Miriam and Other Poems
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1871. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in green cloth stamped in gilt. 170 pp. Frontispiece illustration. Very good.
Literature
The Books of Ruth and Esther with Photogravures After Gilbert James
London: George Routledge & Sons. James, Gilbert. Hardcover. Hardcover. 94 pps with illustrations. The Biblical stories of Ruth and Esther illustrated with a series of fine photogravures, based on the original engravings by Gilbert James. Brilliant piece of turn of the century spiritual literature. Fine, tight copy in fine, crisp.....
Hemingway (Collection Genies et Realites)
Paris: Hachette, 1966. Hardcover. Dark tan leather lettered and decorated in gilt and red. Illustrated endpapers. 283 pp. plus index of illustrations. Text in French. Illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs and reproductions. Handsomely assembled collection of biographical and critical essays on author Ernest Heminway. AS NEW.....
Lines of Battle: Letters from American Servicemen 1941-1945
Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A. Times Books, 1987. First Ed. Hardcover. Hardcover. 297 pps with index, illustrations. A beautiful collection of letters written by American servicemen to their loved ones during World War II. Includes letters written by then-future President John F. Kennedy. Fantastic resource and glimpse into the human side of.....
A Maid for All Seasons Volume 3
Garden City, NY: Venus, 2005. Hardcover. Hardcover. 255 pp. The third installment in this erotic series in which Naughty Lisa returns for more paddle punishments. "...Her employer insists she attend a college for women where students are made to wear degrading schoolgirl uniforms and are put under strict supervision...What will.....
"TWICE A YEAR - A book of Literature, The Arts and Civil Liberties".
NY: Twice A Year Press, 1941. Number VII, Fall - Winter. Very good in printed paper covered boards and flaps. Perfect bound spine cracked, small chip. Photographic illustrations by Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keefe as well as the first American publication of a story by Proust, "A Young Girl's Confession".....
Derby Day and Other Adventures (numbered limited edition signed by the author)
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1934. Limited ed. Hardcover. Large 8vo in pale green paper covered boards with blindstamp decoration, over buff colored cloth spine lettered in green. One of 1129 copies of the Limited Edition, this being No. 502, signed by A. Edward Newton on the limitation page. Fore.....
Nixey's Harlequin: Tales
London: Jonathan Cape, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover in multi-colored paper covered boards over black cloth, paper spine label. Very good, modest sunning to the spine strip and a small chip to one corner of the label. Vintage bookplate front free endpaper. no dust jacket. Collection of ten.....
When Thou Hast Shut Thy Door (inscribed by the author)
Portland, ME: Falmouth Publishing House, 1939. Hardcover. Hardcover. 49 pp. Warmly inscribed with references to St. Christopher and signed by the author on the front free endpaper with notation "Stracuse, N.Y./ Good Friday/ 1940". Fine in near fine dust jacket with a small smudge front panel. "This volume of exquisite.....
Driftwood: A Mosest Collection of Rhymes, written at Odd Times for Odd People
Lincoln, NE: State Journal Company, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. First ediiton. Hardcover in emerald green clothstamped in gilt. Patterned endpapers. Frontispiece photographic portrait of the author. 192 pp. Very good, some spotting bto the cloth but all gilt bright. A collection of early 20th century midwestern poetry by (so says.....
Psalms of the Prodigal and Other Poems (inscribed by the author)
New York: P.J. Kenedy, (1956). Hardcover. Presumed first edition. N.d. (1956). Warmly inscribed and dated June 26, 1956 by the author on the front free endpaper. Hardcover. xv+ 112 pp. Fine in very good dust jacket. Poetry. Collection of metaphysical and religious-themed poems, introducing many moving ideas based on Biblical.....
The Last Party: Scenes from My Life with Norman Mailer
London/ New York: Blake/ Barricade Books, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing, New York publisher imnprint on title page but from the British sheets and with the UK price on the jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 380 pp. with index. Illustrated with photos. The unvarnished, intimate.....
Paradise Kiss 3 (Korean version)
2001. Softcover. Softcovers. Fine. Graphic novel translated from the original Japanese into Korean.
The Soldier: A Poem
London: Editions Poetry, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. First editon. Slim 12mo. in glossy dark tan hardcovers. 40 pp. A tight, fine example. In original dust jacket with a tiny chip at the spine extremities. Quite a nice copy indeed. (Reduced international shipping available on this item. Please inquire.).
The Pleasures of the Imagination and Other Poems
New York: R & W.A. Bartow & Co., 1822. Leather_bound. 24mo. (3 7/8" x 5 1/2") in original three quarter red morocco over dark green paper covered boards. Spine lettered and ornately stamped in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of Akenside. 144 pp. Early American printing containing the title work.....
Camus (Collection Genies et Realites)
Paris: Hachette, 1966. Hardcover. Full turquoise leather lettered and decorated in gilt and black. Marker ribbon. 286 pp. plus index of illustrations. Text in French. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs and reproductions. Collection of biographical and critical essays on Albert Camus. AS NEW in clear dust wrapper.....
Union Square (in original dust jacket)
New York: Literary Guild, 1933. Reissue. Hardcover. Hardcover in red cloth lettered in black and with blindstamp design. Illustrated endpapers. Early reissue, published same year as the Viking Press first. A tight, near fine example, with a three small spots to the top edge of the text block. In original.....
The Natural History Of The Flirt (with) The Natural History Of The Ballet- Girl (with) The Natural History of the Tuft Hunters (with) The Natural History of "Bores"
London: D. Bogue, 1847. Leather_bound. 32mo. (3" x 5") in contemporary mid-19th century three quarter dark brown leather over marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers and text edges. 1847 and 1848. Engraved frontispieces for each book. Illustrated with black and white engravings by Henning, Hine, Gavarni and Gilbert. 107, 103.....
Limbo
New York: Doran, 1920. Second printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in light green paper covered boards over green cloth spine with paper title label. 292 pp. The second printing of the American edition of the author's first non-poetry book. About very good, narrow smudge front cover and light soiling to the green.....
Two Or Three Graces and Other Stories
London: Chatto & Windus, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. First eition. Hardcover in blue cloth. 271 pp. Fine (offestting to the second blank). No jacket. Contains the stories "Two Or Three Graces", "Half-Holiday", "The Monocle" and "Fairy Godmother"
Marjorie Dae and Other People
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Small octavo in emerald green cloth lettered in gilt, front board with small gilt decoration. 272 pp. A tight, generally fine example, touch of rubbing at the spine extremities. Neat pencil gift inscrition dated 1874 first blank. "Marjorie Daw" was.....
Roots: The Saga Of An American Family
Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (stated), first printing. Fine in original dust jacket a mere shade less than fine with just very shallow minor wear at the foot edge of the spine. Hardcover. 587 pp. One of the classic American historical fiction books of the later.....
A Marker to Measure Drift (signed by the author)
Knopf, 2103. Hardback. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Novel set in Greece and Africa wherein a young Liberian woman reckons with a haunted past.
While Rome Burns
New York: Viking Press, 1936. Later printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in red cloth lettered in gilt. Near fine, bit of light foxing about the edges of the text block and gutter offsetting to the endpaer hinges. Later printing. Small humorous gift inscription with small drawing front free endpaper. InOriginal dust jacket.....
The Three Musketeers (Modern Library 143 in original dust jacket)
New York: Modern Library, 1950. Hardcover. Modern Library No. 143. Hardcover in navy blue cloth with front cover and spine with labels in red and gilt. "A New Translation by Jacques Le Clercq. xvii (with introduction by le Clercq and author's preface)+ 712 pp. + 4 pp. list of ML.....