Literary & Modern First Editions from The Wild Muse

Paris: Henri Laurens Hard cover in original pictorial boards with a clear acetate dust jacket. Published Paris: Henri Laurens, no date. 4to., 8 1/2" x 10 3/4", 20pp. text and musical score, 9 full color plates by JOB. Text in French. Bound in red cloth and beige paper covered boards printed in red and burgundy, color pictorial cover inset. Published… Read more about this item

Paris: Chavaray, Mantoux ,Martin Librairie D'Education De La Jeunesse, 1896. Hard cover in original color decorated cloth. Published Paris: Chavaray,Mantoux, Martin Librairie D'Education De La Jeunesse, 1896. 4to., 10" x 12 3/4", 269pp., illustrated with 100 unpublished drawings by JOB - some in color. Text in French. Embossed pebbled red cloth with gilt and black titles, color pictorial cover, beveled… Read more about this item

Paris: Delagrave, 1927. First edition. Hard cover in original color decorated cloth. Published Paris: Delagrave, 1927. Folio, 10 1/4" x 13", 160pp., illustrated with tissue guarded full color plates and b/w drawings. Text in French. Green cloth with brown titles and spine design, pictorial cover, beveled boards, top edge gilting, brown endpapers. Gentle wear/rub at the tips and spine ends,… Read more about this item

Paris: Delagrave, 1917. First edition. Hard cover in original pictorial cloth. Published Paris: Delagrave, 1917. 4to., 10" x 13", 47pp., illustrated with full color plates and b/w drawings by G. Dutriac. Text in French. Pebbled gray cloth with full size color pictorial cover inset. 1 1/4" closed tear to the cloth at rear outer hinge, bump/wear at the tips, mild… Read more about this item

NY: Knopf, 1927. First edition, first issue. Hard cover. Published NY: Knopf, 1927, first printing, with typos "happned" on p. 20 and "suppper" on p. 57. 8vo., green cloth with publisher's printed labels. A modernist novel of missionaries in New Mexico, it is considered Catha's best work and remains a classic of modern American literature. On the Modern Library's list… Read more about this item

NY: Berkley , 1984. First edition thus. Scarce 1984 movie tie-in edition in fine condition. Published NY: Berkley, 1984, "Special limited edition / May 1984. 12mo. pictorial wrappers, 4 1/4" x 7" 535pp., 2 page map and movie/newsletter ad at rear, 6 scenes from the David Lynch film on rear cover, "Special ABA Limited Edition" blurb on front cover, all… Read more about this item

Princeton: The William Blake Trust / Princeton University Press, 1991. First edition thus. Trade softcover. Published Princeton: The William Blake Trust / Princeton University Press, 1991. 4to. wrappers, 8 1/4" x 11 3/4", 209pp., illustrated with full color plates, beige endpapers. "Songs of Innocence and of Experience, is now reproduced in paperback for the first time from the King's College,… Read more about this item

NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984, first printing. 4to., 8 1/4" x 10 1/4", xix+186pp., 78 black & white photographic illustrations. Crean linen cloth with silver titles and mauve paper over boards. "James Agee's literary legacy has continued to influence the intellectual and moral climate of… Read more about this item

London: Jewish Observer, 1948. First edition. Deluxe edition bound in suede with marbled edges, ribbon marker sewn in. Published London: Jewish Observer, 1948. 4to., 9 3/4" x 12 1/4", 414pp., illustrations throughout. Cream colored suede with gilt cover titles and design, brown pictorial endpapers. Gilt heavily rubbed, mild wear at the spine ends. Very good. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No… Read more about this item

Princeton: The William Blake Trust / Princeton University Press, 1991. First edition thus. Trade softcover. Published Princeton: The William Blake Trust / Princeton University Press, 1991, first printing. 4to. wrappers, 8 1/4" x 11 5/8", 302pp., illustrated with full color plates. Short bump crease to front edge margin of 8 sheets of text, light soil, else near fine, crisp.… Read more about this item

NY: Viking, 1967. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Viking, 1967, first printing. 8vo., 304pp. Black cloth with gilt titles and brown designs and brown paper over boards, top edge tinted red, black endpapers. Author's first book, his highly acclaimed memoir. Near fine in very good minus unclipped dust jacket (price of $5.95) with loss at the… Read more about this item

NY: Grove Pr, 1963. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Grove Press, 1963, third printing. Thick 8vo., xviii+983pp., illus frontis plate. Green cloth with gilt tiles abd black portrait design, top edge tinted green, brown endpapers. Complete and Unexpurgated. Edited and with an introduction by John F. Gallagher. Very good plus in very good dust jacket. .… Read more about this item

NY: Random House, 1974. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Random House, 1974, first printing. 8vo., 311pp. Black and white cloth with silver spine titles, black cover design of top hat, repeated on pictorial endpapers. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.

NY: Greystone Press, 1937. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Greystone Press, 1937, first printing. 8vo., xvi+299pp. Black pebbled cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Mild trace of wear at spine ends and lower tips, else near fine. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo.

NY: Abbeville Pr, 1982. First U.S. edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Abbeville Press, 1982, first printing. 8vo., 96pp., 129 illustrations, 121 in full color. Brown cloth with brown spine titles. Minor bump to to upper rear tip. Very good plus in very good dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo.

NY: Random House, 1968. First American edition. Hard cover in original dust jacket. Published NY: Random House, 1968, first printing. 8vo., 144pp. Beige cloth and paper over boards, gilt titles. Four lectures delivered by Auden at Eliot College, University of Kent, as part of The T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, delivered October, 1967. Light fox to front edge of page… Read more about this item

NY: New Directions, 1974. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: New Directions, 1974, first printing. 8vo., 244pp. Red cloth with black spine titles. Author's second book. Fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

NY: A & W Publishers, 1981. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: A & W Publishers, 1981. 8vo., 172pp., Fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

NY: Stein and Day, 1965. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Stein and Day, 1965, first printing. 8vo., 248pp. Black cloth with gilt titles and mauve paper covered boards, black endpapers, top edge tinted mauve. New York Lower East side, WPA writer's Project. Very good plus in very good dust jacket with uniform sun fade to spine.… Read more about this item

NY: Viking, 1963. First edition. Hard cover in original dust jacket. Published NY: Viking, 1963, first printing. Small 4to., 8 1/2" x 10 3/8", x+277pp., illustrated by chas b slackman. Designed by Samuel N. Antupit. Introduction by John Kenneth Galbraith. Steinem's first book, a celebration of beach culture, which she dedicates to: "To Ocean Beach Pier that was and to… Read more about this item