London: Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press, 1943. Hardcover. Tenth printing, duodecimo size, 160 pp. C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) examines the nature of temptation in his epistolary novel "The Screwtape Letters", in the form of letters written by the senior demon Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood, a junior demon still learning... More
New York: Phaedra Publishers, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. First edition in Russian, octavo size, 312 pp., in Russian. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977) achieved both notoriety and fame upon the publication of "Lolita", a novel whose main character becomes obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl; upon becoming her step-father, he becomes sexually... More
Baltimore: The Limited Editions Club [printed by The Garamond Press], 1965. Martin, Fletcher. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500 copies, quarto size, 348 pp., signed by Upton Sinclair and Fletcher Martin, with LEC Monthly Letter. Prior to Upton Sinclair's (1878-1968) exposé of the meat packing industry in his novel... More
[New York]: The Limited Editions Club, [1986]. Ballagh, Robert. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1000, quarto size, 307 pp., signed by Robert Ballagh and Thomas Flanagan, with LEC Monthly Letter. Although James Joyce's (1882-1941) works were often met with resistance when they first appeared in print (most famously in... More
New York: ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins, 1995 / 2005. Smith, Douglas. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 763 total pp., both volumes signed by Gregory Maguire. "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" is a work of revisionist fiction by Gregory Maguire (b. 1954), retelling... More
[New York]: The Limited Editions Club (printed by Heritage Printers, Inc.), (1990). Hejduk, John. Limited Edition. Leather bound. No. 122 of 375 copies, quarto size, 193 pp., signed by John Hejduk, with LEC Monthly Letter. German writer Thomas Mann (1875-1955), a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929... More