Selected Stories by Munro, Alice - 1996

New York: Delacorte/Lawrence (1979).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Pages yellowing, dust jacket has a couple of very small tears. The price is intact. This award-winning author's first book by a major publisher. "These stories of America's disenfranchised - men and women light-years away from the American dream - are quite unlike any in our literature. She's an original, and this book of hers is a crooked beauty." - Raymond Carver

316+[6 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. Has the "A" on the title verso. First edition. Wright wrote as a critic and journalist until 1923, when he became ill from what was given out as overwork, but was in reality a secret drug addiction, according to John Loughery's biography Alias S.S. Van Dine. His doctor confined him to bed (supposedly because of a heart ailment, but actually because of a cocaine addiction) for more than two years. In frustration and boredom, he began collecting and studying thousands of volumes of crime and detection. In 1926 this paid off with the publication of his first S. S. Van Dine novel, The Benson Murder Case. Wright took his pseudonym from the abbreviation of "steamship" and from Van Dine, which he claimed was an old family name. Wright wrote a series of short stories for Warner Brothers film studio in the early 1930s. These stories were used as the basis for a… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. First Edition. Original Cloth. As New/No Jacket as Issued. Jonathan Cape, London, 2005. Hardback. Book Condition: As New. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardback. Book in in MINT/UNREAD condition. No dustjacket, as issued. Complete with promotional bookband which is also in MINT condition. SIGNED by Julian Barnes shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Signed on the title page by James Welch. First edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in a dust jacket with minor wear, else fine. The jacket is much more attractive than usual for this book. The scarcest of Welch's novels, especially in nice condition.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. Signed on the second blank page following the free end-paper by the author. First U.S. edition / First printing. Plum cloth spine, red paper-covered boards. Fine in near fine to very good dust jacket, with abrasion to the lower spine around the publisher's name. The author's masterpiece, and one of the most important books of the seventies.

1923. 1923 Salaman, Malcolm BRITISH BOOK ILLUSTRATION YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY Edited by Geoffrey Holme London: The Studio, 1923 175pp illus color, b/w tall 4to three-quarter morocco/silk, original covers bound-in at rear Binding by RR Donnelley & Son aeg raised bands, gilt slight scuffing on raised bands, tip of spine, else fine in custom slip-case.

Hutchinson, 1961. First UK edition-first impression. Hardcover. Very good/No Dj cover. VGC plus.Hutchinson,1961.First UK edition-first impression.Translated from the French by Xan Fielding.Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,two small nicks and scratch on the edges of the cover and spine)in VGC, no Dj cover.Nice and clean pages with a couple of small foxing marks and nick on the outer edges,two small foxing marks and a couple of creases and nicks on the edges of the pages. The book is in VGC plus for its age with light shelf wear.487pp including Author's note.A collectable and scarce first edition but without the Dj cover.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth. As New. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The second book in the New York Trilogy.

STAMPATO A SPESE DI G. POLIDORI E CO., 1796. Edizione del 1796 di questa raccolta di opere del poeta Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374). Vita del poeta nella prima parte e annotazioni. Incoronazione di M. Francesco Petrarca descritta da Sennuccio del Bene fiorentino (1275-1349). Dedicato al magnifico signore Can della Scala. Sennuccio del Bene fu al servizio del Cardinale Giovanni Colonna e lì ebbe modo di conoscere Petrarca e stringere amicizia con lui. All'interno: sonetti, canzoni, ballate e madrigali, sestine ecc... In buone condizioni e completo di tutte le pagine. Copertina in piena pelle coeva con titolo e decorazioni in oro al dorso in discrete condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Rotture alle cerniere. Piatto anteriore staccato al primo tomo. Legatura in ottime condizioni. Pagine in ottime condizioni con rare fioriture. In 16 cm. 15x10. Pp. 253+(1), XXIV+237+(1) Edition of 1796 of this collection of works by the poet Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374). Life of the… Read More

# 140 of 333 numbered copies signed by the author. First printing. Blue cloth with top edge gilt. Jacket has some foxing on the spine; chip at bottom edge of the front panel and tears at bottom of the spine. Slipcase has some sunning and a few scuffs.