UNCOMMON TYPE. Some Stories by Hanks, Tom - 2017

Secker & Warburg, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Signed by Author. Includes letter and greeting card from the author. Inscription on flyleaf in ink states: "For Reginald Hailing, with gratitude and good wishes, From Vera Wheatley, August 1957". The enclosed Christmas card c. 1950 vibntage is signed by Wheatley. the enclosed letter is a 2-oage typed letter to Hailing (too lengthy to reproduce here in full) which discusses various matters including the book. Full copy can be provided to interested parties prior to purchase). Letter is signed at foot of p.2 by Wheatley in ink, and a handwritten note added by Wheatley, also in ink: "One is almost afraid to avow love for anyone of the same sex nowadays! How I loathe this love of making everything horrible!". Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing… Read More

Berkeley California: University of California Press, 1925. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good+/None Included. VG+/1st ed./S(presentation copy). An attractive copy of this 1925 history of the contest between Spain and England over the ownership of Georgia. Very light shelf wear on the end of the spine, and the very tips of the outer corner of front and rear covers (no board exposed or break in cloth). Gilt on spine is complete and bright. All maps present and no foxing or marking to pages. Binding sturdy and tight. Signed by Herbert E. Bolton on presentation book plate on front free endpaper: " To my good friend, Joseph W. Flinn, master of the printer's art, collaborator in the making of this book. With grateful regards, Herbert Bolton". Joesph W. Flinn was Superintendent of the University of California Press where this book was printed.

Two beautiful volumes, one pristine set: first edition German works inscribed by author, Christopher Dawson.
First volume published 1959; second vol. in  1960.

Seattle: University of Washington / Henry Art Gallery, 2004 Signed by Santiago Calatrava. First edition / First printing. Poster in blue, red and black. 15" x 24 Very fine.

FIRST EDITION (US) in dust jacket; SIGNED by Steadman on the half-title page. The book is fine. The unclipped dust jacket has a tiny rubbed area at the head of the spine.

San Francisco: Chronicle Press, 2000. Signed by Ruth Bernhard on the title page. First edition / First printing. Gray cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Wyeth, N. C.. [2], viii, 374 p.; 22 cm. Blue cloth with silver-stamped spine title and cover illustration. Dust jacket with color illustration by N.C. Wyeth. Map on endpapers. Top page edges red. Stated First Edition. Signed by both authors. The story of Hugh Tallant, highwayman, and the infamous penal colony established in Australia in 1788. Book is in Very Good Condition: spine slightly sunned; 1/2-cm. split in cloth at head of spine; fore-edges slightly soiled; otherwise clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good Condition: rubbed; creasing at edges; chipping at ends of spine; separated for 5 cm. from tail along front joint; old repairs at ends of spine on inside of dust jacket; spine is sunned; front section bright; not price-clipped.

W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. London. No date. Circa 1920. Collins King's Classics edition. 8vo. Inscribed by Symons on the front free endpaper " To Dora Gordine from Arthur Symons November 14: 1928(?)". A very good tidy copy in publishers beige cloth with dark green label, lettered and with wavy line border, all in gilt, to the spine. Top edge gilt. Dora Gordine was a noted Estonian Sculptor who regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy and Leicester Galleries in London as well as shows at The Fine Art Society & The London Jewish Museum of Art. Symons was a great champion of her work. Reviewing one of her Leicester Galleries exhibitions in a 1938 edition of the Spectator, Symons wrote; 'Her profound sense of pure form in sculpture, heedless alike of realism and of exaggerated abstraction, is united with the subtlest delicacy of modelling, and these qualities combine to endow her bronzes with an abnormal power, an almost uncanny life, which only the sculpture of the greatest civilisations of the past has… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Signed on the title page by James Welch. First edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in a dust jacket with minor wear, else fine. The jacket is much more attractive than usual for this book. The scarcest of Welch's novels, especially in nice condition.

Koln: Konemann Verlag / Aperture, 1999. Signed by the legendary photographer Eikoh Hosoe and dated 9.26.05 on the half title page. First Konemann edition / First printing. Black cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.