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$1,250.00NY: Privately Printed, 1920. First edition. 536 pp. Front hinge cracked, else very good plus in dark blue cloth with light rubbing to spine, which has dulled. One of 1250 numbered copies. Laid into this copy is a 1/7/71 TLS from DHL collector Martin W. Grady to Peter Howard (Serendipity Books), described as a “fellow DHL collector,” replying to his quote of this title for sale. Roberts & Poplawski A15a
$200.00NY: Knopf, 1993. Advance reading copy. 435 pp. Very near fine in printed illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Le Carré on the title page. His first post-Cold War novel.$250.00NY: Viking, 1938. First US “thistle” edition. [76 pp]. Fine in full coarse cloth with printed cover and spine labels. Very good plus original glassine dust jacket (chip to crown), near fine decorated publisher’s slipcase. One of 525 copies SIGNED by Leaf and Lawson.
$500.00London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937. First edition, second binding. 312 pp w/index. Some light foxing to page edges, faint evidence of ownership name removed from the front free endpaper. In all, near fine in near fine dust jacket with two short closed tears to the top edge of the front panel. Morrow & Lafourcade A26.$1,500.00London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition. xxix + 266 pp. Very near fine in full cloth with black printing to spine. Lacks dust jacket. Early reader Alex Waugh took exception to how he was portrayed and initiated legal proceedings for libel. The edition was pulped after the sale of only 550 copies. Morrrow & Lafourcade A15b.$1,250.00London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. First edition. ix + 202 pp. Near fine in full cloth. Lewis’ doomed assessment of Hitler. Morrow & Lafourcade A13.$400.00London: Robert Hale, 1938. First edition, second binding. 287 pp. Some light foxing to fore-edge and front endpapers. Previous owner’s inked name and address to first leaf. In all, near fine in very good, price-clipped dust jacket with chips to base and crown of spine, and a short closed tear. Morrow & Lafourcade A27(2).$1,250.00Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. First edition. 251 pp. Neat non-authorial gift inscription on the second leaf, else very near fine in full decorated cloth, that is lightly rubbed. The slate gray binding with silver stamping, Woodbridge 1 (no priority).
$450.00Munich: (np) 1959. First edition. 79 pp. Light patch of toning to rear cover, else fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Edward Gorey. One of 300 copies. INSCRIBED by Lurie, “for Tony - also a gifted actor - / director - producer - and playwright - / Alison.” Lurie’s first book, a memoir of Bunny Lang.
$350.00Berlin: O. von Holten (1929). First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. 42 pp. Fine in full red leather with gold details. One of 300 numbered copies on Imperial Japan paper SIGNED by Mackay. From the collection of publisher Samuel Fischer (S. Fischer Verlag), with his small bookplate inside the front cover.$200.00(np): Phyllis Baldwin Browne, 1934. First edition. 10 pp. Near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Very good only publisher’s slipcase, lacking the top edge, and with a half-inch missing from the bottom edge. One of 60 copies on Arnold handmade paper designed and printed by William E. Rudge’s Sons.$450.00[Santurce]: Carrefour (1939). First trade edition. 229 pp. Three small spots to rear cover, else fine in printed wrappers and fine glassine. One of 475 (of 500) copies. From the collection of John K. Martin (Black Sparrow Press) with his ticket inside the rear cover. Shifreen & Jackson A22b.
$350.00[Berkeley]: Bern Porter, 1945. First edition. 41 pp. Fine in very near fine clear acetate dust jacket. Printed at the Greenwood Press. One of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by Porter with an original holograph postcard from Miller to Porter inserted into the leaf preceding the colophon page. Shifreen & Jackson A41a.$2,000.00Paris: Olympia Press, 1956. Second edition. 171 pp. Light bump to rear upper corner of text block, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers that have some light rubbing. A bright copy. Illustrated with photographs by Brassaï. Shifreen & Jackson A100a.$500.00NY: Scribner’s 1948. First edition. 176 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with light chipping to crown and a fade to spine, and small check mark to front flap. INSCRIBED by Morris on the front free endpaper, “For Marvin Malone - / With the greetings of / Wright Morris.”
$350.00Aartswoud: Spectatorpers, 1987. New edition, first printing, variant a. 27 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 110 (of 150) copies. Three texts (two essays and a poem) published originally in 1923. Juliar A57.2.
$450.00Firenze: Téchne (1970). First edition. [128 pp]. Bumps to lower corners, else near fine in illustrated wrappers with original wrap-around band (two short tears). The self-proclaimed “first visual novel in the history of Italian and European Literature.”$200.00NY: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence (1983). Uncorrected proof. 113 pp. Small bump crack near top of spine, else very near fine in printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Parker on the half-title page to his publisher at Lord John Press, Herb [Yellin], “Herb, /my all / time hero / Robert B. Parker.”$350.00Northridge: Lord John Press, 1982. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 27 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 300 numbered copies on Ragston paper SIGNED by Parker.
$350.00Oldham: Incline Press, 1995. First edition. [8 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers with printed cover label. A selection from Paul’s THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS. INSCRIBED by printer Moss inside the rear cover, “A soft - one of the last / of the printshop rejects / Graham Moss / Good Friday 2003.” Accompanying this copy is a lenghty ALS from the printer detailing the creation of this title, and a carbon TLS from the recipient who inquired after it.
$100.00Paris: Olympia Press (1960). First edition. 282 pp. Fine in wrappers and very near fine dust jacket. Cover design by J.M. Favarger. A Korean war novel, focused on the prisoner of war experience. Traveller’s Companion Series. Kearney 5.81.
$750.00Trenton: Phillips & Godshalk, 1940. First edition. 51 + 28 pp. Two volumes, each near fine in stapled wrappers with light sunning to spines, and a small spot to the front cover, and a bit of foxing to the fore-edge of volume II. “And Touch” is a collection of poems by Posner, “Clean Earth,” plant and animal stories by Flemer, both books with his linoleum cut illustrations. For the pair:
$2,000.00NY: Farrar & Rinehart (1932). First edition. 282 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with some shallow chipping to base and crown of spine, and to tips of flap folds. Powell’s fifth novel, originally titled COME BACK TO SORRENTO, but changed by the publisher against Powell’s wishes on publication.
$1,000.00Philadelphia & NY: Lippincott (1963). Advance reading copy. 492 pp. Light tanning to spine, else near fine in printed wrappers. Pynchon’s first book.$500.00NY: Knopf, 1976. Advance reading copy. 371 pp. Light tanning to extrems, a few light vertical creases to spine, in all, a very good plus copy of this advance issue of her first book.$350.00NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1983). Uncorrected proof. 260 pp. Tiny stain on fore-edge, some light rubbing to rear panel, else near fine in printed wrappers. “In-House Use Only” penned to the front cover in black ink. This copy is in green wrappers, one of a handful thus, and much less common than those in light blue wrappers.$250.00NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1985). Uncorrected proof. [83 pp] Very near fine in printed wrappers. This is the proof for the final section of ZUCKERMAN BOUND, Epilogue: The Prague Orgy (pp 701-784). Uncommon.$500.00NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1985). Uncorrected proof. 784 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Collects the GHOST WRITER, ZUCKERMAN UNBOUND, THE ANATOMY LESSON, and EPILOGUE: THE PRAGUE ORGY. An uncommon proof, more so in this condition.
$500.00Los Angeles: Mason Williams and Edward Ruscha (1971). Third edition. [48 pp]. Faint dampstains inside front cover and to first blank leaf, else near fine in spiral-bound wrappers. A photo-documentary, captioned, of the destruction of a Royal Typewriter via being thrown from the window of a Buick at 90 mph.
$450.00Boston: Little, Brown [1963]. First edition, third issue. 248 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with two small patches of rubbing to the spine (but no fade). The third issue, with the dedication page appearing after the copyright page, and “Seymore” for “Seymour” on page 173.$500.00NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1945. First edition. 468 pp. Very near fine in very good dust jacket with overall edgewear and splits to flap folds. Dated (Hollywood 1945) and INSCRIBED by Service on the front free endpaper.
$1,500.00Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1975. First edition. 32 pp. Some light wear along top edge, else very near fine in printed wrappers. Stanford’s fifth book, a collection of sixteen poems. Illustrated with two drawings and a photograph of a painting, all by Ginny Crouch Stanford.