Adler, Elmer.

BREAKING INTO PRINT BEING A COMPILATION OF PAPERS WHEREIN EACH OF A SELECT GROUP OF AUTHORS TELLS OF THE DIFFICULTIES OF AUTHORSHIP & HOW SUCH TRIALS ARE MET.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1937. 8vo. embossed black cloth. 196 pages. First collected edition. With facsimiles and other illustrations. Includes Christopher Morley and Rockwell Kent. Spine faded. Corner of free endpaper chipped off. READ MORE about BREAKING INTO PRINT BEING A COMPILATION OF PAPERS WHEREIN EACH OF A SELECT GROUP OF AUTHORS TELLS...

Price: $5.00  other currencies  Order nr. 19

Aiken, Conrad.

THE CLERK'S JOURNAL.

Being the Diary of a Queer Man. An Undergraduate Poem together wih A Brief Memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs and T.S. Eliot
New York, NY: The Eakins Press, 1971. 4to. cloth. (iv), 26, followed by facsimile, (4) pages. Being the Diary of a Queer Man. An Undergraduate Poem together wih A Brief Memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs and T.S. Eliot. Limited to 2300 copies, this being one of the 2000 printed on Andorra Text. An undergraduate poem of Conrad Aiken with a brief memoir of Harvard and a facsimile of the original manuscript with comments by Dean..... READ MORE about THE CLERK'S JOURNAL

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 96842

(American Authors).

(CONFIDENTIAL.).

N.P. n.p., n.d. 12mo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. A small pamphlet calling for the creation of a union-like organization of the "American Authors and Literature". With the names of W. D. Howells, Thomas W. Higginson, Charles D. Warner, Moncure D. Conway, George W. Cable, Julian Hawthorne, James Erant Wilson, and Charles Burr Todd printed at the end. Once folded into thirds. READ MORE about CONFIDENTIAL

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 102364

(Badcock, Jonathan).

SELECTIONS FROM THE FANCY; OR TRUE SPORTSMAN'S GUIDE BY AN OPERATOR.

With a Foreword by George Plimpton & Etching and Drawings by Randy Jones.
Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1972. 8vo. quarter leather, patterned paper-covered boards, all edges speckled, paper-covered slipcase. xvi, 136 pages. With a Foreword by George Plimpton & Etching and Drawings by Randy Jones. Limited to an edition of 1950 copies, this being out of series. It is signed by illustrator Randy Jones, whose bawdy pen-and-ink drawings are scattered through the book. Original etching has been laid-in. Text is usually attributed to Jonathan Badcock, one of the..... READ MORE about SELECTIONS FROM THE FANCY; OR TRUE SPORTSMAN'S GUIDE BY AN OPERATOR

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 93975

Baker, James M.

THE GENUINE AMERICAN MUSIC.

Wilmington: City Council, (1989). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (xvi), 221+(1) pages. First edition. History of Black music and Black artists. Designed and illustrated by Bernard Ben Pearce. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about THE GENUINE AMERICAN MUSIC

Price: $85.00  other currencies  Order nr. 115313

Barnes, James J.

AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS AND POLITICIANS THE QUEST FOR AN ANGLO-AMERICAN COPYRIGHT AGREEMENT, 1815-1854.

Columbus: Ohio State University Press, (1974). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xv, 311 pages. First U.S. edition. READ MORE about AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS AND POLITICIANS THE QUEST FOR AN ANGLO-AMERICAN COPYRIGHT AGREEMENT, 1815-1854

Price: $7.00  other currencies  Order nr. 8253

Battesin, Martin C. (editor).

BRITISH NOVELISTS, 1660-1800.

2 Volumes
Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, (1985). 4to. cloth. xviii, 325+(1); x, 327-700 pages. 2 Volumes. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 39: Parts 1 & 2. A two-volume set of biographies with cumulative index of the British novelists between 1660 and 1800. Illustrated endpapers of eight British novelists of the time. Signature of previous owner J.C. Beasley on half-title page in brown pen. Shaken. READ MORE about BRITISH NOVELISTS, 1660-1800

Price: $150.00  other currencies  Order nr. 96627

Benson, Alden R.

LOTUS LILIES.

N.P. Privately printed, n.d. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, top edge gilt, dust jacket. (xii), 176 pages. B1-4692. Well printed with decorations in green ink by Star Publishing Co. of Wilmington. Presentation "To Mr. & Mrs H.W. Cullen, most respectfully yours, Alden R. Benson, Dover, Del. October, 9th, 1924". Spotting of endpapers and pastedowns and boards. READ MORE about LOTUS LILIES

Price: $18.00  other currencies  Order nr. 65978

Bissell, George P.

SIGNIFYING NOTHING BY G.P.B.

N.P. privately printed, n.d. (circa 1949). 8vo. cloth. 30 leaves. Fifth edition. A series of fictional letters to various newspaper editors dated between 1939 and 1949. Presentation from the author on front free endpaper. READ MORE about SIGNIFYING NOTHING BY G.P.B

Price: $12.00  other currencies  Order nr. 65962

Blake, William.

SONGS OF INNOCENCE.

Yellow Springs, OH: Kahoe & Company, 1928. small 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. (vi), 28 pages. Printed and bound at The Antioch Press. Twenty-one poems by the eighteenth-nineteenth century English artist/poet. Cover rubbed at edges, soiled. Covers rubbed with wear along spine. Name in ink on free endpaper. READ MORE about SONGS OF INNOCENCE

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 44887

(Book Club of California). Lewis, Oscar.

A WIDELY CAST NET.

Selections from the Work of a Veteran California Writer Chosen with Comments by their Author. Wayne Bonnett, Editor
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1996. small 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, plain paper dust jacket. (vii), 133, (2) pages. Selections from the Work of a Veteran California Writer Chosen with Comments by their Author. Wayne Bonnett, Editor. Limited to an edition of 400, this is publication number 205 of the Book Club of California. Printed by Feathered Serpent Press and Anchor & Acorn Press. READ MORE about A WIDELY CAST NET

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 93474

Bruccoli, Matthew J. (editor).

THE PROFESSION OF AUTHORSHIP IN AMERICA, 1800-1870 THE PAPERS OF WILLIAM CHARVAT.

Foreword by Howard Mumford Jones.
N.P. Ohio State University Press, (1968). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. xviii, 327 pages. Foreword by Howard Mumford Jones. First edition. An important look at publishing and the author in America during the 19th century. With an embossed private library stamp. READ MORE about THE PROFESSION OF AUTHORSHIP IN AMERICA, 1800-1870 THE PAPERS OF WILLIAM CHARVAT

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 8252

Bryant, William Cullen.

THIRTY POEMS.

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1864. 12mo. original publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth , yellow endpapers. (iii), 222+(1) pages. BAL1683. First state, pg 213, line 5 "veielo". Binding A. Gold stamped lettering on spine faded. Head and tail of spine chipped. Minimal foxing and soil. READ MORE about THIRTY POEMS

Price: $40.00  other currencies  Order nr. 93699