Search Results: MODERN FIRSTS from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

London: Constable, 1930. First UK edition. 8vo, (viii) 162pp. Orig. brown buckram, plain dj dusty wi/ a couple of small chips at edges o/w vgc. Limited to 750 copies. Bookplate of Maxwell Steinhardt. Unusual in dust jacket.

Random House, NY. 1955. 1st edition. 8vo. 375pp. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket that has some rubbing at the top and bottom of the spine as well as along the edge tips. Neat POI on dedication page.

New York: Heron Press, 1930. Lithographs by Edgar Parin d'Aulaire. 8vo, 80pp. Limited to 750 copies. Translated from the German, a story about a Mamaloi, or voodoo priestess in Haiti. Orig. red cloth boards & pictorial black & white title label. The lithographs by d'Aulaire are quite striking.

New York: Liveright, 1933. First American edition. 8vo, 298pp. A very good copy, the spine a bit sunned in the original orange publisher's cloth with the the front panel and inside flap of the rare dust jacket loosely laid in. Black and gold title band. The jacket misprinted and reads "Death In The Wood" on both the front panel and the inside flap. Overall, a very nice square, tight copy. A notable highspot and rarity of 20th Century literature. As Liveright declared bankruptcy, most of the books were either pulped or sold off, making copies extremely rare.

Lermontov, Michael. The Demon. Translated into English by Gerard Shelley with an introduction by Prince Mirsky. The Richards Press, London 1930. Top edge gilt, uncut. Vellum spine & hardboard, printed dj dusty, back flap lge. ruffle & chip, fine/good+. Limited edition, # 42 of 325 copies.

The Vanguard Press, NY. 1948. 1st edition. 8vo, xi, 373pp. A fine copy in a lightly rubbed near fine dust jacket. Bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Overall, a bright, attractive copy that is uncommon in this condition. The fifth volume in the great "Testament Of Man" series.

Houghton Mifflin. First edition, limited to 250 copies. Roy. 8vo, xx, 356pp. Orig. tan cloth spine, title label, hardboard, uncut foredge. Faint dark mark on spine, orig. slip box chipped at edges o/w very good condition. Limited to 250 copies.

Hardcover. Cocteau, Jean. Enfants Terribles. Translated by Samuel Putnam. Brewer & Warren Inc, NY 1930, 1st US edition of the author's most famous novel. 176pp & 1pp. Orig. black cloth, gilt title, pic dj. Half inch section of dj spine missing and ditto on the front, o/w good condition. Printed in Eric Gill's sans-serif type design. The dust jacket is very rare in any condition.

New York: Random House, 1954. First edition, later printing. Hardcover. Very good. The Fable" won both the Pulitzer Prize & the National Book Award in 1955. It is a story of World War I, set in the trenches in France. Faulkner fought in the war. 8vo, 437pp, orig. red cloth, dec dj, vg+ condition with owners bookplate on ffep.

London: Elkin Mathews, 1915. First edition. 8vo, (i-vi) vii-viii, 1-111 (112 printer's imprint). Photogravure frontis of the author. Orig. gray boards with gray linen spine stamped in black. Dunsany's "prismatic cities and unheard-of rites are touched with a sureness which only mastery can engender and we thrill with a sense of actual participation in his secret mysteries."- Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, p. 100; Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 578; Bleiler (1978) p. 65; Reginald 04612; Anderson 9.a.1. Boards a bit rubbed and bumped, slt. worn at corner tips, spine uniformly tanned, inner hinge starting, but a pleasant copy.

Hardcover. Clewes, Dorothy. The Golden Eagle. Coward-McCann, NY. 1962. 1st US edition. 8vo, 189pp. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, un-priceclipped. Stolen paintings and murder against the background of a beautiful Italian town.

London: Wm. Heinemann, 1943. 8vo, 100pp, purple cloth, dec dj, vg+.

Hardcover. Caldwell, Erskine. A House in the Uplands. Duell Sloan & Pearce, NY 1946, 1st edition. 8vo, 238pp, green cloth & pic dj, vg+/vg+. Dj is not price-clipped; price of $2.50 on flap.

Macmillan, London 1925, 2nd edition. 8vo, 316pp, orig. navy & gilt cloth, pp dj, fine/fine. Irish literature.

Hardcover. Jonathan Cape, London 1977, 1st UK edition. 8vo, 204pp, frontis. map. Orig. blue hardboard, gold title. With the dust jacket, un-price clipped. Very fine condition in very fine dj. Spence 272.

New York: Macmillan, 1904. Hardcover. Very good. Hearn, son of a Greek mother and Irish father, was born in Greece and became a Japanese citizen after marrying Koizumi Setsuko, the daughter of a prominent family. In 1895, he took the name Koizumi Yakumo (Eight Clouds). This work is his introduction to Japan of the Meiji era, and describes the transition from feudal to a more modern society. 8vo, color frontispiece, v, 541pp, teg, ads (2). Original gilt and black stamped tan cloth, with gilt title and gilt stylized chrysanthemum design. Very slt rubbed at spine ends, o/w very good condition. With original brown dj, title in green at dj spine, slt chipped at spine ends. Internally, small area of light offsetting at front free end paper from newspaper article loosely inserted. Article entitled "Spencer on Japan, Full Text of the Philosopher's Letter, He Tells Baron Kentaro Kaneko that Americans And Europeans Should be Kept at Arm's Length". BAL 7941.

New York: Doubleday Doran & Co, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 35th thousand printed on spine of dj only. Undated, Dec 1928. 8vo, 377 pp, black cloth, pic dj. Spine browned & chipped at edges, owner's inscription, o/w good+.

London: George Allen,, 1934. 1st UK edition. Hardcover. A Novel. 642pp, 2pp ads. Blue cloth, dec dj, vg+ condition.

New York: Knopf, 1934. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo, (vi) 428pp, colophon page. Black covers, dec dj 2 sml. chips at top o/w vg+.

The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania, 1985, 1st edition. Limited edition. 8vo, 379pp. A very good copy in brown leather binding with gilt stamping and red satin ribbon marker. Moderate edgewear to top edges and top of spine. Fine Arbor House trade dust jacket included.