New York: Random House, September 1933. Third Printing. SIGNED "Sincerely, Robinson Jeffers". 8vo. 147 pp. Black cloth spine over pink gilt illustrated paper covered boards. Near fine (previous owner name; slight fading along edges) in good dustjacket (jacket separated along front joint; chips, short closed tears and wear; darkening to..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, (1927). First Edition, Limited to 265 numbered and signed copies of which 250 are for sale, our copy is noted as "Presentation" copy on the colophon. SIGNED by Jeffers. From the estate of Eric Temple Bell (1883 – 1960), a Scottish-born mathematician and science fiction..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988. First Edition. 4to. 521 pp. Tipped-in photo-frontispiece of Jeffers. Includes Editorial Note and General Introduction. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. The definitive work on California's greatest poet as well as a major poet of the twentieth century. "Now, for the first time, all..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988. First Edition. 4to. 521 pp. Tipped-in photo-frontispiece of Jeffers. Includes Editorial Note and General Introduction. Book is fine in very good plus dustjacket (light soiling; creasing to spine head). The definitive work on California's greatest poet as well as a major poet of the..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989. First Edition. 4to. 610 pp. Tipped-in photo-frontispiece of Jeffers. Includes Editorial Note. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. The definitive work on California's greatest poet as well as a major poet of the twentieth century. "Now, for the first time, all of Jeffers' completed..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989. First Edition. 4to. 610 pp. Tipped-in photo-frontispiece of Jeffers. Includes Editorial Note. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (light soiling). The definitive work on California's greatest poet as well as a major poet of the twentieth century. "Now, for the first time, all..... More
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2012. 1st. Paperback. Quarto; x, 558 pages. Library markings, o/w a new and unused book. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 18th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
New York: Pageant Press, 1960. 1st. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 100pp. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION from the author. Holographic Christmas card from the author laid in. Grey cloth with greeen & white illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket. Biography of the author's father, Rev. Y.M. Lee, a Christian missionary who..... More
N.P. Published by the author, ca. 1960. 1st. Hardcover. Large 8vo. iv, 975 pp. Maroon leatherette with gilt lettering. A fine copy. The autobiography of Frank and Sunny June detailing their lives together travelling the world with Frank as a marine lieutenant graduate from the Naval Academy of Annapolis and..... More
London: George Bell & Sons, 1908. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 316 + 4 pp advertisements. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. A very good copy (wear to extremities; slight bumping to corners; light staining to covers). The author's first book. As with many of her novels, this is set in the..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1894. 1st. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 137pp. In-text illustrations. Blue cloth with silver lettering. Minor wear to extremities; slight darkening to spine; light soiling else a near fine copy. First published in the New York Post, the leaflets recount a New England spinster's adventures in raising a...... More
New York: Mcgraw Hill Book Company, 1965. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author, with a drawing of him typing at his typwriter. 8vo. 213 pp. 100+ "on-the-spot" drawings. Fading to spine else a fine copy in publisher's dustjacket. An offbeat & delightful travelogue about the Ketcham's European tour beginning in..... More
New York: Abbeville Press, 1990. 1st. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. 256pp. Illustrations. INSCRIBED by the author/artist with an original drawing of Dennis the Menace. Red cloth in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. "... traces the humorous adventures of Hank Ketcham - with copious illustrations of his artistic..... More
Stoke By Nayland, Suffolk: Jardine Press, 1990. 1st. Paperback. 1st edition thus. Square 8vo. [28] pp. Wood & linocuts by James Dodds. INSCRIBED by Dodds. Stiff grey staplebound wrappers with illustrated dustjacket of same paper in fine condition. The second part of 'The Truthful Song', first published in 1910 in..... More
New York: Poets of America Publishing Co., 1964. 1st. Hardcover. SIGNED & dated by the poet; additionally SIGNED by the illustrator, Kay Kirkland. 8vo. 44 pp. blue cloth with gilt lettering in fine condition. "The poems in this, her first volume, consist mainly of her experiences in her town as..... More
New York: Vantage Preess, 1984-1989. 1st. Hard Cover. Octavos. Four copies warmly inscribed by the author. More
Oslo: Norsk historisk kjeldeskrift-institutt, 1982. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; 28pp. Fine copy in stapled wraps. More
Pfullingen: Verlag Gunther Neske, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Lengthy inscription from Korn to Stanford Professor Gordon A. Craig on ffep (Korn's address label in Bad Homburg laid in. Small 8vo; 184pp. Text in German. Occasional marginal pencil mark (Craig's) else a Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. More
New York: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only, 1922. 1st. Hardcover. Limited #206 of 1225 copies. 8vo. 406pp. Translated from the original Russian by Bernard Guilbert Guerney. Green leather spine and corner tips over lighter green paper boards; 5 raised bands and gilt lettering to spine; marbled endpapers. Fine condition. Originally..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1944. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 213pp. Illustrations by Marjorie Guennell. A near fine copy (offsetting from article) in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities). All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request. More
Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo; 391pp. Index. Cream wrappers with color illustration to front cover. A Fine copy. This work, the result of an international symposium held in Dijon in March 2012, reflects on the theme of the native region among the writers of the Renaissance, whether..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. New Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xlii, 262pp. Black & white frontispiece portrait illustration of the author. Memorial by William Hayes Ward. Green cloth covered boards; author's name in gilt inside gilt wreath illustration to front board; gilt titles to the spine; TEG. Slight bump to..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. First American Edition. 8vo. 222 pp. Red cloth spine over purple cloth boards in publisher's dustjacket. The book is in very good condition; the dustjacket is fair only (front flap separated and corners are clipped; rear cover separated at spine with rear flap missing;..... More
New York: Vanguard Press, 1957. First Edition of a new play based on the novel by Patrick Dennis. Presentation inscription "For Mom, one of the wonderful people of the world. Happy Birthday. Love, Jerry. 1962". Our research reveals "Mom" to be the mother of Lon McCallister (popular movie star in..... More