Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
London: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Clean, unmarked copy in pristine condition in original dust jacket. More
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Fire on the Mountain
New York: The Dial Press, 1962. b/w Title vignettes; Title Pages (red/black). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Short tear, creases to top edge of upper jacket cover (toward spine edge); slight rubbing and browning, minor nicks to jacket; slight internal browning to edges. [8], 211... More
Sunset Canyon
London: Talmy, Franklin LTD, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Clean, unmarked copy in pristine condition in original dust jacket. More
Hannah and Her Sisters
New York: Vintage Books / Random House, 1987. Over 20 b/w Photographs (film stills). First Edition Thus. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Boldly and legibly signed in blue ink by Woody Allen. This copy has some wear to cover and edges, some smudges to cover. [4], 187... More
The Stories of Eva Luna: Chapbook
New York: Atheneum, 1990. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Saddle-stapled wraps. [32]pp. Signed with a small drawing by the author. Light wear else Near Fine. More
The Brand of the Sea
New York: Century Co. 1929. First American Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very scarce novel, translated from the Danish. Original orange cloth stamped in black (spine faded; some wear). More
Three American Plays
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Sunning, slight fading, rubbing and browning to spine and spine label; slight rubbing and browning to covers (cloth over boards; chiefly to edges); slight bumping to corners; previous owner's bookplate on front attached... More
Many Marriages
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG/VG (sm chips/sl stains to DJ). Sm 8vo with DJ [10]+264 Dedicated to auth or/critic Paul Rosenfeld. Uncommon in jacket. More
A New Testament
N.Y. Boni and Liveright, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Very good (spine sunned; sl rubbing to cloth). Tall 12mo 118 Series of short prose poems, dedicated to publisher Horace Liveright. In protective acetate jacket. More
No Swank
Philadelphia: Centaur Press, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very good to fine (sl rubbing to cloth). Sm 8vo ix+[1]+130 Contains 17 essa ys in all (on Margaret Anderson, George Borrow, Ring Lardner, Paul Rosenfel d, Gertrude Stein, et al). One of 1000 copies; in protective acetate jacket. More
Sherwood Anderson's Notebook : Containing Articles Written During the Author's Life as a Story Teller, and Notes of His Impressions from Life : Scattered Through the Book
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Decorative title Page (blue/black). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 230 pages. Contains 16 sections in all; notable for "Four American Impressions" (on Gertrude Stein, Paul Rosenfeld, Ring Lardner and Sinclair Lewis), the essays on George Bellows and Alfred Steiglitz... More
Tar: A Midwest Childhood
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Title Vignette (brown/white). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Very good- (worn slipcase; sl rubbing/stains to spine). Limited Edition, signed by Author. 8vo xviii+346 One of 350 numbered copies (325 for sale), signed by Anderson on limitation page. Bound in... More
MEMNOCH THE DEVIL
KNOPF. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Clean tight copy in Very good condition in jacket. Signed by author. More
A Palace-Prison; Or, the Past and the Present.
New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Exceptionally rare anonymous first edition. Fictionalized account of what is represented as the true story of a young woman involuntarily committed to an insane asylum. Original dark mustard cloth stamped in gilt and black... More
A Spell for Chameleon
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1999. frontis By Don Maitz. First Edition Thus. Full-Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Full blue leather stamped in gilt, all edges gilt; silk ribbon. Fine copy. Publisher's notes laid in. More
Die Gefangene Gottes
Berlin: Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1932. First German Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. A very good copy in cloth (slight sunning/rubbing to cloth). Small 8vo 300+[3] Text in German (translation by Siegfried Schmitz). At head of title: Schalom Asch. Signed (as "Schalom Asch") by Asch on half-title... More
The Mulatta and Mr Fly
London: Peter Owen Limited, 1963. First UK Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 304 pages. "A masterpiece of sorcery and superstition by South America's greatest writer" (jacket upper cover), set in the author's native Guatemala. Originally published in Argentina in 1963 under title: Mulata de Tal. Translated... More
Life with Its Sorrow, Life with Its Tear
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A rare signed Lester Atwell. Laid in on half title is an autograph note signed and inscribed by author "For... with my thanks and good wishes Lester Atwell". First edition, first printing (stated) in jacket... More
Love is Just Around the Corner
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" First edition, first printing (stated) in jacket (cloth has some darkening and wear; text age-toned; small ink stamp and small ink # on endpapers; jacket has very large chip to front cover, plus some chipping... More
The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts
New York: Random House, 1937. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good+ copy in very good dust jacket with small chips and slight browning to jacket. 8vo with DJ 123 Bloomfield & Mendelson A9b: contains Auden's revisions to the first English edition (also... More
The Land of Little Rain
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. b/w frontis photo; ill marg. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. A very good copy in cloth (slight fraying to head & foot of spine; slight rubbing to corners). 8vo xi[5]280[2 ]pp+ Brilliant evocation of the Owens Valley in... More
Go Tell It On the Mountain
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rare first edition signed and inscribed by James Baldwin. First edition, first printing of the author's first book, signed and inscribed at or close to publication (based on his signature and handwriting): "Mama from... More
After Worlds Collide
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" True first edition, first printing from 1934, published by Stokes. Original blue cloth (spine dampstained with dull gilt, wear and fraying to tips; shelfwear to boards; front inner hinge split). No jacket. Influential novel... More
The End of the Road
New York: Doubleday, 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Good copy of the first edition in original blue cloth (edges bumped; stain to rear cover; dampstaining to rear endpapers with some adjoiing rippling to least few leaves; small ink name). Author's scarce second novel. More
The Floating Opera
London: Secker & Warburg, 1968. First U. K. Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Signed by author on title page (NOT tipped-in). The first British ediiton of the auhtor's first book, and the first edition of the original (restored) version of the work, issued as Barth intended... More