Twentieth Century Fiction
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.
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.....
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: 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.
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.....
William Morrow & Co, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. Cloth and boards. First U.S. edition, first printing, of the author's second novel. Fine, in near fine dust jacket.
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: Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill, [1949]. First edition. Gilt green cloth. Pale stain at fore-edge, edges lightly rubbed, else very good, in a full-color pictorial dust jacket by Adolf Dehn, with a tanned spine and a few nicks. First edition. Men training in the mountains of Colorado as members of the.....
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.....
New York: Turtle Bay / Random House, 1993. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Printed and decorated wrappers. Advance Uncorrected Proof of the first U.S. edition. Some editorial notes and page references on final blank page, pencil mark on referenced page, else near fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
New York: Random House, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt cloth and boards, angel embossed on upper panel. About fine in an equally near fine dust jacket. First U.S. trade edition. "Morpho Eugenia" is a Gothic fable of the Earthly Paradise, an obsession with Victorian Darwinian theories of the parallels between.....
New York: Random House, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large, thick octavo. Gilt cloth and boards. First American edition. Fine, apparently unread edition in about fine dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.