20th Century Literature

Sudbury MA, Water Row Press, 1986, hardcover, 49 pp, Deluxe Limited Edition, #17 of 100 hardcover copies Signed by the Author on the title page, Fine condition in red cloth-covered boards with original illustrated wrappers bound in, spine lettered in gilt, no dustjacket as issued. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings. First published in 1958, Micheline's collection of poems is required reading as a major voice of the Beat Generation. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. From the Edwin Blair Collection of Beat Literature sold Mar. 9, 2006 at PBA Galleries, San Francisco to benefit Gypsy Lou Webb, publisher and widow of the late Jon Webb, whose New Orleans home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. ISBN 9780934953054

New York: New American Library, 1963. First Edition, First Printing . Cloth/Boards. Very Good Book/Near Fine DJ. 238 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt, Over Gey Boards With Dark Grey Strips. First Printing Stated. Inscribed "To Tom + Linda / Charles Webb" On The Front Free Endpaper. Book Otherwise Unmarked. Page 41 Was Cut Oversize In Part, The Extra Remaining, With A Corner Crease. Lightly Used, No Fraying To Cloth Or Paper-Covered Boards, Would Be Near Fine. However, Book Was Improperly Stored, Rear Cover Has Indentations To Boards, Without Tears To Paper, And There Is Dampstaining At Upper Corner Of Red Endpapers, With Show-Through On Half Title And A Very Small Area Of The Verso Of The Last Free White Endpaper. There Is No Dampstainig Visible On The Other Pages In The Book, But It Does Show A Light Discoloration In The Orange-Yellow Topstain On The Top Edge Of The Page Block. Dj Is Near New, Not Price Clipped, Faint Wear At Base Of Spine With Three Tiny Tears/Nicks, No Creasing, Slight Fading To… Read More

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1897. First English Edition, First Printing . Blue Cloth, Gilt. Very Good. Frontispiece Photograph. 231 Pp. Light Blue Cloth, Gilt, Deckled Edges. Frontispiece Portrait Of An Older Greek Peasant Smiling Into Camera With Remarkable Resemblance To Some Of My Relatives. Would Be Near Fine, Hinges Tight, Spine Gilt Brilliant And No Browning Of Cloth, Except Top Of Spine Abraded Away 1/8", Front Upper Tip Also Abraded Away About 1/2" X 1/8" To 1/4" On Top Board And Foredge, And Title Page, With Attached Tissue Guard To Frontispiece, Is Very Neatly Detached Right Along Spine, And Laid In Loosely. No Names Or Marks.

Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920, first edition, first printing.. Original blue cloth, it precedes the British edition, Cagle A49a(1), Keating 131. Very good plus.

Knopf New York 1994 NF/NF.Blue boards with silver and gold gilt titles to front cover and spine. Clean, tight edition with no marks, no sticker. DJ is glossy with an angelic being on the front and a list of other short stories by John Updike on the back. Not price clipped, price of $24 US.. A collection of 22 short stories in all. Life beyond middle age is explored and found to have it's own exquisite sweetness.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition and 1st Printing. BAL 7541. First edition in original pictorial green cloth. First edition with the publishing date the same on the title and copyright pages. Correct first printing points with first line of page 7 index reading: In short sir . Beautiful colored plates plus black and white and sepia illustrations. Binding is in fine condition. Top edge gilded. Contents clean and bright on stiff smooth paper. Christmas gift inscription in ink on the second free endpaper. 99 pages. A gorgeous copy!

Faber & Faber, 2013-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x8x0. Lovely copy. Text is clean and unmarked, no highlighting, underlining or writing. Hard Cover. Dust jacket is clean and bright, light edge/shelf wear. A currently OOP (out of print), uncommon, or hard to find book. First edition, First Printing, Full Print Line Displayed. 2013. Faber & Faber. Ships in box, quickly and with care.

Jonathan Cape, 1975. Hardcover. Fine. 1st UK edition in a near fine DJ, like new! Protected in an archival plastic cover over the original DJ.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1927. Near Fine, cloth lightly rubbed at spine, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket, small chips at base of spine and flap fold corners, faint vertical creases. Illustrations by Lee Thayer. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

FIFES AND DRUMS 1917 little tear, some markings and wear.WIKIPEDIA PAGE SAYS These poems, written under the immediate stress of great events by those who have banded themselves together under the name of The Vigilantes, furnish a striking record of the emotional reactions of the American people during the fortnight preceding and the six weeks following the declaration of war. They are presented to the public in the belief that men and women in every corner of the Union will find reflected in them some of the love and aspiration they themselves are experiencing for their re-discovered country.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. First Edition, stated First Printing. Near Fine, tiny bumps to front corners, prior owner bookplate front end page, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket, small chips at corners and top edge of spine. Basis for the excellent 1972 film starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, and Ned Beatty. . First Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated by Andrew Hurley. Illustrated by Erik Desmaziéres.

Santa Lucia ai Monti, Verona:: Alessandro Zanella,, 2010.. Edition of 30. 7.25 x 11" Composed in Californian typeface. Printed letterpress on Hahnemuhle paper. Printing by Alessandro Zanella. Images by Peiera Luisolo. Text in Italian. Illustrated with linoleum prints by Piera Luisolo. In light weight black paper slipcase. Numbered. Signed by Luisolo. Notes from Favole in Versi: "Giacomo Leopardi was born in Recanati on 29 June 1798, the eldest of 10 children of Count Mondaldo and Adelaide of the Antici marquises. In 1908 he wrote his first poem - the sonnet: 'La morte di ettore' - and other compositions in prose and verse. Between 1809 and 1812 he wrote what are defined as childhood poems or puerile critti. The childish writings are practically the preparation for his creative production, the one to which Giacomo Leopardi owes his fame. Among them are, among other things, some fables, which were widely published after his death. The fairy tale was a typically eighteenth-century… Read More

William Heinemann Ltd. London. 1953. FIRST EDITION. 3 VOLUMES. 8vo. (8 x 5.5 inches). Each volume with a new preface by Maugham, described by Raymond Toole Stott, Maugham's bibliographer, as containing "important material of biographical and bibliographical interest". Each volume comprises three of Maugham's most widely read novels. A very good set in publishers blue cloth bindings. Spines with two black block panels. Front boards and spines are lettered in gilt. School prize labels mounted onto the front paste down endpapers of each volume and the school crest stamped in gilt to the front boards. In the original dustwrappers which have a few minor chips to the edges but are generally in very good condition. A very good set of this important collection. Surprisingly uncommon in this 1953 first printing. --- Stott B21.

Macmillan and Co. Limited. London. 1914. SECOND SEPARATE ENGLISH EDITION. 8vo. (6.5 x 4.6 inches). A rare bibliographical variant, printed in black on white paper cover plus 4pp rather than than the dark burgundy ink on light grey or brown paper noted in the bibliography (Richards; A269 - note). This copy also varies from Richards A269 with the addition of a portrait frontis of Kipling after an illustration by M. Webb which is printed on stiff dark grey paper. The pages are then bound in a contemporary full burgundy soft suede binding with red, white and blue silk tie to the spine. Front panel lettered in gilt and with blind stamped line ruled border with floral corner pieces. Neat three line inscription to the front free endpaper. Some fraying to the tie-cord but still holding the text pages tightly. A little rubbing to the suede binding and a split to the top inch of the hinge, but overall a lovely presentation of this important work. One of an unknown number that were bound at the time of… Read More