[Various places]: [No Publisher], 1937-1966. A vast archive of correspondence featuring approximately 395 letters, postcards and correspondences from the iconic American author John Steinbeck sent to family members over the course of twenty-nine years. The scope is incredible, spanning from the publication of his masterpiece Of Mice and Men to.....
Athol, MA: W. Paul Cook, 1927. H. P. Lovecraft's own copy of the first and only issue of the legendary amateur periodical published by W. Paul Cook. Lovecraft has penned the title of his contribution, "Supernatural Horror in Literature" and the page number, and signed his name on the upper.....
New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First American edition, utilizing English sheets, first printing of James Joyce's first prose work--a collection of short stories all unified by a common place, depicting Irish middle class. The stories were written while Irish Nationalism was at its peak and the search for a......
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First edition, first printing, American issue. (No ads at rear. As per Garrison later US printings had ads at rear.) [vi], 533 pp. with frontispiece and seven illustrated plates. Bound in publisher's red ribbed cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight lean to.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. First American edition, first printing with a handwritten inscription by Alice B. Toklas of her legendary "Haschich Fudge" recipe written across one and a quarter blank pages at the rear of the book. Pretty rad indeed. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth boards over.....
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1924. First edition, first printing of the seminal dystopian novel. xiv, [2], 286 pp. Bound in publisher's black ribbed cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. Near Fine with very light wear and soiling to cloth, rubbing to spine gilt; binding square and firm.....
[New York]: [Dead Language Press], [1962]. First edition. Signed by Jack Smith on verso of front wrap, inscribed to poet Kirby Congdon "To Kirby with choked up strangled emotions...... Jack." [20] pp. Illustrated with 19 gelatin silver contact prints, comprising 18 photographs by Smith mounted on yellow pages, and one.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First edition, first printing with "seep" for the word "sleep" at p. 209. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine blocked in red and blue and blue mask motif to upper board. Near Fine with toning to boards in an unusually Fine unclipped dust.....
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1936. An exceedingly scarce presentation copy of the first English edition printed in England, limited issue signed by James Joyce. One of 100 copies (from a total edition of 1000 copies, this copy unnumbered) printed on mould-made paper and bound in full calf vellum.....
London: John Murray, 1816. First edition, first printing of Austen's beloved fourth novel and the last to be published during her short lifetime. [vi], 322; [ii], 351, [1, printer's imprint]; [iv], 363, [1, publisher's adverts]. Three volumes uniformly bound in emerald green straight-grain morocco finely tooled and lettered in gilt.....
London: Printed [by Samuel Simons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker [...] Robert Boulter [...] and Matthias Walker, 1667. First edition, first issue, Amory's state 1(b) of the title page (the traditional first state), dated 1667 and with Milton's name spelled in full and in larger type than.....
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First edition, limited issue. Number 326 of 525 copies signed by Antoine de Saint-Exupery on the limitation page tipped in at front. 94 pp. Bound in publisher's salmon cloth stamped in maroon. Near Fine with light wear to extremities, very slight intermittent dampstaining to.....