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Item 100134The Gentleman From San Francisco and Other Stories. Translated from the Russian by S.S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf.
Early English translation of four of Russian Nobel laureate Bunin's short stories: "The Gentleman From San Francisco," "Gentle Breathing," "Kasimir Stanislavovitch," and "Son." One of approximately one thousand copies printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. "What were the feelings, what were the thoughts of the Gentleman from San Francisco on.....
Item 10007Color
First edition, first printing, with correct publisher's code H-Z and the date in Roman numerals on the title page. The first collection of lyrics by a leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance, including "Yet Do I Marvel," "Incident," and "Heritage": "What is last year's snow to me? / Last year's.....
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 100139Anonymity: An Enquiry
First edition of novelist E.M. Forster's essay on the place of the author's name in literature, opening with the question: "Do you like to know who a book's by?" Forster argues that the best literature "wants not to be signed . . . Literature does not want to remember." A......
Item 10029Birds, Beasts and The Third Thing
First edition of this children's collection of D.H. Lawrence's poems, illustrated by Caldecott medalists Alice and Martin Provensen, with an introduction by poet Donald Hall. The paintings depict scenes from Lawrence's childhood in an English mining town and the surrounding countryside: "A man should never earn his living, / if.....
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 10010The Locusts Have No King
First edition of Dawn Powell's satirical tale of literary rivalry, gold-digging, and lost love in Greenwich Village, edited by Maxwell Perkins, with the Scribner's A and seal on copyright page. "Sometimes it is necessary to consult the bartender for accurate data on Last Night." A very good copy in notoriously.....
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.....
Item 100132The Waves
Review copy of the first edition, with Hogarth Press slip laid in, noting the date of publication as "8.10.31." Although The Waves is usually grouped with her novels, Woolf herself called this experimental work a "play-poem," an almost musical arrangement of six alternating streams of consciousness, tracing the thoughts of.....
Item 18082743The Waves 2
Review copy of the first edition, with Hogarth Press slip laid in, noting the date of publication as "8.10.31." Although The Waves is usually grouped with her novels, Woolf herself called this experimental work a "play-poem," an almost musical arrangement of six alternating streams of consciousness, tracing the thoughts of.....