New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; 284pp, [2]. Topstain faded and slightly dusty, with a touch of subtle fading to spine panel; Near Fine. Dustjacket (orange variant) is well-preserved for this title, lightly..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. First Edition. Selected essays, including pieces on the sexologist Havelock Ellis; Oscar Hammerstein; and "Negro Theatre." Van Vechten is best known for his photographs of prominent figures of the Harlem Renaissance as well as his controversial novel Nigger Heaven (1926). Octavo (19.5cm.); original boards..... More
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Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1979. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.89. Octavo (25cm); white canvas cloth, with titling, decorative rule, and author's initials stamped in gilt, red, and blue on spine and covers; [iv],23,[5]pp. A...... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. First American Edition. Late collection of essays by the West Indian Nobel Prize-winner, spanning over 20 years. First Printing. Octavo (22.25cm); light gray paper-covered boards, with titling and author's initials stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 245, [1]pp. Fine in..... More
New York: New Directions, 1986. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 175pp. Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper. Uncommon in cloth. More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949. First Edition. "In the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkably pristine essay, Here Is New York. Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, the author's stroll around Manhattan - with the..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm). Red cloth titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 509pp. Mild soiling to textblock with small stain to right edge; spine ends slightly pushed; toning to endpapers and page edges; Very Good+. The dustjacket is price clipped, with..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1960. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); brick red cloth covered boards, titled in gilt on the cover and spine; dustjacket; 310pp.; illustated with b&w photographs. Spine ends and corners are lightly pushed; minor bump to upper edge of front board; Very Good+. The..... More
New York: House of Books, Ltd., 1939. First Edition. First printing. No. 60 of 300 copies printed. Octavo (19.5cm). Original brown cloth, titled in gilt; plain endpapers; [28]pp, n.p. Printed at the Southworth-Anthoensen Press in Portland, ME; number 5 in a series of Crown Octavos. Tight and square, spine lightly..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19.5cm). Original pale red cloth, titled in gilt on black panels on front and spine, in original orange jacket; plain endpapers; [viii], 93pp; ads to rear and rear flap of jacket. Tight and square, with slight discoloration to endpapers..... More
Brooklyn: Feelings, 1970. First Edition. One-off feminist magazine containing poetry, prose, drama, and essays, profusely illustrated throughout. Contents include contributions by Rita Mae Brown, Jean Jagger, Shulamith Firestone, Linda ViVona, Rose Gladstone, Joyce Betries, and Ruth Herschberger, et al. Notable for the inclusion of Judith Ann's lengthy autobiographical essay "The..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1929. Uniform Edition. Uniform edition of Woolf's 1925 collection of essays, several of which originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Athenaeum, New Statesman, Dial, New Republic, and the London Mercury. KIRKPATRICK A8c. One of 3,200 copies. Octavo (18cm); dark teal cloth, with titles stamped in..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm). Maroon boards stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 240pp.; Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00); light toning to jacket flaps and spine; small spot of rubbing near tail of spine. Very Good+. More
[London]: Macmillan & Co.L Ltd., 1936. First Thus. Octavo (22.5cm.); original cloth-backed decorative boards in white printed dust jacket; vii,[1],189pp.; frontispiece and five plates. Jacket a bit dust-soiled, jacket and cloth spines darkened, small chip at crown, else a Very Good or better copy. More
