London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. First separate printing, no. 436 of 530 copies, octavo size, 26 pp., signed by GK Chesterton. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was a major writer of novels, poetry, and Christian apologetics; he is perhaps best known for his series of..... More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, c. 1936. Wilson, Edward A. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 13 of 280 copies, octavo size, [68] pp., signed by Archie Binns and Edward A. Wilson. A choice excerpt from American author Archie Binns' (1899-1971) 1934 novel, "Lightship", being a nautical romance that takes place on..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2009. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 29 of 300 copies, quarto size, 164 pp., with prospectus and original invoice. Leonard Michaels’ (1933-2003) stories focused on the character of Raphael Nachman, "loyal to friends, bashful with women, reverent before the transcendent order of mathematics and music" (per..... More
San Francisco: Printed by Andrew Hoyem, 1976. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. No binding. One of 150 copies, quarto size. John Hoyer Updike (1932-2009), one of only three authors to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, is probably best known today for his "Rabbit" series. He often..... More