Modernism is a movement in the arts in the first half of the twentieth century that rejected traditional values and techniques, and emphasized the importance of individual experience.
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.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt purple cloth. First American edition. Translated from the French by Patrick O'Brian. Bookplate on half-title, else very good in a moderately worn dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
New York: Knopf, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt cloth. Small stain to top edge, else near fine in a bright dust jacket with a scattering of a few rubbed areas. First American edition. Bowen was an Anglo-Irish writer who, although she lived primarily in England, maintained a large family estate.....
New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Black embossed cloth, paper spine label. Violet silk endpapers with images of a soaring Phoenix. Ink ownership and date on half-title, front hinge ever so slightly weak, otherwise a very good copy in a very good dust.....
New York: Knopf, 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt and blind-stamped red cloth. First U.S. edition. Printed in black with red decorative chapter heads. Neat, early ownership signature on front free endsheet, otherwise a fine copy in a very good pictorial dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt blue cloth. Light offsetting caused by newspaper clipping to pp. 94-5 (author's 1973 NYT obit), otherwise about fine in a moderately spine-darkened printed dust jacket with the author's photo and a small biography (some of which is repeated verbatim from.....
London: Longman's, Green and Co., 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt burgundy cloth. Ink inscription to the front free endpaper, else very good in a good dust jacket with a darkened spine panel and very shallow loss to spine ends. First trade edition, preceded by the Cuala Press edition.Bowen was an.....
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.....
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 Emanuel.....
Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. First edition of the first descriptive bibliography of H. D.'s works. Fine, in pictorial dust jacket featuring H. D. holding her daughter, Perdita. As new copy encased in publisher's shrink wrap (as seen in photo).
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London: Faber and Faber Ltd:, [1950]. First edition. Gilt green cloth. Fine in lightly nicked dust jacket with short snag at top edge of rear panel. First edition, corrected state of 29:1 - implying no precedence of issue as all copies were bound and distributed simultaneously. The first printing consisted.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1936]. First American edition. Octavo. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Cloth is faded at spine and along upper edge; upper endsheet and pastedown have what appears to be a glue discoloration, else very good in a typographcal dust jacket, printed in red, that is.....
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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 first.....
London: Faber & Gwyer, [1928]. First edition. Cloth, paper label. First edition (1500 copies printed). Spine cocked, endsheets a bit foxed, else a good copy in chipped and darkened dust jacket, with tears at joints and lacking crown of spine panel. Poetry.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition. Spine label and endsheets a bit darkened, light foxing to preliminaries, else very good, without the printed dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
London: Martin Secker, [1926]. First edition. Large octavo. Olive brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Small private bookplate in upper corner of the front pastedown, light foxing early and late, otherwise very good and bright. First edition, limited to five hundred copies. A little-known dramatic work (first produced in London.....
London: Martin Secker, 1931. Hardcover. Octavo. Gilt cloth. Later printing of the Secker "Thin Paper" Edition. Spine slightly sunned, gilt very bright, 1934 ownership signature of poet/publisher James Laughlin, else very good.