London: Ernest Benn, 1925. Later printing. Octavo (9" x 6"); 192p. Plates, diagrams, and illustrations throughout. Addenda slip tipped-in at start of Chapter 1. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Covers edgeworn witih some bumping to corners and spine ends, with a small patch of discoloration on front center..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1937. Octavo; 1056 pp. Dust jacket with original $3.00 price; book in bindstamped blue cloth gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket has some rubbing and small chips on edges. All text legible. Front and back pastedowns are toned from age. Edges foxed. Front hinge starting..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1982. Stated First Printing. First State, with first lines of copyright stamped instead of printed. Octavo; xi, 276pp. Printed blue and green dust jacket with $15.95 price intact; book in green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket nudged at spine ends with some..... More
Great Neck, NY: G. Alan Chidsey, November 9, 1940. Octavo (9.5” x 6.25”); [60pp]. Dark gray leather with stamped lettering. Covers a bit toned with any gilt or foil to lettering rubbed away. Spine a bit cocked. A handful of the pasted-in columns have let go from the pages, but..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1980. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 191pp. Printed red and white dust jacket with original $9.95 rice; book in blindstamped black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Misbound with page block upside-down in the boards. Jacket lightly..... More
Flint: Bamberger Books, 1988. Stated Second Printing. Signed by the author with brief inscription on title page. Octavo (9" x 6"); 37p. Printed orange paper wraps. Covers lightly bumped at corners and spine ends, but are crisp and clean overall. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
![A Different Person: A Memoir [Signed]. James Merrill](/pictures/thumb/6326.jpg?v=1591202935)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author on full title with inscription "For Harold Herman with greetings from the author. 1993." Harold Herman and his partner Harold Mays were a gay, interracial couple who lived together in Washington, D.C. from 1965 until their deaths..... More
Fourth Printing. Hardcover. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. Stated Fourth Printing. SIGNED by the author with brief inscription to collector/dealer Harold Mays on flyleaf. Octavo (8.5" x 6"); [vi], 485p. Printed dustjacket with $6.95 price; book in red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Jacket lightly edgeworn..... More
![Ensayo sobre un proletariado sin cabeza [Essay on a Proletariat without a Head]. Jose Revueltas](/pictures/thumb/5127.jpg?v=1562608509)
Mexico City: Editorial Logos, 1962. Signed by the author with inscription "Para Alvarez Barret, en recuerdo de nuestra militancia revolucionaria" ["For Alvarez Barret, in memory of our revolutionary militancy."]. Octavo; 261pp. Printed paper wraps. Covers foxed and toned with a number of small tears along fore-edge, creasing and..... More
Stockholm: Zephyr Books, 1946. Library of British and American Authors Vol 67. First Thus. 12mo; 348pp. Illustrations by Mervyn Peake throughout. Illustrated beige dust jacket over matching paper wraps. "Not to be introduced into the British Empire or the U.S.A." printed on back cover. Jacket chipped at head..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1947. Stated First Edition. Octavo (7.5" x 5.25"); [iv], 175p. Geometric dustjacket over black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Price-clipped dustjacket with large chips along edges and a few smaller tears, with some general scuffs and smudges to face. Boards worn at corners..... More
Irwin Touster. First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946. First Edition. SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo (8.25" x 5.75"); x, 80p. Illustrated black dustjacket with original $2.50 price; book in red cloth with blue lettering. Jacket shows a few small chips and tears..... More
St. Paul: Graywolf, 1985. Stated First Printing. Signed by contributors Ralph Ellison -- with inscription "For Harold F. Mays, that admirable book-sleuth, with pleasure - Sincerely, Ralph Ellison" on title page -- and poet Charles Wright without inscription at start of his selection. Mays, along with his partner Harold J...... More
![Seeing Things [Signed]. Seamus Heaney](/pictures/thumb/6333.jpg?v=1591205372)
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. Stated First American Edition. Signed by the author without inscription and dated January 1992 on front free endpaper. Octavo; 107 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $19.00 price intact; book in blindstamped black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Near fine with only..... More
Hardcover. New York; Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. Stated First Edition with full numberline. SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"); [xii], 238p. Illustrated dustjacket with original $24.00 price; book in blue paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly rubbed along top edge..... More
First Trade Edition. Hardcover. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Stated First Trade Edition (preceded by a signed, limited Franklin Library edition), SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"); [x], 307p. Original dustjacket with $18.95 price; book in dark blue paper-covered boards with darker..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First Edition, First Printing (3047 copies printed). Octavo (7.5" x 5.25"); [ii], 349p. Dark blue cloth-covered boards with yellow lettering. Dark blue endpapers with stylized white flower design. Missing dustjacket. Covers bumped at corners and spine ends with a small dampstain to cloth along..... More
