New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1976). First edition. Drawings by Gorey, some color. Hardcover. Oblong duodecimo. [64] pages. A collection of Edward Gorey's drawings relating to bicycling From the dust jacket, "This book combines, with breath-taking cleverness, two objects of consuming interest: postcards and bicycles." The endpapers advertise the..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2003). First printing of the revised edition. Drawings by Maurice Sendak. Hardcover. Square duodecimo. [viii], 334 pages. A superb selection of 27 stories chosen from Grimm's tales. In addition to several familiar standards there are many that will be new to most readers, such..... More
New York: Bloomsbury, (2014). First U.S. printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [iv], 279 pages. This was Abdulrazak Gurnah's eighth novel, and centers on an east African immigrant named Abbas, who has raised a family in England and now reflects on the past he has never told anyone about. A stroke has now..... More
(Los Angeles): Center Publications, 1979. First edition thus. Softcover. Octavo. 70 pages. Inscribed and signed by Harrison with a small drawing on half title page. Inscription reads: "Moody, / A volume that / will sell like a / New Year's ['day' crossed out] Eve / crack shipment. Or / not..... More
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Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871. 1st Edition. Original cloth. Duodecimos. 152 pages. First state of the first edition, with correct issue points on spine, title page, and page 136, together with a second state copy. The pair are housed together in a custom half morocco slipcase. More
Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Company, Publishers, (1921). First Edition. Drawings by Carll B. Williams. Original cloth. Octavo. 409 pages. The first volume published in the Seckatary Hawkins series. These boys' stories revolve around a club of boys whose home base is a river bank on the Ohio, with the lead character..... More
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 344 pages. Hawthorne's masterful novel of a New England family's ancestral guilt and atonement tinged with supernatural retribution. The setting is the 1668 Turner-Ingersoll Mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, once owned by Hawthorne's relatives. "The House..... More
London: Printed by T. Bensley for Vernor and Hood, et al, 1802. New edition. Black and white plates. Three quarter leather with cloth sides. Tall octavos. A beautiful and sturdy set of this 1802 "New Edition" translated by Pope. Bindings feature blue leather spines and fore corners, marbled endpapers, with..... More
New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1857. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. [xii], 203 pages, plus 12 page publisher catalogue. The first published collection of poetry by Francis Scott Key. "The Star Spangled Banner" is the first poem in the book, appearing on pp. 31-33 after an introductory..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1914). First printing. Tan-gray laid paper over boards. Octavo. 75 pages. Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American poet, editor, critic, and Roman Catholic lecturer who contemporary critics often compared to G. K. Chesterton and Hillaire Belloc. Today Kilmer is remembered as the..... More
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, (1902). First printing. 15 Black & White Tissue-Guarded Plates. Full cloth. Octavo. xxiv, 407 pages. This handsome volume of poems contains the first book appearance of baseball's most famous poem--Casey at the Bat--in an anthology. The poem was written by Ernest Lawrence Thayer but is..... More
(New York): HarperPrism, (1994). First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 228 pages. A collection of four interconnected novellas by the legendary science fiction writer. Signed by Le Guin on title page. More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1943. Early printing. C. S. Lewis's now classic Christian apologetic novel that revolves around temptation and resistance. The title character is a senior demon, and his letters are to a young apprentice demon who is his nephew, Wormwood. Thus mentored by his uncle, it is Wormwood's..... More
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. 1st Edition. Original cloth. Octavo. 366 pages. A very nice first edition of one of the most important books in American literature. Hemingway believed that "American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.” This..... More
New York: Greenberg : Publisher, (1935). First printing. Full cloth. Octavo. 249 pages. A scarce novel of the struggles and successes of immigrants in the United States. More
New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., (1948). First edition, first state. One map. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 721 pages. Mailer's first novel, and the first popular novel to come out of the experiences of World War II. An excellent portrayal of the American fighting man in that war, based in part..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2022. First edition thus. Illustrated by Gérard DuBois. Hardcover. Octavo. [x], 303 pages. McCarthy's masterpiece, and to date his only novel based on historical characters and events. Set in the American Southwest just after the Mexican War, McCarthy brings some unforgettable characters to life--including the landscape..... More
(S.l.): (E. P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence), (1986). Advance Reading Copy. Self-wraps. Octavo. [54] pages. An advance printing of the title story in the collection "To Skin a Cat," published in October of 1986. This is copy #28 of 250, signed by McGuane on front cover. Letter from publisher dated June 19..... More
New York: Random House, 1930. Rockwell Kent. Hardcover. Duodecimo. xxxii, 825 pages. The first trade edition of what is widely regarded as the definitive edition of Moby Dick. Indeed, if not for this particular edition it is likely no one would know this book today. Melville's great novel was not..... More
(New York): (New Directions Publishing Corp.), (1975). Limited edition. Facsimile notebook pages (some color). Cloth over boards. Quarto. About 200 unnumbered pages. Signed and numbered by Henry Miller, this is #152 in an edition limited to 700 copies. This is a near-facsimile of Miller's holographic "Notebook of American Tour" housed..... More
[Philadelphia]: Privately printed, 1929. Edition limited to 950 copies. Black and white frontispiece portrait, facsimile letters. Hardcover. Quarto. [viii], 39 pages. Why did Thomas Hardy, at the height of his career as a novelist, give up fiction and devote the last 30 years of his life to writing poetry? Famous..... More
New York: Random House, (1934). Limited edition. Cloth over boards with leather spine and fore corners. Octavo. 157 pages. Beautiful edition of this play by Eugene O'Neill. This is copy #220 of a stated limitation of 325 copies. Binding by Bayntun of Bath. More
Boston: Beacon Press, [2004] and (2005). First editions thus. Hardcovers. Octavos. xii, 255 pages and [xii], 178 pages. Fantastic collection of work from this master poet of the natural world and the fundamental questions of life and death. Selected by Mary Oliver herself, with volume two containing 42 new poems..... More
Orlando: Harcourt, Inc., (2004). First U.S. printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 1-538 pages. Amos Oz grew up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the 1940s and 1950s, and his extraordinary memoir is simultaneously tragic, comic, and utterly honest. It is the magical self-portrait of a gifted writer who witnessed the birth of..... More
Baltimore: Kelly & Piet, Publishers, 1866. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 94 pages. This scarce volume of Confederate poetry was originally published in Richmond in 1865, but most of that edition went up in flames when the city fell at the end of the Civil War. This is the second edition..... More