Twentieth Century Fiction
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......
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.....
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.....
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[New York: Rapho-Guillumette, c. 1959]. Two gelatin silver print borderless film stills, one with the photographer’s ink-stamp credit to verso and caption. (1) candid production set still of Audrey Hepburn in nun’s habit standing in a river in the Belgian Congo with many natives and production crew, 14 x 11.....
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.
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.....
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.....
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.
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.....
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.
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: Alfred A. Knopf, [1985]. First edition, first printing. Large octavo. Blue embossed boards, orange cloth spine. Twenty dazzling full-color portraits of dragons by Leonard Baskin, "with the help of his son Hosie he brings us a glorious gathering of dragons from all mythologies and literature: ranging from the.....
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.....
New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, [N.d., but ca. 1934]. First edition. Original red paper boards with a lively repeating book pattern. [14x10 cm]. Two color illustrations by Philip G. Reed. Fine. First edition, thus. An extract from Blades's 19th century book on the various enemies of books from.....
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.....
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. .....
New York: William Morrow & Co, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Cloth and boards. First American edition of the author's third novel. Fine, in near fine pictorial dust jacket.
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.....
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.
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: 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.....
Portland, Maine: Thomas Mosher, 1905-6. Small 16 mo (3½ x 5¼). Four volumes. 425 copies printed on Imperial Mills Japan vellum, in flexible boards, two of the four titles sealed in parchment wrappers, all in separate brocade slide cases, and encased in a brocade decorated cabinet style box. All volumes.....
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.....