Expatriate Writers & Presses
Greenwich & New York: The Dial, April 1923. Octavo. Bound in publisher's original salmon wraps printed in black. xvi,[2],329-432,xxviii pp. Plates, one tipped in. Usual oversized wrappers, else a fine copy. Barney's poem, which appears on pages 379-80, queries the usefulness of change for change's sake. NCB, as she was.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, [1948]. First edition. Original orange cloth, titles in black, signature block to front board in black. Pastedowns slightly darkened at gutters, lower edges a trifle shelf-worn, else a very good copy in a lightly edgeworn, hand-soiled pictorial dust jacket. First edition. A topic Boyle often.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. First edition. Red cloth. Typography, binding, and dust jacket designed by Vincent Torre. Fine, in near fine dust jacket. First edition. This volume includes seventeen new poems, a selection of poems written in the 1920s and 30s, and an excerpt from her long wartime.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1936]. First edition. Pale green cloth, stamped in silver. Ownership signature and stamp of Boyle's publisher, James Laughlin [New Directions]. Tiny Gotham Book Mart label affixed to rear pastedown (upside down, as you would expect it to be). Spine sunned, else a near fine.....
London: Faber & Faber, [1946]. First edition. Gilt blue cloth. First British edition. Hunting love and the elusive fascist in post-war France. A near fine copy in a very good, lightly nicked and foxed typographic dust jacket.
![Item #315 A GLAD DAY [with Autograph Typescript Poem]. Kay BOYLE](https://secondwindbks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/315.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675284400)
Norfolk: New Directions:, [1938]. First edition. Gilt red cloth. Minor darkening at edges of cloth, tiny rub to lower edge, otherwise fine in good, moderately chipped dust jacket with mends on verso. First edition, limited to 500 copies printed at the Rydal Press. Accompanied by a 6pp. clean typescript of.....
New York: New Directions, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt cloth. First U.S. edition, clothbound issue. Edited with an introduction by Sandra Whipple Spanier. Issued in the New Directions Revived Modern Classics series. Fine, in a near fine pictorial dust jacket featuring Marcel Duchamp's "The Chess Game." HARRISON, NEWTH & CANDIDO.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1938]. First edition. Cloth. Discreet bookseller's label tipped in, cloth faded at the edges and head and toe of spine, but a good copy in a very worn, soiled and chipped dust jacket. First edition. A departure for Boyle, she serves up a kind.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1934]. First edition. Pale green cloth. Ownership signature of her future publisher, James Laughlin on front free endsheet. Spine and extremities of cloth faded, else very good, lacking the jacket. First edition. Epigram: "Knife will be my next bride." -- Laurence Vail. Dedicated to.....
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.....
Paris: Editions Narcisse, 1927. . Folio. Thick paper wrappers, printed in black and red, fold over flaps, leaves sewn. 29.8 x 21.9 cm. [xx],[36] pp. Printed on watermarked paper. Illustrated with three limited edition watercolors by François Quelvée, two with original glassine sheets placed in front of illustration, one more.....
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt purple cloth. Frontispiece. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket with H. D. on a film set. First edition. An intellectual and historical approach to H. D.'s late poetry that challenges feminist approaches that have tended.....
![Item #293 THE ELDER STATESMAN A PLAY BY [...]. T. S. ELIOT](https://secondwindbks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/293.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673987153)
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, [1959]. First edition. Black cloth, gilt stamped spine. A near fine copy in a very good, only minimally rubbed, price-clipped typographic dust jacket. First U.S. edition, first printing. Eliot's last play, drafted originally in 1955 but not completed until three years later, and.....
London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., [1953]. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth, gilt spine. 30,[2] pp. Literary ownership signature, place and date on front pastedown, along with an Oxford booksellers' tiny label. Fine in a very good, lightly dust soiled jacket with one tiny nip at the lower spine edge. First.....
[N.p. (Buffalo)]: [Frontier Press], 1971. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Stiff grey-blue paper wrappers with a printed and decorated spine label. Roses and thorns vignette on title page. Fine, as new. First (unauthorized/pirated) edition, based on a preliminary draft, and differing from the poems published a year later by New Directions.....
Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth, stamped in black with the caption title, "A Celebration of H.D. and Marianne Moore by POESIS: a journal of criticism. First edition of this special double number devoted to H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) and Moore. Tips ever so slightly.....
Camden & New York: The Dial, May 1929. Octavo. Bound in publisher's original salmon wraps printed in black. iv,[3],362-450,viii pp. Plates. Usual oversized wrappers, else a very fine copy. Lawrence's poem, which appears on pages 383-84, examines the modern reaction to bodies at play in its first appearance in print.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1971. Octavo. Plum gilt cloth boards. First edition. Fine, in a fine pictorially literal dust jacket designed by John Sergeant.
London: Chatto & Windus, [1987]. Octavo. Pale grey gilt cloth. About fine, in a fine highly pictorial, unclipped dust jacket designed by Tom Phillips whose remarkable portrait of Dame Jean Iris Murdoch hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery. First edition, first impression. Murdoch's twenty-third novel, and considered to be one.....
New York: Avon Books, [1965]. Pictorial wrappers. Wraps toned, spine a slight bit cocked and one light vertical crease, textblock toned, else a good copy. First trade paperback edition. "A gothic tale, told with intelligence and wit by one of England's major contemporary novelists, for broadminded and compassionate readers...
London: Chatto & Windus, [1989]. Thick octavo. Emerald green gilt cloth. First edition. Signed by author on half-title. Some foxing to top edge, else about fine in a fine highly pictorial dust jacket designed by Tom Phillips whose portrait of Dame Jean Iris Murdoch hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery.....