Parting Gift: Prose and Poems
London: Glebe, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 1984. First edition. Hardcover, 151 pp. Illustrated with two b&w photographs. Very good in near fine dust jacket. Foxing to top edge. Light wear to panels of DJ.
London: Glebe, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 1984. First edition. Hardcover, 151 pp. Illustrated with two b&w photographs. Very good in near fine dust jacket. Foxing to top edge. Light wear to panels of DJ.
New York: Atheneum, 1964. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1964. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Good dust jacket, a bit of rubbing to the covers, dust jacket with some soiling and discoloration, wear to the tips and edges of the dust jacket including.....
New York: Random House, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. From the estate of John and Mary Cheever -- no ownership marks but with a folded piece of Cheever's letterhead laid in. 1969. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo., 240 pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Foxing to pages 120-121. Sunning to spine. Rubbing.....
Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1961. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1961, wraps, 177 pp, very good copy, largely unopened, minor tanning and soil, bookplate on verso of front wrap, lightest shelf wear to wraps.
New York: Grove Press, 1964. Second printing. Hardcover. octavo, black cloth boards in dust jacket, book and jacket are in very good condition, jacket shows chipping and toning, book shows wear to boards, 147pp.
New York: Grove Press, 1970. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, near fine copy in very good+ price-clipped dust jacket, minor soiling and edgewear to the dust jacket.
New York: Grove Press, 1957. First American Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, book very good with a touch of foxing & spottiness to top edge of boards and a few scattered fox marks to rear board, jacket good to very good, general mild darkening, tanning and toning to spine.....
New York: Grove Press, 1967. First printing. Hardcover. Black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 140pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has hint of toning to edges of boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ gently toned and rubbed, now in archival mylar.
London: William Heinemann, 1920. Hardcover. Yellow cloth boards, octavo, not illustrated. Book has rubbing and soil to boards, faint toning to spine, binding tight, previous owner's plate to front pastedown, endpapers off-set, otherwise text clean and unmarked but gently toned throughout.
London: The Folio Society, 1966. First edition thus. Hardcover. Large 8vo, hardcover in slipcase. Illustrated in b&w. Mild shelfwear to book, with contents clean. Previous owner's book plate to front flyleaf. Light rubbing to edges and panels of slipcase. Wriiten and illustrated by Beerbohm.
London: John Lane, 1914 (1915). First edition thus. Hardcover. First Edition with Sheringham's illustrations. Title page dated 1914, but Beerbohm's new preface is dated 1915. Hardcover, original buckram binding with beautiful floral decoration on the front board. Very Good. Corners and spine ends bumped and just starting to fray; general.....
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 1932, First Edition. 336 pp. Hardcover, tan cloth, 8vo. Near Fine copy in a Good dust jacket. Clean and unmarked text; binding is strong and square. Light discoloration to endpapers from age and glue-burning. The DJ is missing a 1-inch.....
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. c.1932. Hardcover. Tan cloth. 8vo. 336pp. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Light soil to cloth, mild offsetting to endpapers. Some occasional chipping with light loss to dustjacket, 3-inch tear along front panel.
New York: Knopf, 2007. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 2007, signed copy, hardback in dust jacket, fine copy in fine jacket.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1964. First printing. Blue cloth boards in dust jacket, inscription on the pastedown, 158pp.
Garnerville: Hyst'ry Myst'ry House, 1981. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1981. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 164 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket, age-toning and discoloration to the dust jacket, rubbing and edgewear to the dust jacket including creasing and a bit of tearing.....
New Brunswick, NJ: ESTRENO Plays, 2004. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, octavo, 58pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has hint of wear to corners, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
New York: ESTRENO Contemporary Spanish Plays, 2012. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, octavo, 63pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has hint of edgewear to wrap, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. First printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author. First edition, 1985. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 322 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Good dust jacket, light discoloration to the page-edges, soiling and discoloration to the dust jacket, creasing and wear to the.....
New York: McBride, 1930. Hardcover. First edition, 1930, Pittsburgh author's first book. Cloth in dust jacket, book about fine, jacket VG with light toning and soil, 2-inch tear at top left of front panel neatly repaired. Bell was the author of Out of this Furnace (1941), the best labor novel.....
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Bell's first novel! Gilt stamped purple cloth boards, octavo, 284pp., not illustrated. Book has toning to spine and edges of boards, rubbing and mild soil, spine ends worn, binding tight, jacket glued to front and rear endpapers, text clean.....
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1946. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1946, cloth in dust jacket, signed by author on flyleaf. Book very good, jacket fair with significant shelfwear and loss. Bell was the author of Out of this Furnace (1941), the best labor novel to emerge from the Pittsburgh.....
New York: Meridian Books, 1960-1962. Wraps. 5 volumes, complete set, all very good with light wear and soil.
New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1923. Hardcover. Gilt stamped maroon cloth boards, octavo, not illustrated. Book has wear to edges, rubbing to joints, binding tight, text toned throughout, soil to edges of boards, basement odor.
Huntsville, TX: Texas Review Press, 2006. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 2006. Softcover 8vo, 163pp. In fine condition. Signed/inscribed by the author to Matthew Bruccoli. Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1931-2008) was the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and bibliographer of his time. Additionally, he wrote on, and edited critical editions of.....