Animal Farm
London: Secker & Warburg, 1945. First Edition. Slight fading and foxing; very nearly fine in a dust jacket with minor wear and a short tear in the front panel. More
[Book #35139N]
New Arrivals
The Confidential Agent
London: Heinemann, 1938. First Edition. Very good in a dust jacket with restoration, apparently primarily at the extremities. More
[Book #35138P]
Plaster Bust of Laura Ingalls Wilder
An older Wilder holds a copy of The Little House on the Prairie. Her name is inscribed on the integral base, and “Kroll” is cast on its back. Undated, but likely from the 1950s -1970s; an Ohio high school library’s name is marked on the bottom of the base, confirming..... More
[Book #35137P]
Edison As I Know Him (In Collaboration with Samuel Crowther)
New York: Cosmopolitan, 1930. First Edition. Fine in a dust jacket with minor wear and tiny chips. These days it would likely be issued “...as told to Samuel Crowther” or similar. More
[Book #35136P]
The Doings of Raffles Haw
New York: George H. Doran, 1919. Re-issued from the 1892 first American edition. As in that publication, it prints 'The Red-Headed League" and "Boscombe Valley." Very good in a worn and chipped dust jacket. More
[Book #35135P]
Make Way For Ducklings
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First Edition. Some soiling, spotting and staining; a good copy in a price-clipped, worn dust jacket. Caldecott Award winner for 1942. A remarkably uncommon book in a first edition, read to death by or to children, especially beloved in Boston, where the ducks are..... More
[Book #35134P]
The Dark Kingdom
New York: Harriss & Givens, 1942. First Edition; regular trade issue. Inscribed by Patchen to Bill Shank. Very good in a rough dust jacket; in a custom cloth clamshell box. More
[Book #35132P]
Sleepers Awake
New York: Padell, 1946. First Edition; regular trade issue. Inscribed in 1946 by Patchen to Bill Shank. Very good. More
[Book #35131P]
The Journal of Albion Moonlight
New York: United Book Guild, 1944. First Trade Edition. Presentation copy; inscribed to a fellow poet and conscientious objector in 1945. Very good in a torn and chipped dust jacket. More
[Book #35129P]
Red Wine & Yellow Hair
New York: New Directions, 1949. First Edition. While this copy has the hand-painted cover of the limited issue, it lacks the limitation leaf. Very good. More
[Book #35126P]
The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer
New York: New Directions, 1945. First Edition. Presentation copy; inscribed to fellow poet and conscientious objector Bill Shank the month prior to publication. Front hinge started, a little cloth wear and fading; about very good. More
[Book #35124P]
Cloth of the Tempest
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943. First Edition. Presentation copy; inscribed to fellow poet and conscientious objector Bill Shank in 1944. Very good in a custom cloth clamshell box. More
[Book #35123P]
poems: mcmxliii
Waldport, Oregon: Unitide Press, 1945. First Edition. Presentation copy; inscribed in 1945 to fellow poet Bill Shank, also interned at a camp for conscientious objectors near Waldport. Publisher’s wrappers; wrinkling and wear; good. More
[Book #35121P]
War Elegies
Waldport, Oregon: Unitide Press, 1944. First Published Edition of a work issued (without one elegy) earlier in mimeograph. Presentation copy; inscribed in 1944 to fellow poet Bill Shank, also an inmate at a camp near Waldport for conscientious objectors. Publisher’s wrappers; very good. More
[Book #35120P]
To The Victims of Fascism
No place of publication: no publisher, no date. First Edition. Publisher’s wrappers; very good. Signed by the author in 1938. More
[Book #35119P]
The Northward Course of Empire
New York: Macmillan, 1924. First Edition. With a long inscription by the author in 1944. Recipient’s bookplate; an unusually attractive example; nearly fine in dust jacket. More
[Book #35118P]
The Gamblers and Marriage. Translated by Alexander Berkman
New York: Macaulay, 1927. First American Edition. Owner’s signature, bookplate, short note on the half-title; nearly fine in a dust jacket with small nicks and tears. More
[Book #35117P]
Speak, Memory
London: Gollancz, 1951. First English Edition; second issue binding. Very good in a dust jacket with small chips and tears. More
[Book #35116P]
Original Portrait Photograph. Presented To His Nephew
7 x 10”; inscribed on the photographer’s (MacGregor) mat, “For Paul Gormley, from his mother’s brother, Theodore Dreiser, N.Y. June - 1933.” A somber portrait of a brooding Dreiser. Aside from some minor oxidation (part of the surface is slightly silvery), excellent condition; framed, matted and glazed; overall 12 x...... More
[Book #35111P]
The Case of the Mischievous Doll
New York: William Morrow, 1963. First Edition. Nearly fine in a dust jacket with minor wear. Presented to his “Hollywood Della Street.”. More
[Book #34727P]
Mister Roberts: A Play
New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Glass rings on front cover; very good in a chipped dust jacket. Presentation copy, very warmly inscribed by Heggen, “For Nancy, because you are such a wonderful girl, and because I love you dearly. Tom. May 24, 1948.” Inscribed copies are very scarce;..... More
[Book #35114P]
The Intrusion of Jimmy
New York: W. J. Watt, 1910. First Edition. Just shy of very good. Presented by the author to a contemporary writer, “To Charles Neville Buck from P.G. Wodehouse (Death to Seth).” Buck, hardly remembered these days, wrote novels, and other pieces set in his native Appalachia. The cursed “Seth” in..... More
[Book #35113P]
Life On The Mississippi
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883. First American Edition; probably issued a few days earlier in London; first state, with the “St. Louis Hotel” caption and the illustration of Mark Twain “in flames,” which was dropped due to Mrs. Clemens’s objections to its morbidity. Small name stamp on the front free..... More
[Book #35110P]
Eric Ravilious: Memoir of an Artist
New York: Frederick C. Beil, 1983. First American Edition. Owner’s inscription; very good. More
[Book #35109P]