Shelley: The Last Phase.
New York: Roy Publishers, 1955. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. 256pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, map endpapers. Very good. First edition, a clean and tight copy. More
New York: Roy Publishers, 1955. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. 256pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, map endpapers. Very good. First edition, a clean and tight copy. More
Los Angeles: Gilbert Rich and Associates, [1958]. Paperback. 4to. Stiff orange pictorial wrappers. (21pp). Numerous illustrations. Near fine. First and probably sole edition of this souvenir program for this stage production, adapted and directed by Norman Corwin and starring Bette Davis and then-husband Gary Merrill. Features full-page portraits with facing..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1953]. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with silver lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 445pp. Pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with tiny chips at head of spine, which is faintly sunned. A tight, handsome later printing of this evocative memoir of the Illinois poet..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1978]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with copper spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 319pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Jacket spine ever-so-faintly sunned. First edition, tight and clean, signed big and bold in purple fineline (as usual) by Sandburg on the front flyleaf. Kroch's & Brentano's..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1963. Hardcover. 4to. Red and orange cloth, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 180pp. Illustrations, music notation. Very good/very good. Tight and decent first edition of this combination memoir and folk music collection by the daughter of Carl Sandburg, herself an accomplished writer. Mild ex-library, with very..... More
New York: Donald I. Fine, 1989. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth spine and cream paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 368pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Superb first edition of this "portrait of Carl Sandburg and his family as seen through the eyes of his youngest daughter" -- who boldly signs an..... More
New York: Donald I. Fine, 1989. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth spine and cream paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 368pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Superb first edition of this "portrait of Carl Sandburg and his family as seen through the eyes of his youngest daughter" -- who boldly signs an..... More
New York: Delacorte Press, [1984]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff yellow printed wrappers. (20pp), 457pp, (9pp blank). Very good. Faint edgewear to outer wrappers (only), else tight and internally fine. Handsome uncorrected proof copy of this (to cite press release) "unprecedented combination reference book/biography." Laid in loose are a 7" X 5"..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, dust jacket. 187pp. Frontispiece. Very good/very good. Slight jacket edgewear. Continuation of the philosopher's memoir, "Persons and Places," an early (not first) printing. Tight and attractive. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 149pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; ownership signature/date on front flyleaf. First edition, tight and handsome, of the third and final volume of the Italian philosopher's autobiography. More
New York: Praeger Publishers, [1972]. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 182pp. Frontispiece, line drawings. Near fine/near fine. Tight and nice first edition. Saroyan reminisces about 68 places he's visited. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, dust jacket. 254pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Erratum slip tipped in. Near fine/very good. Handsome first edition of this memoir. More
New York: George Braziller, 1963. Hardcover. Translation by Bernard Frechtman. Small 4to. Black cloth, dust jacket. 625pp. Very good/good plus. Annoying little abrasions scattered across jacket; ownership signature on front flyleaf. Tight, clean second printing. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1961]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey and black cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxiii, 867pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Bit of mild jacket edgewear and rubbing, with a few tiny edge chips along top; rear endpaper slightly age toned from long-ago newsprint contact..... More
Garden City, NY: The Basin Publishing Co., 1989. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. viii, 312pp. Fine. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Collection of the former WPA writer's Long Island commentary. Though not so noted, this copy came from the library of Basin Publishing's founder, noted..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1987. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth spine and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 40pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. First edition. More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1919. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown library buckram. 338pp. Illustrations. Very good. Tight, nice first edition -- discreet ex-library, with very few markings. More
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1946. Hardcover. Edited by Forence Hall. 8vo. Glazed pictorial paper over boards. xxi, 231pp. Very good. Tight and handsome early (not first) printing of this Spanish-language edition of the Spanish writer's childhood memoir, intended for an English-speaking audience with footnotes largely in English, a vocabulary, etc. Uncommon..... More
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1988. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. x, 287pp. Illustrations. Near fine/fine. Boards slightly cocked. First edition. Volume One of Shapiro's "Poet: An Autobiography in Three Parts." More
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., 1946. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. x, 390pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/very good. Ownership signature/date on front flyleaf. Reprint. Fascinating biography of George Bernard Shaw, with collaboration of the subject himself. More
New York: Stein and Day, 1983. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth spine and brown paper over boards, dust jacket. xx, 397pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Small remainder dot on bottom page edges. Handsome first edition, tight and clean. More
New York: Stein and Day, 1983. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth spine and brown paper over boards, dust jacket. xx, 397pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. A tight, attractive first edition of this thick biography of the American playwright (1888-1959). More
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984. Hardcover. Translation by Harold J. Salemson. Small 4to. Grey cloth spine and brown paper over boards, dust jacket. 815pp. Near fine/near fine. First edition: Tight, nice, attractive. Hefty autobiography by the prolific author of the Maigret mystery novels. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, dust jacket. 208pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Faint bit of jacket wear. Tight, clean, nice first edition. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 356pp. Very good/very good. Jacket rubbed and a bit edgeworn. A tight and nice first edition of this collection that the jacket front panel describes thusly: "Sir Osbert Delineates an Era & Himself Through Portraits of People..... More