New York: Random House, 1963. First American Edition. First Printing, one of 5,000 copies. Octavo (21cm); teal cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt and royal blue on spine and front cover; light blue topstain; dustjacket; xiv,206,[4] + [16]pp of photographic plates. Inscribed by the author to noted..... More
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957. First American Edition. Attractive copy of this collaborative work between Bowles and Swiss photographer Peter Haeberlin, who capture in text and images accounts of daily life among the desert and hill country tribes of Northwestern Africa. Miller A8b. First Printing, one of 3,500 copies. Quarto..... More
Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions, 1979. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue, one of 1,307 copies. Small octavo (17.5cm); pictorial wrappers; publisher's original glassine overlay; [14],15-85,[11]pp, with illustrated frontispiece portrait of Williams by J. Byrd Patterson. Fine in a Near Fine glassine, with a small spot to front panel, trivial wear..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1955. Uniform Edition. In January 1938, Green took a five week-long trip through the backroads of Mexico, which resulted in his 1939 travelogue The Lawless Roads, and his 1940 novel The Power and the Glory, one of his acknowledged masterworks. A self-proclaimed "Catholic agnostic," Greene reported..... More
New York: Zero Press, 1956. First Edition. The final iissue of this short-lived literary magazine, published first from Paris, then from Tangier, and later from New York by Albert (Asa) Benveniste and Themistocles Hoetis (pseud. of George Salamos). Includes "From Notes Taken In Ceylon" by Paul Bowles, "The Smeraldina's Billet..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.25cm); brown cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; xii,369,[3]pp, with portrait frontispiece of the author and 44 photographic plates. Contemporary (Christmas, 1905) holograph signature of Arthur R. Fahnestock on..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. First Edition. Superb association copy of this key volume of Theroux's travel writing, inscribed to Nobel Prize-winner V.S. Naipaul. Among the many pieces here, Theroux includes the story of how he met Naipaul in 1966, while working as a lecturer at Makerere University in Uganda..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. First Edition. "An account of native life in India written from the point of view of a practical man of affairs who knows India from long residence" (Cleveland Leader). First Printing. Octavo (18.75cm); red cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt, green..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1882. First Edition. Narrative of Cox's travels through Holland, Scandinavia, and Russia. Octavo (20cm); terracotta-colored cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black and gilt on spine and front cover; floral-patterned endpapers; ix,[10]-347,[3]pp; illus. Light wear to spine ends and corner tips, rear hinge cracked..... More
Richmond, VA: I.N. Jones & Son, 1898. First Edition. Detailed analysis of the healing and chemical properties of the various hot springs in Bath County, Virginia. Froehling, a German-born chemist, who in 1881 established a chemical laboratory and caol mining consulting firm in Richmond. OCLC notes 2 holdings (U.Virginia, NY..... More