Boston, (MA): Photo by W. K. Vantyne (embossed imprint in lower right image and margin), nd [ca. 1935]. Portrait photograph, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches, showing Fiedler's left profile, inscribed "Very sincerely / Arthur Fiedler / 1936." Accompanied by a one-page 1936 typed note of presentation, signed by Fiedler's... More
New York: nd [1940?]. 8vo. (2) pp. Accompanied by a contemporary snapshot of three men in a park, Beecham identified in ink in the lower margin, seated on a bench with the newly arrived Nikolai Malko, a well-known Soviet conductor. Both items very good. The note is folded for mailing. (9739). More
London and New York: The Studio, 1934. First edition, special winter number. 4to. 120 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, some in color, mounted, mounted frontispiece portrait of Morris; publisher's prospectus leaflet laid in. Bookplate on front pastedown, a very good copy. Orig. black cloth (dull), printed in red. (9664). More
[Philadelphia, PA]: Printed by Permission (for J. B. Lippincott Co.), 1937. First edition. 12mo. 16 pp. Morley's notes about the writing of his novel "The Trojan Horse." Printed rose wrappers (a little faded), stapled. (9710). More
New York: Marchbanks Press, 1937. First separate edition (this address before the Friends of the New York Public Library was first published in the "Saturday Review of Literature"). 16mo (6 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). 10 pp. An address full of anecdotes on the importance of books and libraries. Inscribed... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, (c1983). First edition with the Kapustra illustrations, 1/1500 copies (this #192) signed by the author and the illustrator. 4to. xi, 172 pp. Nine plates from color lithographs, two illustrations from line drawings, black and white print laid in. LEC "Monthly Letter" laid in. Fine. Tan... More
London: Methuen & Co. (1927). First edition. 8vo. x, (2), 103 pp. Illustrated from line drawings, illustrated endpapers. A good copy. Later three-quarter brown morocco (corners bumped, joints rubbed), gilt, employing the original endpapers, gilt title and decorations between raised bands on spine, top edge gilt, original cloth bound in... More
London: Methuen & Co. (1927). First edition. 8vo. x, (2), 103 pp. Illustrated from line drawings, illustrated endpapers. Very good. Original red gilt-stamped decorated cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed, decorated dust jacket (spine darkened, circle stain on spine, some chipping at head of spine, not affecting title). (9600). More
London: The Chapbook, August, 1920. First separate edition, No. 14 of the periodical, the complete issue devoted to this play. Square 8vo. (8 3/4 x 6 7/8 inches). 24 pp. Ads. Yost 4: "First separate publication of this play ... I am pleased to echo Miss Harriet Monroe's statement that... More
New York: Targ Editions, 1983. First edition, 1/250 copies signed by the author and with the publisher's card announcing publication of the title laid in. 8vo. 64 pp. Vignette printed in red on title page. Arthur Houghton's collection and T.J. Wise's forgeries. Bookplate on front pastedown, else fine. Two tone... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First edition, 1/230 copies (this #169) on Borzoi rag paper signed by the author. 8vo. (12), 132 pp. Excerpts from "savage articles and newspaper editorials ... upon the sayings and doing of [H. L.] Mencken ... salient specimens of this anti-Mencken invective, mainly single... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (c1922). First edition. 8vo. 328 pp. Fine. Original black cloth, gilt spine title, printed dust jacket (a bit rumpled at spine ends). (9635). More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (c1927). First edition, 1/190 copies (this #91) on Borzoi rag paper signed by the author. 8vo. 317 pp. Includes book reviews, literary letters and notes, essays on suicide, faith, eugenics, Brahms, Johann Strauss, and Ambrose Bierce, and other pieces. Very good. Original cloth-backed marbled boards... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (c1920). First edition. 8vo. 254 pp. Very good. Original black cloth, gilt spine title (rubbed), printed dust jacket (tiny chips at corners and spine ends, other minor wear and tear at extremities). (9580). More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (c1924). First edition. 8vo. 305 pp. Fine. Original black cloth, gilt spine title, printed dust jacket (one small closed tear in top edge of front panel). (9634). More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (c1919). First edition. 8vo. 254 pp. Very good. Original black cloth, gilt spine title (rubbed), printed dust jacket panels laid in (completely lacking the spine panel, the other sections with wear at the extremities). (9581). More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First edition, 1/192 copies (this #14) on Borzoi rag paper signed by the author. 8vo. vii, (3), 9-307 pp. Includes book reviews, literary letters and notes, essays on birth control, capital punishment, war, Conrad, Lardner, and Masters, and other pieces. Very good. Original cloth-backed... More
Los Angeles and New York: nd [but 1968 and 1973]. Postcard and note paper (4 x 5 inches), total of approximately 100 words, both signed "Terrence." Accompanied by a simple illustrated program for "Whisky" and a snapshot of one of the friends dated 1969. Among McNally's many awards are an... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. 1949. First American edition, 1/1000 copies (this #681) signed by the author. Tall 8vo. xvi, 367 pp. Portrait frontispiece of the author. Bookplate on front pastedown, else very good. Red cloth (spine a little faded), gilt spine title, publisher's slipcase (several edges cracking, corners... More
London: William Heinemann, (1952). First edition, 1/500 copies (this #421) signed by the author. 8vo. (6), 241 pp. Title page printed in red and black. Included are essays on "The Decline and Fall of the Detective Story," "Some Novelists I Have Known" (Henry James, H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, Elizabeth Russell... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, and Co. 1941. First American edition, 1/515 copies (this #434) signed by the author. 8vo.(6), 272 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author from a photograph by George Platt Lynes. Records Maugham's experiences during the first 15 months of World War II, life at his home... More
New Haven, CT: Yale U. Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1938. First edition with the Sloan illustrations, 1/1500 copies (this #485) signed by the illustrator. 8vo. 2 volumes: xiv, 406; (2), 407-805 pp. Plates. Bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume, volume one with just a bit of... More
London: William Heinemann, 1921. First edition. 8vo. (6), 103 pp. Some browning to endpapers, but a very good copy. Original printed boards (nick in top edge of upper board, some abrasion at top of front endpapers). (9609). More
London: William Heinemann, nd [1954]. First edition with the Sutherland illustrations, 1/1000 copies (this #961) signed by the author and illustrator a deluxe edition published to celebrate Maugham's 80th birthday (the novel was originally published in 1930). 8vo. xiii, 255 pp. Portrait frontispiece, facsimile manuscript pages, chapter tailpiece decorations; title... More
London: William Heinemann, [1919]. First edition. 12mo. (4), 123, (1) pp. Inscribed on the front endpaper in the year of publication "For Lady Somerset / from / John Masefield, Oct 17, 1919." Lady Henry Somerset (1851-1919) was an activist in the British temperance movement and other reform initiatives, promoted birth... More
