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London: Chatto & Windus, 2006. First edition. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Black cloth, gilt spine. First edition. 215,[1] pp. Signed by the author on the title page. About fine, in a highly pictorial dust jacket.  . .

London: Chatto & Windus, 2004. First edition. Octavo. Gray cloth, gilt spine. First edition. 216 pp. Signed by the author on the title page. About fine, in a highly pictorial dust jacket.  Domestically sequestered Mary Lamb spends her life in the company of her brother Charles, who is equally constrained by having to work at the East India Company while trying to write. Mary accompanies Charles to a bookseller's shop and therein falls for the bookseller's son, seventeen-year-old antiquarian William Ireland. Charles buys a book from the young bookseller that once belonged to William Shakespeare, or did it? .

Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1900. Good. Small octavo. Crocus yellow boards decoratively stamped in black and green. T.e.g. First edition. 218,[8] pp. Decorated double title page, stamped in red and black. Boards an unsigned design by Frederic W. Goudy; thirty-nine full page woodcuts by Clyde J. Newman. Printed at the Lakeside Press, Chicago. Ownership name in pencil on front pastedown, boards good with with some marks and hand soil, internally very good; without a dust jacket.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1998. Collector's Edition. Fine. Alan Reingold. Octavo. Brown leather, 22k gold inlaid on hubbed spine and panels, a.e.g. Moiré endpapers, satin-ribbon page marker, acid-neutral paper, all pages sewn. 359,[1] pp. Color frontispiece and black and white illustrations in text by Alan Reingold. Fine; without dust jacket, as issued.  First edition, thus. Native Son, originally published in 1940, is considered a classic of African American literature as a whole and with having a significant influence on subsequent writers. The novel is a powerful social commentary on racial inequality, and the effects of poverty and discrimination on both individuals and society.

New York: Atheneum, 1965. First edition. Very good. Black cloth, gilt spine. 190,[6] pp. Gift inscription on front free flyleaf to actress Coral Browne in the year of publication. Very good or better in a similar price-clipped dust jacket.  First edition. TINY ALICE is a three-act play by American playwright Edward Albee. The play was first performed in New York in 1964 and is known for its unconventional and ambiguous use of dialogue, symbolism, and commentary on sexuality and spirituality. The recipient of this volume Coral Browne, was an Australian actress who appeared in many plays and films and was married to the actor Vincent Price in 1974 until her death in 1991 in Los Angeles. At her memorial service the Australian character performer Barry Humphries, of Dame Edna fame, delivered a colorful rhyming tribute to the equally colorful Ms. Browne: "She left behind an emptiness / A gap, a void, a trough / The world is quite a good deal less / Since Coral Browne fucked off." .

San Francisco: The Lantern Press, 1925. First, Limited Edition. Very good. Black paper-covered boards titled in gilt, cloth spine. 44,[4] pp. No. 289 of 950 copies printed for The Lantern Press (Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc.) by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn numbered from 51 to 1000, and fifty on Japan Vellum, numbered from 1 to 50. Title page printed in black with woodcut printed in red. Very good, without the black cloth slipcase. Anderson was best known for his 1919 novel WINESBURG, OHIO, and due to his portrait of American life in that novel he is called upon here to argue the role of the modern writer in America and beyond.

Tavistock Square, London: The Hogarth Press, 1934. Green cloth, titled in black. 86 pp. Second edition. Translated from the Russian by D. H. Lawrence (whose name was left off the first edition of 1922, corrected by an errata sheet), S. S. Koteliansky & Leonard Woolf. The first edition consisted of 1000 copies, the second of 1200. This copy, which was purchased for £250 by its previous owner, is enhanced by a gift inscription from Samuel Solomonovich "Kot" Koteliansky to Lady Ottoline Morrell in blue ink on the half title, "Ottoline / with affectionate admiration / Kot / I.III.34. Minor spotting on boards, horizontal crease on spine, else a very good copy without the dust jacket.  Lady Ottoline Morrell was an aristocrat and society maven closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group and was friend and patron to many of its members, which included Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant, Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, among many others. The last two, Lawrence and… Read More

[Toronto]: McClelland and Stewart, 1977. First edition. Very good.. Octavo. Cloth and boards. 256 pp. Inscribed and signed by Atwood on the half-title page, "For Joe- - /  with thanks and / best wishes -- / Margaret Atwood / Saranac Lake / 1978." Ownership signature on front free endsheet, "Joe David Bellamy," neatly written laudatory annotations in two of the stories, else very good; dust jacket price-clipped with minor toning, (lovely portrait of Atwood on rear panel), else good without tears or chips.  First edition. Personal copy of Atwood's friend and colleague, Joe David Bellamy (1941-2014), a former president of the Association of Writers & Writing Program's Board of Directors and a prolific writer of fiction, articles, essays, poetry, and reviews. He authored nineteen books in his lifetime, including his last novel, Green Freedom, which was published in 2012. His first novel, Suzi Sinzinnati (1989), won the sixth annual Editors' Book Award, and Atomic Love (1993), a collection of short… Read More

[New York: Rapho-Guillumette, 1959. Two gelatin silver print borderless film stills, one with the photographer's ink-stamp credit to verso and caption. (1) candid production set still of Audrey Hepburn in nun's habit standing in a river in the Belgian Congo with many natives and production crew, 14 x 11 in. (35.5 x 28 cm.); (2) Audrey Hepburn walking with Dean Jagger in a Belgian city with director Fred Zinnemann, Cinematographer Franz Planer, and a member of the production crew as Hepburn is being escorted by her father to a convent, 13.5 x 7.78 inches (34.29 x 20 cm).  Sanford H. Roth (1906-1962) was an American photographer whose work has appeared in Time, Life, Look, Fortune, Paris Match, Elle, Der Stern, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Oggi, People, and other publications. His photographs of James Dean, Audrey Hepburn, and Marlon Brando still appear regularly in books, magazines, print and other works all over the world. The Nun's Story is a 1959 drama film based upon the popular novel of the same… Read More

New York: Henry Holt, 1998. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Printed wrappers. Frontispiece. Photographs. Uncorrected page proof of the first edition, being the shooting script of the eponymous film starring Harvey Keitel, Vanessa Redgrave, Mira Sorvino, and Willem Dafoe. Publisher's review letter laid in. Spine end faintly sunned and a bit bothered, small nick at front edge, else near fine.

London: Faber & Faber, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Black textured cloth over boards, white titles. First UK edition. Text block slightly toned, otherwise fine in a fine dust jacket illustrated with a photo purportedly of Auster as a sulky child at the piano.

New York: Henry Holt, 1999. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/Fine. Pictorial wrappers. Uncorrected bound proof of the first edition. The poignant love story of a dog and his boy through the thoughts of the dog, Mr. Bones. Neat publisher's stickers on wrappers, otherwise fine.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, [1986]. Blue cloth, gilt title. First edition, trade issue. Private detective Blue is hired to watch a man named Black by a jealous husband named White, and in the process becomes deeply enmeshed in a claustrophobic nightmare. Fine, in an equally fine dust jacket.

New York: William Drenttel in Assn with the Delos Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Pale green cloth, paper spine label, handmade Japanese endpapers. Frontis portrait. Spine and outer edges of upper board sunned, internally fine. First edition, limited issue. Introduction by Robert Hughes. Photograph portrait of Auster by Victor Schrager. Edition limited to 500 total copies, this being #97 of 100 specially bound, numbered copies signed by Auster. The remaining 400 copies have been issued in wrappers.

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Black textured cloth over boards, white titles. First UK edition. Occasional very light pencil annotations in the poetry section, yet a very good copy in a glossy black illustrated dust jacket with minimum edgewear.