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American Critical Essays: Twentieth Century
London: Oxford University Press, 1959. Pocket volume, measuring 6 x 3.5 inches: xvi, 364, [2]. Original blue blindstamped boards, spine lettered in black, original unclipped dust jacket printed in red and black. Signed by Robert Penn Warren on the title page. Printed Oxford UP slip laid in: “With the Publisher’s.....
Price: $350.00
Undine
London: William Heinemann, 1909. Quarto, measuring 11.5 x 9 inches: viii, 136. Original full vellum, front board lettered and decorated in gilt with vignette by Rackham, spine elaborately ornamented in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, stiff brown endpapers. Half-title, with limitation signed by Rackham on verso. Title page.....
Price: $2,000.00
Janvier 1866. Lettre & Poème Envoyés à Thomas W. Higginson
Paris: Les Éditions du Rouleau Libre, 1991. Oblong volume, measuring 9 x 6.5 inches: 10 leaves (5 folded). Original open-sewn paper boards printed in black and green, secured to wooden spine anchor. Printed letterpress in black and green, with five double-length folding leaves, illustrated throughout text with four original gravures.....
Price: $650.00
The History of The/My Wor(l)d
New York: Druckwork & Granary Books, 1995. Single volume, measuring 11.25 x 8.5 inches: [48]. Original drab paper boards, black cloth spine, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket “printed letterpress by the author." Printed in red and black ink, in various typefaces, illustrated with drawings and photographs throughout text. Signed by.....
Price: $250.00
Jude the Obscure
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [2], viii, 516. Original green ribbed cloth stamped and lettered in gilt, “TH” gilt monogram to upper board, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Etched frontispiece, map of Wessex after text. Bookseller label to front pastedown: “Neal’s Library.....
Price: $5,000.00
A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of Today
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. Three octavo volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: [4], 312; [4], 275, [1]; [4], 269, [1]. Original grey fine-ribbed cloth stamped in blind with publisher’s monogram to boards, spines lettered in gilt, ivory endpapers, top edges stained grey. Bookplates of Arthur B......
Price: $12,500.00
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(London): Hodder & Stoughton, (1934). Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5.5 inches: 127, [1]. Original royal blue cloth lettered in gilt, endpapers printed in blue with Latin quotations, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in blue and black. Title page printed in blue and black; black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Traces.....
Price: $1,800.00
Sketch...Book. Le Non-Obéissant: The Disobedient: Der Ungehorsame
Basel: Basilius Presse, 1968. Single volume, measuring 8 x 9 inches: [88, double leaves]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, text block printed in black and orange. Inscribed by Warja Lavater in the year of publication. Slight bowing to boards.
Price: $1,250.00
Time Bites: Views and Reviews
London and New York: Fourth Estate, (2004). Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: viii, 376. Original pale grey paper boards lettered in gilt, pale blue endpapers, original unclipped photographic dust jacket. Signed and dated on the title page: “Doris Lessing / 19th October 04.”.
Price: $350.00
New Poems
New York: New Directions, 1976. Octavo, original brown cloth lettered in black, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Eugenio Montale on the half-title. Lightest toning to jacket edges.
Price: $450.00
Dark Testament and Other Poems
(Norwalk, Connecticut): Silvermine Publishers, (1970). Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5 inches: [14], [11], 12-106. Original cream cloth lettered in black, original unclipped typographic dust jacket printed in red, white, and blue. Signed by Pauli Murray on preliminary blank. Light shelfwear to jacket with partial splits at flap folds.
Price: $3,000.00
Sweethearts; with: signed promotional broadside for “Jayne Anne Phillips Reading ‘Sweethearts’”
Carrboro, North Carolina: Truck Press, 1976. Single volume, measuring 10.75 x 6.75 inches: [60]. Original buff photographic wrappers printed in black and sepia, blue endleaves, title page printed in blue and black, frontispiece and section titles printed in blue, author photograph printed in sepia. Signed by Phillips on title page.....
Price: $450.00
You Can Design
New York: Whittlesey House, (1939). Spiral-bound volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: [126]. Original blue cloth boards lettered in darker blue, orange endpapers. Monochrome and color illustrations throughout text. Ink presentation inscription on the half title: “N.Y. Jan. 30. 39 / to Dean and Mrs. E. Raymond Bossange / with.....
Price: $950.00
Philipok
New York: Philomel Books, 2000. Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 8 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial laminated boards, red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by Gennady Spirin in gold ink on half-title.
Price: $150.00
Anna Karenina
Cambridge: Printed for the Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1951. Two volumes, measuring 8.75 x 6 inches: xii, 1-504; [4], 505-935. Original color-printed pictorial cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, color pictorial endpapers. Title pages and colophon printed in black and green; occasional vignettes printed in.....
Price: $2,000.00
Killing and Dying
[Montreal]: Drawn & Quarterly, 2015. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.25 inches: 121, [3]. Original color pictorial boards, original printed mylar dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout text. Signed by Adrian Tomine on the half-title.
Price: $100.00
Ida M'Toy
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1979). Single volume, measuring 10 x 7.5 inches: [40]. Original red cloth, upper board stamped with gilt device. Illustrated with photographs throughout text. Numbered in ink and signed by author on colophon.
Price: $350.00
Here Is New York
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1949). Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 54, [2]. Original pale grey cloth lettered in red, original unclipped photographic dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece, illustration by Edward C. Caswell. Ink presentation inscription from E.B. White to A.J. Liebling on front free endpaper. Spine panel sunned.....
Price: $10,000.00
Working Cotton
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992). Oblong volume, measuring 9 x 11 inches: [32]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with Caldecott Honor Medal, orange endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Inscribed “for Marvin” and signed by Sherley Anne Williams and Carole Byard on title.....
Price: $150.00
Bread Givers
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Octavo, original black ribbed cloth stamped in gold. Title page printed in red and black. Signed by Anzia Yezierska on front free endpaper. No dust jacket. Intermittent foxing to text block, foxing to edges.
Price: $950.00