Modern First Editions

1955. 1955 Wilson, Sandy THE BOY FRIEND With a preface by Vida Hope London: Andre Deutsch, c1955 126pp, illustrated by the author 8vo Thin strip of tape on verso of tpage, faint shadow of tape on tpage, slight offsetting on epages, else fine crisp hardcover copy in almost Fine d/w (spine panel slightly darkened).

New York: New Directions, 1964. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Edition (so stated). Square 8vo: [viii],179,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven beige cloth, spine lettered in black, brown paper-covered boards decorated in blind with PFC stripes, brown laid end papers, brown pictorial dust jacket printed in yellow and black. Fine in a just about Fine jacket, lightly rubbed. Inscribed by Kirstein on the front fly-leaf to Edith Sedwick Gibson (August '67) "talking about Louis [Agassiz] Shaw—Baldpate, p. 157." Shaw, grandson of the Harvard paleontologist, geologist and innovator in the study of Earth's natural history, was a dancer turned psychiatrist who lived in Newton, Mass. Baldpate was a sanitarium in Georgetown, Mass, where Shaw may have practiced. Kirstein's reference to p. 157 remains obscure. Simmonds, Silverstein & Lassalle 12. Best known for his long association with the New York City Ballet, which he founded with George Balanchine, Kirstein was also a distinguished author and… Read More

London: Collins, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression (no additional printings noted), in the first issue dust jacket with "Thirteen Gun" unhyphenated. Tall 8vo: 319,[1]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt (still brilliant); pictorial jacket illustrated by Geoff Hunt and priced £11.95. Very Fine and unread. Cunningham A22a. Thirteenth installment in the Aubrey-Maturin series of historical novels—20 completed and one left unfinished—set during the Napoleonic Wars and featuring naval commander Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon (and secret agent) Stephen Maturin. This episode opens with Aubrey and Maturin preparing for a diplomatic mission to the Sultan of Pulo Prabang, a fictitious, piratical Malay state in the South China Sea, to convey the envoy who will attempt to persuade the Sultan to become an English rather than French ally. Much of the action centers on the indiscretions of two English traitors—Wray and Ledward—who are assisting the French and… Read More

New York: Modern Library. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1917. Flexible cloth. Text is clean. Green balloon cloth binding, shows some rubbing to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket shows some edgewear, discoloration to spine, small chip missing from flap side of front panel. States New Modern Library Edition, 1927 - although this is not a first printing of that edition. Still - hard to find this era in DJ. ; Toledano binding style '7', Kent endpapers, Dust Jacket 'e'. [Burt: The Novel 100 - A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time, #7]; Modern Library; Vol. 28.1; 400 pages .

New York: Viking, 1994. Signed and dated 23-3-94 by Carol Shields on the title page. First U.S. edition / First printing. White cloth spine, ivory paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Winner of the 1995 Pulitzer prize. Winner of the Governor General's Award.

New York: Riverhead Books. 2014. Signed on the title page by Marlon James and dated 2014. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Marlon James won the 2015 Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings.

London: Faber & Faber, 2007. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

London: Chapman & Hall. No inscriptions, minor wear and ageing to the book, light foxing to a couple of the preliminaries. The unclipped dust jacket has chips at the spine ends and minor general wear, protected by a clear, removable cover. Published during World War Two, the paper used for the dust jacket was flimsy and dust jackets with first edition books are quite scarce. Bibliographic reference: Davis, Doyle et al, XVII. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1942.

First Edition, First Printing.
Book is in Very Good condition, with corners lightly bumped, some yellowing in endpapers. Bit of foxing to top of page edges.
Dust jacket is in Good- condition, with wear and chipping mostly to corners. Some foxing on back of jacket. Yellowing at top of spine where old tape came away. In dust jacket protector.

NY: Berkley , 1984. First edition thus. Scarce 1984 movie tie-in edition in fine condition. Published NY: Berkley, 1984, "Special limited edition / May 1984. 12mo. pictorial wrappers, 4 1/4" x 7" 535pp., 2 page map and movie/newsletter ad at rear, 6 scenes from the David Lynch film on rear cover, "Special ABA Limited Edition" blurb on front cover, all edges tinted yellow. Uniform, mild toning to the paper, light rub at the spine/cover ends, else fine - clean, square, unmarked. Scarce in fine condition. . 1st. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo.

New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2018. Signed by Richard Powers on a specially printed page. First edition / First printing. Signed Edition. Signed by Richard Powers on a specially printed page, bound in by the publisher. Brown paper spine, brown paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very 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 was Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN/Jean Stein Award. The Overstory was Shortlisted for the 2018 Booker Prize. The Overstory is the 2020 Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal. Richard Powers was the Recipient of a 1989 MacArthur Genius Grant. He is a Member of the… Read More

New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2003. Signed on the title page by the author and dated May 15, 2003. First U.S. edition / First printing. Green paper spine, tan paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In September 2019, Oryx and Crake was chosen by Guardian UK critics as one of the 100 Best Books published in the 21st Century.

New York: Doubleday, 2024. Signed by Percival Everett. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Duckworth. London. 1928. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.9 x 5.8 inches). Illustrated with 8 full page mono plates. Neat previous owner's initials to the front, and some offsetting to the other blank endpapers, otherwise a bright, tight and clean copy throughout. In publishers burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. A little rubbing to the very bottom of the spine but overall a near fine copy of Waugh's first commercially published solo work, preceded only by a short story featured in a 1926 anthology called Georgian stories, and two privately printed works; a poem and his essay on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which was issued in an edition of just fifty copies.

SUMPTUOUS LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY KING AND CHADBOURNE. Includes traycase; this is the Cemetery Dance lettered edition "PC." Condition is as new inside and out; simply a gorgeous presentation. Expedited and international shipping are welcome; signed by author.