Poems and Translations
New York: John Quinn, 1909. First American Edition. Publisher’s cloth and paper covered boards with a printed cover label. Limited to fifty copies. Fine. More
[Book #38098P]
New York: John Quinn, 1909. First American Edition. Publisher’s cloth and paper covered boards with a printed cover label. Limited to fifty copies. Fine. More
[Book #38098P]
London: Elkin Matthews, 1905. First Edition of the author’s first book. Publisher’s printed wrappers; very good. Synge’s death in 1909 cut short an influential career. More
[Book #38097P]
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First Edition of the author’s first book. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some chips, stains and tears. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “To Martin Sampson who has cast many a pearl before Frank Sullivan.” Newspaper journalist and long-time New Yorker..... More
[Book #38096P]
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1941. First Edition. Neat owner’s signature; near fine in a very good dust jacket with some chips and tears. Basis for the 1942 film of the same title, which starred Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and Claude Rains. More
[Book #38095P]
New York: Frederick Warne, 1905. First American Edition. Original illustrated boards; a fine copy. More
[Book #38094P]
London: Frederick Warne, 1944. First Edition; one of 100 numbered copies. Endpapers and dust jacket a little foxed; minute chips and nicks at the extremities; nearly fine. More
[Book #38093P]
New York: Random House, 1933. First Edition. Very good; inscribed by Jeffers with six lines of poetry (noting its appearance in this volume on “page 105”), “Inscribed for Brian Curtis at Blanche’s [presumably Carmel resident, poet, critic, and friend of Georgia O’Keeffe, Blanche Matthias] request. Sincerely, Robinson Jeffers. Tor House..... More
[Book #38091P]
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1946. First Edition. Very good in a dust jacket with an interior tape mend, Presentation copy; inscribed by the author in 1946, “...I hope you also like my little story of brotherhood...” Basis for a 1948 film which starred Fred MacMurray and Frank Sinatra. More
[Book #38090P]
New York: Macmillan, 1915. First Edition; first issue. Very nearly a fine copy; inscribed by the author in 1941 with a 13 line poem. The late residents of this midwestern town spoke from the grave in this collection of poems. The lawyer-author was never able to match the success of..... More
[Book #38089P]
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951. First Edition. Near fine in dust jacket. Inscribed by the author and signed “Robert Lowell.”. More
[Book #38088P]
New York: Farrar, Straus, 1961. First Edition. Near fine in a price-clipped dust jacket. Inscribed by the author and signed as “Cal” and “Robert Lowell.”. More
[Book #38087P]
Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers, 1942. First Edition; first issue of Salinger's first book appearance. Only minute wear; a fine copy in a stamped and addressed first issue publisher's cardboard box. With a fine example of the second issue (1943) of the book in a very good, stamped and addressed example..... More
[Book #38086P]
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951. First Edition of the author’s first book. Very good plus in dust jacket. Inscribed by the author. More
[Book #38085P]
London: Alan Ross, 1969. First Edition. Ownership signature on the front free endpaper; about fine in a very good dust jacket. Signed by the author. More
[Book #38084P]
New York: Covici-Friede, 1936. First Edition. Spotting on the top edge; very good or better in a dust jacket with considerable staining and repair of the spine. More
[Book #38083P]
New York: Viking Press, 1957. First Edition; uncorrected galley proof; spiral-bound in wrappers with publisher's labels on the upper cover; publication date changed in pencil to April from March, and published price changed in pen to $3.00 from $2.95; only very minor wear; an excellent example. Presentation copy, inscribed by..... More
[Book #38082P]
New York: Presbyterian Hospital, 1947. First Edition. Wrappers; only minute wear; a fine copy. Written by Steinbeck in appreciation of the care shown to him and his family by the hospital. More
[Book #38081P]
Boston: Crosby & Nichols, 1863. First Edition. Some cloth wear and dampstaining; good to very good. With considerable material on the formation of black regiments, including the celebrated Massachusetts 54th, and the loss of Col. Shaw and many of his men in the assault on Fort Wagner. More
[Book #38080P]
Boston: Small, Maynard, 1917. First Edition. Bookplate, paper label rubbed; bookplate;very good. Presentation copy; inscribed by Braithwaite in 1917. More
[Book #38079P]
Concord, New Hampshire: Clague, Wegman, Schlict, 1883. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth; very good. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “With [a] thousand pleasant memories ‘Of the days of auld lang syne’: To Henry & Louise Elwell from their faithful friend Parker Pillsbury 1884.” These are the prominent abolitionist’s memories of..... More
[Book #38078P]
New York: Baker and Scribner, 1849. First Edition. Aside from considerable page foxing, an excellent copy. With the 1865 gift inscription of General Wm. Raymond Lee, in whose Massachusetts regiment Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. served. More
[Book #38077P]
Washington: Samuel Harrison Smith, 1801. Comprising the 1st and 2nd sessions of the sixth Congress. Two volumes; uncut and mostly unopened; in original plain wrappers (titled in ink); the title page is bound in at the end of the second volume; some wear, but overall in excellent condition. One assumes..... More
[Book #38076P]
Boston: Redding & Co., 1845. First Edition. Foxed; very good in what appears to the publisher’s deluxe “gift” binding of full red morocco, decorated in gilt and blind; all edges gilt. The anonymous author describes sites in and outside of Boston. More
[Book #38075P]
London: George Redway, 1884. First Edition of the author’s first book (preceded by a pseudonymous pamphlet): publisher’s boards; some spotting and stains; bookplate of John Quinn; bookseller’s catalogue entry pasted on the recto of the rear free endpaper; owner’s signature. Some miscellaneous receipts and cataloguing regarding this title are laid..... More
[Book #38074P]
New York: privately printed, 1917. First Edition. Publisher’s imitation vellum spine and cloth; near fine in a (presumably original issue) cloth dust jacket with gilt stamping. Bookplate of John A. Spoor (engraved by Emery Walker, a founder of the Doves Press). The author, who was a Prohibition candidate for Congress..... More
[Book #38073P]