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Limited edition, 119/500 signed by Schrader, screenwriter of this Scorsese / De Niro film as well as Raging Bull.
Fine in fine dust wrapper.

New York: Viking, 1966. Signed by the author. The handwriting may be creaky, but at age 80, Marianne Moore retained her sharp sense of humor, creatively adding "Moore Moore" to the half title to read "Tell me Moore, Tell me Moore". Fine in fine dust wrapper.

London, Faber and Faber 1974. First Edition. Fine in fine, price clipped dust wrapper with new price label.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1935. First edition. A volume in The Twentieth Century Library series. Slight partial tanning to front and rear endpapapers, Slight spine lean, overall a very good + copy in the scarce dust wrapper with designs from Eric Gill. Dust wrapper is overall very good, with a few tiny tears top spine, slight rubbing, some soiling and spine toning.

Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1990. Advance Uncorrected Proof copy in publisher's printed wrappers. Wrappers slightly soiled, otherwise a fine copy.

Inscribed by Cotton to Henry A. Hurst, adding that the book was "sent with the compliments of Clifford Roberts".
An interesting joining of three golf aficionados. Cotton was the leading British player of his generation, winning the Open Championship (aka the British Open) three times and finishing in the top-10 on 17 occasions. The European Tour Rookie of the Year award is named after him.
Clifford Roberts was the co-founder (along with Bobby Jones) of the Augusta National Golf Club, serving as its chairman from 1931 through 1976. Two years after the foundation, Roberts and Jones started the Masters Tournament.
Henry A. Hurst was an Atlanta linen merchant and Augusta member. In 1941, he sponsored a professional golf tournament which was won by Sam Snead, earning him $1,500 in prize money.
Internally fine and unmarked. A very good copy with slanted spine and some bowing to the boards, uneven fading, curling to the corners and dust soiling to top text block. Dust wrapper is fair to good rubbed with… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865. First Edition. Historical reflections on the influence of climate, immigration & political ideas on national development, with particular reference to the United States. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt title on spine and author's gilt stamped signature on front board. Pages uncut, a seemingly unread copy. Top spine worn, otherwise about fine.

London: The Cloister Press and Chatto & Windus, 1923. 12 tipped-in color tissue-guarded plates by Robert Diaz de Soria mounted on grey-toned paper. top edge gilt, untrimmed. Leather title label beginning to loosen, extremities a little rubbed but nevertheless an attractive copy.

Signed by the author "with the good wishes of W. Y. Evans-Wentz to ...., San Diego, California, 24 March, 1956".
Evans-Wentz has also hand-written a passage from the Precepts of the Gurus: "It is great joy to realize that the path to freedom which all the Buddhas have trodden is ever-existent, ever unchanged, and ever open to those who are ready to enter upon it".
The Precepts of the Gurus refers to the supreme path of Buddhist discipleship and is the topic of the first chapter of Evan-Wentz's Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines, published in 1958 (two-years after the date of this inscription).
A very good copy indeed, bright boards with gilt decorations, spine cocked, front pastedown little foxed, and front and rear end papers unevenly tanned. Dust wrapper in good condition, price clipped, internal tape repairs to spine tips, slight staining, a few edge tears and some chipping.

The Macmillan Co., New York, 1957. Second Printing, issued same year as the First.
Author's first book, inscribed and nicely signed by him.
Spine a little slanted, staining to gutters otherwise a fine copy in very good dust wrapper, not price clipped, slight chipping at spine edges, toning to spine and flap folds. A nicer copy than usual.

First Edition, limited to 300 copies.
Though not called for, signed by Smith at the bottom of the Editor's Note page.
Additionally, Smith has written a couplet ("But oh, what labour, O prince, what pain!") from The Strayed Reveller by Matthew Arnold, a close friend of Smith's, and signed again on the front free endpaper.
Bookplate indicates this copy belonged to Sam Heiman, a noted architect in San Alselmo, CA during the 1920's and 1930's.
Front and rear free endpapers significantly tanned, about very good with tanning to board edges, corners rubbed, spot to spine.