Literature from Kate Mitas, Bookseller

Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press, 1984. Limited Edition. Fine in Near Fine Slipcase. No. 70 of a signed, limited edition of 350. 9-1/2 x 6 inches. [14],104,[2]pp. Beige cloth with brown cloth tips, in brown slipcase. Fine; minor, faint spot of soiling to one panel of slipcase. A collection of autobiographical essays recounting Welty's life and progression… Read more about this item

8-1/4 x 11 inches. 60pp, recto only. Burgundy cloth photo album with gilt title and ornament stamped to spine, brown paper leaves reinforced with cloth at the gutter. 55 b&w photographs + 6 cyanotypes, 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches each; holograph text in verse, in Spanish. All but two photos are pasted in one per page; two additional photographs are laid… Read more about this item

Oak Park, Illinois: Think Fast Ink, 1994. First edition. Very Good/Good. Warmly inscribed to the prior owner, "Dear John, We obviously suffer from the same sick racing disease. The good news is -- THERE IS NO CURE!! ENJOY!! Burt 'BS' Levy". 23.5 cm. [4],540pp. Burgundy paper-covered boards lettered in bronze to the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Light… Read more about this item

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. Cloth. Very Good+. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". [2, ads], [4], 120, [2], [16, ads], [2, ads], [4, bound-in advert for "The Select Library of Fiction"] pp + frontispiece. Complete with 14 b&w plates in text. Original green illustrated wraps, bound into new burgundy cloth binding lettered in gilt, with gilt initials… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1899. First American edition. Cloth. Good. 8" x 6". [xiv], 336 pp. Includes frontispiece and 15 (of 16) plates of illustrations. Original red publisher's cloth illustrated in blue, silver foil and black, lettered in silver foil and black. Light wear to extremities; board illustration somewhat rubbed; ink date and ownership blind-stamp to front… Read more about this item

[Paris]: Nrf Gallimard, (1949). Limited edition. Near Fine/Very Good. 7-1/8" x 4-3/4". 280, [6] pp. Black paper-covered boards stamped in gilt, red and white, in original cellophane dust wrapper. Spine slightly faded; cellophane wrapper torn near rear joint with minor chipping to spine panel. No. 587 of 1050 specially-bound copies from a design by French bookbinder and designer… Read more about this item

Providence, RI: [Nucleus], 1954. Good+. 8" x 5". pp [2], 82 - 123. B/w photographically illustrated wrappers, white lettering. Wear to wrappers, small stain to corner of rear wrapper and outer margin of last few leaves. Includes two poems by Winfield Townley Scott, illustrations from photographs and lithographs, essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald and Russian drama, and more.

Praha: Edice Spirála, 1965. First Czech language edition. Mass market paperback. Very Good. 7-1/2" x 4-1/2". 258, [2] pp. Mass market paperback. White wrappers printed in green, black and blue. Laminate overlay peeling at some edges of covers, spine creased. Internally clean and bright, binding sound.

Praha: Mladá Fronta, 1959. Very Good. Czech language edition. 7-1/2" x 4-1/2". Mass market paperback. 275, [3] pp. Black and green cover with red fist, white and red lettering. Light wear, small stain to fore-edge.

New York: St. Martin's Press, (1994). Fine/Near Fine. Second printing, signed by Roth on the half-title. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". [12], 290 pp. Green cloth, white dust jacket printed in black and brown. Minor wear to dust jacket, else fine.

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1979-1980. Limited edition. Leather. Near Fine. Three volume set, octavo. [xiv], 387 pp; [xii], 551 pp; [12], 400 pp. Bound in full red leather with gilt tooling and edges, moire endpapers, and silk ribbon bookmarks. Some scuffing to text block of Vol. III, else fine. [P]ublished by The Franklin Library exclusively… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Later printing. Cloth. Near Fine. 7-3/4" x 5-1/2". [10], 305, [5, blank] pp. Seventh printing, issued in August, 1920, four months after the book's initial publication. Original green cloth. Corners of boards lightly bumped, very faint water spots to front cover. Otherwise a nearly fine copy, clean and sound.

Tokyo: The John Steinbeck Society of Japan, 2009. Wraps. Fine. 8vo., 8-1/4" x 5-7/8"; 52 pp. Pale blue wrappers printed in black.