There is a deceptively simple goal for the collector of first editions: to obtain the earliest printed form of a work of literature, in as close to the condition it was in when it first appeared in bookstores as a new book. Dig deeper, though, and you find that the first edition collector also has an interest in ...
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NY: Oxford University Press, 1966. Octavo. First American edition. One of 1,000 copies comprised of sheets from the first edition with a new title page. This is Heaney's first commercially produced verse collection, preceded by Eleven Poems, a pamphlet published by Queen's University in Belfast. The future Nobel Laureate's richly..... More
Dublin: Hieroglyph Editions Ltd, 1991. First edition. From an edition of 100 copies, this is one of 60 that were offered for sale. Illustrated with four lithographs by Felim Egan, who designed the book. Signed by Heaney and Egan. This is the first separate appearance of twelve poems from the..... More
Gallery Press: (Loughcrew), 1995. One of 500 copies. Bifolium notecard featuring Seamus Heaney's poem "The Strand" on the inside and reproducing a watercolor by Felim Egan on front panel. Facing the verses is a handwritten note from Heaney to Dutch poet, Mischa de Vreede. Heaney writes to acknowledge a preceding..... More
(Vancouver, B.C.): Heavenly Monkey, 2010. Broadside measuring 22 by 15 inches. One of thirty copies—this copy marked "Position proof." Unsigned. With full-page illustration of a hermaphroditic figure, titled "The Botanist," and two smaller text figures of mushrooms, all from drawings by Atsushi Fukui. Sylvian was the former frontman for the..... More
(Salem: Colonial Society, 1939). First separate edition, which consisted of fewer than 100 copies. A single folded sheet with one page of type, printed by Dard Hunter II at the MIT Paper Museum Press. Inscribed by Frost to Martin K. Howes at foot of poem. Frost read this delightful piece..... More
Boston: Bromer Booksellers, 2011. Octavo. 408pp. First trade edition. Aun Aprendo: A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Writings of Aldous Leonard Huxley is the culmination of over twenty years of research, fact-finding, and detective work undertaken by David J. Bromer. With over 2,000 entries, Aun Aprendo is the most current and..... More
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Boston: Bromer Booksellers, 2011. Octavo. 408pp. One of 50 deluxe copies signed by the bibliographer, of which 40 are available for sale. The deluxe edition includes a previously unpublished poem by Huxley dedicated to his first wife Maria. Aun Aprendo: A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Writings of Aldous Leonard Huxley..... More
London: Stockdale, John, 1793. Four quarto volumes. xi, 225; vii, 188; lxv, 189 (misnumbered 891); xi, 228pp. First editions, first issues, of both sets, printed with the long "s." The Gay volumes are illustrated with an engraved title page and engravings by various artists, including William Blake, who freely adapted..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1912). Quarto. (184)pp. One of 750 copies numbered and signed by Dulac. Illustrated with twenty-eight tipped-in color plates, as well as several headpieces printed in black & yellow, depicting beautifully chilling scenes from Poe's Gothic poems. In his biography of Dulac, Colin White describes the artist's..... More
NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1924). First American edition. One of only 250 copies designated for the United States from a total edition of 2,000. The handsomely produced and lavishly illustrated tale of an old man who builds a square-rigged ship with the help of fairy artisans, and sails through..... More
Frankfurt, Berlin and Vienna: Propyläen, 1973. Folio. (30)ff., + 26 plates laid in. One of sixty copies. Each plate is signed and numbered by the artist. The twenty-six color etchings each depict a letter of the alphabet in a bizarre, fantastic, and sometimes grotesque manner fitting the excerpt from Joyce's..... More
(London): Doves Press, (1908). Two large octavo volumes. 192; 200pp. One of 250 copies. Printed in red and black by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker. This collection of Browning's poems explores the many aspects of love between men and women. The colophon is beautifully inscribed in red "Flourished by..... More
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1989. Oblong folio. 106pp. One of twenty deluxe copies printed on papier de Chine and bound in flexible blue textured leather by Christian Zwang. With twenty-five linoleum cuts in several colors by Kim Keever. Signed by the artist. Keever's linocuts draw directly from the theme of..... More
Adelaide, Australia; Westport, CT: 1948, 1952. Two typed letters, (3)ff., (2)ff., signed by Helen Keller, plus (1)ff. autograph note, signed, from Keller's assistant and companion, Polly Thompson., and a typed transcript of that note. As a world-famous speaker, author, and advocate for persons with disabilities, Keller traveled to more than..... More
(Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893). Octavo. 72pp. One of 500 copies, printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. This is the second issue, with four cancellans leaves replacing pp. 15-16, 19-20, 25-26, and 69-70. With wide leaf and blossom borders to the opening page and to the title-page, which is..... More
NY: Random House, 1930. First edition thus. A trade edition of the "magnum opus" first enfranchised by the Lakeside Press. With almost 300 of Kent's finest wood engravings. Kent put in many weeks of intensive research on whaling lore before starting the drawings. "In June of 1927, he sent the..... More
NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1966. First edition. Author’s signature laid in. First appearing as a short story in 1959, this first expanded edition of Flowers for Algernon earned immediate acclaim, becoming a joint winner of the 1966 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Written as a series of journal..... More
NY: Equinox Cooperative Press, 1935. Thirty lithographs by Ward illustrate Hicks’ biography of Reed, the author of Ten Days that Shook the World and the first American ambassador to the Soviet Union. Reed witnessed firsthand the Bolshevik Revolution, and through his articles in The Masses, transmitted his impressions to an..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1995. Quarto. lxxxiv, 242pp., leaf tipped in at rear. One of 100 copies of the special first edition distributed for the Friends of the Brigham Young University Library by W. Thomas Taylor. Specially bound in quarter goatskin, with an original leaf from the 1524 Colines edition..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1995. Quarto. lxxxiv, 242pp., leaf tipped in at rear. One of 100 copies of the special first edition distributed for the Friends of the Brigham Young University Library by W. Thomas Taylor. Specially bound in quarter goatskin, with an original leaf from the 1524 Colines edition..... More
NY: Henry Holt, 1914. Octavo. (144) pp. First edition, second issue, binding "B" of Frost's second regularly published book. One of 150 copies bound from sets of sheets from David Nutt, Frost's English publisher with Holt title page on a cancel stub. This was published on 20 February, 1915, and..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1932. First edition, first issue. A work of considerable depth, Stapledon’s novel describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years. Through a conceit that a member of a future human species has channeled the text through him, the narrator relates..... More
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1990. 24pp. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by the author. A collection of eight Updike poems originally printed in The New Yorker, Agni, The New Republic, and elsewhere. Each poem is preceded by a small illustrative device in green. The book is bound by..... More
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1925; 1926. Two octavo volumes. First edition of the Scottish poet Hugh M'Diarmid's first collection of poetry, in the second binding, together with a first edition of his second book. Hugh M'Diarmid, or MacDiarmid, as it is more commonly written, was the pen..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. First edition, third printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by Maclean on front endpaper to Robert Williams, whose essay on the making of this book accompanies this copy. For its vision of the West and of the unknowns of love and family, A River Runs Through..... More
