Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, (1850). Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, First state, with uncorrected errors: "reduplicate,"on p. "characterss" and "known of it." Bound in publisher's original brown ribbed cloth decorated in blind with spine lettered in gilt; publisher's ads at front dated.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1961). FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. Hardback. Nice, tight, square, solid, very near fine First Edition, SIGNED First State copy of the iconic bestseller. Really bright, lovely original dust jacket with but a small triangular chip to the bottom of the rear dust jacket and some.....
NY: Scribner's Sons, (1932). Stunning First Edition, First State copy of the author's epic work on bullfighting. Juan Gris frontispiece and many black-and-white photographs. This stunning copy is superbly bound in burgundy full morocco leather with gilt titles, raised bands, extra gilt lettering and decoration on spine and front board.....
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1929). A much better than very good indeed First Edition, First State copy in its visually pleasing original dust jacket of one of the celebrated author's most acclaimed novels, called by literary critics everywhere one of the greatest novels of that generation. A most presentable example.....
New York: Scribner's, (1938). Quite Near Fine First Edition in a much better than Very Good dust jacket ($2.75 price present) of this famed anthology, one of only 1,175 copies published. The collection contains the author's only published play as well as the initial appearance in book form of The Short.....
NY: Scribner's Sons, (1940). First Edition, First State (with both issue points: no photographer's credit on author photo, and with letter A on copyright page) of the author's epic novel of the Spanish Civil War. Basis for the acclaimed 1940 film classic starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. A stunning.....
NY: Scribner's, (1935). First Edition, First State (with the A) of Hemingway's second work of nonfiction, an account of his month-long trip to Africa. Better than very good copy with but moderate sunning and wear in a very good, yet most presentable dust jacket showing some creasing and shallow chipping.....
London: Jonathan Cape (1933). Stunning First UK Edition bound in gorgeous custom three-quarter black morocco, raised bands, gilt titles, extra gilt. Original spine bound in at rear. Beautiful, highly collectible copy of tone of the author's earliest (1933) works.
Berlin: Fischer, (1927). True First Edition (in the original German) of this classic work, an internationally acknowledged highspot of modern literature, by the Swiss Nobel laureate. A 1974 film adaptation starred Max von Sydow as the misanthropic writer and Dominique Sanda as the enigmatic young woman. This copy is quite.....
N Y: Charles L. Webster & Co., (1894). New York: Charles Webster, 1894. First edition. 26 illustrations by Dan Beard. 219, [1], [4, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's illustrated cloth (BAL binding B, no priority known). Front cover lightly stained. Small bookplate. Front board starting. First edition. 26 illustrations.....
NY: John Day Co., (1958). Absolutely beautiful First Edition of this novel by the legendary Langston Hughes, his urban folk tale set in Harlem about the 'gospel racketeers' and their gullible prey. The sharpest copy imaginable of what has become a scarce title in the First Edition.
Skuespil..København: Gyldendalske, (1890). First Edition (but for Heinemann's U.K. edition of the required dozen copies, issued only to secure copyright) of the classic drama, internationally acknowledged as one of the highspots of world theater. Although Ibsen was, of course, Norwegian, the First Edition was published in Danish. A lovely, certainly.....
NY: Random House, (1934). First American Edition of this landmark title, complete with the judge's opinion. Number One on most lists of the 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. A lovely, tight & square, very near fine copy of the Joyce masterwork, complete with the Judge's Opinion and all first.....
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, (1937). Splendid copy of this classic landmark title, #1 on the Random House/Modern Library Best 100 Books of the (20th) Century. Finely bound in three-quarter mid 20th-century green half morocco, title and compartments to spine gilt, top edge gilt. A beautiful production.
NY: Limited Editions Club, (1935). Flawless, Very Fine copy of this famed highspot. Introduction by Stuart Gilbert. Quarto, brown buckram, gilt. With six soft-ground etchings printed in black, and with reproductions of the preliminary drawings printed on various colors of paper, all illustrated by Matisse; 26 of these, all striking.....
NK:Viking, (1957). Very Good First Edition copy in like original First State dust jacket . The seminal novel, travelogue, diary and treatise of the Beat Generation movement in American literature and certainly the defining book of its era. We also have an equally superb First Edition copy of the paperback edition. $1,250.....
NY: Century Co., (1895). Lovely very near fine First Edition of the author's scarce Second Jungle Book. In the original peach-colored embossed boards (decorated by John Lockwood Kipling), this copy has laid into it the equally scarce Kipling promotional pamphlet advertising both Jungle Books as well as the author's Captains Courageous.....
NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., (1909). Very Fine, pristine, obviously unread First Edition of Kipling's only science fiction tale. Beautifully iillustrated in color by Frank X. Leyendecker and H. Reuterdahl, this unique work is Kipling's vision of a nighttime mail run from London to Quebec aboard a dirigible in the.....
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., (1930). First Edition of what has been called the most informative, enlightening, scholarly and altogether enthralling work yet written on the Crusades. Fine, beautiful copy luxuriously bound in polished cream half oasis morocco leather and marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers, raised bands and compartments featuring.....
London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, (1928). Lawrence's slim (32pp) story magnificently bound in supple full speckled calf, with raised bands, gilt with gilt rules and red leather title label. Beautiful fine condition. Limited to only 530 numbered copies, with numbers 501-530 not for sale but reserved as Lawrence's presentation copies. This is.....
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., (1936). First American Edition of the classic autobiography by Lawrence of Arabia. Basis for the famed, multi-award-winning David Lean film of 1962. P.O. 1937 gift inscription on FFEP. Very good copy in only a good dust jacket. .
NY: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1947). First Edition of this highspot of contemporary literature, Lowry's masterful, compelling chronicle of the disintegration of a classic alcoholic. This is the true First Edition, First State in true First State dust jacket with the Advance Critical Acclaim quartet of reviews on the rear panel.....
NY: New Directions, (1950). First Edition. Translated by Stanislaus Joyce. Cover photo by Man Ray. 48mo. Very Good copy in printed wraps of this lecture on James Joyce given by Italo Svevo in Milan in 1927. Issued by New Directions as a Christmas keepsake, its publication was limited to 1500.....
NY: Knopf, (2006). As New First Edition in equally As New dust jacket of the author's bestselling novel about a father's determination to protect his young son and to prepare him to survive in a grim post-apocalyptic world. Basis for the 2009 film starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron.
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1965). First Edition of the author's first book, the unanimously well-received and critically acclaimed study of the extraordinary athlete Bill Bradley, obviously well before his entry into the political arena. A very close to fine copy in a better than very good, non-price-clipped dust jacket.....
