London: Faber & Faber [through 1934], 1932. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Second Edition (first revised edition), one of 1,000 copies. 8vo: 112pp. Publisher's finely woven black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained grey, others untrimmed; light blue dust jacket printed in black and priced 7s.6d. About Fine (dust-soiled top... more
London: Secker & Warburg, 1961. First UK Edition. Hardcover. First Impression (no additional printings listed), signed by Barth on front free end paper. Thick 8vo: 806pp. Publisher's scarlet cloth, spine stamped in silver, pictorial dust jacket (illustrated by Owen Wood), with cupids and nudes evocative of a bawdy 17th century... more
Cambridge [Mass.]: John Bartlett, 1855. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing of the longest-lived and most widely distributed collection of quotations, first issued in this edition and now in its eighteenth. "[A]s essential to the American living-room as the cook book to the American kitchen." (Grolier) Small, slim 8vo: vii,[1],295,[1]pp... more
London: John Lehmann, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression ("First published in 1948"). Small 8vo: 256pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in Edward Bawden's superb pictorial dust jacket, priced 9s/6d. About Fine (top edge lightly dust-soiled, spine gilt slightly dulled), in Near Fine or better jacket (flap... more
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1954. First Impression. Hardcover. First UK Edition of the author's masterwork (for which Bellow won the National Book Award). Thick 8vo; [4], 536pp. Publisher's red cloth, the spine stamped gilt; in a pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Ley Kenyon and priced 15s on the front flap... more
New York: Viking Press, 1959. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition, First State. 8vo; [8], 341pp. Publisher's beige quarter-bound linen spine lettered in orange,silver, and black, with orange cloth-covered boards titled in black, the top edge stained yellow; in a pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Bill Preston priced at $4.50, with... more
![Herzog [Signed]. Saul BELLOW.](/pictures/thumb/BB1340.JPG?v=1499796759)
New York: Viking Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing, First Issue, with poorly printed grey initial letters at start of each chapter and no reviews on jacket's back panel. 8vo: [8],341,[1]pp. Publisher's mottled blue cloth, spine stamped in silver, upper board titled in blind, top edge stained blue (lightly... more
London: Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press, 1983. First Impression. Hardcover. First British Edition (so stated) of the definitive collection, compiling all of Bishop's poems for the first time. Tall, thick 8vo; [12], 287, [1]pp. Publisher's forest green cloth, the spine lettered gilt within a black title block; the pictorial dust jacket... more
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1966. First Impression. Hardcover. First UK Trade Edition of a title most commonly encountered in the book club edition. Tall 8vo; [12], 284pp. Near Fine or better publisher's green cloth (marred mostly by a narrow, two-inch-wide discolored area on the foot of the front fly leaf where... more
Boston / Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (so stated). 8vo: x,[6],368pp, with text illustrations by Lois and Louis Darling. Publisher's finely woven green cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained yellow, wood-grain end papers; priced-clipped illustrated dust jacket... more
New York: Random House, 1938. First Printing. Hardcover. A superlative First Edition (so stated) of the author's most renowned book. 8vo: x,389,[1]pp. Publisher's three-quarter orange cloth, flamingo stamped in gilt to upper board, glossy black cloth spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge stained moss-green, fore-edge untrimmed, title page... more
![Ragtime [Signed]. Edgar. Lawrence DOCTOROW.](/pictures/thumb/BB1590.jpg?v=1504581229)
New York: Random House, 1975. Hardcover. First Printing of the author’s most famous work, extravagantly praised on publication, winner of the first National Book Critics Circle Award, one of the Modern Library 100 best novels, and the book that earned Doctorow election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters... more
London: London: John Lehmann, 1950, 1950. First Impression. Hardcover. First Impression of an early British edition containing the entire trilogy of novels that comprise the author's kaleidoscopic portrait of the United States between the turn of the 20th century and the beginning of the Great Depression. About Fine (sunning to... more
![[U.S.A. trilogy, comprising] The 42nd Parallel; [with] 1919; [and] The Big Money. John DOS PASSOS.](/pictures/thumb/BB1053.jpg?v=1499796722)
New York: Harper & Brothers / Harcourt, Brace [through 1936], 1930. First Printing. Hardcover. Three octavo volumes (probably unread), First Printings, in the original publisher's bindings and pictorial dust jackets. The 42nd Parallel: First edition (so stated, with correct A-E code), one of only 7500 copies issued. xii,426pp. Maroon cloth... more
![The Alexandria Quartet, comprising] Justine; Balthazar; Mountolive; Clea. Lawrence DURRELL.](/pictures/thumb/BB1226.jpg?v=1499796742)
London: Faber & Faber [through 1960], 1957. First Editions. Hardcover. A superb set of the author's 4-volume literary landmark. Here offered: four First Impressions (no additional printings noted), all about Fine, uniformly bound in publisher's cloth, in correct illustrated dust jackets. 8vo: 253,[1]; 250; 320; 287,[1]pp. Justine (1957): rose-colored cloth... more
New York: Boni & Liveright [through 1923], 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Number 369 (stamped in type 2-mm high, per Gallup) of the second impression limited to just 1000 copies. (Though stated on the colophon as "second edition," this second impression of 1000 copies was printed from the same setting of... more
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (so stated), first issue (with "Jefferson" for "Mottstown" on line 1, p. 340), one of only 8,500 copies. 8vo: [2],480pp. Publisher's first-state binding of coarsely woven oatmeal cloth, upper cover stamped in orange, spine in blue, top... more
London: Chatto & Windus, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression (no further printings noted). 8vo: 399,[1]pp. Publisher's burnt orange imitation cloth, spine stamped in gilt, matching burnt-orange top stain; typographic dust jacket designed by John Woodcock, priced 21s. A Fine copy, square and tight with spine gilt undiminished, in a.... more
![[The Snopes Trilogy, comprising:] The Hamlet; The Town; The Mansion. William FAULKNER.](/pictures/thumb/BB0493.jpg?v=1499796664)
New York: Random House [through 1959], 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Three First Printings (so stated). 8vo: [8],421,[1]; [8],371,[1]; [12],436pp. The Hamlet: Publisher's black cloth, spine and upper cover ruled in red and lettered in gilt, top edge stained red, full-color pictorial title page; second-issue pictorial dust jacket (four reviews excerpted... more
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 74 of 300 copies for sale and 25 unnumbered presentation copies, signed by the Ford on front free end paper. Crown 8vo: ix,260pp. Publisher's quarter-bound finely woven sky-blue cloth over lime-green paper-covered boards, spine stamped in green, top edge... more
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (so stated). 8vo: xii,[2],368pp. Publisher's bronze-colored cloth stamped in silver and black, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough-cut; in a yellow typographic jacket lettered in black and silver and priced $5.00, with the author's photo on the back panel. A Near Fine... more
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961. Second printing. Hardcover. First Edition, Second Printing in later dust jacket. 8vo: 444pp. Publisher's pale blue cloth, spine lettered in white, top edge stained tangerine, fore-edge untrimmed; blue, white, red and black dust jacket priced $5.95. Better than Near Fine, square and tight, with... more
![[Books into Film] Mr. Norris Changes Trains [Berlin Stories]. Christopher ISHERWOOD.](/pictures/thumb/BB0154.jpg?v=1499796639)
London: Hogarth Press, 1947. Hardcover. Fourth Impression (so stated) of the first UK edition (only 1,730 copies of the first impression were issued). About Fine (offsetting to the end papers) publisher's yellow boards with brown lettering; Near Fine or better dust jacket (lightly tanned spine panel, ends of which are... more
New York: Harper & Brothers, MCMIII [1903]. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing, one of 4000 copies, of the work James described as "quite the best, all round, of my productions." 8vo: [4],3-432pp. Publisher's slate-blue paper-covered boards embossed with linen weave, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; top edge gilt, others... more
London: John Lane, 1937. First Edition thus. Hardcover. First Trade Edition printed in England, following the 1936 limited edition. Wide, square, thick 8vo: [8],766pp, including appendices. Publisher's sea-green cloth, Eric Gill's Homeric bow stamped in gilt on front cover, spine lettered in gilt; sea-green dust jacket priced 25s, front panel... more