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: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933; 1934. First Edition. Laid in is a typed letter, signed, from Wylie to a Mr. Langdon, dated April 13, 1943, which reads: “My dear Mr. Langdon…….Jesus Christ! What a letter! My reply is belated. The paraphrase may refresh your memory. But I am sorry..... More
Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly Press, 1990. Oblong small quarto. 34ff. From an edition of 135 copies, this is one of 60 signed by the illustrator, Karin Wikström, with an additional unbound, signed print and a companion essay by Tim Hunt, also signed. Jeffers' long narrative about an Indian woman and..... More
Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly Press, (1994). Quarto. xiv, (ii), 124 pp. From an edition of 141 copies, 121 of which were for sale, this is one of 85 copies signed by Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, and Enrique Chagoya. The result of a collaboration between Paz and Beckett, this survey of..... More
