W.H. Allen, 1959. 8vo, beige cloth, gilt titles, 176pp. Second printing. Unclipped dust jacket (12s 6d net) with mild wear to edges, toning to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Short story collection by the British writer, the title story of which was adapted.....
Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. 8vo, quarter blue cloth over red cloth boards, gilt titles, army green top stain, 302pp. First American Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (5.00) with closed tear to spine crown, light chipping to edges, toning and rubbing to panels. Ownership bookplate to front endpaper, noticeable tear to cloth.....
Hamish Hamilton, 1960. 8vo, green cloth, gilt titles, 400pp. First thus. Unclipped dust jacket (21s. net) with moderate rubbing and toning to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Attractive omnibus edition of the four novels by the French existentialist writer, collecting The Outsider, The.....
Fantagraphics Books, 2007. 8vo, black paper boards, white titles, 878pp. Inscribed to the title page “For David in admiration Alex.” Dust jacket (priced 29.95 to rear panel), very mildly rubbed to panels. Toning to top and fore edges of text block, slight spine slant to boards. Contents clean, binding firm.....
David R. Godine, 1975. 8vo, softcover typographic wrappers, 216, [32] pp. First paperback edition. Light edge wear to wrappers, ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The first novel by the postmodern writer and author of Darconville’s Cat. A nearly fine copy. .
Grove Press, 1965. 8vo, green cloth, gilt titles, 280pp. Stated first printing. Unclipped dust jacket (7.95) with mild toning to panels, wear to edges. Ownership signature, toning to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Anthology of works by the French proto-surrealist, featuring the complete Ubu dramatic cycle, writings.....
Random House, 1988. 8vo, quarter brown cloth over khaki paper boards, gilt titles, 288pp. First edition, advance review copy with tipped in publisher’s slip. Unclipped dust jacket (16.95) with faint creasing to top edge of front panel, mild wear to edges. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp.....
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1965. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles, 224pp. Third printing, [C.9.65], from the original 1960 edition. Unclipped dust jacket (4.50). Signed by Allen Tate to the title page. Dust jacket mildly toned to panels, fading to edges of boards. Contents clean, binding firm. Gathers all of the poems.....
Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1947. 8vo, tobacco buckram cloth, green stamped titles, unclipped dust jacket (4.50). John Peale Bishop memorial volume, first thus. Dust jacket creased with a closed tear to top edge of front panel, mild chipping to spine edges. Pages age toned. Contents clean, binding firm. An anthology of southern.....
McDowell, Obolensky, 1957. 8vo, turquoise buckram cloth, gilt and black titles, 373pp. First edition. Signed by Lytle to the free front endpaper. Unclipped dust jacket (3.95) with chipping and loss to top edge of panels, spine edges, score mark to front panel, chipping to front flap edge. Contents clean, binding.....
Grove Press, 1959. 8vo, red full cloth, gilt titles, pictorial cityscape endpapers, 310pp. Unclipped dust jacket (4.75) with mild toning and rubbing to panels, short closed tears to top edge and diagonal tear to front flap. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The first English.....
Crown Publishers, 1977. 8vo, black quarter cloth over orange paper boards, gilt titles, 198pp. First American Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (7.95) mildly worn to edges, toned to panels. Contents clean, binding firm. The third novel by the French Canadian writer of Kamouraska, a gothic tale of a demonically possessed nun.....
The Magnificat Press, 1928. Hardcover. 8vo, army green cloth with gilt titles and stamping, 151pp. First thus. A spot of discoloration to front board, a nick to cloth at heel of spine, ownership signature to front endpaper. Firmly bound with clean text. Portraits of writerly women who converted to Catholicism.....
The Modern Library, 1956. 8vo, red cloth, black and gilt titles, Kent endpapers, 296pp, 7pgs advertisements. Stated First Modern Library Edition, 1956. Toledano binding style no. 8, dust jacket style ‘i’ with 377 titles listed to reverse. Publisher’s review copy with tipped-in Random House publication slip. Dust jacket mildly worn.....
The Viking Press, 1949. 8vo, wheat buckram cloth, brown titles, illustrated endpapers, brown topstain, 139pp. First edition, ‘second printing before publication’ as stated to colophon. Unclipped dust jacket (2.50) moderately toned with edge wear to panels. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A handsomely preserved pre-publication edition of Miller’s most.....
The Olympia Press / New English Library Limited, 1966. 8vo, army green typographic wrappers, 125pp. British edition, a reissue of the original 1959 Olympia Press book by the New English Library. Wrappers show a faint spot of discoloration to front wrap, slight curling to corners, ownership inscription to front endpaper.....
Cecil & Amelia Woolf, 1974. 8vo, red cloth, gilt titles, illustrated endpapers, 137pp. First edition. Unclipped but jacket (2.50) with mild toning and rubbing to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Collection of short stories by the English Decadent writer gathering seven hitherto unpublished.....
Cecil & Amelia Woolf, 1974. 8vo, green cloth, gilt titles, illustrated endpapers, 79pp. First edition. Unclipped dust jacket (2.10) with mild toning and rubbing to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Selected verse by the English Decadent writer, gathering juvenilia and mature work together.....
Cecil & Amelia Woolf, 1974. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles, illustrated endpapers, 80pp. First edition. Unclipped dust jacket (2.10) with mild toning and rubbing to panels, chipping and loss to spine foot. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. First trade publication of Baron Corvo’s notorious.....
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1969. 8vo, beige buckram cloth, black titles, 294pp. Stated first printing. Publisher’s review copy, with tipped in review slip and author photograph. Unclipped dust jacket (5.95) mildly rubbed to panels, a few short closed tears, creasing to ends of spine. Contents clean, binding firm. The only.....
Little, Brown and Company, 1983. 8vo, brown paper boards, silver titles, 178pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (13.50) moderately rubbed and toned to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper, discreet remainder mark to lower edge. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The posthumously published collected stories by the celebrated West.....
Hutchinson of London, 1958. 8vo, grape buckram cloth, silver titles, 343pp. First British Edition, the true first edition. Unclipped dust jacket (16s net) with light chipping to spine down, tape residue mark to front flap, toning to panels. Ownership signature, bookseller’s ticket to front endpaper, light bump to board corners.....
Vintage Contemporaries, 1991. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo, softcover wrappers, 399pp. Price of 11.00 to rear wrap. Stated First Edition with full number line. Ownership marking to half title ('The world shows its age), diagonal crease to front wrapper and slight curl to corners of rear wrap, pages mildly toned.....
Grove Press, 1986. 8vo, pictorial softcover wrappers, 186pp. First paperback printing. Light wear to edges of wrappers, faint crease to rear wrap, ownership signature to half title page. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The last novel of the experimental ‘cut-up’ writer and associate of the Beat Generation, a hallucinogenic.....
Oxford University Press, 1954. 8vo, publisher’s navy blue cloth, gilt titles, black topstain, 696pp. True first impression, date on title page with no additional printings listed. List of 12 titles stated opposite title page, three of which are noted as published, and 12 titles listed to rear flap with four.....