Search Results: Literary Collections from Warwick Books

New York: Partisan Review, 1953. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Softcover with typographic cover. PR series Number Four. A start-studded list of contributors including Jacques Barzun, Louse Bogan, Leslie Fiedler, Sidney Hook, Irving Howe, Max Lerner, Norman Mailer, Margaret Mead, C. Wright Mills, Reinhold Niebuhr, Philip Rahv, David Riesman, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Delmore Schwartz, Lionel Trilling, and others. Chip on front wrap, one spread stained by a former newspaper insert, and prior ownership info on front free endpage. Contents page has tiny check marks next to some names. The symposium appeared originally under the title" Our Country and Our Culture." 8vo. 118 pp. plus an ad page for the Partisan Review.

Toronto: Sumach Press, 2007. First Edition. Paperback. As New. Softcover in glossy pictorial wraps. First printing. Book is As New, crisp, clean, and unread. Includes black-and-white photos of the authors. 8vo. 229 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover in maroon cloth boards. No dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding, sharp corners, and light overall wear. Interior pages are fresh and bright, printed in maybe 14 pt. type and on heavy stock. There are many tipped in color plates, and some in black and white. Decorative endpapers. 4to. 181 pp. including a bibliography, a list of drawings and paintings in collections, and a list of Rackham's printed work, compiled by Bertram Rota. Heavy--will require additional postage if shipped outside the U.S.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. Third printing of first edition, in the same year as first-printing. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Light soiling to boards. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright. Small inked ownership name on front free endpage. A handsome copy of Wolfe's third and influential New Journalism book. 8vo. 416 pp. In protective Mylar.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is new, with a whisper of wear. 8vo. 421 pp. including index. In protective Mylar.

New York: Summit Books, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright, with a whisper of wear. Full number line. 8vo. 304 pp. In protective Mylar.

New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. First printing of first edition. SIGNED by editor and thriller novelist Jonathan Santlofer, Pulitzer prize-winning novelist VIet Thanh Nguyen, and contributor Mimi Pond. New and unread condition, with no flaws. A stellar cast of writers and artists contributed works to this collection, including Lee Child, Roz Chast, Louise Erdrich, Eric Fischl, Neil Gaiman, Gish Jen, Ha Jin, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Russo, Art Spiegelman, Elizabeth Strout, Alice Walker, Edmund White, and many more. Color plates throughout. 4to. 374 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is in Fine condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is very good, intact but with some signs of light wear. Illustrated with Freund's black-and-white photos. 4to. 117 pp. including index. In protective Mylar.

San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press / The Milford Series, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Softcover in beige wraps. Fine, As New condition. Cover says the book is in the Milford Series of "popular writers of today." John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series has been wildly popular for years. Small 8vo. 63 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Four first-edition hardcover volumes in dark red cloth boards with gilt initials on front. Top edges gilt. "A new edition rearranged in four volumes with 150 new letters." Books are all in fine condition. No dust jackets. Frontis photos protected with intact tissue. A nice uniform set. 8vo. 340 pp., 382 pp.,392 pp., 417 pp. including cumulative index. Heavy--about 7 pounds. Will require additional postage for priority or if shipped outside the U.S.

Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018. First Edition. Brand new hardcover in original, unopened shrink wrap. Pristine copy. A literary and musical reflection of the early Tudor court. Published in conjunction with the Renaissance English Text Society (Vol. 39). 8vo. 176 pp.

New York: Random House, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is in Fine condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright. No fading, chips, or tears. Neatly inked name of former owner on front endpage. Date, price and place of purchase written in miniscule writing along inner edge of dedication page 8vo. 262 pp. In protective Mylar.

Los Angeles: Victoria Dailey, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition, limited to 300 copies. Tan paper-covered boards with title on paper label on black cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. As New condition, clean and crisp. The history of the Pazifische Presse, founded by German émigrés Ernst Gottlieb and Felix Guggenheim to give testimony to the eminent cultural force that was expelled by Hitler and which found a future in America. Illustrated with photos. 8vo. 87 pp.

Claremont, CA: Pomona College Theater Department, 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Softcover drama journal devoted to Japanese masks and performance. Fresh and crisp, with several instances of neat underlining. Illustrated. 8vo. 236 pp.

New York: Privately printed by National Review`, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good +. Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition thus. SIGNED bookplate on front free endpage from William Buckley "To Robert Burns, Gratefully." Book is fine. Dust jacket has a strip of water stain on rear panel (not affecting book) and general light wear. 8vo. 303 pp. including index.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright. Slight ruffling to bottom corner of a few early pages. 8vo. 597 pp. including author index. Heavy--will require additional postage if shipped outside the U.S.

Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Publisher's lavish hardcover book catalogue in boards covered with gold-threaded brocade. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine condition. Includes short essays and full-page artwork by myriad people including Alexander Kluge, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, William Kentridge, and Naveen Kishore. 8vo. 324 pp.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first British edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright, with two small chips at corners. Nonpolitical stories by a diplomat and traveler whose racial philosophy of Aryan superiority was embraced by the Germans decades after his death. 12mo. 295 pp. In protective Mylar.

Baltimore: The Remington-Putnam Book Company, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing. Book has very light wear--some darkening on front endpage near spine. Paper label intact on front board. Jacket is somewhat fragile. Spine is darkened and there is a chip at top, not affecting title. Text pages are clean and unmarred. Paper is laid, with rough-cut edges. Card of Dr. Elmer Belt, a prominent L.A. urologist (at UCLA) and bibliophile (specializing in Osler and Leonardo da Vinci) , taped to front endpage. 12mo. 47 pp. In protective Mylar.

Bridgehampton, NY: Privately printed, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in maroon cloth boards. No dust jacket. First printing of first edition. SIGNED, dated, and inscribed on front free endpage by the author, a historian and writer, Book is crisp and clean; binding has wear at corners and there is a slight spine slant. A collection of pieced that originally appeared in the Bridgehampton, Long Island, News, between 1941 and 1953. Attractive sticker (The Hampton Press) on rear pastedown page. 8vo. 346 pp. including index. I.