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New York: Random House, 1996. First US edition. Thick octavo. Black cloth and boards, gilt spine. 625 pp. Tiny remainder mark on upper edge, else a fine copy in an equally fine dust jacket.  Babel Tower is the third novel in a planned quartet of novels, following The Virgin in the Garden, and Still Life, and concluding with Babel Tower. The series depicts the clashing forces in English life from the early 1950s to 1970, each in their own mid-century time frames and centering on one woman -- Frederica.

London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1921. First edition. Very good.. Thick octavo. Pale green cloth, gilt spine. xci,[1],267,[1] pp. Light shelf wear at lower spine, endsheets toned, else a very good copy, without a dust jacket.
This title has a lengthy preface by Bernard Shaw entitled "The Infidel Half Century," followed by a series of five plays "In the Beginning: B.C. 4004" (In the Garden of Eden); "The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present Day"; "The Thing Happens: A.D. 2170"; "Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman: A.D. 3000"; and "As Far as Thought Can Reach: A.D. 31,920". The plays were first performed in 1922 by the New York Theatre Guild at the Garrick Theatre.
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London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd. / Left Book Club Edition, 1939. Pink paper over boards, printed in black. Foreword by the author. Spine very slightly cocked, darkening at spine, text block uniformly tanned as a result of the poor quality of the paper, crown of spine rubbed, spot on upper panel, else a good copy. First edition of this book in this format and binding. The second of Woolf's political essays written during Europe's tumultuous 1930s. The directors and the publisher of the Left Book Club, whose titles state on their covers: NOT FOR SALE TO THE PUBLIC, were uncertain about publishing this book to their club members. It was the first of their titles to openly criticize the Soviet Union, and Stalin particularly, through Woolf's condemnation of the Soviet regime's autocratic suppression of intellectuals and personal freedom. In Woolf's foreword he states in full:  "This book was written before the conclusion of the treaty between Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany and before the outbreak of war.… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1935. Octavo. Plum pebble cloth, gilt spine lettering. First edition. 119 pp. Spots along fore-edge, else very good in a very good dust jacket with spine lightly sunned. From the library of noted Bloomsbury collector William Beekman with his elegant bookplate affixed to the front pastedown.  .

New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First edition, later impression. About fine / very good +. Octavo. Deep lavender cloth over boards, pale lavender endpapers. 296 pp. Small spot and the mere hint of sunning to top edge, else clean and about fine; dust jacket lightly rubbed at toe of spine, faded ink price near printed price on front turn-in, else very good or better.  First American edition, seventh impression. Biographical note by Lois  Ames, with eight previously unpublished drawings by Plath. Sylvia Plath's only published novel was published in 1963 in the UK under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas," by William Heinemann, and eight years later under her own name in the U.S. It is the penetrating story of Esther Greenwood's breakdown as she descends into insanity. "The work reveals so much about the sources of Sylvia Plath's own tragedy that its publication must be considered a landmark in contemporary literature" -- from the publisher.

Mecklenburgh Square, London: The Hogarth Press, 1941. Very Good.. Publisher's bright blue cloth, lettered in gilt. 256 pp. 7⅛ x 4¾ in. White dust jacket printed in black, designed by Vanessa Bell, with "Vanessa" in the bottom right corner rather than the usual "V.B." Boards clean, spine has sunned line at crown where it sat proud from the dust wrapper; minor shelf-wear, offsetting to endsheets, ink ownership signature on front free endpaper with the date "July, 1941" which is the date of publication. Light crease on title page. Rear endsheets have a book review by Woolf's friend Desmond MacCarthy in the Observer, another laid in by Richard Church in an unidentified publication, and yet another in Time and Tide 17 May 1941 by Lord David Cecil entitled "A Note of Virginia Woolf." Dust jacket has one chip near top of spine, tiny closed tear on top edge of rear panel, and the usual smudges a white dust jacket would have. From the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American animator, illustrator,… Read More

New York: Friedmans', 1920. Paper boards, paper label to spine and upper board. Frontispiece portrait. A few finger smudges to boards, labels a trifle worn, very good or slightly better.  First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies, this being No. 52. The pioneering attempt, by the innovative publisher/bookseller.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and pictorial boards, printed spine label. First edition. Edited by Lee Bartlett. Number 26 of only 50 copies numbered and signed by Everson, handbound in boards by Earle Gray, and containing a manuscript quote, signed by the author, bound in after the titlepage. Very fine, in a fine acetate dust wrapper. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002 in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. There has been interest in reviving this press of late, and relocating it to the east coast. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

London: Cecil Woolf, 2001. First edition. Yellow card wraps printed and decorated in red, green, and blue. First edition. Cover design by Robert Campling. 21 x 14.5 cm. 28 pp. The Bloomsbury Heritage Series No. 29; Jean Moorcroft Wilson, general editor. Printed on blue paper; illustrated by Sandra Lello throughout. No other copies currently available in commerce [May 2024].  Illustrator's name misspelled on upper wrapper and title page, else fine.    .

London: Chatto & Windus, 1987. Fine./Fine.. Octavo. Pale grey gilt cloth. About fine, in a fine highly pictorial, unclipped dust jacket designed by Tom Phillips whose remarkable portrait of Dame Jean Iris Murdoch hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery.   First edition, first impression. Murdoch's twenty-third novel, and considered to be one of her best, concerns a group of Oxford University friends who, in middle-age, gather at a summer ball. An ancient love affair is rekindled, everyone is aghast. Several years earlier the group formed a "brotherhood" to finance one of the two lover's effort to write a theoretical book, presumably about Marxism, but the book has yet to be published. Each member of the brotherhood pays their annual dues but demands nothing from him; in fact, they are reluctant even to approach him about his progress.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1922. Bright green loth, paper spine label. Frontis, five plates. With the bookplate of collector/bibliographer Richard Little Purdy. Label darkened, else a near fine copy, lacking the jacket. A must for Bloomsbury collectors. First edition. Dedicated to his friend John Maynard Keynes, Strachey presents his biographical portraits of French and English literary greats culled from his earlier essays, but with a twist. All of these essays were extensively rewritten from their original appearances as Strachey was ever critical of his earlier works, as if "Lytton Strachey" was a land he didn't care to revisit. In this publication he writes of Racine, Sir Thomas Browne, Shakespeare's Final Period, The Lives of Poets, Madame du Deffand, Voltaire, Rosseau, Blake, and others.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955. First American edition. About fine. Octavo. Bright green cloth, lettered and decorated in black. 215,[3] pp. Illustrated throughout text by Beth and Joe Krush. Tiny ink speck on lower edge, else about fine, in a very good or better dust jacket with a light pencil mark on the lower panel. The further adventures of Pod, Homily, and the adorable Arrietty who we first met in the wonderful The Borrowers (1952).

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.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Fine.. Octavo. Navy blue cloth, gilt spine and upper panel. 300 pp. Silk place marker. Second printing of this edition, number 146 of Knopf's Everyman's Library printed on acid-free, cream-wove paper with a sewn full cloth binding. Fine; without dust jacket.  Brighton Rock was first published in 1938 and later adapted for film and theatre. The novel is a murder thriller set in 1930s Brighton, England. It tells the story of Pinkie Brown, a young gang leader who kills a journalist and tries to cover his tracks by marrying Rose, a waitress who witnessed his crime. The novel explores the themes of good and evil, Catholicism, class, love, and through the contrast between Pinkie and Rose's views of the world and their place and fate within it.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. Bright green cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine very faintly sunned, gilt bright, some fox marks along top edge, but a very good copy, without dust jacket. Laid in is a publisher's prospectus for two novels by E. Arnot Robertson, THREE CAME UNARMED (1929), and CULLUM (1928). First edition, the less common second state, with leaf 157/8 a cancel, without reference to "the child she bare," which is present in the first state. Graves, in his foreword, indicates that "this book must be read rather as a appendix than as a progressive sequel to my recent autobiography." HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A35b.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, limited issue. Number 42 of only one hundred numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author on the colophon. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, limited issue. Number 82 of only one hundred numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author on the colophon. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.