Search Results: Authors starting with S from Varennes Books

First American edition of T.S. Eliot's Pageant Play, written for a benefit performance on behalf of the forty-five churches fund of the Diocese of London. 86 p. No markings, no wear on beige cloth boards, pages clean and bright. Dust jacket missing.

No. 642 of 850 of a BBC Radio-play Melodrama based on Homer's Odyssey for broadcasting performed by the BBC in November 1943 with six colour plates by Henry Moore (without Benjamin Britten's orchestral score)

Signed First Edition, Modern Age Books, 1938, Paper, with the following inscription to noted Patron of the Arts, "To Henry Church, whom I have never had the pleasure of meeting, but with sincere greetings, nevertheless - William Saroyan, S.F. Aug. 1938." Bound in original pink pictorial wrappers, a very bright, fresh copy - lettering a bit faded at spine with slight rubbing to corners.

Very good copy of first hardcover cloth 1957 Trade Edition of collection of fourteen unpublished short stories and essays originally published under the sponsorship of the Friends of the Princeton University Library. With an Introd. and Notes by Arthur Mizener. DJ torn and chipped. No wear to Interior.

Very Good Hardcover 1982 Arbor House Book Club Edition in the science fiction-fantasy series begun with Lord Valentine's Castle.

First American edition of this collection of Dame Edith Sitwell's poetry. A very good copy. Octavo, original black cloth boards stamped in gilt, bright intact original pink dustjacket with slight wear to folds on panels.

Hachette , 1987. Very good copy of French historical fiction work on three generations of an immigrant island family that settled in the Pacific Islands of New Caledonia in the XIXth century. As new - save for two words highlighted on opening page. Inside intact. No wear. Novel inspired a three episode Franco-Australian TV drama produced in 1999.

First American Picador Ed, 2001. Paperback. Condition: Very Good - . No wear, no markings or highlighting.

First Picador USA Ed, 2001, Used-Very Good - condition. Pages and cover intact. No signs of shelf wear.

Numbered 51/650 first edition on vellum of Philippe Soupault's Odes. Soupault was one of France's greatest poets of the 20th century, one of the founders of surrealism with André Breton in 1919, active in the Dadaist Movement, novelist and critic. Vellum wraps chipped at top and bottom corners of sunned spine, tiny cut on edge of rear board, soiling to rear board, but internally crisp and clean with the exception of browning to pages opposite photos of L"ocean by Pierre Boucher; New York & London, Keystone, Paris, René Jacques, Bogota, Ramon Ruiz, Prague, Karel Plicka.

First edition. Volume one. Silver-stamped gray papercovered boards and spine. Text in German. Poems in translation by: Rossetti, Swinburne, Dowson, Jacobsen, Kloos, Verwey, Verhaeren. Some sunning to edges.

First edition of a Random House wartime book. Gertrude Stein remained in southeastern France during World War II though she was a potential target of persecution and had been advised to leave Nazi-occupied France. Here in a series of personal anecdotes, she recalls what she and the people of France endured between 1940 and 1944 during the German Occupation. Boards are clean. Binding is tight. Interior clean and bright. Dust jacket is not intact but included.

Very Good copy of.first edition of Gertrude Stein's Last Opera and Plays edited and with introduction by Carl Van Vechten, Stein's literary executor and lifelong friend. Includes original uncut versions of The Mother of Us All, Four Saints in Three Acts and Yes Is for a Very Young Man and frontispiece 1934 photo of Gertrude Stein by Carl Van Vechten. No wear to interrior. Slight chipping at edges of dust jacket.

Very good copy of interwar analysis of tensions in the Far East between Japan, China and Soviet Union by German journalist stationed in Japan and China who was a foreign correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, the Christian Science Monitor and the Associated Press. 8vo, 16pp photoplates; map 21x14cm, viii,244,(16)p. Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company bookseler's label affixed inside back board. No wear to maroon cloth boards. Inside immaculate.

Elegant collectible copy of an early English edition of Sentimental Journey with a Frontispiece Portrait of the author with tissue guard intact. First published in 1768, this autobiographical work established travel writing as a popular genre in the latter half of the 18th century. Gilt title on spine. Blue cloth over blue and white mottled boards. No wear to corners. Slight bumping to spine. Binding tight.

Fine First edition in chocolate brown cloth stamped in silver and gold at spine and on front cover, in a very good green and grey dustwrapper, Edited with an Introduction by Samuel French Morse. 301pp with index. From Collection of Barbara Church.

First Italian edition of Italo Svevo's story of an old man's sexual obsession with a young woman with introduction by Eugenio Montale. The noted Italian Modernist, Italo Svevo (b. Ettore Schmitz in Trieste, 1861) was unknown in Italy until his encounter with James Joyce in Trieste in 1907 and later recognition in France by Valery Larbaud and Benjamin Crémieux. This novella-published the year after Svevo's death in an automobile accident-is an account of an older man's attraction to a younger woman. The volume also includes Madre (1910), Vino Generoso (1926), Una burla riuscita (1926), Il Vecchione (1928). The English translation entitled The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girls and Other Stories was commissioned and published by Virginia Woolf for her Hogarth Press. 12mo. Tight copy in very good condition. Uncut after p.129, slight soiling and rubbing on front and back covers, nicks on edge at p.149, faint water stains on top right edge (p.145-316).