New York: Viking Press, 1947. First Edition. 8vo. 122 pp. Drawings by Jose Clemente Orozco. Publisher's rust cloth in the first issue dustjacket with Steinbeck looking towards his left in the picture on the rear cover. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (fading to spine; minor wear to extremities... More
New York: Random House, 1934. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 767, [1] pp. Foreword by Morris Ernst. Cream cloth with red and black lettering. Dampstaining to covers; minor wear to extremties; internally clean; a very good copy. Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first... More
New York: Stage Publishing Company, Inc., 1936. First Edition. 4to. 4to. 132, [2] pp. Illustrations (some in color). The personal copy of Beatrice Mathieu with her custom bookplate; TLS to Miss Beatrice Mathieu from the editor tipped in. Special publsher's binding of padded pale green moire cloth with gilt illustration... More
Oakland, CA: Published by the author, 1905. First Edition. Original wrappers. INSCRIBED "For Miss Lyke / May Gibbons Cooper). Small 8vo. 50 pp. 6 illustrated plates (including 4 original photographs with location written in pencil, most likely by the author). 11 poems. Handmade paper. Stiff green ribbon tied wrappers; color... More
New York: Random House Inc, 1987. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 277 pp. Fine in fine dustjacket. A story by one of the grand masters of American fiction about "... the pleasures and perils and occasional penalties of closeness, about love and loyalty, about certain kinds of steadfastness and fidelity... More
New York: Random House Inc, 1987. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED "To ----/gratefully/Wallace Stegner.8vo. 277 pp. Fine in fine dustjacket. A story by one of the grand masters of American fiction about "... the pleasures and perils and occasional penalties of closeness, about love and loyalty, about certain kinds of... More
New York: Viking Press, 1947. First Illustrated Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. 213 pp. 17 color paintings by Peggy Worthington. Black cloth spine over teal paper coverd boards in color wraparound art illustrated dustjacket; color illustrated endpapers. A near fine copy (previous owner name; faint spine lean) in very good dustjacket... More
New York: New Directions, 1945. First American Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. 292 pp. Photo-illustrated plates. Tan cloth with blue & brown lettering to spine; illustrated endpapers. A near fine copy (minor wear to extremities with chipping to spine ends). A memoir written by the author about his year-long road trip... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1891-1908. Leather bound. The Riverside Edition, complete in 14 volumes. 8vo. Various paginations. Engraved frontispiece portraits with tissue guards in 4 volumes. Dark Blue three-quarter morocco over blue cloth boards; gilt lettering to spines; marbled endpapers; TEG. Engraved previous owner bookplates in each volume else a.... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 182 pp. 6 illustrated plates (including frontispiece); Pronunciation of Proper Names. Publisher's review slip affixed inside front cover. Green pictorial covers in near fine condition (minor wear to extremities; slight darkening to spine). Here are 15 stories detailing "...dramatic... More
San Francisco: William Doxey, 1895. First Edition. Original wrappers. SIGNED by the author on front cover. Small 8vo. 8 leaves, including the wrappers. Original pictorial self-wrappers, stapled, uncut, as issued. One short marginal slit in front wrapper, light general wear; a near fine copy inf somewhat worn folding purple case... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1839. First Collected Edition. Leather bound. Small 8vo. 380; 347; 314; 361 pp. Engraved fontispiece portrait of Shelley by W. Finden in Volume 1. Half-title in each volume. Preface & Notes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Contemporary full calf (stamped "Morrell, Binder. London") with elaborate gilt decoration to... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Ca. 1930, with "K-E" on copyright page. Early printing. Hardcover. Quarto. (xvii) 247pp. Illustrated by the author. 36 full-page plates with 11 in color (including frontispiece) plus 2 small color illustrations; numerous in-text illustrations. Half black cloth and tan paper boards with color... More
Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphics, 1948. First Illustrated Edition of Mice & Men in French. Limited to 390 copies, this being "Exemplaire S.P." (Service de Presse). Three-quarter leather. Small folio. 125, [2] pp. 37 color lithographs by Reynold Arnould. Translated by Maurice Coindreau. Three-quarter orange leather over paper covered boards;... More
Amsterdam: Pegasus, 2008. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo. 1-491; 494-959pp. Most articles in English; some in Russian. Grey printed wraps. Light water spotting on upper page edges else fine condition. An extensive work to honour Weststeijn upon his retirement as Professor of Slavic Literature at the University of Amsterdam. Contributors representing... More
Paris: Correa, 1953. First French. Original wrappers. INSCRIBED "For/Toby/from/Henry/5/7/58/Note:English text has/some printer's errors" (inscribee is attorney Webster ('Toby') Street, a close life-long friend of John Steinbeck). Small 8vo. 133 pp. Text in French and English. Frontispiece photo-plate of Miller. Color illustrated wrappers. Light wear and creasing to covers, Very Good..... More
