New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Hardcover. First American edition of Murakami's "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle", translated into English by Jay Rubin. Unclipped jacket ($25.95) with advance reviews beginning on the front flap and continuing on the back flap. Slight wear to upper and lower edges of both jacket and.....
New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1836. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American edition of a collection of stories from the author of the popular "Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician," prepared for American audiences eager for the author's material. From the glowing advertisement: "The subscribers have great pleasure in offering.....
The Friends of The Bancroft Library, 1978. Soft cover. Three stories and an introduction by Didion, printed for the Friends of the Bancroft Library, number 26 in the series of keepsakes. Slight scuffs to blue covers, minor bumping of corners. Interior is bright and clean. 51pp. 9.5 x 6.5"...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. Hardcover. Knopf's 1934 omnibus edition of Undset's tetrology of medieval Norway, in dust jacket. The jacket identifies Undset as the author of Kristin Lavransdatter and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1928, with the front flap devoted to a pen sketch of "Sigrid Unset.....
1974. 1st Edition. Soft cover. The unauthorized collections of previously published stories that prompted a lawsuit and caused Salinger to give his first interview in sixteen years to express his displeasure: "Some stories, my property, have been stolen...Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a......
London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1937. Hardcover. First edition of Isherwood's novella, published by the Hogarth Press, and later incorporated into "Goodbye Berlin" and "The Berlin Stories". Wear and discoloration of the spine, with a half inch tear to the blue cloth along the upper rear.....
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The first English edition. As described in BAL 7935, the English edition consists of the American sheets with a canceled title page naming Low as the publisher. Significant wear to the illustrated boards (see photos). Top edge gilt, 5 plates.....