Big Sur: 1944. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Henry Miller's "Excursus on War", with the disclaimer that "neither the publisher nor the printer is responsible for or subscribe to statements made herein by Henry Miller". Fading and wear to the spine of the red wraps. Stapled text is beginning to come.....
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, second state binding in unclipped jacket. A collection of Stein's writing with an introduction from Sherwood Anderson. As the jacket promised readers in 1922, "Gertrude Stein is still experimenting and still renewing her realization of peoples, people, and things.....
Paris: Plain Edition by the Darantiere Press, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. THe first edition of Stein's work on the craft of writing was published with a print run of 1,000 copies in Paris, the third of her Plain Edition books. A previous owner attempted to secure the paper label with.....
Privately Printed, 1895. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Robert Bridges's privately printed essay on Keats, number 135 of 250 copies printed. With the bookplate of the clergyman and poet Henry Charles Beeching, with a gift inscription "Harry, from Mary, 15th May 1895", offering a glimpse into the reception of the Romantic poet.....
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"...
London: Jacob Tonson, 1705. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of Addison's popular account of his travels. ESTC T74575. Contemporary paneled calf, with old repairs to address starting joints. Evidence of old bookworm damage to paste downs, front endpaper, half title and (very faintly) title page. Text is clean and unmarked.....
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.....
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853. Browne, Hablot K. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of Dickens' novel, with first issue points ("elgble" page 19; "chair" page 209; "counsinship" page 275), in a handsome later binding. Extra-illustrated with a portrait of Dickens by George Augustus Sala, etched by Pailthorpe, bound between the.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing in an unclipped jacket of Salinger's paired narratives of the siblings Franny and Zooey Glass. Slight wear and scuffing to the jacket, most noticeable at the head and tail of the spine. Unclipped jacket with $4.00 price.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The 1953 fourth printing in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From the front panel: "This is a novel about new things and old, about farms and families and about America. It is an affirmation of faith in the earth itself, and.....
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.....
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1899. Limited Edition. Hardcover. As one early seller promised of this set: "The original, autographed and strictly limited edition of the works of Samuel L. Clemens complete in twenty five volumes. This edition was published at enormous expense, printed on hand made paper water marked. Each.....