New York: Editions for the Armed Servies, Inc., [1946]. Armed Services Edition. Armed Services edition (No.1043) collecting ten stories, including "Babylon Revisited," "The Rich Boy," "Crazy Sunday," and the title story, with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer. Bruccoli notes between 50,000 - 90,000 copies being produced in April, 1946. Bruccoli..... More
New York: Editions for the Armed Services, [1945]. Armed Services Edition (Third American Edition). Well-preserved Armed Services edition (No.862) of Fitzgerald's third novel and most enduring work. Bruccoli notes this was probably distributed in 1945, with 155,000 copies produced. Bruccoli A11.3; Connolly 48. Oblong 12mo. (13.5cm x 9.75cm); pictorial card..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. First Edition. Attractive edition of Cather's breakout novel, which rapidly outsold any of her previous books within a matter of months, ultimately going into eight printings within the year of publication. Crane A14.a.i. Limited Issue, one of 185 copies numbered copies specially bound and..... More
Chicago: Geo. M. Hill, 1898. An attractive, early American edition of the second Sherlock Holmes novel, together with the first short story to feature Conan Doyle's most famous character. Not in Green & Gibson. Hubin, p.122; Barzun & Taylor 1143. Octavo (19.5cm); vertically-ribbed crimson cloth, with titling and decorative elements..... More
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866. First Edition. Handsome set of Eliot's fifth novel, published in an edition of 5252 copies. A social novel, centered around the political disputes in a small, fictitious English town during the time of the Reform Act of 1832. Baker & Ross A8.1;..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. First Edition. Deluxe issue of one of Bukowski's most substantial collections from the 1980's. Provenance: From the collection of photographer Michael Montfort. Krumhansl 100e. Deluxe Issue, one of seven copies specially designated by the publisher on the colophon, this being marked "Photographer's Copy," signed..... More
Amsterdam & Utrecht: Boom, Waesberge, Goethals, Borstius, Wolters, Halma, van de Water, and Broedelet, 1705. Second Edition. Handsome set of this popular edition of the Hebrew Bible translated by Everardo van der Hooght (1641-1716), Dutch Hebraist and Calvinist preacher. Based on the Athias-Leusden text of 1666-67, van der Hooght's edition..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1944. First U.K. Edition. "The Four Quartets, the most important poem since Yeats' The Tower, and, as many think, of the century, were written over ten years...Although Eliot had long taken leave of modernism as a creed, and disapproved of poetry as a substitute for religion..... More
London: The Grey Walls Press Limited, 1953. First U.K. Edition. Fitzgerald's first and only published novel, written over the course of six weeks while being treated for schizophrenia at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Drawing heavily on her own life and marriage with Scott, the novel follows the story of..... More
London: The Grey Walls Press Limited, 1948. Second English Edition. Octavo (19cm); light grey cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-269,[3]pp. Light wear to spine ends, faint foxing to cloth and text edges; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 8s.6d. net), gently spine-sunned, a little edgeworn and..... More
London: The Grey Walls Press Limited, 1953. Revised, First English Edition. Revised UK edition of Fitzgerald's fourth novel, incorporating all of his final revisions to the text, and including a preface by Malcolm Cowley not present in the 1948 Grey Walls Press edition. Basis for Henry King's 1962 film adaptation..... More
London: The Grey Walls Press Limited, 1948. Second English Edition. Second UK edition of Fitzgerald's fourth novel, with a newly-designed dustjacket by George Woodman. Basis for Henry King's 1962 film adaptation, starring Jason Robards, Jennifer Joans, and Joan Fontaine. Bruccoli A14.4; Connolly 100. Octavo (19cm); light gray cloth-covered boards, with..... More
New York: Random House, 1954. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); maroon cloth, with titkes stamped in peach and silver on spine, and cross motif in black and blind on front cover; dustjacket; [x],437,[1]pp. Fine in a price-clipped, else Fine dustjacket, without the usual toning and soil. A novel..... More
New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Novel set in rural Mississippi during the 1940's, dealing heavily with race relations and centered around the murder of a white man and the black man accused of the killing. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone title, and basis for the highly-regarded 1949 Clarence Brown film..... More
New York: Random House, 1942. First Edition. "Faulkner intended this as a novel, though it includes material previously (or concurrently) published as individual stories. The sections are entitled "Was," "The Fire and the Hearth," "Pantaloon in Black," "The Old People," "The Bear," "Delta Autumn," and "Go Down, Moses." Generally these..... More
New York: Random House, 1940. First Edition. An attractive copy of the first volume in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy. Basis for Martin Ritt's 1958 film The Long, Hot Summer, starring Paul Newman, Orson Welles, and Joanne Woodward. Petersen A20a. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); black cloth, with titling and rule stamped in..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. First Edition. Sharp copy of the final volume of Bukowski's posthumously-published poems issued by Black Sparrow Press. The remainder of his posthumously-published work would be issued by Ecco Press. Limited Issue, one of 500 numbered copies bound with an original serigraph print, this being..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931. First American Edition. Attractive copy Woolf's experimental novel (a "playpoem," in her own words), told in a series of six soliloquies spoken by the books' characters. Connolly 100; Kirkpatrick A16b. First Printing, one of 10,000 copies. Octavo (19.25cm); blue-violet cloth, with titles stamped..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1978. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); light brown paper-covered boards and mustard cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in black on spine; [iv],200pp. Signed by Hillerman following the copyright page. Spine ends gently nudged, with some trivial rubbing to titles, else Near Fine in a...... More
New York: Grove Press, 1962. First American Edition. An early collection of short fiction by the Argentine author, collecting 19 stories translated by Anthony Kerrigan, Alastair Reid, Anthony Bonner, Helen Temple, and others. First published by Editorial Sur in 1944, the collection remains a towering work of Latin American literature..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); blue and yellow cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in bluish-gray on spine; dustjacket; [ii],[5],6-806,[8]pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid-in. Light wear to spine ends and board edges, with some gentle sunning and dust-soil to..... More
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1967. First Edition. First Printing, one of 500 numbered copies, this being copy no.137. Octavo (22.75cm); dark brown paper-covered boards; dustjacket; [10],11-77,[3]pp. Slight lean, decorative bookplate to front endpaper, with some faint dust-soil to text edges; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.50), lightly edgeworn, with..... More
Toronto: Anansi, 1970. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue - the correct first state, without mention of the Governor Generals Award on the front cover. Octavo (22.75cm); pictorial card wrappers; [6],7-105,[7]pp. Pinpoint wear to extremities, with a faint stress crease to lower right corner of front wrapper; a fresh, Near..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1959. First Edition. Knowles' first book, the story of a friendship between two 16 year old boys at a New England prep school, just before America's involvement in World War 2. Winner of the William Faulkner Award for Best First Novel, and adapted into film by..... More
Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960. First Edition. The author's first published book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961 and basis for Robert Mulligan's Oscar-winning 1962 film starring Gregory Peck. First Printing, one of ca.5,000 copies. Octavo (20.75cm); brown paper over light green cloth, with..... More