The Flower Drum Song by Lee, C. Y - 1957

[4]+392+[2] pages with a frontispiece from a painting by William Van Dresser. Small Octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth illustrated in black,cream and orange, lettered in cream and gilt. (BAL 11966) (Sisson & Martens pg 87) First edition.A tale about a love triangle on a large ranch. Though not published until the year of London's death, he had written this during his bad year of 1913. He spent much of that year visiting a dentist, finally having all of his upper teeth pulled to halt the pyorrhea raging in his gums; at about the same time, his Wolf House burned down two weeks before its completion; and his kidney problems continued to worsen, exacerbated by his drinking and his insistence upon eating raw fish and duck. [The novel] was meant to exalt the splendor of Wolf House and scientific farming and sex." "It is all sex from start to finish", he wrote to the editor of Cosmopolitan, "in which no sexual adventure is actually achieved or comes within a million miles of… Read More

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1885. Hardcover. Good+. 340pp; Half-leather with maroon cloth, raised bands, gilt lettering to spine, wear to corners of boards, front hinge starting, toning to endpapers, foxing to a few pages, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good+ condition. Collection of roadside songs of Tuscany translated and illustrated by Francesca Alexander and edited by John Ruskin. In ten parts with 20 illustrations.

Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1952. Stated First Edition. Red texture boards are sturdy, hinges OK. Boards have marks from tape. Text is clean and unmarked, pages tanned. Several names in ink on front end page. DJ in poor condition, tear on front cover, stain on back - in plastic ocver. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 x 1

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1993. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Tan cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

The Easton Press, The Collector's Library of Famous Editions (1991). First Edition thus; Collector's Edition. Illustrated by Charles Raymond. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Used - Fine, Like New condition. Text block is tight and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Appears unopened / unread. Bound In full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper with gilded edges. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, silk moire fabric end leaves, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Notes From The Archives sheet laid in. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.Translated by Basil Creighton.Beautiful gift book!

London: Jonathan Cape, 2007. First Edition. Paperback. As New/As New. First edition First printing, Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, London UK FIRST EDITION and FIRST PRINTING. WON THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR 2007. The book is unread and is in mint condition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1918. Hardcover. Very Good/good. [6], 101, [1] p.; 20 cm. Beige cloth spine with grey paper over boards. Paper labels on spine and front board printed in black with red borders. Dust jacket printed in red and black with advertisement for War Savings Stamps on back section. Advertisement for the YMCA on back flap. First edition. The first state with "recuiting depot" on p. 78, line 1. These stories framed as letters from Indian and Afghan soldiers were first published in the Saturday Evening Post in May and June 1917. Contents: A Retired Gentleman -- The Fumes of the Heart -- The Private Account -- A Trooper of Horse. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Frank P. Hadley. Book is in Very Good Condition: corners rubbed; head of spine starting to fray; clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good Condition: rubbed and soiled; old repair to inside; minor loss at ends of spine and flap folds.

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1920,1948. Condition: Fine. Original ¼ black and blue cloth covers, blind-stamped, flat spine with gilt title. , 255 pp.

London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rubbed.. 1984. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0224021168 . xiii, 224pp. Illustrations and photos. Kit Williams, the craftsman and author/illustrator, initiated a worldwide craze to unearth a golden hare buried somewhere secret that only Williams and Gascoigne knew about. Elaborate visual and written clues were hidden in Williams bestselling book Masquerade. The clues were apparently somewhat esoteric, so the hunt went on from September 1979 to March 1982. All the clues and the ultimate location of the Golden Hare puzzle included in the appendix. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Hardcover. VG. First American Edition, 12mo, pp. 311. BAL 19448. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Brown coated endpapers. Textblock edges have tanned browned. Owner inscription on FEP, otherwise clean internally. Written under the pseudonym Christopher Crowfield. BAL 19448.