Modern First Editions

Privately Printed, 1955, 1955. Like New. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Number 15 of 100 copies privately printed as a Christmas greeting for friends of Stephen Spender. Signed by Stephen Spender. Inscribed and signed by Stephen Spender to Roger Shattuck. Near fine copy. * rm

First edition 1st printing, Good book with wear along bottom edges of boards, rubbed through to cardboard at bottom corners, crimped bottom of spine, spine bowed with vertical ridge line, page block wavy, front board splayed; in a Fine minus jacket with crimping bottom of spine, and mild rubbing back panel. Signed and dated presentation copy to author John Hawkes.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1954. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for a few spots on top edge of text block, and offsetting to endpapers from jacket flaps. The price-clipped jacket shows a little wear at spine crown and heel, ( slight loss at crown ), and minor soiling to white back panel. A very bright copy, without the usual toning to the jacket spine. Author's first book..

N. Y.: The Macmiillan Company, 1900. Book. Illus. by Fenn, Harry and Earl, J.c.. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine But For Lightly Bumped Spine Extremities, And Mild Shelfrubbing To Bottom Of Boards. Decorative Cover And Spine Illustration Is Still Bright And Attractive. Top Edge Gilt. This Is The First Issue, Without The Word " Facing ', And The 8 Missing On P. Vii..

Houghton Mifflin Co, 1938. First American. Hardcover. bookplate removed from front pastedown else very good with nice bright d.j..

0 Rare First Edition/First Printing published by Secker & Warburg, London 1966. No marks or inscriptions. Browning/Spotting to endpages and page edges. Cloth Covers are clean and bright. Dustjacket protected in archive cover. Minimal wear with mild creasing to edges Not price clipped.

0 First edition/First printing published by Macmillan, London 1981 VG+ clean and tight condition. No marks or inscriptions. Clean and bright cloth covers with slight shelf wear to base. Dustjacket not price clipped. Protected in archive cover.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1992. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Tan cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket, with slight fading to the spine. A very attractive copy of this title. Collected Shorter Poems was the Winner of the 1992 National Books Circle Award. Carruth also won the 1996 National Book Award for Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey. He also won the 1990 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, The Carl Sandburg Award, The Vermont Governor's Medal, A Guggenheim Fellowship, A Lannan Literary Award, The Patterson Poetry Prize, and a Whiting Award.

New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2018. First edition / First printing. Brown paper spine, brown paper-covered boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Richard Powers' remarkable novel, which went quickly into later printings. It is a novel about trees and the natural world. Trees are living things whose lives are measured in centuries, but can be wiped out in days. It is also the story of several people whose lives are linked to trees, and their attempts to stop the destruction of these natural wonders. The Overstory is the Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Overstory is the 2020 Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal. The Overstory was Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN/Jean Stein Award. The Overstory was Shortlisted for the 2018 Booker Prize. Richard Powers was the Recipient of a 1989 MacArthur Genius Grant. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1999 Recipient of a Lannan Literary Award. The Goldbug Variations was Times Magazine's Book of the Year in 1991. The Echo… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000. Signed by Susan Sontag on the half-title page. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine,brown paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. Winner of 2000 The National Book Award for Ficton.

St. Martin's Press, 1999. 1st Ed. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. Signed. 1ST PRINTING SIGNED BY GENE CERNAN. Also briefly inscribed "to a fellow Boilermaker (Purdue alum) and dated in the year 2000. A beautiful 1st printing in near fine overall condition: likely unread but small checkmark on ffe, very attractive boards and dust jacket; looks terrific with a new mylar cover. Expedited and international shipping are welcome; Bk 1, signed by author.

Indianapolis / New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Later printing of the first edition, with 1943 copyright date but with no printing statement on the copyright page. Original-issue dust jacket with three review blurbs under photo of author on the rear panel and publisher's $3.00 price at the bottom of the front flap and publisher's yellow sticker advertisement for the 1949 movie The Fountainhead starring Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal and Raymond Massey on the front panel. Blue cloth binding with gold lettering on the front cover and spine. 754 pages. Text includes all the typographical errors found in the first printing. NEAR FINE book in NEAR FINE dust jacket. Book has a lightly bumped top spine end and top corner tips and is otherwise Fine. Very bright, very clean and unworn with no sunning. Tightly bound and square, with strong, sound hinges. No previous owner markings, no browning to the endpapers and flawless pages. Dust jacket is very bright… Read More

St. Martin's Press, 1999. 1st Ed. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. Signed. SIGNED IN PERSON BY GENE CERNAN as part of a 2014 event in Houston. Event program included along with Gene's personal bookmark. NOT personalized to anyone. A gorgeous 9th printing in unread almost-as-new condition; looks terrific with a new mylar cover. Expedited and international shipping are welcome; Bk 2, signed by author.

First Edition. Dust Jacket not price clipped with archival cover. Liveright Publishing Corp. New York. 1927

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980. First edition / First Printing. Blue cloth spine, light slate blue paper-covered boards. Very good, with fading to the top and bottom of the boards, in very good dust jacket. The Author's first book. Winner of the 1982 Pen / Hemingway Award for the Best First Book. A finalist for the 1982 Pulitzer Prize. The Guardian named Housekeeping as one of the 100 best novels of all time in 2003. Basis for the 1987 Bill Forsyth film. Robinson's second novel Gilead was Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. It was elected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review for their 10 Best Books of 2004 List, and was Number 2 on the 2019 Guardian List of the 100 best Books of the 21st Century.