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
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, [1951]. First American Edition. First Printing, one of 3,500 copies bound from British sheets. Octavo (22.25cm); teal cloth, with titling and rule stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xx,425,[3]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, tiny tear at crown, with some faint dust-soil along upper board edges; contents..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1929. First Edition. The author's first novel, the story of a reluctant smuggler who betrays his colleagues and the aftermath of his betrayal. Basis for the 1947 adventure film directed by Bernard Knowles, starring Michael Redgrave and Richard Attenborough. Wobbe A2.a; Hubin, p.175. First Impression, one..... More
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. First Edition. A superior copy of this Beat Generation cornerstone, a series of interconnected vignettes centered around full-time drug addict William Lee and his travels from the United States, to Mexico, to Tangier and the dreamlike Interzone. Basis for David Cronenberg's bizarre 1991 film adaptation..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 1987. First Edition. Wallace's first novel, originally submitted as one of his undergraduate theses at Amherst College, and subsequently published by Viking in cloth and wrappers. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (19.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [viii],[2],3-467,[5]pp. Mild handling and a faint crease to lower front wrapper..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1962. First Edition. Sharp copy of Kesey's first published novel, one of the defining works of the 1960's, set in an Oregon psychiatric ward. Basis for Miloš Forman's Oscar-winning 1975 film, starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher. First Impression, without Kesey's name blacked-out on copyright..... More
Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill Publishing, 1995. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy 'U'. Octavo (20.25cm); lavender cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover; publisher's matching cloth slipcase; xii,95,[3]pp. Fine in a Fine..... More
New York: Random House, 1965. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 500 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.419. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titling, decorations, and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt and red on spine and front cover; red topstain; map endpapers;..... More
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923. First American Edition. Collection of three novelettes - The Captain's Doll, The Fox, and The Ladybird - first published in London under the title The Ladybird eight months prior. Roberts A24b. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); vertically-ribbed bluish-grey cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine..... More
New York: Farrar, Sraus and Giroux, 1965. First Edition. Sharp copy of Wolfe's first book and one of the seminal books of the 1960's, a collection of articles, many of which first appeared in the pages of Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, the New York Herald Tribune, and the Sunday Republican. First..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1969. First Edition. A casebook on the film adaptations of three of Capote's stories: "Miriam," "Among the Paths to Eden," and "A Christmas Memory." "The original text of the stories followed by the film scripts enables the reader to see for himself how a moment..... More
Mankato, MN: Creative Education, Inc., 1982. First Separate Edition. First separate edition of this early short story, first published in the June, 1945 issue of Mademoiselle when Capote was only 19. Winner of the O. Henry Award for Best First-Published Story. Uncommon signed. Octavo (22.25cm); pictorial paper-covered boards; [9],10-40pp; illus..... More
New York: Random House, [1968]. Second American Edition. Twentieth Anniversary edition of Capote's first book and his debut novel, a semi-autobiographical work published when he was 23, and his reputation rested chiefly on the strength of his short fiction. Contains a new and lengthy introduction by the author. Starosciak 1d;..... More
New York: Random House, 1980. First Edition. A substantial collection of short fiction and non-fiction pieces which, at the time, was Capote's first collection of work in nearly 14 years. First Printing, trade issue. Octavo (21.5cm); full black cloth, with titling and author's initials stamped in silver on spine and..... 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
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
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, 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
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