PHILIP LARKIN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo.209pp. Incl. index. Foreword by Philip Hobsbaum.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo.209pp. Incl. index. Foreword by Philip Hobsbaum.
New York: Press of Theo. Gaus' Sons, nd. Hardcover. 8'' X 5 3/4''. 202pp. Private Edition Limited to 1,000 copies. This is number 211, signed by Frieda Lawrence. Green cloth a bit worn, pages toned.
New York: New Directions, 1947. Hardcover. The New Classics Series NC19. 12mo. 148pp. Smooth beige cloth, with brown lettering. Dust jacket is faded on spine and has edge wear and small edge tears, with small piece missing on rear panel. Front flap of dust jacket is clipped, but rear flap.....
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1964. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo.178pp. This copy from the library of ARTIE SHAW, with a typed letter from Sherwood Price (signed), Ferdporqui Productions / M.G.M. Studios, asking Shaw to read the book, of which they had just acquired the rights. "...It is such.....
London: Penquin Classics, 2013. Hardcover. First edition thus. Octavo. 9.5 x 6.25". 208pp. Plus Illustrated archives and afterword. SIGNED by Le Carre on title page. Crisp and clean.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974. Hardcover. Octavo. 8.75 x 5.5". 349pp. Black cover stamped in silver has light wear to bottom edge and some spots on fore-edge. Ownership signature with address on fly leaf. Glossy price-clipped dust jacket has light edgewear, a small chip and a 2" line at fold.....
Paris: Pierre Lecuire, 1981. Softcover. Lg.octavo. 28pp. plus Table Des Matieres. Exhibition catalogue. Limited to 300 copies, this is #155. INSCRIBED BY LECUIRE to "Ann..." Pochoir cover designed by Nicolas de Stael. Illustrated within from drawings by de Stael and others. Includes a list and description of all the books.....
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1934. First edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 229pp. Plus index. Blue cloth with title stamped in gilt. Light rubbing to cover. Bookplate and signature (1934) of author and Harvard University professor, David Wight Prall. "David Wight Prall was the author of Aesthetic Analysis.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Softcover. Octavo. 163pp. Grey wrappers. Advance review copy. Spine and edge darkened. Nancy Lemann is the author of two novels, Lives of the Saints and Sportsman's Paradise, and a nonfiction book, The Ritz of the Bayou.
Boston: Gambit, 1969. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto.150pp. Limited to 300 copies, SIGNED BY LEVINE AND JOHN UPDIKE. Spine of dustjacket faded, chipped at spine top, and toned on area covering leather spine. Small toned areas on endpapers related to leather spine.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1959. Hardcover. Octavo. 378pp. Spine lightly cocked. Spotting to top fore edge. The author’s interest in legal cases involving circumstantial evidence was kindled when one of her family’s friends was narrowly convicted of murdering his wife. After this experience Lewis wrote The Wife.....
New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. Softcover. Octavo. 98pp. Blue wrappers. INSCRIBED by Lish, "For Joshua (Odell), who has been a constant pressure from the first..." Pub. Date inked on front.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4'' X 6''. 371pp. Spine of dustjacket slightly toned.
Santa Barbara: NEVILLE, 1983. First edition thus. Hardcover. 11'' X 9''. 41pp. This is number 152 of an edition limited to 300 copies. Some soiling to white cloth. Light wear to original glassine. A couple of tiny spots to fly-leaf and pastedown.
New York: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. 1915. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. First edition. Hardcover. 7 3/4'' X 5 1/2''. 181pp. 4pp. of ads. First edition. In rare dust jacket, which has had extensive repair but kept the book in excellent condition.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1925. First edition thus. Hardcover. Quarto. Large Paper Edition, Limited to 400 copies. Two volumes: 143pp.; 227pp. Unopened and Un-trimmed. 16 plates. Canvas-backed boards, printed title-labels on spines. With spare labels at rear. Edited, with an Introduction, Notes and Appendixes, by C.H. Wilkinson, which together comprise.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Softcover. Octavo. 42pp. Wrappers. Author's first book. Thomas Lynch was an American poet, essayist, and undertaker. Some publication info inked on front; and a note regarding an error with the titles is taped on the front. Printed note (perhaps dust jacket blurb) laid-in...
New York: New Directions, 1951. Translated by Nancy Mitford. Hardcover. The New Classics Series. NC 31.12mo. 210pp. Tan cloth with title in purple. Light wear to spine ends. Dust jacket is faded on spine with splits and wear at folds and tear across spine, making it very delicate. Now preserved.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Softcover. Tall octavo. 12pp. plus 1p. ads. First US edition. Sewn pamphlet with blue wrappers. Mann's response to the cancellation of his honorary degrees at the Frederick William University on the Rhine. Small tag indicating that this was a review copy is laid-in. Some.....
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1973. Softcover. Final galley/ Advance review copy. 12 x 6". Incl. Unpaginated. Doubleday Title Information sheet laid-in. Anthology of poems about romantic and sexual love. Featured poets include, William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, W.S. Merwin, Robert Bly, Ed Sanders, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Sylvia.....
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, 1926. Softcover. 10 x 6 1/4" pp. 91-178 plus ads. Literary Magazine. This issue features "Glad Ghost" by D.H. Lawrence, "The Meaning of Meaning" by Bertrand Russell. Other contributors include Alice Corbin, Roger Fry and others. Featured artists include E. McKnight Kauffer, Theo Champion.....
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, 1926. Softcover. 10 x 6 1/4" pp. 359-448 plus ads. Literary Magazine. This issue features "Estrangement" by William Butler Yeats, "Disorder and Early Sorrow" byThomas Mann. Other contributors include John Dos Passos, Scofield Thayler and others. Featured artists include Roger Fry, Tsuguharu Foujita, with.....
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, 1927. Softcover. 10 x 6 1/4" pp. 271-360 plus ads. Literary Magazine. This issue features "Two Blue Birds" by D.H. Lawrence. Other contributors include George Santayana, Sterling North and others. Featured artists include Winslow Homer, Gaston Lachaise with tipped in frontise by Paul Gauguin.....
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, 1927. Softcover. 10 x 6 1/4" pp. 361-450 plus ads. Literary Magazine. This issue features "An Aesthetic Soviet" by George Santayana. Other contributors include Havelock Ellis, John Cowper Powys and others. Featured artists include Aristride Maillol, Edvard Munch with tipped in frontise by Paul.....
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, 1927. Softcover. 10 x 6 1/4" pp. 1-90 plus ads. Literary Magazine. This issue features "The Man Who Loved Islands" by D. H. Lawrence. Other contributors include Conrad Aiken, Thomas Mann, Leo Stein and others. Featured artists include Marie Laurencin, Ernesto de Fiori with.....