Prize Stories 1988. The O. Henry Awards
Garden City: Doubleday, 1988. First edition. Cloth backed boards, fine in dust jacket. More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1988. First edition. Cloth backed boards, fine in dust jacket. More
Garden City: Doubleday, (1991). First edition. Cloth backed boards, fine in dust jacket (small nick at top). More
New York: Macmillan, 1919. First edition. Original blue cloth, endpapers cracking, otherwise a very nice, bright copy, in the uncommon dust jacket, chipped at the top of the spine, without loss of lettering. BAL 40. More
New York: Farrar, Straus, (1956). Shahn, Ben. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed, "To Deac with the admiration and affection of John Berryman. Mpls. 26 Jan 57." Original boards, worn at the extremities, but a good copy. Stefanik A7. More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1881. First edition. Three volumes. Original blue cloth blocked in gilt and black. Piece of front free endpaper missing in vol. 1, cloth split at edge of spine. Slight shelf-wear and slight rubbing to front covers from removal of library labels.The bookbinder erred when blocking the..... More
Mt. Horeb, Wisc. The Perishable Press, 1970. First edition. Dark blue wrappers, a little faded on the spine, otherwise fine. One of 125 copies printed, all hors commerce, and only for friends of the author, artist, and printer. Inscribed by Blackburn. More
Leipzig: Insel, 1913. Weiss, E.R. Original three-quarter brown leather with marbled boards, edges a little worn, but a very good copy. First edition. More
London: Longmans, Green, 1899. First edition. Original crimsion cloth, gilt. Faded, usual light browning, a very good copy. Signed on the front endpaper by Butler's friend Jessie Bovill, and with her bookplate (as Jessie A. Grosvenor). See Festing Jones's "Samuel Butler: Author of Erewhon, (1835-1902), a Memoir," for comments on..... More
London: Fifield, 1899. First edition, later issue with cancel title. Original green cloth, gilt. Very good. More
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
London: Cassell, (1936). First English edition. Blue cloth, fine in dust jacket (spine slightly faded). Cloth case. Crane A21.a.i.(e). More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. First edition, second issue (as always, with half-title bound after the title page), of Cather's first novel. Original purple cloth, gilt stamped, with initial "S" on the front cover. A very fine copy in the rare pictorial dust jacket, with illustration by F. Graham Cootes. This..... 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
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
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
[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: 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
Leiden: Chez les Elzeviers, 1648. First Elzevier edition. [24], 765, [19] pp, complete with final blank leaf; old calf gilt, a.e.g., rebacked preserving original backstrip, corners and edges worn, corner dampstain through p. 48. Bookplate of Nils Gyldenstolpe. More
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. Evans, Walker. First edition. Quarto, original white printed wrappers. Expert restoration to the paper on the spine, otherwise a bright, fresh copy with all tissue guards present; original glassine replaced; enclosed in a new slipcase. Copy number 30 of only 50 copies printed on..... More
New York: Liveright, (1933). First edition. Large 8vo, dark maroon cloth stamped in gold, with blind-stamped rule on front cover, pp. xxxiv, 179. Inscribed from the book's editor Waldo Frank to his lover, novelist Evelyn Scott. Edges and crners a bit rubbed; gilt lettering in spine faded; otherwise very good..... More
New York: Liveright, (1933). First edition. Large 8vo, dark maroon cloth stamped in gold, with blind-stamped rule on front cover, pp. xxxiv, 179. Spine gilt lettering is dull, text lightly tanned at edges. 157 pages of poems, including twelve previously uncollected poems. The personal reading copy of Crane scholar John..... More
New York: Liveright, 1946. Black & Gold Edition, July, 1946. Black & Gold Edition, first impression, with black coated endpapers and blue strips on the spine. 5 3/4 in. x 8 3/4 in., frontispiece portrait by Siqueiros, xxxiii, Walker Evans photo-portrait at p. 58, a few ink notations at pp.128-129..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed decorative boards. Spine stamping dulled, tips somewhat rubbed, otherwise near fine in a custom quarter-morocco slipcase. First edition of Crane’s first book, one of 500 copies printed, the second issue with the corrected title page spelling Allen Tate’s name correctly..... More
Berkeley: (1978). First edition. Boards, in slightly faded jacket. Inscribed by Parkinson to James D. Hart, one of the book's two dedicatees. More
New York: The Studio 1931. Wrappers, lightly worn otherwise a fine copy. First edition. More