Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant. 2 Volumes. First Volume, Containing the Three Unpleasant Plays. The Second Volume, Containing the Four Pleasant Plays by Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) - 1909

New York: Street & Smith, 1900. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Pasternak, Leonid (1862-1945) father of Boris Pasternak. Grey cloth over boards, title and author image stamped in gilt and maroon onto upper board, title stamped in gilt onto spine, 8vo (7-7/16 inches tall), pp. 317, all edges trimmed, top edge gilt, author portrait frontis, title page printed in black and red, 4 illustrations [5 inc. frontis]. Volume with cover illustration lightly rubbed, wear to spine ends, spine tilt, small 1/2" piece missing at bottom of one leaf. Page 15 has a few lines taken from a letter written in French - pertaining to the story - neatly translated into English underneath. First published in Russia in 1899 and later translated by William E. Smith, this was the last novel written by Tolstoy.

New York: Scribner's, 1972. Signed on the title page by Robert Creeley. First edition / First printing. White printed cloth designed by the artist Robert Indiana. Fine in fine dust jacket.

New York: St. Martin's Press [1974], 2nd printing. (Hardcover set) Very good in very good dust jacket. The dust jackets are spotted and rubbed, spots on the edges. Translated by Powys Mathers. Also released as: (as by Arabian Nights). (Fiction).

London: Macmillan, 1993. Signed on the title page by Minette Walters. First edition / First printing. Red paper-covered boards. Near fine with typical toning to the pages in fine dust jacket. Edgar Award Winner for 1994.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. Signed on the title page by Michael Ondaatje. First U.S. edition / First printing. Black paper spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Warlight was Nominated for the 2018 Booker Prize. The English Patient recently Won the Golden Booker Prize.

New York: Simon & Schuster 1994. Signed by both authors on the title page. First edition / First printing. Red cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

London: Hogarth Press 1950, 5th printing. (Hardcover) 196pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. The spine is very lightly faded, the top corner of the back cover is bumped, and the dust jacket has some edgewear and also rubbing on the back panel. Pseudonym of Henry Vincent Yorke. (Fiction, World War 2).

NY/London: The Colonial Press, 1900. *Hippolyte Adolphe Taine listed as Author. Julian Hawthorne, Literary Editor -7 Volumes All Bindings Firm, Pgs/Covers Clean - No Marks. All have Brown Cloth HC Bindings w/gilt spine lettering/Deco, rough cut pgs & gilt tpe. All have frontis+ 2 to 5 photos/illus p/vol. Some Contents incl; Drama:-Medea, Oedipus Rex, Life a Dream, etc. The Rubaiyat, Confucius, Selections from Arabian Poetry. Sold as Incomplete Set only 7 Volumes. USA Media mail only Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Revised Edn. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Clarence Cook (Art Editor).

Los Angeles: Miramax, 1995 Signed by Paul Auster. First edition / First printing. Laserdisc in illustrated sleeve. Very fine in very fine sleeve.

New York:: Liveright,, 1931.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Very Good plus copy with previous owner name on the flyleaf in a Very Good plus dust jacket that has shallow chipping to the head & heel of spine. Uncommon in any kind of jacket. "This little book (of essays)...is an attempt to express in story form, partly in broken verse, partly in opinions ...a growing conviction that modern man is losing his ability to retain his manhood in the face of the modern way of utilizing the maching and that what hope there is for him lies in women." From Anderson's introduction.