Speak, Memory; An Autobiography Revisited
New York: Putnam, (1966). Revised ed. Black cloth, light glue stain to front endpaper, a very good copy, in a very good dust jacket. Juliar A26.5. More
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Boston: Little, Brown, (1938). First edition. Red cloth, fine copy in dust jacket. Signed by Nash on the front endpaper. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. More
Songs of the Cornfield
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, [n.d., ca. 1910?]. Tuck, Raphael. First edition. Lithographed covers, an oval book in the shape of a reaper's straw hat. 9 poems, each with an illustration on the facing page, and a vignette border. Scarce. More
The Linnet's Nest.; Drawing by Ralph Keene.
London: Faber and Faber. Keene, Ralph. First edition. Wrappers, nice. No. 8 of The Ariel Poems. More
Press-kit for "An Elegy for September"
New York: Holt, 1992. First edition. Unbound sheets in folder; very good. More
The Big Knife
New York: Random House, 1949. First edition. Boards, very good in dust jacket. Source for for the powerful 1955 film noir which starred Jack Palance and Rod Steiger. Inscribed by Odets to Leonore and Ira Gershwin, "little token, for so many hours and deeds" in August 1949. After having written..... More
The Myth of Governor Eyre
London: Hogarth Press, 1933. First edition. Red cloth, slight edge-wear, very good.1000 copies were printed, 500 later pulped. Woolmer 327. More
Animal Farm
New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1946). First American edition. Black cloth, fine, in slightly rubbed dust jacket. More
The Armed Muse
London: Hogarth Press, 1930. First edition. Green paper boards, title label, spine slightly faded, otherwise fine condition. Signed by the author. Woolmer 230. More
Songs of Salvation Sin and Satire
London: Hogarth Press, [1925]. First edition. One of about 300 copies hand printed by the Woolfs. Marbled paper boards, title label, fine condition, unopened. Woolmer 72. More
Songs of Salvation Sin and Satire
London: Hogarth Press, [1925]. First edition. One of about 300 copies hand printed by the Woolfs. Marbled paper boards, title label, near-fine copy, spine with very slight wear. Woolmer 72. More
The Judgment of François Villon
London: Hogarth Press, 1927. First edition. Copy 272 of 400 numbered and signed (total edition of 475). Boards, fine in price-clipped dust jacket. With a Christmas 1935 inscription from the author to Frank Whitaker. Woolmer 40. More
The Case is Altered
London: Hogarth Press, 1932. First edition. Green cloth, leaning, light foxing in very good dust jacket. Woolmer 302. More
The Family Tree
London: Hogarth Press, 1929. First edition. One of 400 copies. Original printed boards, not issued in dust jacket. Spine darkened with a few damp-marks, small dampstain to rear board, else a clean and bright copy, very good. Hogarth Living Poets No. 10. Woolmer 206. More
Notes for Poems
London: Hogarth Press, [1928]. First edition. One of 450 copies. Orange-yellow cloth lettered in gilt; lacking the tissue dust jacket. 98 pp. Modest wear, spine darkened, minor soiling to boards and page block. A very good copy. Woolmer 143. More
Turbott Wolfe
London: Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition. Brown cloth, gilt, a few spots of foxing on the edges but a fine copy in fine dust jacket. Plomer's first book, one of 1000 printed. Connolly, One Hundred Modern Books, 52. Woolmer, The Hogarth Press, 73. More
Selected Tales of Mystery
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1909. Shaw, Byam. [336] pp. Black cloth stamped in gilt and red, t.e.g. 16 tipped-in color illustrations by Byam Shaw with printed tissue guards. Modest wear to boards; slight evidence of a removed bookplate to front endpapers; tear with some loss to margin of p...... More
India in Transition
London: Hogarth Press, 1932. First edition. Orange cloth. edges foxed, else about fine. Inscribed by the author to F.R. Tubbs, probably the tea researcher. Woolmer 303. More
Poems on Several Occasions. Edited by A.R. Walker
Cambridge: University Press, 1905. First edition. Red cloth, near fine. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous bookplate. A model in title and (somewhat) in structure for Ira Gershwin's "Lyrics on Several Occasions." More
Gravity's Rainbow
New York: Viking, (1973). First edition. Red cloth, a fine copy in dust jacket, jacket spine slightly faded, small edge nick at the top. More
A Letter to Mrs. Virginia Woolf
London: Hogarth Press, 1932. First edition. One of 1,500 copies, of which 500 were bound up into the collected edition. Buff sewn wrappers, cover design by John Blanchard. 24 pp. Faint offsetting from another issue of the Letters to the rear cover, else fine. The Hogarth Letters No. 12. Woolmer..... More
Grace after Meat
London: Hogarth Press, 1924. First edition. One of 400 copies hand printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Yellow, green and red patterned paper over boards, yellow title label. 57 pp. A bright, near-fine copy. Woolmer 51. More
Morrow's Almanack for the year of Our Lord 1928 - 1929
New York: William Morrow, (1927-1928). First edition. Two volumes, cloth backed boards, spines darkened, else very good. Deluxe issue for 1928, one of 500 numbered and signed copies. Contributors include Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, H.L. Mencken, Don Marquis, Edmund Wilson, and Corey Ford. From Ira Gershwin's library, with posthumous..... More
Mutations of the Phoenix
Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1923. Hogarth Press. First edition. One of 200 copies hand printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. The first book by the critic poet, and novelist. A rare variant binding of full marbled paper-covered boards, white spine label. Woolmer's "Checklist of the Hogarth Press" mentions only copies bound..... More
Selected Verse Poems ....Translated by Norman Cameron
London: Hogarth Press, 1942. First edition. Presentation inscription and visiting card from Mrs H.T. Hopkinson, i.e. the novelist Antonia White. Boards, fine in slightly faded dust jacket. The New Hogarth Library, Vol. VII. Woolmer 498. More