, matching endsheets. The ownership signature of her occasional publisher, James Laughlin appears on the first free endsheet. Spine faded, light wear to corners and edges, but a good or better copy, lacking the dust jacket. First.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1936]. First edition. Blue cloth. Ownership inscription of Boyle's occasional publisher, James Laughlin on the front free endsheet. Boards and spine heavily sunned, else a very near fine copy, without the dust jacket. Seemingly scarce. First edition. A fine collection of short stories featuring.....
New York: Harrison Smith, 1932. First edition. Red cloth, stamped in gilt. Ownership inscription, dated the year of publication, of her future publisher James Laughlin [New Directions] on first free endsheet. Spine faded, else very good, lacking the jacket. First edition. Boyle's second novel, dedicated to the Italian-American poet.....
Tavistock Square, London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926. White paper sewn wrappers, printed in black. First edition. Cover series design by Vanessa Bell. 24,[3]pp. 8½ x 5½". Crease to front panel, smudges to rear panel, else very good or better with no marks or.....
[New York]: Pantheon, [1958]. Cloth and boards. First edition (preceding the British printing). Photos by Islay de Courcy Lyon of the present day (1958) Paestum. With a gift inscription from novelist Francis Parkinson Keyes to a friend with whom she apparently spent a day in Paestum (Italy). Very good in.....
New York: Pantheon, [1953]. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, preceding the British publication. Poet Ralph Hodgson's copy, with his ownership signature and date. Offset to endsheets from clipping, otherwise a nice copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1966]. Cloth and boards. Gilt green cloth. First edition, preceding the UK edition by almost two years. Near fine in very good, lightly rubbed and smudged pictorial dust jacket.Bryher (1894 – 1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine.....
London: George Bell and Sons, 1889. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Gilt cloth. First edition. Edited by Annie Raine Eillis. Spine ends somewhat worn and frayed, small snag in spine of first volume, and a larger one on the spine of the second. A good reading or working set. Shipping.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. Cloth. Thirty-two illustrations. First British issue, bound up from U.S. sheets. Near fine in pictorial dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1958. Hardcover. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. First edition. Frontispiece portrait and plates. Negligible corner creases, or folds, in a few early leaves, otherwise about very good in a lightly used, price-clipped dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
New York: Turtle Bay / Random House, 1993. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Printed and decorated wrappers. Advance Uncorrected Proof of the first U.S. edition. Some editorial notes and page references on final blank page, pencil mark on referenced page, else near fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
New York: Random House, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt cloth and boards, angel embossed on upper panel. About fine in an equally near fine dust jacket. First U.S. trade edition. "Morpho Eugenia" is a Gothic fable of the Earthly Paradise, an obsession with Victorian Darwinian theories of the parallels between.....
New York: Random House, [1996]. First US edition. Thick octavo. Black cloth and boards, gilt spine. 625 pp. Tiny remainder mark on upper edge, else a fine copy in an equally fine dust jacket. Babel Tower is the third novel in a planned quartet of novels, following The Virgin in.....
London: Chatto & Windus, [2002]. First Edition. Thick octavo. Black cloth, silver spine. 422 pp. Decorated endpapers. Leaves slightly toned at edges, else about fine in fine dust jacket. A Whistling Woman stands on its own while forming the conclusion to Byatt's quartet depicting the clashing forces in English life.....
San Francisco: The Enlightener, Publishers & Printers, [1916]. Folio. One sheet 11.5 x 9.5 in., folded to form four pages. Printed and decorated in black. Three "poems" presented as religious/ideological tracts, "The Four Dimensions of the Sex," "Put the Blame on Woman," and, simply, "Woman." Very good. Lucille "Mother" Riker.....
Tavistock Square, London: Printed and published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925. Octavo. Original illustrated boards. 24pp. Illustrations by Eugene McCown. First edition, one of 420 copies hand-printed and published by the Woolfs at their home publishing firm in Tavistock Square, London. Owner's signature on front.....
Norfolk, Connecticut, New Directions, [1942]. First edition. Small octavo. Blue cloth, spine stamped in blue. 169,[1]pp. Frontispiece portrait by Man Ray for "Harper's Bazaar." Ink personal inscription from the author to a friend on the front free endpaper. Selective bibliography and index. Very good or better, pictorial dust jacket by.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Cloth and boards. First U.S. edition. Photographs, including an intriguing 1960 photo of de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Fidel Castro in a powerboat. Translated from the French by Lisa Nesselson. A review copy with the publisher's publicity sheet laid in.....
Northampton, MA: Hampshire Bookshop, 1948. Graves, Louise B.:. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt cloth and boards. First edition. Illustrations by Louise B. Graves, a second cousin of Emily Dickinson. Edited by Helen H. Arnold. Tiny spot on front pastedown, else fine in a near fine dust jacket.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Tall, narrow quarto in yellow padbound printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proofs of the first edition. Filing label across bottom edge, else about fine.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt cloth and decorated boards. Frontispiece portrait, illustrated with line cuts, two halftones, and facsimiles. About fine in a very good dust jacket with a thin abrasion to upper panel. First edition. "Letters published here for the first time tell.....
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Plastic comb-bound stiff pictorial wrapper. Wrapper considerably tanned around perimeter, trace of filing label residue, internally fine. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition. Foreword by Frans Lasson. Three of the tales were translated from the Danish by P. M......
New York: Random House, Inc., 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt red cloth. First U.S. edition. Fine, in very lightly edgeworn pictorial dust jacket designed by Jeanyee Wong.