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Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1942. First edition. Small octavo. Blue cloth, spine stamped in blue. 169,[1]pp. Frontispiece portrait by Man Ray for "Harper's Bazaar." Ink personal inscription from the author to a friend on the front free endpaper. Selective bibliography and index. Very good or better, pictorial dust jacket by the celebrated designer Alvin Lustig with chips and closed tears, good. First edition. The second volume in New Directions' "Makers of Modern Literature Series." Daiches  (1912 - 2005) was a Scottish literary historian and literary critic, scholar and writer. He wrote extensively on English and Scottish literature and culture. The inscription to his friend and fellow literary historian and critic Harry T. Moore reads: "For Harry Moore / with many memories / of conversation & drink / at Marios & elsewhere / -- and hopes of more / & better of both in / the unpredictable world / after the deluge / David Daiches / April 1943." Daiches' signature is not often seen. "Mr.… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Wallace Morgan:. Original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, applied pictorial paper onlay to front panel. First edition. Color onlay, and eight inserted black and white illustrated plates, by Wallace Morgan. Four page catalogue follows text. Minor shelf wear at toe of spine, else a very good, bright copy without pictorial dust wrapper. BAL: 4557. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Cloth and boards. First U.S. edition. Photographs, including an intriguing 1960 photo of de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Fidel Castro in a powerboat. Translated from the French by Lisa Nesselson. A review copy with the publisher's publicity sheet laid in. Fine in fine dust jacket.

London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1925. Limited Edition. Very good.. Cloth and patterned paper boards, gilt spine.  Title page printed in red and black. T.e.g., all others untrimmed. Introduction by Shane Leslie. First English translation from the French by H. B. V.  Bookplate affixed to front pastedown, offsetting to front and rear endsheets, slight fray to crown of spine, internally very good. Limited edition, number 928 of 1000 copies printed at the Curwen Press. Part of a series of eighteenth-century French romances published by Chapman & Hall in the 1920s. This work was first published in French in 1744, and, according to the translator's note, had not been reprinted in any language since 1782. It is the story of a fairy who transforms herself into a doll after escaping from her husband into a shop, and is thereafter taken up by an Abbé who apparently is a fop and a poor lover. La Poupée makes it her business to teach the young cleric what women really want.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Tall, narrow quarto in yellow padbound printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proofs of the first edition. Filing label across bottom edge, else about fine.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Gilt cloth and decorated boards. Frontispiece portrait, illustrated with line cuts, two halftones, and facsimiles. About fine in a very good dust jacket with a thin abrasion to upper panel.   First edition. "Letters published here for the first time tell the story of a love which was the climax of the poet's emotional life" -- from the dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Northampton: The Hampshire Bookshop, 1930. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Plain, pale green wraps, printed silver foil label. First edition. Facsimile and decorations. One of 450 unnumbered copies, from a total edition of 500. All leaves unopened, untouched, a fine copy. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Northampton, MA: Hampshire Bookshop, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Graves, Louise B.:. Gilt cloth and boards. First edition. Illustrations by Louise B. Graves, a second cousin of Emily Dickinson. Edited by Helen H. Arnold. Tiny spot on front pastedown, else fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/Good. Plastic comb-bound stiff pictorial wrapper. Wrapper considerably tanned around perimeter, trace of filing label residue, internally fine. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition. Foreword by Frans Lasson. Three of the tales were translated from the Danish by P. M. Mitchell and W. D. Paden, the remainder were written in English. Scarce.

New York: Random House, Inc, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Gilt red cloth. First U.S. edition. Fine, in very lightly edgeworn pictorial dust jacket designed by Jeanyee Wong.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Gilt purple cloth. Frontispiece. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket with H. D. on a film set. First edition. An intellectual and historical approach to H. D.'s late poetry that challenges feminist approaches that have tended to reproduce her transcendentalism in various secular forms, placing her out of line with radical and reactionary agendas alike. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Cloth. First edition of the first descriptive bibliography of H. D.'s works. Fine, in pictorial dust jacket featuring H. D. holding her daughter, Perdita. As new copy encased in publisher's shrink wrap (as seen in photo).

London: Chatto & Windus, 1929. Octavo. Plum pebble cloth, gilt spine lettering within decorative border. 275 pp. Dora Carrington designed (and placed) bookplate for Lytton Strachey, and  pencil notation for personal library placement on front pastedown. Spots along fore-edge, spine sunned, else very good in a very good, dusty dust jacket. From the collection of William Beekman.  First edition. David Garnett was an intimate friend to both Carrington and Strachey. The bookplate designed by Carrington for Strachey, ca. 1929-31, is printed in black bearing the legend "Lytton Strachey" set on a rococo cartouche with folded edges, against a trellised background, approx. 1 x 3/4 in. Carrington wrote of this bookplate in her diary, 20 March 1931, "As I stuck the book plates in with Lytton I suddenly thought of Sothebys and the book plates in some books I had looked at, when Lytton was bidding for a book and I thought: These books will one day be looked at by those gloomy faced booksellers and buyers. And… Read More

Boston: John W. Luce & Company, 1919. First edition. Small octavo. Cloth and maroon boards stamped in gilt. First American edition, precedes British edition by two years. Spine a bit faded, small rub on upper panel, lower right, former owner's name and date on front free endpaper, else a very good or better copy without a dust jacket, but with the requisite watermark.  Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878-1957), was an Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels, and essays.  The mystical city of Bethmoora, first mentioned in Dunsany's A Dreamer's Tales, was incorporated into The Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft. Dunsany also invented creatures, like gnoles and gibbelins, that are likely the models for the zoogs and ghasts of Lovecraft's Dreamlands.