Item 462THE FALL OF TROY.
London: Chatto & Windus, [2006]. First edition. Octavo. Black cloth, gilt spine. First edition. 215,[1] pp. Signed by the author on the title page. About fine, in a highly pictorial dust jacket. .
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Item 463THE LAMBS OF LONDON.
London: Chatto & Windus, [2004]. First edition. Octavo. Gray cloth, gilt spine. First edition. 216 pp. Signed by the author on the title page. About fine, in a highly pictorial dust jacket. Domestically sequestered Mary Lamb spends her life in the company of her brother Charles, who is equally constrained.....
Item 471MORE FABLES.
Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1900. Small octavo. Crocus yellow boards decoratively stamped in black and green. T.e.g. First edition. 218,[8] pp. Decorated double title page, stamped in red and black. Boards an unsigned design by Frederic W. Goudy; thirty-nine full page woodcuts by Clyde J......
Item 457NATIVE SON.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1998]. Alan Reingold. Collector's Edition. Octavo. Brown leather, 22k gold inlaid on hubbed spine and panels, a.e.g. Moiré endpapers, satin-ribbon page marker, acid-neutral paper, all pages sewn. 359,[1] pp. Color frontispiece and black and white illustrations in text by Alan Reingold. Fine; without dust jacket.....
Item 476TINY ALICE.
New York: Atheneum, 1965. First edition. Black cloth, gilt spine. 190,[6] pp. Gift inscription on front free flyleaf to actress Coral Browne in the year of publication. Very good or better in a similar price-clipped dust jacket. First edition. TINY ALICE is a three-act play by American playwright Edward Albee.....
Item 478THE MODERN WRITER.
San Francisco: The Lantern Press, 1925. First, Limited Edition. Black paper-covered boards titled in gilt. 44,[4] pp. No. 289 of 950 copies printed for The Lantern Press (Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc.) by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn numbered from 51 to 1000, and fifty on Japan Vellum, numbered from 1 to 50.....
Item 490DANCING GIRLS AND OTHER STORIES.
[Toronto]: McClelland and Stewart, [1977]. First edition. Octavo. Cloth and boards. 256 pp. Inscribed and signed by Atwood on the half-title page, "For Joe- - / with thanks and / best wishes -- / Margaret Atwood / Saranac Lake / 1978." Ownership signature on front free endsheet, "Joe David Bellamy,".....
Item 000006TIMBUKTU.
New York: Henry Holt, 1999. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial wrappers. Uncorrected bound proof of the first edition. The poignant love story of a dog and his boy through the thoughts of the dog, Mr. Bones. Neat publisher's stickers on wrappers, otherwise fine.
Item 000004GHOSTS THE NEW YORK TRILOGY, VOLUME 2.
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, [1986]. Blue cloth, gilt title. First edition, trade issue. Private detective Blue is hired to watch a man named Black by a jealous husband named White, and in the process becomes deeply enmeshed in.....
Item 000001GROUND WORK: SELECTED POEMS AND ESSAYS 1970-1979.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Black textured cloth over boards, white titles. First UK edition. Occasional very light pencil annotations in the poetry section, yet a very good copy in a glossy black illustrated dust jacket with minimum edgewear.
Item 000005LULU ON THE BRIDGE.
New York: Henry Holt, 1998. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Printed wrappers. Frontispiece. Photographs. Uncorrected page proof of the first edition, being the shooting script of the eponymous film starring Harvey Keitel, Vanessa Redgrave, Mira Sorvino, and Willem Dafoe. Publisher's review letter laid in. Spine end faintly sunned and a bit.....
Item 000002THE MUSIC OF CHANCE.
London: Faber & Faber, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Black textured cloth over boards, white titles. First UK edition. Text block slightly toned, otherwise fine in a fine dust jacket illustrated with a photo purportedly of Auster as a sulky child at the piano.
Item 000003PAUL AUSTER A COMPREHENSIVE CHECKLIST OF PUBLISHED WORKS 1968-1994.
New York: William Drenttel in Assn with the Delos Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Pale green cloth, paper spine label, handmade Japanese endpapers. Frontis portrait. Spine and outer edges of upper board sunned, internally fine. First edition, limited issue. Introduction by Robert Hughes. Photograph portrait of Auster by Victor Schrager.....
Item 489GRIFFIN & SABINE AN EXTRAORDINARY CORRESPONDENCE.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, [1991]. Quarto. Paper over boards. Later printing. All illustrations and mechanicals by the author. About fine in a near fine dust jacket whose only flaw is that it is price clipped. I suspect Sabine. The final line of this romantic, mysterious correspondence states, "These postcards and.....
Item 000094"Head of a Polish Girl," contained in THE DIAL.
New York: The Dial, 1920. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Printed wrappers. Plates. March, 1920. Yapped edges. A lovely copy, near fine. Djuna Barnes is described by the editors in "Notes on Contributors" as "a young American artist and writer whose drawings are for the most part unpublished." Her contributed drawing.....
Item 000008SMOKE AND OTHER EARLY STORIES.
Sun & Moon Press, 1982. Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth, gilt spine. First edition. Edited, with an introduction by Douglas Messerli. First published in periodicals and newspapers from 1914-1916, these fourteen tales have never before appeared in book form. Illustrations by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.....
Item 000072VAGARIES MALICIEUX TWO STORIES.
New York: Frank Hallman, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Gilt white cloth. A fine coppy, without printed dust jacket, as issued. First edition in this format of two pieces first published in CARAVEL and THE DOUBLE DEALER. This edition, designed by Ronald Gordon and printed at The Stinehour Press, consists.....
Item 000009TALKING IT OVER.
New York: Knopf, 1991. 1st Edition. Soft cover. White wrappers, black printing. Advance reading copy of the first U.S. edition, signed by the author on the title page and enclosed in the publisher's glossy envelope sleeve, as issued. Fine.
Item 449SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE.
[London: Riccardi Press for the Medici Society, Ltd., 1914]. Limited edition. Slim octavo. Publisher's linen-backed paper boards, lettered in gilt. T.e.g. First edition, thus. Edition limited to 1000 copies printed on handmade Riccardi paper; the copies were numbered yet this copy is unnumbered (writer's fatigue?). Initial page of the sonnets.....
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Item 000013[SALESMAN'S SAMPLE / DUMMY]: THE NOVELS, TALES AND SKETCHES OF J. M. BARRIE.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Hatherell, William, J. Bernard Partridge, et al. Hardcover. [Salesman Sample]: Octavo. Medium olive green cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt. T.e.g. Author's edition, limited to one hundred and fifty signed copies. Frontispiece portrait. Thistle edition from new plates by De Vinne. Drawings and photographs.....
Item 000012SENTIMENTAL TOMMY THE STORY OF HIS BOYHOOD.
London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1896. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Rich blue cloth over beveled boards, spine lettered in gilt. T.e.g. Glorious dove gray endsheets with the Cassell "La Belle Sauvage" medallion as motif. First edition, with a four page "Important Works ...," and the first state of the.....
Item 389THE MAIDES TRAGEDY.
New York: Cheshire House, 1932. Quarto. Half calf and marbled boards. T.e.g., all others untrimmed. Wood engravings by Freda Bone. Introduction by Christopher Morley. No. 955 of twelve hundred numbered copies. Spine a shade sunned, bit of foxing to end sheets and edges, but a very good copy in a......
Item 442THE LEGEND OF MONTE DELLA SIBILLA OR LE PARADIS DE LA REINE SIBILLE.
Hogarth House Richmond, Printed and published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1923. Five Bloomsberries in One Dish Quarto. Original decorated white paper boards, printed in black. First edition, handprinted. 25,[1]pp. 10¼ x 7 in. Frontispiece and tailpiece drawings by Duncan Grant, cover and headpiece by Vanessa.....
Item 425VANESSA BELL 1879-1961 AN EXHIBITION OF HER PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, DESIGNS, PRINTS, AND BOOK JACKETS.
Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College Art Gallery, September 20 - October 28, 1984. First edition. Pictorial and printed wrappers. First edition. 47,[1]pp. Twenty plates, four in color, several full-page. Exhibition catalogue prepared to accompany an exciting presentation of Bell's work, many items for this exhibition were found to be in the.....
Item 354VANESSA BELL 1879-1961 AN EXHIBITION TO MARK THE CENTENARY OF HER BIRTH.
Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1979. Pictorial stapled deep blue wrappers. First edition. Forward by Frank Constantine; twelve page introduction by Frances Spalding, with notes. Forty-six items are listed in the exhibition; list of over seventeen book jackets, their original designs for Virginia Woolf and others, along with a selection.....