New York: HarperCollins, 2014. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; xiii, 558pp. Photographic dust jacket with $29.99 price intact; book in black and white paper-covered boards with silver lettering tos pine. Jacket bumped at top corner with some adjacent creasing..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 212 pages. Ex-library tape and tape remnants to top and bottom edges of dust jacket. No actual library markings besides these. Illustrated dust jacket with original "$3.50" price present. Yellow and blue boards with spine stamped in gilt... More
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1921. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 624 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Edge worn with small closed tears, not affecting text. Pages clean and unmarked. This issue includes a reproduction of an 1882 drawing, titled "Rain-in-the-Face,"..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. First Edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"); [xii], 204p. Illustrated dustjacket over mauve paper- and black cloth-covered boards with bronze lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with very light edgewear but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square. Moderate pencil underlining..... More
![The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons [Signed by Mankoff]. Bob Mankoff, ed](/pictures/thumb/7346.jpg?v=1600883655)
New York: Pocket Books, 2000. Stated First Pocket Books hardcover printing with full numberline. Signed by Mankoff without inscription opposite full title. Square octavo (8.75" x 8.25"); 105pp. Illustrated dust jacket over blue boards with red foil lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with very faint rubbing along..... More
![Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years and The American Years [Two Volumes]. Brian Boyd](/pictures/thumb/6699.jpeg?v=1600805138)
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990. Volume One Second Printing; Volume Two Second Printing. Large Octavo. 607 p.; 783 p. Unclipped photographic dust jackets. Navy cloth with spines stamped in gilt, black, and brown. A touch of edgewear to dust jackets. Boards also gently worn at spine ends..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. Decorative dust jacket. Burnt umber boards with spine lettered in gilt. Some light shelfwear to edges and a few colorful smudges. A touch of wear to extremities of boards. Sturdy and square in binding and interior unmarked. More
![The Dial, March 1922, Volume LXXII, Number 3 [featuring Slabs of the Sunburnt West by Sandburg]....](/pictures/thumb/7127.jpg?v=1599933736)
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1922. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 344 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations throughout. Cover lightly toned. Edge wear with some small closed tears. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Trimming error by publisher left pages 279 -..... More
![The Prose Works of Charles Lamb in Three Volumes [Zaehnsdorf Binding]. Charles Lamb](/pictures/thumb/6005.jpg?v=1580240905)
London: Edward Moxon, 1835. First Thus. Three Octavo Volumes. 356p; 340p; 296p. With printer's error in pagination - page 108 numbered 110 in volume 2. Half morocco over marbled boards. Ruled in gilt; four raised bands; gilt decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers with bookplate of Oregonian businessman..... More
South Pasadena: Semiotext(e), 2017. First Edition. Octavo; 345pp. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth-covered boards with silver lettering. Jacket a bit rubbed along edges with some general smudging to surface, but no chips or tears. Boards bowing outward a bit at fore-edge, else sturdy and solid. Binding is sound and..... More
![The Dial, March 1923, Volume LXXIV, Number 3 [containing "Taos" by Lawrence]. D. H. Lawrence,...](/pictures/thumb/7171.jpg?v=1599930943)
Greenwich, Conn.: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1923. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 328 pp. Original pale mauve printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations throughout, with one full-color leaf of advertisements (one for Colgate and the other for Underwood Portable Typewriters) in the front portion. Cover edge worn with..... More
![The Dial, April 1922, Volume LXXII, Number 4 [featuring Poem by Cummings]. E. E. Cummings...](/pictures/thumb/7172.jpg?v=1599930710)
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1922. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 448 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations throughout. Edge wear with some small closed tears, light smudges. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Small closed tear on the top of page 417..... More
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1921. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 124 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Edges rubbed with a crease running the length of the front and back cover. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. The Dial was..... More
Greenwich, Conn.: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1923. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 120 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Edges rubbed with one-inch closed tear on back cover. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. The Dial was the first periodical to publish..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. First Edition with no additional printings listed. Octavo; vi, [7]-304pp. Blindstamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Boards scuffed and smudged, with a nickel-sized abrasion at top front, rubbing to corners and spine ends, and a bit of a roll to spine. Opens easily..... More
Philadelphia: WM. Rutter & Co., 1875. Two Quarto Volumes. 990 p.; 1054 p. Black and white illustrations. Green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Worn at extremities; corners cracked. Rear joint of volume 1 cracked and separation at spine but binding is holding. Two inch tear to front..... More
![Ezra Pound (Two Vols) [Cahiers de l'Herme series]. Ezra Pound](/pictures/thumb/7046.jpg?v=1597954521)
Paris: Minard Lettres Modernes, 1965. Two volumes; large 4to; pp. 328; [329]-719, [2] leaves of advertisements; 13 photographic plates and facsimiles, one of which is laid in; original white pictorial wrappers (some light soiling), binding a bit warped from damp, general minor shelf wear; a very good set. Prosectus for..... More
![The Novel: What It Is [William Safire Copy]. F. Marion Crawford](/pictures/thumb/5626.jpg?v=1571669162)
New York: Macmillan and Company, 1893. First Edition. 24mo (5.25" x 3.75"); 108pp +8pp ads. Portrait frontis with tissue guard. Mottled blue gray linen boards with black and red lettering and illustration. Front board board bumped at top corner with an adjacent run to cloth. Boards otherwise smudged with a...... More
![Commento Storico alla Seconda Scienza Nuova [Historic Commentary on Vico's New Science] (Volume...](/pictures/thumb/7235.jpg?v=1599502635)
Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1949. First Edition. Octavo; 339pp + 2pp of publisher's prospectuses. Broché in ochre wraps with title in red on cover and title-page. Note that this volume is complete in itself, but is only the first of the two volumes Nicolini published under this title..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. Limited Large Paper Edition, numbered 43 of 50 copies and signed "Charles Whittingham & Co." (the Chiswick Press). Bound by J.P. Gray and Son, Cambridge, with binder stamp at bottom of front pastedown. Bookplate of Percy Lancelot Babington, Esquire of Cossington in County..... More
![The Dial, December 1921, Volume LXXI, Number 6 [featuring Black Spot by O'Keeffe]. Georgia...](/pictures/thumb/7123.jpg?v=1599931807)
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1921. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 728 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Edges rubbed and worn. Chip to top edge of spine with a small closed tear that wraps around to the front cover, text is unaffected..... More
[New York]: Breaking Point, 1949. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's red card wrappers printed in black; 95pp. Light shelf wear, spine rather cocked, extensive pencil marginalia throughout, else a Very Good reading copy. Two pieces of promotional material laid in. Early collection of essays by the American folklorist and cultural critic..... More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1890. First Edition. Octavo. 250 pages + 2 pages advertisements. Red boards with spine stamped in gilt. Chipped at spine ends, more heavily at top. Corners bumped and cracked. Boards somewhat crudely recased but binding now sound. Interior unmarked. A very..... More
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Stated First Edition. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"); xvi, 209p. Printed dustjacket over black cloth-covered boards. Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and barcodes to book, but no card pocket. Jacket crisp but with remnants of mostly-removed laminate, now in a new mylar cover..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. First Edition with full numberline. SIGNED by the author with brief inscription on full title. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75"); xviii, 104p. Photo-illustrated dustjacket over gray paper-covered boards with black lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with no chips, tears..... More