![The People's Text: A Citizen Reads the Constitution [Limited Edition, Signed]. E. L. DOCTOROW,...](/pictures/medium/33775.jpg?v=1641872302)
Jackson, MS: Nouveau Press for the Mississippi Civil Liberties Union, 1992. First Edition. Handsome volume containing text adapted from a lecture Doctorow gave in Philadelphia in 1987. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator, this being copy no.37. Octavo; navy blue cloth and star-patterned..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First U.K. Edition. American issue, (later). Octavo (19.5cm); turquoise-blue cloth titled in black on the spine; blue topstain; 332pp. Sunning to spine; spine ends pushed; corners gently rubbed; minor scuffing to outer textblock; still a tight copy, Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket. GREEN and..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1927. First American Edition. Octavo (22.5cm); dark blue cloth, ribbed, stamped in blind and gilt (on spine); 208pp. Spine sunned, gilt dulled; boards mildly soiled, rubbed and worn, with some material loss to leading corners and spine extremities. Binding shaken; ex libris on front pastedown; mild reading..... More
Moseley: Delos Press, 1990. First Edition. Wrappered Issue, one of 150 numbered copies, this being copy no.90. Quarto (26.75cm); letterpress printed sheets, string-tied into pale grey wrappers and marbled paper dustjacket, with title label mounted to front cover; [6],7-13,[3]pp, with a reproduced illustration by Michaux tipped on opposite the copyright..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1957. First U.K. Edition. A collection of seven essays 'on poetry' and nine essays 'on poets.'. First Impression. Octavo; blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 262pp. Light rubbing along lower board edges, trifle offsetting to endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, quite..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1965. First U.K. Edition. A posthumous collection of previously uncollected essays and lectures. First Impression. Octavo; blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt at spine; dustjacket; 189pp. Contemporary owner's name and date to front endpaper, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with a hint..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1933. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm.); publisher's cloth in cream decorative dust jacket printed in green and black, top edge gilt; viii,[2],149pp. Jacket extremities a bit toned, a few tiny losses at top edge of upper and rear panels, none approaching text, else a...... More
New York: Random House, 1986. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); beige paper and navy blue cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [x],338,[4]pp. Forward lean, some dust-soil to boards, though contents are clean; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $19.95), with some gentle sunning to spine..... More
New York: Random House, 1964. First Edition. Ellison's second book, a collection of essays "concerned with three general themes: with literature and folklore, with Negro musical expression--especially jazz and the blues--and with the complex relationship between the Negro American sub-culture and the North American culture as a whole." An especially..... More
![The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field [Twelve Volumes. One of 100 Sets on Japan]....](/pictures/medium/51284.jpg?v=1641872630)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896-1901. Limited Edition. Twelve volumes. Number 9 of 100 hand-numbered sets on Japan. Publisher's vellum (parchment) over boards, with printed paper spine labels. Engraved bookplate to each volume (Micajah Pratt Clough) by Edwin Davis French. Brief (3/4") split to base of front joint, Vol. 1;..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1911. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's blue cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in silver foil, top edge gilt; [10],264pp. Extremities a bit rubbed, upper hinge just starting to crack but holding, else Very Good and sound. Collection of short personal essays. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First American Edition. First Printing, one of 1,500 copies. Octavo (19.25cm); orange cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; patterned endpapers; black topstain; dustjacket; [ii],[8],9-119,[7]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $1.50), with a hint of..... More
![Sinclair Lewis Interprets America [Limited Edition, Signed by the Distributor]. E. M. FORSTER](/pictures/medium/23721.jpg?v=1641872174)
[Cambridge? Harvard Press, 1932?]. First Edition. Limited to 100 copies of which this is no. 80 (or 88?). 16mo (15.25cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; [8]pp. Fine. "Of this first edition one hundred copies have been issued by the Harvard Press for private distribution by Harvey Taylor." Limited and signed by Taylor on..... More
New York: Albondocani Press, 1973. First, Limited Edition. One of 200 numbered copies, this being copy no.194. Slim octavo (19.75cm); letterpress printed sheets, hand-sewn into unprinted black card wrappers and patterned paper dustjacket, with printed title label mounted to front cover; [20]pp. A Fine copy of this retrospective on the..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1942. First Edition. First Impression, one of 5,000 copies. Small octavo (18.25cm); pale grey wrappers, with titling and decorative border printed in purple on front cover; [4],5-27,[1]pp. Front flap has the printed price of 1s.6d. net; scattered foxing to front cover and text edges, occasionally extending..... More
![The Falklands, and a Death Foretold [Signed]. John FOWLES](/pictures/medium/24250.jpg?v=1641872182)
[Athens]: Georgia Review, 1982. Offprint. Octavo (25.25cm.); original staplebound self-wrappers; 721-728pp. Minor toning to extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine. Offprint of an essay about Gabriel Garcia Marquez first published in The Georgia Review, Vol. XXXVI, no. 4, Winter, 1982. Signed by Fowles on upper wrapper. More
![The Nature of Nature: An Essay [Signed]. John FOWLES](/pictures/medium/24264.jpg?v=1641872182)
Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly Press, 1995. First Edition. First separate edition of this essay on nature, with a woodcut illustration by Aaron Johnson. One of 275 copies. Quarto; plain black wrappers; illustrated dustjacket; 99, [5]; illus. Signed by the author. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. More
![Wormholes: Essays and Original Writings [Limited Edition, Signed]. John FOWLES](/pictures/medium/19102.jpg?v=1641872112)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1998. First Edition. A collection of Fowles's essays from the 1960's-1990's, many of them re-written especially for this volume. Limited Issue, one of 75 numbered copies signed by the author. Octavo; full teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; original publisher's cloth slipcase; 405, [2]..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (21 cm); navy blue publisher's cloth boards, stamped in foil on spine, in color photo-illustrated dustwrapper; 190pp. Dustwrapper generally toned, slightly scuffed about extremities; offsetting along bottom edge (inner flaps/verso), possibly from textblock's bottom edge speckling; pastedowns foxed, else interiors clean. Overall Very..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. First Edition. Popular book of essays by this National Book Award-winning author and literary critic. First Printing. Octavo; brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 284pp. Spine gilt slightly dulled, else Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket, with a single..... More
New York: Random House, 1988. Reprint. Octavo. Paper-covered cloth boards in dust jacket; 249pp. Publisher's slip laid in. Textblock trivially cocked, pencil eraser sized faint dampstain to bottom edge of textblock, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Minor age-toning to interior flaps and interior of dust jacket. Jacket showing trivial..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1927. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket, brown topstain; vii,[1],189pp. Jacket spine toned, a few very short closed tears to extremities, else Very Good or better. Collection of essays written between 1920 and 1926. Galsworthy would be awarded the Nobel Prize in..... More
![Frost and Flower: My Life with Manic Depression So Far [Limited Edition, Signed]. Kaye GIBBONS,...](/pictures/medium/55884.jpg?v=1641872899)
Decatur, GA: Wisteria Press, 1995. First, Limited Edition. One of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author and illustrator, this being copy no.192. Octavo (23.5cm); black and forest green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; acetate dustjacket; [viii],20,[4]pp, with a frontispiece engraving by Barry Moser..... More
![Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics, Consciousness [Inscribed & Signed]. Allen GINSBERG,...](/pictures/medium/23210.jpg?v=1641872166)
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1974]. First Edition. Octavo (21.75cm.); original cloth in grey photo-illustrated dust jacket lettered in red and white; xv,[1],269pp. Light shelf-wear to jacket extremities, mostly to spine ends and corners, else Very Good or better. Signed on front free endpaper: "Allen Ginsberg / AH." More
![On The Mines [Signed Bookplate Laid-in]. David GOLDBLATT, Nadine Gordimer](/pictures/medium/52937.jpg?v=1641872708)
Cape Town: C. Struik (PTY) LTD, 1973. First U.K. Edition. First impression. Signed bookplate laid-in by Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer (Literature, 1991). Quarto (29.5cm); red cloth covered boards stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; unpaginated; 56 plates. Fine. There is rubbing to the spine ends, Near Fine. More
