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London: William Blackwood, 1860. First edition, first state, with the following points: no advert leaf in vol. 1; 16 pp publisher's catalogue at rear lists the 7th edition of Adam Bede. An unusually nice copy of Eliot's second novel, her follow up to Adam Bede. It sold 4600 copies within..... Read More about The Mill on the Floss
Price: $2,750
London: R. Cobden-Sanderson, [1926]. First edition, 300 copies printed. Dedication copy. Dedication copy, inscribed by the author, the mother of T.S. Eliot, to Eliot's sister: "Marian C. Eliot / With dear love / from / Mother." The book is dedicated: "To My Children." T.S. Eliot wrote the introduction to the book..... Read More about Savonarola. A Dramatic Poem
Price: $5,500
London: Faber and Faber, 1950. First edition. Presentation from Eliot to Allen Tate. With the error at page 29, line 1 “here” for “her.” A remarkable association copy, with the following pre-publication presentation inscription from Eliot to his American friend and admirer, poet and critic Allen Tate: "To Allen Tate from..... Read More about The Cocktail Party. A Comedy
Price: $6,000
London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1953]. First edition. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ELIOT on the front free endpaper: "To Ronnie Duncan from T.S.E. 23.iii.54" Ronald Duncan (1914-1982) was a poet and playwright who was also published by Faber and Faber. This is an early inscription. Read More about The Confidential Clerk
Price: $2,400
London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1938). Fourth edition. Signed by Eliot. Signed ("T.S. Eliot") on the title-page. "In this fourth edition further rearrangements and deletions have been made, which have been found adivsable by experiment in the course of production" (Author's note, p. 7). Read More about Murder in the Cathedral
Price: $1,500
London: Faber and Faber, [1957]. First Edition. With TLS to Louis Untermeyer. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, WITH A REVEALING LETTER BY ELIOT. Louis Untermeyer's copy, with newspaper clippings neatly pinned and laid-in at front and with a TLS from Eliot mounted on the pastedown, 16 August 1961. Eliot replies to the..... Read More about On Poetry and Poets
Price: $2,500
New York: Smith and Haas, 1935. First edition, NO. 267 OF 310 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Faulkner. One of 310 Copies, Signed. Read More about Pylon
Price: $2,750
New York: Random House, [1938]. First edition. Read More about The Unvanquished
Price: $2,500
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1917. First American edition. From Pound to a Friend by Way of John Quinn. INSCRIBED from collector and patron John Quinn to sculptor Gwen Baxter on the front free endpaper, “To Miss G. Baxter from John Quinn at the suggestion of Ezra Pound. June 29..... Read More about ‘Noh’ or Accomplishment: A Study of the Classical Stage of Japan
Price: $850
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition, some battering to type pp 38, 90, 248, first issue jacket with no battering to lips on front panel. First edition of Fitzgerald's third collection of short stories. Read More about All the Sad Young Men
Price: $3,000
Paris: Michel Levy, 1857. First edition, with dedication to "Senart" A handsome copy of Flaubert’s unequaled, scandalous novel, for which the author was unsuccessfully prosecuted on the grounds of offending public morals and religion. Now recognized not only as a masterpiece of French and world literature, but as the novel..... Read More about Madame Bovary. Mœurs de Provence
Price: $7,500
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1927. No. 281 of 300 copies. ‘The Good Soldier,’ Signed, one of 300 copies. The special edition of this modern classic, for which Ford supplied a new Dedication, one of only 300 hundred copies signed by the author on the flyleaf. Read More about The Good Soldier. A Tale of Passion
Price: $2,000
Alexandria: Whitehead Morris, 1938. Second edition, published under the auspices of the Royal Archaeological Society of Alexandria. With ALS. Includes autograph letter, signed, addressed to Kenneth Bailey — mentioning Lord Nelson, Charlotte Yonge and George Washington and remarking on how difficult it is to get a copy of this book..... Read More about Alexandria: A History and a Guide
Price: $1,750
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1907. First edition, first impression. One of 1587 copies. FINE COPY OF FORSTER'S SECOND NOVEL. First edition of Forster's second book, preceded only by Where Angels Fear to Tread. "I believe this to be Mr. Forster's own favourite... the book angrily contrasts altruistic..... Read More about The Longest Journey
Price: $1,350
London: Collingwood Bros, [1907]. First edition. Introducing Dr. Thorndylke. The second book by the creator of Dr. Thorndyke, but the first to introduce that “most carefully established crime savant since Sherlock Holmes,” in the estimation of Christopher Morley. “Perhaps you will need to acquire a taste for Thorndyke — it..... Read More about The Red Thumb Mark
Price: $2,500
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Middlebury, Vermont: Bread Loaf School of English, [n.d., ca. 1929]. First Separate edition, second printing. Exceedingly Scarce ‘Birches’. The first separate edition of Frost’s celebrated poem, “Birches,” here in the second printing, distinguishable from the first by the paper stock and the smaller italic type. Read More about Birches [Bread Loaf Folder, No. 3
Price: $1,000
London: David Nutt, 1913. First Edition, Second Issue, Binding D, No. 126 of 135 copies, signed and numbered by Frost. This issue offered by Louis Cohn of House of Books when he bought the remains of Dunster House Bookshop from Maurice Firuski. Read More about A Boy's Will
Price: $4,000
New York: Henry Holt and Company [The Spiral Press], [May, 1936]. First edition, no. 634 of 803 copies signed by Frost. LIMITED EDITION, FURTHER INSCRIBED. Inscribed on the ffep by the author "To Mary and Barrett Brown/ from/ Lesley and Robert Frost/ Amherst 1936." Read More about A Further Range. Book Six
Price: $750
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [June, 1962]. First edition. Inscribed on ffep: "To Ruby Dagget librarian of a great bookstore and one of my oldest and best friends Robert Frost Dartmouth 1967." Dagget had worked at the Dartmouth bookstore. Read More about In the Clearing
Price: $750
New York: Henry Holt & Co, [October], 1923. Lankes, J.J. First trade edition. Inscribed to a friend and colleague. Inscribed on the ffep "For Louis A. Strauss/ from his friend/ Robert Frost." Louis Strauss was chairman of the English Department at the University of Michigan from 1920-1938, where Frost took up..... Read More about New Hampshire. A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
Price: $2,500
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1919]. Second American edition, one of 500 copies. Inscribed with five lines of verse. Inscribed with the last five lines from his celebrated poem, "For once, then, something": Water came to rebuke the too clear water. One drop fell from a fern and lo a...... Read More about North of Boston
Price: $3,250
New York: The New American Library, [1966]. First edition. Author’s First Book, Inscribed. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “For G— P— with best wishes, William Gass”. Read More about Omensetter's Luck
Price: $550
[Paris]: aux dépens d'un ami [Albert Skira], [1949]. First edition, Number 302 of 410 copies, SIGNED by Genet sur vélin de Lana. Read More about Journal du Voleur
Price: $1,250
Paris: Marc Barbezat, [1956]. Giacometti. Copy # 1338 of a limited edition of 3000 copies printed on Lana paper. Read More about Le Balcon
Price: $500
Lyon: L’Arbalète, 1946. First edition, number 256 of 475 copies “in-quarto coquille sur pur fil rives filigrané 'L'ABALETE.'" Read More about Miracle de la Rose
Price: $1,000