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.....
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NY: Harper & Brothers, (1851. Very first appearance of Moby Dick in any form: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XVII, October, 1851, Vol. III, the opening chapter of the classic, here entitled, The Town-Ho's Story. Further explanation provided as, From 'The Whale,' the title of a new work by Mr. Melville, in the press.....
NY: Random House, (1949). Bright, square, Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket of the true First Edition (not the limited) of the acclaimed author's ultra-scarce second book. This copy all the more unique as it is signed by the author (James A. Michener) as well as dated by him (Feb. 7.....
NY: Random House, (1954)_. Beautiful really sharp Fine First Edition in equally Fine original dust jacket of this beloved Japanese-American love story. Basis, of course, for the immensely popular 1957 Joshua Logan-directed film adaptation by Paul Osborn which starred Marlon Brando, Myoshi Umeki, Red Buttons, Ricardo Montalban, Martha Scott and.....
NY: Viking Press, (1949). First Edition of this modern classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, countless other international commendations, and widely considered the single most important American play of the century. Basis, of course, for the 1951 film adaptation starring Frederic March and Mildred Dunnock. A......
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, (1977). First Edition of this printing in paper wraps of the author's compilation of his collected short works: ON TURNING EIGHTY REFLECTIONS ON THE DEATH OF MISHIMA FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF GREECE WATERS REGLITTERIZED REFLECTIONS ON THE MAURIZIUS CASE MOTHER CHINA AND THE WORLD BEYOND A tight.....
NY: Grove Press, (1961). First American edition of this modern classic first published in Paris in 1934. Lawrence Durrell wrote that this title "stands beside Moby Dickand that "American literature today begins and ends with what he [Miller] has done". Basis for the 1970 film starring Rip Torn. A price-clipped, very.....
Paris: Obelisk, (1954). Scarce 1954 Obelisk Press publication. Preface by Anais Min. Priced at 600 francs and with the disclaimer: MUST NOT BE IMPORTED INTO ENGLAND OR U.S.A. Very good copy in original wraps.
Paris: Obelisk, (1939). First Edition, First Printing of the author's fourth book, banned in the U.S. until 1961. This scarce copy, in publisher's red wraps, published in Paris in February 1939, is in simply very good condition indeed considering its limited budget upon publication. It retains the scarce errata slip.....
NY: Grove Press, (1961). First American Edition of this long-banned masterpiece first published in Paris in 1939, the companion to Miller's earlier Tropic of Cancer. An unsparing account of what it means to grow to manhood in America, the magic leaps from the page in uninhibited, subversive, often hilarious -- never.....
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, (1980). Special limited edition published during July 1980 in order to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of D.H. Lawrence. This appreciation of Lawrence, limited to only 250 copies, is absolutely Fine but for a bumped upper corner to the front board. This copy is.....
NY: Macmillan, MAY 1936. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. Hardback. First Edition, First State (May 1936) of the classic work, reputed to be the fastest-selling novel in American publishing history. Upon publication the book sold a remarkable fifty thousand copies in a single day. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, it remains.....
Paris: Olympia Press, (1955). Superb example of the True First Edition of this contemporary classic, rarely if ever seen in such pristine condition. The Olympia Press two volumes, seemingly unread, with the original 900 francs price on each verso -- prior to the price raise and without any hint of.....
Wichita: Watermark Press, (1990). Superb, As New First Edition copy of this, the late author's one and only novel, a classic study of alcoholism and the basis for the hugely successful film starring Nicolas Cage, who won his Best Actor Academy Award for his performance. This pristine copy in its flawless.....
London: Cape, (1929)_. Lovely, tight and square True First Edition in stunning original first state dust jacket of the landmark novel by the acclaimed author of The Informer. Rarely seen in any condition, let alone in this beautiful state -- a true collector's copy -- this scarce First Edition is boldly.....
NY: Random House, (1933). Number 306 of only 325 First Edition copies of this signed/limited printing of the highly successful Broadway play about turn-of-the-century small-town Americana, even today a perennial favorite for revivals. Basis for the 1935 film adaptation with Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore and Mickey Rooney. An obviously unread.....
NY: Boni & Liveright, (1928). Very good First Edition copy of this scarce title in the seldom seen, virtually rare, almost Fine pictorial dust jacket, exhibiting but the most minor, quite negligible chipping at spine extremities. This landmark play by Eugene O'Neill, winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature.....
NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1950). First U.S. Edition. Tight, square, virtually very near fine in its equally near fine pictorial dust jacket. A "kind of cavalcade of England between 1893,(when George Bowling, the book's protagonist) was born, and 1938, when the main action occurs." A departure from the usual.....
London: Victor Gollancz, (1937). First Edition ("Left Book Club Edition / Not for Sale to the Public"). Part I of the book describes the living condition of coal miners in the industrial North of England, illustrated with photographs. Part II describes Orwell's own middle-class upbringing, and the development of his.....
