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FROST, Robert (1874-1963). A Boy's Will. London: David Nutt, 1913.8vo. Half-title. Original bronzed brown cloth, gilt-lettered (spine slightly faded); morocco-backed slipcase. Provenance: Molly (gift inscription , 1913, on flyleaf).  FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF FROST'S FIRST BOOK OF POEMS. One of approximately 350 of the first 1,000 copies in either of the first two bindings issued by Nutt (Crane's bindings A&B), before Nutt's firm went bankrupt after the First World War.   Crane A2 [Binding A]. A BRIGHT COPY.  

FROST, Robert (1874-1963). North of Boston. London: David Nutt, 1914.8vo. Half-title. Original green gilt-lettered cloth (spine slightly browned, some browning to endleaves).  FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "Printed in Great Britain" stamped on verso of title, one of 200 in the sixth binding state (which was one of two bindings executed for Dunster House Bookshop in 1923). Includes the first appearance of Frost's well-known "Mending Wall." Of the 1,000 sheets originally printed, approximately 350 were sold by David Nutt. Upon Nutt's bankruptcy after the war, the remaining sheets were sold to Simpkin, of which approximately 259 copies were sold by Dunster House Bookshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts.   Crane A3 [Binding F].

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. WALKER, Alice (b. 1944). A group of three works, comprising:  In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose. 1983. -- Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful. 1984. -- Possessing the Secret of Joy. 1992. LIMITED EDITION, numbered 46 of 250 copies, SIGNED BY TONI MORRISON. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, all published in San Diego et al by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, all FIRST EDITION, 8vo, all in publisher's bindings, dust jackets unrestored and unclipped, all in very fine condition.  

FROST, Robert (1874-1963). Mountain Interval. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1916.8vo. Half-title. Original blue cloth gilt (very slight rubbing to spine ends); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (minor chipping to spine ends and corners, minor creasing to top edge, short tear). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the repeating lines on p.88 and with "Come" instead of "Gone" on p.93. The first of Frost's books to be published first in America, Mountain Interval. includes the first appearance of two of Frost's best-known poems: "The Road Not Taken" and "Birches." Crane A4. A VERY FINE COPY.  

FROST, Robert (1874-1963). New Hampshire. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1923.  8vo. Woodcut illustrations by J. J. Lankes. (Soft crease in lower gutter corner throughout, pale spotting to a few leaves.) Original gilt-stamped black cloth with bevelled edges (a touch of wear to corners and spine ends). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 56 of 350 copies SIGNED BY FROST. New Hampshire, for which Frost won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, includes several of his best-known poems, including "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", "Nothing Gold Can Stay" and "Fire and Ice." Crane A6.  

FROST, Robert (1874-1963). New Hampshire. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1923.  8vo. Woodcut illustrations by J. J. Lankes. Original green cloth-backed green boards, gold label on upper cover (some light rubbing, a few minor stains). Provenance: The Library Company of Philadelphia (bookplate with "Duplicate Sold" stamp, shelf mark on foot of spine, blind stamp on title-page).  FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FROST: "Robert Frost Philadelphia Feb 25 1936 For the Library Company of Philadelphia." Crane A9.  

FROST, Robert (1874-1963). A group of 12 works, including:New Hampshire. 1923. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. -- Bread Loaf Anthology. Middlebury, VT: Middlebury College Press, 1939. FIRST EDITION. -- A Witness Tree. Steeple Bush. 1942. 93 of 735. SIGNED BY FROST. -- A Masque of Reason. 1945. 303 of 800. SIGNED BY FROST. -- A Masque of Mercy. 1947. 560 of 751. SIGNED BY FROST. -- Steeple Bush. 1947. 186 of 751. SIGNED BY FROST. ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED. -- Hard not to be King. NY: House of Books, Ltd., 1951. 244 of 300. SIGNED BY FROST. -- Aforesaid. 1951. 88 of 650. SIGNED BY FROST. -- And 4 others. Together, 12 works in 12 volumes, various 8vo and 12mo sizes, most published in New York by Henry Holt and Company, all in original bindings, many with unrestored and unclipped dust jackets or glassines, many in slipcases, most LIMITED EDITION, most SIGNED BY FROST, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request.

FROST, Robert (1874-1963). A group of 11 works, including:West-Running Brook. 1928. FIRST ISSUE. INSCRIBED. -- A Further Range. 1936. SIGNED. -- A Witness Tree. 1942. SIGNED. -- Come in and other Poems. 1943. FIRST ISSUE. -- Masque of Reason. 1945. FIRST ISSUE. -- Steeple Bush. 1947. -- In the Clearing. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. -- And 4 others. Together, 11 works in 11 volumes, various 4to, 8vo and 12mo sizes, most published in New York by Henry Holt and Company, all in original bindings, most in unrestored and unclipped dust jackets or glassines, many in slipcases, most FIRST EDITION or FIRST TRADE EDITION, a few SIGNED OR INSCRIBED BY FROST, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request.

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. WRIGHT, Richard (1908-1960). Native Son. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1940.  8vo. Half-title. Original dark blue cloth stamped in light blue and red; in unrestored and unclipped printed dust jacket (minor creasing at spine cap).    FIRST EDITION, with "A-P" below the edition statement on the copyright page. IN FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET, printed in green and yellow with the price "$2.50," and without single-spaced blurbs on spine and front panel. Wright's novel about Bigger Thomas, set on the South Side of Chicago, was an immediate best-seller, selling over 250,000 hardcover copies within three weeks of its release.  

GINSBERG, Allen (1926-1997). A group of 4 works ALL SIGNED BY GINSBERG, comprising:GINSBERG et al. Stony Brook 1/2. NY, Fall 1968. Original printed wrappers. FIRST ISSUE. -- Portents 17 Notes After an Evening with William Carlos Williams. NY, [1970]. Original printed wrappers. FIRST ISSUE, one of 300 copies. -- LEARY, Timothy. Jail Notes. Allen GINSBERG, introduction. NY, 1970. Original boards; dust jacket. -- GINSBERG et al. Gay Sunshine Interviews. Winston LEYLAND, editor. San Francisco, 1978. Illustrated. Original cloth; dust jacket. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, various 8vo sizes, most in unrestored and unclipped dust jackets, ALL FIRST EDITION, ALL SIGNED BY GINSBERG, condition generally good.  

GOLDING, William (1911-1993). Lord of the Flies. London: Faber and Faber, 1954.  8vo. Original red cloth (minor fading to top edge and a few corners); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (chipping, small loss to foot of spine panel, overall browning).FIRST EDITION of author's first book, a "story for adults about small boys; very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long...turns into a nightmare of panic and death" (front flap). Gekoski & Grogan A2(a).

GOLDMAN, Emma (1869-1940). My Disillusionment in Russia. London: The C. W. Daniel Company, [1925].  8vo. Half-title. (Some light spotting to a few leaves.) Original red cloth, paper label on spine (some spotting, covers slightly bowed). Provenance: Presentation inscription to an unidentified recipient (see below). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY GOLDMAN on the half-title, London, 1 December 1925. The inscription is obscured by an affixed label which reads: "This book is a part of the Institutional Library provided through the Cortland County Council of Churches...However, the library program does not necessarily endorse the content of these donated books" (with a portion of Goldman's inscription adhered to the verso of the label). Goldman left the Soviet Union in 1923, and soon after published My Disillusionment in Russia to share the experiences she had while living there. Goldman was initially supportive of the October Revolution which brought the Bolsheviks to power, but changed her opinion after the Kronstadt rebellion and denounced the Soviet Union for its violent repression of independent voices.  

GOLDMAN, Emma (1869-1940). Living My Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.8vo. Half-title. Original black cloth lettered in red; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (spine panel faded, a few small chips and tears). Provenance: Lois Hall Herrick (presentation inscription).First single-volume edition, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY GOLDMAN on front free endpaper: "Mrs. Lois Hall Herrick The daughter of a great father. I hope this mark may inspire you to the idealism and humanity of your father. Emma Goldman New York March 1934." Anarchist, writer, and political activist Emma Goldman was pivotal in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). The House of the Seven Gables. Boston, 1851.  8vo. 4 pp. publisher's advertisements dated March 1851 [BAL's printing B, no priority]. Original brown blind-embossed cloth [BAL's binding B] (rebacked preserving endpapers and portions of original spine, a few other repairs, some minor staining).FIRST EDITION of Hawthorne's Gothic novel, inspired by the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, which belonged to Hawthorne's cousin Susanna Ingersoll, and by Hawthorne's ancestors who were involved with the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. BAL 7604.  

HELLMAN, Lillian (1905-1984).  The Children's Hour. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.  8vo. Original purple-stamped yellow cloth, top edge stained purple. in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (a few tiny chips and tears, spine panel slightly faded, otherwise bright). Provenance: Winifred Noble Gahagan (bookplate on pastedown, name crossed out). FIRST EDITION OF HELLMAN'S FIRST BOOK, a drama set in an all-girls' boarding school, which was first staged on Broadway at the Maxine Elliott Theatre in 1934, produced and directed by Herman Shumlin. The Children's Hour was in consideration for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for 1934 -35, but the award ultimately went to The Old Maid. Upset at the Pulitzer decision, the New York Drama Critics' Circle began awarding its own annual prize for drama the following year. A FINE COPY.  

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). In Our Time. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925.8vo. Half-title.   Original black cloth lettered and decorated in gilt; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (chipping primarily to spine ends, spine darkened). Provenance: Curtis Brown Ltd. (label on flyleaf); signature partially effaced on flyleaf.   FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, HEMINGWAY'S AGENT'S COPY.    Curtis Brown, Hemingway's literary agent, was responsible for the foreign rights of the Liveright line of books, and sold In Our Time to publisher Jonathan Cape in 1926.  One of only of only 1335 copies printed, preceded by a limited edition published by the Three Mountain Press in Paris in 1924, containing chapters not included in the Paris edition. Hanneman A3a. RARE: According to American Book Prices Current, only 5 copies of this work with a dust jacket have sold at auction in the last 20 years. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY.  

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). The Torrents of Spring. New York: Scribner's, 1926.8vo. Original dark green cloth, stamped in red (hinges loose, some staining and fading, corners worn); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (soiling and staining, chipping and a few tears with minor losses, creasing).FIRST EDITION OF HEMINGWAY'S FIRST NOVEL. Hemingway's earlier works established his reputation in literary circles, but by 1925, he had not gained broader public recognition, which he attributed to his restrictive contract with Boni and Liveright, who published his earlier works. He wrote Torrents of Spring in a few weeks in November of 1925, and Boni and Liveright rejected it quickly.   "I have known all along," Hemingway wrote Fitzgerald, that the firm "could not and would not be able to publish it as it makes a bum out of their present ace and best seller Anderson" (Selected Letters, p. 183).   The contract broken, Hemingway signed with Scribners, and The Torrents of Spring was published on 28 May 1926. Hanneman A4a.

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. A group of signed works by Maya Angelou and Alex Haley, comprising:  ANGELOU, Maya (1928-2014). Gather Together in My Name. New York: Random House, 1974. SIGNED BY ANGELOU. -- ANGELOU, Maya. Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas. New York: Random House, 1976. SIGNED BY ANGELOU. -- HALEY, Alex (1921-1992). Roots. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. LIMITED EDITION, numbered 126 of 500 copies. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, 8vo, all in original bindings, all FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine.  

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). Men Without Women. New York: Scribner's, 1927.8vo. Half-title. Original black cloth, printed gold labels on upper cover and spine (small indentation to upper cover); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (slight soiling particularly to spine panel, some slight chipping, short tear crossing from front panel to spine).    FIRST EDITION, second state (weighing 14.4 ounces).   In the FIRST ISSUE dust jacket with no blurbs in the orange bands on the front panel, with the two errors on the front flap, and with the "$2.00" price intact. Hemingway's second collection of short stories, including contributions about bullfighting, prizefighting, infidelity, divorce, and death. Hanneman A7a.  

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). A Farewell To Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.8vo. Half-title. Original black cloth, printed gold labels on upper cover and spine (some rubbing to labels, a few small stains); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (some overall toning, chipping and a few short tears, vertical crease along spine panel).FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, without the disclaimer on page [x]. A Farewell to Arms, set during the Italian campaign of World War I, has been adapted for stage and film several times.   The title is taken from a 16th-century poem by dramatist George Peele.   Connolly, The Modern Movement 60 ("probably his best"); Hanneman A8a.

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). Death in the Afternoon. New York: Scribner's, 1932.8vo. Frontispiece by Juan Gris; numerous photographic plates. Original black cloth (spine and portion of lower board sunned); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (light chipping, overall browning and soiling, particularly to spine). Provenance: Wilson Ford Blayney (gift inscription on flyleaf).FIRST EDITION, published when Hemingway was in his early thirties and living in Key West. The book "represents the author at his best, first as a writer and second as someone who was never satisfied with knowing only a little about his subject but who always dug deeply until he had both the essence and the smallest details" (Charles M. Oliver, Ernest Hemingway A to Z. New York, 1999, p. 74). Hanneman A10a.

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). Winner Take Nothing. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.8vo. Original black cloth, gold labels to upper cover and spine (slight abrasion to finish of covers); in unclipped dust jacket (some chipping, tears and creasing with a few old tape repairs verso).    FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the capital "A" on the copyright leaf, and with the dropped "t" in "two hundred twenty-five pounds" on p. 159. In the FIRST STATE dust jacket with Stallings' review on the rear panel. Hanneman A12a.  

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Green Hills of Africa. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935.8vo. Original green cloth (some fading to spine and edges); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (some fading, particularly to spine, a few creases and tiny chips).FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the "A" and Scribner's seal on copyright page.   In Grissom's "Jacket A" with the wide green band on rear panel covering 7 lines of text. Green Hills of Africa, Hemingway's second work of non-fiction, recounts a month spent on safari in East Africa with his wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, in December 1933.   Hanneman A13a.  

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). To Have and Have Not. New York: Charles   Scribner's Sons, 1937.8vo. Original black cloth gilt, spine blocked in green and gilt; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (some minor chipping or creasing, otherwise bright). Provenance: Florence Luntz (signature on pastedown).   FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with the Scribner's seal, and the capital "A" on the copyright page. Written between 1935 and 1937, Hemingway's work follows Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain in Key West.   Hanneman A14a.  

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). The Spanish Earth. Cleveland: J.B. Savage Company, 1938.12mo. Illustrations by Frederick K. Russell. Original pictorial tan cloth; original glassine (some tears and minor losses); quarter morocco folding case.  FIRST LIMITED EDITION, number 512 of 1,000 copies. FIRST ISSUE, one of fewer than 100 copies with pictorial endpapers showing the F.A.I. banner. Hemingway, who worked as a correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and who published the book to support Loyalists during that conflict, requested that the endpapers depicting the banner of the Federacion Anarquista Iberica, be changed: to use the image was to potentially place him in danger while he was working in Spain. Hanneman A15a.  

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.  8vo. Half-title. Original red cloth stamped in black and gold; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (some soiling and rubbing, minor chipping).  FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the "A" and Scribner's seal on copyright page, of this collection including Hemingway's only play and four previously unpublished short stories.   Hanneman A16a.[With:] HEMINGWAY. The Fifth Column. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. 8vo. In unrestored unclipped dust jacket. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Hanneman A17a.    

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.8vo. Half-title. Original light blue silver-stamped cloth; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket with "$3.00" price (a few tiny chips, some minor staining verso, otherwise bright). Provenance: Patsy English (publisher's compliments slip laid in signed by English).FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with the "A" and Scribner's seal on copyright page. FIRST ISSUE dust jacket with the rear panel photo tinted blue. The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman, who struggles with a giant marlin off the coast of Cuba.  Patsy English worked as Ansel Adams' darkroom assistant in the 1930s. During that time, she became the object of his affection, and Adams almost left his wife to pursue a relationship with English.   A BRIGHT COPY. Hanneman A24a.

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.8vo. Half-title. Original light blue silver-stamped cloth; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket with "$3.00" price (corners and spine ends lightly rubbed, a few tiny closed tears).  INSCRIBED BY HEMINGWAY on title-page: "Ernest Hemingway Finca Vigia San Francisco de Paula Cuba 1958." FIRST EDITION, later issue without the "A" on the copyright page, but with the Scribner's seal. In a later issue dust jacket with the rear panel photo tinted olive. Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea in Cayo Blanco Cuba in 1951, and he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for the work.   Hanneman A24a.  

ALBEE, Edward (1928-2016). Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? New York: Atheneum, 1962.8vo. Original black cloth gilt, top edge stained red (spine very slightly leaned); in unclipped dust jacket (some toning, a few creases and tiny tears). Provenance: Lawrence Shainberg (b.1936), American author (signature on flyleaf).    FIRST EDITION. WITH ALBEE'S SIGNATURE ON A SLIP laid in. Albee's landmark play was first staged at the Billy Rose Theater on 13 October 1962.

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. [with 3 others]8vo. Half-title. (Minor staining to first few leaves.) Original beige cloth stamped in red and black; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (some rubbing and chipping). Provenance: Jane M. Deck (signature, flyleaf, 1940). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with "A" on the copyright page. FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET, without the photographer credit on the rear panel.   Published just after the end of the Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls is based on Hemingway's experiences as a war correspondent, and tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer attached to a Republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. Hanneman A18a.

HUGO, Victor (1802-1885).  A Pitie Suprême. Paris: Calmann Levy, 1879.  8vo. Half-title. (Half-title and front endleaves disbound, chipping to fore-edge). Contemporary half blue calf, marbled boards (worn, joints starting). Provenance: Jules Simon (1814-1896), French statesman and philosopher (presentation inscription from the author); Robert Otis Hayward (bookplate).FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED BY HUGO: "A Jules Simon Victor Hugo." Victor Hugo served as witness at the wedding of Jules Simon's son Gustave in 1879. After Victor Hugo's death, Gustave Simon ultimately became the guardian of his daughter Adele and the administrator of her property.   Gustav Simon published several works about Hugo. A FINE ASSOCIATION.  

IBSEN, Henrik (1828-1906). The Master Builder. London: William Heinemann, 1893.  8vo. Photographic frontispiece. (Some minor staining primarily to first few leaves.) Original dark green cloth-backed light green cloth (some staining and light wear). Provenance: Eva Le Gallienne (1899-1991), British-born American stage actress (bookplate). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, Eva Le Gallienne's copy.   Gallienne earned success in 1928 for her work in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, and regularly starred in his plays. Gallienne's bookplate bears a quote from Ibsen from The Master Builder: "Solness: Homes for Human Beings. Hilda: But Homes with high towers and pinnacles upon them. Ibsen." A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.[With:] IBSEN. Nora. Copenhagen: Weber's Academy, 1880. 12mo. Original lavender wrappers. PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by T. Weber to Dr. G Stephens.  

IRVING, John (b.1942).  Setting Free the  Bears. New York: Random House, 1968.  8vo. Original red cloth-backed red boards, gilt-lettered on spine; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (a few short tears to folds with repairs verso, some minor soiling).  FIRST EDITION. IRVING'S SIGNATURE on a slip laid in. IRVING'S FIRST BOOK, based on his time studying at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna, written between 1965 and 1967.   Irving submitted the original manuscript as his thesis at the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop in 1967, which he expanded for publication. A FINE COPY.  

IRVING, John (b.1942).    The  World According to Garp. New York: E. P. Dutton 1978.8vo. Original printed wrappers; cloth slipcase. Provenance: Tom Wolfe (1930-2018), American author (letter from Irving's editor laid-in). FIRST EDITION, ADVANCE READING COPY, TOM WOLFE'S COPY, with a typed letter signed from Irving's editor, Henry Robbins: "Dear Tom: My enthusiasm for John Irving's The World According to Garp is boundless, and I hope you will accept the invitation extended on the back of this advance copy." Also with original press release laid in.   John Irving's breakout fourth novel The World According to Garp was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction in 1979, and was adapted to film in 1982.   Tom Wolfe famously feuded with Irving, John Updike, and Norman Mailer after their reception to hisnovel A Man in Full, published in 1998. WITH IRVING'S SIGNATURE on a slip laid in.  

JAMES, Henry (1843-1916). The Portrait of a Lady. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882.  8vo. Original decorated brown cloth (upper hinge starting, some staining, slight bubbling to cloth lower board). Provenance: Julia D. Minzesheimer (signature on front blank leaf); Miss magdeline (signature rear flyleaf); Louise Northam (signature rear flyleaf); sold Brentano's with their ticket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of James' novel, which has been adapted several times for stage and film. The Portrait of a Lady, first published serially in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881, received immediate critical acclaim.  

JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Dubliners. New York: Huebsch, 1916.  8vo. Half-title. Original cloth (browning to spine and edges, some staining, upper hinge separated). Provenance: Clifton B. Carberry (1877-1940), managing editor of the Boston Post (stamp on endpaper and title, note); Daniel T. O'Connell, Harvard Club Boston (note on pastedown); sold The Old Corner Book store, Boston (bookseller's ticket).   FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, from the English sheets. The fifteen short stories that comprise Dubliners are presented in a variety of narrative styles.   The first three stories are narrated by first-person child protagonists, while the remaining twelve are written in the third person and deal with the lives of progressively older people.   Many of the characters in Dubliners appear in minor roles in Ulysses. Slocum & Cahoon 9.

[JOYCE, James (1882-1941)] -- Samuel BECKETT (1906-89) -- WILLIAMS, William Carlos (1883-1963) & Others. Our Exagmination round his Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1929.  8vo. Original cream printed wrappers (a few tiny chips, some minor stains and toning).FIRST EDITION OF "THE FIRST APOLOGIA FOR FINNEGANS WAKE" (Ellmann, 626), containing "in addition to brief quotations from Work in Progress as it had been appearing in transition, a passage concerning Swift and blindness...which was not later incorporated in Finnegans Wake" (Slocum & Cahoon B10). Also including Samuel Beckett's important essay "Dante... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce," (Federman & Fletcher 1), and a passage from Work in Progress not incorporated into the final text of Finnegans Wake. Also with works relating to Finnegans Wake by Joseph Campbell & Henry Morton Robinson, and Mary Manning.

JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Ulysses. New York: Random House, 1934.8vo. Original red and black stamped cream cloth (some light spotting to spine and board edges); original red and black printed dust jacket (abrasion and closed tear to spine, a few short tears, some light soiling).  FIRST AUTHORIZED AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with "Reichl" credit on front panel. Bennett Cerf, who co-founded Random House with Donald S. Klopfer, hired attorney Morris Ernst to argue the case against the ban on Ulysses in the United States.   On 6 December 1933, Judge John M. Woolsey rendered his landmark decision to lift the ban, and Random House published the present edition about a month later. In the publication, Random House included a foreword by Morris Ernst, as well as the full text of Judge Woolsey's decision. The publisher also reprinted an April 1932 letter from Joyce to Bennett Cerf ("since you are determined to fight for its legalization in the United States and to publish what will be the only authentic edition there, I think it just as well to tell you the history of its publication in Europe and the complications which followed it in America"). Slocum and Calhoun A21.

ADDAMS, Jane (1860-1935).  Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes. New York: Macmillan Company, 1910.  8vo. Photographic frontispiece, numerous full-page and in-text illustrations by Norah Hamilton. Original maroon cloth gilt, pictorial label of Hull House on upper cover. Provenance: Louisa F. Parkhurst (gift inscription, 1911, on front free endpaper); M. B. Lorshman? (signature on front free endpaper).  FIRST EDITION. Jane Addams, co-founder of both Hull House and the American Civil Liberties Union, was one of the most prominent reformers and social activists of the Progressive Era, and is recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States.   In 1931, she was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.  [With:] ADDAMS.  A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912. 8vo. Original blue cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION, WITH A CLIPPED SIGNATURE OF ADDAMS LAID IN. Originally published as a series of articles in McClure's Magazine, Addams' work looks at the issue of prostitution, particularly how it affects young girls.  

  ALBEE, Edward (1928-2016). A group of 20 works, including:The American Dream. NY, 1961. -- The Play The Ballad of Sad Cafe. Boston et al, 1963. -- Tiny Alice a Play. 1965. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ALBEE. -- Malcolm… From the Novel by James Purdy. 1966. SIGNED BY ALBEE. -- Everything in the Garden. 1968. SIGNED BY ALBEE. -- Box and Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. 1969. -- All Over. 1971. SIGNED BY ALBEE. -- Another copy. NY: Pocket books, 1974. SIGNED BY ALBEE. -- Seascape. 1975. SIGNED BY ALBEE. -- Counting the Ways and Listening Two Plays. 1977. UNREVISED PROOF. -- Two other copies, one SIGNED BY ALBEE. -- The Lady from Dubuque. 1980. Photograph of Albee by Elizabeth Hausmann, SIGNED BY ALBEE, 1981 lain in. -- The Wounding: An Essay on Education. Charleston, WV, 1981. SPECIAL AUTOGRAPHED EDITION, 32 of 50 copies bound in boards. SIGNED BY ALBEE. -- Another copy. SIGNED BY ALBEE. -- And 2 others. Together, 20 works, most published in NY by Atheneum, various 8vo sizes, all in original cloth or printed wrappers, most in unrestored and unclipped dust jackets, most FIRST EDITION, MOST SIGNED BY ALBEE, several with ALBEE'S SIGNATURE on a slip laid in, condition generally good. Complete list available upon request.

KAFKA, Franz (1883-1924). Metamorphosis. New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., 1946.    8vo. Title and one plate printed in black and brown, illustrations after Leslie Sherman. Original black cloth stamped in brown; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (spine slightly sunned, tiny creases to flap corners).  FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IN THE FIRST DUST JACKET with the price on the front flap. This English translation by A. L. Lloyd was first published in London in 1937. A FINE COPY.  

KEROUAC, Jean-Louis Lebris de ("Jack") (1922-1969).  The Town and the City. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.  8vo. Original gold-stamped red cloth, top edge stained blue (spine slightly darkened with a few stains); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (some minor creasing and chipping, otherwise bright).  FIRST EDITION OF KEROUAC'S FIRST BOOK. Kerouac wrote his partially-autobiographical first novel over the course of several years, prior to adopting the method of "spontaneous prose" writing which he would employ in his later works. The "town" represents Lowell, Massachusetts, where Kerouac was raised.   The "city" represents a number of early beat circle figures, including Allen Ginsberg (here as Leon Levinsky), Lucien Carr (here as Kenneth Wood), William Burroughs (here as Will Dennison), Herbert Huncke (here as Junky), David Kammerer (here as Waldo Meister), Edie Parker (here as Judie Smith) and Joan Vollmer (here as Mary Dennison). Charters A1a.  

KEROUAC, Jean-Louis Lebris de ("Jack") (1922-1969). The Dharma Bums. New York: The Viking Press, 1958.8vo. Publisher's black cloth stamped in silver and green; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (slight rubbing). FIRST EDITION, published the year after On the Road.   Chapter 2 includes an account of the legendary 1955 Six Gallery reading, where Allen Ginsberg (here called 'Alvah Goldbrook') read his poem "Howl" (here called "Wail") for the first time. Charters A4a.[With:]  KEROUAC. Big Sur. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962.   8vo. Publisher's cloth-backed boards; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (some very slight soiling, a few tiny tears).  FIRST EDITION, written in 10 days, recounting three trips Kerouac (here called Jack Duluoz) made to beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's cabin in Bixby Canyon. Charters A17a. A FINE COPY.  

KEROUAC, Jean-Louis Lebris de ("Jack") (1922-1969). A group of 3 FIRST EDITIONS, comprising:Doctor Sax Faust Part Three. 1959. -- Desolation Angels. 1965. -- Vanity of Duluoz. 1968. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, all published in New York, all 8vo, all in original cloth or quarter cloth, all in unrestored and unclipped dust jackets, ALL FIRST EDITION, condition generally fine.

KEROUAC, Jean-Louis Lebris de ("Jack") (1922-1969). A group of 24 works, including:The Subterraneans. 1958. -- Another copy. -- Doctor Sax Faust Part Three. 1959. -- Mexico City Blues. 1959. -- The Scripture Of The Golden Eternity. 1960. -- Lonesome Traveler., 1960. -- Book of Dreams. San Francisco, 1961. -- Pull My Daisy. NY et al, 1961. FIRST ISSUE. -- Visions of Gerard. 1963. -- Satori in Paris. 1966. FIRST ISSUE. ADVANCE REVIEW COPY with slip laid in. -- Another copy. -- Pic. 1971. FIRST ISSUE. -- Visions of Cody. 1972. -- Trip Trap… Haiku Along the Road from San Francisco to New York 1959. Bolinas, CA, 1973. -- Heaven & Other Poems. Bolinas, CA, 1977. ADVANCE REVIEW COPY with slip laid in. -- San Francisco Blues (in 79 choruses). N.p, 1983. -- Jack Kerouac: Dear Carolyn, Letters To Carolyn Cassady. NIGHT, Arthur And Kit, editors. California, PA, 1983. -- The History of Bop. Montclair, NJ, 1993. Some of the Dharma. N.p., 1997. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOFS. -- Neal in Court. Carolyn CASSADY. Issued as Vol. 6 of The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual Series. California, PA: Arthur & Kit Knight, 1977. Broadside, 1 pp. (22 x 14.25 in). -- Hymn. Number 13. Portland, OR: Yes! Press, 1971. Broadside, 1 pp. (11.5 x 9 in). -- And 5 others. Together, 24 works in 26 volumes, most published in New York, various 4to, 8vo, 12mo, and 16mo sizes, all in original cloth or printed wrappers, some with unrestored and unclipped dust jackets, most FIRST EDITION, condition generally good. Complete list available upon request.

KESEY, Ken (1935-2001). One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York: The Viking Press, 1962.8vo. Original green cloth lettered in yellow; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (a few short tears and tiny chips, spine faded, a few small scuffs). FIRST EDITION OF KESEY'S FIRST NOVEL. WITH KESEY'S SIGNATURE on a slip laid in. IN FIRST-STATE DUST JACKET with Kerouac's 5-word blurb. Milos Forman's 1975 film adaptation became the first film in 41 years to sweep the major categories of Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay at the Academy Awards. Karolides et al., 100 Banned Books, pp. 398-400.

KESEY, Ken (1935-2001). Sometimes a Great Notion. New York: The Viking Press. 1964.  8vo. Half-title. Original cloth stamped in green and blue; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (some staining verso, some toning and shipping, 1 3/4-in. separation to front flap fold. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the Viking logo on the half-title. WITH KESEY'S SIGNATURE on a slip laid in. IN FIRST-STATE DUST JACKET with Hank Krangler's photographer credit on rear flap. Kesey's second novel, considered by critics to be his best work, despite the popularity of his first novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.  

KESEY, Ken (1935-2001). A group of 5 works, comprising:Kesey's Garage Sale. 1973. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY KESEY. -- Sailor Song. 1992. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY KESEY. -- Sailor Song. 1992. Uncorrected proof copy. -- Last Go Round. 1994. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY KESEY. -- Last Go Round. 1994. Uncorrected proof copy.  Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, all published New York, by Viking, all in original cloth and dust jackets or wrappers, condition generally as-new or fine.  

KESEY, Ken (1935-2001). A group of 8 works, comprising:"The Bible." In: The Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog. Menlo Park, CA, March 1971. -- Kesey's Garage Sale. 1973. -- Kesey. Eugene, OR, 1977. SIGNED BY KESEY. -- The Day After Superman Died. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1980. Original quarter cloth, marbled boards. Number 49 of 50 copies. SIGNED BY KESEY. -- Demon Box. 1986. SIGNED BY KESEY. -- Another copy. -- Little Tricker The Squirrel Meets Big Double. Barry Moser, illustrated. 1990. SIGNED BY KESEY AND BY MOSER. -- The Further Inquiry. 1990. UNREVISED AND UNPUBLISHED PROOF. -- The Sea Lion A Story of the Sea Cliff People. 1991. -- Together, 8 works in 9 volumes, most published in New York by Viking, various 4to and 8vo sizes, many illustrated, most in original bindings, most FIRST EDITION or LIMITED EDITION, two with KESEY'S SIGNATURE ON A SLIP LAID IN, condition generally fine.  

ALGER, Horatio (1832-1899). Bertha's Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf. Boston: Brown, Bazin, & Co., 1856.  8vo. Half-title; wood-engraved frontispiece, engraved title (some spotting and staining). Publisher's red blind-blocked cloth, spine gilt (a few tiny holes or separations to joints, spine ends rubbed, slightly leaned). Provenance: Marion L. Tompkins (early signature on flyleaf).   FIRST EDITION OF ALGER'S FIRST BOOK, a compilation of his poems and stories, most of which had been previously published in various periodicals.   Gardner 53. RARE: According to American Book Prices Current, only 5 copies of this work have sold at auction in the last 40 years.  

KEYNES, John Maynard, 1st Baron (1883-1946). Indian Currency and Finance. London: Macmillan and Co., 1913.8vo. Half-title. Original russet cloth, spine gilt-lettered (some rubbing and stains, spotting to endleaves). Provenance: H. F. Howard (signature, August 1913).FIRST EDITION OF KEYNES' FIRST BOOK, manifesting Keynes' "characteristic powers and tendencies. It is the work of a theorist, giving practical application to those esoteric monetary principles which Marshall had expounded and Keynes was explaining in the Cambridge classrooms, and at the same time it showed an outstanding gift for penetrating the secrets of how institutions actually work" (Harrod, The Life of John Maynard Keynes, p.163).  

KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). A Revision of the Treaty. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922.  8vo. Half-title. (Some minor spotting.) Original blue cloth; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (some toning, chipping, and staining, minor scuff to front panel affecting a few letters of text). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, a sequel to The Economic Consequences of the Peace, published in the same year as the first edition.  

KING, Stephen (b.1947). Carrie. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974.  8vo. Original maroon cloth, spine gilt-lettered (lower hinge starting); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (very slight rubbing to front flap fold, otherwise fine).  FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with code "P6" in gutter of p.199. King's first published novel employs an epistolary structure through the use of newspaper clippings, magazine articles, letters, and book excerpts to tell the story of how Carrie destroyed the fictional town of Chamberlain, Maine.  

KING, Stephen (b.1947). The Shining. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977.8vo. Half-title. Original black cloth-backed boards (very slight rubbing to spine corners); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (very minor creasing or chipping, a few pale stains and scuffs). Provenance: Judi Crowe (bookplate).   FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with publisher's code R49 in gutter of p.447. King's third published novel, The Shining, helped establish his reputation as a horror writer. Looking for a change from his native Maine, King and his wife went to Colorado, where they checked in to the Overlook Hotel on 30 October 1974; the hotel was preparing to close for the season, and they were the only guests that night. King later recalled: "It was like God had put me there to hear that and see those things. And by the time I went to bed that night, I had the whole book in my mind." Collings A19.  

LE CARRÉ, John (1931-2020).  Call for the Dead. New York, 1962.  8vo. Half-title. Original green cloth. In unrestored unclipped dust jacket (tiny chips to two spine flap folds, a few tiny closed tears).   FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF LE CARRE'S FIRST WORK, WITH LE CARRÉ'S SIGNATURE on a booklabel laid in. Call for the Dead introduced main character George Smiley, who Le Carre created as an intentional foil to James Bond. A FINE COPY.  

LE CARRÉ, John (1931-2020). The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1963.8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (spine very slightly leaned); original dust jacket (some very slight soiling).  FIRST EDITION   WITH LE CARRÉ'S SIGNATURE on a booklabel laid in. Le Carre's third novel won the Crime Writers' Association 1963 Gold Dagger award   for "Best Crime Novel," and was the basis for the film directed by Martin Ritt released in 1965, starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Oskar Werner. A FINE COPY.  

LEWIS, Sinclair (1885-1951).  Free Air. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1919.  8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in light blue; pictorial dust jacket (chipping and a few tears with occasional cello tape repairs verso, some minor soiling).    FIRST EDITION. The novel follows Claire Boltwood as she drives from New York to the Pacific Northwest, where she falls in love. It was adapted into a silent film in 1922.   Pastore 6. RARE IN THE DUST JACKET: We find only two copies sold at auction in the last 40 years.  

LEWIS, Sinclair (1885-1951). Babbitt. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922.8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in orange (small gouge to spine); original dust jacket (restored with small portions recolored, soiling and creasing, small hole in spine panel).FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with "Purdy" and "my fellow" on p.49. In middle-aged, middle class, middle-management title character George Follansbee Babbitt, Lewis identified a new American type. The term "Babbitt"   can be found in most dictionaries.   Webster's defines it as "a person and especially a business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle-class standards." Pastore 8.  

LEWIS, Sinclair (1885-1951). Elmer Gantry. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927.8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in orange (some light rubbing, spine slightly faded); dust jacket (losses to spine ends, a few chips including a 1/2-in. portion of the head of spine torn away but present, with some very slight soiling).  FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE of the binding with the "G" resembling a "C." Lewis's satirical treatment of evangelism in America created public outcry when the book was published, prompting evangelist Billy Sunday to call Lewis "Satan's cohort." Pastore 13.  

LEWIS, Sinclair (1885-1951). Dodsworth. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929.8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in orange; dust jacket (a few tiny chips to corners, spine slightly soiled, otherwise bright).   FIRST EDITION. FIRST ISSUE OF THE DUST JACKET without reviews on the front flap. Lewis' novel juxtaposes European high culture with American commercialism and values during the early 20th-century. In 1929, the year following the publication of Dodsworth, Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Pastore, p.171. A FINE COPY.