LITERATURE & PO from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

New York: Vanguard Press, 1951. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. An anthology of poetry and prose compiled by Sitwell. Tan spine, black cloth boards w/ white title on spine. Original dust jacket protected by mylar, one chip at top of spine, slightly dusty on front. Fine/VG.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1939. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo, 46pp. Cream cloth, black title at spine. Pink pictorial dj with illustration of cats climbing ladder, title in black at front cover and spine. Slightly sunned at spine, a couple sml. marks at front cover, o/w vgc, not price clipped, with price $2.25. Internally, neat previous owner name… Read more about this item

New York: Cheshire House, Inc, 1931. 1st printing thus. Hardcover. Lge 8vo, 361pp, t.e.g. Introduction by H. M. Tomlinson. Attractive color illustrations by H. Charles Tomlinson. Quarter-bound in black calf, vgc. This is number 565 of 1200 copies. Samuel Butler (1835-1902), writer, painter and musician, was born in England. In the utopian satire Erewhon (1872) - the word is… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday Doran & Co, 1929. Hardcover. Penrod Jashber. 8vo, xii, 321pp. Orig. blue cloth, yellow title & dec. Pic dj w/ couple sml. chips, complete with price, vg+.

New York: Dodd Mead & Co, 1928. Hardcover. 8vo (xii), 352pp, frontis & illustrations by L.A. Patterson, including fabulous b&w illustrated endpapers. Black cloth, gilt title & illustration. Pictorial dj in mylar protective cover, vg+/vg.

New York: Scribners, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 44 pp, green cloth & pic. dj chipped, o/w g+.

New York: Scribners, 1920. Hardcover. 8vo, 2 vols. (xxxi) (ii) 434pp., 1 ill. (&) (xi) (ii) 511 pp, 2 ills., t.e.g. Half navy blue morocco, gilt title & decoration, vgc. A handsome set of Henry James' letters.

New York: Thomas Madigan, 1933. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good. Limited edition, number 62 of 150 copies. Printed by William Rudge, it includes a facsimile of Dickens letter to his friend Dr. Elisha Bartlett. 8vo, 16pp, 3 facsimile letters tipped-in. 1/4 cloth & printed hardboard covers, slt. dusty o/w vgc.

London & New York: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1921. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Under the Hill and Other Essays in Prose and Verse by Aubrey Beardsley with Illustrations. 4to, xvi, 70 pp & 4pp adds. Photogravure frontis, 16 plates by Beardsley (3 illustrations are published for the 1st time). Publisher's original green cloth with gilt lettering on upper cover… Read more about this item

New York: Scribners, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. 373 pp. Blk. cloth & white lettering, dj, few little creases at edges. Some damage to front and back pastedowns, most likely from adhesive on dj edge.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1935. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo, (iv) 203pp, orig. blue cloth with some lt. discoloration. With dj, chipped at edges, lightly browned on spine, o/w vg condition. Translated from the French by Frederick A. Blossom.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, vi, 245pp. Tan covers, red & gilt on spine. Dec. dj spine lt. sunned o/w vg+/vg+. Translated by Maxim Newmark.

Packard Press, 1945. Limited edition. Hardcover. ca 1945. Limited to 750 copies. Lge. 8vo (xiv), 157pp, ills in text. 1/4 cloth & hardboard, pic dj, vg+ condition.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1969. Pamphlet. Pamphlets on American Writers #78. 48pp, brown still pp wrps, good+.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. Very good +. 8vo, 467pp. 2nd printed Dec. 1929. Grey cloth, with black title on front cover and black title and black and gray abstract decoration on spine. Very good + in original dj with title in black on pink ground on front cover and in black on tan spine. Dj spine is… Read more about this item

New York: Bennett Books Studios, 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, (viii) + 113 pp, teg, marbled endpapers. Three-quarter blue morocco, rubbed at extremes. Limited 201/750 copies, vgc.

Chicago: Argus Books, 1930. Hardcover. 8vo, vi, 294pp, frontis & ills. on title page and ills. by John Austen. Orig. black cloth, white discoloration on front cover, pic dj, good+/vg+.