GHOSTS (AUTHOR SIGNED COPY) by Auster, Paul - 1986

New York: Aloe Editions. Fine. 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Condition: Fine. Aloe Editions 1973. Octavo. 4 pages. Original gray printed wrappers, stiched at the spine as published. Printed from the original manuscript in an edition of seventy-four numbered & twenty-six lettered copies. This is copy #9. Also includes Gertrude Stein's Last Will & Testament of which 150 copies were printed for her friends in February 1974, the centennial of her birth. 2 items. Authors; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Hodder & Soughton. Very Good+. 1913. Hardcover. Clean violet cloth with heavily gilt decorated front cover & spine. Text tight, clean & intact. Pictorial endpapers & frontispiece. Illustrated with color tipped in plates & B/W drawing illustrations. VG original pictorial gift box. Theatre, Entertainment; Color & B/W Illus.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 198 pages .

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green Longmans. Very Good. 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. 3/4 red leather over slightly faded red cloth. Spine with five raised bands and gilt decorated panels. Marble endpapers and page edges. Pictorial frontispiece & half-title page. Illustrated with full page engravings. Contents; Book 1 - 5 and Calderon the Courtier, in one volume. Mystical fiction with a spiritual lesson. Methuen Castle Armorial Book Plate inside front cover. Leaf 3 & 4 lightly foxed. Fiction; Engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 400 pages .

London: Chapman and Hall. Good+. 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. Half red leather over marbled boards & matching endpapers. Ribbed spine with gilt decorated panels. Marbled page edges. Text tight, clean & intact. Pictorial frontispieces. Vol. #1, 384pp plus 25 b/w plates; Vol. #2, 360pp plus 22 b/w plates by Phiz. Armorial coat of arms book-plate of its original or subsequent owner "Frederic Straker." Both texts with a hint of foxing. Lower spine lables indicating Vol 1&2 are chipped. Literature, Military Novel; Engraved illus.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 844 pages .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+. 1924. Limited/Signed/Numbered. Hardcover. Limited edition #59/150. Signed by the author. Pink cloth spine holds paper spine label . Floral decorated black cloth. Deckle page edges. Black paper covered slip case with light edge wear. Additional spine label attached to rear endpaper. Literature, Novel, Fiction ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 286 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Aloe Editions. Fine. 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Condition: Fine. Aloe Editions 1973. Octavo. 4 pages. Original gray printed wrappers, stiched at the spine as published. Printed from the original manuscript in an edition of seventy-four numbered & twenty-six lettered copies. This is copy #9. Also includes Gertrude Stein's Last Will & Testament of which 150 copies were printed for her friends in February 1974, the centennial of her birth. 2 items. Authors; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Hodder & Soughton. Very Good+. 1913. Hardcover. Clean violet cloth with heavily gilt decorated front cover & spine. Text tight, clean & intact. Pictorial endpapers & frontispiece. Illustrated with color tipped in plates & B/W drawing illustrations. VG original pictorial gift box. Theatre, Entertainment; Color & B/W Illus.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 198 pages .

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green Longmans. Very Good. 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. 3/4 red leather over slightly faded red cloth. Spine with five raised bands and gilt decorated panels. Marble endpapers and page edges. Pictorial frontispiece & half-title page. Illustrated with full page engravings. Contents; Book 1 - 5 and Calderon the Courtier, in one volume. Mystical fiction with a spiritual lesson. Methuen Castle Armorial Book Plate inside front cover. Leaf 3 & 4 lightly foxed. Fiction; Engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 400 pages .

London: Chapman and Hall. Good+. 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. Half red leather over marbled boards & matching endpapers. Ribbed spine with gilt decorated panels. Marbled page edges. Text tight, clean & intact. Pictorial frontispieces. Vol. #1, 384pp plus 25 b/w plates; Vol. #2, 360pp plus 22 b/w plates by Phiz. Armorial coat of arms book-plate of its original or subsequent owner "Frederic Straker." Both texts with a hint of foxing. Lower spine lables indicating Vol 1&2 are chipped. Literature, Military Novel; Engraved illus.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 844 pages .

London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd.. Very Good+. 1848-54. Hardcover. Vols. 1 & 2) My Novels, Varieties of English Life. 1854; 802pp. Publisher, Rutledge & Co. Vol. 3) The Disowned, 1852; 312pp. Vol. 4) Zanoni, 1853; 303pp. Vol.5) Eugene Aram, A Tale, 1849; 296pp. Vol. 6) Paul Clifford, 1848; 308pp. Vol. 7) Night and Morning, 1851; 367pp. Vol. 8) Pelham, Adventures of a Gentleman, 1849; 304pp. Vol. 9) Devereux, 1852; 303pp. Vol. 10) Godolphin, 1850; 224pp. Vol. 11) Rienzi, The last of the Roman Tribunes, 1848; 308pp. Vol.12) The Last Days of Pompeii, 1850; 304pp. Vol.13) Harold, The Last of the Saxon Kings, 1853; 338pp. Vol.14) Lucretia, the Children of Night, 1853; 334pp. Vol. 15) Last of the Barons, 1850; 464pp. Clean full red leather. Spine with raised bands and bright gilt titles. All edges bright gilt. Inner gilt dentelle. All volumes have an engraved frontispiece by various illustrators. All texts are tight, clean & Intact. Some volumes contain the prior owners armorial… Read More