A Modest Proposal For preventing...
[London:] Dublin: reprinted at London for Weaver Bickerton, 1730. Second edition. Small octavo (190 x 118 mm), pp. 23. Rebound to style in full sprinkled calf, red morocco label, spine... (Item #2899)
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Candy
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1958. First edition. Southern's erotic adaptation of Candide. First issue in green printed wraps with original price "1200 Francs" on rear cover, without later price overstamp... (Item #848)
The Ring of the Nibelungen
London: Schott's, 1877. First English language edition. First trade edition (and 1st combined edition) in English (translated by Alfred Forman) of The Rhein–Gold, The Walkyrie, Siegfried, and Dusk of the..... (Item #746)
Effects of Slavery on Morals...
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1793. First edition. Bound to style in modern quarter calf over marbled boards with morocco label to spine. Light scattered foxing, largely concentrated at the preliminaries... (Item #3069)
The Long Valley
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. First edition. A Fine copy of the book in very Nearly Fine dust jacket. Published in an edition of just 8,000 copies, with Fine... (Item #3059)
A Poem on the Pleasures...
Bristol: Philip Rose, [1826]. First edition. Original drab boards in almost Fine condition, excepting for a small nick to the center of the spine and some slight splitting to the... (Item #3057)
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Gone with the Wind
New York: Macmillan, 1936. First edition. First printing, May 1936, in first issue jacket. A Fine copy of the book in a lovely Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket with slight... (Item #3055)
The Wife. By Mira, one...
London: Printed for T. Gardner, 1756. First edition. Contemporary sheep binding rebacked, with gilt to spine and boards. All edges speckled red. Hinges cracked but holding; some scuffing to rear... (Item #3054)
Lady Windermere's Fan (Presentation Copy)
London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893. First edition. Original publisher's clothing binding with gilt to spine and boards. A Near Fine copy with the spine slightly toned. Bookplate of... (Item #2958)
The largest known collection of...
[Various]: 1971-1976. The single largest known collection of correspondence by prolific American poet Frank Stanford. Comprised of 72 pages of Autograph and Typed Letters Signed, ranging in date from 1971-1976... (Item #3052)
The Suffragette: The History of...
London: Gay & Hancock, 1911. First U.K. edition. Original suffragette purple publisher's cloth binding featuring the symbolic WSPU Holloway Brooch design on the front board. Spine toned and corners gently... (Item #3051)
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The Stars, Like Dust
Garden City: Doubleday, 1951. First edition. Stated first edition with unclipped first issue jacket showing the proper price of $2.50. NF book in like jacket. Small line of residue at... (Item #3050)
The Men Who Talked to...
[N.P.]: [N.D.]. 25 page typescript on 8.5 x 11" paper with handwritten title. Annotated throughout in ink and pencil by the author. Apparently incomplete, as the final sentence drops off... (Item #3049)
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Collection of typescripts from Naegling
[N.P.]: [N.D]. Original annotated typescripts for Stanford's Naegling poems, originally conceived as a series before being broken up. Comprised of 7 onionskin pages measuring 8.5 x 11". Contained within this... (Item #3048)
Naked Lunch
New York: Grove Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Printing [1962]. A Near Fine copy of the book with a small mark to the foot of the spine. In... (Item #3046)
A Fable (Signed, Limited Edition)
New York: Random House, 1954. First edition. One of a thousand of the signed limited edition, this being number 245. A just about Fine copy of the book that appears... (Item #3045)
Author's mock up for the...
[N.P.]: [N.D.]. Comprised of 18 pages total on white 8.5 x 11" paper. Of these, 16 pages are photocopied, 2 are typed. 9 pages bear the author's corrections in ink... (Item #3041)
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Original working copy of his...
[N.P.]: [N.D.]. Titled in the author's hand at the foot of the first page: "All poems here From MARIANA" with a parenthetical note "the only good thing about these is..... (Item #3040)
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Original annotated typescripts for Field...
[N.P.]: [1957-1972]. Comprised of 7 loose and 19 stapled onionskin pages measuring 8.5 x 11" and including a total of 22 poems. Representing the final version almost in its entirety... (Item #3039)
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Original typescripts for the Blue...
Eureka Springs; Subiaco: [1963-1973]. Comprised of a total of 16 typed pages containing 10 poems. Of these, 14 are on onionskin, 2 on white paper, and 9 contain markings and... (Item #3038)
A Midsummer-Night's Dream
London and New York: William Heinemann; Doubleday, Page and Co., 1908. First trade edition. Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco, decoration to spine gilt, raised bands... (Item #2340)
Taps at Reveille
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First edition. First edition, first state with "oh catch it" on p 351. One of only 5100 copies printed. Octavo, original dark green cloth... (Item #3035)
Allen Ginsberg: Photographs (Signed Limited)
Altadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1990. First edition. Number 63 of 100 slipcased, signed, and numbered copies. Original cloth slipcase in VG condition, with fading to boards and significant sunning to... (Item #3019)
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Franny and Zooey
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1961. First edition. A Very Good + copy in like jacket. Some fading to extremities of cloth and scattered foxing to edges of text block;... (Item #3017)
In Cold Blood
New York: Random House, 1965. First edition. Capote's masterpiece. A Very Good+ book in like jacket. Faint offsetting to rear board of book; some small spots to edges of text... (Item #3016)