20th Century Literature

Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1907. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 296 Pp + 12 Page Catalog At End. Beige Covers, Printed In Red, With Color Embossed Illustration On Front Cover And Color Decoration On Spine. Fine, No Wear Or Damage. Bookplate Of Christian And Lou C Bors, By Witte, On Front Pastedown. Very Scarce, Worldcat Shows No Institutional Holdings Of This True First Edition, Preceding The Grosset & Dunlap Edition.

San Francisco, California: Harvest Press, 1932 First printing of the first edition, limited to only 125 copies. this copy is additionally signed by William Carlos Williams. Original wrappers.

Minor wear/light creasing to cover and faint age-toning to page margins, else in fine condition.

From the collection of California bibliophile, Melba Berry Bennett, with Bennett's bookplate laid-in to front endpaper ( Melba Berry Bennett: was a poet, writer, bibliophile, and recipient of the California Commonwealth Club's Silver Medal in 1966 for the Jeffers' biography).

NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Author's First Book, a poetry collection, Signed by Walker (author of The Color Purple) on the title page. Remainder mark, else fine in a very good plus jacket.

Jonathan Cape, London, 1982. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed by the author on the title page: "For John with best wishes Bruce 9 Nov 83" and with a former owner name (John Cupper, presumably the recipient of Chatwin's inscription) inked to the head of the front free endpaper. 8vo. 248pp. Grey boards lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny sliver of discolouration to the board edges, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Chatwin's third book, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and, bafflingly, the Whitbread First Novel Award (the judges were presumably unaware of his novel 'The Viceroy of Ouidah' which was published two years previously). Really quite uncommon with the author's signature..

First Edition, third printing

No DJ but in otherwise good condiiton See Photos

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1971. First edition / First printing. Black cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Slight sticker shadow on the front paste-down completely covered by the dust jacket flap. Some wrinkling to the laminate on the front cover.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 346 pages; G+; contemporary full lavender cloth binding; spine with white paper label with red lettering; some shelf wear and mild soiling; corners bumped; spine faded and age-toned; mild wear to crown and tail of spine; spine cocked; both hinges split; inscribed by Glasgow at half title; pages clean; CX consignment; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1347244. FP New Rockville Stock.

First edition, first impression of McEwan s first novel, signed in the year of publication. Very Good condition, in original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (£3.50 net). Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Inscribed by Ian McEwan to front endpaper and dated (Sept 12th 1978).The inscription reads "To Alan, with love, Ian Sept 12. 1978".

London: Methuen, 1995. Signed by Arthur Miller on the title page. First U.K. Edition / First Printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. The U.S. Edition of this story was originally published as a limited edition, and later included in a collection titled: Homely Girl, A Life and Other Stories.

Indianapolis and New York : Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1951. First Edition stated at copyright page. Near Fine, top slightly dusty, in a Very Good dust jacket, 1/2" chip at head of spine with 1" tear at top edge spine fold, rubbed at spine folds, light wear at edges. The Pulitzer and National Book Award winning author's acclaimed first book. . First Edition.. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962. First Printing stated. Near Fine, original yellow cloth with red topstain, tiny bottom corner bump, faint small mark fore edge of page block. In a Very Good dust jacket, light edge wear at spine ends. A quite handsome copy, and Scarce thus. In 2005, TIME magazine called The Golden Notebook one of the 100 best English-language novels since 1923. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Literary Guild, 1933. Near Fine, top edge lightly dusted, in a Very Good Plus Art Deco dust jacket, light edge wear, spine slight darkening. Illustrated in black and white; frontispiece by Man Ray. A handsome copy. . First Book Club Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Johannesburg, South Africa: New Classic Publications Trust Fund, 1978. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 80pp, printed wrappers. Scarce fifth issue of the mid-1970s revival, under black editorship, of this important South African literary magazine. Subscription form laid in. Unmarked copy, light wear to wrappers.

Macmillan and Co. Ltd. London. 1910. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.1 x 5.6 inches). Illustrated with four full page mono plates by Frank Craig. Neat previous owner name and date Oct. 1910, the month of publication, on the front free endpaper. A very good clean copy throughout. Publishers original burgundy cloth boards. Gilt lettering to the spine. Front board with raised circular Ganesha device in gilt. Top edge gilt. A small mark to the top of the rear board and some minor fading to the spine but overall a nice bright copy. -------- Contains the Poem "If". Kipling's most enduring work of verse. A poll taken by the BBC in the UK in 2005 voted it as Britain's favourite Poem, polling twice as many votes as the number 2 choice, Lord Tennyson's The Lady of Shallot. Originally written in 1895, IF was inspired by the actions of Dr. Leander Starr Jameson, a British Officer whose forces were defeated by the Boers in 1895, but who was portrayed as a victorious hero by the British press, the poem is a powerful… Read More