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PERSONAE
New York: New Directions, (1926) [but 1949]. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth in original dust jacket. Jacket heavily toned and chipped at edges and in the center of the spine with a large section lost from rear panel, approximately 4" by 2". Cloth toned at extremities and spine.....
DETROIT HALF-FICTIONS
Ferndale, MI: Mutation Press, 1979. First Edition. Wraps. Slim 4to. (4.25'' by 11'' approx.) Saddle-stapled yellow wraps. Printed mimeo. Faint creasing to spine; minimal wear otherwise. Cover artwork by Jimmy Thompson. Collection of energetic and angry short fiction by Presbey, then an undergraduate at the University of Detroit, later a......
COLLECTED STORIES
New York: Random House, 1982. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth-backed boards in original dust jacket. Minor edgewear to jacket and boards. Interior bright and clean, with the exception of a small dampstain effecting the last page of text. Tight. Near fine. 520 pp. Stories selected by Pritchett from.....
GERTRUDE OF STONY ISLAND AVENUE: A Novel
New York: William Morrow and Company, (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Two-toned pastepaper boards. REVIEW COPY, stamped to interior. Fine in like jacket. Pristine hardcover review copy of Purdy's final novel. 182pp.
PROUD FLESH: Four Short Plays
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1980. Limited ed. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter blue imitation cloth over light blue boards. A very good plus copy. SIGNED by Purdy at colophon. Cover shows light rubbing, touches of soil. Internally fine. Bright and clean throughout. Good and sound. 47pp. From an edition of.....
Gargantua und Pantagruel. Aus dem Französischen verdeutscht durch Gottlob Regis
Munchen und Leipzig: Georg Muller, 1906. Hardcover. 8vo. Complete in two volumes, beautifully bound in matching original parchment with elaborately gilt vignette borders; four raised bands and gilt titles to spine. TEG. Silk bookmarks to both volumes. Very good to near fine, with some minor wear/bumping to the edge of.....
PHADRA
[Frankfurt]: (Verlag der Autoren), (1987). First edition thus. Wraps. 8vo. Printed wraps. Very good plus. Mild exterior toning. Interior bright and clean throughout. Good and sound. 176pp. Text in German. Includes the play as performed at Berlin's Schaubuhne Am Lehniner Platz in 1987, along with accompanying essays on Racine and.....
THE WINDOW AT THE WHITE CAT
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1910). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Green decorated cloth. No jacket. Four black and white illustrated plates, including frontispiece. About very good overall. Mild handling wear, spine faded, lettering worn. Area of discolor to rear board. Endpapers toned, first with lengthy ownership inscription. Binding a touch shaken.....
WHEN IT HAPPENS TO YOU
New York: Itbooks, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's paper-covered boards in original dust jacket. SIGNED by Ringwald at the title page. Dust jacket lightly worn at extremities, particularly at folds and lower spine. Tiny spot of rubbing at front panel. Interior bright and clean. Very good. A novel composed.....
THE SEVENTH OF OCTOBER
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Decorative blue and purple cloth boards in red and yellow dust jacket. Spine sunned; jacket otherwise evenly soiled/toned. Tears and chipping to spine ends and upper corners. Pages toned. Very good plus in good plus jacket. Translated from the.....
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THE PASTRY SHOP [Original Unpublished Monologue]
[New York]: [ca. 1960-64]. Wraps. 4to. Brad-bound black folder wraps. Containing mimeographed agency typescript (with stamp of Savan-Levinson-Parker to title page). [2], 2-24, [1]. Includes 1964 signed letter from agent Bruce Savan to actress Irma Hurley, presenting the script "At the request of Ned Rorem." Moderate toning to pages, along.....
IF YOU'RE A GIRL
(Los Angeles): Semiotext(e), (1990). First Edition. Wraps. 16mo. Printed wraps. Very good plus to near fine. Mild toning to top edge, some light reading wear. Trace soil to several pages, overall clean and bright throughout. Good and sound. 270pp. Autobiographical fiction by Rower.
THE BURNING PLAIN And Other Stories
Austin: University of Texas Press, (1967). First English language edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Near fine in a very good plus DJ. Light surface rubbing, minimal edgewear to jacket. Trace wear to page edges and mustiness to book; ownership signature on FFEP; else clean and bright.....
THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE: Four Lectures on Work, Traffic, War, and the Future of England [Handy Volume Edition]
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [circa 1900]. Hardcover. 16mo. Green limp leather over flexible boards, with bright gilt decoration and titles. Spine sunned, minor rubbing. Gift inscription (dated 1904) to ffep. In olive-green paper-covered box with printed paper label; moderate to heavy scuffing to slipcase corners and edges.....
FRANNY AND ZOOEY
Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Co., (1961). Third Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket. Jacket toned, with a few short tears at edges and spine ends, rubbing, and some shelf-soil. Foxing/staining to edge of flaps and edges of text block. Spine lightly sunned. Cloth lightly sunned.....
SARTON SELECTED: An Anthology of the Journals, Novels and Poetry of May Sarton
New York and London: W.W. Norton, (1991). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in original jacket. Jacket suffers minor edgewear, a small chip at top corner of front panel and adheisive residue. Interior clean and bright. Very good. 390 pp. A comprehensive anthology of Sarton, published at the end of.....
FROM THE ASHES: Voices of Watts
New York: New American Library, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Half red cloth over black boards. In dark yellow dust jacket. Touches of soil and mild wear to jacket. Spine ends bumped. INSCRIBED by Schulberg to title page. Very good plus in like jacket. Anthology of 18 writers selected from.....
WAVERLEY, OR: 'Tis Sixty Years Since
New York: The Heritage Press, (1961). First edition thus. Hardcover. 4to. Quarter cloth, pastepaper covered boards, in publisher's matching slipcase. With Sanglass newsletter laid-in. Trace handling wear to slipcase, else about fine throughout. A beautiful Heritage Press copy with illustrations by Robert Ball. Uncommon with original newsletter. 447pp. including a......
ROGUES' GALLERY: Profiles of My Eminent Contemporaries
Hollywood: Murray and Gee, Inc., 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full blue cloth, plain front, rear; red lettering at spine. In original illustrated dust jacket. Clipped. Jacket brittle, substantial section of paper loss to lower spine end. Two spots of discolor to lower cloth, spine ends a tiny bit worn.....
THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN: And Seventeen Other Stories
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth spine over teal boards, in dark green dust jacket. Jacket edges lightly chipped and scuffed; boards bumped and scuffed with faint dampstaining to spine. INSCRIBED on ffep: "For Goddard and Brigitte Lieberson, / All good wishes, / 'Another.....
PLAYS: Pleasant and Unpleasant. By Bernard Shaw. The Second Volume, containing the four Pleasant Plays.
London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1929. Later edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Beige cloth. Very good plus. Mild rubbing, soil to cloth. INSCRIBED by Shaw to the half-title: "Inscribed to / Alfred G. Arvold / in grateful acknowledgement of his / services to dramatic art in virgin fields / in the United.....
THE SECOND ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND, Or Another Case of Identity
Cambridge, MA: The Deerstalker Press, 1973. Limited ed. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled wraps. Very fine. Sharp and clean throughout. 10pp. Signed by the author and illustrator. Signed "R. Herbert, Esq./Robert Herbertpere." No. 26 from an edition of 250 copies. Autobiographical tale involving a Sherlock Holmes fan society.
JOHN CHANCELLOR MAKES ME CRY
New York: Doubleday, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Black quarter cloth, red pastepaper boards. In original unclipped dust jacket. Jacket with mild shelf wear, discolor to white portions, light wear at spine ends, tiny closed tear to upper, rear. Jacket interior with band of red ink transfer from boards. Spine.....
THE GENTLEMAN FROM CRACOW / THE MIRROR
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1979. Limited ed. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter gray cloth over paper-covered boards. With gray slipcase. Very near fine. SIGNED by Singer and Soyer at colophon. Slipcase about very good plus. Some sun-bleaching to slicpase; trace soil. Trivial sunning to spine. Interior bright, crisp, and.....
DEBRIEFING: A Reading by Susan Sontag
New York: Tanam Press, 1979. First edition thus. LP. 33 & 1/3 RPM LP album, no. TC 1537. Vinyl near fine. Toning to protective sleeve. Album cover very good, with light scuffing and rubbing. Sontag's reading of excerpts from her story, written in April and May of 1973 and published.....