London: The Hogarth Press, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 79 pp. Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) remains highly regarded today for his novels A Passage to India, Howard's End, and A Room with a View; in fact, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 13 different years..... More
Toronto: Collins Publishers, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. First Canadian edition, octavo size, 637 pp., signed by John Fowles. First Edition stated, first Canadian edition. The author was named by the Times newspaper of UK as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945, perhaps best known for his novel..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 445 pp. In "The French Lieutenant's Woman", English writer John Fowles (1926-2005) crafts a ground-breaking work of historical fiction, set in the Victorian era; considered an example of historiographic metafiction, the novel uses real historical events to shape the..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1992. Kitaj, R.B. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 196 of 200, folio size, 63 pp., signed by Allen Ginsberg and R.B. Kitaj. Written three years after the death of his mother, Ginsberg focused on a cryptic note left to him by her, the mother who had..... More
New York: Firsts & Company, 1989. Limited Edition. Wraps. No. 100 of 250 copies, quarto size, [17] pp., signed by Graham Greene. English author Graham Greene (1904-1991) is best known for his Catholic novels such as "The Power and the Glory" and "The End of the Affair", which explore modern..... More
New York: Brewer and Warren Inc., 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, duodecimo size, 224 pp. Numerous books have been written on the art of love and relationships, but few in the realm of parody have the biting wit contained in Emily Hahn's (1905-1997) "Seductio ad Absurdum", a satirical look..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 150 copies, octavo size, 367 pp., signed by Carl Hiaasen. Carl Hiaasen (b. 1953) earned a degree in journalism and went on to become an investigative reporter, writing novels in his spare time. His work centres on his home..... More
Cambridge: Printed at the University Printing House for The Limited Editions Club, 1969. Nebel, Gustave. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, duodecimo size, 112 pp. signed by Gustave Nebel, with prospectus and announcement. Henry James (1843-1916) was an American author who wrote in the genre of both literary realism..... More
[San Francisco]: Cecil and James Johnson [Windsor Press], [1930]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 17 of 50 copies (not for sale, only "for distribution among our friends"), sixmo size, 22 unnumbered pp. A romantic fantasy imposed on a chance encounter with Robert Louis Stevenson, in which the package he was carrying..... More
New York: Random House, (1948). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 253 pp. A charming tale of one man's adventure in Ballynabun, Ireland, "There Was A Little Man" is a novel written by husband-and-wife team Guy Pearce Jones and Constance Bridges Jones. The book was also the basis of..... More
San Francisco: The Ascensius Press, 1992. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of about 50 copies, quarto size, 52 pp. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is considered by many to be one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent authors, fusing elements of realism with the fantastic; he is known for his use of an isolated..... More
[New York / South Portland, Maine]: The Limited Editions Club [printed at the Shagbark Press], (1987). Michael Hafftka. Limited Edition. Wraps. No. 351 of 800, quarto size, 56 pp., signed by Michael Hafftka. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is considered by many to be one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent authors, fusing..... More
[Frankfurt]: Buchergilde Gutenberg, [1986]. Naumann, Hermann. Limited Edition. Leather. No. VI of 150 copies, quarto size, 72 pp., signed by Hermann Naumann, with accompanying signed print. Betrachtung (in English Meditation, or Contemplation) is a collection of eighteen short stories by Kafka written between 1904 and 1912, and was his first..... More
Kentfield, California: The Allen Press, 1972. Limited Edition. Folio in a case. One of 140 copies, folio size, 79 pp., with original prospectus. The thirty-seventh limited edition from The Allen Press. "Christopher Columbus" is a philosophical tragedy written by Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957), and published posthumously by his widow;..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984. Hardcover. Octavo size, 90 pp., signed by Jamaica Kincaid. The first published collection of short stories by the Caribbean novelist Jamaica Kincaid, the collection consists of ten inter-connected stories (three of which were first published in this volume); Kincaid was awarded the Morton Dauwen..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [ca. 1916]. Dunn, Harvey and Fischer, Anton Otto. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 349 pp., signed by Peter B. Kyne. Peter Bernard Kyne, a San Francisco native, was an novelist who wrote in the early half of the twentieth century. Many of his books were made into..... More
London: Martin Secker, (1926). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, duodecimo size, 480 pp. David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist and poet, best known for his books "Women in Love", "Sons and Lovers", and "Lady Chatterly's Lover", which deal with life in an increasingly industrial setting; a forceful writer..... More
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Berkeley: Parnassus Press, c. 1968. Robbins, Ruth; Garraty, Gail; Chodos-Irvine, Margaret. Hardcover. All volumes octavo size, see below for pagination, three of the six volumes signed by Ursula K. Le Guin. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was an American fantasy and science fiction author of enormous magnitude and influence; a...... 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
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. First US edition, duodecimo size, 67 pp. C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), best known for his fantasy series "The Chronicles of Narnia" and his nonfiction Christian apologetic works, gave a series of lectures at King's College at Newcastle University which was published..... More
New York: The Century Co, 1902. Burns, M.J. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing in book form, duodecimo size, 264 pp. Jack London's (1876-1916) fourth published work (October of 1902) and his only juvenile novel, first published in St. Nicholas Magazine a few months earlier (July 1902 - hence their name..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1955. Hardcover. Octavo size, 209 pp. The story of the "unsinkable ship", while tragic in the extreme to all who lived through it - or whose lives were lost - continues to fascinate all, even today, over 100 years after the disaster. The ship..... 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
London: The Verona Press [Printed at the Officina Bodoni, Verona, 1939], 1939. Laurencin, Marie. Limited Edition. Leather. No. 10 of 30 de luxe copies, quarto size, 328 pp., signed by Marie Laurencin (twice). Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888-1923), born and raised in New Zealand, moved to the UK at the age..... More
New York: Saturday Review Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 284 pp., signed by Charles McCarry. Charles McCarry (1930-2019) brings his literary sensibilities melded with his experience working as an undercover operative for the United States Central Intelligence Agency in his first novel, "The Miernik Dossier", a...... More