Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, [1963]. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 180pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Spine of otherwise-superb jacket rather age toned. Handsome first U.S. edition -- tight, sharp. Not often seen in this bright, lovely condition. More
London: W.H. Allen, 1963. Hardcover. 12mo. Brown paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. 365pp, (2pp), (7pp ads). Fine/near fine. Absolutely outstanding, tight and bright first English edition (following the 1952 first American edition) of this memoir by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning American poet..... More
New York: Congdon & Weed, Inc., [1982]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth spine with silver lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 278pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/near fine. A superb, tight first edition of this 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir about Baker's Virginia childhood, with fine autograph addition: Tipped to..... More
N.p. Brittany Press, [1948]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and burgundy paper over boards, dust jacket. xiv, 269pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. Quite tight and attractive later printing of this oft-reprinted text, first published in German in 1899. Bloch was the first "sexologist,"..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1975]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with copper spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 312pp. Fine/very good. Light jacket edgewear. A tight and lovely first edition of Strode's last book -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to the front flyleaf is a fine Typed Letter Signed..... More