20th Century Literature

New York. The Macmillan Company 1907. Bound in pictorial decorated brown buckram 8vo. First Edition.This copy inscribed boldly in ink by Jack London to his Sister, Ida London Byrne and his Brother-In-Law Jack on the Front free endsheet In a strong,broad hand requiring the majority of the Front Free Endsheet, London writes :"Dear Ida & Jack- With love and lots off (sic) it from your brother, Jack London. Oakland, Calif. April 17,1907 " A most ironic spelling error ( "off for "of " )by one of history's great writers !Accompanying this volume is a postcard loosely laid-in. The front of the postcard is a photograph of Jack and Charmian London outside their home ( Wake Robin Lodge) in Glen Ellen.Portions of the rear of the card present old scrapbook adhesive remnants which obscure portions of the postmark and stamp as well as the address and message. Postmarked Oakland, January 1913 ( day obscured ) it is addressed to Mrs. Alice shade in San Francisco.… Read More

New York:: Liveright,, 1931.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Very Good plus copy with previous owner name on the flyleaf in a Very Good plus dust jacket that has shallow chipping to the head & heel of spine. Uncommon in any kind of jacket. "This little book (of essays)...is an attempt to express in story form, partly in broken verse, partly in opinions ...a growing conviction that modern man is losing his ability to retain his manhood in the face of the modern way of utilizing the maching and that what hope there is for him lies in women." From Anderson's introduction.

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1958. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Yellow Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good DJ. 320 Pp. Yellow Cloth Stamped In Gilt And Violet. Near Fine Book, Clean, Hinges Tight, No Names Or Marks, Spine Gilt Bright, No Fraying Or Foxing. Dj Not Price Clipped [16S Net], Wear At Corners With Small Losses At Corners And Along Most Of Top And Bottom Edges Of Spine, Not Affecting The Lettering, And Wear Along Rear Spine Edge; Small 1/4" Deep V-Chip At Right Of Lower Edge Of Front Panel. Signed By Author On Title Page And Dated 1970.

London, Heinemann, 1970, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. These journal entries are letters Steinbeck wrote to his editor, Pascal Covici, in preparation for writing East of Eden, Goldstone & Payne A44c, Morrow 276. Fine.

London, World Books, 1940, first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover.. The jacket carries photos of the stars of the 20th Century-Fox film version in a circular or horseshow fashion, among those pictured are Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, Jane Darwell as Ma Joad, and John Carradine as Casy, a very scarce book, this book was not in the Adrian H. Goldstone collection, but see Goldstone & Payne A12k (cited via the Preston Beyer copy), not recorded by Morrow. Very good.

London: Grant Richards, 1931. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/As New DJ. 250 Pp. Green Cloth, Black Lettering, "First Published 1931" On Verso Of Title Page. Book Is Only Good/Very Good, Wear But No Fraying, Some Fading To Back Strip. Dj Is Fine, As New, Not A Hint Of Wear Or Fading, And Probably Unique Thus; It May Be A Proof, Height Is 3/8" Taller Than The Book, Otherwise Fits Book Properly, Although The Illustration Continues From Top To Bottom And There Is No Easy Cut-Off Height Which Would Not Remove Material Items In The Illustration [ The Dj Had Been Folded Flat And Stored Away From Light And Wear, Part Of An Archive Of Similarly Preserved Jackets 1925-1935, All Entirely Unfaded]. Uncommon; And This Must Be The Finest Known Dj For The Book Or At Least There Is None Better Than This One Which Is As New.

Hearst, 1913. hard. See Photo Gallery Hearst's Magazine, Volume XXIII, Bound 6 issues January-June 1913 Publisher-Printing Location: World Review Company, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY Date and Numbering: January - June 1913 Size and Page Count: 7.5"" X 10"" Tall, approx. 1000 pages Condition: Good, Green Cloth with black spine label with gilt lettering, binding in Very Good condition, Dover ex-library label on inside of back cover, approx. 75 pages missing , few pages with tears. Text block clear no foxing.
Illustration Information: Approx. 200 illustrations, from advertisements to full page photographs or paintings, Examples from these artists:
James Montgomery Flagg 19 illustrations
Howard Chandler Christy 5 illustrations
Charles Dana Gibson 3 illustrations
Contents:
Four articles by Elbert Hubbard
Six articles by Winston Churchill
Admiral George Dewey's Autobiography
Review of a book on Booker T. Washington
Story by George Bernard Shaw
Article By Allan L. Benson on Thomas Edison George M. Cohan… Read More

New York : Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1957. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine Dust Jacket. 244 Pp. Red Cloth Spine Over Patterned Boards. Stated First Printing. Book Is Near Fine, Slight Rubbing At Corners And At Ends Of Spine. Dj Not Price Clipped ($3.50), Minute Losses At Upper Corners, Spine And Top Edges A Little Browned. Signed By The Author In Green Ink In Both English And Chinese, And Additionally Inscribed Above In Blue Ink By Lee To His San Francisco Friend The Actress Marjorie Lord ( Mrs. Randolph Hale), "To Marjorie Lord With [Chinese Character]".

Long Beach: Geo. W. Moyle Pub. Co., 1920. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Vi, 119 Pp. Orange Cloth, Stamped In Black. No Date Of Publication Indicated But Author's Preface Dated December 1920. Anti-War Drama With Excellent Short Introduction By Southern California's Favorite Upper Class Secular Humanist ( My Favorite Anyway). Light Wear And Dust To Covers, Lettering Undamaged, Hinges Tight. Faint Ownership Name "Eddie" On Front Free Endpaper. Fanny Weston Bixby Spencer (1879 - 1930) Was Born Fanny Weston Bixby In Los Angeles, California, The Youngest Of Nine Surviving Children Of Jotham Bixby; He Had Arrived In California In 1852 From Maine, Where He And Several Cousins Had Formed Flint, Bixby & Company, Which Acquired Major Landholdings, Including The 27,000-Acre Rancho Los Cerritos In What Is Now Long Beach. Fanny Grew Up Wealthy, And Although She Was An Active Philanthropist, When She Died In 1930 Her $2.5 Million Estate Was The Largest Ever… Read More

1913 Rubaiyat Omar Khayyam Limited Edition Persia Mystical Poetry Riccardi Press

"Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit
Of This and That endeavor and dispute"
– Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat

The 'Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám' is said to be one of the ten best known poems in the world, and probably the most popular piece of Middle Eastern literature in the Western World. There are hundreds of editions published from Fitzgerald's various translations alone. This collection of Persian stories dates to the 11th-century and covers a wide variety of topics including philosophy, mysticism, and Sufi and pre-Islamic.

"Like the Odyssey or the Vita Nuova [it] was once the most widely known and quoted work of Victorian poetry in the world," and its place in Western culture at the time was secured by Fitzgerald's "epigrammatic, sophisticated, often mordant verses [that] display Fitzgerald's adroitness in handling this stanza form" (Warner).

This early 20th-century printing of 'Rubaiyat' is a Riccardi Press… Read More

1909 1st ed Andean Land South America Photographs Robinson Crusoe Illustrated
Chase Osborn's "The Andean Land" is an early 20th-century travelogue provides an account of the earthquake at Valparaiso in 1906 and tsunami that nearly leveled the Chilean city. Osborn includes information on the Falkland Islands, the Galapagos Islands, a campaign of Simon Bolivar, Brazilian Coffee Industry, modern whaling in the Antarctic Ocean, Cape Horn, Juan Fernandez where Defoe marooned Robinson Crusoe, poisonous insects and reptiles, straits of Magellan, and much more.
This 1909 first edition is complete with over 50 photogravure illustrations and 4 maps!
Item number: #13508
Price: $499
OSBORN, Chase S
The Andean land (South America)
Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1909. First edition.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes
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Vol. I – xv, [5], 312
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Vol. II – x, [4], 331, [1]
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Illustrated throughout
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First edition. viii,112 pages. Black cloth with titles in gilt. Small octavo.

United Kingdom: Collins Harvill, 1960. Clean text. Unread. Toning to the edges of the text, Green top stain to the top edge. Light toning to the board edges else fine. Same dates to Title and CP as required for the true 1st British printing which preceded the American issue. Green cloth boards, green spine and gold lettering. Dustcover not price clipped. Light toning to the spine with light wear to the top and base. New mylar cover. Superb copy.. 1st Edition. Hardcover w/ jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Folio Society, 2008-2013. Hardcover. As New. Books unread and in crisp, clean and collectable condition/Insignificant rubbing on slipcases. The complete 20-volume Folio Society collection of the Aubrey-Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian, consisting of: Master and Commander; Post Captain; HMS Surprise; The Mauritius Command; Desolation Island; The Fortune of War; The Surgeon's Mate; The Ionian Mission; Treason's Harbour; The Far Side of the World; The Reverse of the Medal; The Letter of Marque; The Thirteen Gun Salute; The Nutmeg of Consolation; Clarissa Oakes; The Wine-Dark Sea; The Commodore; The Yellow Admiral; The Hundred Days; Blue at the Mizzen.

Primera edicion de ''la Guerra de guerrillas'',por Ernesto Guevara,che.habana,impreso en los talleres tipograficos del INRA.1960,caratulas originales,buen estado.Guerra de guerrillas es un libro escrito por el revolucionario y guerrillero marxista-leninista argentino-cubano Che Guevara, el cual fue publicado originalmente en Cuba en 1960 (poco tiempo después del triunfo de la Revolución en ese país). Guevara intentó que el libro fuese un manual que conjugase su teoría del foquismo con su entonces muy reciente experiencia guerrillera dentro del Movimiento 26 de julio, el cual básicamente había operado en la Sierra Maestra. Su idea era que otros grupos armados insurgentes marxistas lo leyesen y extrajesen enseñanzas aplicables al territorio en el que operasen, ya fuese en América Latina, África o Asia. No obstante, el libro sería traducido al inglés y portugués por la CIA y sería utilizado por las fuerzas contrainsurgencia que estudiaban y se entrenaban en la Escuela de las Américas[cita… Read More