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[N.p. (Buffalo)]: [Frontier Press], 1971. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/As New. Stiff grey-blue paper wrappers with a printed and decorated spine label. Roses and thorns vignette on title page. Fine, as new. First (unauthorized/pirated) edition, based on a preliminary draft, and differing from the poems published a year later by New Directions. Although not stated in this publication, 1600 copes were printed at the Frontier Press, several hundred of which were damaged and recycled. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. Fine / fine. Octavo. Black cloth, gilt spine. 272 pp. Fine, in fine dust jacket with the "Shortlisted for the 2003 Whitbread Novel Award," label, which the novel won, affixed to front panel.  This is the edition published for an adult audience.  First edition. A murder mystery whose detective, and narrator, is fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone. Christopher has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism that presents in his knowing a great deal about math but little about human beings. Christopher's journey that takes him out of his comfort zone begins when he finds a neighbor's dog murdered with a garden fork sticking out of its side.

[New York and London]: Bloomsbury, 2003. First edition. Small octavo. Black boards decorated in white in wrap-around design. 210,[10] pp. Author's signature to Bloomsbury label affixed to the half-title. Notes and bibliography. Designated "An Urban Historical" in a series.  A fine copy in a near fine, translucent printed dust wrapper with three minute tear-drop shaped spots on lower panel.   First US edition. "When A'Lelia Walker died in 1931 after a midnight snack o lobster and chocolate cake washed down with champagne, it marked the end of one of the most striking social careers in New York's history. The daughter of rags-to-riches multi-millionaire and philanthropist Madame C. J. Walker, A'Lelia was America's first black poor little rich girl, using her inheritance to throw elaborate, celebrity-packed parties in her Westchester mansion and 136th Street salon." -- from the dust jacket front flap.

Princeton, NJ: Francis P. Harper, 1913. First edition. Very good.. Small octavo. Burgundy cloth, gilt spine. viii,215,[1]pp. Introduction by the author. Laid in to the book is a rare prospectus, and a letter from the collector James Osborne Wright to a Mr. Tapley stating the book "does not altogether please me. It is too much and too little ...." Crown of spine lightly frayed, else very good or better.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition. Spine label and endsheets a bit darkened, light foxing to preliminaries, else very good, without the printed dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Andes, NY: Woolmer/Brotherson Ltd., 1976. Purple cloth, spine gilt. Illustrated. Fine in faintly used dust jacket. First edition (of two) of this breakthrough in imprint bibliography/history. One of ca. 650 copies comprising the American issue, from a total of about 1000 copies. Addenda list with the number of copies printed and pulped laid in, along with the errata slip. An absolute must for the serious Hogarth Press collector. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First American edition. Very good. Octavo. Publisher's unfortunate choice of yellow cloth, paper spine label, decorative endpapers. 287,[3] pp., a great many unopened. Cloth is rather smudged, spine darkened with label chipped and also darkened, a testament to binding choice errors, else a very good copy without the dust jacket that might have saved it.  "The novel comprises several weird tales and culminates in a denouement of deadly horror, connected with a secret society devoted to debauched pagan rites. The three impostors of the title are members of this society who weave a web of deception in the streets of London-relating the aforementioned weird tales in the process-as they search for a missing Roman coin commemorating an infamous orgy by the Emperor Tiberius and close in on their prey: 'the young man with spectacles.'  Publisher John Lane of The Bodley Head, wary of the atmosphere following the trial of Oscar Wilde, asked Machen to expurgate his… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. First edition. Good.. Slim octavo. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine. Frontis portrait from a drawing by Francis Dodd. First edition. Preface by his brother, Laurence Housman, who was under orders by A. E. to destroy his notebooks after his death -- which L. H. did, but not before making a list of their contents. Neat gift inscription and faint erased name and date on front free endsheet, boards rubbed, spine sunned, gilt dulled on first letter "M" on upper panel, otherwise a good clean copy without a dust jacket.

Mount Vernon: The Peter Pauper Press, N.d.. Good.. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. Eight page publication Supplement entitled "Fragment of a Greek Tragedy A Parody," laid in. Lightly rubbed at tips, else a good, bright copy, without a dust jacket.

[St. Albans, UK: Panther Books Ltd., 1976. First UK trade edition. Fine.. Glossy pictorial wrappers. First UK trade editions. Clean, unread editions with tight binding and uncreased spines. All three volumes are fine.   "H. P. Lovecraft described [Robert E.] Howard as a master of 'description of vast megalithic cities of the elder world, around whose dark towers and labyrinthine nether vaults lingers an aura of pre-human fear and necromancy which not other writer could duplicate.'" -- wrapper description. .

New York: Gnome Press, Inc., 1952. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Red cloth, printed in black. Map endpapers, printed in green by David Kyle. 251,[1] pp. Tiny bookseller's label affixed to front pastedown, small rub on lower edge of front free endpaper, spine sunned from lack of dust jacket, else very good. Scarce.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1953. First edition. Very Good. Octavo. Green cloth, gilt spine. 256 pp. Introduction by Vita Sackville-West. Black & white line drawings by the author illustrate the text. Bookplate of the noted Hogarth Press/Bloomsbury Group collector William Beekman affixed to front pastedown, else very good or better with no marks or toning; author-illustrated, extremely scarce dust jacket with a small loss at top of spine and a rub at the bottom, neatly price-clipped, else very good.  Only one other copy available in dust jacket. First edition. In 1938-39 Virginia Woolf conducted a correspondence with Su Hua Ling Chen, the daughter of a former Mayor of Peking and a friend of her nephew Julian Bell, whom she addressed in her letters as "Sue Ling." Su Hua had written to Woolf from China "that she helplessly depressed by Japan's invasion of China and her refugee life in the western province of Szechuan." Woolf offered to send her books in English to improve her vocabulary, and… Read More

East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1902. Brown wrappers, printed and decorated in black and red; sewn binding. 6 x 4 in. Three issues. Frontispiece portrait of the artist printed on Japan Vellum laid in to each issue. Artists represented in this collection are Botticelli, Thorwaldsen, and Velasquez. Each issue in very good condition, some leaves unopened and some others roughly opened, they are remarkable for their advertisements that include testimonies for Grape Nuts, the prices for original Arts and Crafts furniture at the turn of the last century, and the offer for Life Memberships in the "American Academy of Immortals.

East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1902. Brown wrappers, printed and decorated in black and red; sewn binding. 6 x 4 in. Five issues. Frontispiece portrait of the artist printed on Japan Vellum laid in to each issue. Artists represented in this collection are Antonio Allegri Correggio, Giovanni Bellini, Benvenuto Cellini, Edwin Abbey, and James Whistler. Each issue in very good condition, some leaves unopened and some others roughly opened, they are remarkable for their advertisements that include testimonies for Grape Nuts, the prices for original Arts and Crafts furniture at the turn of the last century, and the offer for Life Memberships in the "American Academy of Immortals.

East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1901. Brown wrappers, printed and decorated in black and red; sewn binding. 6 x 4 in. Four issues. Frontispiece portrait of the musican printed on Japan Vellum laid in to each issue (except for Wagner, someone has nicked his portrait). Composers and musicians represented in this collection are Richard Wagner, Nicola Paganini, Frederick Chopin, and Sebastian Bach. Each volume in very good condition, some leaves unopened and some others roughly opened, they are remarkable for their advertisements that include testimonies for Grape Nuts, the prices for original Arts and Crafts furniture at the turn of the last century, and the offer for Life Memberships in the "American Academy of Immortals.

East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1901. Brown wrappers, printed and decorated in black and red; sewn binding. 6 x 4 in. One issue. Frontispiece portrait of the musician printed on Japan Vellum laid in to the issue. Composer and musician Franz Liszt is represented in this issue of the volume. Very good condition, remarkable for its advertisements that include testimonies for the wellness-giving attributes of Grape Nuts, the prices for original Arts and Crafts furniture at the turn of the last century, and the offer for Life Memberships in the "American Academy of Immortals.

Isles of Shoals, Off Portsmouth, NH, 1893. First edition. About fine. Two pages, (21.5 x 14.5cm), in ink on Appledore House, - Laighton Brothers, letterhead. About fine.  Hutton (1843 - 1904) was an American poet, essayist and critic born in New York City on August 8, 1843, and educated privately there. From about 1870 he contributed continually to periodicals and was the dramatic critic of the New York Evening Mail from 1872 to 1874. From 1886 to 1898 he was the literary editor of Harper's Magazine. From 1901, until his death from pneumonia in New York City in 1904, he was a lecturer of English at Princeton.   Appledore House was an informal island artists' colony that was active in the late 19th to the early 20th century, and home of Celia Laighton Thaxter, whose poetry and gardens drew her literary, artist, and musician friends for decades. Childe Hassam painted Celia in her famed garden. Thaxter died and was buried on the island in 1894, the poet Hutton was a pallbearer at her funeral. This… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. First edition. Small octavo. Blue boards, black cloth gilt lettered spine. 147,[3] pp. First edition. Light sunning along bottom edge, else a fine copy, in a very good, bright dust jacket with the usual fraying and rubbing at top and bottom.   The sequel to Huxley's fictional Brave New World, published in 1932, where he warns of the use of mass propaganda by dictatorships. Here he  warns of the clear and present danger of modern drugs and technology to turn men and women into compliant robots who will acquiesce to the will of the state.