New York: George F. Coolidge & Brother, 1848. First American Edition. Tall octavo (25cm); red publisher's cloth stamped in blind, with gilt-stamped portrait (front) and filigree on spine; 178pp., frontis. Soiling and wear to boards, with chipping especially to extremities; backstrap torn and partially detached from front joint; interiors comprehensively..... More
New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1855. Thick octavo (24cm.); publisher's full dark brown elaborately gilt-tooled cloth, oval green gilt-tooled paper spine label; xiv,828pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, 15 leaves of plates. Cloth rather dusty and gilt uniformly dulled, extremities scuffed, small loss to spine label, else About Very Good; plates browned..... More
London: Constable, 1921. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (18cm); olive green cloth covered boards titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 267pp. A fresh, tight and clean copy, Near Fine. The dustwrapper has small spot of soil to the front panel; gentle toning to the spine; shallow losses to spine ends;..... More
London: Constable, 1919. First Edition. First Impression; Octavo (18.cm); olive green cloth covered boards titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 266,[2]pp. Light external soil; mild bumps to board corners; offsetting from jacket inside covers; Very Good+. The dustjacket has light nicks along the upper edge mostly to the crown; toning..... More
London: Constable, 1914. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (18cm); olive green cloth covered boards titled in gilt on spine; gilt topstain; dustjacket; 234,[2]pp. Spine ends and corners tapped; some fading to cloth at base, still a tight, Very Good or better copy. In an attractive dustwrapper with shallow losses to..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo (20cm). Plum cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 177pp. Mild offsetting from jacket flaps to endpapers; faint foxing to prelims; Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, issued without a printed price on flap; lightly..... More
New York: Random House, [1964]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in white pictorial dust jacket; [8],143pp.; photo-illustrated double title page, 2 leaves of photographic plates. Jacket extremities rubbed, especially at spine ends, some light dust-soiling, else Very Good or better in About Very Good jacket. Play..... More
New York: Random House, 1966. Reprint. Octavo (21cm); black publisher's cloth, stamped in blind (front) and gilt (spine), in red dustwrapper; 116pp, frontis., 2 plates. Dustwrapper mildly soiled, with some creasing, chips, and short tears to extremities; large chip w/ material loss to front lower edge; $10.95 price intact on..... More
New York: Random House, 1966. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; green cloth over olive paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 116pp. A tight, straight copy with a bit of rubbing to cloth at spine ends. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.95 on front flap), touch rubbed on spine panel with some..... More
London: Duckworth, [1928]. Reissue. Quarto (25.5cm.); publisher's orange cloth; 77pp.; mounted color frontispiece, seven plates, text illus. throughout. Boards rather scuffed at extremities, closed tear to fore-edge of last leaf of text not approaching text, bookseller ticket to front free endpaper, else About Very Good, internally fine. More
V.p. 1974-1981. The seventeen pieces of correspondence chiefly in regards to Sitwell's impatience at receiving the proofs of his preface, usually written from the family's homestead Weston Hall, Towcester, in North Hamptonshire, though often informing Niles and Leslie of his travel plans--due to ill health he and his wife Georgia..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1868. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Original tan paper wrappers; 275, [1], 4pp; 4 pages of publisher's ads at rear, and ads to front cover verso and both sides of the rear cover; in-text wood engravings. A sturdy copy with a few chips to..... More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1927. First Edition. Anderson's third play, concerning the marital difficulties of a young New York couple. Twice adapted for film, first in 1929 by Gregory La Cava and again in 1940 by Vincent Sherman, in a film starring John Garfield, Anne Shirley and Claude..... More
New York: Covici & Friede, 1937. First Edition. A two-act comedy set in the midst of a political uprising in Ecuador. The play was produced by The Theatre Guild and opened at the Guild Theater in October, 1937, with Leslie Banks in the lead role. The show lasted only 46..... More
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Brooklyn: Brooklyn College, 1945. First Edition. Playbill for a student production of the student-written, composed, and directed musical. Characters include Dean Isidor Gunga, played by Jerome Rehr; Adonis Mouse, played by H.K. Kruge; his love Fifi, played by Dorothy Fraikorn, whose big solo song is "I'm just a Fifi gal."..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1945. First Edition. Small quarto (25cm); off-white cloth, calico grain and stamped in dark brown, in b/w pictorial dustwrapper, with b/w photo-illustrated endpapers; 291pp. Trivial soiling and wear to boards. Dustwrapper toned, especially along spine; creases, chips and minor tears, with some material loss..... More
New York: Rinehart & Co., 1949. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); orange cloth hardcover, stamped in gilt and black on spine; dustjacket; xix,[1]-480pp. About fine, in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.00 on front flap), creased at base of front panel with mild rubbing at spine ends, Very Good. A posthumous..... More
New York: Rinehart & Co., 1949. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); orange cloth hardcover, stamped in gilt and black on spine; dustjacket; xix,[1]-480pp. About fine, in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.00 on front flap), lightly rubbed at folds with a few small chips to extremities, a shade darkened on spine..... More
Dublin: Maurice Fridberg, [1946]. First U.K. Edition. Slim octavo (22cm.); original cloth-backed boards in pink pictorial dust jacket; 83pp.; pictorial endpapers, text illus. throughout. Chips and a few tiny losses to jacket extremities, notably to top spine corner of upper panel (not touching image or text), extremities darkened, spine a...... More
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New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. First Edition. Limited to 600 copies. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in peach pictorial dust jacket printed in blue, black, and gilt, blue-green topstain; [2],246pp.; illus. Jacket spine a bit sunned with some minor chipping to ends, else Near Fine. Signed by the author..... More
London: Faber and Faber, [1978]. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.5cm.); original simulated cloth in blue and white dust jacket; 93pp. Jacket a hint toned, light shelf wear, small paper flaw to front free endpaper from removed ownership signature, institutional rubberstamp to title page, else Very Good and sound overall, quite..... More
Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta, 1901. Twenty-fifth Edition. 12mo (19.5cm.); publisher's yellow card wrappers; 160pp. Wrappers rather dust-soiled, brief tape enforcement at spine foot, else Very Good and sound. The German playwright's 1889 family drama (published in English as "Honour"), of the ire that arises between a rich family and a poor..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First American Edition. First Printing. 12mo. Publisher's beveled-cloth boards, titled in gilt on spine; ewer device in gilt to front board; brown clay-coated endpapers; [1-9],10-232pp. Cloth on spine a half-shade faded, with spine ends just starting to fray; else a very fresh, tight copy, Near..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1925]. Octavo (21.25cm); original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 324pp. Spine ends a bit rubbed with closed horizontal crack about one inch from spine foot, else Very Good or better. Later edition, this collection of essays on art history, theater, and music first published in..... More
[Boston: Tavern Club, 1896-1933]. The Tavern Club was founded in 1884 by a group of upper-crust Bostonian artists, authors and intellectuals; conceived as a more creative and less formal alternative to the typical gentlemen's clubs of the period, the club's festivities were characterized by amateur theatricals, salons, musical performances and..... More
