Search Results: LITERATURE from Houle Rare Books & Autographs

Pasadena, California, Published by the Author [1920]., 1920. First edition. 8vo. Original maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Very good. 329 pages + 5 pages of advertisements of other Sinclair works. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Boston, Mass., Baker's Plays, 1936., 1936. 8vo. Original stiff tan wrappers stamped in brown. Very good. 22 pages + original stiff wrappers. Ink and pencil notations in the text. Baker's Plays for Amateurs series.. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

First edition. 12mo. Original stiff pale peach wrappers, bound in Japanese fashion with dark blue string. Fine. Unpaginated. "The is the story of three women and one apartment"; the story is diagrammatically depicted on each page, with red, yellow and blue dots tipped-on to a floor plan printed in black. One of 75 unnumbered copies. Signed by the printer Steven Chait.

London, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. [1931]., 1931. First edition (so stated; "October, 1931"). 8vo. Title page printed in red and black. Contemporary full blue calf, spine with 5 raised bands, ruled in gilt floral devices, front cover ruled in gilt with four floral devices in the four corners. Very good. 1037 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Ltd., Frome and London.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

First edition. Small octavo. Tipped-in frontispiece portrait by Waldo Murray. Original 1/2 brown cloth over decorated boards, upper cover with large drawing of a beetle by Waldo Murray, uncut. Very good. Glassine dust jacket (chipped). No signatures or bookplates.
Small bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown.
Number 74 of 100 numbered copies; first book of the Scarab Press.
Edel & Laurence C6.
BAL 10710.

New York, Thomas Seltzer, 1922., 1922. First edition. 8vo. Original blue/gray cloth, stamped in dark blue. Attractive dust jacket printed in red and black with a design of a flute (price clipped; a few nicks and short tears). Very good-fine. No signatures or bookplates. Roberts A 21 - the British edition appeared two years later.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

First edition, first printing (so stated). Octavo. Folding genealogical table. Color pictorial dust jacket designed by Jack Ribik (price clipped). Very good. 317 pages. No signatures or bookplates.

New York, Random House [1965]., 1965. First edition (so stated). 8vo. Illustrated with 2 b/w photographs. Dust jacket (unclipped; new nicks; short tear). Very good. 210 pages.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894., 1894. First edition. 8vo. Original maroon cloth with elaborate gilt stamped design and green onlaid green cloth panel, t.e.g., others uncut. 207 pages + 2 pages publisher's advertisements. No dust jacket. Includes contributions by Thomas Carlyle, Victor Hugo, John Ruskin, Sir Walter Scott and others.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York, Arbor House [1982]., 1982. First edition. 8vo. Dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon (unclipped). Fine. 303 pages. No signatures or bookplates.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York, Harper & Row, Publishers [1975]., 1975. First edition (so stated). 8vo. Dust jacket designed by Ted Bernstein (unclipped; spine a bit faded). Very good. 293 pages. No signatures or bookplates.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Meriden, Connecticut, Bayberry Hill Press, 1972., 1972. First edition. Folio. Foreword by Ruth and Foster Johnson. Frontispiece facsimile and 9 b/w illustrations. Initials in red. Original 1/2 orange cloth over marbled boards, paper spine label (paper torn on back cover). Very good. 57 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Number 77 of "about" 80 copies, numbered and hand set in Janson. Printed on Barchum green paper on "an ancient press which once belonged to Fred and Bertha Goudy." Includes impressions of W.B. Yeats, Thomas Hardy and others.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Wymondham [Alan Tucker] 1977., 1977. First edition. Tall 8vo. Drawings by Juliet Standing. Original brown cloth stamped in blue; lime green endpapers. Fine. Unpaginated. No signatures or bookplates. One of 80 copies unnumbered copies. Printed by Trevor Hickman at the Brewhouse Private Press, Wymondham, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, Christmas, 1977.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket.

New York, St. Martin's Press [1980, 1979]., 1980. First American edition (so stated). 8vo. Edited, with commentary by David Langford. 8 b/w halftone illustrations. Bibliography. Dust jacket (unclipped). Very good-fine. 96. No signatures or bookplates.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Wymondham [Alan Tucker] 1977., 1977. First edition. Tall 8vo. Drawings by Juliet Standing. Original brown cloth stamped in blue; lime green endpapers. Fine. Unpaginated. No signatures or bookplates. One of 80 copies unnumbered copies. Printed by Trevor Hickman at the Brewhouse Private Press, Wymondham, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, Christmas, 1977.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket.

London, The Seizin Press, 1929., 1929. First edition. 8vo. Title page vignette by Len Lye. Original cream buckram, stamped in gilt on the spine. Fine. 50 pages. Enclosed in a 1/2 red morocco clamshell box stamped in gilt. Number 77 of 225 copies, signed and numbered by Stein on the limitation slip tipped-in to the verso of the half title page as issued.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket.

First edition (with Scribner's Seal and "A"). 8 1/2" x 6". Dust jacket (unclipped; backed on verso with brown paper; small nicks). Traces of clipping on front free endpaper. Good. 308 pages.

New York, E.P. Dutton, Co., Inc. [1966]., 1966. First American edition (so stated). Small 8vo. Illustrated with 4 b/w halftones from photographs taken from the stage production by Rosemarie Clausen. Pictorial dust jacket photograph by Rosemarie Clausen (unclipped). Very good. 76 pages + 4 pages of halftones at end. No bookplates.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1955., 1955. First edition, first printing (so stated). 8vo. Dust jacket painting by Jules Gottlieb (unclipped; a few nicks). Very good. 248 pages. No signatures or bookplates.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.. First edition (so stated). 8vo. Dust jacket designed by Betty Anderson (unclipped). Fine. 113 pages. No signatures or bookplates.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.