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: 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
![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
![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
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922. First Edition, preceding the UK edition. Octavo. 297 pages. Printed dust jacket with original "$2.25" price present. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Includes epilogue missing from the UK Edition. Along with Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious, these essays form Lawrence's alternative to Freudian psychoanalytic theory..... More
London: Martin Secker, [1924]. First Edition (23cm.); publisher's red cloth, white printed spine label; 175pp. Boards very slightly bowed, minor chipping to spine label, contemporary ownership ex libris to front pastedown, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Authors covered include Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville..... More
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998. First Edition. Octavo. xiv + 490 pages. Black and white photographs. Illustrated boards with black cloth stamped in silver. Folger Library discard with front pastedown label and pocket at rear. Light edgewear to boards. Binding is sound. A touch of dust soiling to..... 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
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
![Il Volgo di Roma: Raccolta di Tradizioni e Costumanze Popolari [Vol. I only]. Francesco Sabatini](/pictures/thumb/8452.jpg?v=1610742489)
Roma: Ermanno Loescher & Co., 1890. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm.); contemporary half vellum over decorative textured boards, black gilt-lettered spine onlay, top edge stained red, decorative endpapers; 252pp.; illus. Light spotting to vellum, spine a bit toned, boards slightly bowed, endpapers and title page somewhat browned due to inferior paper..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876. First Edition. 12mo. 350 pages + 1 p. advertisement. Green boards stamped in black and gilt. Forest green endpapers. All edges stained red. Light wear to extremities. Slight lean to spine. Hinges with exposure but binding is holding. Some spotting and scuffing..... 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
London: Chatto & Windus, [ca.1880]. New Edition. Two octavo volumes; I: viii, 531pp, II: [iv], 550pp. Marbled paper-covered boards and leather spine and corner tips, with leather spine labels and gilt lettering and decoration down spines. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Boards edgeworn with scuffing to leather at corners..... More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1959. First Edition. Octavo. 279 pages. Printed dust jacket. Red boards stamped in gilt. Bloom's first book, adopted from his doctoral dissertation from 1956. Price-clipped dust jacket shows traces of staining along top edge and spine is a bit sunned. Boards..... 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