We are pleased to present a list of newly catalogued literature with highlights such as Damon Runyon's Guys and Dolls, inscribed in unrestored dust jacket, Virginia Woolf's Night and Day, first American edition in rare dust jacket, Joan Didion’s Salvador, inscribed to Robert Silvers, André Gide’s manuscript translations of poems by Walt Whitman, E.M. Forster’s Passage to India in dust jacket, and more.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1936. First edition, signed and numbered by the author and limited to 1250 copies. Steven Moore's and Mary McCarthy's copy. With a letter from Steven Moore enclosing this, his personal copy, to her with a copy of her 1936 "Discovery" review of the book..... Read More about Locos. A Comedy of Gestures
Price: $750
Goleta, California; Northumberland: 1967-1972. Letters to a Young Poet. Basil Bunting (1900-1985) was close with Pound and was associated with Zukovsky and the Objectivist poets. Attention to his work flagged in the post-war years until the publication in 1966 of his long poem, Briggflatts. Wylie, who began his career as..... Read More about Group of letters to Andrew Wylie
Price: $5,500
New York: Random House, [1965]. First edition, first printing. Inscribed for Anya and Harold Arlen. Inscribed by Capote "For Anya and Harold [Arlen]/with much love from/Truman Capote [this crossed out] (ha ha)" on the half-title. Dated below in pencil Apr 26-67. And with a Random House compliments slip laid-in "The..... Read More about In Cold Blood. A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
Price: $10,000
Boston: Richard G. Badger / The Gorham Press, 1903. First Edition. Cather's First Book. First edition of the author’s first book, and apart from the author’s revised edition which she published in 1923, her only collection of verse. Cather’s attitutde towards her early poems changed over the following years, and..... Read More about April Twilights. Poems by Willa Sibert Cather
Price: $1,000
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition, signed, number 51 of a limited edition of 520, of which only 498 were offered for sale. Cather's last novel, signed limited. Read More about Sapphira and the Slave Girl
Price: $800
[New York]: [The Century Company], [1893]. First edition; see BAL 3439, state C [issued in three states, priority unknown]: "Issued as an advertisement for The Century Company and may have been produced from multiple not duplicate settings. It is possible that all three forms were issued simultaneously..." "PUDD'NHEAD WILSON'S CALENDAR..... Read More about Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894
Price: $2,000
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Longman, 1833. First edition. Presentation Copy. A scarce anonymous novel. The preface, pp. [iii]–iv, mentions the “sedendary life” of the author, “caused by an affliction of some years’ standing”, and notes that the work is designed for “the entertainment of the young”..... Read More about Conrad Blessington: A Tale. By a Lady
Price: $1,500
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. First edition, presumed second printing with “i” on copyright page undotted and headline on broken running head on p. 9. Read More about Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
Price: $1,850
London: The Westminster Press, 1952. Stunning original British film poster of T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral—designed for the 1952 cinematic adaptation of Eliot's play. T.S. Eliot was commissioned by the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral to write a play for the stage at the annual Canterbury Festival. Murder in the..... Read More about Murder in the Cathedral (Film Poster
Price: $3,200
London: Faber and Faber, 1940-42. ‘Time present and time past’: Eliot's Four Quartets in Original Form. East Coker is the first Faber edition, second printing, October 1940 (the first was September); Burnt Norton is the first separate edition, February 1941; The Dry Salvages is the first edition, September 1941; and..... Read More about FOUR QUARTETS: EAST COKER (1940), BURNT NORTON (1941), THE DRY SALVAGES (1941), LITTLE GIDDING (1942
Price: $1,750
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, [1929]. First edition, first printing dust-jacket with no price on dust jacket and $3.00 price on rear panel for "Humanity Uprooted" Faulkner’s Masterpiece. A pioneering work of American modernism, Faulkner's fourth novel, which employed a stream-of-consciousness technique and multiple narrators; the flap copy..... Read More about The Sound and the Fury
Price: $13,500
London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1924. First edition, unrecorded variant issue, in blue (remainder) binding, not noted by Kirkpatrick [see Kirkpatrick A10a; 5000 copies printed]. An unusual variant of Forster’s classic novel, in the dust jacket with lower remainder price. Read More about A Passage to India
Price: $6,500
[Ketchum, Idaho]: c. 1959. Series of four candid photographs of Ernest Hemingway with his fourth wife, Mary Welsh Hemingway. Both are seated at a table conversing, each signing photographs, in one Hemingway is having a drink. No markings on the photos but they appear to be from around the time..... Read More about Four Unpublished Photographs of Ernest and Mary Welsh Hemingway
Price: $3,500
[Pasadena]: The Flame Press [Printed by Harry Ward Ritchie], 1930. First edition, one of 80 copies printed, advance (unbound) state, without the separately printed errata sheet. VARIANT STATE OF ‘STARS’. An unrecorded variant state, stitched and unbound. Famously, only a very small number of copies of the first edition escaped..... Read More about Stars
Price: $3,500
ca. 1961. Graham Keen (b.1937 - d.2019) was a British photographer who documented the counterculture of the 1960's in England. His subjects included major literary, art, and music figures such as William S. Burroughs, Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon, Yoko Ono, Pink Floyd, and Sir John Hurt. Read More about Philip Larkin photograph
Price: $900
ca. 1961. Graham Keen (b.1937 - d.2019) was a British photographer who documented the counterculture of the 1960's in England. His subjects included major literary, art, and music figures such as William S. Burroughs, Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon, Yoko Ono, Pink Floyd, and Sir John Hurt. Read More about Philip Larkin photograph by Graham Keen
Price: $900
![Item #332804 Norman Mailer portrait drawing [signed on verso]. Norman Mailer](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/332804.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1656546566)
ca. 1970s - 1980s. Original Drawing by Norman Mailer. Though primarily known as a writer and provocateur, Norman Mailer also made simple drawings, most often portraits inspired by artists like Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris. Some of these works have been exhibited by Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Read More about Norman Mailer portrait drawing [signed on verso
Price: $2,500
London: The Verona Press, (1939) [but not published until 1947]. First illustrated edition, with color lithographs by Marie Laurencin, limited to 1200 numbered copies [Kirkpatrick D6; bibliographer states: "Though printed in 1939, the Second World War delayed publication until 1947"]. [Connolly 100 Modern Movements, Number 40]. Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry..... Read More about The Garden Party And Other Stories
Price: $2,500
New York: Atheneum, 1985. First edition, clothbound issue. DEDICATION COPY. Inscribed by Howard Moss, to Harry Ford, his friend and his poetry editor at Atheneum, on the dedication page: "[printed dedication reads: 'For Harry Ford'; to which is added by Howard Moss in ink holograph], from the beginning, with love..... Read More about New Selected Poems
Price: $750
![Item #329631 Oak Leaves and Lavender or A Warld on Wallpaper [A Play]. Sean O'Casey](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/329631.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1656546393)
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1946. First edition. INSCRIBED TO MARY HYDE. A play set on the South Coast of England, during World War II; among the characters are young Irishmen in the R.A.F. and conscientious objectors. Inscribed, and signed, by Sean O'Casey: "For Mary Hyde,/ from/ Sean O'Casey/ With..... Read More about Oak Leaves and Lavender or A Warld on Wallpaper [A Play
Price: $750
London: Martin Secker, 1945. First edition. Attractive copy of this great postwar satire. Read More about Animal Farm
Price: $9,000
London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. First edition. In the RARE Dust Jacket. First edition of Owen’s posthumously published first book. One of the landmarks of Twentieth Century poetry and unquestionably the finest collection of poems to come out of the Great War, including “Strange Meeting”, “Anthem For Doomed Youth”, “Dulce..... Read More about Poems with an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon
Price: $17,500
![Item #329696 The Angel in the House. The Betrothal. [with:] The Espousal. Coventry Patmore](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/329696.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1656546420)
London: John W. Parker and Son, West Strand, 1854-1856. First editions. Presentation copy. Inscribed in the first volume "From the author" Read More about The Angel in the House. The Betrothal. [with:] The Espousal
Price: $750
London: Faber and Faber, (1971). Uncorrected proof. This proof has differences from the final published text including differences in sequence of poems, with revised "Acknowledgements", and differs considerably from the final published text. Read More about Winter Trees
Price: $850
With Pound's 2nd Ever Publication, "Raphaelite Latin" A collection of contributions by Pound to periodicals, including Pound's second ever publication, his first essay: 1) "Raphaelite Latin," clipped from Book News Monthly, Philadeliphia, xxv. I (Sept. 1906), p. 31-4. Includes Pound's verse translations of Renaissance Latin poets Catiglione, Camillo Capilupi, and..... Read More about Collection of Pound publications including Raphaelite Latin, two spiral notebooks with notes...
Price: $2,500