Prince Prigio - A Fairy Tale
Bristol, 1889. Gordon Browne. First Edition. Hard Cover. More
Literary First Editions
The Woggle-Bug Book
Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., 1905. Pictures by Ike Morgan. First edition. 15" x 11-1/8". Perfect bound, green cloth spine, pictorial heavy card stock boards. 48 colorful pp. With custom made clamshell box covered in green cloth to match the book's spine. More
The Way to Start a Day
1978. Parnall, Peter. 0684156512. First Edition. Hardcover. More
The Spider's House
New York: Random House, (1955). Stated First Printing. 8vo. Black cloth covered boards stamped in blue, green and gold. 406 pp. The great medieval city of Fez is the fountainhead of native resistance to French rule in Morocco today. In this strange and disturbing place lives the boy, Amar, son..... More
The Story of Thyrza
Houghton Mifflin, 1909. first edition. hardback. More
Co-Pilot Trott
New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1944. Illustrated by Bruce Hale. Stated First Edition. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/2" Pictorial blue cloth colored boards stamped in darker blue.133 pp. Black and white pictorial endpapers. "Mrs. Bullard has told a warm, sympathetic story about a little animal of unusual sagacity, a...... More
The Murder of the Frogs and Other Stories
New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1969). Stated First Edition. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-3/4". 342 pp. Black cloth covered boards with title stamped in copper on spine. Top edge of text block stained light green to match endpapers. "Don Carpenter emerges, in this book, not just as a superb storyteller..... More
Life & Times of Michael K
New York: The Viking Press, (1984). 0670427896. First Edition. 8vo. Orange paper covered boards with black cloth spine. 184 pp. J. M. Coetzee takes us into the world of Michael K, a young man unwillingly caught up in a war in South Africa. At the age of thirty-one, Michael loses..... More
Laughing Anne & One Day More, Two Plays
London: John Castle, 1924. With an Introduction by John Galsworthy. First Edition. 12 mo. Green moiré cloth covered boards with lettering in gilt on spine. These plays share a common theme - the suffering of a woman capable of self-sacrifice. The fact that they are adaptations from stories makes it..... More
Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit
New York: New Directions, (1981). 0811208192. More
The Auction of Mary Angel
Double Day Doran, 1930. Stated first edition. hardcover. More
The Dream Lover
Random House, 2014. Advance Readers Copy Signed. Soft Cover. More
Across the River and Into the Trees
1950. First edition 2nd issue with orange and black spine instead of yellow and black - with scribner's A. More
Soldiers Pay
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First edition of author's second book. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5-1/2". Dark blue cloth covered boards. Decorative blue coated paper endpapers. 319 pp. More
American Beauty
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1931. With woodcut decorations by Rudolph Ruzicka. Stated First Edition. 8vo. 8-3/16 x 5-3/4". Red cloth covered boards stamped in gold. Decorative green printed endpapers. 313 pp. This is the circle of a certain phase of American life, American beauty, if you will, that..... More
Pillars of the Earth
New York: William Morrow and Co., (1989). 0688046592. Stated First Edition. Large 8vo. 973 pp. Light brown paper covered boards with chocolate colored cloth spine. More
Portraits from Life
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937. First Edition. Large 8vo. 9-9/16" x 6-1/2". Cornflower blue cloth covered boards stamped in silver. 227 pp. Memories and Criticisms of Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane, D. H. Lawrence, John Galsworthy, Ivan Turgenev, W. H. Hudson..... More
Mountain Interval
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (November 1916). First edition, first state with issue points: repeated line on p. 88 and "Come" instead of "Gone" on p. 93. 12 mo. Blue cloth covered boards stamped in gold. 99 pp. Deckled fore-edge. Some pages uncut. More
The Broken Wings
New York: The Citadel Press, (1957). Stated first printing. 8vo. Patterned blue-green paper covered boards. Red cloth spine stamped in green. 128 pp. THis is the exquisitely tender story of a love that beats desperately against the taboos of Oriental tradition. With great sensitivity and lyricism, Gibran describes his passion..... More
The End of the Affair
New York: Viking Press, 1951. Published by the Viking Press October 1951. 8vo. 240 pp. More
Travels with my Aunt
New York: Viking Press, (1970). First American Edition. 8vo.8-5/8" x 6". Lavender paper covered boards. White cloth spine stamped in lavender. Lavender endpapers. 244 pp. Top edge of text block stained lavender. Greeneland has been described often as a land bleak and severe. A whiskey priest dies in one village..... More
Morte
Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1925. With four full page woodcut illustrations signed by Boris Reidel. Inscribed on limitation page: "To Aunty Bojino -- Hoping with all my heart that she will like this book. Marie. Christmas, 1924" Signed limited edition, #86 of 450 copies. Tall 8vo. 9-5/8" x 6-3/8". Unique color..... More
Their Wedding Journey
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. Illustrated by Augustus Hoppin. First Edition. 12 mo. 7-3/8" x 5-1/8. Three quarter tooled brown leather with marbled paper boards and endpapers. Top edge gilt. Small red leather heart motif used on front cover and spine. This may be a unique binding, signed..... More
Time Must Have a Stop
London and New York: Harper and Brothers, 1944. Stated First Edition. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth with gold stamped spine. 311 pp. More