Beats & Company: A Portrait of a Literary Generation.
Garden City, NY: Dophin/Doubleday, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. 159 pp. Folio. Some wear and scuffing to udst jacket, now in mylar cover. Clean within. Fine / Very Good. More
Garden City, NY: Dophin/Doubleday, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. 159 pp. Folio. Some wear and scuffing to udst jacket, now in mylar cover. Clean within. Fine / Very Good. More
Albuquerque, NM: The Book Stops Here, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 103 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 2021. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. x, 277 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Inscribed by the author on the title page. Printed in an edition of 1500 copies. Fine / Fine. More
Cambridge, MA: TidePool Press, 2011. Hard Cover. First Edition. x, 210 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Inscribed to a previous owner by the author on the title page. Fine / Fine. More
Russia: Mockba, 1965. Hard Cover. First Edition. Second Printing, 1966. 647 pp. 8vo. Only Russian Edition of Rockwell Kent's autobiography first published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1955. Dust jacket has minor chips and tears, scuffing, now in mylar cover. Slight bumping to cover boards, minor soiling at edges. Inscription on first free endpaper and note on rear pastedown, both in Russian.
Filled with Kent's illustrations and reproductions of color paintings that supplement the text. A stunning work when it was published in 1955 in the United States. Republished in the Soviet Union in 1965, with the new Russian text working almost seamlessly with the original illustrations [Libman 2875]. It is an extremely rare edition with none appearing in library holdings via OCLC. Very..... More
Orono, ME: University of Maine Press, 2016. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 373 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2003. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 272 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Fine / Fine. More
Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2007/2014/2015. Hardcover. First Edition. Volume I: First Printing. xv, 507 pp.; Volume II: First Printing. xvii, 421 pp.; Volume III: First Printing. xxii, 654 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copies with dust jackets in mylar cover. Small "OUP" stamp at head of text block of Volume I.
A. David Moody's extensive biography of the controversial poet, Ezra Pound. Rare as a set in first printings. FIne / Fine. More
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996. Wraps. First Edition. 279 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy.
Heavily illustrated catalog from the exhibition of the same name. Fine. More
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1987. Wraps. First Edition. First Printing. 25 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with light age toning at the spine on outer wraps.
A wonderful address by Powell on the joys of books and libraries. Fine. More
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1987. Wraps. First Edition. Second Printing, 1989. 25 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with light age toning along spine on rear panel.
A wonderful address by Powell on the joys of books and libraries. Designed by his lifelong friend and collaborator Ward Ritchie and bawdily inscribed to Ritchie's companion, actress and fine press printer Gloria Stuart. Powell grew up with Ward Ritchie (fellow bookman and printer extraordinaire) in Southern California where the two of them were part of an intimate group in the late 1920s and early 1930s that included M.F.K. Fisher, Gloria Stuart and her first husband, sculptor Gordon Newell. Fine. More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986. Trade paperback. First Edition. First Trade Paperback Edition. Tenth Printing. x, 455 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.Small black remainder dot at base of text block. Very Good. More
Sacramento, CA: California State Library Foundation, 1987. Wraps. Limited Edition. 18 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy that has never been read. One of 1,000 copies.
The 1986 Coulter Lecture by Ward Ritchie. Fine. More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1931. Hardcover. First Edition. Third Printing. xi, 230 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has chips, tears, small losses at edges, fading along top edge as well as spine, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine, slight sunning along top edge of front board. Endpapers have darkened from age, interior clean. Very Good / Good. More
Troy, NY: The Whitston Publishing Company, 1989. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, 95 pp. 8vo. Light pencil underlining and short notes throughout. Very Good. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, 214 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has considerable darkening, chipping at edges, darkening to spine that has faded titling, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling and profile of Sherlock Holmes on cover. Some darkening and scuffing to covers. Interior quite clean with overall darkening of pages due to quality of paper. Very Good / Good. More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010. Hard Cover. First Edition. Third Printing. xix, 736 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010. Hard Cover. First Edition. Third Printing. xix, 736 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. xix, 733 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1936. Hardcover. First Edition. [4], 550 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth boards with tan cloth spine. Wear and scuffing to boards, bumping to corners, small bump to top center of front board, light staining at base of boards, rear exterior hinge beginning to tear at base. Age toning to endpapers. Encased in a fitted mylar dust jacket.
Inscribed by E. B. White (1899-1985) to his wife, Katharine S. White (1892-1977) in pencil on the first free endpaper: "To My wife Katharine - who flowered right in it. August 1936." Katharine S. White was the longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker where she met E.B. White in the late 1920s; they were married in 1929. From the Estate..... More