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First edition of the first collection by Davis, number 158 of 500 copies. In these unsettling short stories, Davis introduces the deadpan voice and formal ingenuity that would become her trademark in the decades to follow: "A man in our town is both a dog and its master." This copy.....
Item 100108The George Eliot Letters
Graham Greene's annotated copy of the first American edition of George Eliot's collected letters, in seven volumes, with his signature to the front free endpaper of each volume. Greene clearly read this comprehensive collection with care, neatly marking the text throughout, and drawing up a handwritten index to key passages.....
Item 100140The Waste Land
First edition, second impression, one of 1000 numbered copies of Eliot's most influential work, an echo chamber of ancient and modern voices overheard in London between the wars: "I will show you something different from either / Your shadow at morning striding behind you / Or your shadow at evening.....
Item 10009Washington Square
First edition of Henry James's moving tale of a downcast heiress and an upstart suitor: "Love demands certain things as a right; but Catherine had no sense of her rights; she had only a consciousness of immense and unexpected favors." Ownership signature of J.H. Russell, partly obscured by bookplate of.....
Item 100102The Russia House
First edition, third impression of John le Carré's Cold War thriller: "How does a man who's drunk himself silly beat all comers at chess then, Harry -- straight games -- if he isn't a trained spy?" Inscribed by John le Carré, who has written underneath the printed dedication to his.....
Item 10089Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite, Steel, and Other Topics
First edition of this collection of eighteen poems and four short essays, with a whimsical inscription in Moore's hand, signed and dated "April 1967": "One of my happiest meals was with / Brendan and Anne Gill encircled by zebras, / at Gino's / 'between 60 and 61st Street' / Brentano.....
Item 100103The Tale of Beowulf
A unique presentation copy of the Kelmscott Beowulf, one of only 300 copies printed on Perch paper, inscribed by translator A.J. Wyatt to his wife Catherine. Type, woodcut borders, and decorative initials designed by Kelmscott founder William Morris; chapter headings and marginal notes printed in red. The only Anglo-Saxon epic.....
Item 10420Locus Solus I - Winter 1961
Frank O'Hara's own copy, with his ownership signature in ink on the first page and his dating, in pencil, of each of his ten included poems: "Poem," "Overlooking the River," "East River," "Ducal Days," "Locarno," "The Opera," "House," "Failures of Spring," "Adieu to Norman, Bonjour to Joan and Jean-Paul," and.....
Item 10092Sleep It Off Lady
First edition of the final collection of stories by Jean Rhys, following her restless heroines through the West Indies, London, and Paris. "She had been in London for the last five years but for one short holiday. There had been the big blitz, then the uneasy lull, then the little.....
Item 10008The Making of Americans Being A History of a Family's Progress
First printing of the first section of the work Stein considered her masterpiece, "the Long Book," published by Robert McAlmon's Contact Editions: "vital singularity is as yet an unknown product with us, we who in our habits, dress-suit cases, clothes and hats and ways of thinking, walking, making money, talking.....
Item 100149The Shadow of the Glen and Riders to the Sea
Second edition, "third thousand," of J.M. Synge's lyrical dialect plays. Inspired by the insular folklife of the Aran Islands, Synge wrote both of these one-act plays in 1902, and saw them performed at Dublin's Molesworth Hall in 1903 and 1904. The Shadow of the Glen was on the bill when.....
Item 10071I Wanted To Write A Poem
First edition of this "autobiography of the works of a poet," signed by William Carlos Williams in his erratic post-stroke hand, additionally inscribed by editor Edith Heal to critic and scholar William York Tindall at Columbia University: "For W.Y. Tindall, from a student who appreciated and has used what he.....