Literature from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First edition. A very good plus copy with light wear at the extremities, few stains on rear cover, without the jacket. 8vo (20.6 x 14 cm). 331, xix, [1] pages. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (lettering faded). Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Sam Kantar(?) / before dinner. God… Read more about this item

London: The Lanthorn Press for S. C. Brown Langham & Co, 1905. First edition. 8vo. 230 pages. Original blue cloth (hinges cracked, wear at ends of spine, rubbing to covers). Provenance: Thomas Huws Davies (signature on front free endpaper, pencilled notes on five pages). A good copy with notes by the Welsh secretary to the Commissioners of Church Temporalities… Read more about this item

Hollywood: Galloping Pony Press, 1958. First edition, one of 125 unnumbered copies "printed and bound by Kathryn Peck in the years 1957 & 1958" [the colophon]. Internally clean and fresh. 8vo. 103, [2] pages. Four full-page plates by Washburn (one offset onto text). Original patterned cloth, printed paper title label on front cover; dust jacket (chipped with loss… Read more about this item

2011: Dalkey Archive Press, Champaign; London. First edition. A near fine copy and surprisingly scarce. 8 x 5.5 inches. 293 pages. Original printed wrappers. "Best known for his complex and beautiful novels--regularly compared to those of Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo--Joseph McElroy is equally at home in the short story, having written numerous pieces over the… Read more about this item

Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1981. First edition. A near-fine copy. 8.75 x 6.5 inches. 473 pages. Original red cloth.

London: A. Strahan for Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme and Brown and John Murray, 1819. Covers bowed, first gathering cut short at bottom, some pale foxing. 12mo (16.4 x 9.5 cm). Engraved additional title and two plates by Charles Heath after Richard Westall. Contemporary full vellum, gilt border on sides, smooth spine gilt, leather letting-piece. Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplate;… Read more about this item

Tokyo, New York, London: IBC Publishing, 2004. First edition thus, revised from the original 1981 edition. A fine, very clean copy. 8vo. 251 pages. Black cloth; dust jacket. With branded Japanese bookmark. Translated by Ross and Shika Mackenzie. The revised version of the debut novel by Soji Shimada, a Japanese musician and writer on astrology who has written… Read more about this item

Paris: Chaubert and Herissant, 1759. Spine label chipped, other wear and peeling to leather, internally clean. 12mo (163 x 103 mm). xx, 237, [3] pages. Contemporary French mottled sheep, spine gilt with flowers. First edition. The philologist Etienne Barbazan (1694-1770) specialized in manuscripts from the Middle Ages, and notably contributed to reviving forgotten texts. The ordene of chivalry… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. A fine copy, tear to acetate. 4to. [32] pages. Original cloth-backed printed boards; acetate jacket. First edition, limited issue, number 126 of 250 copies in boards signed by McClure. Designed and printed by Noel Young and Graham Mackintosh.

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1901. Cloth lightly buckled on front cover, light wear at extremities, title lightly spotted, generally a solid, presentable copy. 8vo. 306 pages, [4] ads, 32-page ads. Original cloth, lettered in black on front cover, in gilt on spine. First edition of the fourth and last of the Galsworthy novels written under the "Sinjohn" pseudonym. One of… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965. A near-fine copy, the spine gilt-lettering slightly age-toned; the jacket with a few small nicks at edges and a few small smudges, but generally near-fine. 8vo. 570 pages. Original black cloth; printed dust jacket designed by Günter Grass. First American edition. Translated by Ralph Manheim. This is the third and last… Read more about this item

Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1902. One of 425 copies printed on Japan vellum. Near-fine, with modest soiling and a few short tears. 13.4 x 8.8 cm. Original printed wrappers. Printed at the press of George D. Loring, Portland, Maine. With folded advertisement for the Brocade Series laid-in.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. Some foxing; light wear at extremities, spine faded; lacks jacket. A good, sound copy. 8vo. 271 pages. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, second issue with "shit" expurgated on p. 219. Firmage A2.

[New York]: The Grenfell Press, 1992. Fine. 8vo. 82, [1] pages. Original decorated paper wrappers, printed paper label on cover and spine. One of 200 copies signed by Laughlin.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Light shelfwear. 8vo. 291 pages. Original printed wrappers, the front cover die cut in shape of the leaves on the cover. Advance uncorrected proof, signed by Lahiri. With a circular TLS laid-in from Houghton Mifflin's marketing department "Enclosed please find an autographed special edition galley...

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. Near-fine (a few trifling spots on cloth) in a fine, unclipped jacket. 8vo. 431 pages. Original beige cloth, title in red on spine, publisher's name in pink; printed dust jacket. First American edition. Her fame unfairly outstripped by her husband Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles' story "Two Serious Ladies" is one of… Read more about this item

Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. Second edition. One of 425 copies printed on Japan vellum. Slight wear but a fine, unopened copy. 13.4 x 8.8 cm. Original printed wrappers, unopened. Printed at the press of George D. Loring, Portland, Maine. With folded advertisement for the Brocade Series laid-in.

Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1902. One of 425 copies printed on Japan vellum. Near-fine, with modest soiling and a few short tears. 13.4 x 8.8 cm. Original printed wrappers. Printed at the press of George D. Loring, Portland, Maine.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. Front hinge cracked, some darkening to spine, otherwise a clean copy. 8vo. 288 pages. Plates. Special binding of tan cloth, suede-lettering piece on front cover, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. First edition, number 102 of 150 copies of the Autograph Edition, signed by Howells. The trade edition, bound in green… Read more about this item

New York: Viking, 1985. A fine copy. 8vo. Original quarter cloth; dust jacket. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Cowley to a fellow editor on the half-title.