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MCCARTHY, CORMAC. B.1933.Four signed editions: 1. No Country for Old Men. New Orleans: Trice, 2005. Publisher's quarter calf with gilt spine titles, marbled boards, slipcase. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE, number 56 of 325 copies signed. 2. Cities of the Plain. New Orleans: Trice, 1998. Publisher's quarter calf with gilt spine titles, slipcase. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE, number 92 of 325 copies signed. 3. The Stonemason. 1994. Publisher's cloth-backed boards, slipcase. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE, number 261 of 350 copies signed. 4. The Gardener's Son. 1996. Publisher's cloth; slipcase. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE, number 119 of 350 copies signed.

MCCARTHY, CORMAC. B.1933.10 first editions, all fine in dust-jackets (except where noted): 1. No Country for Old Men. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Publisher's advance copy, with tipped-in flyleaf, SIGNED in pencil by the author. 2-4. The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain.. 1992-1998. ALL FIRST EDITIONS. 5. Child of God. 1973. First edition. Tape stain to endpapers.6. The Orchard Keeper. 1965. First edition. Dampstain to jacket, library stamp. 7. The Stonemason. 1994. First edition.8. The Road. 2006. First edition.9. The Gardener's Son. 1996. First edition.10. 'The Dark Waters,' in Sewanee Review, volume LXXIII, number 2, Spring 1965. Publisher's printed wrappers. An excerpt from The Orchard Keeper and the first appearance of McCarthy's work in the literary press.

MCMURTRY, LARRY. B.1936.In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas Austin: Encino Press, 1968. 8vo. Publisher's suede-backed tan paper boards, upper cover lettered in blind against black blocking, spine lettered in black and titled in gilt on black morocco spine label, publisher's cloth slipcase with facsimile signature stamped in black, light rubbing to joints.Provenance: Roy Walton (inscribed by the author).FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, SIGNED by McMurtry to half-title, and numbered 243 of 250 copies, this one additionally inscribed by McMurtry.

MCMURTRY, LARRY. B.1936.In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas. Austin: Encino Press, 1968. 8vo. Publisher's original yellow cloth, author's facsimile signature stamped in black to upper cover, printed paper spine label, original black and tan dust-jacket, fine.FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with 'skycrapers' for 'skyscrapers' to p 105, line 12, among other errors. Reportedly, McMurtry had all copies of the error ridden printing withdrawn and they were destroyed, with 15 managing to survive. Although, APG notes 'seems more common.' Still a FINE COPY of a legendary rarity.

POUND, EZRA. 1885-1972.Lustra. London: Elkin Mathews, [1916]. 8vo. Photogravure portrait frontispiece by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 'EP' device designed by Edmund Dulac to title page. Publisher's tan cloth, lettered in blue, uncut and unopened, custom cloth chemise and slipcase, with morocco title label, minor soiling.Provenance: Jonathan Goodwin (his sale, Sotheby's New York, March 29, 1977, lot 231). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, SIGNED BY POUND IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION, dated 'Oct 1916' in pencil, number 45 of 200 unabridged copies, hand-numbered by pound to colophon on title page. After a dispute with his publisher Elkin Mathews over sexually charged language, Lustra was printed in an edition of 200 copies containing an 'unabridged' text in September 1916; the 'abridged' trade edition was 800 copies. Cyril Connolly called Lustra Pound's 'first volume of truly modern work' ('The Break-Through in Modern Verse,' London Magazine, 1961). Gallup A11a; Connolly Modern Movement 35.

POUND, EZRA. 1885-1972.Eliot, T.S., Editor. Selected Poems. London: Faber & Gwyer, (1928). 8vo. Publisher's vellum-backed blue paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, some soiling to spine.FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, number 24 of 100 copies signed on the colophon. Edited by Eliot, the 1928 Selected Poems became the primary text on which all of the primary Pound collections were based. In his selection and his introduction, Eliot attempted to popularize Pound and essentially market Pound to 'an audience he had systematically insulted since 1914' (Hugh Witemeyer, Ezra Pound Encyclopedia, 2005). Gallup A30b.

POUND, EZRA. 1885-1972.A Draft of XXX Cantos. Paris: Hours Press, 1930. 8vo. Decorative initials by Dorothy Shakespear. Publisher's buckram cloth, lettered in red, spine and margins lightly toned. Provenance: Purchased from Newbegins Bookshop, San Francisco (bookseller's ticket, with manuscript note dated 11/15/30).FIRST EDITION of this extended Cantos, number 41 of 200 copies, beautifully printed by François Bernouard for Nancy Cunard's Hours Press on Canson-Mongolfier Soleil velin M. R. V. Paper. 'It is in the minutiae—in the minute organization of the words and their relationships in a composition that the seriousness and value of a work of writing exist—not in the sentiments, ideas, schemes portrayed ... (W.C. Williams, 'A Draft of XXX Cantos by Ezra Pound,' Selected Essays, 1954). Gallup A31a.

RESTORATION DRAMA AND POETRY.DRYDEN, JOHN. 1631-1700. All for Love: or, the World well lost. A Tragedy ... and Written in Imitation of Shakespeare's stile. London, 'In the Savoy': Thomas Newcomb, for Henry Herringman, 1678. 8vo (220 x 1700 mm). Without the 4pp preface b1-4, and with the prologue placed after the title. Lightly browned and spotted throughout, several quires with a water mark affecting upper part of the leaf. Early 20th century half calf with green cloth boards, upper cover with title lettered in gilt. Slightly browned. Wing D-2229; MacDonald 82a. Provenance: Robert Hoe (leather book-label on front paste down). WITH: two other copies of this edition, one an ex-library copy without the prologue or preface, and with upper title shaved with loss of letters, and the second the Foyle copy, with the prologue bound after the Epistle Dedicatory, and with the preface b1-4.FIRST EDITION of one of the finest revisions of a Shakespearean play, and often considered as Dryden's own best play; WITH: other late 17th century poetical works by Dryden, from the Pirie Collection: The Hind and the Panther. A Poem. 1687. * Eleonora: A Panegyrical Poem. 1692. * Three poems upon the death of Oliver Lord Protector. 1659 * Another, the reprint of 1682.

SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. 1886-1967.The Old Huntsman and Other Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1917. 8vo. Errata slip pasted to contents page. Original grey paper boards, printed paper title label to spine, original grey paper dust-jacket, some foxing to endpapers and page edges, wear to corners of jacket, with light staining along spine and upper margin front panel, foxed to verso.FIRST EDITION of author's first major collection of war poetry. Edwin Muir said of Sassoon's war poems: 'They are effective because of the moderation they observe in the midst of furious indignation and pity ... their force lies in their impersonality, which sets down with indignant economy the shame and horror of war.' Keynes A15a.

SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. 1886-1967.The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon. London: William Heinemann, 1919. 12mo. Publisher's red cloth, printed title labels to upper cover and spine designed by William Nicholson, original orange dust-jacket, ruled and lettered in red, cloth lightly faded at margins, offsetting to endpapers, minor foxing.FIRST EDITION, including the first trade appearance of 12 poems, and collecting 64 more of his most powerful from previous works. In many ways, his most complete comment on the war. Keynes A20.

SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. 1886-1967.NICHOLSON, WILLIAM. Illustrator. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1929). 8vo. 7 plates, illustrations and endpapers by William Nicholson. Publisher's vellum, lettered and decorated in red and gray, top edge gilt, original pictorial dust-jacket, with inner glassine wrapper, light wear to corners of jacket.FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, number 216 of 300 copies signed by Sassoon and Nicholson. AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY.

SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. 1886-1967.FREEDMAN, BARNETT. Illustrator. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1931). 8vo. 15 color plates by Barnett Freedman. Publisher's pictorial parchment-covered cloth, untrimmed, top edge gilt, original pictorial dust-jacket, publisher's pictorial slipcase, minor chipping to vellum at spine ends, minor wear to slipcase.FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, number 226 of 320 copies signed by the author and artist. A bright copy, in the scarce slipcase.

SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. 1886-1967.Four books: 1. Heart's Journey. New York and London: Crosby Gaige/William Heinemann, 1927. Publisher's cloth backed boards, paper spine label, printed dust jacket. FIRST, LIMITED EDITION of 590 unnumbered copies, SIGNED on the title page.2. Picture Show. [Cambridge]: Privately printed, 1919. Publisher's textured brown boards, printed paper lettering piece on upper board. Rubbed and soiled, some browning to edges. With original prospectus/order form loosely inserted.Provenance: Evelyn Henry Tschudi Broadwood (bookplate and ownership inscription).3. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered on spine. Sunned. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, number 216 of 750. 4. Counter Attack and Other Poems. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1918. Publisher's textured brown boards, printed paper lettering piece on upper board. Minor soiling to boards, very light dampstaining at gutter on some leaves, lacking jacket. First America edition.

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.Cup of Gold. A Life of Henry Morgan, Buccaneer. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1929. 8vo. Publisher's yellow cloth stamped in blue, blue topstain, original pictorial dust jacket. Minor edgewear to jacket, some fading to spine. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF STEINBECK'S FIRST BOOK. Steinbeck was only 27 years old when he wrote Cup of Gold, his fictionalized life of Sir Henry Morgan. He later reflected that 'the book was an immature experiment written for the purpose of getting all the wise cracks (known by sophomores as epigrams) and all the autobiographical material (which hounds us until we get it said) out of my system. And I really did not intend to publish it. The book accompanied its purgative purpose. I am no more concerned with myself very much. I can write about other people...' (A Life in Letters, p 17). Goldstone & Payne A1a.

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.The Pastures of Heaven. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. 8vo. Original green cloth stamped in gilt, black topstain, all other edges untrimmed, publisher's silver dust jacket printed in blue with gold stars. Spine cloth slightly darkened, minor wear to edges of jacket, light rubbing.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, one of only 650 copies sold. The remainder of the approximately 1000 bound copies and 850 unbound copies were sold to Robert O. Ballou later in the same year and issued in an altered form. 'The most popular of Steinbeck's three early books. It points the way to most of his subsequent writing' (Moore, The Novels of John Steinbeck: A First Critical Study). A terrific, bright copy. Goldstone & Payne A2a.

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.To a God Unknown. New York: Robert O. Ballou, (1933). 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine, pictorial endpapers, original just jacket, all designed by Mahlon Blaine, jacket lightly chipped at corners.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, 598 copies bound and sold. Steinbeck worked on the novel for five years, and 'may have learned more about crafting long fiction from it than anything else he worked on during that period.' A bright, clean copy of a scarce issue. Goldstone & Payne A3a.

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.Tortilla Flat. New York: Covici Friede, [1935]. 8vo. Publisher's original pictorial wrappers, utilizing original printed jacket designed by Ruth Gannett, custom cloth chemise and morocco backed slipcase, jacket lightly soiled, minor wear to extremities.FIRST EDITION, ADVANCE ISSUE, of 500 copies presumably for promotional purposes. Loosely structured as a modern Arthurian legend, Tortilla Flat was Steinbeck's first book to be set in the Monterrey peninsula, and his first inarguable commercial and critical success. Goldstone & Payne A4a.

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.In Dubious Battle. New York: Covici Friede, 1936. 8vo. Original gray cloth, black cloth spine, titled in gilt, publisher's glassine dust-jacket, original card slipcase with printed title label, small chip to upper spine on glassine, light wear to slipcase.FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, number 78 of 99 copies signed on the colophon page. Called by critic James Woodress 'perhaps the best strike novel ever written,' In Dubious Battle is Steinbeck's first novel to explore the world of agriculture, which he would mine so richly later in his career. A fine copy in original jacket and slipcase of one of Steinbeck's best novels.

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.In Dubious Battle. New York: Covici Friede, (1936). 8vo. Publisher's orange cloth, ruled in red, and lettered in black, original pictorial dust-jacket, lightly rubbed at joints, with small closed tear in bottom margin.FIRST TRADE EDITION. A bright copy in jacket. Goldstone-Payne A5b.

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.Saint Katy the Virgin. New York: Covici Friede, 1936. 12mo. Publisher's gilt cloth spine over decorated boards highlighted in gilt, spine printed in red, cellophane jacket.FIRST, LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY STEINBECK at the colophon, number 82 of 199 copies. Originally written while a student at Stanford and remaining a favorite of the author, Steinbeck finally convinced Pascal Covici to issue it as a limited edition in 1936. Goldstone & Payne A6a.

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici Friede, [1937]. 8vo. Publisher's tan cloth stamped in orange and black, pictorial dust jacket, custom tan. Small closed tears to upper margin of jacket, with discreet tape repair to verso.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of the Steinbeck classic. An attractive copy. Goldstone & Payne A7.a.

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.The Red Pony. New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1937. 8vo. Publisher's flexible oatmeal cloth, ruled in grey, with a red pony device to the upper cover, spine lettered in red, publisher's card slipcase, spine lettered in black, and hand-numbered '13' in red, spine lettering faded, some soiling to covers, offsetting to endpapers, chipping to slipcase.Provenance: Harold C. Patterson (bookplate).FIRST EDITION, SIGNED, number 13 of 699 copies, signed by Steinbeck to the title page, with slipcase with matching number. Originally issued in only this limited edition, at a price of $10.00, with the country in a depression, The Red Pony did not receive much critical attention until it appeared in The Long Valley the following year and was called 'almost miraculously good' (Lewis Gannett) and 'a heart-breakingly true picture of childhood' (Clifton Fadiman). Goldstone & Payne A9a.

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.The Long Valley. New York: The Viking Press, 1938. 8vo. Publisher's oatmeal-cloth backed brown-cloth boards, spine lettered in brown, red topstain, original pictorial dust-jacket by Elmer Hader, lightly rubbed at the joints.FIRST EDITION. A bright clean copy of Steinbeck's story collection set in his beloved Salinas Valley, containing the first collect appearance of many of his most important stories, 'The Chrysanthemums,' 'Flight,' 'The Snake,' and adding 'The Leader of the People' as a kind of coda to 'The Red Pony.' Goldstone & Payne A11a.

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team. New York: The Viking Press, 1942. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, decorated and lettered in black and white, original pictorial dust-jacket, lightly chipped at the corners.Provenance Edmund Wilson, critic (1895-1972, presentation inscription).FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY STEINBECK TO THE FRONT FLY: 'Mr. Wilson, Many thanks for your lucid thoughts and interest in my work, John Steinbeck.' Likely to critic Edmund Wilson, who in 1941 had written The Boys in the Back Room: Notes on California Novelists, including a chapter devoted to Steinbeck, the stiffness reflecting Wilson's rather harsh treatment of Steinbeck's work there. The Holmes Collection has a copy of an offprint from another 1941 article inscribed to Wilson, '... perhaps the attic, but not the back room.' A clean bright copy, with an interesting provenance. Goldstone & Payne A18a.

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.How Edith McGillcuddy Met RLS. Cleveland: The Rowfant Club [Printed at the Grabhorn Press], 1942. 4to. Decorative hand-colored lettering to title-page, initial word of text and pagination, facsimile Steinbeck letter on blue background. Publisher's black-cloth backed patterned paper boards, printed red paper label decorated and titled in gilt to upper cover, and spine label titled in gilt, original plain green dust-jacket numbered '75' to front panel, minor foxing to leaves, fading to jacket.Provenance: Daniel G. Volkmann, Jr (morocco book label). FIRST EDITION, WITH RARE COMPLETE MATCHING DUST-JACKET, number 75 of 152 copies. A nice Steinbeck rarity with California provenance. Goldstone-Payne A20s.

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.East of Eden. New York: The Viking Press, 1952. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover, printed red spine label, lettered in gilt, page edges red, original faux wood card slipcase, lacking glassine, rubbing to spine, and slipcase. FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, SIGNED BY STEINBECK at the colophon, and limited to 1500 copies. When Steinbeck completed the manuscript of East of Eden, he had it delivered to his editor Pascal Covici in a mahogany box, with a letter that would be adapted for the dedication, in part: 'Well, here's your box. Nearly everything I have is in it, and it is not full. Pain and excitement are in it, and feeling good or bad and evil thoughts and good thoughts—the pleasure of design and some despair and the indescribable joy of creation.' Goldstone & Payne A32a.

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.Chapter Thirty-Four From the Novel East of Eden. [Bronxville]: Privately printed by Valenti Angelo, 1952. 4to. Publisher's buff wrappers over white chipboard, with red and black rectangle leaf and branch device to title page, and 'JS' monogram at end of text, minor toning.FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, one of 125 copies privately printed on his hand press by Valenti Angelo, variant not in Goldstone & Payne, but matching the copy in the Holmes Collection (A36a), and variant (3) in John Steinbeck: An Exhibition of American and Foreign Editions (Texas, 1963). A fine copy of a scarce Steinbeck item. Goldstone & Payne A32d.

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.A collection of the author's primary works in first edition: 1. To a God Unknown. New York: Covici Friede, 1933. Publisher's beige cloth, green and white printed dust jacket. Jacket toned, especially to spine.2. East of Eden. New York: Viking Press, 1952. Publisher's green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Corners of jacket worn, spine darkened.3. Sea of Cortez. New York: Viking Press, 1941. Publisher's green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Jacket chipped at corners, spine slightly sunned, a little loose.4. Log from the Sea of Cortez. New York: Viking Press, 1951. Publisher's burgundy cloth gilt, pictorial dust jacket. 5. Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici Friede, 1937. Publisher's beige cloth, printed dust jacket. WITH: Burning Bright. 1930. * Cup of Gold. 1936 Covici Friede re-issue. * Cannery Row. 1945. * The Moon is Down. 1942. First issue, in yellow wrappers. * Another, in publisher's blue cloth, pictorial jacket. * Bombs Away. 1942. The Pearl. 1947. * Winter of Our Discontent. 1961. * Once There Was a War. 1958. * Travels With Charley. 1962. * A Russian Journal. 1948. * The Short Novels of John Steinbeck. 1953. * The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights. 1976. With Robert Giroux inscribed 'compliments' card inserted. * The Short Reign of Pippin IV. 1957. * The Forgotten Village. 1941. * The Wayward Bus. 1947. * Sweet Thursday. 1954. * The Red Pony. 1945. Slipcase.

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.A group of John Steinbeck limited editions and other Steinbeckiana. Zapata. Yolla Bolly Press, 1991. 4to. Illustrations by Karin Wikstrom. Limited edition, number 233 of a total of 257. * Journal of a Novel. The East of Eden Letters. New York: Viking Press, 1969. 4to. First edition, limited to 600 copies. * Another, trade edition. * Nothing So Monstrous. New York: Privately printed for Edwin J. Beinecke, 1936. First separate edition. * Un Américain à New-York et à Paris. Paris, 1956. French language. * The Viking Portable Library Steinbeck. 1943. * America and Americans. 1966. First edition, first state. * Letters to Elizabeth. 1978. * Positano. 1959. Wrappers. * Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Wrappers. * Your Only Weapon is Your Work. 1985. Wrappers. * Their Blood is Strong. 1939. Wrappers. * A Letter by John Steinbeck to the Friends of Democracy. * Vanderbilt Clinic. 1947. Wrappers. * A Letter from John Steinbeck. 1964. Wrappers, cloth slipcase. * Speeches of Adlai Stevenson. Foreword by Steinbeck. 1952. * ROGERS, RICHARD. AND OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN. Pipe Dream. Adapted from Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday. 1956. * GANNETT, LEWIS. John Steinbeck. Personal and Bibliographical Notes. 1939. Wrappers. * HARMON, ROBERT B. A Collector's Guide to the First Editions of John Steinbeck. 1985. Wrappers.

STEVENS, WALLACE. 1879-1955.Harmonium. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. 8vo. Original checkered boards, blue cloth spine, printed paper spine label, publisher's dust-jacket. Mild soiling to spine of jacket, some restoration along upper margin. With 4 pp publisher's catalogue dated Fall 1923 laid-in. Provenance: Marcia A. Taylor (Maine poet, 1881-1969, autograph to endpaper).FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, in the first state binding and original dust-jacket. One of 500 bound in checkered boards, published when he was 44 years old, an important contribution to modernism. 'Enter America. Stevens was over forty when his first book, containing much of his best work, was published. He takes delicious liberties with the American idiom, he radiates sensuous happiness and verbal felicity especially in his shorter poems' (Connolly 46). Edelstein A1a.

STEVENS, WALLACE. 1879-1955.Harmonium. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Publisher's quarter cloth and striped decorated boards, paper spine label. Browning to top edges of boards, corners rubbed, lacking jacket. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, in the second state binding, one of 215 produced. Connolly One Hundred Modern Books 46; Edelstein A1.a.WITH: Notes on a Supreme Fiction. Cummington, MA: Cummington Press, 1942. Publisher's white cloth printed in black. Light soiling. LIMITED EDITION, number 71 of 190 copies on Dutch charcoal paper. Edelstein A6.a.

STEVENS, WALLACE. 1879-1955.Ideas of Order. New York: The Alcestis Press, 1935. 8vo. Publisher's printed wrappers, uncut, original French fold glassine wrapper, publisher's plain cardstock slipcase, light toning to glassine tiny chips at corners, slipcase worn.'She sang beyond the genius of the Sea....' FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, OF STEVENS'S MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTION, an unnumbered copy signed by Stevens at the colophon. Published 13 years after his acclaimed first book, Ideas of Order contains his landmark, 'The Idea of Order at Key West,' which critic Jay Parini called the second greatest American poem (after Whitman's 'Song of Myself'). Edelstein A2.a.

STEVENS, WALLACE. 1879-1955.Notes toward a Supreme Fiction. Cummington, Mass: Cummington Press, 1942. 8vo. Publisher's white cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black, lower cover in gray, original unprinted tissue jacket.FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, number LIX of 80 copies on Worthy Hand & Arrows paper and signed by Stevens (from a total edition of 273). 'Stevens is able to gather together, in an astonishing splendor of integration, all the major themes of Romantic poetry, and so brings to a present perfection everything that is most vital in the imaginative legacy of Blake and Wordsworth' (Harold Bloom, ... A Commentary, 1963). A superb copy in unchipped tissue jacket. Edelstein A6.a.

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 1564-1616.[HANMER, SIR THOMAS. 1677-1746]. EDITOR. The Works of Shakespeare. Oxford: the Theatre, 1744. 6 volumes. 4to (315 x 242 mm). Engraved frontispieces (portrait in volume I), numerous engraved plates. 20th century red half morocco, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Joints tender, slightly rubbed, scattered foxing.Provenance: Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons (armorial bookplates). FIRST EDITION of Hanmer's version. Jaggard, p 499; Lowndes III, 2260.

STEVENS, WALLACE. 1879-1955.Three Academic Pieces. Cummington, Mass.: The Cummington Press, 1947. 8vo. Initial letters by Wightman Williams colored blue and yellow. Original cloth-backed boards, uncut, ends of spine and corners a trifle rubbed, some light darkening. FIRST LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY WALLACE STEVENS, number 52 of 52 copies on Worthy Dacian paper, of a total edition of 246. Edelstein A12.

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. 1850-1894.Treasure Island. London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1883. 8vo. Half-title, frontispiece map printed in four colors, 8 pp advertisements coded '5R-1083' at rear. Publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine, black endpapers, custom cloth chemise, red-morocco backed slipcase, some rubbing at the joints and spine lettering, light soiling, pp 267-270 roughly opened, two earlier bookseller catalogue entries pasted to rear fly.Provenance: Francis Fitz Randolph (bookplate to pastedown).FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Stevenson's classic pirate's tale, 'a good tale well told' (Silvey 631). With first issue points: battered text to 'vain' last line of p 40 (as 'rain'), 'dead man's chest' on p 7, '7' dropped from pagination on p 127, lacking full stop after 'opportunity' on p 178, 'worse' in line 3, p 197, ads dated '1083,' with this title listed with 304 pages. Prideaux 11.

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. 1850-1894.Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. London: Longman, Green, and Co., 1885 [corrected in ink to 1886]. 8vo. 1 p ad leaf at rear. Publisher's wrappers lettered and decorated in red and blue, neatly rebacked, light wear.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, WITH HAND-CORRECTED DATE TO UPPER WRAPPER. Stevenson's classic tale was intended to be published during Christmas 1885, but according to publisher Charles Longman 'when it was ready the bookstalls were already full of Christmas numbers, etc., and the trade would not look at it' (Balfour, Life..., 1901, v 2, p 14). It was issued in early January 1886, but relatively unnoticed until it was reviewed favorably in The Times, compelling it to sales of 40,000 copies in the first 6 months, with Jekyll & Hyde eventually embedding himsel(ves) in our lexicon. A Haycroft-Queen Cornerstone. Beinecke 346; Prideaux 17.

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862.A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company... et al, 1849. 8vo. 1 p terminal advertisement, 'Will Soon Be Published Walden, or Life in the Woods.' Publisher's cloth, ruled in blind, lettered in gilt to spine, custom green cloth solander box, with morocco title label, light chipping at the corners of spine, light dampstain to final blanks.Provenance: Le Baron Russell (friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, pencil inscription of a descendant to endpaper); Maxwell Hunley Rare Books (bookseller's ticket).FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THOREAU'S FIRST BOOK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. Now considered a classic, Thoreau's first book was originally perhaps the most famous failure in publishing. After writing the original manuscript at Walden Pond from 1845-1847, Thoreau re-edited the manuscript as he worked on Walden for two years beginning in 1847. Not finding a publisher, Thoreau had the book printed at his own expense in 1849, but the book fared poorly, and just a few years later the publisher returned 706 copies of the 1000 printed. These copies would languish in Thoreau's closet until the bulk were purchased by Ticknor and Field and re-issued with a new title page in 1862. BAL 20104a. Borst A1.1.a1; Johnson High Spots, p 73.

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862.Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. 8vo. Wood-engraved title page vignette, map of Walden Pond (with imprint), 8 pp of advertisements inserted at rear (dated June 1854, no priority). Publisher's cloth, ruled in blind with gilt titles to spine, small mark to lower margin front cover.Provenance: Martha A. Lewis (gift from Thomas J. Lewis, early ink inscription to first blank). 'I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived' (p 98).A FINE, UNSOPHISTICATED FIRST EDITION OF THOREAU'S AMERICAN MASTERPIECE, '... a central document of the American experience' (Thorpe, Gifts of Genius, p 169). Thoreau's 1849 book A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers include a final ad leaf announcing: 'Will Soon Be Published Walden, or Life in the Woods.' In truth, it was another 5 years till Walden appeared in July of 1854, selling quietly but steadily. Walden today stands as one of the most important contributions to American literature, as poet Robert Frost noted in a letter in 1922, 'in one book (Walden), [Thoreau] surpasses everything we have had in America.' A BRIGHT COPY IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. BAL 20106; Borst A2.1.a; Grolier American 63.'I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion' (p 98).'If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away' (p 348).

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862.Two titles: 1. Cape Cod. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865. 8vo. Publisher's blue-green cloth, decorated in blind, gilt titles on spine within wreath decoration, brown endpapers. Lightly rubbed at extremities, very minor spotting. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with December 1864 dated publisher's advertisements at back. Borst A5.1.a; BAL 20155.2. Excursions. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. Etched portrait frontispiece. Publisher's blue-green cloth, decorated in blind, gilt titles on spine within wreath decoration, brown endpapers. Slightly rubbed, very scattered spotting. FIRST EDITION. Borst A3.1.a; BAL 20113.

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862.Two titles: 1. A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, decorated in blind, gilt titles within wreath decoration on spine, brown endpapers. Slightly rubbed at extremities, leaf f8 (sectional title for 'Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers') supplied from another copy, stains from pressed flower to pp 94 and 97. FIRST EDITION. BAL 20117. 2. The Maine Woods. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. 8vo. 24 pp advertisements dated April 1864. Publisher's blue-green cloth, decorated in blind. gilt titles within wreath on spine, brown endpapers. Spine sunned, rubbed, scattered spotting. FIRST EDITION. BAL 20113.FIRST BOOK PUBLICATION OF 'CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.' Thoreau's most famous essay, as well as his 'Life Without Principle,' appears here for the first time in book form in A Yankee in Canada.

WALLACE, DAVID FOSTER. 1962-2008.Infinite Jest. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1996). 8vo. Publisher's blue-cloth backed boards, spine lettered in silver, original dust-jacket, lightest wear.FIRST EDITION IN FIRST ISSUE JACKET, SIGNED AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Both innovative and influential, David Foster Wallace's masterpiece remains of the great modern American novels. Don Delillo called Infinite Jest a 'dead serious frolic of addicted humanity,' and eulogized Wallace as a writer who 'wanted to be equal to the vast, babbling, spin-out sweep of contemporary culture.'

WALLACE, DAVID FOSTER. 1962-2008.A group of nine first editions, most signed by the author: The Broom of the System. 1987. Trade paperback, published simultaneously with the hard cover edition. * Girl With Curious Hair. 1989. * Signifying Rappers. 1990. * A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. 1997. * Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. 1999. * Everything and More. 2003. * Oblivion: Stories. 2004. * Consider the Lobster, and Other Essays. 2006. * Both Flesh and Not. 2012. All first editions, all except the last title (published four years after the author's death) signed on the title pages.

WAUGH, EVELYN. 1903-1966.Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. 8vo. Publisher's turquoise cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blue topstain, original printed dust-jacket.FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, 600 copies so bound, 450 of which were for sale. A fine, fresh copy of Waugh's most popular book. Davis 20.

WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892.Two Rivulets; Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India Camden. New Jersey: Author's edition, 1876. 8vo. Mounted albumen photograph frontispiece, original cream half calf and marbled boards, brown morocco gilt lettered spine label, yellow endpaper; green half morocco slipcase and chemise. Some rubbing and light wear to binding. Provenance: Roy L. Marston (bookplate).FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING. Mounted albumen photograph frontispiece SIGNED BY WHITMAN and dated 1881, as issued. BAL 21413. WITH: November Boughs. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth, top edge gilt others uncut. Provenance: John Malone (inscribed by Walt Whitman's literary executor Horace Traubel on front free endpaper). First edition, third issue. BAL 21430.

JOHNSON, SAMUEL. 1709-1784.A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. London: printed by W. Strahan, for Knapton, Longman, Hitch, et al., 1755. 2 volumes. Folio (418 x 248 mm). Titles printed in red and black. Double column. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Browning and staining to lower margin, with some chipping to lower margin of second volume.Provenance: Stewart (armorial bookplate with motto 'Avito Viret Honore'); Fursdon Library (name on front paste-down).FIRST EDITION OF JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY, one of the most influential books in the history of the English language. 'Dr Johnson performed with his Dictionary the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography ... It is the dictionary itself which justifies Noah Webster's statement that 'Johnson's writings had, in philology, the effect which Newton's discoveries had in mathematics'. Johnson introduced into English lexicography, principles which had already been accepted in Europe but were quite novel in mid-eighteenth-century England. He codified the spelling of English words; he gave full and lucid definitions of their meanings (often entertainingly colored by his High Church and Tory propensities); and he adduced extensive and apt illustrations from a wide range of authoritative writers ... but despite the progress made during the past two centuries in historical and comparative philology, Johnson's book may still be consulted for instruction as well as pleasure' (PMM). Indeed, the labor and genius of Johnson's production still awes us today. Over a period of eight years, 'with no real library at hand, Johnson wrote the definitions of over 40,000 words ... illustrating the senses in which these words could be used by including about 114,000 quotations drawn from English writing in every field of learning during the two centuries from the middle of the Elizabethan period down to his own time' (W. Jackson Bate Samuel Johnson, 1977, p 247). Courtney & Smith p 54; Grolier English 50; PMM 201; Rothschild 1237.

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS. 1883-1963.Paterson. New York: New Directions, 1946-1958. 5 volumes. Publisher's cloth, printed dust jackets, Part V with pencil portrait of Williams reproduced on front panel. Wear and browning to jacket corners, Parts I and III with slight chipping at jacket folds. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES of the first four parts (Part V published with no limitation statement). In the preface of Part I, Williams describes this work as 'a long poem in four parts.' Nonetheless, Part V was published in 1958, some seven years after Part IV, and twelve years from the initial publication. Connolly Modern Movement, 100; Wallace A24, A25, A30, A34, A44.

JOHNSON, SAMUEL. 1709-1784.Mr. Johnson's Preface to his Edition of Shakespear's Plays. London: J. and R. Tonson, 1765. 8vo (196 x 126 mm). 20th century tan calf gilt, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Corners rubbed, light browning and spotting. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION of Johnson's preface to his influential annotated Shakespeare. Chapman & Hazen 148; Courtney & Smith p 107; Rothschild 1249. WITH: LILLO, GEORGE. 1691-1739. The London Merchant: or, the History of George Barnwell. London: J. Gray, 1731. 8vo (195 x 121 mm). Disbound. Light staining and spotting. FIRST EDITION of Lillo's moral tale, first performed at Drury Lane the same year.

WOLFE, THOMAS. 1900-1938.The Crisis in Industry. Chapel Hill: Published by the University, 1919. 8vo (223 x 152 mm). Original printed wrappers. Custom chemise and slipcase. Provenance: H. Bradley Martin (bookplate, his sale, Sotheby's New York, January 31, 1990, lot 2277).FIRST EDITION OF WOLFE'S FIRST BOOK, 200 copies printed. Wolfe was awarded the Worth Prize for his senior thesis looking at labor and capitalism in America, post WWI. The Martin copy, fine. Preston 1.

WOLFE, THOMAS. 1900-1938.Look Homeward, Angel. A Story of the Buried Life. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. 8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, publisher's dust jacket, custom morocco backed cloth drop-back box, spine of jacket lightly faded, minor edgewear.FIRST EDITION OF WOLFE'S FIRST NOVEL, IN FIRST ISSUE JACKET, with Doris Ulmann's photograph of Wolfe, and biography. A clean, bright copy of Wolfe's greatest work and an American classic.

WOLFE, THOMAS. 1900-1938.The Story of a Novel. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. 8vo. Publisher's original red cloth, blocked in black, and lettered in gilt, original dust jacket, spine lightly faded.Provenance: Maurice G. ______? (inscribed by the author, last name obscured by early flag sticker).FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION, For Maurice G. [obscured by sticker], / Sincerely, / Thomas Wolfe / June 23, 1936.' Wolfe's autobiographical tribute to his editor Maxwell Perkins, 'not only the greatest editor of his time, but man whose character is also a character of immense and patient wisdom and gentle but unyielding fortitude.' Johnston A5.1.a.

WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.Typed Note Signed ('Virginia Woolf') to Mr. [Harda] Kamp, enclosing three autographs (not present) 'in case you wish to insert them in my books,' 1 p, 168 x 102 mm, London, March 3, 1927, toning, tipped to endpaper of:WITH: Night and Day. London: Duckworth and Company, [1919]. 8vo. 2 pp reviews for The Voyage Out at the end. Publisher's grey cloth, lettered in light blue, lacking dust-jacket, minor chipping to corners, wear to extremities.FIRST EDITION OF AUTHOR'S SECOND NOVEL, WITH TYPED NOTE SIGNED TIPPED AT THE ENDPAPER. Kirkpatrick A4a.

WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.Orlando: A Biography. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. 8vo. Frontispiece and 7 plates. Publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, minor wear to cloth at upper corner. Provenance: Helena M. Hand (booklabel).FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 861 COPIES, SIGNED BY WOOLF, in purple ink, this number 443 of 800 numbered copies. Woolf's fantastic homage to Vita Sackville-West has proven to be one of her most enduring contributions, among many, to the 20th-century conversation on gender, feminism and identity. Kirkpatrick A11a.

[GRIFFITH, ELIZABETH. 1727-1793.]The Platonic Wife, a Comedy. London: W. Johnston, J. Dodsley and T. Davies, 1765. 8vo (200 x 122 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked to style. Scattered spotting and staining.Provenance: The author (notation on title page); Richard Leonard Johnson (inscription on flyleaf dated 1790); Lord Wardington (loosely inserted note offering the book as a gift, dated 1977).FIRST EDITION, ANNOTATED BY THE AUTHOR WITH A MANUSCRIPT EPILOGUE ON FRONT FLYLEAF. Signed by the author on the title page, with the notation 'Corrected by the Author' at the top margin. The front flyleaf is covered recto and verso with a manuscript epilogue in 28 lines, with the instruction 'to be Spoke by Mrs. Yates.' Mary Ann Yates was an actress who played the title role. There are further corrections and emendations throughout the text. Published as 'By a Lady,' Griffith's first play met with harsh criticism for its strong-willed female lead character. An important early woman's voice in English literature.

WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.A Room of One's Own. New York, The Fountain Press; London, The Hogarth Press, 1929. Tall 8vo, original cinnamon cloth, spine gilt lettered, uncut. FIRST, LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED, number 217 of 450 copies for sale from a total edition of 492, signed in purple ink (as usual) by the author on the half-title. Kirkpatrick A12a.

WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.A Room of One's Own. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1929. 8vo. Publisher's cinnamon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original Vanessa Bell designed dust-jacket printed in blue, light offsetting to endpapers, minor chipping to jacket, strengthened with tape at spine ends and upper corner.FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF WOOLF'S LANDMARK CRITIQUE ON WOMEN AND FICTION. Springing from two lectures given in 1928, Woolf explores the intersection of women, literature and economics, giving rise to the oft-quoted observation, 'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.' Her critique however is much deeper, and her arguments and analysis have become the starting point for feminist literary criticism. 'Probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in this century' (Hermione Lee, Financial Times). Kirkpatrick A12b.

WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.Street Haunting. San Francisco: Westgate Press (printed for the Grabhorn Press), 1930. 8vo. Publisher's blue-morocco backed patterned paper boards, original gray paper slipcase, spine lightly sunned.FIRST EDITION, number 178 of 500 copies signed by Woolf in purple ink. Woolf's meditation on the streets of London: 'And what greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into those footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men?' (pp 34-35). Kirkpatrick A13.

WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.Five early publications in first editions: 1. The Voyage Out. London: Duckworth & Co., 1915. Publisher's green cloth printed in black on cover and gilt on spine. Rubbed, toning. Woolf's first novel. 2. Mrs. Dalloway. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1925. Publisher's red cloth. Spine ends bumped, slight shelfwear.Provenance: Louis Blake Duff (bookplate).3. Jacob's Room. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1922. Publisher's yellow cloth, paper spine label. Corners bumped, light shelfwear, toning. The first novel published by the Hogarth Press.4. Monday or Tuesday. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1921. Publisher's quarter brown cloth and printed boards. Rubbed. 5. Another. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1921. Publisher's quarter dark green cloth and boards, paper spine label. Lacking dust jacket, slightly rubbed. First American edition.

WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941.13 titles: 1. The Waves. London: The Hogarth Press, 1931. Publisher's purple cloth, spine gilt lettered, pictorial dust jacket design by Vanessa Bell. Minor chipping to edges. FIRST EDITION. Kirkpatrick A16a. 2. The Years. London: The Hogarth Press, 1937. Publisher's green cloth, spine gilt lettered, pictorial dust jacket design by Vanessa Bell. Some minor chipping to ends of spine panel, slight staining. FIRST EDITION. Kirkpatrick A22a. 3. To the Lighthouse. London: The Hogarth Press, 1927. Publisher's blue cloth. FIRST EDITION. Kirkpatrick A10. WITH: The Common Reader. 1925. Without dust jacket. * Kew Gardens. 1927. Limited edition, not signed. * Orlando. 1928. * The Waves. New York, 1931. * The Common Reader, Second Series. 1932. * A Letter to a Young Poet. 1932. * Three Guineas. 1938. * Between the Acts. 1941. * The Death of the Moth. 1942. * A Writer's Diary. 1953. * Granite and Rainbow. New York, 1958. All London, unless noted, mostly in dust jackets as issued and noted.

DICKENS, CHARLES. 1812-1870.The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences, & Observation of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, May 1849-November 1850 20 parts in 19, 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title, and 38 plates by H.K. Browne, advertisements conforming to Hatton & Cleaver (including the first issue of part 8 with 'Lile' for 'Life' on pp.3 of the Advertiser, and folding 'Letts' advertisement with 6 specimens at end; without 'Visit to Exhibition...' slip), one leaf of advertisements torn with loss. Publisher's blue pictorial wrappers, lightly soiled, back-strips all neatly replaced. Loose in a modern blue morocco book box, gilt lettered on spine.Provenance: Michael Sharpe (bookplate inside the box).FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS. Dickens's eighth novel, here published in its original parts. The work is inspired by the London of his youth and containing a portrait of his own father in the form of Mr. Micawber.