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The "unedited manuscript" together with the "uncorrected proof" of 2010. These comprise the first and second proofs of the text. Both are perfect bound in wrappers and are in fine condition with slight sunning to spines. ... more

Price: $350.00

First edition. Contains eleven one-act plays by the master of modern drama. Fine in dust jacket, which has small chips to lower front panel and top of spine. Owner's inscription. ... more

Price: $300.00

First edition. The text of a speech by Faulkner, printed with his permission. According to Petersen, Faulkner agreed to speak to the Delta Council, which was composed of 3000 farmers and businessmen from an eighteen-county area, because he needed the $400 speaker's fee to buy a jeep. In the speech,... more

Price: $2,000.00

Square octavo. 366pp. First American edition, early state, in the scarce blue cloth publisher's binding. The following BAL issue points apply: pages 13 and 57 are first state, page 155 is third state, page 283 is third state. With 173 illustrations by E.W. Kemble and photogravure frontispiece portrait bust by... more

Price: $35,000.00

Two advance copies, consisting of the first page proof and second proof of Huxley's satire about a Hollywood millionaire contemplating death. Huxley's novel is said to have been inspired in part by William Randolph Hearst's relationship with Marion Davies. In his first draft of the novel, Huxley used Davies's actual... more

Price: $750.00

Octavo. (v)ff., 192pp. First edition, second issue. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel. Carroll's enduring tale of a child's dreamworld was first issued in 1865 by Macmillan and Company of London, but Carroll and Tenniel were unhappy with the print quality of the illustrations and canceled the issue, insisting that... more

Price: $9,750.00

Octavo. (x), 78, (i)pp. First edition. The last play that Dryden wrote for the King's Company, All for Love is an imitation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. It was written in blank verse and focuses on the tragic last hours of the two star-crossed lovers' lives. With a calligraphed bookplate... more

Price: $1,500.00

Four small octavo volumes. xii, 285; viii, 262; ix, 323; vii, 296 pp. First edition, second state with the corrected line on page 191 of the third volume. Fielding's last novel was printed in a rather large first printing of 5000 copies, as his publisher had hoped to capitalize on... more

Price: $1,750.00

Quarto. 97pp. Lyrical works by the ancient Greek poet whose name has become associated with bacchanalian and amorous affairs. Text in Ionian Greek and Italian. Bound in original boards with original paper spine label. Extremities and spine lightly frayed, spine professionally repaired, else a near fine and rare example from... more

Price: $1,350.00

First edition of the author's first book published under his own name. Basis for the 1971 Robert Wise film of the same name. The plot, which involves the rapid spread of a virulent pathogen, predates the discovery of AIDS. A very good copy in cloth backed boards with some browning... more

Price: $275.00

First edition. A collection of short stories by one of the better practitioners of that form. Brown's stories are noted for their sense of humor. Fine in mottled boards and a fine d/w. ... more

Price: $375.00

Octavo. (24), 1130, (22)pp. First Lyon edition of Wolffhart's encyclopedic collection of apothegms from Classical sources. This edition appears one year after the first edition, which was published by his brother-in-law in Basel, and it is one of a handful of editions that appeared within Wolffhart's lifetime. He died in... more

Price: $1,500.00

First edition. Cather's first book, a self-published collection of verse, and the only verse Cather published during her career. She reportedly bought remaining copies of this edition in 1908 and destroyed them. It was re-issued by Knopf as a limited edition in 1923, but with considerable revisions and deletions. This... more

Price: $2,750.00

Eight octavo volumes. Variously paginated. Includes issue numbers 3-8, issue number 10, and Arkahm House 1995-96. Part magazine and part promotional pamphlet, The "Collector" was issued by Arkham House editor August Derleth, and includes notes on forthcoming Arkham titles as well as writing by famous horror authors such as Brian... more

Price: $100.00

Octavo. First edition. First appearance of this poem, which was awarded the Poetry Society of South Carolina's Southern Prize for 1923. This publication also prints the poems which received honorable mention: "A Fragment" by William Alexander Percy, and "Avalon" by Donald Davidson. This copy is signed by Ransom on front... more

Price: $950.00

Folio. 22pp. First edition. One of 150 copies, signed by the author-artist. Lubbock's impressive first book is an essay on art and its relationship with religion, richly illustrated with fourteen stunning color lithographs. Very fine in cream-colored boards with a gilt line drawing on the front cover and title gilt-stamped... more

Price: $650.00

16ff. First edition of this selection. Binding A, in wrappers with the title page as the front cover. Together with a copy in the second binding, in which a simulated red linen paper is pasted over the wrappers, with a rectangular cut-out in the front which shows only the "Robert... more

Price: $950.00

Two-page ALs, signed "Saml." to Clemens' wife Livy, written in pencil on both sides of a single sheet of lined paper. Headed: "In hotelcar, 300 miles west of Philadelphia, Sunday morning. "Writing from a train on the way from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, Clemens remarks: "Dan says the Scrap Book is... more

Price: $2,750.00