Literature

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927. First Edition. Limited to 325 copies.Signed by author. 38pp A sound copy with chipping at top of spine. Leather label on front cover. Textured covers, spine slightly faded.

1921. 1921 Benchley, Robert OF ALL THINGS NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1921 234pp, illus b/w drawings throughout text Author's first book 8vo Blue cloth stamped in black and yellow foxing on pastedown pages, small spot on rear cover, fine bright hardcover with only minimal rubbing on spine edges.

Hartford, Conn., USA: American Publishing Company, 1894. Cloth. Fine. originally published 1879 Facsimile signature. 328 illustrations. 631 pages. Black cloth covers with gold figure and title to front and spine. Very small split to base of sine - small split at top about 7 mm long between spine and front cover. Lovely inside tight pages and no foxing seen.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. First printing (so stated). Blue paper-covered boards quarter-bound in gray cloth. A very handsome copy; fine except for a touch of wear at the spine ends. The dust jacket is toned, darkest on the spine. There is very light wear at the spine ends and the corners. The jacket price is intact but partially inked over. In Brodart dust jacket protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Pauline Baynes. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1969. Signed by Jim Harrison and Dan Gerber. First edition / First printing. (Softcover edition) Illustrated wrappers. Fine.

Astoria, OR: Raven Studios, 2010. Signed and dated March '11 on the front free end-paper by Ursula K. Le Guin. First edition / First printing. Sienna paper-covered boards. Very fine in about fine dust jacket.

First edition, first printing, SIGNED, dust jacked in protective mylar. Unread copy, very nice.

New York: Crown, 2006. First edition / First printing. Black paper spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!

New York: Viking, 1983. First edition / First printing. Brown cloth spine, ochre paper-covered boards. Fine in very close to fine dust jacket with crease to the rear flap and one tiny edge tear. This original edition of In the Spirit of Crazy Horse was withdrawn by the publisher when Matthiessen and Viking were sued for libel by David Price, an FBI agent, and the former South Dakota Governor, William J. Janklow. After 4 years of litigation, the suit was dismissed, after 3 additional years of appeals, the book was finally reissued by Viking in an updated edition. This is the original suppressed edition.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003. Signed by the author who has also added a small original drawing of the world contained within an eye. First edition / First printing. Green paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A Caldecott Honor Book.

Grolier Incorporated, New York, 1965. Hardcover. First edition. Condition: Fine, like new. No dust jacket issued. 2086 pp. in two volumes. Text is clean, white and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Part of Grollier's Treasury Series in presentation bindings. These two volumes are described by the authors as: "A new college anthology of American literature, with which is integrated a comprehensive historical and critical survey, must be designed to meet the needs of students whose perspectives are growing with our complex times."

New York: The Foundation for Cultural Review, Inc, 1982. Magazine. Stapled wraps, 7 x 10 inches. Toning with a slight crease to bottom-right cover corner, else fine.. A bright and original first issue of The New Criterion. The New York-based monthly literary magazine was founded by Hilton Kramer (1928-2012) in 1982 to speak plainly and vigorously about the problems facing the artist and the life of the mind in modern American society. Prior to launching The New Criterion, Kramer served as art critic for The Nation and, from 1965 to 1982, the New York Times where he challenged the Leftist political bias and perceived nihilism of the paper's art criticism. In 1982 Kramer resigned from the New York Times to found The New Criterion with pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman, establishing what would become one of the premier magazines covering art culture and criticism. The magazine is renowned and unique in its abiding emphasis upon artistic classicism and political conservatism. Its name is a… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf: 1999. Signed on the front free endpaper by Edward Said. Fourth printing. Black paper, gray paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. A remarkable memoir. The winner of the 1999 New Yorker Book Award for Non-Fiction. Winner of the 2000 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Winner of the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award in Literature.

La revista del vigia.ano 24 numeros 3 y 4.ediciones vigia matanzas cuba Institución que realiza las ediciones de libros, plaquettes, revistas, catálogos y otros, con materiales rústicos, papeles desechables, desechos industriales, elementos naturales, textiles y otros. Totalmente manufacturadas.la revista contiene interesantes temas de la literatura cubana con autores contemporaneos,como laidi fernandez de juan,alaine vilar,racso morejon,daniel diaz mantilla,norge espinosa,ahmel echevarria y lourdes gonzalez herrero entre otros.edicion limitada de 200 ejemplares realizados artesanalmente.En los primeros años el taller se dedicó a la impresión de las invitaciones de las actividades que se desarrollaban en la recién inaugurada institución, y en otros lugares de interés cultural. Posteriormente, comenzaron los primeros plegables y plaquettes, ediciones bilingües concebidas como apoyo a varios ciclos de conferencias que sobre literatura universal se ofrecieron, catálogos de exposiciones, etc. ,… Read More

New York: Random House, 2009. Signed on a bookplate mounted to the half-title page by Colum McCann. First edition / First printing. Ivory paper spine, ivory paper-covered boards. Winner of the National Book Award. Fine in very dust jacket.