Joyce Cary: A Biography.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1968. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 555pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. First edition. More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1968. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 555pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. First edition. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Hardcover. Translation by Lisa Nesselson. Small 4to. Green cloth spine and green paper over boards, dust jacket. xv, 412pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Slight jacket wear and rubbing. Handsome first edition. More
New York: Twayne Publishers, [1961]. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth with gilt lettering, dust jacket. 190pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with spine slightly sunned. A handsome, tight first edition of the second volume in the useful "TUSAS" (Twayne's United States Authors Series). From the library of academic and literary..... More
New York: The Seabury Press, [1967]. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 242pp. Near fine/very good. Faint edgewear, with spine a bit sunned. A tight, quite nice first of the revised edition of this 1944 young adult biography of the 17th century English poet and..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and black paper over boards, dust jacket. xvi, 681pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Single small archivally-closed (on verso) edge tear at tail of jacket spine. Tight, handsome first edition. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1966]. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark and light green paper over boards with white and yellow spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 217pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket lightly age toned. A tight and handsome first edition of this (to cite front jacket panel) "Story of the..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black cloth with red, green and gold pictorial stamping. x, 379pp. Decorations, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Tight, clean and nice first edition of the fourth and concluding volume of this writer's memoirs; preceded by the 1926 "Trail-Makers of the Middle Border,"..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931. Hardcover. Decorations by Constance Garland. 8vo. Black and russet cloth with gilt lettering. vi, 539pp. Frontispiece, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Faintest of edgewear. A tight and attractive first edition of this memoir by the Wisconsin-born realist writer. Charming nonauthorial gift inscription on half-title page..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1928]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with red lettering and green and red pictorial stamping. xi, 467pp. Very good. Faint edgewear. A tight and nice reprint edition of the first volume (1917) of this Wisconsin writer's memoir. From the library of Russel B. Nye (1913-93)..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. Hardcover. Illustrations by Constance Garland. Small 8vo. Black cloth with gilt and red lettering and gilt and red pictorial stamping, pictorial dust jacket. 426pp. Frontispiece, line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Very good/fair. Faint edgewear to binding; jacket lacks the spine panel, and rest is edgeworn..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1972. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth, dust jacket. 370pp. Illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Tight, nice first edition -- but a mild ex-library copy, with relatively few markings. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1948. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. vii, 280pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with couple of tiny edge chips. A tight, quite attractive first U.S. edition of this biography of the life and times..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1978. Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow cloth spine and red paper over boards, dust jacket. 445pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Tight, clean first edition, a mild ex-library copy with relatively few markings. More
New York: Crown Publishers, 1980. Hardcover. Silver and black paper over boards, dust jacket. 411pp. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. First edition, tight and nice, of this biography of the founder of Olympia Press in Paris. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. xvii, 244pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Slight jacket wear. Tight, attractive first edition. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Hardcover. Small 4to. Off-white cloth, dust jacket. xvii, 300pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Red remainder mark on bottom page edges; some jacket edgewear. Tight, nice first U.S. edition. More
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1961. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan decorated cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 287pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket slightly edgeworn, with spine slightly sunned and a couple small edge chips. First edition, tight and nice, signed big and bold on the front flyleaf by Golden in blue ink..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1975. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth, dust jacket. xii, 372pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Front flyleaf corner clipped at top. Tight, attractive first edition. More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989. Hardcover. Translation by Peter Bush. Small 4to. Grey cloth spine with silver lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. Very good/near fine. Inconspicuous ex-library, with no external markings whatsoever and almost no internal markings. First edition of the Spanish novelist's autobiography. More
New York: The World Publishing Company, [1970]. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with brown and orange spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 284pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Flaps of otherwise-near fine jacket age toned. Handsome first edition of this first biography of the most famous of all Western novelists, penned by..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, 1967. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth, dust jacket. 218pp. Illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good/good plus. Binding cloth sunned along the edges; jacket a bit edgeworn. Tight, nice first edition of this "Revealing Portrait of Mary McCarthy." More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 261pp. Good plus/very good. Tight, decent first edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's memoir -- but ex-library, though with relatively few and mostly removed markings. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 228pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. A superb and tight first edition. More
N.p. The Kent State University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, dust jacket. xix, 340pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear and archivally-closed (on verso) edge tears. Handsome, tight first edition. More
New York: Random House, 1982. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth, dust jacket. xii, 527pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket spine slightly age toned. First edition, tight and handsome. More