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A Handful of Western Books
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press, 1935. First Edition. A fine copy; inscribed by Bay. More
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The History and Antiquities of the Tower of London
London: Cadell, 1821 & 1825. First Edition. Two volumes; bound in full calf; outer joints weak; spines dried and cracking; some foxing; armorial bookplate of the Earl of Lonsdale and gilt armorial stamps on each front board; a good set. More
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Weeds of Witchery
London: Ackermann, 1837. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth; titled in gilt; front hinge started; modern (1949) ownership inscription on the the front free endpaper; some foxing; very good; with 12 engraved caricature plates. More
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Original Poster for his First Book, Pardners
New York: McClure, Phillips, n.d. [1905]. Measuring approximately 10 x 14”; printed in brown on beige paper, featuring a western motif illustration in the center, promoting the publication of Pardners: Tales of Life and Character in Alaska and the West. Excellent condition. More
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Ulysses in Paris
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1956. First Edition; an advance publication excerpting from the yet to be issued Shakespeare and Company. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, “Wilbert Snow from the Publisher” and in a different hand “Xmas, 1956.” The poet and politician claimed that he smuggled the first copy of..... More
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No Ordinary Land
New York: Aperture, 1998. First Edition. Afterword by McPhee. Fine in dust jacket. More
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Moonblight
Trenton: Albert Brandt, 1904. Original published in 1892, this edition contains a new Afterword. Of labor and social problems. A few pages roughly opened; very good. More
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The Savoy: An Illustrated Quarterly
London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. No. 1, January, 1896. The first issue of this periodical that featured various writers and artists of the nineties, the most prominent and recognizable of whom was Beardsley. Publisher’s pink boards; some wear, especially at the extremities; bookplate; 1948 gift inscription, about very good, but in..... More
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The Yellow Book
London: John Lane, Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894-1897. Vols. I - XIII. Thirteen volumes (all published) in the original publisher’s yellow decorated cloth. Minor foxing, soiling and wear; bookplates of Pickford Waller and Albert Parsons Sachs; an excellent set; each volume of which has the ads called for in..... More
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The Years Between: Diaries 1939-1944
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1965. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author “To Beverly, Affectionately, Cecil.” A penciled note indicates that the recipient was Beverly Nichols. More
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The Hunger and Other Stories
New York: Putnam’s, 1957. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket. More
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![[Book #26439P] Beginning to End: A Selection from the works of Samuel Beckett. Adapted...](https://sternrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26439P.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1539713419)
Beginning to End: A Selection from the works of Samuel Beckett. Adapted by Samuel Beckett and Jack MacGowran. Drawings by Edward Gorey
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1988. First Edition; one of three hundred numbered copies signed by Beckett and Gorey. Fine; with the prospectus laid in. More
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Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates
Paris: Europa Press, 1935. First Edition; publisher’s wrappers; fine in a custom clamshell box. One of 250 numbered copies. More
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A Modest Archive of Short Holograph Notes to an Editor at Grove Press
Writing from Paris from 1976 - 1980, seven pieces, six with their original envelopes addressed by Beckett. While five concern orders for copies of his works, as well as their contents, two regard a proposed interview with Herbert Mitgang. presumably for the New York Times. Mitgang contributed a short account..... More
[Book #36751P]
No's Knife
London: Calder & Boyars, 1967. First Edition; a collection of pieces published variously elsewhere; near fine. This is one of the “B” series of 100 numbered copies signed by Beckett. However, it is bound identically with the so-called “A” copies, in quarter calf and buckram. In the publisher’s slipcase, which..... More
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Aspects of the Poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson. With a Bibliography by Bradley Fisk
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Dunster House Bookshop, 1928. First Edition. Fine. More
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The Savoy of London
London: no publisher, no date. First Edition of a piece that first appeared in Holiday Magazine. Illustrated by Searle. Fine. More
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A Plea For The West
Cincinnati: Truman and Smith, 1835. First Edition of this inflammatory anti-Catholic tract. Publisher’s muslin, and printed spine label (rubbed); considerable waterstaining and foxing; a good copy. Beecher, an influential figure of his day, is now chiefly remembered as the father of Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose influence exceeded his own by..... More
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The Happy Hypocrite
New York: John Lane, 1897. First Edition of the author’s first work of fiction. Printed publisher’s wrappers; bookplate (“Milius,” with various symbols, including music and a star of David); nearly fine. More
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Observations
London: Wm. Heinemann, 1925. First Edition. A fine copy in a dust jacket with a little soiling and chipping, and with two minor interior tape mends. More
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Rossetti and His Circle
London: Heinemann, 1922. First Edition; trade issue. Very good in a jacket with tears and splits. More
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Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story
London: Wm. Heinemann, 1911. First Edition of the author-artist’s only novel. Bookplate; some cloth spots; very good in the rare printed dust jacket. There is a small rectangular cut-out in the center of the spine, presumably where a price was printed; the bottom quarter-inch is chipped, affecting the imprint, else..... More
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Borstal Boy
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First American Edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some chips. Presentation copy to his New York publicist, “To Abner, who created the New York version of Brendan Behan 13 ix 60.” Behan, almost from his first step ashore, took to New..... More
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