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Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 34 of one hundred fifty copies, signed and numbered by the author, of the fourth installment of his autobiography. 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.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Osbert Lancaster:. Gilt cloth. Frontis, plates, and jacket design by Osbert Lancaster. First edition of this collection of essays on subjects both domestic and foreign, and, indeed, presented under the headings: "English," and "Foreign." Some foxing to edges and to the concluding leaves, else very good in a bright pictorial dust jacket. The dust jacket is a pictorial recreation by Lancaster of a 1906 photograph of Nancy Mitford, aged two, with her mother and father, the Lord and Lady Redesdale. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 22 of one hundred fifty copies, signed and numbered by the author, of the second installment of his autobiography. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Fine, rare promotional leaflet laid in, 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.

New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1930. First edition. Good or better.. Cloth, and decorated boards, matching endsheets. The ownership signature of her occasional publisher, James Laughlin appears on the first free endsheet. Spine faded, light wear to corners and edges, but a good or better copy, lacking the dust jacket.  First U.S. edition of the author's first trade book, having been published by the Black Sun Press in a deluxe edition of one hundred fifty copies in the previous year. This book is dedicated to Laurence Vail, the Dada sculptor and writer, who Boyle met in 1928. Vail was then married to Peggy Guggenheim. Boyle and Vail lived together between 1929 until 1932 when, following their divorces, they married; they were divorced in 1943.

London: Duckworth, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth and pictorial boards. Pictorial endsheets. Bibliographies of represented poets are preceded by some particularly snarky press clippings - to which Ms. Sitwell promises to respond. Spine label chipped, small ink star on free endsheet, else very good. First edition, first printing, second issue, being the first edition sheets with cancel half-title and title page. An anthology that includes the poets Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell; Aldous Huxley, and Goeffrey Cookson, among others. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. Quarto. Cloth. Plates. Bookplate to front pastedown, else a very good or better copy in a largely intact dust jacket with some loss at the margins of the rear panel. First edition thus, being a considerably revised and expanded version of THE DISAPPEARING CITY, as Wright states in his Afterword in this remarkable edition. SWEENEY 609.

Tavistock Square, London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1929. Octavo. Orange cloth lettered in red; orange dust jacket lettered in red. 160 pp. 7 ½ x 4 ⅞  Toe of spine appears to have been exposed to some damp as does the dust jacket in this area (see photo), none of which has bled to the textblock; offsetting to the endsheets, tiny Cambridge UK bookseller's label to front pastedown, else good in the aforementioned dust jacket with minor chips at crown and toe of spine. First edition, published April 1929 at 3s.6d.; 2,250 copies printed. "This volume is an important contribution to the history of criticism. It deals historically with the variations of literary opinion .... " -- from the dust jacket facing panel. Kellett disabused absolutists of the notion that books are read the same way by successive generations. . WOOLMER 197.

London: Chatto & Windus, 2002. First Edition. Thick octavo. Black cloth, silver spine. 422 pp. Decorated endpapers. Leaves slightly toned at edges, else about fine in fine dust jacket.  A Whistling Woman stands on its own while forming the conclusion to Byatt's quartet depicting the clashing forces in English life from the early 1950s to 1970. The first three novels are: The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. First edition. Near fine.. Blue cloth. Ownership inscription of Boyle's occasional publisher, James Laughlin on the front free endsheet. Boards and spine heavily sunned, else a very near fine copy, without the dust jacket. Seemingly scarce.  First edition. A fine collection of short stories featuring the title story and seventeen others, including "Astronomer's Wife," "Keep Your Pity, "Your Body is a Jewel Box," and "Winter in Italy," among others.

New York: Random House, 1998. First trade edition. Thick octavo. Black cloth and boards, gilt spine. 537,[7] pp. Small crease in upper first free endpaper, else a near fine copy in a very good or better dust jacket with minor shelf wear at lower edge of front panel.  Irving brings us a wonderful love story, one that happens after Ruth Cole is a widow and a mother and then falls in love for the very first time. .

New York: Harper & Row, 1978. Very good.. Printed wrappers. Heraldic drawings by Scott-Giles (though not all were printed). Title label across bottom edge, staple in upper wrapper, but a very good copy, and of particular interest to Lord Peter Wimsey devotees. Uncorrected page proofs of the first U.S. edition. From the "Brief Description" that precedes the half-title: "During the thirties and forties Dorothy L. Sayers had a long and continuing correspondence with C. W. Scott-Giles, Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary, a man extremely knowledgeable in heraldry. Together they explored the history of the Wimsey family taking it back as far as the Norman Conquest.

[Southport, UK]: Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2003. First, limited edition. Yellow card stapled wrappers, paper label. 28 pp. Published in a limited edition of 300 copies, of which 50 copies have been signed by the author on the title page. This is the fourth in the Virginia Woolf Society's printed  Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lectures. A fine, unmarked copy of an elegantly presented lecture that makes clear that Woolf never wrote a sentence that didn't have a connection or ramification in the greater world experience of her imagined characters. Scarce. .

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. One of two hundred copies numbered and signed by the author. Black and white half-tones. 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.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1979. Near fine. Red cloth, title stamped in gilt. Introduction by Ian Parsons, Woolf's colleague when the Hogarth Press joined Chatto & Windus, and the husband of the woman, Margaret Tulip (Trekkie) Ritchie Parsons, with whom he fell in love after the death of his wife Virginia in March, 1941. Neat bookseller's label affixed to the pastedown, some minor offsetting to endpapers, top edge a bit dusty, else near fine in a very good dust jacket, lightly toned at edges, and designed by Trekkie Ritchie (Parsons). First new edition of The Wise Virgins, first published during the outbreak of World War I in 1914. This was Leonard Woolf's second novel, published two years after the author's marriage to Virginia Stephen, and begun during their honeymoon. The autobiographical elements of the book are well documented in Quentin Bell's Virginia Woolf A Biography, in which Bell quotes from Virginia Woolf's Diary, 31 January 1915, "it's a remarkable book: very bad in parts; first rate… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Red cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Signed on the title page in bookseller's presence. A fine, as new copy in a pristine pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Wilder's second novel is set in 1903 at a health resort in Badenweiler, Germany. Jeremy Webb, a young concert violinist of the Cleveland Orchestra, has had a nervous breakdown onstage and is sent to the resort in an effort to restore his equilibrium. While casting about for his sanity he encounters a devastatingly beautiful fellow inmate, Mrs. Clara Mulpas, who he decides will fall for his line - she doesn't. She has sworn off men and is adamantly impervious to his suit. Wilder credits Anton Chekhov's short stories for his inspiration. I personally don't remember Chekhov divulging  a  love interest's constipation but I concede I haven't read his entire oeuvre.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1975. About fine./Very good.. Octavo. Orange gilt boards. First edition. Pictorial jacket design by Christopher Cornford. About fine but for being cased upside down in its binding (not seen any others listed as such), in very good or better unclipped dust jacket.

London: Hogarth Press, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Orange cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine. x,371[1]pp. 8 ¾ x 5 ½. Vanessa Bell dust jacket. Chronological bibliography and an index. Some offsetting from the wraps to free endpapers, spine lightly sunned, else a very good or better copy in an unclipped, white dust jacket printed in orange and black, toned at edges, sunned at spine. Formerly in 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, first printing. Edited by Leonard Woolf, who explains in the preface it was his hope to extract and distill entries culled from 26 volumes of diaries that related to her own writing, and indeed, the writing process and life as she lived it. While she began keeping diaries in 1915, this edition contains excerpts from August 1918 where, in… Read More