New Orleans: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, Inc., 1935. First Edition. Faulkner's eighth novel, set in a fictionalized New Orleans during the Great Depression, and centered around the unconventional lives of a group of barnstorming pilots. Basis for Douglas Sirk's 1938 film Tarnished Angels, starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, and..... More
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.25cm); blue and powder grey cloth-covered boards, titled in red on spine; black topstain; decorative endpapers; dustjacket; [x],318pp. Hint of offsetting from jacket design onto spine, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50)..... More
New York: Random House, 1939. First Trade Edition. "Contains two long separate stories. "The Wild Palms" is a study of integrity in love. "Old Man" is an astonishing account of the Mississippi River flood of 1927 and of an "escaped" convict's adventures in trying to get back to prison; the..... More
New York: Random House, 1938. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); grey cloth, with titling and decorations in red and navy blue on spine and front cover; brick red topstain; dustjacket; [viii],293,[3]pp. A fresh, Fine copy, with the toptain bright and unfaded. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), with a...... More
San Francisco: Beatitude, 1975. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of "perhaps the quintessential "Beat" publication...originally published in mimeograph at the Bread and Wine Mission on Grant Avenue in San Francisco's very hip North Beach...Beatitude was originally planned as a weekly newsletter, "designed to extol beauty and promote the beatific life among..... More
[San Francisco: Beatitude], 1975. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of "perhaps the quintessential "Beat" publication...originally published in mimeograph at the Bread and Wine Mission on Grant Avenue in San Francisco's very hip North Beach...Beatitude was originally planned as a weekly newsletter, "designed to extol beauty and promote the beatific life among..... More
London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1926. First Edition. Firbank's final novel, published a month after his death in 1926. "Cardinal Pirelli has no story. Indeed, it has only two pieces of action. The book opens before the baptismal font as Pirelli in the full panoply of his office is administering the..... More
London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1923. First Edition. Sharp copy of Firbank's absurd and flamboyant court satire, set on the eve of a royal wedding. "It creates its own court in the Kingdom of Pisuerga, complete with royal household, during a state visit from the rulers of the Land of Dates..... More
London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1916. First Edition. "Inclinations, as its title announces, is about the propensities, and more specifically about the sexual propensities, of a number of women...One of these, really a girl, is Mabel Collins, who ends by marrying an Italian count. She is contrasted with another woman, Geraldine..... More
London: Elkin Mathews, 1905. First Edition. A sharp copy of Firbank's first book, the publication of which he financed himself. "Odette is a pastiche from Firbank's reading of Francis Jammes, a tale of the power of an innocent, believing child who, in her search for the "Holy Mary," saves a...... More
London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1920. First Edition. Firbank's only published play during his lifetime, set in an English colony in Florence, and centered around two couples on their honeymoons. The husbands leave their wives for a holiday jaunt, with humorous results. Benkovitz A7. First Impression, one of 530 copies printed..... More
London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1921. First Edition. Firbank wrote the novella during a six month stay in Tunisia, after which he had the manuscript typed in Rome by an exiled Russian princess. "Santal is the story of the orphaned Cherif's search for Allah, a search which leads only to illusion..... More
London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1915. First Edition. The author's first and longest novel, financed at his own expense, and the first of his works produced by English publisher Grant Richards. In a series of vignettes, Vainglory is centered around the young protagonist Mrs. Shamefoot, who is on a luckless quest..... More
London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1919. First Edition. Firbank's fourth novel, set in a fictitious English spa resort, and centered around the effect a Black masseuse and her young niece have upon its centenarian inhabitants. Many of the books details, as well as a few of its principal characters, were inspired..... More
London: Duckworth, 1934. First Edition. Sharp copy of this posthumously-published novella, which Firbank worked on between 1909-1912. He described it as "a tender classic," with the working title Salomé Or 'Tis A Pity That She Would. Benkovitz says the piece "can be associated with a schoolboy's fascination with fin de..... More
New York: Brentano's Publishers, 1924. First Edition. Firbank's first book published in the United States, a novel of West Indian life and manners. It was the first of his works that wasn't entirely self-financed, and despite the miniscule print run, the book was given a lavish treatment by Brentano's, published..... More
London: Grant Richards Limited, 1916. First Separate Edition. Shortly after the publication of Inclinations, Firbank decided to reprint Odette D'Antrevernes. "In June or July he revised the text of Odette, working directly on a copy of the 1905 version...The effect of all the changes, as Firbank later told Carl Van..... More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1960. First Edition. Arguably the best possible copy of this key reference book on the work of e.e. cummings. George James Firmage (1928-2005) was an editor, literary critic, and an authority on cummings, having compiled and edited numerous volumes of his work. First Printing. Octavo..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Fitzgerald's well-received third collection of short fiction, gathering nine stories, and issued a year after Gatsby's release with a modest first printing of 10,100 copies. Bruccoli A13.I.a. First Printing, earliest state of the text, with clear, unbattered type on pages 38, 90..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition. First Printing, earliest state of the text, with clear, unbattered type on pages 38, 90, and 248. Octavo (19.5cm); hunter green cloth, with titling stamped in gilt on the spine and in blind on the front panel; dustjacket; [viii],267,[1]pp. Tiny tear at..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958. First Printing of this revised and altered edition (the seventh printing overall), with "AA-2.58" code on copyright page. Octavo (20.75cm); teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [vi],449,[1]pp. A single, faint adhesive shadow on front and rear endpaper, else Fine. Dustjacket..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First Edition. Fitzgerald's second novel, first serialized in Metropolitan Magazine (1921-22), set in the heyday of Jazz Age New York and centered around the hedonistic activities of a young artist and his flapper wife. Bruccoli A8.1.a. First Printing (without Scribner's logo on copyright page)..... More
London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1922. First U.K. Edition. Fitzgerald's second book and first collection of short fiction, collecting eight stories, most of which were first published in the pages of The Saturday Evening Post and Scribner's Magazine. Bruccoli notes that the first Collins printing varies from that..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First Edition. Fitzgerald's second book and first collection of short fiction, collecting eight stories, most of which were first published in the pages of The Saturday Evening Post and Scribner's Magazine. Bruccoli A6.1.a. First Printing, one of 5,000 copies. Octavo (19.5cm); full hunter green..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1926. First U.K. Edition. The first English edition of Fitzgerald's third novel and most enduring work, the story of a flamboyant racketeer's attempt to recapture the upper-class girl he fell in love with during the waning years of World War I. While hailed for many decades..... More