New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc. / Viking Penguin, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing (see below for dates and specifics on the subsequent three volumes), all octavo size, 1132 total pp., [first and third volumes] signed by the author using both names, [second volume only] signed as "Anne Rice" The..... More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 316 pp. Susan Sontag (1933-2004) almost defined the values and issues of the sixties, and in fact she has sometimes been referred to as "one of the most influential critics of her generation" (n.b., per Wiki)..... More

London: The Hogarth Press, 1958. Hardcover. Eighth printing, duodecimo size, 299 pp., in the publisher's dust jacket. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) needs no introduction, the founder with her husband Leonard of the Hogarth Press and, with her brother's friends, one of the original members of the Bloomsbury Group. Many of..... More

Stanford, California: James Ladd Delkin, 1948. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 41 pp. Alan Watts (1915-1973) was a British poet and philosopher, best known for popularizing Eastern religion, philosophy and poetry for a Western audience, most notably the counter-culture youth in the Bay Area and New York in the..... More

London: The Hogarth Press, 1947. 4th Printing. Hardcover. The fourth printing of the first edition, duodecimo size, 280 pp. Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (1904-1986), friend of both W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender, was living in Weimar Germany and witnessed the rise of Nazism. It was while there that we wrote..... More