MAY-DAY AND OTHER PIECES
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1867. First English edition. 16mo. 192 pp. Original green cloth. Hinges cracked else, a very good copy. BAL 5374. Myerson A28.2, binding B. More
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Orations, Lectures, and Essays.
London: Charles Griffin & Co., 1866. Reprint of a popular collection first published in 1848. 12mo. 284 pp. Publisher's ads. BAL 5372: "Not seen." OCLC locates ten copies, four in the United States (Stanford, Library of Congress, Kansas, Hennepin Co. Public). Original terra cotta cloth, gilt spine title. An early..... More
Making arrangements for a visit to a midwestern town, giving instructions for mailing books to be signed, and detailing ideas and requirements for establishing "correspondence committees" to evaluate and discuss contemporary writing, in two autograph letters, signed July 12 and August 1, 1967, to bookseller Roger O'Connor, in Pittsburgh, Kansas.
New York, 1967. 4to. Six pages [rectos only], approximately 400 words, in part: 'I have been wanting to see established Correspondence Committees. The time has come, long since. I shall answer your questions — put to me once, if you will establish a correspondence committee, have normal, regular meetings, draft..... More
A Rose for Emily and Other Stories.; Selected, with an introduction, by Saxe Commins.
New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., (c1942, but "April, 1945" at end of foreword). First edition thus, "Armed Services Edition," second issue (with the printer's error on the verso of the title page corrected). Oblong 12mo. 255, (1) pp. [printed double-column]. A collection of eight stories, one of..... More
The Mansion.
New York: Random House, (c1959). First edition, 1/500 copies signed by the author. 8vo. 436 pp. The third volume in Faulkner's Snopes trilogy. Very good. Original blue cloth, publisher's acetate dust jacket (one small tear at front corner). (#4321). More
The Circus of Dr. Lao. With drawings by Boris Artzybasheff.
New York: Ben Abramson, 1945. Reprint of the 1935 Viking edition. 8vo. 154 pp. Illustrations from line drawings, plates, one double-page, illus. endpapers. A classic of fantasy literature. Very good. Original red cloth, paper labels on spine and front board, printed dust jacket (some minor edgewear and sunning). (9662)... More
Beauties. Verse by Carolyn Wells; Decorations by Theodore B. Hapgood
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1913. First edition. Folio. (63) pp. 16 full-page color mounted color plates, including frontispiece; marginal decorations with line-drawing portraits around the text on each leaf. Lower corner of frontispiece rumpled, else a very good copy. Original cloth-backed, gilt-stamped, decorated green boards (a little rubbed and soiled..... More
LETTERS FROM EDWARD FITZGERALD TO BERNARD QUARITCH, 1853-1883. Edited by C. Quaritch Wrentmore.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1926. First edition. 8vo. viii, (2), 135 pp. Illustrated from engravings, drawings, and facsimiles, color frontispiece portrait of Fitzgerald, plates; errata slip tipped in at contents leaf. Ordering and selling books, progress of various editions of the Rubaiyat, etc. Bookplates of two former owners, another owner's name..... More
BENNETT'S WELCOME
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, (c1950). First edition. 8vo. 451 pp. Illustrated endpapers. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth, color illustrated dust jacket. Very good. More
QUEEN'S GIFT
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, (c1952). First edition, the “Constitution Edition” with an illustrated leaf signed by the author. 8vo. 448 pp. Illustrated endpapers. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth, color illustrated dust jacket. Very good. More
THE SCOTSWOMAN
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, (c1954). First edition. 8vo. 480 pp. Endpaper maps. Novelization of Flora MacDonald’s life in North Carolina. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth, color illustrated dust jacket (small chip at one corner). Very good. More
INGLIS FLETCHER OF BANDON, CHRONICLER OF NORTH CAROLINA
Indianapolis, (IN): Bobbs-Merrill, nd [1946]. First edition. 12mo. 18, (1) pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates. Biographical sketch of the popular novelist of colonial and revolutionary North Carolina, issued by her publisher. OCLC locates six copies (Indiana, Notre Dame, Southern Mississippi, New Hanover Co. Public, North Carolina, Cleveland Public). Original printed..... More
Love in a Dry Season
New York: Dial Press, 1951. First edition. 8vo. 250 pp. Inscribed by the author opposite the half-title to Faulkner collector and bibliographer Bill Boozer in 1975. Red boards, color decorated dust jacket (rubbed, spine ends a little chipped, price-clipped). Spine ends slightly chipped, some other minor edgewear, else very good..... More
The Lady of the Lake, a Poem
Edinburgh: John Ballantyne; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and W. Miller, 1810. 8vo.(10), 433 pp. Half-title. Somewhat later black straight-grain morocco, gilt, and marbled endpapers, gilt title on spine (dull), a.e.g.; some scattered foxing and spots in margins of text; cracking along the spine and its extremities, and..... More
LOUISA C. McCORD
Columbia, SC: USC Extension Dept. Bulletin, No. 91, October 1920, first publication of the author’s Master’s thesis. 8vo. 42 pp. Illustrated from a wood engraving and a photograph of a sculpture, both of McCord (1819-1879) who published economic translations, poetry, and a play prior to the Civil War. Original decorated brown..... More
Address panel of a note-sized envelope (5 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches), addressed in four lines to a correspondent by Robert Frost, in his distinctive hand, 6 February 1936, from his winter home in Florida.
The envelope is addressed "Miss Almira B. Taylor / 938 Metropolitan Ave. / Hyde Park / Mass." Very good. Panel a bit soiled, but cancelled 3 cent stamp is still affixed. (9738). More
Awakening. Illustrated by R.H. Sauter.
London: William Heinemann, [1920]. First edition. Small 4to. 63, (1) pp. Color frontispiece, line drawing vignettes with some color in margins, color title page vignette, illustrated endpapers. A nicely illustrated children's book by the 1932 winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. Very good. Original gilt-stamped decorated boards, decorated dust..... More
Four novels, all first editions, as more fully described below.
London: William Heinemann, 1907-1918. First edition of each volume. (a) In the Country House. 8vo. viii, 296 pp., 1907. (b) Fraternity. 8vo. viii, 346 pp., 1909. (3) The Patrician. 8vo. (8), 339, (4, ads) pp., 1911. (4) Five Tales. 8vo. (8), 350, (2, ads) pp., 1918. Galsworthy, at the time..... More
The Man of Property [and] In Chancery [and] To Let.
London: William Heinemann, 1906-1921. First edition of each volume, first issue of "The Man of Property," with the broken music note on page 200 (a previous bookseller's description notes that this copy also has tipped-in fly-titles for parts II and III, and that copies of the first issue "with these..... More
The White Monkey.
London: William Heinemann, (1924). First edition. 8vo. viii, 325 pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper on the day of publication "Very cordially / John Galsworthy / October 24, 1924." Very good. Gilt-stamped decorated green cloth, four-color illustrated dust jacket (nick in front joint, a little other minor..... More
The Trial of Jeanne D'Arc and Other Plays. With a foreword by John Galsworthy.
London and New York: Jonathan Cape and Viking Press, (1931). First edition, 1/100 copies (this #82) signed by the author. 8vo. 303, (1) pp. The introduction prints letters to the author from Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, W.H. Hudson, and others, concerning the four plays published here, all written, 1906-1911. Spine darkened..... More
Mademoiselle de Maupin.; With the preface by the author, and introduction for the modern reader by Jacques Barzun, and hand-colored illustrations by Andre Dugo.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. First edition with the Dugo illustrations, 1/1000 copies (this #962) signed by the illustrator. 4to. xliii, (1), 299, (1) pp. Color plates, in-text illustrations. LEC Monthly Letter taped to rear pastedown. Bookplate on front pastedown, else very good. Original leather-backed decorated boards, leather spine..... More
GAY'S FABLES. In One Volume. Complete From the Last London Edition
Philadelphia, [PA]: Printed by Mathew Carey, No.122, Market-Street, 1808. 15 cm. 122pp. plus six plates, including frontispiece. Contemporary leather and rubbed marbled boards, spine gilt. Scattered foxing. Contemporary ink inscription on title page. First American edition of the poems composed by John Gay. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 15090. ROSENBACH 365. More
Poèmes
Lyon, (France): L'Arbalete, (1948). First edition, 1/1000 copies. 4to. 107 pp. Outer wrapper is a photographic portrait montage of the author by Douchan Stanimirovitch. Original French-fold illustrated wrappers with publisher's acetate. Head of spine a little chipped, but a very good, unopened copy. (1429). More