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
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing (with Scribner's "A"), octavo size, 142 pp. "The Old Man and the Sea" is one of Hemingway's best-loved books - written while he was living in Cuba, and the last major work of fiction to be published in his..... More
n.p. Calmann-Levy, 1936. Dufour, D'Emilien. Hardcover. Quarto size, 289 pp., all text in French. Pierre Loti, the pseudonym of Julien Viaud (1850-1923) was educated to be a naval officer, gradually rising in his profession until attaining the rank of captain in 1906. His life at sea, among seafaring men, inspired..... 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
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition, first printing, octavo size, 351 pp. One of the classics of American literature; first published in Paris in 1934, it was immediately banned for its explicit sexuality which led to many court cases, eventually making its way to..... 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