Paris: Terrain vague, 1982. Two volumes, 541, 462 pp. Boards, fine, dust jacket on v. 1 . ( Tome 1. précédés d'un texte d'André Breton ; [suivis d'un texte de Jean Schuster et de compléments au tome I] ; présentation et commentaires de José Pierre. Tracts surréalistes et déclarations collectives..... More
Munich: Kurt Wolff, (1919). First edition. Original full white linen lettered in dark red. Spine faded, waterstain on front cover and edge of 35 pages, some spotting to back cover and foxing of text. A good copy of the last book published in Kafka's lifetime. W / G 6. More
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
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
Garden City: Doubleday, (1960). Green cloth, near fine copy in lightly used, price-clipped dust jacket. Probably a later printing, as there's no indication. Signed by Coward. More
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". Calthrop designed the sets and costumes for many of Coward's plays..... More
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
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
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
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
Berlin: Velhagen & Klasing, [1958]. First separate edition. Wrappers, fine. Published for German students of English. Crane EEE3. More
New York: Knopf, 1956. First edition. First edition. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. More
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
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
New York: Knopf, 1940. Dwiggins, W.A. First edition. Green cloth, spine faded, else fine. More
[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
New York: Knopf, 1929. First illustrated edition. Original brown, a fine copy. Inscribed by Cather for Mary Campbell, dated March 15, 1933. Crane A16.b.i. More
[Burlingame, California ]: 1955. Printed wrappers, fine. First separate edition of this chapter from Death Comes for the Archbishop. Crane A162. More
Valparaiso, Ind. Lewis E. Myers, (1924). Third printing. Sheets of the second issue with an altered title page. Original red-brown cloth, spine dull, else very good. "This printing was part of an extravagant promotion scheme to sell subscriptions [to McClure's Magazine] and inspire Myers's salesmen," Crane. Inscribed by McClure. Crane..... More
New York: Stokes, (1914). First edition. Frontispiece portrait of McClure by Arnold Genthe, and other illustrations. Original red cloth, with pictorial cover label,spine dull, else very good. Crane A7.a.i. First edition, first printing, this copy from the second issue with "September, 1914" on the copyright page (like the first issue)..... More
New York: Stokes, (1914). First edition. Frontispiece portrait of McClure by Arnold Genthe, and other illustrations. Original red cloth, with pictorial cover label, a fine copy. Crane A7.a.i. First edition, first printing, this copy from the first issue with "September, 1914" on the copyright page (like the first issue) and..... More
Lincoln: Junior Class of the University of Nebraska, 1894. First edition. Original decorated cloth, a very fine copy, rare in this condition. Cather was on the editorial staff, and the yearbook includes a poem "Anacreon," and a short story, "The Fear that Walks by Noonday," by her. More
Lincoln: Junior Class of the University of Nebraska, 1894. First edition. Original decorated cloth, lightly marked and soiled, hinges cracked but cords sound. Cather was on the editorial staff, and the yearbook includes a poem "Anacreon," and a short story, "The Fear that Walks by Noonday," by her. More
[France]: Ceux de la Resistance, 1944. First edition. Color printed boards, cloth back, edges a little rubbed. 60 unnumbered pages : 12 full-pagebbcolor illustrations ; 32 cm. The authorship is (perhaps not surprisingly) a little obscure. The authors' full names as above are listed in the 1946 Catalog of Copyright..... More
Chemnitz: Schmeitzner, 1882. First edition, first issue. 8vo, 2 leaves, [5]-255 pp. Bound to period style in marbled boards, with red morocco spine and black leather labels. Fine condition. From the library of Viennese bibliographer Dr Moriz Grolig with his circular stamp on the title page verso. Of 1000 copies..... More