Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. 356 pp. First edition, first printing with dated title page. Bound in publisher's buff buckram cloth, with titles stamped in brown. Very Good with cloth lightly spine toned and soiled, pages toned. In a Very Good first state dust jacket, with publisher's price intact, faded..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First edition, later printing lacking the date on the title page. Bound in publisher's buff buckram cloth, with titles stamped in brown. Fine, with previous owner details to front free end paper and small stain to rear endsheets. A fantastic copy. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First edition. (First printing with title page dated "1940.") [iv], 356 pp. Bound in publisher's buff buckram cloth, with titles stamped in crimson. A Fine copy, with bright unmarked contents, sharp lettering. An excellent example of the author's debut novel, widely regarded as her best..... More
(No Place): (No Publisher), 1950. Signed final typescript of the short story "A Domestic Dilemma." Probably a setting copy of a short story differing from the final published version in a few instances. 19pp. inserted into plastic sleeves in a generic black binder, housed in a custom quarter green leather..... More
(No Place): (No Publisher), 1941. Final typescript, probably a setting copy, matching the text as it first appeared in the December 20, 1941 issue of The New Yorker. It was then included in the collection The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1951 and since then..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1949. First edition, first printing. Signed by Margaret Mead on the front free endpaper and inscribed to former owners. Near Fine with light soiling to cloth, light rubbing along bottom edges, pages lightly toned, else a lovely copy with sharp, bright gilt, in a...... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first printing, with "Published May, 1936" on the copyright page. Signed by Margaret Mitchell on the front free endpaper. Very Good, with a short tear to the cloth at the top of the spine, light general rubbing and light wear, and toning..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first printing, with "Published May, 1936" on the copyright page. Bound in publisher's grey cloth stamped in blue; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with a short tear at the top of the spine and some wear at the bottom as well..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first printing, with "Published May, 1936" on the copyright page. Bound in publisher's grey cloth stamped in blue; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Spine ends lightly softened. Cloth toned at spine and lightly so to edges, lightly foxed. Clippings pasted to..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first printing, with "Published May, 1936" on the copyright page. Bound in publisher's grey cloth stamped in blue; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Lean to spine, wear to spine ends and corners, pages toned. More
London: George Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1935. First British edition. 318 p. Green cloth with navy lettering. Very Good in original, unclipped dust jacket. Fore edge foxed. A little bit of edge wear and very slight foxing to endpapers. Jacket presents well but is chipped at head and tail with..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952. Inscribed on title page in blue ink, "For S____ S______, / [signed] Marianne Moore / (might I say that S is / my favorite letter of the alphabet?) / October 14, 1954." 180pp. Original navy cloth with gilt lettering. First edition, fifth printing. Very..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1956. First edition, first printing. Signed by Marianne Moore on the front free endpaper, and warmly inscribed in the month of publication to Cynthia Walsh. Fine, with faint toning to pages, in a Near Fine un-clipped dust jacket toned heaviest at the spine and edges..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1966. First edition, first printing. Fine in a Fine dust jacket with publisher's price intact. A lovely copy. More
New York: Lee Furman, Inc., 1936. First edition. 319 pp. Maroon pebbled cloth decorated in yellow. Near Fine in basically Very Good unclipped dust jacket with vertical creases in front, side, and rear panel; chipping at head and along top of back panel, which is also rubbed. Light wear to..... More
London: Souvenir Press, 1982. First edition. Signed by Elaine Morgan "with best wishes" on bottom corner of front free endpaper. From the library of paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and writer Stephen Jay Gould, although not marked so. 168 pp. with 8 pages of b/w photos. Black cloth with silver lettering. Very..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1978. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Iris Murdoch and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Review copy with publisher's black and white author photograph laid in, chipped at the bottom edge. Near Fine with light uneven sunning to rear cover..... More
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1921. First edition. 303, [1] pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Very Good dust jacket with toning to spine, small closed tear along front joint, single tiny archival mend to verso, wear at head. Uncommon in jacket. An influential anthropological history..... More
New York: Ives Washburn, 1951. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original beige cloth with spine lettered in red. Near Fine with toning to pages in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with faint fading to the spine and foxing to the blindside. A lovely copy. The author also..... More
New York: Liveright Inc., 1932. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper: "To my friend Ann Orford with pleasant memories of Toronto in which she plays a large part - [signed] Blair Niles January 1941." First edition, sixth printing. 341pp. Original pale blue cloth with blue lettering. Near Fine in..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1946. First edition, first printing. Signed by Anais Nin and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with a faint stain to front and rear cover at bottom corners, lightly..... More
New York: Gemor Press, 1945. First Edition. Deluxe edition, limited to 50 copies signed and numbered by Anais Nin at rear colophon, with five color hand-pulled woodblock prints by Ian Hugo tipped in (issued along side a regular edition with a limitation of 1,000 unsigned copies.) Publisher's pink paper covered..... More
New York: Gemor Press, 1944. First Edition, one of 300 copies originally printed. Association copy, signed by Anais Nin on the first blank sheet and inscribed to Sarah Newmeyer, an author and publicity director of the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) form 1934-1948, at the time of the publication..... More
