Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Co., 1965. Derrick Holmes (dust jacket). First American Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 214. Red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, device stamped in blind on the cover, top edge dyed red, endpapers decorated with lips in red: spine ends.....
London: Joiner and Steele, 1931. George Bissill. Limited Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Stout 8vo. Pp. 280, [2], followed by three pages of publisher ads. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Pages foxed, light wear to head and tail of spine. Top edge, dyed green, is bleached.....
London: Robert Holden and Co. Ltd., 1927. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 280. Bound in dark khaki cloth with the author's monogram in gilt on front board, title block stamped on spine. Top edge dyed gray. Slight dust soiling to top edge, both free endpapers with stains.....
New York: Rob Weisbach Book (William Morrow), (1999). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 191. White cloth over paper-covered boards. Lettering stamped on spine. Collects 15 of the young writer's short stories. Promotional material from the book's publisher laid-in. This copy with no detracting qualities whatsoever. Davis, then teaching at Mills.....
Washington, D.C. Howard University Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. xiv, 306. With black-and-white photo portraits. Selective bibliography. Index. Bound in blue cloth with white lettering stamped on front cover and spine. In the dust jacket. With advance notice clippings from the publisher's catalog laid-in. Davis.....
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. [1-10], 11-321. Bound in bright blue cloth with red lettering stamped on front board and spine. A superb copy in the pictorial dust jacket that has a chickpea-size perforation on the fold between the front panel and.....
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 194. White paper-covered boards. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy with no detracting qualities whatsoever. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve. Bookseller inventory SRDD-DM-UK.
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, (2009). First Edition. Hardcover. Stout, short 8vo. Pp. xi; 733. Bound in speckled, white paper-covered boards, metallic orange lettering stamped on spine. A handful of leaves have creases from dog-ears. Slight mottling to quarter-size area of top fore-edge of last signature. Unclipped dust.....
London: Chatto and Windus, 1960. Reynolds Stone (dust jacket art); Irving Penn (photo of author). First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 243, (1). Frontis. b&w photo portrait by Irving Penn, taken from Vogue Magazine. Illustrated with b&w photo reproductions. Bound in tan cloth with gilt lettering on spine.....
New York: Juniper Press, (1956). Fine Literature. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 319. Translated by Frances Frenaye. Gray cloth with lettering stamped in black on spine. An attractive copy in the dust jacket, modest fading on spine. A nice English-language edition of La Rabouilleuse, a volume in the publisher's sporadically-issued series.....
New York: Viking Press, Inc., 1949. Second Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket, Two Volumes in Slipcase. 8vo. Pp. xxx, 489; 493-1043. Bibliography. Uniformly bound in black cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, decorative rules blind stamped on the cover and spine, top edge dyed red and others trimmed.....
London: Chapman & Hall LTD., 1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 165. Translated by "H. B. V." Introduction by Ralph Straus. Bound in tan cloth over decorated paper-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine. Number 571 of 1,000 copies. Binding cracked at ffep; lower corners worn through; dj with large chips.....
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. Hans Flato. Second Printing Thus. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. [6], 7-203. Translated from the French by Lewis Galantiere. Fore-edge untrimmed. Bound in tan half-cloth over purple paper-covered boards, black lettering and rules stamped on spine. Edges of cover faded. Spine is cracked.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1941. Lee Thayer. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 406. With a Whiteoak family tree. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. In the full-color illustrated dust jacket, with $2.50 price intact. A notably fresh copy of the First Edition.....
(Dublin): Wolfhound Press, (1994). First Edition. Trade Paperback. Small 8vo. Pp. 192. Stiff printed wraps. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Inscribed to Denise Levertov on the front free endpaper: "for Denise with love and gratitude and ever-growing admiration - Dublin 2 May '94 [signed] John F......
Mount Vernon, NY: Paul P. Appel, (1993). First Thus. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pp. 72. Foreword by Margaret OíBrien Steinfels. Frontispiece b&w photographic portrait. Bibliography. Index. Blue cloth stamped with gilt lettering on spine and cover. Auden's literary effort that was referred to upon his death, but never fully unearthed until.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 330, [2]. Bound in green cloth with red abstract vignette and rules stamped on front board and spine. Light foxing to cloth and gutters. In the color illustrated dust jacket that shows edge-wear and a couple.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1930). Skrenda. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. [1-2], 3-330, followed by two pages of publisher ads. Bound in dark green cloth with light green lettering stamped on front board and spine. Top edge dyed green. In the color-illustrated dust jacket that has.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1926). Skrenda. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 400 followed by eight pages of publisher ads. Bound in dark green cloth with light green lettering stamped on front board and spine. Light pen inscription on front free endpaper; old bookseller tag on front.....
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1924). Janice Calvert Emile (dust jacket illustration). First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. [1-10], 11-350. Bound in olive green cloth with darker green lettering and flourish stamped on front board and spine. In the color illustrated dust jacket that has insignificant shallow.....
New York: Top Stories, 1986. Gail Vachon (cover woodcut). First Edition. Stiff printed wrappers. 8vo. Pp. 49. Bound in stiff printed wraps. Mellowed creases to the front cover, moderate foxing to the spine, light wear to rear cover. Five writers contribute short stories to "A Prose Periodical," as it referred.....
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1932. K (dust jacket). First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 12mo. Pp. 282 followed by pp. 2 of publisher's advertising for Delafield titles. Blue cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, bind stamped border on the cover: spine a tad faded, edges lightly foxed.....
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 378, [1], followed by three pages of publisher's ads. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Dust soiling to top edge. In the scarce dust jacket that has a chip the.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1928). Arthur Hawkins, Jr. Early Reprint. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. [2] 3-275 Bound in green cloth with black lettering and rules stamped on front cover and spine. A bright copy with dust soiling on top edge and a bit of darkening to.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. Arthur Hawkins, Jr. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp.[2] 3-203. Bound in green cloth with black lettering and rules stamped on front cover and spine. A bright copy with the only condition issue being a light, shallow dampstain at the top.....