Gallows View: An Inspector Banks Mystery SIGNED - TRUE 1st EDITION, 1st PRINTING by Robinson, Peter - 1987

Hutchinson. London. 1984. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Signed by Burgess on the title page. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper with colour illustrations by Alastair Taylor.

San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage [2004]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. A read copy, good+/good+ in all respects. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page with accompanying hand drawn illustrations by author.

New York: Random House, 1994 Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Maroon cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

No Thanks by e. e. cummings
Golden Eagle Press, New Rochelle, NY. 1935. First trade edition limited to 900 copies. Hardcover beveled bound in tan cloth, titles in red on the cover and spine. Oblong, 16mo. Unmarked and in VG condition in the original paper jacket - torn and fragile. the front board is very slightly bowed. "No Thanks contains some of Cummings's most daring literary experiments, and it represents most fully his view of life―romantic individualism. The poems celebrate an openly felt response to the beauties of the natural world, and they give first place to love, especially sexual love, in all its manifestations."

Hodder & Stoughton Limited. London. 1928. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.1 inches). A fine bright copy in publishers original blue cloth with printed paper labels on front board and spine. In the scarce original dustwrapper, lettered in blue and red. The wrapper is near to very good with some loss to the edges and darkening to the spine. Overall a very good copy. ----- This is the first edition of the play, and was issued as a volume in the uniform edition of the Plays of Barrie. Copies retaining the fragile original dustwrapper are scarce. ------ There are three versions of the Peter Pan story that J. M. Barrie published, after the character first appeared in hie novel The Little White Bird in 1902. The first is Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, which was issued in 1906, complete with fifty full colour plates by Arthur Rackham. This is the story of Peter Pan having adventures with the Fairies, Pixies and Animals of the Famous London Park. The second book issued was Peter and Wendy, published in 1911,… Read More

New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954. First printing of the first American edition, 669pp, with index. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with faint toning to spine and cover margins, a small slightly rubbed spot near lower back spine, and soft creasing to spine ends, else fine.

New York: Random House, 1994 Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Maroon cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

No Thanks by e. e. cummings
Golden Eagle Press, New Rochelle, NY. 1935. First trade edition limited to 900 copies. Hardcover beveled bound in tan cloth, titles in red on the cover and spine. Oblong, 16mo. Unmarked and in VG condition in the original paper jacket - torn and fragile. the front board is very slightly bowed. "No Thanks contains some of Cummings's most daring literary experiments, and it represents most fully his view of life―romantic individualism. The poems celebrate an openly felt response to the beauties of the natural world, and they give first place to love, especially sexual love, in all its manifestations."

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Signed by Lauren Bacall on the title page. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. Winner of an Honorary Academy Award, 2 Tony Awards, 2 Golden Globes, and a Critic's Choice Lifetime Achievement Award.

Lewisburg, PA: The Bucknell University /The Press of Appletree Alley, 1989. Signed by the author and artist on the colophon page. First edition / First printing. Limited Edition.Number 6 of 130 copies. Oatmeal cloth. Very fine. Though no owner name is present, this is the copy of Northwest Poet Joan Swift. A student of James Wright and Theodore Roethke at the University of Washington in the early 1960's. She mentored Tess Gallagher and was friends with Richard Hugo and Sister Mary Gilbert later known as Madeline DeFrees.