Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1986. First Edition. Octavo. 311pp. Signed by the author. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead. The regime talks the Book of Genesis at its work, with bizarre consequences for the women..... More
London: Baynard Press. Small Octavo. [15] unnumbered pages. After producing some advertising material, he and his wife worked to produce the Zoo in 1922 which is considered the first and rarest of his works. (see Kirkus, Robert Gibbings, A Bibliography #1 (page 5). The bibliographer notes: "I have seen only..... More
London, 1787-1788: A. Strahan and T. Cadell. Quarto. Volumes I-III are the New Edition, 1787-1789; Volumes IV-VI are all first editions, 1788. "To this task Gibbon brought a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equaled to this day; and the result..... More
New York; 1992, 1994, 1998: Alfred a Knopf. First Editions. Octavo. The Trilogy: The Crossing (signed on the flyleaf--integral not one of the tipped-in examples). This trilogy represents his great vision of the Southwest where boundaries are incidental (Texas, Mexico, and New Mexico are all part of a landscape of..... More
New York; (1985): Random House. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 337 pages. Perhaps the greatest novel of the past fifty years (see Harold Bloom) but its violence has assaulted the senses as was the first response of Bloom. Later in the Modern Library edition he wrote a preface praising its..... More
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Paris [1913] and [1912]: L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza. Limited Edition. Quarto. Two volumes, presentation copies by the illustrator Umberto Brunellesch. The first volume: La Nuit Venitienne is limited to 500 copies, on Japon paper. The present copy is number 307 inscribed and signed by the artist dated 1914 to Morris..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1951. First Edition. Octavo. . 277pp. While this is a first edition and so stated, it is the second state of the dust jacket where Salinger's head is not cropped and the $3.00 price is clear. The story's main caricature was Holden Caufield, a kid..... More