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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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: Society of Foliophiles, (1925). Quarto. One of 200 copies printed for the Society of Foliophiles, containing 20 original leaves from notable books of English literature from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Unbound, as issued, with each leaf in its respective, annotated folder measuring 12 1/2 by 9 1/2... More
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1903-04; 1909-14. Twelve octavo volumes. Autograph Centenary Edition. One of 600 copies signed by the publisher, and with an autograph manuscript leaf by Emerson bound in to the first volume. The original leaf, which has been expertly and invisibly repaired along the crease, is from "Man The... More
Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1947. Octavo. Minor shelfwear and upper corner bumped, else near fine in cloth over boards. More
San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1982. Octavo. Very fine in teal cloth, gilt-stamped to upper cover and spine. In fine dust jacket, showing some rubbing. More
Winthrop, MA: Falcon Publishing, 1974. Oblong quarto. First edition. From an edition of 1,000 copies, this is one of fifty signed by the author and artist. Bound in white wrappers with plastic spiral binding comb, which is missing one of the teeth, else fine. More
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Special Collections Department, Temple University Libraries, 1973. Octavo. Bibliography of books, manuscripts, and miscellanea held in the Frank G. Harrington Collection of Richard Aldington and Hild "H.D." Doolittle. Very fine in cream wrappers, with minor darkening and soiling to wrappers. More
(Pittsburgh, PA): University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. Octavo. Part of the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. Very fine in full blue cloth. More
Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 1968. Octavo. Fine in brown cloth with a fine dust jacket. More
Los Gatos, California: Talisman Press, 1960. 8vo. 125pp. Fine in gray cloth with peach paper spine label. Very good dust jacket, showing chipping and folds to top edge and two small closed tears to bottom edge. More
New York: Viking Press, 1960. Quarto. 327pp. First edition. With contributions by authors, such as Wodehouse, Houdini, Coward, Cocteau, Huxley, Cummings, and more. Fine in red cloth-backed paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt, with dust jacket that shows some wear to edges and spine and two small holes at spine. More
London: C.W. Beaumont, 1918. Octavo. (xiv), 164pp. First edition, limited issue. One of 100 numbered copies printed on cartridge paper. Decorated by Anne Estelle Rice with hand-colored vignettes throughout. Hand-colored frontispiece designed and cut in wood by Edgard Tijtgat. Contains verse and prose by authors, such as Aldous Huxley, D.... More
NY: Chelsea House, (1970). Quarto. 239pp. First edition. A collection of over 50 stories, poems, features, and articles from pulp magazines of the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, with their original illustrations and ads. Each is placed into historical context through commentary by the compiler and editor, Tony Goodstone. Also includes... More
London: Century, 1986. A mint copy with a price-clipped dust jacket. More
London: Vermilion, 1984. A mint copy. More
Yonkers, NY: Alicat Bookshop, 1947. Octavo. (20)ff. Number eight in the series of Outcast Chapbooks published by Oscar Baradinsky at the Alicat Bookshop. The series offered limited editions of "Fresh, valid and iconoclastic essays by outstanding Avant garde writers of today and yesterday." This particular issue is comprised of loose... More
Middlesex, England: Private Libraries Association, The British Library, 2003. Quarto. Very fine in burgundy cloth, gold-stamped to upper cover and spine. More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1990. Quarto. xxviii, 173pp. One of 400 copies signed by the illustrator. Richard Diebenkorn has supplied six etchings, comprising a double map of Ireland and five images on the Yeatsian theme of the empty coat. Faint sunning to slipcase, else fine in green cloth with red... More
N.p. c. 1920s. Octavo. (1)ff. Leaf excised from an unknown book, inscribed to Richard Vernon Johnson from his sister Marian. The leaf is also signed by the editors Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith, her sister. Kate Douglas Wiggin is best known for writing Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, but... More
London: Constable, (1920). Small quarto. (76)ff. One of fifty copies printed on Japon, signed by the artist, and with an extra hand-colored illustration. Illustrated with six full-color plates and thirty-two in black & white, some of which have touches of color, as well as numerous smaller line drawings throughout. Balfour's... More
1934, 1950. (1)ff. autograph letter, dated July 25th, 1934. A letter from J. M. Barrie to William Maldon "Bill" Woodfull, the Australian cricketer who captained both the Victoria and Australia cricket teams. Barrie comments on the fourth game of the 1934 Ashes series, in which Australia played against England, saying... More
London: Faber and Faber, (1975). Oblong quarto. (63)pp. First edition. Inscribed by Leonard Baskin, whose stylized drawings provide a dramatic illustration of Hughes's poem sequence. The effect, as the jacket copy rightly describes it, is a "haunting combination of word and image." Baskin, the renowned sculptor, artist, and founder of... More
Winchester, Hampshire: St. Paul's BIbliographies, 1990. Octavo. Twentieth Century Writers No. 6. Very fine in navy cloth over boards, gold-stamped to spine. In fine blue dust jacket, showing minor wear. More
London: (Leadlay, 1931). Folio. (14)ff. One of 900 copies. A portfolio of five color caricatures of the members of the cast and the producer of the operetta "Bitter Sweet," including Noel Coward and Peggy Wood. A facsimile prefatory note by Beerbohm describes them as "sentimental" drawings to commemorate a "sentimental"... More
