Houston: The Author, 1936. [52]pp. Small octavo. Bradbound decorated wrappers. Spine somewhat tanned and frayed, light use, but internally very good or better. First edition of this amateur effort, "written 1925 to 1935 [and] Edited, Printed, Bound & Marketed..." by the author. Dewson evidently had access to a deep case.....
![Item #WRCLIT50610 INTRODUCING THE ORANGING OF AMERICA [wrapper title]. Max Apple](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
[New York: Bantam Books, 1973]. Printed self wrappers. About fine. First edition of the author's first separate publication, distributed in advance of the story's appearance as the cover item for AMERICAN REVIEW 19.
Dallas: Neiman-Marcus, 1980. Folio (33 x 26cm). Quarter morocco and Mexican bark paper over boards. Folding map, illustrations and in-text map. Printed in red and black, with gilt decorative initials. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in faintly marked slipcase. First fine press edition. One of three hundred copies printed.....
![Item #WRCLIT63330 INSIDE: A CHRONICLE OF SECESSION. By "George F. Harrington" [pseud]. William...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT63330.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593712331)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. vi,[7]-223pp., printed in double column format. Large octavo. Original cloth. Title vignette and illustrations by Thomas Nast. Bookplate and small piece of tape residue on pastedown, occasional light foxing, crown of spine frayed; a good, sound copy, in chemise and half morocco slipcase. First.....
![Item #WRCLIT86951 BULLETIN FRANK HOLME MEMORIAL GROUP [Broken run, with two associated items]....](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT86951.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1645649887)
Ysleta, TX & Tempe, AZ: Edwin Hill, [ca. 1936-1945]. Fifteen issues, small broadsheets (19 x 12.5 cm), printed on rectos only. Accompanied by a [4]pp. leaflet and 19 x 13 cm. broadsheet. A few small creases, but very good to near fine. A broken run of numbers of this bulletin.....
London: Chatto & Windus, [1873]. [2],vi,175,[1],[8]pp. Small octavo. Pictorial wrappers. Rebacked at an early date with plain paper, wrappers chipped and frayed at edges, with tear at lower edge, occasional marginal nicks and short tears, two leaves of terminal catalogue carelessly opened, probably lacking the front true free endsheet; frankly.....
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1935. Cinnamon Cloth. 574pp. Frontis. Bookplate, three faint tape ghosts on pastedowns from former "protective" wrapper, otherwise a near fine copy of this mammoth volume. First edition, second issue. "There was apparently only one printing, but copies were issued with two different dates on the title.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961. Cloth. A bit of wear at spine ends, otherwise near fine, in near very good, spine sunned, moderately worn, second state dust jacket with losses at spine ends. First edition of the author's first and only book published in his lifetime, boldly signed by him on.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961. Cloth. Near fine, in very good, spine sunned, lightly worn, second state dust jacket. First edition of the author's first and only book published in his lifetime, boldly signed by him on the front free endsheet. It was a Houghton Mifflin Fellowship winner, and to its.....
Olympia & Ft. Worth: Four Mountains Press, 1973. Printed wrapper. Fine. First edition. One of seventy-five copies (fifty for sale). In spite of the relatively large limitation, among the poet / translator's least common books.
[San Antonio: Ganesha Head Stand, 1983]. [16]pp. Octavo. Photoduplicated typescript, stapled in pictorial wrapper. Upper wrapper creased and faintly tanned, otherwise very good or better. "Revised 1st edition" (ie second edition) of the poet / collage artist / activist's first book. The scarce first edition was published in February 1979.....
[San Antonio: Ganesha Head Stand, 1983]. [16]pp. Octavo. Photoduplicated typescript, stapled in pictorial wrapper. Upper wrapper tanned, otherwise very good or better. "Revised 1st edition" (ie second edition) of the poet / collage artist / activist's first book. The scarce first edition was published in February 1979 as a special.....
New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1861. 350,[6]pp. Original cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Spine sunned and extremities a bit frayed, considerable foxing to endsheets, and less so scattered elsewhere, a few small marginal discolorations, a few signatures starting slightly, early ink name on preliminary blank; still a good, sound.....
New York: Viking Press, 1941, Quarto. Decorated cloth. Illustrated in color and black & white. Color pictorial endsheets. Some darkening to endsheets around gutter, a few minor marginal smudges, short snag in gutter of p. [5]/6, otherwise a very good or better copy, in flawed dust jacket (lacks lower 20%.....
[Houston: Press of Rein & Sons Company, 1913]. 83pp. Large octavo. Gilt medium blue cloth. Portraits and facsimile. Edges rubbed, bookplate on pastedown, a few spots to lower board and isolated marginal finger smudges, but a good copy. First edition of this privately printed collection of Texas verse, distinguished somewhat.....
San Francisco: H. Keller & Co., 1879. Large octavo. Blue cloth, decorated in black and gilt, with gilt portrait vignette. Frontis portrait. Illustrations. A few small spots to spine, edges a bit bumped and rubbed, corner of free endsheet clipped, a few minor spots in the prelims, else (for this.....
El Paso Del Norte: [Privately Printed for the Author by Carl Hertzog], 1954. Small quarto. "Adobe-print" wrappers. Frontis by José Cisneros. Near fine. First edition. One of 1000 copies printed as Dobie's holiday greeting for the year. Warmly inscribed on the occasion by Dobie to western writer and California viticulturist.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [post- 1947]. Pictorial cloth. Spine slightly cocked, cloth a bit faded. Internally clean. About very good in imperfect dust jacket (large portion of spine panel lacking). An exceptional association copy of this 5th printing of the Little, Brown edition, with a full-page presentation inscription from.....
[ Dallas: Reprinted from the Spring 1950 issue of SOUTHWEST REVIEW, 1950]. Quarto. Printed wrappers. First separate edition, repaginated. Front wrapper lightly dust spotted, else nice.
Sydney: Columbia Pictures / Filmways, [1970]. Folio (30 X 13.25", 76 X 34cm). Folded, as issued, about fine. Vintage brilliant color lithographed daybill poster for the 1970 Australian release of this memorable film adaptation of Eastlake's 1965 novel, first released in the US in 1969. Directed by Sydney Pollack, it.....
![Item #WRCLIT68511 [Studio Publicity Campaign Press Book for:] CASTLE KEEP. William Eastlake,...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT68511.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593712424)
[Hollywood]: Columbia Pictures, [1969]. 11[1]pp. Folio (43 x 28 cm). Pictorial self wrappers. Horizontal fold, a couple of minor dust spots, near fine. A publicity pressbook for this memorable film adaptation of Eastlake's 1965 novel. Directed by Sydney Pollack, it starred Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Astrid Heeren, Bruce Dern, Tony.....
![Item #WRCLIT80436 [Original Pencil Portrait Sketch of William Faulkner]. William Faulkner, Peter...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT80436.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593712865)
Denver. 1959. Original pencil portrait, (measured to mat edges) 5.5 x 3.75" (14 x 9.5 cm). Matted and framed under glass. Not examined out of frame, faint tanning to paper, but very good. A quarter profile sketch of Faulkner's head, captioned in the artist's hand: "William Faulkner sketched by Peter.....
Dallas: The Somesuch Press, 1984. Miniature (7.6 x 6 cm). Cloth. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine, in oversize folding cloth clamshell box with inset. First edition in this format. Introduction by Henry Ramont. Illustrated with six original postage stamps designed by F. Hundertwasser for the United Nations. One of.....
[Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press, [1979]. Decorated wrappers over stiff wrappers, paper label. First separate edition. An unnumbered, presumed out-of-series copy, in addition to 230 numbered copies (30 in Roman), signed by the author. Fine.
New York: Knopf, 1960. Pictorial cloth. Illustrations by Russell Waterhouse. Ft. Worth bookshop ticker in corner of front free endsheet, otherwise very good in like dust jacket with shallow loss at crown of spine panel and a few small nicks and smudges. First edition of the author's second book, but.....
