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New York: House of Books, 1962. First edition. Small octavo. Blue cloth, gilt title and spine. First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies, although this one remained unnumbered, signed by Ms. Moore. The colophon advises this is the fourteenth number of the Crown octavos published by the House of Books. Sunned slightly at the spine, dust jacket intact with a cellotape repair on the lower panel's top edge, else a very good or better copy; based on Maria Edgeworth's novel of the same name.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1971. Fine./Fine.. Octavo. Plum gilt cloth boards. First edition. Fine, in a fine pictorially literal dust jacket designed by John Sergeant.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1923. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good/Good. Yellow wraps. Frontispiece portrait of of Katherine Mansfield, taken shortly before her death in January 1923, in Vol. I:I. Dusty at edges and spine, some pencil notations to upper panel on both volumes, a few chips on upper panel and some early foxing to Vol. I, else good. First edition. Contributions from Mansfield and Lawrence, as well as translations of Tchehov (Chekhov) and Gorki, and regular contributions from Wells throughout the course of the publication of this Modernist monthly. Lengthy musings by editor Middleton Murry who is just trying not to take things personally when his readers have opinions.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963. Pictorial wrappers. Advance reading copy of the first U.S. edition of Mitford's exposé of the American funeral industrial complex. Light use, but a very good, scarce copy..

London: The Hogarth Press, 1953. First edition. Very Good. Octavo. Green cloth, gilt spine. 256 pp. Introduction by Vita Sackville-West. Black & white line drawings by the author illustrate the text. Bookplate of the noted Hogarth Press/Bloomsbury Group collector William Beekman affixed to front pastedown, else very good or better with no marks or toning; author-illustrated, extremely scarce dust jacket with a small loss at top of spine and a rub at the bottom, neatly price-clipped, else very good.  Only one other copy available in dust jacket. First edition. In 1938-39 Virginia Woolf conducted a correspondence with Su Hua Ling Chen, the daughter of a former Mayor of Peking and a friend of her nephew Julian Bell, whom she addressed in her letters as "Sue Ling." Su Hua had written to Woolf from China "that she helplessly depressed by Japan's invasion of China and her refugee life in the western province of Szechuan." Woolf offered to send her books in English to improve her vocabulary, and… Read More

New York: Random House, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Gilt cloth and boards, angel embossed on upper panel. About fine in an equally near fine dust jacket. First U.S. trade edition. "Morpho Eugenia" is a Gothic fable of the Earthly Paradise, an obsession with Victorian Darwinian theories of the parallels between the breeding and sexuality of insects and human society; "The Conjugal Angel" is a philosophical ghost story concerning Tennyson's IN MEMORIAM, mourning the death of a youth who was engaged to his sister Emily. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New York: Turtle Bay / Random House, 1993. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Printed and decorated wrappers. Advance Uncorrected Proof of the first U.S. edition. Some editorial notes and page references on final blank page, pencil mark on referenced page, else near fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Tavistock Square, London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925. Pale green sewn paper boards, printed and decorated in black. First edition, published December 1925 at 2 s.; 2000 copies printed. Cover design by Vanessa Bell. 23pp. 8½ x 5½". Some scattered marks to upper panel and sunning along upper edges, spine split starting, bump to lower fore-tip, neat ink ownership signature to verso of front panel, else a good copy. From the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American animator, illustrator, children's-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions. . WOOLMER 61..

Tavistock Square, London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926. Soft cover. Good. Decorated stiff wraps, design by Vanessa Bell. First edition, issued as Hogarth Essays, First Series #18. One of one thousand copies printed, of which four hundred were pulped according to Woolmer 92. Foxed, wraps soiled and scraped, crown of spine bruised and split. A good copy, suitable for Hogarth Press collectors.

Tavistock Square, London: The Hogarth Press, 1939. Octavo. Orange paper hand-sewn wrappers, lettered in brown. 30pp. 7¼ x 4¾. Bump on the lower fore-tip, ever so slightly sunned at spine edge, else very good or better. From the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American animator, illustrator, children's-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions. First edition; published May 1939 at 6d.; 3000 copies printed. Originally delivered as a lecture to the Group Theatre. According to the British Library, "The company was founded in 1932 by Rupert Doone and Robert Medley, and it soon managed to attract a remarkable group of writers and artists. It produced plays by Shakespeare, T S Eliot, W H Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and Stephen Spender, among others, and also organised a range of cultural activities."    . WOOLMER 443. .

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, limited issue. Number 12 of only one hundred numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author on the colophon. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Brooklyn, NY: Hamilton Easter Field, 1921. Good. Tall octavo. Printed and decorated gray wrappers. First edition. Cover art by Robert Laurent. Full and half-page black and white reproductions of important art exhibited during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Art and artists, exhibitions, books, letters and opinions of the editor/ publisher/noted artist enhance the enjoyment of this highly personal arts monthly. Advertisements for art galleries, art supplies, artist's studios and apartments, private art sales, etc., precede and follow the text. From the private collection of the Bloomsbury / Hogarth Press William Beekman, whose bookplate is laid in. All edges ruffled, snagged with small tears, upper panel has small red smudge, spine cracked and split, else good and thoroughly enjoyable. Field reviews the book, SOME CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH ARTISTS, Birrell & Garnett, London, 1921, [which is available elsewhere on this website] on page 58.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. First American edition. Octavo. Green cloth and decorated boards. 188 pp. Dust jacket design by Enrico Arno. From the collection of the noted Bloomsbury collector William Beekman. Very good in very good, price-clipped dust jacket.  First American edition. Aspects of Love centers on the complicated love triangle of a young soldier named Alexis Golightly, his uncle George Dillingham, and the beautiful French actress Rose Vibert from whom neither man could escape. In 1989 this book served as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's eponymous musical..

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1971. First edition. Black boards, gilt spine. xi,432 pp. First edition, stated third impression (dust jacket inner flap and page 433). Fine copy,with no spotting or staining, in near fine dust jacket by Lee Brown Coye with some light sunning and an insignificant abrasion to spine.  Selected, and with an introduction by August Derleth. Contents include the novels At the Mountains of Madness / The Case of Charles Dexter Ward / The Shunned House / The Dreams of the Witch-House / The Statement of Randolph Carter / The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath / The Silver Key / Through the Gates of the Silver Key (with E. Hoffmann Price). A remarkable collection, scarce in any condition. . JOSHI Eighty Years of Arkham House 76.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. SUMMER 1930. Very good or better.. Octavo, pp. 754-761. Tear-sheets, side-stapled in their original blue printed wrappers. Offprint from THE YALE REVIEW, Summer 1930. Wrapper's lap-edges with small nicks, UK bookseller's pencil notations [original price list advice at £500 laid in] on p.xxix, bookplate of the noted Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press and related Bloomsbury items collector, William Beekman, affixed to verso of upper wrapper, else very good or better. First printing of this review of THE COLLECTED ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES OF AUGUSTINE BIRRELL, reprinted as "The Essays of Augustine Birrell," LIFE AND LETTERS, July 1930. Commenting editorially on Mrs. Woolf's description of Augustine Birrell as a "born writer," the New York TIMES in August, 1930, described Mrs. Woolf as "one of the most subtle, original and modern of writers, herself a born writer." KIRKPATRICK & CLARKE C323.

Isles of Shoals, Off Portsmouth, NH, 1893. First edition. About fine. Two pages, (21.5 x 14.5cm), in ink on Appledore House, - Laighton Brothers, letterhead. About fine.  Hutton (1843 - 1904) was an American poet, essayist and critic born in New York City on August 8, 1843, and educated privately there. From about 1870 he contributed continually to periodicals and was the dramatic critic of the New York Evening Mail from 1872 to 1874. From 1886 to 1898 he was the literary editor of Harper's Magazine. From 1901, until his death from pneumonia in New York City in 1904, he was a lecturer of English at Princeton.   Appledore House was an informal island artists' colony that was active in the late 19th to the early 20th century, and home of Celia Laighton Thaxter, whose poetry and gardens drew her literary, artist, and musician friends for decades. Childe Hassam painted Celia in her famed garden. Thaxter died and was buried on the island in 1894, the poet Hutton was a pallbearer at her funeral. This… Read More

233 Clarendon Street, Boston, 1890. Very good or better. Two page, in ink, recto and verso on folded, quarto sheet of letterhead. Previously folded for mailing, else very good or better.   A polite and informative letter written in response to a query from William P. Blake, Esq. to Phillips Brooks who had served as Rector of Trinity Church since 1869, writing from the church rectory.  After the destruction of the church building on Summer Street in the Boston fire of November 9, 1872, he oversaw the design and construction of the new church building in Copley Square, designed by H. H. Richardson. It appears Blake was inquiring about the possibility of dedicating a stained-glass window in the new church under construction. In the letter, Brooks tells Blake that the only remaining window proposed for the Chapel is intended for a memorial "that which Mr. Suter has intended to give in memory of his daughter." In actuality, the memorial window created by the famed stained-glass artist John LaFarge… Read More