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ULYSSES.
Joyce, James:
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927.
Oblong octavo. Original blue wrappers. Extremities somewhat shelfworn, with small sliver loss at crown of lower joint, a few creases.. more
Price: $10,000.00
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INVISIBLE MAN.
Ellison, Ralph:
New York: Random House, [1952].
Cloth. White spine stamping modestly flaked, as often, otherwise a very good copy in shelfworn dust jacket that has been.. more
Price: $8,500.00
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ONE HUNDRED PER CENT AMERICAN.
[Hammett, Dashiell, et al.]: Reynolds, Quentin:
Stamford: The Pig Pen Press, 1939.
Small octavo. Printed wrappers. A few smudges to wrappers, else near fine. Cloth slipcase. First edition in this format. Illustrations.. more
Price: $6,500.00
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LE CAPITAL.
Marx, Karl:
Paris: Maurice Lachatre et Cie., [1875].
351,[1]pp. Quarto. Recent cloth, gilt label. Portrait. Pictorial title-page. Alternate pictorial title from first wrapper of parts issue. Facsimile letter... more
Price: $6,500.00
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STORIELLA AS SHE IS SYUNG.
Joyce, James:
[London: Corvinus Press, 1937].
Large quarto. Full orange vellum, stamped in gilt. Typical isolated black flecking to paper characteristic of this book, minor rubbing.. more
Price: $5,500.00
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" LAURA" SCREENPLAY BY....
Lardner, Ring, Jr., and Jay Dratler:
[Los Angeles]: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, 29 November 1943.
[2],133 leaves. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound in somewhat used studio binder (recycled from an earlier 1943 film.. more
Price: $5,500.00
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GIACOMO JOYCE...INTERPRETED BY SUSAN WEIL.
Joyce, James:
New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Co., 1989.
Small folio (35.5 x 25 cm). Linen over boards, with stiff- handmade paper endleaves. Fine. One of fifty numbered copies,.. more
Price: $4,500.00
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THE MOTHER AND OTHER POEMS.
Sitwell, Edith:
Oxford: Printed for the Author by B.H. Blackwell, 1915.
Printed wrappers. A few minor nicks to overlap wrapper edges, otherwise unusually fine. First edition of the author's first book... more
Price: $4,500.00
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BLACK BOY A RECORD OF CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH.
Wright, Richard:
New York: Harper & Bros., [1945].
[8],3-228 quarto leaves, printed on rectos only. Original letter press page proofs. General light use to early and later leaves,.. more
Price: $4,500.00
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THE LEGION BOOK.
Minchin, Capt. H. Cotton [ed]:
London: Cassell and Company, [1929].
Large quarto. Cloth. Plates. A dull, somewhat worn, but sound copy. First edition, ordinary issue. The trade issue of this.. more
Price: $3,750.00
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Archive of Research Material for THE STORY OF DR. WASSELL.
Hilton, James:
Various places. 1942-4.
ca. 800 leaves. Typescript, carbon typescript, and mimeographed typescript, generally quarto, with infrequent manuscript corrections. Very good. A substantial archive.. more
Price: $3,500.00
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CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT OF HER SECOND NOVEL, JORDANSTOWN.
Johnson, Josephine:
[Np]. 1936.
[2],203 numbered leaves, arranged in sections with brads and paperclips. Quarto. Original typescript, typed on rectos only, but with manuscript.. more
Price: $3,500.00
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GIACOMO JOYCE...INTERPRETED BY SUSAN WEIL.
Joyce, James:
New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Co., 1989.
Small folio (35.5 x 25 cm). Linen over boards, with stiff- handmade paper endleaves. The crown of the spine is.. more
Price: $3,500.00
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JANE BARSTON 1719-1746.
Sitwell, Edith:
[London]: Faber & Faber, 1931.
Boards. Illustrated with drawings by R.A. Davies. Upper board somewhat dust-darkened toward edges, otherwise very good or better. First edition,.. more
Price: $3,500.00
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RICHARD WRIGHT'S BLUES [wrapper title].
Ellison, Ralph:
[Np]: Reprinted from The Antioch Review, Summer 1945.
[16]pp. Stapled printed self wrappers. Slight rusting to staples, otherwise a fine copy. First separate printing of Ellison's seminal essay.. more
Price: $3,000.00
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LA BALLADE DU SOLDAT.
[Ernst, Max]: Ribemont-Dessaignes, Georges:
[Vence]: Pierre Chave / Kenneth Nahan, [1989].
Small folio (38.5 x 28 cm). Loose gatherings laid into pictorial wrappers, enclosed in folding cloth chemise and slipcase. Very.. more
Price: $3,000.00
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EXILES A PLAY IN THREE ACTS.
Joyce, James:
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1918.
Cloth and boards. A very good or better copy, in a very good example of the printed dust jacket (small.. more
Price: $3,000.00
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ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF "O'MALLY OF SHANGANAH."
Byrne, Donn:
[Np]. [1924].
59;51;41 leaves. Quarto. Original manuscript, neatly written in ink on rectos only, with occasional insertions, deletions and revisions. Scattered paperclip.. more
Price: $2,750.00
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CATHOLIC ANTHOLOGY 1914 - 1915.
[Pound, Ezra ( ed)]:
London: Elkin Mathews, 1915.
Decorated tan boards, printed in black after a design by Dorothy Shakespear. Spine a bit darkened, with thin strip of.. more
Price: $2,750.00
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OUR GRANDMOTHERS.
Angelou, Maya:
[New York]: The Limited Editions Club, [1994].
Large folio (56 x 44cm). Burgundy cloth, stamped in black. Fine in folding cloth clamshell box (the latter with a.. more
Price: $2,500.00
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TREASURE BOX.
Graves, Robert:
[London: Printed for the Author at the Chiswick Press, December 1919].
Small octavo. Sewn unlettered blue wrappers (not stapled, as the bibliographers assert). Two small pictorial vignettes. Wrappers neatly split along.. more
Price: $2,500.00
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THE BLACK JACOBINS TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE AND THE SAN DOMINGO REVOLUTION.
James, C. L. R.:
New York: The Dial Press, [1938].
Green cloth. Portrait, plates and folding map. Lower forecorners slightly bumped, otherwise a very good copy in faintly worn dust.. more
Price: $2,500.00
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L'ALLIANCE DE LA DEMOCRATIE SOCIALISTE ET L'ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DES TRAVAILLEURS. RAPPORT ET DOCUMENTS PUBLIES PAR ORDRE DU CONGRES INTERNATIONAL DE LA HAYE.
[Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels]:
London & Hamburg: A. Darson/Otto Meissner, 1873.
[2],137pp. 12mo. Slightly later three quarter morocco. Joints worn, erasure from free binder's endsheet, otherwise a very good copy. First.. more
Price: $2,500.00
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PEPE LE MOKO SCREENPLAY BY JOHN HOWARD LAWSON ADDITIONAL DIALOGUE BY JAMES M. CAIN FROM THE NOVEL BY DETECTIVE ASHELBE [wrapper title].
Cain, James M., and John Howard Lawson:
[Np]: Walter Wanger Productions, [31 March 1938].
156 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only, with two dated leaves of revises on yellow stock. Bradbound in.. more
Price: $2,250.00
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THE ART OF DYING WOOL AND WOOLLEN STUFFS...TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY ORDER OF THE DUBLIN SOCIETY, AND PUBLISHED AT THEIR EXPENCE, FOR THE USE OF DYERS OF IRELAND.
Hellot, Jean:
Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, Printer to the Society, [date in imprint clipped away, but 1767].
vi,[7]-290pp. 12mo. Recent half calf and marbled boards, gilt label. Formerly a quite ragged copy, now professionally restored to sound,.. more
Price: $2,250.00
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THE CROQUET PLAYER A STORY.
Wells, H.G.:
London: Chatto & Windus, 1936.
Cloth, paper spine label. Light foxing to fore and lower edge, otherwise about fine in very faintly dust-smudged Harold Jones.. more
Price: $2,250.00
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JOHN SHERMAN AND DHOYA. By "Ganconagh."
[Yeats, William Butler]:
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891.
12mo. Tan linen, ruled and lettered in green, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Ink name, dated 1893, on free endsheet, light foxing.. more
Price: $2,250.00
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A FABLE.
Faulkner, William:
[New York]: Random House, [1954].
Decorated cloth. Fine in glassine wrapper and very faintly smudged slipcase. First edition, limited issue. One of one thousand numbered.. more
Price: $2,000.00
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IN THE SEVEN WOODS: BEING POEMS CHIEFLY OF THE IRISH HEROIC AGE.
Yeats, William Butler:
Dundrum: The Dun Emer Press, 1903.
Linen over boards, printed title label. Linen and label a bit darkened and lightly dust soiled, endsheets tanned, as usual... more
Price: $1,850.00
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RESPONSIBILITIES: POEMS AND A PLAY.
Yeats, William Butler:
Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1914.
Linen-backed boards. Title-page woodcut pressmark "Lady Emer and tree" by Elinor Monsell. A couple of tiny smudges to free endsheets,.. more
Price: $1,850.00
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...HAROLD ARLEN'S BLUES OPERA...AN AMERICAN MUSIC-DRAMA BASED ON A PLAY BY ARNE[sic] BONTEMPS AND COUNTEE CULLEN. New York: American Lyric Theatre, [ca. 1957]. With: HAROLD ARLEN'S "FREE AND EASY"....
Arlen, Harold, and Johnny Mercer:
New York. [ca. 1959].
First item: [4],44,14,[1],38,16,15 leaves, plus three laid in leaves; second item: [1],5,[3],54,14,[1],34,27 leaves, plus five laid in leaves. Both paginated.. more
Price: $1,750.00
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THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. COMPREHENDING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS STUDIES AND NUMEROUS WORKS....
Boswell, James:
Dublin: Printed by John Chambers [& John Exshaw, & Robert Rhames for second and third volumes respectively] for R. Cross, et al,
Three volumes. xxxiv,536;[2],605;573pp. plus two folding plates. Contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt extra, gilt green morocco lettering pieces. Occasional minor.. more
Price: $1,750.00
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THE ANTIENT AND PRESENT STATE OF THE COUNTY AND CITY OF WATERFORD: BEING A NATURAL, CIVIL, ECCLESIASTICAL, HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION THEREOF....
[County Waterford]: Smith, Charles:
Dublin: Printed by A. Reilly for the Author and...sold by Edward and John Exshaw, 1746.
xvi,[8],[2],[25]-380,[6]pp. plus terminal blank. Equipped with a large folding map, and five folding plates (one a large city plan). Octavo... more
Price: $1,750.00
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THE SECRET ROSE...WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY J.B. YEATS.
Yeats, William Butler:
London: Lawrence & Bullen, Ltd., 1897.
Smooth blue cloth, elaborately stamped in gilt after a design by Althea Gyles, edges untrimmed. Frontis and plates. Usual slight.. more
Price: $1,750.00
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DANCING LADY....DIALOGUE CONTINUITY BY....
Lawson, John Howard:
Culver City: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2 March 1933.
[1],141 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound in studio wrappers, with printed label. Light discoloration at top.. more
Price: $1,500.00
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OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING THE DISTINCTION OF RANKS IN SOCIETY.
Millar, John:
Dublin: Printed by T. Ewing, 1771.
xiv,[2],240pp. Octavo. Recent calf and boards, gilt label. Faint old stamps of a defunct mercantile library, light discoloration at top.. more
Price: $1,500.00
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A VISION AN EXPLANATION OF LIFE FOUNDED UPON THE WRITINGS OF GIRALDUS AND UPON CERTAIN DOCTRINES ATTRIBUTED TO KUSTA BEN LUKA.
Yeats, William Butler:
London: Privately printed for Subscribers Only by T. Werner Laurie, 1925.
Vegetable parchment and boards, printed spine label. Frontis and illus. A near fine copy in like dust jacket with modest.. more
Price: $1,500.00
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MOCK BEGGAR HALL.
Graves, Robert:
London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1924.
Small quarto. Pictorial boards after a design by William Nicholson. Competently rebacked in black cloth, corners bruised, some scattered foxing.. more
Price: $1,250.00
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COLLECTED POEMS OF JAMES JOYCE.
Joyce, James:
New York: The Black Sun Press, 1936.
Decorated white paper boards, ribbon marker. Portrait by Augustus John. Fine, partially unopened. Cloth slipcase and chemise. First edition. One.. more
Price: $1,250.00
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CAPITAL: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CAPITALIST PRODUCTION.
Marx, Karl:
New York & London: Appleton & Co. / Swan Sonnenschein, 1889.
xxxi,[1],816pp. Large, thick octavo. Original mustard yellow cloth. Short snag at crown of spine, recased (with later endsheets), inner hinges.. more
Price: $1,250.00
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A REPLY TO THE TREASURY PAMPHLET, ENTITLED "THE PROPOSED "SYSTEM OF TRADE "WITH "IRELAND "EXPLAINED" [with:] A LETTER FROM AN IRISH GENTLEMAN IN LONDON, TO HIS FRIEND, IN DUBLIN, ON THE PROPOSED SYSTEM OF COMMERCE.
[O'Beirne, Thomas]:
London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1785.
Two volumes. 90,[10];[4],35,[5]pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound volume. Some foxing and dust- soiling, faint stamps of a defunct mercantile library,.. more
Price: $1,250.00
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THE WAR IN EASTERN EUROPE...PICTURED BY BOARDMAN ROBINSON.
Reed, John:
New York: Scribner, 1916.
Tan cloth, stamped in black and orange. Early bookplate of the "Allied Bazaar June 3-14 1916" on front pastedown, and.. more
Price: $1,250.00
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ON POETRY: A RAPSODY.
[Swift, Jonathan]:
London: Printed at Dublin, and Re-printed...and sold by J. Huggonson, 1733.
28pp. Folio. Extracted. Light foxing and minor soiling, lacks final blank, otherwise a very good, untrimmed copy. Cloth case and.. more
Price: $1,250.00
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WAR AND THE FUTURE ITALY, FRANCE AND BRITAIN AT WAR.
Wells, H.G.:
London [etc]: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1917.
Red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Spine and edges sunned, crown of spine frayed, but a good copy. First.. more
Price: $1,250.00
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THE ANATOMY OF FRUSTRATION A MODERN SYNTHESIS.
Wells, H.G.:
London: The Cresset Press, 1936.
Gilt cloth. A bit of foxing to fore-edge, otherwise about fine in very good dust jacket with foxing on verso.. more
Price: $1,250.00
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DOOR INTO THE DARK.
Heaney, Seamus:
London: Faber and Faber, [1969].
Gilt black cloth. First edition of the poet's second clothbound collection. A fine copy in very faintly darkened dust jacket.. more
Price: $1,000.00
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THE IRISH SKETCH-BOOK. By "Mr. M.A. Titmarsh" [pseud].
[Thackeray, William M.]:
London: Chapman and Hall, 1843.
Two volumes. Original dark green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Engraved frontispieces and illus. by the author. First edition... more
Price: $1,000.00
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ESSENTIALS...DEFINITIONS AND APHORISMS.
Toomer, Jean:
Chicago: " Private Edition," 1931.
Cloth, paper labels. Very fine in dust jacket, as usual. First edition of the second book by the enigmatic author.. more
Price: $1,000.00
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BROADSIDE [later assuming the subtitle:] THE NATIONAL TOPICAL SONG MAGAZINE.
Broadside.
New York. February 1962 through September 1969.
A substantial, but slightly broken run, followed by two late issues: 1-8,9/10,11/12,13-25,27,28,30,32,34,36-43,45- 49 and 100 & 101. Forty-four issues. Quarto... more
Price: $950.00
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THE BALLAD OF THE BROWN GIRL AN OLD BALLAD RETOLD.
Cullen, Countee:
New York: Harper & Bros., 1927.
Large octavo. Cloth and boards, paper spine label. Illustrations by Charles Cullen. Spine label worn and tanned, otherwise about fine,.. more
Price: $950.00
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