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New York: Cheshire House, 1932. Quarto. Half calf and marbled boards. T.e.g., all others untrimmed. Wood engravings by Freda Bone. Introduction by Christopher Morley. No. 955 of twelve hundred numbered copies. Spine a shade sunned, bit of foxing to end sheets and edges, but a very good copy in a minimally rubbed slipcase with paper label. "... I have done nothing to make it easier for you to read. It cannot be made easy. Save for a few noble passages and some fine bawdy humor (when did a scene ever open on a more brilliantly daring couplet than the first lines of Act Two?) the piece will seem obscure bombast except to connoisseurs. To them it is priceless because it is a flawed pearl in the great necklace worn by the Muse of English Tragedy." -- Christopher Morley. .

London: Victor Gollancz, 1943. First edition. Very good./Good.. Gilt cloth. A very good copy of this cheaply made wartime book in lightly soiled dust jacket with tiny dots on upper panel and a small loss at crown of spine.   First edition. From the dust jacket: "The text of Miss Sayers' famous series of broadcast plays on the life of Christ: together with (1) notes on the action and characters as furnished by Miss Sayers to the producer, (2) a long introduction by Miss Sayers, covering the theology and dramatic structure of the plays, (3) a foreword by Dr. Welch of the B..C., giving the history of the controversy aroused, (5) a brief note on the production by Val Gielgud, and (6) the complete cast for each play.

London: Cassell & Company, Ltd, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Gilt cloth. First edition, trade issue. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a short, closed tear. HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A107a.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1924. First edition. Octavo. Plum and black cloth, paper spine label.  T.e.g. Wood-engraved tile page vignette, dust jacket, and text illustrations by R. A. Garnett, the author's first wife. Very good, off-setting to endsheets, the book label of collector William Beekman, whose stunning Hogarth Press / Virginia Woolf collection forms part of the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library;  the printed and decorated dust jacket is darkened on the spine, insignificant chips at head and toe of spine, small rumple at bank panel lower edge. A list of the "Recent Important Publications" of the publisher appears on the rear panel. First edition, later impression. A Man in the Zoo invites readers to reflect on the boundaries of identity, the sacrifices made for love, and the impact of societal expectations on individual lives. Withal, a charming book.   .

[Pittsburgh]: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Gilt cloth. First edition. Frontispiece portrait. Facsimiles. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Near fine, with a touch of shelfwear at toe of spine, issued without dust jacket. An essential tool in the study of Marianne Moore and her varied works in poetry, prose, translations, letters, recordings, editing, etc. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First American Edition. Octavo. Cloth and boards. 225pp. Four leaves of black & white photos. Appendix, family tree, notes, bibliography, and index. Near fine in a similar pictorial dust jacket. First American edition. "[E]minent psychiatrist Peter Dally explores the darker side of Virginia Woolf. Bringing together his knowledge of as a doctor with his lifelong fascination with Woolf's life and work, he sheds light on the depression that tormented her adult years" -- from the dust jacket.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. Salmon cloth, decorated and stamped in black. Frontispiece. Decorated endpapers. Black and white line drawings on covers, frontispiece, endpapers, and throughout the text by Mary Shepard. Minor shelf wear near toe of spine edge, else very good in a good dust jacket with some rubbing to tips and crown of spine. Reissue of the 1935 publication, perhaps to make available the entire oeuvre to date of four publications in this series. Harcourt has not shared exactly when this book was reissued, but it is certainly before 1960 when Harcourt changed its name yet again, and after 1948 when they acquired Reynal & Hitchcock, the name on the lower spine of the dust jacket. The upper turn in of the dust jacket has both Reynal & Hitchcock and Harcourt, Brace and Company listed just to make things extra spicy. Let's all convene on Cherry-Tree Lane with the Banks children and await Mary Poppins' return. Perhaps she can sort out this conundrum.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1933. First edition. Very good. Octavo, original blue-green card wrappers. 37,[3]pp. Text followed by publisher's three pages advertising previous and newly published titles by Keynes. Wraps sunned along edges, slight bump at bottom fore-edge; internally clean and bright with neither foxing nor annotations. Very good. First edition of the enlarged version of four of Keynes' articles printed in the [London] Times during March 1933, making his case for counter-cyclical public spending, never a welcome economic relief plan to conservative leaders of any administration in that time or in the present. At the height of the Great Depression, in 1933, Keynes published The Means to Prosperity, which contained specific policy recommendations for tackling unemployment in a global recession, chiefly the aforementioned counter-cyclical public spending. Keynes' advised government to take on debt in order to spend money on relief to individual citizens thereby elevating their… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1989. About fine./Fine.. Thick octavo. Emerald green gilt cloth. First edition. Signed by author on half-title. Some foxing to top edge, else about fine in a fine highly pictorial dust jacket designed by Tom Phillips whose portrait of Dame Jean Iris Murdoch hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1967. First American edition. Black cloth, gilt spine. xxi,222 pp. First American edition, reproduced by offset from the British edition by Arthur Barker, Ltd., published in the same year. Fine, unmarked copy in near fine dust jacket designed by Frank Utpatel with a lightly sunned spine and small rub near the toe of spine.  "The time is the end of the twentieth century. The story begins with the suicide of a renowned scientist, moves rapidly to the discovery of gigantic prehistorically inscribed blocks of stone two miles beneath the surface of the earth, and soon involves Professor Gilbert Austin in an incredible conflict with the Tsathogguans -- the invisible mind parasites that menace the civilized world, particularly the most briliant of men and women." -- from the publisher. JOSHI 92.

[New York: Harper, 1998. First edition. Octavo. Black cloth, teal boards, gilt spine. 116 pp. First edition. Clean and bright, remainder mark on upper edge, else near fine in likewise, unclipped, delightfully pictorial dust jacket. Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury tells the story of a sickly marmoset who came into the care of Leonard Woolf in 1934. After nursing her back to health, Leonard was rarely seen without Mitz on his shoulder. Mitz became a ubiquitous presence in Bloomsbury society, moving with the Woolfs between their homes in London and Sussex. She developed special relationships with the family's cocker spaniels and various members of the Woolfs' circle, including T. S. Eliot and Vita Sackville-West. Mitz even played a vital role in helping the Woolfs escape a close call with Nazis in Germany just before World War II. The novel blends letters, diaries, and memoirs to reconstruct Mitz's life against the backdrop of Bloomsbury in its twilight years, offering a tender, affectionate, and… Read More

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.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. First edition. Good./Fair.. Cloth. Discreet bookseller's label tipped in, cloth faded at the edges and head and toe of spine, but a good copy in a very worn, soiled and chipped dust jacket.  First edition. A departure for Boyle, she serves up a kind of a mystery story set in France wherein two Americans become in the search for a toxicologist who has been connected with certain notorious poisonings. Taxi rides, drunkenness, and a secluded estate feature.

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.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. First edition. Good.. Slim octavo. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine. Frontis portrait from a drawing by Francis Dodd. First edition. Preface by his brother, Laurence Housman, who was under orders by A. E. to destroy his notebooks after his death -- which L. H. did, but not before making a list of their contents. Neat gift inscription and faint erased name and date on front free endsheet, boards rubbed, spine sunned, gilt dulled on first letter "M" on upper panel, otherwise a good clean copy without a dust jacket.

New York: The Modern Library, 1928. Octavo. Blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and on upper cover; top edge blue, white endpapers patterned in grey. Pale blue-grey dust jacket printed in black and dark red. x,294 pp. Lightly sunned on board edges, a negligible mark on upper board, else a very good copy with the bookplate of noted Bloomsbury/Hogarth Press collector William Beekman affixed to front pastedown. Dust jacket is rubbed and nicked, with a price sticker over the original price cents stating, "As of April 15, 1947, the price of Modern Library in U.S.A. is $1.25 a copy. Other markings void. The Modern Library, Inc." It is fair to say this is a later dust jacket.  First edition, re-impression. Special introduction by the author. Issued December 1928 in The Modern Library of the World's Best Books as Vol. 96; number of copies unknown. The text was printed from Harcourt, Brace's plates, pages i-ix being reset. KIRKPATRICK & CLARKE A9c.

London: John Murray, 1948. Small quarto. Pictorial red cloth. First edition. 166 black & white half-tone plates and photographs, most of which have been specially taken by Betjemand and Piper, a folding map, a Gazetteer to all the Parishes, and an index. Boards a trace bowed, otherwise very good copy the rarely seen edgeworn, price-clipped dust jacket with a few small chips and tears to the spine panel. STAPLETON, A16.

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: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Octavo. Paper over boards. First edition, later impression. Fine, in about fine dust jacket.  "Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does -- humans are a musical species" -- from the publisher.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 4 of 100 copies, signed and numbered by the author. Design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small, independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.