Poems and Problems
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1971). First edition. Publisher's "compliments of the author" card inserted. Black cloth. Fine copy in dust jacket. Juliar A41.1. More
New Arrivals
The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Volume I, 1915-1919.; Introduced by Quentin Bell. Edited by Ann Oliver Bell
London: Hogarth Press, (1977). First edition. Blue wrappers, printed in black. Somewhat used. Uncorrected proof copy. Raymond Mortimer's review copy, with a letter to him from publisher Norah Smallwood, and his frequent marginal pencil marks. More
Pomp and Circumstance
Garden City: Doubleday, (1960). Green cloth, near fine copy in lightly used, price-clipped dust jacket. Signed by Coward. More
South Sea Bubble. A Comedy in three Acts
London: Heinemann, (1956). First edition. Blue cloth, slight foxing else a fine copy in very good dust jacket. Inscribed by Coward to his great friend Gladys Calthrop, (nicknamed by him "Blackheart" or "Blackie,") "for Blackie with love / Noel" More
Robert Indiana: The American Dream. Poetry by Robert Creeley; Texts by Susan Ryan and Michael McKenzie
Los Angeles: Marco Fine Arts, (1997). Indiana, Robert. First edition. Folio (17 in x 22 in.), 100 pp. Original black leather, as new, publisher's box. Copy TP 22/30 from a total edition of 395 copies, signed by the artist. Contains 30 original serigraphs by Robert Indiana, six of the images..... More
The Nature of Beauty in Art and Literature
London: Hogarth Press, 1927. First edition. One of 1,000 copies, 250 of which were later pulped. Printed light green paper over boards, 88, [2, ads] pp. Edges slightly faded, else a fine copy. Translation and Preface by Roger Fry. The Hogarth Essays, Second Series, No. 6. Woolmer 131. More
Wise Blood
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1952). First edition. Yellow boards, with a 3/4 inch chip at top of spine,otherwise very good, without dust jacket. Presentation copy to Reynolds and Jean Allen, dated May 1952. On May 14,1942, almost exactly a decade prior to the book's publication, Reynolds Allen beat Flannery O'Connor out for..... More
Poems from the Pacific Northwest Poetry Conference Reed College April 1966; Edited and written out by Lloyd J. Reynolds
Portland, Ore. Reed College, 1966. First edition. Red leather, gilt, by The Oregon Bookbinding Co., with their ticket. Fine condition. One of a few specially bound copies for contributors. This was Richard Hugo's copy; it contains his poem "Tiberio's Cliff" along with works by William Stafford, Carolyn Kizer, John Logan..... More
The World and the Parish. Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902.; Selected and edited with a commentary by William M. Curtin.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1970). First edition. Two volumes, cloth, very good in dust jackets. Crane AA9.a. More
The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett. Selected and Arranged with a Preface by Willa Cather
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. First edition. Two volumes, green cloth, fine in fine dust jackets and publisher's box (rear panel of box detached). Crane DD7; BAL 10946. More
The Wagnerian Romances. With an Introduction by Willa Cather
New York: Knopf, 1925. First edition. Blue cloth, gilt. Near fine copy in scarce dust jacket which has two small tape repairs on the back. Crane DD8. More
Neighbour Rosicky
Berlin: Velhagen & Klasing, [1958]. First separate edition. Wrappers, fine. Published for German students of English. Crane EEE3. More
Collected Short Fiction 1892-1912; Introduction by Mildred R. Bennett
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1965). Third printing. Cloth, near-fine copy in dust jacket. Inscribed by the editor, and with another gift inscription. More
The Old Beauty and Others
New York: Knopf, 1948. First edition. Brown cloth, fine in slightly faded dust jacket. Crane A23.a.i. More
Willa Cather in Europe. Her own story of the first journey. With an introduction and incidental notes by George N. Kates.
New York: Knopf, 1956. First edition. First edition. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. More
Willa Cather. A Biographical Sketch, an English Opinion, and an Abridged Bibliography
New York: Knopf, 1926. First edition. Wrappers, stapled, 16 pp., near-fine. Although unsigned, the biographical sketch was written by Cather herself. Crane DD Appendix 2. More
Willa Cather. A Biographical Sketch, an English Opinion, and an Abridged Bibliography
New York: Knopf, 1926. First edition. Wrappers, stapled, 16 pp., a very good copy. Although unsigned, the biographical sketch was written by Cather herself. Crane DD Appendix 2. More
Prospectus for The Song of the Lark
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. First edition. Wrappers, 12 pages. 150 x 87 mm. Mar on back cover, else fine. The biographical portion of this promotional pamphlet was written by Cather herself. Crane DD Appendix 1. More
"Paris," in The Garden of the Heart. A Garland of Verses
Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1903. First edition. Wrappers, stitched, 16 pp. Fine, with the publisher's compliments slip. An anthology of works by various writers published by Badger, for advertising purposes. Crane suggests that "this printing may have precede April Twilights." Crane B60. More
Typescript, with handwritten notes by Cather, proposing corrections to the dust jacket blurb for Sapphira and the Slave Girl.
1940. One page, typed in blue ink, with pencil and ink revisions. The page was a draft submitted to Cather for review. She made modest changes to the outside portions, circled the middle portion and made a couple of corrections. On a second page typed by Cather herself, she proposes..... More
Alfred A. Knopf Quarter Century
New York: Knopf, 1940. Dwiggins, W.A. First edition. Green cloth, spine faded, else fine. More
Father Junipero's Holy Family
[Burlingame, California ]: 1955. Printed wrappers, fine. First separate edition of chapter 9 from Death Comes for the Archbishop, printed by Lawton Kennedy as a keepsake. One of the rare (we know of only two) cancelled copies with the publisher's name misprinted on the cover ("Irving L. Robbins" instead of..... More
December Night.; A Scene from Willa Cather's Novel "Death Comes for the Archbishop"
New York: Knopf, 1933. First separate edition. Boards, a variant binding, not noted by Crane. Both the boards and the dust jacket are printed in dark brown, quite different from the usual light brown. Fine in dust jacket. Crane A161. More
December Night.; A Scene from Willa Cather's Novel "Death Comes for the Archbishop"
New York: Knopf, 1933. First separate edition. Boards, lettered in light brown. Fine in dust jacket, printed in light brown. Crane A161. More
Sapphira and the Slave Girl
London: Cassell, (1941). First English edition. Grey cloth, a fine copy in fine dust jacket. Crane A22.a.i.(e). More