New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., [. 1989]. Cloth and boards. Black & white halftones. About fine in near fine dust jacket with a bit of tanning to rear panel. First edition. Autobiographical successor to the author's "Growing Up." Inscribed on front free endsheet to a well-known novelist: "For.....
Paris: Les Belles Lettres, [ 1950]. Printed wrappers. Lower corner of front wrapper chipped, else near fine, unopened. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from the poet/literary historian, with his manuscript list of errata on the rear blank.
London: The Bibliographical Society, 1934. Small quarto. Cloth. Tips a bit bumped, but a very good copy. First separate issue of Balston's first work on Martin, reprinted from THE LIBRARY. Inscribed presentation copy from Balston, with two manuscript corrections in the bibliography.
New York: Harper & Bros. 1895. Decorated cloth. Illustrated. Cloth a bit soiled, hinges cracked, small bookplate on pastedown. A good copy, enclosed in a half morocco clamshell box of a lesser degree of accomplishment. First edition. Possibly the dedication copy, inscribed beneath the printed dedication to William K. Otis.....
Paris: N. Pichard & Ch. Gosselin, 1826. 276pp.plus errata leaf. Large octavo (23.8 x 16cm). Original printed wrappers, untrimmed, sewn into protective 20th century pastepaper boards. Wrappers slightly frayed and smudged, with repaired tear/chip at lower edge, occasional minor foxing, but a very good copy. First edition. One of an.....
New York: Guido Bruno, November 1915. Printed wrappers. Small chips at lower overlap edges of wrapper, light discoloration at inner gutter toward toe, wraps lightly marked and dust soiled, otherwise a very good copy of this fragile pamphlet. First edition of the author's first "book," in actuality issued as Special.....
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1950], 12mo. Gilt cloth. Portrait. First edition of this selection. Very good in price clipped dust jacket. With a signed gift inscription from poet Marguerite Harris, with some laid in notes; later from the library of Cid Corman.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951. Cloth. First edition of the author's first novel. Inscribed and signed by him, and signed again on the title-leaf. Fine in very good dust jacket.
New York: The Grolier Club, 1962. Large octavo. Cloth and boards, leather spine label. Photographs. Trace of slight darkening to backstrip, else fine in faintly marked slipcase. First edition. One of 750 ordinary copies, from a total edition of 850 copies printed at the Spiral Press. Inscribed and signed by.....
New York: Samuel French, 1929. Cloth. Binding sunned at edges, else very good, without dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by the author in 1933 to Jane and Cass Canfield, with the latter's bookplate. The New York production featured set designs by Robert Edmond Jones and a film adaptation appeared in.....
New York, Los Angeles & London: Samuel French, 1929. Cloth. Binding a trifle rubbed, but very good, without dust jacket. Third, but second revised edition, after the 1926 production under the title THE MAN IN THE STREET, and the 1927 revised Boni edition. Inscribed and signed ("Phil") by the author.....
[ Np]: Reprinted from THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR LII:1, Winter 1982-3. 41-8pp. Large octavo. An author's separate, inscribed and signed (first name only) by him as a New Year gift. Fine.
Philadelphia: A.J. Rowland, 1897. Slate blue cloth, decorated in silver with baseball and cobweb motif, lettered in gilt. Frontis. A few faint flecks to cloth sizing, spine a bit cocked, but very good. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the prolific author of "boys' books" in 1902. The frontis and.....
Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing Co., [1965]. Cloth. Photographs, tables, illustrations. Laid in clipped article by the author offset a bit to the rear endsheets, but a very good copy in pictorial dust jacket with a trace of scattered dust spotting. First edition. Publisher's review copy, with slip laid in. Inscribed.....
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [ 1943]. Cloth. First edition. With the author's warm year of publication signed presentation inscription. Top edge dusty, slight foxing to endsheets, otherwise a very good copy in dust jacket with moderate foxing and a short edge- tear to lower panel.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1931]. Gilt blue cloth. Manufacturing crease in cloth across upper board, a couple faint fingermarks to cloth, otherwise very good in price-clipped pictorial dust jacket with some small old external mends to short tears at spine ends. Publisher's promo card laid in. First edition, British trade issue.....
London: Cape, [ 1976]. Gilt cloth boards. Binding slightly bowed, small bump at one edge, otherwise a very good copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket with small nick. First edition of the haunting first novel by the founder of AMBIT. An excellent association copy, inscribed by Bax on the free.....
[New York]: New Directions, [1976]. Cloth. First American edition of this apocalyptic vision by the editor of AMBIT. Inscribed by the author on the title-page to an associate of the publisher. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
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Chicago [and for second and third volumes:] Cedar Rapids: Privately Printed for the Friends of Walter M. Hill [and for second and third volumes:] Privately printed for the Friends of the Torch Press, 1935 - 1937. Three volumes. Small octavo. Cloth and boards, printed labels. Frontis in each volume. One.....
New York: Random House, [ 1980]. Cloth and boards. First edition, fourth book. Inscribed by Beattie. Publicity photo of the author laid in. Fine in dust jacket.
Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1944. Large, thick octavo. Gilt cloth. Spine ends rubbed, front inner hinge cracked, a few marks to cloth, otherwise a near very good, sound copy. First edition of this retrospective anthology partaking of the heritage of THE FUGITIVE, PURSUIT, etc., with an historical introduction by the.....
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[Frankfurt am Main]: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1963 & 1964. Two volumes. 529,[6];423,[6]pp. Uniform publisher's charcoal gray linen, silk markers. A couple of marginal finger smudges toward the rear of the first volume, otherwise very good or better, in modestly nicked and chipped dust jackets with some hand soiling to the spines.....
New York: MR Press, 1962. Cloth, paper labels. Near fine, without dust jacket, as issued. First trade printing, after the limited edition of 300 copies. Frontis by Barbara Beecher. Inscribed presentation copy: "For John Howard Griffin in admiration and high regard John Beecher June 27, 1964." In addition to sharing.....
Birmingham: Red Mountain Editions, 1966. Cloth, paper label. Frontis and illus by Barbara Beecher. Very good in somewhat soiled dust jacket. First edition. An excellent association copy, inscribed by the author "For John Howard Griffin in friendship and warm admiration John Beecher Fort Worth March 18, 1967." The front panel.....
New York: Random House, [1952]. Cloth. Illustrations by Saul Steinberg. Spine somewhat rubbed, but a good, sound copy, internally very good, without dust jacket. First edition. A very appropriate association copy, inscribed by Behrman to the subject of his 1960 biography: "For Max Beerbohm, whom I have adored for many.....
