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 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 820GEORGIA O'KEEFFE FEBRUARY 4, 1946 -- MARCH 27, 1946.
New York: An American Place, 1946. First edition. Single sheet printed in black. [9 x 6"]. Printed on recto only. Fine. First edition. A rare exhibition sheet for a 4 February -- 27 March 1946 show of Georgia O'Keeffe's oil paintings and "pastelles" at Alfred Stieglitz's An American Place gallery in.....
Item 819GEORGIA O'KEEFFE PAINTINGS -- 1943. JANUARY 11 -- MARCH 11, 1944.
New York City: An American Place, 1944. First edition. Single sheet printed in black. 12 x 9.5" approximately, folded once to form four unnumbered pages. Fine. First edition. A rare exhibition catalogue for a 11 January - 11 March 1944 show of Georgia O'Keeffe's oil paintings at Alfred Stieglitz's An.....
Item 818GEORGIA O'KEEFFE EXHIBITION OF OILS AND PASTELS FEBRUARY 3 -- MARCH 17, 1940.
New York City: An American Place, 1940. First edition. Single sheet printed in black on both sides. [21.3 x 15.3 cm]. Text on recto by Georgia O'Keeffe. Fine. First edition. A rare exhibition catalogue for a 3 February -- 17 March 1940 show of Georgia O'Keeffe's oil paintings and pastels.....
Item 817GEORGIA O'KEEFFE EXHIBITION OF OILS AND PASTELS JANUARY 22 -- MARCH 17, 1939. IT IS SAID SERIES II NUMBER I.
New York City: An American Place, 1939. First edition. Single sheet printed in black. 12 x 8.5" approximately, folded once to form four unnumbered pages. Fine. First edition. A rare exhibition catalogue for a 22 January - 17 March 1939 show of Georgia O'Keeffe's oil paintings and pastels at Alfred.....
Item 641MY FACE FOR THE WORLD TO SEE: THE DIARIES, LETTERS, AND DRAWINGS OF CANDY DARLING, ANDY WARHOL SUPERSTAR.
[Honolulu, HI]: Hardy Marks Publications, 1997. First edition. Octavo. Pink vinyl padded boards with gilt lettering and decoration; diary lock with two keys on a pink cord; wrapped in original plastic from publisher. 127,[1] pp. Fine. First edition. Preface by the filmmaker Mary Harron who directed I Shot Andy Warhol.....
Item 735RYDER.
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. With Illustrations by the Author. First edition. Navy blue cloth; title and author in inverted triangle escalloped in gilt on front panel; spine stamped and lettered in red with gilt ornamentation. 323[1] pp. Frontis (a Ryder family tree), and all illustrative plates by the author.....
Item 644"To Travel or Not to Travel," contained in THE DIAL VOLUME LXXIV № 4.
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.....
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.....
Item 466THE PORTRAIT OF THE LOVER.
Berkeley: University of California Press, [1999]. First edition. Octavo. Cloth and boards. First edition. 339,[1] pp. Six black & white plate illustrations. Translated from the Italian by Laura Gibbs. Author's preface, translator's preface, notes, works cited, index. Fine, in a fine pictorial dust jacket. "'Take an abandoned lover, put a......
Item 741CHÉRI.
San Francisco: George F. Ritchie, 1983. First edition thus. Large octavo. Black cloth, paper spine label. xiv,[2],97pp. Bookplate on front pastedown, a few rubs to spine and label, ghost of label removed from front panel, else a very good+ copy. First printing in this format of Janet Flanner's translation. Introduction by.....
Item 530VITA SACKVILLE-WEST.
New York City: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, [2004]. Octavo. Decorated green and white stiff card, paper label, full fold-in flaps. First edition. Frontispiece color illustration, color plates. [8],67,[5] pp. Excerpt of 1928 letter to Virginia Woolf as prologue; Introduction by Sackville-West's son, Nigel Nicolson; Notes, and Works Cited. Collection of forty-five.....
Item 487TWO SERIOUS LADIES.
London: Peter Owen, [1965]. First British Commonwealth Edition. Octavo. Original publisher's brown cloth, gilt spine. 271,[3] pp. Dust speckled top edge, spine ever-so-slightly cocked, else a clean, bright, very good copy; pictorial dust jacket with minor rubbing, rear panel slightly soiled, else good and presents well. Scarce in this condition. .....
Item 3101939.
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.....
Item 308COLLECTED POEMS.
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.....
Item 306DEATH OF A MAN.
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.....
Item 312A FRENCHMAN MUST DIE.
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.
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Item 315A GLAD DAY [with Autograph Typescript Poem].
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.....
Item 000040LIFE BEING THE BEST & OTHER STORIES.
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.....
Item 307MONDAY NIGHT.
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.....
Item 304MY NEXT BRIDE.
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.....
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.
Item 313THIRTY STORIES.
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.....