Category: Literature: Novels/Stories, Drama, Modern 1sts

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference - Middlebury College, Vermont, April 1934 [Middlebury College Bulletin Vol. XXVIII, No. 8 (April 1934)]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Middlebury, VT, Middlebury College : 1934

Seller ID: 031141

Condition: Near Fine

Booklet, stiff pictorial wraps. Slight shelf wear, covers slightly toned/foxed. 12 pp. Early program for the celebrated annual conference, held Aug. 16-30, 1934, this year staffed by Hervey Allen, Bernard DeVoto, Julia Peterkin, Gorham B. Munson, Walter Prichard Eaton, and Raymond Everitt. Scarce.
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Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, With over One Hundred Illustrations Designed by Frederick Barnard and Others, Engraved by Dalziel Brothers

Price: $20.00

Publisher: W. E. Scull : 1897

Seller ID: 052801

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Goldenrod cloth, elaborately lettered and illus. in black, silver foil, yellow, green, and blue. Covers are soiled with several areas of staining, with some rubbing to corners and spine extremities. Former owner's address inscriptions in pencil occupy front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. 327 pp., illus. Text block edges typically dulled by use. Firm binding, intact hinges.
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Charles Dickens: An Exhibition to Commemorate the Centenary of His Death

Price: $12.50

Publisher: London, England, Victoria & Albert Museum : 1970

Seller ID: 006298

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

[xiv] + 121 pp. + 89 b&w plates. Moderate shelf/handing wear and binding lean, rubbed edges. Stiff paper covers have been laminated, apparently not original to publication. Excellent centenary exhibition for the Dickens enthusiast.
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Dutch Treat Club: Yearbook [21 Volumes: 1947, 1963, 1977-89, 1991-96]

Price: $495.00

Publisher: New York, Dutch Treat Club : 1947

Seller ID: 058005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Partial run of Dutch Treat Club yearbooks/directories, comprised by the annual entries for 1947, 1963, 1977-89, 1991-96. Most 8vo in printed cloth or leatherette, various colors, 1947 in printed paper-covered boards, 1963 in felt-covered boards, 1978 in stiff wraps. Most are essentially without wear, Fine, a few showing slight soiling to covers, 1947 issue with modest shelf wear, thus Near Fine overall. 1963 is signed by Roger C. Whitman, and a number of the '80s volumes show an embossed address stamp of William Y. Archibald on front flyleaf verso. The Dutch Treat Club was founded in 1905 ...
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Faust: Eine Tragodie von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Erster Theil. Illustrirt in 50 Compositionen von Alexander Liezen Mayer...mit Ornamenten von Rudolf Seitz

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Munich, Germany, Theodor Stroefer's Kunstverlag

Seller ID: 038455

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: VG-

Light brown faux-morocco cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, black, gray, and burgundy, beveled edges, all text block edges in gilt. Modest shelf wear with cloth rubbed at spine extremities and at least minor exposure at all four corners (a bit more prominent on front corners). Small ink stain on upper front cover. Hinges mostly intact though with a bit of wobble, text binding firm, interior clean beyond two former owners' signatures (dated 1920 and 1940) on upper main title. Early leaves show light dampstain along a short portion of bottom margins nearest binding. 254 pp., illus. w/ 9...
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Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Museum of Modern Art : 1970

Seller ID: 010709

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: VG+

Catalogue to accompany 1970 MoMA exhibition on Gertrude, Leo, Michael and Sarah Stein. Stiff burgundy paper wraps, oblong format. Spotted toward top front corner, light shelf wear. Firm, square binding. 175 pp., illus. Text block edges are lightly foxed.
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Hand-Press Papers: A Selected Anthology of Essays [#110/300]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, The Quicksilver Associates : 1935

Seller ID: 060022

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Brown cloth, lettered in black. Spine panel cloth a bit sunned. Former owner's signature inked on upper front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. No. 110 of a first edition limited to 300 copies, numbered on rear colophon. 71 pp.
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Hand-Press Papers: A Selected Anthology of Essays [#44/300]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, The Quicksilver Associates : 1935

Seller ID: 060041

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Brown cloth, lettered in black. About as issued. Pale yellow dust jacket is mildly soiled with a few short closed edge tears, 1" closed tear along lower front flap fold. No. 44 of a first edition limited to 300 copies, numbered on rear colophon and inside front cover, with an imprint personalized for James E. Sax. 71 pp.
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Homes of American Authors; Comprising Anecdotal, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches, by Various Writers

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam and Co. : 1853

Seller ID: 042236

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

Brown embossed leather, decorated on both covers, 5 raised spine bands, bevelled edges, marbled endpapers, text block edged in gilt. Leather along front joint shows separation and repair, and the joint is sound. Some loss to title panel on spine, slightly affecting lettering. Leather rubbed along bands and at corners, but nicely intact. viii,366 pp., illus. w/ engravings. Front flyleaf and adjacent front blank each show horizontal tear with archival tape repair. Former owner's book plate mounted on front fixed endsheet, with 1853 gift inscription inked on front blank.
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Indiespensable Volume Six: F is for Fremont - An Interview with Iain Banks

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Portland, OR, Powell's Books : 2008

Seller ID: 061411

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Fine

[24] pp., issued unbound in clear PVC sleeve. This issue is devoted to an interview with Iain Banks, conducted by Jill Owen, occasioned by the first American publication of The Crow Road, published 16 years earlier in the U.K. As issued.
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Modern First Editions: Bloomsburiana [Bernard Quaritch Catalog No. 919 - 1972]

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd. : 1972

Seller ID: 039766

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Booklet, stiff white pictorial wraps, lettered in black. Light shelf/handling wear, interior somewhat toned by age. 64 pp., 760 entries, illus. Highlights a special collection of works by and about the Bloomsbury Group, also miscellaneous literature and modern firsts.
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Monk's House, East Sussex [The National Trust]

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London, The National Trust : 1982

Seller ID: 039768

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: VG+

Pamphlet, white pictorial wraps. Slight foxing. Tri-fold, [6] pp. Photograph of Virginia Woolf on front cover.
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Notes from a Sea Diary: Hemingway All the Way

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons : 1965

Seller ID: 052809

ISBN: B000AN47BA

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Blue cloth, lettered in gilt, front cover stamped in blind. Minor fading/tanning along bottom edges, top text block edge a bit tanned/foxed, otherwise essentially as issued. Former owner's address label mounted at top corner of front flyleaf. Dust jacket slightly chipped at spine extremities, a bit rubbed along joints and spine panel, 1" closed tear with creasing at heel of front joint, rubbed corners, now in mylar. 1st ed.
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Picturesque Word Origins, with forty-five Illustrative Drawings

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Springfield, MA, G. & C. Merriam Co. : 1933

Seller ID: 056797

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth, lettered in gilt, oblong format. Mild shelf wear, text block edges typically a bit tanned. Firm binding. A few instances of minor foxing internally and to endpapers. 1st ed.
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Russian and European Avant-Garde Art and Literature: 1905-1930 [Sotheby Parke Bernet sale 4299 (1979)]

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet : 1979

Seller ID: 047830

ISBN: B07C6WMB9S

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff black color illus. wraps. Minor shelf wear. Catalog for Sotheby Parke Bernet auction 4299, 6-7 Nov. 1979. 475 catalogued lots, illus. w/ color plates, b&w thumbnails. Unmarked interior.
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Tennessee Williams: A Catalogue of his Works

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Gotham Book Mart : 1972

Seller ID: 047805

ISBN: B000J0FFHY

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff b&w pictorial wraps, stapled binding. 21 pp. Catalogue published by by Gotham Book Mart. Slight loss along edges, nearly as issued. From Gotham Book Mart collection.
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Tennessee Williams: A Catalogue of his Works

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Gotham Book Mart : 1972

Seller ID: 060060

ISBN: B000J0FFHY

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff b&w pictorial wraps, stapled binding. 21 pp. Catalogue published by by Gotham Book Mart. Slight loss along edges, nearly as issued. From Gotham Book Mart collection.
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Tennessee Williams: A Catalogue of his Works

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Gotham Book Mart : 1972

Seller ID: 060061

ISBN: B000J0FFHY

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Stiff b&w pictorial wraps, stapled binding. 21 pp. Catalogue published by by Gotham Book Mart. Minor surface loss and spotting to sections of front cover. From Gotham Book Mart collection.
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The Atlantic Monthly

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Atlantic Monthly : 1932

Seller ID: 003462

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: VG+

Diamond Jubilee Issue, Nov. 1932, orig. wraps, orig. slipcase. 75th Anniv. A bit toned, several short closed tears along fore-edge, slipcase showing one separated joint.
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The Believers [SIGNED]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Fig Tree-Penguin Books : 2008

Seller ID: 048522

ISBN-13: 9780670916122

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

SIGNED. Burgundy cloth-effect paper covered boards, lettered in gold foil. Text block edges mildly tanned, otherwise as issued. Dust jacket as issued, now in mylar. 1st ptg. ("1" on copyright pg.). 307 pp. Signed by author on main title with printed name cancel, no inscription or date.
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The Bridges of Toki-ri

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Random House : 1953

Seller ID: 058515

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: VG+

Two-tone blue cloth, lettered in gold and silver foils. Slight binding lean, minor tanning to cloth along top edges, text block edges typically a bit tanned. Former owner's signature inked inside front cover, otherwise unmarked. 150 pp. Vintage printing but not a first. Color illus. dust jacket is rubbed at corners and spine extremities, with a few areas of minor surface rubbing, price-clipped front flap, now in mylar.
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Vol. LVI (New Series, Vol. XXXIV) May, 1898 to October, 1898

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York and London, The Century Co./Macmillan & Co. Ltd. : 1898

Seller ID: 052249

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Black 1/2 leather, dark brown textured cloth, spine panel lettered in gilt. Just a few slight hints of shelf wear, very nearly as issued. viii,960 pp., illus.
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The Courtesan's Jewel Box: Chinese Stories of the Xth-XVIIth Centuries

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Peking, China, Foreign Language Press : 1957

Seller ID: 061254

ISBN: B000O914HA

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: VG+

Ivory 1/4 cloth, pink paper covered boards. Cloth backstrip is mildly soiled, text block edges typically a bit tanned by age. Firm binding, clean interior. Dust jacket shows several chips of loss, a few pencil and ink marks to lower rear panel, rubbed corners, now in mylar. 553 pp., illus.
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The Dial - Vol. LXXVII, No. 6 (Dec. 1924)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Camden, NJ, The Dial Publishing Co. : 1924

Seller ID: 057708

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fair

Stiff pale peach wraps, lettered in black. Both covers present but detached, with tape along binding edge of front cover, binding firm but spine panel paper lacking. Interior nicely intact. Contents include a color tip-in of King Lear by Picasso, "Virginia Woolf" (Clive Bell), "Miss Ormerod" (Woolf), 4 etchings by Joseph Pennell, "An Octopus" (Marianne Moore), articles by Oswalf Spengler, Kenneth Burke, Malcolm Cowley, Gilbert Seldes, etc.
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The Dial - Vol. LXXXIII, No. 4 (Oct. 1927)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Camden, NJ, The Dial Publishing Co. : 1927

Seller ID: 057709

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fair

Stiff pale peach wraps, lettered in black. Both covers present but detached, binding firm. Interior nicely intact. Contents include a color tip-in "Bacchaale" by Picasso, "Powhatan's Daughter" (Hart Crane), selections from MacKnight Black, Paul Morand, Malcolm Cowley, Conrad Aiken, Alyse Gregory, artists including Andre Derain, Raoul Dufy.
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Category: Literature: Novels/Stories, Drama, Modern 1sts