PICTURING WILL
NY: Random House, (c1989). First edition. 8vo. (8), 220 pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Cloth-backed gilt-stamped boards, illustrated dust jacket. Fine. More
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SECRETS AND SURPRISES, SHORT STORIES.
New York: Random House, (c1978). First edition, author’s third book, a review copy, with slip, promotional letter, and captioned photo laid in. 8vo. (10), 307 pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Silver-stamped cloth and boards, dust jacket. Very good. More
A VANDERBILT MISCELLANY, 1919-1944.; Decorated by Marion Junkin.
Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt U. Press, 1944. 8vo. Original gilt-stamped brown cloth (dull), illustrated dust jacket (price clipped, corners and spine ends a little chipped). First edition. Signed by 10 contributors: Andrew Lytle, Beatty (the editor), Donald Davidson, Junkin (the illustrator), H. Clarence Nixon, George Pullen Jackson, Frank Owsley, Ethel Moore..... More
VERSES AND SONNETS
London: Ward & Downey, 1896. 1st ed. 12mo. 64pp. Author's first book. Inscribed by the author: "For John Foster Carr / Hilaire Belloc / 1900." Original green cloth, gilt title on spine, top edge gilt. Two newspaper clippings of Belloc poems affixed to rear endpapers, else a Fine copy. More
THE SEXAGENARIAN; or, The Recollections of a Literary Life.
LondoN: Rivington, 1817. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: viii, 436; ii, 386 pp. With the postscript at the end of volume two along with a folded tipped-in 4to manuscript index identifying “characters” who appear in the text (a number of unnamed characters are identified in pencil in the margins, e.g...... More
John Brown's Body, a Poem.; With an introduction by Douglas Southall Freeman and fourteen illustrations by John Steuart Curry.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. First edition with the Curry illustrations, 1/1500 copies (this #1166). 4to. xvi, (2), 454 pp. Color plates ("the last work of [the illustrator]"). Without the LEC Monthly Letter. Harwell In Tall Cotton 9 (for the 1928 first edition). Very good copy lacking the publisher's..... More
Imperial Palace.
London: Cassell & Co., (1930). First edition, 1/100 copies (this #87) printed on hand-made paper and signed by the author. 8vo. 2 volumes: xii, 315, (1); (8), 317-629, (1) pp. Title page printed in red and black. Laid in is a 1930 autograph note from Bennett to the head of..... More
Oeuvres complètes.; Contenant cinquante-trois gravures sur acier, d'après Charlet, A. de Lemud, Johannot, Grenier, Jacques, Pauquet, Penguilly, de Rudder, Raffet, Sandoz; les dix chansons nouvelles et le fac simile d'une lettre de Béranger.
Paris: Perrotin, éditeur, 1851. Nouvelle édition, revue de l'auteur. Tall 8vo. 2 volumes: xl, 411, (1); (4), 401, (1) pp. Engraved plates, extra engraved title page to volume two, portrait frontispiece to volume one, 3-page facsimile manuscript. Béranger (1780-1857) was a prolific French poet and songwriter, sometimes referred to as..... More
THE ASTRONOMER AND OTHER STORIES
NY: Harper & Row, (c1965). First edition. 8vo. (10), 242 pp. Gilt-stamped decorated navy cloth, decorated dust jacket. Very good. More
SOULS RAISED FROM THE DEAD: A NOVEL.
NY: Knopf, 1994. First edition, an uncorrected proof. 8vo. 345 printed wrappers. Fine. More
The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn.
Boston, (MA): Houghton Mifflin, 1906. First edition, 1/200 copies with a page of Hearn manuscript tipped-in. 8vo. 2 volumes: viii, (4) 475; (6), 554 pp. Frontispiece portrait to each volume, illustrations from photographs, plates. The manuscript leaf comes from Hearn's short story collection "The Romance of the Milky Way and..... More
WESTERN TRAILS
NP: np, 1934. 12mo. 88pp. Bound brown fabricoid. Title stamped on front cover. Cowboy poetry. Signed by author on flyleaf. Some rubbing to edges. More
Discussing books in progress, reviews, upcoming engagements, and other literary and home state subjects, in a series of six single-spaced letters, signed by Borland, 1961-1971, to Omaha World-Herald book reviewer and friend Victor Haas; accompanied by an ANS and two TLsS and two signed cards of a more personal nature and concerning life after Hal's death from Borland's wife Barbara to Haas and his wife.
Salisbury, CT: 1961-1982. 8vo and 4to. Six pages for the Borland letters, approximately 2500 words, in part: "specially glad you agree with me that Ruark's best book was 'The Old Man and the Boy.' Most of the other things were tripe [1965] ... that review of yours (of 'Hill Country..... More
Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.; Now first published from the original manuscript. Prepared for the press, with preface and notes by Frederick A. Pottle and Charles H. Bennett.
New York and London: Viking Press and William Heinemann, 1936. First edition as edited by Pottle and Bennett, 1/790 copies (this #560). Large 8vo. xiv, 435 pp. The first book published from the "Private papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle: Isham Collection," "differing materially from the previously printed text."..... More
The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell.; (13 volumes, a complete set of the Journals). Edited by Frederick A. Pottle, Frederick Brady, Charles Bennett, William K. Wimsatt, Charles Ryskamp, Joseph W. Reed, Irma S. Lustig, Marlies K. Danziger, and Frank Brady.].
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., (c1950-1989). First American edition, as edited for this series, of all volumes. 8vo. 13 volumes: (1) Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763, now first published from the original manuscript (1950, 370 pp.); (2) Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764, including his correspondence with Bell de Zuylen (1952, 433 pp.);..... More
The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell.; (The first six volumes of this edition of the Journals, each in the publisher's deluxe format. Edited by Frederick A. Pottle, Frederick Brady, Charles Bennett, William K. Wimsatt, Charles Ryskamp, Joseph W. Reed, Irma S. Lustig, Marlies K. Danziger, and Frank Brady.].
London: William Heinemann, 1951-1960. First British editions, as edited for this series, of six first seven volumes of the journals, each a limited edition (see below for limitations). 8vo. Six volumes: (1) Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763, together with Journal of My Jaunt, Harvest 1762 (1951, 448 pp.); (2) Boswell in..... More
THE SECRET OF MANKIND WITH SOME SINGULAR HINTS GATHERED IN THE ELSEWHERES OR AFTER-LIFE, FROM CERTAIN EMINENT PERSONAGES ALSO SOME BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PLANET MERCURY AND ITS INSTITUTIONS
New York, London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1895. First edition. 8vo. xi, 417 pp. Inscribed on the title page in 1922 by Estelle M-B Thompson (the author's daughter) to Dr. L.L. Hill (of Montgomery, Alabama) and noted by her under the title "By WBrewer / Alabama." Laid in..... More
SHORTER POEMS.
Oxford: Printed at the Daniel Press, 1894. First Edition. 1 of 150 copies, this set signed by the author on each half-title, each with his holograph couplet, the signature and couplet enclosed by an ink circle. 5 parts (each numbered "78" in ink on the rear wrapper). Small 4to. 37..... More
SHIRLEY, A TALE, by Currer Bell, author of "Jane Eyre."
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850. First American edition. 12mo. 572 pp. 4-page publisher’s ads at rear. Original embossed brown cloth (rubbed, some repair to joints, spine ends worn down), gilt spine title (dull). Scattered light foxing, but a good solid copy. More
Manchild in the Promised Land
New York: Macmillan, (c1965). First edition, an "Advance Copy". 8vo. 415 pp. Not in the Blockson catalogue (3327 for the regular edition). Several smudges and other minor defects, but a very good copy of this scarce pre-publication issue. Original printed wrappers (bumped at head of spine). (#5947). More
JOHN COOK WYLLIE. From the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 140.
(Detroit, MI: Gale Research), 1994. First separate edition, an offprint from the DLB, 1/20 copies bound for private distribution. 4to. (2), 327-341, (3) pp. Illustrated from photographs, portraits. The final three pages print "one of Wyllie's entries for a proposed 'ideal Sabin,'" a detailed description of the various issues and..... More
THIRTY POEMS
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 443 & 445 Broadway; London: 16 Little Britain, 1864. First edition. First state. 12mo. (1) - 222pp. Brown cloth. Sides stamped with a double rule frame, the inner rule twisted to a series of ten angular ornaments. Spine gold stamped. Nick to upper front..... More
LIFE AND WORKS OF ALEXANDER ANDERSON, M. D., THE FIRST AMERICAN ENGRAVER.
NY: Burr Brothers, 1893. 4to.; x, (11)-210pp. Gilt stamped black spine label; blue cloth. Very good. First edition. No.142 of 725 copies, signed by author. More
THE JOHN BURROUGHS REVIEW
Ladue, MO: John Burroughs School, April 1924- June 1927 and November 1928- June 1930. 8vo. Six volumes in five (vols. 1-4 and 6-7), 27 issues [lacking volume five in the run]. William Burroughs' first appearance in print, a short essay titled "Personal Magnetism,” “which revolved around telepathic mind-control” (Wikipedia), appears..... More
FOUR TLS (one incomplete).
The letters, dating from 1967 to 1972, request his college writing teacher's help in securing various fellowships & teaching positions. One note reads "[I] want like crazy to attend, largely because Dickey will be conducting the poetry workshop." In all, totalling approximately 800 words, with a manuscript addition of some..... More