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.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1904. Octavo. Green publisher's cloth, gilt spine; decorated in black and gilt. 272,32 pp. First British edition. Thirty-two page publisher's catalogue at conclusion of text. Entertains every sort of non-PC situation and language, including a portrait of a man of, presumably, Chinese heritage on the spine.....
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.....
Sauk City, Wisconsin, Arkham House, 1964. Frank Utpatel [illus]. First edition. Black boards, gilt spine. xii,207 pp. First edition. Map illustrated endpapers by Frank Utpatel, created from a map provided by Campbell. A fine copy, in the beautifully illustrated dust jacket by Utpatel; jacket is only lightly sunned at the.....
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1993]. Daniel Maffia. Collector's Edition. Quarto. Navy blue leather, 22k gold inlaid on hubbed spine and panels, a.e.g. Blue moiré endpapers, satin-ribbon page marker, acid-neutral paper, all pages sewn. 181,[1] pp. Color frontispiece and nine paintings by Daniel Maffia. Fine; without dust jacket, as issued. .....
[San Francisco]: City Lights, [1971]. First edition. Pictorial card wrappers, printed in black. 157 pp. First edition. Wraps very lightly rubbed at edge, text block clean and very bright, very good or better copy. First edition. From the verso of the lower wrapper: "Before he died in Mexico in 1968.....
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 32 of 125 copies, signed and numbered by the author. Design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small.....
New York: Random House, [1971]. First edition, first impression. Octavo. Black cloth and grey embossed boards. First edition, first impression. 206 pp. Lavishly illustrated throughout by Ralph Steadman. Shelf wear on lower edge, sunning to top edge as often seen, a few instances of spot soiling in text and fore-edge.....
New York: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1970. Octavo. Pictorial and printed wrappers. 368 pp. Light soiling to wraps, else a very good or better copy. First edition, thus. "Crowley's first novel. To the reader of 1923 it was a shocking experience, but that is the way Aleister Crowley intended it to.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. Wallace Morgan:. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, applied pictorial paper onlay to front panel. First edition. Color onlay, and eight inserted black and white illustrated plates, by Wallace Morgan. Four page catalogue follows text. Minor shelf.....
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.
Tavistock Square, London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1931. Buff paper, hand-sewn wrappers, printed in black and blue. Cover design by the surrealist artist John Banting. 27pp. 7⅜ x 4¾. Black and white engraving of Prince Lee Boo Second Son of Abba Thulle. First edition.....
New York: The Grolier Club, 2008. First edition, limited edition. Large octavo. Cloth and decorated paper. 11.5 x 8.75 in. [4],152,[6] pp. Color frontispiece, and numerous color plate illustrations. Introductory note, ten individual topical essays, author biographies, notes, and bibliography. Published to accompany the exhibition at the Grolier Club, New.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1922. First edition. Octavo. Plum and black cloth, paper spine label. T.e.g. Wood-engraved frontispiece, with printed tissue guard, and vignettes by R. A. Garnett, the author's first wife. About fine but for the presence of the book labels of two noted book collectors: Samuel Garcia Asher.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1924. First edition. Octavo. Plum and black cloth, paper spine label. T.e.g. Wood-engraved tile page vignette, dust jacket, and text illustrations by R. A. Garnett, the author's first wife. Very good, off-setting to endsheets, the book label of collector William Beekman, whose stunning Hogarth Press /.....
New York: Creative Age Press, 1945. Gilt cloth. Frontis and endsheet maps. First US edition, and first edition under this title. Blue sprinkled edges faintly dusty, else about fine in lightly edgeworn dust jacket with a few nicks and tears. HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A57b.
London: Cassell & Company Ltd., [1957]. Black cloth, gilt spine. Twenty-three illustrations in the text. Faint offsetting to endsheets, otherwise fine, in a very good dust jacket with some little scattered foxing. First edition. The British surgeon Dr. William Palmer was accused in 1856 of murdering fourteen people by means.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1993]. Octavo. Navy blue cloth, gilt spine and upper panel. 300 pp. Silk place marker. Second printing of this edition, number 146 of Knopf's Everyman's Library printed on acid-free, cream-wove paper with a sewn full cloth binding. Fine; without dust jacket. Brighton Rock was first.....
New York: Grove Press, [1968]. Small quarto. Pictorial card wrappers. First edition, thus. 96 unnumbered pages. Drawings by Marvin Glass. Upper panel with a couple of creases, and a stain, otherwise a good copy. Guthrie experiences a number of comic misadventures, set to music, which chronicle a particular Thanksgiving deed.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First American edition. Octavo. Publisher's unfortunate choice of yellow cloth, paper spine label, decorative endpapers. 287,[3] pp., a great many unopened. Cloth is rather smudged, spine darkened with label chipped and also darkened, a testament to binding choice errors, else a very good copy.....
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1952]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Red cloth, printed in black. Map endpapers, printed in green by David Kyle. 251,[1] pp. Tiny bookseller's label affixed to front pastedown, small rub on lower edge of front free endpaper, spine sunned from lack of dust jacket, else.....
New York: Random House, [1998]. First trade edition. Thick octavo. Black cloth and boards, gilt spine. 537,[7] pp. Small crease in upper first free endpaper, else a near fine copy in a very good or better dust jacket with minor shelf wear at lower edge of front panel. Irving brings.....