MODERN FIRSTS from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1962. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine. Spark's best-known work and the basis for the acclaimed film and play of the same name. It was filmed in 1969 with Maggie Smith as Miss JB and is no. 76 on Modern Library's list of 100 Best Books of the Century. 8vo, 187pp, green cloth with blue… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Authors 5th book of poems, incl. several new poems. Swift's Pastoral, Hawaii. Dust jacket printed price is $2.00. 8vo, (viii) + 220 pp. Orig. blue cloth & dj, vg+.

New York: Macmillan, 1904. Hardcover. Very good. Hearn, son of a Greek mother and Irish father, was born in Greece and became a Japanese citizen after marrying Koizumi Setsuko, the daughter of a prominent family. In 1895, he took the name Koizumi Yakumo (Eight Clouds). This work is his introduction to Japan of the Meiji era, and describes… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1949. Brown cloth, pic dj very bright but with small (insect) hole in edge, o/w vgc. With great illustrations by the author.

Houghton Mifflin. First edition, limited to 250 copies. Roy. 8vo, xx, 356pp. Orig. tan cloth spine, title label, hardboard, uncut foredge. Faint dark mark on spine, orig. slip box chipped at edges o/w very good condition. Limited to 250 copies.

New York: Doubleday Doran, 1941. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth, pic dj, lt. general wear, good+. Price still on dj flap.

Edited with an Introduction by John C. Thirlwall. McDowell, Obolensky, NY 1957, LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, # 20 of 75 copies. Roy. 8vo, xx, 347pp, 1 pp. Orig. white cream linen spine and burgundy cloth boards. Title stamped in gilt on burgundy colored square on spine, burgundy somewhat rubbed, o/w very nice condition. In original slipcase with… Read more about this item

New York: Viking, 1947. 1st edition of the author's first novel. 8vo, 256 pp. Green cloth blind stamped on cover and in gilt on spine; top edge red. Novel by the famous food writer. Near fine copy in a bright dj slt. etched by a bug, otherwise vgc.

New York: Viking Press, 1930. First American edition. 8vo, 270pp. Orig. blue cloth stamped in orange, attractive dj of French cyclist with the Eiffel Tower, cards, wooden swords. Large chip out of back jacket o/w nice copy. "A laughing laxative for the indigestion of war."

Hardcover. Clewes, Dorothy. The Golden Eagle. Coward-McCann, NY. 1962. 1st US edition. 8vo, 189pp. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, un-priceclipped. Stolen paintings and murder against the background of a beautiful Italian town.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1930. Hardcover. A Poem in Four Books. Sml. 4to, 175pp & publishers note on the text bound in at the end, photo frontis. Orig. white & gilt cloth, dj w/ slt. chip at top edge, spine browned, o/w vg. Uncut & unopened.

New York: Random House, 1951. Black cloth spine, lt. blue cloth boards, gilt title on spine. Printed dj lightly sunned spine, crease at bottom of spine o/w vgc. No reference to edition on verso of title, but the first trade edition, issued after the limited edition. List of other books by author on back cover. Faulkner's first book after… Read more about this item

Heron Press, NY 1930. 8vo, 79pp, frontis & tipped-in silhouettes by Ugo Mochi. Orig. buckram, gilt title & decoration on front board, little dusty o/w good+.

New York: Knopf, 1926. Signed limited edition. Roy. 8vo, (viii) 328pp, some pages unopened, in orig. slipcase. Signed limited edition, # 175 of 250 copies. Red cloth spine & decorative hardboard, dusty slipcase, with spare title labels tipped-in at rear. Very good condition.

London: Elkin Mathews, 1915. First edition. 8vo, (i-vi) vii-viii, 1-111 (112 printer's imprint). Photogravure frontis of the author. Orig. gray boards with gray linen spine stamped in black. Dunsany's "prismatic cities and unheard-of rites are touched with a sureness which only mastery can engender and we thrill with a sense of actual participation in his secret mysteries."- Lovecraft, Supernatural… Read more about this item

Hardcover. Cocteau, Jean. Enfants Terribles. Translated by Samuel Putnam. Brewer & Warren Inc, NY 1930, 1st US edition of the author's most famous novel. 176pp & 1pp. Orig. black cloth, gilt title, pic dj. Half inch section of dj spine missing and ditto on the front, o/w good condition. Printed in Eric Gill's sans-serif type design. The dust jacket… Read more about this item

Mt. Vernon, 1948. First edition, limited edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, 210pp, colophon page. Orig. hardboard & cloth spine in hardboard slip box, very bright condition. Limited to 1500 copies.

New York: Random House, 1954. First edition, later printing. Hardcover. Very good. The Fable" won both the Pulitzer Prize & the National Book Award in 1955. It is a story of World War I, set in the trenches in France. Faulkner fought in the war. 8vo, 437pp, orig. red cloth, dec dj, vg+ condition with owners bookplate on… Read more about this item

London: Wm. Heinemann, 1943. 8vo, 100pp, purple cloth, dec dj, vg+.

New York: Heron Press, 1930. Lithographs by Edgar Parin d'Aulaire. 8vo, 80pp. Limited to 750 copies. Translated from the German, a story about a Mamaloi, or voodoo priestess in Haiti. Orig. red cloth boards & pictorial black & white title label. The lithographs by d'Aulaire are quite striking.