DREAMS & DISSENT NEW POEMS, 1961-1970.
Peterborough: Bauhan, [1970]. Cloth. First edition. Review slip laid in. Fine in very good dust jacket.
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IRELAND'S ABBEY THEATRE A HISTORY 1899 - 1951.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., [1951]. Gilt mustard-brown cloth. Photographs. Very good or better in spine tanned dust jacket with tiny inner mend at edge. First edition. The official and essential history to its date, including cast lists, lists of plays in Gaelic and those noted as "experimental," etc.
THE HIDDEN CANYON A RIVER JOURNEY.
New York: Viking Press, [1977]. Gilt cloth. Oblong quarto. Color photographs by John Blaustein. Introduction by Martin Litton. First edition. As often, the heavy text block and oblong format have resulted in some cracking to the inner hinges, but a good copy in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
BEYOND THE WALL ESSAYS FROM THE OUTSIDE.
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."
THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG.
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.....
THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG.
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.....
RESIST MUCH, OBEY LITTLE SOME NOTES ON EDWARD ABBEY.
Tucson: Harbinger House, [1989]. Pictorial wrappers. Revised and updated edition. About fine. Contributors include Berry, Eastlake, Barry Lopez, Wakoski, and Gary Snyder.
PHAËTHON WITH THREE OTHER STORIES IN VERSE AND A PROSE CONTENTION.
Kingston, NY: Styles & Kiersted, 1901. Small octavo. Blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt. First edition. One of 750 copies printed. Light rubbing to edges, otherwise a very good (or better) copy. Copies also appeared in orange cloth.
THE POEMS OF HENRY ABBEY.
Kingston, NY: Henry Abbey, 1886. v,[1],256pp. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Binding a bit dull and rubbed, textblock uniformly tanned at edges; a good, sound copy. "New and Enlarged Edition" (in fact, enlarged by over 100 pages from the 1879 edition). A good association copy, inscribed by the author on.....
LIFE IN ENGLAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770 - 1860 ... A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE.
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.....
SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770 - 1860 ... A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE.
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.....
GEORGE ABBOT ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 1562- 1633 A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Charlottesville, VA: Univ. Press of Virginia, [1966]. Red cloth. First edition. A bibliography of primary and secondary items, including subsequent life time editions. About fine, without dust jacket.
PLOUGHED EARTH POEMS.
London: Constable, 1930. Cloth. First edition. One of fifty numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author. This copy is additionally inscribed and signed by him. Backstrip sunned, very good.
MOLLY MAKE-BELIEVE.
[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.
[Harper Story Books Vol. X containing:] CARL AND JOCKO; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF THE LITTLE ITALIAN BOY AND HIS MONKEY [with:] LAPSTONE; OR. THE SAILOR TURNED SHOEMAKER [with:] ORKNEY THE PEACEMAKER; OR, THE VARIOUS WAYS OF SETTLING DISPUTES.
New York: Harper and Bros. [1857]. [12],[13]-160,[10],[13]-160,[12],[13]-160pp. Square octavo. Elaborately gilt decorated cloth. Frontis, individual pictorial titles, illustrations. 1898 bookplate and private name stamp, otherwise very good and bright. A collective issue of these three tales, with the volume title bearing the copyright notice for the series, which began in.....
THE HEART NEVER FITS ITS WANTING.
Cedar Falls, IA: North American Review / University of Northern Iowa, 1980. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, wrapperbound issue, of the author's first book. Signed and dated by the author in 1981. Fine.
WOMENFOLKS GROWING UP DOWN SOUTH.
New Haven: Ticknor & Fields, 1983. Cloth and boards. First edition. Inscribed by the author to the principal of the publishing house, "who rescued this book, and me...." Fine in dust jacket.
SECRET RENDEZVOUS.
New York: Knopf, 1979. Cloth and boards. First American edition, translated by J.W. Carpenter. Remainder stamp on lower edge, small shadow from bookshop price sticker on front jacket flap offset to free endsheet, otherwise very good or better in pictorial dust jacket (designed by Tadanori Yokoo).
GHOST TRAPS STORIES.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, [ 1991]. Cloth. First edition. Review copy with material laid in. Fine in dust jacket.
INQUIRIES CONCERNING THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS AND THE INVESTIGATION OF TRUTH ... FROM THE SECOND EDINBURGH EDITION.
New York: Printed and published by J. & J. Harper, 1834. 376pp. 12mo. Publisher's printed muslin. Early ink gift inscription on pastedown, trace of inevitable minor foxing, and almost negligible soiling to muslin, but for the format, an unusually nice copy. An early impression of the Harper's Family Library (No.....
ROMANTICISM.
London: Martin Secker, 1926. Cloth and boards. First edition. Near fine in fragile, lightly sunned and chipped dust jacket with internal mend.
THE ABINGER CHRONICLE.
Surrey, UK. January 1940 through March 1941. I:2,5,7-12; II:1 & 2. Ten issues. Printed wrappers. A few wrappers a bit worn, else very good. Edited by Sylvia Sprigge. An interesting periodical, taking its base in the coincidence of residence by several established writers around Abinger during the war years. Contributions.....
MINDS MEET.
[New York]: New Directions, [1975]. 184pp. Cloth. First edition, clothbound issue. Dust speckled top edge, otherwise fine in dust jacket. Short stories.
I HEAR VOICES.
Paris: Olympia Press, [1958]. Boards. Top edge a trace dusty, else fine in edgeworn dust jacket with minute chip at one corner. First edition of the late dramatist/novelist's first book, a serious exploration of narrative point of view, "focusing on a mentally ill man confined to a hospital bed as.....
LE PHYSIQUE AU THÉATRE.
Paris: Éditions Coutan-Lambert, [1933]. Octavo. Gilt flexible black cloth. Portraits and illustrations. First edition, ordinary issue. Issued in the series MASQUES CAHIERS D'ART DRAMATIQUE, edited by Gaston Baty. A very good, bright copy.