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Boston: John W. Luce & Company, 1919. First edition. Small octavo. Cloth and maroon boards stamped in gilt. First American edition, precedes British edition by two years. Spine a bit faded, small rub on upper panel, lower right, former owner's name and date on front free endpaper, else a very good or better copy without a dust jacket, but with the requisite watermark.  Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878-1957), was an Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels, and essays.  The mystical city of Bethmoora, first mentioned in Dunsany's A Dreamer's Tales, was incorporated into The Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft. Dunsany also invented creatures, like gnoles and gibbelins, that are likely the models for the zoogs and ghasts of Lovecraft's Dreamlands.

London: The Richards Press, Ltd., 1949. First edition. Octavo. Red cloth lettered in black on spine. Frontispiece collotype portrait. 427,[1] pp. Posthumous collection of 14 short novels, and short stories. Offsetting to front endsheets, else a very good copy in a dreadful dust jacket encased in mylar principally to preserve its liberal use of tape. Critical introduction by Philip Van Doren Stern.

New York: Knopf, 1991. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/Fine. White wrappers, black printing. Advance reading copy of the first U.S. edition, signed by the author on the title page and enclosed in the publisher's glossy envelope sleeve, as issued. Fine.

[N.p]: A. J. Weberman, [N.d]. First "bootleg" edition. Very good.. S. Clay Wilson [illus].. Psychedelic pink stapled wrappers, printed in black. Wraps illustrated by A. J. Weberman; interior back panel by S. Clay Wilson entitled "The Meth Freaks Fight the Feds to the Finish," dated 1967.  Outer wraps modestly soiled, sun fading along front edge. 71 pp., numbered from 7 - 78. A copy of Tarantula, published by Bantam Books is included for collector's reference. This rather scarce copy has been held in a private collection since purchase. A very good copy.   Early edition. Although this edition is not dated, there is a reference by the publisher Weberman on the verso of the upper wrap, "You'll never be able to figure this mother out unless you have a Dylan Word Concordance which tells you the contexts of all Dylan's symbols. I'm working on that now...." His Concordance was finally published in 1971, which indicates this edition predates the publication. I would hazard 1967-68 based on the… Read More

Fine. Shakespeare's Tempest - A Graphic Presentation in Leporello Format [SHAKESPEARE, William]: ROBSON, Joanna: [Edinburgh: 2011].  Oblong 24mo (12 x 17 cm; 4.75" x 6.625"). [9] ff., illus., color. Aquatint accomplished in gorgeous, rich shades of blue, the work when fully opened measures 140 x 12 cm (55.11" x 4.75"). The brown cloth binding is striped, with an overall scattering of stars picked out in black, tan, and cream. The edition was limited to 20 copies, this being No. 17, signed by the artist opposite the title page. As issued. Padded cloth boards, as above, with a paper obi strip (i.e., "belly band"). WorldCat locates only one copy in a library collection, that of University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, there is an additional unrecorded copy in the collection at Laguna College of Art & Design. "This wordless re-telling of The Tempest is a limited-edition concertina book made from a lengthy etching. The setting is based on the Minack Theatre in Cornwall, an outdoor theatre built into… Read More

London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1957. Black cloth, gilt spine. Twenty-three illustrations in the text. Faint offsetting to endsheets, otherwise fine, in a very good dust jacket with some little scattered foxing. First edition. The British surgeon Dr. William Palmer was accused in 1856 of murdering fourteen people by means of poison. A Victorian true crime novel told from the shifting perspectives of those who came into contact with the notorious doctor. His mother's lament at the outcome of his trial for poisoning his friend forms the title for this historical fiction account - a genre at which Graves is an acknowledged master.

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1948. First edition. Very good./Good.. Gilt cloth. Foreword. Offsetting to endsheets, old label mark to front free endsheet, else very good in two-color dust jacket with some bumps along top and bottom edges, smudges to both panels.  First UK edition. Dedicated, in gratitude, to her friend Caresse Crosby. "The present collection contains some of Kay Boyle's most famous titles -- 'Wedding Day,' 'Black Boy,' 'The White Horses of Vienna,' 'Defeat,' and 'Winter Night.' She has listed them chronologically, breaking the periods up by country as well as date, so that they are placed for the reader in time as well as geographically." -- from the front book flap.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966. Cloth and boards. Gilt green cloth.  First edition, preceding the UK edition by almost two years.  Near fine in very good, lightly rubbed and smudged pictorial dust jacket. Bryher (1894 - 1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman, who supported many artists, writers, and friends with the proceeds of a fortune derived from the Ellerman ship enterprises.  She was a major figure of the international set in Paris in the 1920s, her friends being the usual suspects. With her lover Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) and the Scottish writer Kenneth Macpherson, she launched the film magazine Close Up, which introduced Sergei Eisenstein's work to British viewers. From her home in Switzerland, she helped to evacuate Jews from Nazi Germany, and then became a popular historical novelist. This novel deals with 1066 and all that. .

New York: The Grolier Club, 2008. First edition, limited edition. Fine. Large octavo. Cloth and decorated paper. 11.5 x 8.75 in. [4],152,[6] pp. Color frontispiece, and numerous color plate illustrations. Introductory note, ten individual topical essays, author biographies, notes, and bibliography. Published to accompany the exhibition at the Grolier Club, New York City, September 16 through November 22, 2008. Personal copy with bookplate of the Hogarth Press /Bloomsbury Group collector and author William Beekman affixed to front pastedown, else a fine, pristine copy; without a dust jacket as issued.  First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Utilizing books, images, letters, and manuscript materials that best narrate the life and work of Virginia Woolf, This Perpetual Fight focuses on Woolf's relationships with her husband, Leonard Woolf; her parents, Leslie and Julia Stephen; siblings, Vanessa Bell, Thoby and Adrian Stephen; suitors, friends, lovers; and other important figures in Woolf's life,… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First American edition. Very good. Octavo. Publisher's unfortunate choice of yellow cloth, paper spine label, decorative endpapers. 287,[3] pp., a great many unopened. Cloth is rather smudged, spine darkened with label chipped and also darkened, a testament to binding choice errors, else a very good copy without the dust jacket that might have saved it.  "The novel comprises several weird tales and culminates in a denouement of deadly horror, connected with a secret society devoted to debauched pagan rites. The three impostors of the title are members of this society who weave a web of deception in the streets of London-relating the aforementioned weird tales in the process-as they search for a missing Roman coin commemorating an infamous orgy by the Emperor Tiberius and close in on their prey: 'the young man with spectacles.'  Publisher John Lane of The Bodley Head, wary of the atmosphere following the trial of Oscar Wilde, asked Machen to expurgate his… Read More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. Cloth and boards, gilt spine. Black and white photo illustrations. A fine, unmarked copy in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. First American edition. Mixing personal and literary history, Lehmann writes of his friendship and partnership with Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. In 1931 he was hired as a "trainee manager" at the age of 24, left and later returned as a partner and manager.  A friend of the Woolf's nephew, Julian Bell, Lehmann was a family as well as a business insider. Essential reading for any admirer of Virginia Woolf and/or the Hogarth Press.

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.

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." .

[New York]: Scribner, 1999. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Cloth and boards. 367,[1] pp. First American edition. Fine, in fine dust jacket.  First you win the Pulitzer Prize, and then nobody wants to know you. This underrated memoir is delightful, taking up the saga when McCourt comes to America at the age of nineteen to seek his fortune.

London: C. W. Daniel, Ltd, 1920. Stiff salmon wrappers with printed labels. First edition, "Plays for a People's Theatre. II." Small private library book label of Arthur Willliam Foster (1850-1930) on pastedown, wraps slightly tanned, otherwise a nice copy without the outer printed jacket. Arthur William Foster was born in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1850, he came to California in the middle 1860's, settling in San Francisco, and later, moving his family to San Rafael. Founder of the Bank of San Rafael (later acquired by Wells Fargo Bank), he was President of the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad, a regent of the University of California for 27 years.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Near fine.. Octavo. Stripe patterned cloth boards, paper spine label. Several leaves unopened. Lovely, tiny, Texas woman-owned bookstore label affixed to the rear pastedown, trivial foxing to rear board cloth and some minor flaring of the boards - probably attributed to contraction of the glue on the pastedowns, else near fine.  First edition, limited to 100 copies, of which this is № 81, numbered and signed by the author, her third book of poetry and final title published in her lifetime. The Texas bookseller whose label adorns this copy was Eula Wolcott who owned several bookshops in the Dallas area, this one in the "glamorous" Baker Hotel. Her book label, admittedly, may only be of interest to bookstore label nerds like myself.

London: Peter Owen, 1965. First British Commonwealth Edition. Very good / Good. Octavo. Original publisher's brown cloth, gilt spine. 271,[3] pp. Dust speckled top edge, spine ever-so-slightly cocked, else a clean, bright, very good copy; pictorial dust jacket with minor rubbing, rear panel slightly soiled, else good and presents well. Scarce in this condition.  Two Serious Ladies is the author's first novel, originally published in the US in 1943 this is the first UK edition. It's a novel about two women, Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield, who, in seeking to escape the constraints of society and their own personalities, pursue unconventional and risky lifestyles. They both abandon their comfortable homes and relationships and embark on journeys of self-discovery and experimentation while challenging the norms and expectations of society and gender roles. Two Serious Ladies is regarded as a queer classic that is considered a Modernist masterpiece that influenced many writers such as Truman… 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