(Ade, George)
A Bibliography of George Ade, 1866-1944.
Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1947. Octavo. Minor shelfwear and upper corner bumped, else near fine in cloth over boards. More
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(Aiken, Conrad)
Conrad Aiken. A Bibliography (1902-1978).
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
(Akiba, David)
Will It Burn.
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
(Aldington, Richard)
Richard Aldington 1892-1962.
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
(Algren, Nelson)
Nelson Algren. A Descriptive Bibliography.
(Pittsburgh, PA): University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. Octavo. Part of the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. Very fine in full blue cloth. More
(Anderson, Maxwell)
A Catalogue of the Maxwell Anderson Collection at the University of Texas.
Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 1968. Octavo. Fine in brown cloth with a fine dust jacket. More
(Anderson, Sherwood)
Sherwood Anderson. A Bibliography.
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
(Anthology)
Vanity Fair: Selections from America's Most Memorable Magazine. A Cavalcade of the 1920s and 1930s.
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
(Anthology)
New Paths.
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
(Anthology)
The Pulps: Fifty Years of American Pop Culture.
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
(Anthology)
The Vogue Bedside Book II.
London: Century, 1986. A mint copy with a price-clipped dust jacket. More
(Anthology)
The Vogue Bedside Book.
London: Vermilion, 1984. A mint copy. More
(Anthology)
The Outcast Poets.
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
(Ardizzone, Edward)
Edward Ardizzone. A Bibliographic Commentary.
Middlesex, England: Private Libraries Association, The British Library, 2003. Quarto. Very fine in burgundy cloth, gold-stamped to upper cover and spine. More
(Arion Press)
What If: Poems 1969-1987.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1987. Octavo. 92pp. Trade edition. Poems by the proprietor of the Arion Press, with an etching of the author by Jim Dine reproduced on the front cover. Bound in blue printed wrappers. Very fine. More
(Arion Press)
Poems of W. B. Yeats.
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
(Autograph)
Leaf signed by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith.
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
(Barrie, J. M.)
Autograph letter, signed, together with The Allahakbarries C. C.
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
(Baskin, Leonard)
Cave Birds: An Alchemical Drama.
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
(Bates, H. E.)
H. E. Bates, A Bibliographical Study.
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
(Beerbohm, Max)
Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet.
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
(Beerbohm, Max)
A Bibliography of the Works of Max Beerbohm.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1952. Small quarto. x, 60pp. Near fine in navy cloth, showing water spotting and light wear to covers. Near fine dust jacket, browned and with a few small closed tears to edges. More
(Berryman, John)
John Berryman. A Descriptive Bibliography.
(Pittsburgh, PA): University of Pittsburgh Press, 1974. Octavo. Part of the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. Very fine in blue cloth over boards with black spine. More
(Bibliography)
Serial Publications: Essential Parts of the 19th Century Imagination.
NY: Grolier Club, 1996. Octavo. Bibliography of serial literature from the collections of Robert H. Jackson. Fine in blue printed wrappers. More