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New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Printing (February, 1935, on copyright page), in First Issue dust jacket (with correct titles listed on rear panel), filmed in 1957 as The Tarnished Angels. 8vo: 315,[1]pp, with title-page vignette. Publisher's cobalt-blue V-cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in gold within horizontal black band, top edge stained black; pictorial dust jacket, priced $2.50. Near Fine or better (flaking to spine lettering), in bright, Near Fine or better jacket (spine head rubbed and nicked, slight loss to front flap fold). Provenance: from the collection (now housed at the University of Central Florida Libraries) of bibliophiles Walter and Dorothy Donnelly, with their label on front paste down. Petersen A17.1a. Man Working 174. Fargnoli, pp. 211-16. Agnew, p. 10. Hanna 1163. In the early 1930s, made temporarily affluent by publication of Sanctuary and by Hollywood, Faulkner took up flying, bought a Waco cabin aircraft, and…
Read More [The Snopes Trilogy, comprising:] The Hamlet; The Town; The Mansion by FAULKNER, William (1897-1962) - 1940
by FAULKNER, William (1897-1962)
[The Snopes Trilogy, comprising:] The Hamlet; The Town; The Mansion
by FAULKNER, William (1897-1962)
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New York: Random House [through 1959], 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. Three First Printings (so stated), a superb set of Faulkner's masterful trilogy. 8vo: [8],421,[1]; [8],371,[1]; [12],436pp. The Hamlet: Publisher's black V-cloth, spine and upper cover ruled in red and lettered in gold, top edge stained red, full-color pictorial title page tipped-in; second-issue pictorial dust jacket (four reviews excerpted on back panel), with particularly vibrant front panel, priced $2.50. About Fine (spine gilt slightly dulled) and apparently unread, in about Fine jacket with brief edge wear. The Town: Publisher's first issue claret-colored V-cloth (line 8 repeated on line 10, p. 327), spine and upper cover lettered in gold and ruled in blue-grey, top edge stained blue-grey, grey threaded end papers; first issue pictorial dust jacket (with 5/57 publisher's code on front flap), priced $3.95. Fine (barring small collector's label on upper corner of front end paper), square and tight, gilt lettering sharp and bright; about Fine jacket barely rubbed to toe of spine panel. The Mansion: Publisher's blue V-cloth, upper cover and spine ruled in grey and lettered in gold, top edge stained yellow, blue end papers; first-issue pictorial dust jacket, price $4.75, with publisher's code "10/59" on front flap and author's photograph by Ralph R. Thompson on back panel. Fine, in equally Fine jacket. Petersen A22.1d, A47.1b, and A52.2b. Man Working 56, 141, 347. Burgess 99, p. 73. The Snopes novels had their origin in the 1920s, in stories swapped back and forth between Faulkner and Phil Stone, an Oxford, Mississippi, attorney, about the rise of poor whites in social, political, and economic competition with the old Southern aristocracy. The series traces the rise of the Snopeses in Frenchman's Bend and Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. Malcolm Cowley, in his New Republic review of The Hamlet, judged it to be "a new sort of novel for William Faulkner, less somber, more easygoing and discursive. Except for a few short stories, it makes better reading than anything else he has written since Sanctuary." (The Literary Encyclopedia) And Burgess noted, "Turgid and difficult as he is, Faulkner is worth the trouble." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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by FAULKNER, William (1897-1962)
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[Ovidius Naso, Publius] [Juvenilia] Metamorphoses, argumentis brevioribus ex Luctantio Grammatico collectis expositae: una cum iconibus
by [BORCHT, Pieter van der, Illustrator], [Ovid]
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Antwerp: Printed for the Plantins by Joannes Moretus, 1591. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Near Fine. Beautifully presented collection of 72 etchings by Pieter van der Borcht the Elder (who signed the plate on p. 357), from one of the gems of Renaissance illustrated books, a very early juvenilia, Ovid's Metamorphoses abbreviated. Oblong 16mo: 209-212,215-218,221-246,251-310,315-362,[17, index and approbatio]pp, with 72 full-page plates on 71 leaves (the versos of which carry the letterpress texts related to the plates on the rectos); the final plate is the full-page Plantin device, with the legend 'Labore et Constantinia.' Newly bound by Fitterer in full mottled calf with richly gilded spine. A defective copy (priced accordingly), but rich in beautiful plates and beautifully bound. Funck 374-375. Hollstein III, 100, nos. 200-377. Adams O-504 (misidentifuing the format as oblong 8vo]. Delen II, 92-93. The vast majority of pages are interleaved with period blanks, which are neither paginated nor…
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Death of a Naturalist [Signed]
by HEANEY, Seamus (1939-2013)
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New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Printing of the poet's critically acclaimed first commercially published work (preceded by the privately printed pamphlet, Eleven Poems, in 1965), one of only 1,000 copies (bound from sheets purchased from Faber and Faber, Heaney's London publisher). Tall, slim 8vo: 57,[1]pp. Publisher's aquamarine cloth, spine lettered in gilt; typographic dust jacket, in salmon-pink, olive and white, lettered in black and priced $3.75. Signed by Heaney on the title page. A stunning copy, tight, square and likely unread; about Fine jacket, fresh and bright, with usual fading to the fugitive salmon-pink on bottom half of spine panel but all lettering undiminished. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Cholmondeley Award, the Eric Gregory Award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Heaney received the Nobel Prize in literature, in 1995. Brandes & Durkan A2b. A collection of 34 poems largely concerned with rural life,…
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The Golden Notebook
by LESSING, Doris (1919-2013)
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London: Michael Joseph, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Impression of the Nobel laureate's "indispensable" masterpiece, significant "as the most massive statement made, up to that time, on the position of woman in the modern world." (Burgess). Tall, thick 8vo: 568pp. Publisher's black boards, spine lettered in gilt; first-issue typographic dust jacket (photograph of Lessing to rear panel) designed by William Belcher, priced 30s. About Fine (dust-soiled edges, mild offsetting to end papers), square, tight, probably unread; about Fine jacket (lightly dust soiled back panel, several edge nicks), still vibrant and bright. Time 100. Burgess 99. p.86. NYPL Books of the Century, p.130. Callil and Toibin 52. "Anna Wulf is a writer who keeps four notebooks, each a different color, each reflecting a different part of her. The black one contains recollections of her youthful wartime years in West Africa . . . In the red one she reflects on her later life in London's leftist and intellectual…
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The Good Soldier. A Tale of Passion [Signed]
by FORD, Ford Madox (1873-1939)
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New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. No. 74 of 300 copies for sale and 25 unnumbered presentation copies, signed by Ford on front free end paper. Crown 8vo: ix,260pp. Publisher's quarter-bound finely woven sky-blue cloth over lime-green paper-covered boards, spine stamped in green, top edge stained green, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, title page in green and black; without the slipcase. Small printed book plate of New York attorney and bibliophile Harry C. Goebel to front end-paper (Goebel designed and commissioned designs for book plates; see Eastern University's Goebel Bookplate Collection) Light smudge to front board, else a pristine example. Connolly 27. Modern Library 100, 30, Guardian 100. Harvey A46b. Special edition of this modern classic (first published 1915), for which Ford supplied a "dedicatory letter" to his wife, Stella: "I have always regarded this as my best book." John Rodker famously called The Good Soldier the "best French novel in the…
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The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories [Signed]
by WELTY, Eudora (1909-2001)
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New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1955. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Edition (so stated), first state binding (vivid green cloth spine), second issue (title / copyright leaf a cancellans, with multiple dates [1949-1955]). Signed by Welty in her tiny scrawl on title page. 8vo: [8],207,[1]pp. Publisher's blue and green mottled paper-covered boards, vivid green fine bead cloth spine stamped in silver, pictorial dust jacket priced $3.50. About Fine (spine ends bumped, shelf-worn bottom board edge); about Fine jacket (very brief expert restoration, involving neither lettering nor design, to head and tail of spine panel, which is lightly toned). Not the concealed second printing (Polk 11.1.2, as are many copies advertised as first printings), in which the title / copyright leaf is integral). Welty's important seventh book, nominated for the National Book Award. Polk A11.1b. According to Polk, "Heavily revised versions of stories originally published in magazines." N. B. With few exceptions…
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[Ovidius Naso, Publius] [Juvenilia] Metamorphoses, argumentis brevioribus ex Luctantio Grammatico collectis expositae: una cum iconibus
by [BORCHT, Pieter van der, Illustrator], [Ovid]
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Antwerp: Printed for the Plantins by Joannes Moretus, 1591. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Near Fine. Beautifully presented collection of 72 etchings by Pieter van der Borcht the Elder (who signed the plate on p. 357), from one of the gems of Renaissance illustrated books, a very early juvenilia, Ovid's Metamorphoses abbreviated. Oblong 16mo: 209-212,215-218,221-246,251-310,315-362,[17, index and approbatio]pp, with 72 full-page plates on 71 leaves (the versos of which carry the letterpress texts related to the plates on the rectos); the final plate is the full-page Plantin device, with the legend 'Labore et Constantinia.' Newly bound by Fitterer in full mottled calf with richly gilded spine. A defective copy (priced accordingly), but rich in beautiful plates and beautifully bound. Funck 374-375. Hollstein III, 100, nos. 200-377. Adams O-504 (misidentifuing the format as oblong 8vo]. Delen II, 92-93. The vast majority of pages are interleaved with period blanks, which are neither paginated nor…
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The Affluent Society
by GALBRAITH, John Kenneth (1908-2006)
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Very Good+. First Printing (so stated) of the Harvard economist's celebrated examination of America's post-World War II consumer economy and political culture. Demy 8vo: xii,[2],368pp. Publisher's bronze-colored cloth stamped in silver and black, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough-cut; yellow typographic jacket lettered in black and silver and priced $5.00, with author's photo on back panel. Near Fine or better (spine ends a touch frayed); better than Very Good jacket (spine lettering lightly faded, flap folds and spine ends professionally restored, though not affecting lettering or design). Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction, 46. NYPL Books of the Century, p.145. Galbraith "saw as perilous the modern economy's focus on ever-increasing production. Such a focus increased the violence of boom-bust cycles and inflation, Galbraith argued, and masked growing social imbalance." (NYPL) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we…
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Death of a Naturalist [Signed]
by HEANEY, Seamus (1939-2013)
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New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Printing of the poet's critically acclaimed first commercially published work (preceded by the privately printed pamphlet, Eleven Poems, in 1965), one of only 1,000 copies (bound from sheets purchased from Faber and Faber, Heaney's London publisher). Tall, slim 8vo: 57,[1]pp. Publisher's aquamarine cloth, spine lettered in gilt; typographic dust jacket, in salmon-pink, olive and white, lettered in black and priced $3.75. Signed by Heaney on the title page. A stunning copy, tight, square and likely unread; about Fine jacket, fresh and bright, with usual fading to the fugitive salmon-pink on bottom half of spine panel but all lettering undiminished. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Cholmondeley Award, the Eric Gregory Award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Heaney received the Nobel Prize in literature, in 1995. Brandes & Durkan A2b. A collection of 34 poems largely concerned with rural life,…
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The Golden Notebook
by LESSING, Doris (1919-2013)
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London: Michael Joseph, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Impression of the Nobel laureate's "indispensable" masterpiece, significant "as the most massive statement made, up to that time, on the position of woman in the modern world." (Burgess). Tall, thick 8vo: 568pp. Publisher's black boards, spine lettered in gilt; first-issue typographic dust jacket (photograph of Lessing to rear panel) designed by William Belcher, priced 30s. About Fine (dust-soiled edges, mild offsetting to end papers), square, tight, probably unread; about Fine jacket (lightly dust soiled back panel, several edge nicks), still vibrant and bright. Time 100. Burgess 99. p.86. NYPL Books of the Century, p.130. Callil and Toibin 52. "Anna Wulf is a writer who keeps four notebooks, each a different color, each reflecting a different part of her. The black one contains recollections of her youthful wartime years in West Africa . . . In the red one she reflects on her later life in London's leftist and intellectual…
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