Small archive of 10 books...
London: various, 1915 - 1928. First editions. Each book inscribed by the author for his wife, Kathleen "Toby" Drinkwater, and also signed by her. Swords and Ploughshares - Sidgwick and... (Item #1871)
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Rebecca (Signed First Edition)
New York: Doubleday Doran & Company, 1938. First American edition. Octavo. Original purple cloth, silver paste-on decorated in blue across spine and both boards, dark top-stain. Book in Fine condition... (Item #1798)
No Sex in Education; or...
Philadelphia: J. M. Stoddart & Co, [1874]. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and blind embossing to boards. Gentle shelfwear to crown and foot of spine;... (Item #2489)
20 hrs. 40 min.: Our...
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First edition. An about Fine copy of the book, sharp, square and unread and with the gilt bright. In a Very Good dust... (Item #1822)
Shades and Shadows (Inscribed First...
Boston: Meador, 1930. First Edition. Signed and inscribed on the front endpaper by the author at Dillard University, an important historically black college (HBCU): "For Miss Peterson, This my earliest... (Item #2097)
Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916. First Edition. The first separate printing of Einstein's influential work on relativity. Octavo, 64pp. Original tan wrappers with printer's imprint "Druck von Metzger & Wittig... (Item #2406)
Middlemarch (in 4 vols.)
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871-1872. First Edition. Late 19th to early 20th century binding by "Robertson" in Edinburgh. A complete first edition set retaining all four half-titles... (Item #2366)
FOUR QUARTETS
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. First American edition. One of 788 copies left after recall and one of a handful surviving in Fine condition. Book Fine, bright and... (Item #379)
Old Possum's Book of Practical...
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1939. First edition. A very bright copy of Eliot's playful little collection of feline poetry. Book is Fine, bright, clean and unmarked. In a Near... (Item #1657)
The Waste Land
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. First Edition. Flexible covers. A remarkably well preserved copy of T. S. Eliot's magnum opus. A true first state copy with flexible boards and... (Item #464)
The Fine Art of Mixing...
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1948. First edition. Warmly inscribed by the author: "To my very good friend and associate, Ernst Lampe. Cordial-ly yours, Dave Embury." A lovely just about... (Item #1031)
The Palace of Minos at...
London: Macmillan, 1921-1935. First Edition. [with] Index to the Palace of Minos (Biblo and Tannen: New York, 1964). Four quarto volumes in six, and with the additional later printed index... (Item #2415)
Wait Until Spring, Bandini
New York: Stackpole Sons, 1938. First edition. First printing in first issue jacket. A lovely copy of Fante's first book. Book is Fine with a signed slip tipped in to... (Item #2120)
Absalom, Absalom! (Signed Ltd.)
New York: Random House, 1936. First Edition. One of three hundred signed copies (copy 96). Complete with author's signature on the limitation page and the folding map in the rear... (Item #2153)
Light in August
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1932. First edition. A very nearly Fine copy of the book with some offsetting to the end-papers near the gutter, otherwise clean and... (Item #1503)
The Old Man (Presentation copy)
New York: Signet Books, 1948. First edition thus. First publication of "The Old Man" as a stand-alone work (originally published as part of "The Wild Palms"). Inscribed by the author... (Item #2038)
The Unvanquished (Signed Limited)
New York: Random House, 1938. First Edition. Octavo, original half burgundy cloth and patterned paper boards, top edge gilt. Number 9 of two hundred fifty signed copies. Complete with author's... (Item #2199)
The Wild Palms (Signed Limited)
New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Octavo, with burgundy quarter cloth over wood-grain papered boards. Copy 148 of two hundred fifty copies, signed by Faulkner on the limitation page... (Item #2200)
Studious Women (Association Copy)
Boston: Patrick Donahoe, 1869. First English language edition. Translated by R. M. Phillimore. Octavo. Original mottled purple cloth with gilt to spine and boards stamped in blind. Some gentle shelfwear... (Item #2539)
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
London & Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1919. First Edition. One of 350 specially bound and numbered copies. Publisher's full vellum binding with some mottling and wear. Overall Near Fine with... (Item #2452)
All the Sad Young Men
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition. A Fine copy of Fitzgerald's third collection of short stories. Either second or third issue with battered type on pgs. 38, 90... (Item #1306)
The Last Tycoon
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. First edition. A lovely copy of the book, just about Fine with a gentle ding to the lower corners and offsetting from the publisher's... (Item #1056)
Tender is the Night
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First edition. A Fine copy of the book with bright spine gilt and clean boards. In a Very Good second issue dust jacket with... (Item #2554)
Tender is the Night
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First edition. A Fine copy of the book with bright spine gilt and clean boards. Lacking the dust jacket. Spine with a bit of... (Item #2555)
This Side of Paradise (Inscribed...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the half-title: "For My Dear Friend Chad Davis From his Devotedly F. Scott Fitzgerald." A Very Good... (Item #2541)