Item 380THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963. Pictorial wrappers. Advance reading copy of the first U.S. edition of Mitford's exposé of the American funeral industrial complex. Light use, but a very good, scarce copy.
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Item 443HILDEGARDE.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First edition. Octavo. Black cloth, stamped in gilt. First edition, inscribed by author on front free endsheet, "With all good wishes / Kathleen Norris." Clean and bright throughout, crack at front hinge, else very good, in good printed, dusty dust jacket with.....
Item 401THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WALT WHITMAN.
New York: Friedmans', 1920. Paper boards, paper label to spine and upper board. Frontispiece portrait. A few finger smudges to boards, labels a trifle worn, very good or slightly better. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies, this being No. 52. The pioneering attempt, by the innovative publisher/bookseller.
Item 430THE DIAL. Volume LXXVII Number 6. December, 1924 [containing the essay VIRGINIA WOOLF, by Clive Bell & the essay, MISS ORMEROD, by Virginia Woolf].
Camden, NJ: The Dial Publishing Company, December 1924. Printed salmon wrappers, staple bound. i-viii,[2],451-540,ix-xxiv pp. Tipped in color frontis, "King Lear," by Pablo Picasso. Twenty four pages of adverts in total. A remarkably fine copy. First edition. Scofield Thayer, editior, and Alyse Gregory, managing editor. Extended essay on Virginia Woolf.....
Item 418"THE NEW DRESS" [first appearance in print in FORUM MAGAZINE, MAY 1927 VOL. LXXVII No.5].
[New York]: Forum, [1927]. Printed and decorated orange, grey & black wrappers. 9 ½ x 6 ½ in. Numerous illustrations, five color plates. Fore-edges yapped with small tears and chips, spine quite chipped and missing at crown and toe. Interior is in unusually bright and in seemingly unread, very good.....
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