Criticism & Critics
London: Faber & Faber, October 1931. Printed wrappers. x,182,[2] pp. Some light soiling to lower wrapper, short nicks and smudges at overlap edges; some leaves unopened, internally very fresh, very good or better. Auden's "Speech" appears on pages 60-64; Three Poems by Stephen Spender, pages 47-49; and contributions of note.....
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.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1922. Bright green loth, paper spine label. Frontis, five plates. With the bookplate of collector/bibliographer Richard Little Purdy. Label darkened, else a near fine copy, lacking the jacket. A must for Bloomsbury collectors.First edition. Dedicated to his friend John Maynard Keynes, Strachey presents his biographical portraits.....
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New York: Grove Press, Inc., [1957]. Signed limited edition. Cloth and paper boards, gilt stamped. [4],xxii,118,[2] pp. Extensive introduction. Specially bound, limited edition of 100 copies, of which this is copy number 69, signed by the author. Minor sunning to very top and bottom of boards, else a fine, unmarked.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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Tavistock Square, London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1929. Octavo. Orange cloth lettered in red; orange dust jacket lettered in red. 160 pp. 7 ½ x 4 ⅞ Toe of spine appears to have been exposed to some damp as does the dust jacket in.....
Camden & New York: The Dial, April 1927. Octavo. Bound in publisher's original salmon wraps printed in black. iv,[3],272-360,v-vii pp. Plates, frontis color plate by Paul Gauguin tipped in. Usual oversized wrappers, else a very fine, pristine copy. Lawrence's work appears here in its first publication on pages 287-301. Other.....
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.....
Camden & New York: The Dial, July & August 1925. Octavo. Bound in publisher's original salmon wraps printed in black. Two issues. Plates, frontis color plates by Pierre Bonnard & Marie Laurencin tipped in. Usual oversized wrappers, else a very fine, pristine copies. The first appearance of this important Taos story.....
New Orleans: Faust Publishing, 1985. First, deluxe edition. Publisher's gilt leather. Quarter publisher's gilt leather, red cloth, pictorial onlay. Portrait. First separate edition. № 44 of fifty deluxe copes, from a total edition of three hundred numbered copies, signed by the author. A fine line scar on the signature page.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First American edition. Mauve paper covered boards, printed paper label on spine and onlay to upper board. 37pp. First American edition. Printed by Peter Beilenson at the Walpole Printing Office, typeface designed by W. A. Dwiggins. Near fine in good printed dust wrapper with.....
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[London:]: Horizon, November 1946. Cream wrappers, printed in teal and black. 72 pp. Eight black & white plates. Cyril Connolly, editor. "Comment," Cyril Connolly; "Right, Left or Centre," Edward Glover; "The Best and the Worst -- I: Virginia Woolf," Philip Toynbee; "Magic Icons," Nicolas Calas; "Some Contemporary Italian Writers," Bernard.....
[Southport, UK]: Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2003. First, limited edition. Yellow card stapled wrappers, paper label. 28 pp. Published in a limited edition of 300 copies, of which 50 copies have been signed by the author on the title page. This is the fourth in the Virginia Woolf.....
Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. Original wrappers printed in black, preserved in the original glassine dust wrappers. 268pp. Bibliography. A bump to the upper corner, else a near fine copy of this uncommon title written in French. From the library of noted Bloomsbury collector, William Beekman.....
Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1932. First Edition. Duodecimo. Quarter bound in leather with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, deep green and black marbled boards. Georgeous green and gilt endpapers. Original wrappers printed in black, bound in; silk place marker. 268pp. Bibliography. Leather rubbed at crown and.....
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928. Blue cloth. First U.S. edition. A few nicks at spine ends, upper edges of boards very lightly sunned, else a very good copy in a somewhat dust-smudged dust jacket with a few chips at the edges, price intact."'Our morals have gone, our.....
London: Martin Secker, 1930. First edition. Brown cloth, gilt spine. T.e.g. [2],43,[4] pp. Fine, without the printed dust jacket. Rebecca West (1892-1983) was a British journalist, novelist, and critic, who was perhaps best known for her reports on the Nürnberg trials of Nazi war criminals (1945–46). West was the daughter.....
Gothenburg: N. J. Gumpert, [1922]. Original printed wrappers. Spine extremities chipped and snagged, otherwise a very good copy of an increasingly scarce title. First edition, variant issue, in collected form of these five essays, two in their original French, on Wilde and associates. From an edition of 400 copies, this.....
Tryon, NC: The Tryon Pamphlets, [1934]. First edition. Original green printed wrappers, octavo (22.5 cm). vi, 26 pp. A near fine copy with mild toning to spine, and no internal markings, preserved in acetate. First edition of Before Disaster, a pivotal poetic sequence by Yvor Winters, issued as No. 3 in.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. SUMMER 1930. Octavo, pp. 754-761. Tear-sheets, side-stapled in their original blue printed wrappers. Offprint from THE YALE REVIEW, Summer 1930. Wrapper's lap-edges with small nicks, UK bookseller's pencil notations [original price list advice at £500 laid in] on p.xxix, bookplate of the noted Virginia.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1931. Large quarto. Original blue printed wrappers, signatures sewn. Vol. XX Summer 1931 No. 4. [LXIV,649-864,LXV-LXXII pp.] Wrapper's lap-edges with small nicks, short rub at spine edge, faint ex-library stamp on upper wrapper, unused library card to recto of lower wrap; bookplate of the noted.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1925 (1930)]. Octavo. Red cloth boards, blind-stamped, gilt spine. [iii],334pp. 8¾ x5¾ in. Cream pictorial dust jacket printed brown and green, designed by Vanessa Bell. Boards bright and clean, ink ownership signature and date on front free endpaper, edges dusty, otherwise very good or.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. Large quarto. Original blue printed wrappers, signatures sewn. Vol. XX September 1930 No. 1. [lvi,216,lxiv pp.] Wrapper's lap-edges with small nicks, short split to upper wrapper at spine edge, tape residue to top edge of the upper wrapper and similarly to the top edge.....