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New York: Random House, 2003. About fine.. Octavo. Maroon paper over boards, gilt spine lettering. 347,[5] pp. First edition, later printing. Nafisi offers a portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and a glimpse inside the lives of women in revolutionary Iran. About fine, in a near fine dust jacket.

[Godalming, Surrey]: The Pendomer Press, 1978. First edition. Quarto. Brown cloth, gilt spine. First edition. 136 pp. Foreword by Wilfrid Blunt; black and white, and color plates and illustrations throughout the first book of Nash's work as an illustrator by his friend, John Lewis. Full bibliography by Simon Heneage. Noted collector's bookplate on front pastedown, private library notations, else a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with two minor nicks to bottom edge of upper panel and a bit of residue of a label at the very lower edge of the rear panel.

New York: Henry Harrison, 1927. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Henry E. Fouts:. Large octavo. Silver on blue cloth. Printed in blue. Six silver and blue tipped-in art deco plates. Endsheets slightly tanned, else near fine in very good, lightly chipped silver foil and navy blue pictorial dust jacket by Fouts.   First edition. A first book of verse by the author - and she really shouldn't have bothered - but the six tipped-in art deco plates by Fouts, printed in blue on metallic silver finish paper and the occasional vignettes in deep blue scattered throughout, and a full page image at the conclusion of the text make this effort more than worth the bother. Uncommon in dust jacket, and the poetry is really hilarious.

[New York: Lipper / Viking, 2000. First American Edition. Octavo. Cloth and pictorial boards. [12],195,[1]pp. Ten black and white photographs. Short bibliography. About fine, in a lovely dust jacket with a vignette cut to expose the portrait of Woolf on the upper boards. First American edition, issued in the "Penquin Lives" series. "Virginia Woolf's life as part of the avant-garde Bloomsbury Group has captured the imagination of millions. Now Nigel Nicolson, the distinguished son of British writers Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West -- one of Woolf's closest friends and sometime lover -- threads his personal reminiscences through the narrative of her life. In so doing, he paints an astonishing portrait of one of the most remarkable women in history. Nicolson recalls childhood times with Woolf: from her walks around his ancestral home as she planned Orlando to her writing of the modern classics Mrs. Dalloway and A Room of One's Own. [Nicolson's] Virginia Woolf probes keenly her stance on women's… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1948. First edition. Near fine./Good.. Gilt cloth. Rockwell Kent designed bookplate over an earlier ink name on endsheet, else fine in good, somewhat edgeworn dust jacket with chip at crown of spine.  First edition thus, including two stories for the first time in book form. Although UNDER A GLASS BELL is now considered one of Anaïs Nin's finest collections of stories, it was initially deemed unpublishable. Refusing to give up on her vision, in 1944 Nin founded her own press and brought out the first edition, illustrated with striking black-and-white engravings by her husband, Hugh Guiler. Shortly thereafter, it caught the attention of literary critic Edmund Wilson, who reviewed the collection in the New Yorker: "The pieces in this collection belong to a peculiar genre sometimes cultivated by the late Virginia Woolf. They are half short stories, half dreams, and they mix a sometimes exquisite poetry with a homely realistic observation. They take place in a special… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First edition. Octavo. Black cloth, stamped in gilt. First edition, inscribed by author on front free endsheet, "With all good wishes / Kathleen Norris." Clean and bright throughout, crack at front hinge, else very good, in good printed, dusty dust jacket with chips and some closed tears. "Kathleen Thompson Norris (July 16, 1880 - January 18, 1966) was an American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. Norris was a prolific writer who wrote 93 novels, many of which became best sellers. Her stories appeared frequently in the popular press of the day, including The Atlantic, The American Magazine, McClure's, Everybody's, Ladies' Home Journal, and Woman's Home Companion. Norris used her fiction to promote family and moralistic values, such as the sanctity of marriage, the nobility of motherhood, and the importance of service to… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955. First American edition. About fine. Octavo. Bright green cloth, lettered and decorated in black. 215,[3] pp. Illustrated throughout text by Beth and Joe Krush. Tiny ink speck on lower edge, else about fine, in a very good or better dust jacket with a light pencil mark on the lower panel. The further adventures of Pod, Homily, and the adorable Arrietty who we first met in the wonderful The Borrowers (1952).