New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1984]. Cloth and boards. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in dust jacket (state with the spelling error on the front panel). First edition, clothbound issue. Inscribed on the front free endsheet: "To the James S. Copley Library Edward Abbey La Jolla 1984."
Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1975]. Large octavo. Pictorial yellow wrappers. A trace of very minor dust smudging to wrappers, light but visible discoloration to fore-edge and margin at top corner, otherwise a very good or better copy. Advance reading copy of the first edition of Abbey's most widely admired novel. Laid into.....
Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1975]. Large octavo. Cloth and boards. First edition of the author's most admired novel. Just a hint of sunning to spine through the dust jacket, otherwise a fine copy in bright, fresh jacket with a thin strip of light offsetting (typical of being stacked in the warehouse) down.....
London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1953. xxi,427,[1]pp. Color frontispiece plus thirty- two fine collotype plates. Large, thick quarto. Polished buckram, t.e.g., gilt label. A few patches of light flecking to sizing along edges of boards, ink name on endsheet (see below), otherwise a very good copy, without dust.....
London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1952. xx,399,[1]pp. Color frontispiece plus thirty- three fine collotype plates. Large, thick quarto. Polished buckram, t.e.g., gilt label. A few patches of light flecking to sizing along edges of boards, ink name on endsheet (see below), otherwise a very good copy, without dust.....
[New York]: Press of the Woolly Whale, Christmas 1931. Half blue morocco, t.e.g. A fine copy. First limited edition of the author's first novel (first published in 1910). One of two hundred and fifty copies printed for private distribution as the press's Christmas book.
[London: Ferry Press, 1966]. Pictorial wrappers. First edition. One of 350 copies. Wrappers lightly edge-tanned and soiled, but a good copy.
Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1961. Printed wrappers. First separate edition. One of one thousand copies printed in Lutetia type on Ragston paper. About fine. An essay on the 50th Anniversary of YALE REVIEW.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1956. Gilt lettered boards. Spine somewhat cocked, but a very good copy in near fine dust jacket. First edition of the author's most widely read work. Poet Roy Fuller's copy, with his ownership signature on the front free endsheet. Laid in are some relevant clippings, including.....
New York: The Print Club, 1979. Folio (46.5 x 33cm). Loose sheets, laid into printed folder, the whole enclosed in folding cloth portfolio with ribbon ties. Small spot of faint dulling to cloth on upper portfolio board, otherwise fine. One of two hundred suites of eight original woodcuts, each printed.....
London: Duckworth, [1953]. 80pp. Portrait, plates and facsimile. Cloth. Binding a bit dull at extremities, otherwise a very good copy, without dust jacket. First edition. Prefatory memoir by Alida Monro. An interesting association copy: laid in is Valentine Ackland's engraved calling card, inscribed on the verso to one of her.....
[San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972]. Brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Preliminaries and chapter heads illustrated. Thin and almost unobtrusive remainder designation on top edge, otherwise about fine in near very good, typically rubbed pictorial dust jacket with remnant of Yale Co-Op price sticker on front jacket flap near printed.....
Florence: Privately Printed for Subscribers by G. Orioli, [1930]. Gilt decorated boards, gilt spine label. Portrait frontis printed by Emery Walker. Plate. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a fine copy in very good dust jacket (a bit sunned at spine and edges, with an internally mended edge tear). First.....
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London: Methuen & Co., [1956 & 1961]. Two volumes. Large, thick octavos. Gilt lettered blue cloth. Frontispieces and plates. The first volume: spine a trifle cocked, but very good and bright in rather shelf-worn, chipped and creased dust jacket. The second volume: about fine in very faintly edgeworn dust jacket.....
[London]: Chatto & Windus, 1928. Orange cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine a bit darkened, cloth slightly hand-soiled, tasteful bookplate on pastedown, otherwise a very good copy without the elusive dust jacket. First edition of Acton's scarce first novel. The edition consisted of only 1500 copies. Ritchie records at length the.....
London: Faber and Faber, [1932]. Large octavo. Gilt medium green cloth. Frontis and plates. Spine a shade sunned and slightly cocked, neat bookplate on pastedown, otherwise a very good copy, without dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed on the front free endsheet: "For Anthony Hobson with the warmest regards and best.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1941. Gilt cloth. Spine cocked, binding a bit darkened and handsoiled, a few spots to the top edge with a bit of bleed to the top edge of the front endsheets, some light foxing and creasing to a few corners, but a good copy, without dust.....
[London]: Thames & Hudson, [1979]. Large octavo. Gilt decorated cloth. Plates. Fine in very slightly darkened dust jacket. First edition. One of a total edition of approximately 3000 copies for British and US distribution, this being the UK issue which precedes by a couple of months. Inscribed by the author.....
[London]: Methuen, [1950]. Gilt lettered cloth and marbled boards. Illustrations by Feliks Topolski. Small spot on top edge seeping a trace into the fore- edge, tasteful bookplate, spine a trace cocked, but a very good copy, in good, spine- darkened dust jacket with several nicks and a short split at.....
[Louisville, KY]: Contre Coup Press [for the] Typocrafters, 1999. [26] loose cards, plus coversheet. Small octavo (19 x 13.5 cm). Enclosed in printed paper folder. First edition. One of sixty copies assembled for the Typocrafters, with a coversheet printing explanatory text and the imprint. According to the text, the selection.....
[Harper Woods, MI]: Adagio Press, 1976. Sewn printed wrappers. First edition. One of approximately 325 numbered copies, set by hand in a variety of types, and printed in several colors, signed by the printer/publisher. Fine in lightly worn printed envelope.
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[Np. nd]. Large quarto broadside (34 x 20 cm). Printed in black within border of typographic decorations in blue. Very minor creases, otherwise about fine. First printing in this format, executed on fine handmade paper. An uncommon broadside: OCLC locates only five examples spread over three entries, only one of.....
[San Francisco]: Privately Printed, 1930. Large, thin quarto. Cloth, paper label. Frontispiece. Usual slight offset of letterpress from first page of text to frontis, some very faint, scattered dust marks to cloth, otherwise near fine in lightly hand-soiled slipcase with small label shadow at lower corner of one panel. First.....
Boston: Little Brown and Company / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001. Oblong large quarto. Cloth. Frontis and many other plates after photographs (114 tritone plates in all). Fine in matching cloth slipcase. First edition. Published on the occasion of a traveling Centennial Exhibition. Laid in, as issued, is.....
Boston: [From THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY], 1912. [2],[243]-333pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine backed at an early date with heavier paper, wrappers chipped at lower edge and lightly spotted, but a good, internally very good, copy. First edition. Tipped to the preliminary blank is a 2 1/2pp. autograph.....
