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 490DANCING GIRLS AND OTHER STORIES.
[Toronto]: McClelland and Stewart, [1977]. First edition. Octavo. Cloth and boards. 256 pp. Inscribed and signed by Atwood on the half-title page, "For Joe- - / with thanks and / best wishes -- / Margaret Atwood / Saranac Lake / 1978." Ownership signature on front free endsheet, "Joe David Bellamy,".....
Item 000094"Head of a Polish Girl," contained in THE DIAL.
New York: The Dial, 1920. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Printed wrappers. Plates. March, 1920. Yapped edges. A lovely copy, near fine. Djuna Barnes is described by the editors in "Notes on Contributors" as "a young American artist and writer whose drawings are for the most part unpublished." Her contributed drawing.....
Item 000008SMOKE AND OTHER EARLY STORIES.
Sun & Moon Press, 1982. Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth, gilt spine. First edition. Edited, with an introduction by Douglas Messerli. First published in periodicals and newspapers from 1914-1916, these fourteen tales have never before appeared in book form. Illustrations by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.....
Item 000072VAGARIES MALICIEUX TWO STORIES.
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 Press, consists.....
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 442THE LEGEND OF MONTE DELLA SIBILLA OR LE PARADIS DE LA REINE SIBILLE.
Hogarth House Richmond, Printed and published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1923. Five Bloomsberries in One Dish Quarto. Original decorated white paper boards, printed in black. First edition, handprinted. 25,[1]pp. 10¼ x 7 in. Frontispiece and tailpiece drawings by Duncan Grant, cover and headpiece by Vanessa.....
Item 425VANESSA BELL 1879-1961 AN EXHIBITION OF HER PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, DESIGNS, PRINTS, AND BOOK JACKETS.
Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College Art Gallery, September 20 - October 28, 1984. First edition. Pictorial and printed wrappers. First edition. 47,[1]pp. Twenty plates, four in color, several full-page. Exhibition catalogue prepared to accompany an exciting presentation of Bell's work, many items for this exhibition were found to be in the.....
Item 354VANESSA BELL 1879-1961 AN EXHIBITION TO MARK THE CENTENARY OF HER BIRTH.
Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1979. Pictorial stapled deep blue wrappers. First edition. Forward by Frank Constantine; twelve page introduction by Frances Spalding, with notes. Forty-six items are listed in the exhibition; list of over seventeen book jackets, their original designs for Virginia Woolf and others, along with a selection.....
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 404DECEIVED WITH KINDNESS A BLOOMSBURY CHILDHOOD.
London: Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, [1984]. Octavo. Bright green cloth boards, gilt spine. 181 pp. Black & white family photo illustrations. Remainder mark at top edge, neat gift inscription to front pastedown, else near fine, in a price-clipped pictorial dust jacket with lovely illustrations by the author.First.....
Item 000081ACCORDING TO HER CONTOURS.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Silk cloth and pictorial boards, printed paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 12 of 125 numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author. Author's biography and photograph at the conclusion of the text. Fine, in an equally fine.....
Item 000101ON THE EIGHTH DAY ADAM SLEPT ALONE.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Silk cloth and pictorial boards, printed paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Letter R of only 22 signed copies lettered A-V, hand bound in boards by Earle Gray. Author's biography and photograph at the conclusion of the text. Fine, in.....
Item 000082THE HEAT OF THE DAY.
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.....
Item 000088THE HOTEL.
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.....
Item 000018THE HOUSE IN PARIS.
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.
Item 000089SEVEN WINTERS MEMORIES OF A DUBLIN CHILDHOOD.
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.....
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.....