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THE WAR IN THE AIR
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THE WAR IN THE AIR

by Wells, H.G.

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1908. And particularly how Mr. Bert Smallways fared while it lasted. With Illustrations by A.C. Michael. London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this extraordinary tale of a Cockney cycle mechanic who is carried off by a drifting balloon and is then caught up in a surprise German air attack on New York City -- which in turn precipitates the collapse of civilization. Though this book typifies Wells's fantastic "fiction about the future" (and includes a remarkable forecast of aerial warfare), it is perhaps more noteworthy as one of his earliest warnings about "the German menace" -- a topic to which he would devote increased attention over the coming years. This copy is in Currey's binding "A" (with lettering in gilt on both the front cover and the spine, and with no mounted color plate). This is a very good-plus copy (general minor rubbing at the edges, spine slightly faded); atypically, the original endpapers are intact. Wells Soc.… Read More
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TALES OF SPACE AND TIME
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TALES OF SPACE AND TIME

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1900. [a handsome copy] London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original light brown cloth decorated in dark brown. First Edition of this collection of five fantastic tales: "The Crystal Egg," "The Star," "A Story of the Stone Age," "A Story of the Days to Come" and "The Man Who Could Work Miracles." "The Crystal Egg," for example, involves Martians -- like THE WAR OF THE WORLDS; an antiquarian shopkeeper discovers that by peering into a certain crystal egg at an angle of precisely 137 degrees, he can see, and ultimately communicate with, Martians who apparently sent the egg as a sort of Eye on Earth. Said communication ends when the shopkeeper is discovered dead in his shop, clutching the egg in his hand. This British edition, though dated 1900, was actually published in late 1899 (the British Library copy was received on November 21st); although the American edition is dated 1899, it is considered to have been issued later than this one. This is a just-about-fine,… Read More
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THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY [in 24 fortnightly parts]
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THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY [in 24 fortnightly parts]

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1919. Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind. London: George Newnes, [Nov 1919 - Nov 1920]. Original color pictorial wrappers. First Appearance of this grandiose work, in the 24 fortnightly wrappered parts as originally issued. [Wells] and his friends on the League of Nations committee had discussed text­books and methods of education, as a way of preventing further wars, but... they refused, on the grounds of lack of time, lack of formal preparation, and unwillingness to give the effort. Wells decided that he must do it himself. He and Jane agreed to take a year to research, formulate, and write a book designed to replace the histories then available. It was a remarkable gamble. The income from Wells's past writing would inevitably dry up during such a year. The boys were still at school and in university,... [and] Wells was responsible for the care and education of his child by Rebecca West... So, late in 1918, about Christmas, H.G. and Jane sat down to begin work on what would be one of the… Read More
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JOAN AND PETER. The Story of an Education
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JOAN AND PETER. The Story of an Education

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1918. [inscribed by Stephen Vincent Benét] New York: The Macmillan Company, 1918. 6 pp undated ads. Original red cloth. First American Edition of this novel published a few months before the Armistice. It was an unpleasant book, turgid, didactic and cantankerous: one critic called it a "hymn of hate." It covered the years from 1893 to 1918, and though it was notionally the story of the education of Joan and Peter the book was dominated by the sour-tempered diatribes of Oswald, the scientist, empire-builder and educator. Oswald is a disappointed man, who vents his spleen on everything and everyone... H.G. had been living through a world disaster, and after four years his accumulated resentment at the "uneducated blockheads" who had caused it -- and who still refused to heed his warnings -- poured out in a torrent of recrimination [Mackenzie]. Near-fine condition (spine gilt dull as usual for this wartime book, rear endpaper cracked). See Wells Soc. 69 and Hammond A15. This copy is inscribed by the… Read More
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THE BOOK OF THE HOMELESS [Large Paper Copy]

THE BOOK OF THE HOMELESS [Large Paper Copy]

by Wharton, Edith

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1916. (Le Livre des Sans-Foyer). Original Articles in Verse and Prose / Illustrations reproduced from Original Paintings & Drawings. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. Original blue-grey paper-covered boards with tan cloth spine. First (and only) Edition, of which this is Copy No. 70 of the 125 numbered large-paper copies printed on Van Gelder paper, signed by D.B. Updike of The Merrymount Press. (In addition to 2000 trade copies, there were 175 large-paper copies -- #s 1-50 on French hand-made paper, and #s 51-175 on Van Gelder paper.) Edited and organized by Edith Wharton, this book's proceeds went to the people of Belgium and France made homeless by the Great War -- especially the child refugees from Flanders. Following an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt, the literary contributors include Sarah Bernhardt, Laurence Binyon, Rupert Brooke, Jean Cocteau, Joseph Conrad ("Poland Revisited"), John Galsworthy, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Alice Meynell, George Santayana, Igor Stravinsky, Edith… Read More
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THE FRUIT OF THE TREE
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THE FRUIT OF THE TREE

by Wharton, Edith

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1907. [in 1907 dust jacket] With Illustrations by Alonzo Kimball. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. 4 pp undated ads. Original red cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition of this novel set against the background of American industry, published in the year the author left America for Europe. This little-known novel... was considered controversial for its frank treatment of such issues as labor and industrial conditions, drug addiction, mercy killing, desire, and divorce and second marriages. John Amherst, an idealistic middle-manager in a New England textile mill, is committed to improving the deplorable working conditions of the laborers in his charge. But upper management, whose only concern is maximizing profits, frustrates his efforts. When Amherst eventually marries Bessy Westmore, the widow of the former mill owner, he is able at last to initiate an ambitious project of reform. But happiness for John and Bessy proves to be short-lived. It quickly becomes clear that Bessy does not… Read More
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ARTEMIS TO ACTÆON and Other Verse

ARTEMIS TO ACTÆON and Other Verse

by Wharton, Edith

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1909. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Original very dark grey-green ribbed cloth decorated in gilt. First and only Edition, first printing (the only other printing was 250 copies printed three months later for Macmillan's London edition). This was Edith Wharton's second volume of verse, preceded only by her rare first book, the anonymous 1878 volume VERSES (of which only a dozen copies are known to survive). Although Wharton had written many of these poems years earlier, this burst of poetic inspiration was the result of her 1907-1908 adulterous affair with the notorious bisexual journalist Morton Fullerton (introduced to her by Henry James); she (like other victims) wrote him numerous love-letters which he claimed to be destroying, only to have him sell them when he later needed money. This is a bright copy, fine except for light rubbing at the spine ends, and minor foxing of the endpapers. Uncommon. Garrison A17.I.a.
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THE JOY OF LIVING (Es Lebe das Leben). A Play in Five Acts

THE JOY OF LIVING (Es Lebe das Leben). A Play in Five Acts

by Wharton, Edith ("translated from the German by")

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1903. By Hermann Sudermann. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. Original dark grey-green paper-covered boards decorated in gilt. First (and only) Edition in English, first (American) issue but with title page dated 1903 rather than 1902. Wharton agreed to translate this play only reluctantly, perhaps drawn by a topic she would later express in her own novels: the plight of a woman who is unhappy in her marriage due to her love for another man. In her Translator's Note, she indicates that she had to exercise some creativity in her task, because "to English and American spectators the long German speeches are a severe strain on the attention"; this is perhaps why Wharton's bibliographer Garrison lists this play as one of Edith Wharton's works -- and in fact, she is sometimes referred to as the co-author of the play. Garrison lists a first Scribner printing published in October-November 1902 (and so dated) -- followed in April 1903 by more copies of this printing issued as the first British… Read More
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THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY

THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY

by Wharton, Edith

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1913. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. Original red cloth. First Edition of Edith Wharton's ninth novel, about the rural Midwestern divorcée Undine Spragg first in New York City and then in Paris -- written just after the author had finalized her divorce and moved permanently to France. ...Still considered an indecent topic for literature at that time, Wharton explores with satire and wisdom divorce as a distinctly American custom... Near the end of the novel, matrons of French society (of the famous Faubourg-Saint-Germain district) look on in horror as a parade of wealthy American women, twice- or thrice-married, attempt to infiltrate aristocratic society... While the French may consider divorce a common American disease, America has its own Faubourg, called Washington Square, where dissolved marriages are viewed with equal scorn. We see this clearly in the novel's opening section. [Penguin] This is a fine, attractive copy, with scarcely any of the spine-fading that often afflicts this… Read More
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THE DESCENT OF MAN and Other Stories
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THE DESCENT OF MAN and Other Stories

by Wharton, Edith

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1904. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Original red cloth. First Edition of the author's third collection of short stories. The title story is quite appropriate more than a century later: an eminent scientist decides to have a bit of a joke on the general public by publishing a perfect parody of the kind of pseudo-scientific nonsense that... is just a little bit too believable to make disproving it an easy task. His book a resounding success, and the public clamoring for more, the professor faces a dilemma: let everybody down by exposing his satire, thus earning eternal enmity and likely ostracism, or give in to the public for more of the same [Sherrod]. This is a fine, bright copy; atypically, the red spine is NOT faded. Garrison A9.I.a. Provenance: bookplate of the collector Christopher Clark Geest.
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ETHAN FROME

ETHAN FROME

by Wharton, Edith

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1911. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. 1 preliminary page + 4 pp undated ads. Original red cloth. First Edition of Edith Wharton's best-known book, a grim novella sited on a bleak Massachusetts farm. "As in THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, the central problem is that of the barriers imposed by local convention upon an individual whose happiness depends on rising above them" [OCAL]. This copy's leaves have a gilt top edge, and the word "wearily" is printed properly at the bottom of p. 135. Both copies with gilt top edge and copies with plain top edge appear with this word both perfect and battered: therefore, although it is generally assumed that "wearily" became battered during the 6000-copy print run (though it's possible it became battered and was then fixed), one cannot assume that the 2500 copies with gilt top edge were printed or issued earlier than the 3500 copies with plain top edge. In any event, this is a very nearly fine copy (one very faint damp-mark on the front cover, one leaf with a… Read More
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CRUCIAL INSTANCES
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CRUCIAL INSTANCES

by Wharton, Edith

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1901. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. Original dark grey-green paper-covered boards decorated in gilt. First Edition of Edith Wharton's second collection of short stories; this volume includes seven, all appearing in book form for the first time. This was her third volume of fiction, following THE GREATER INCLINATION (1899, stories) and THE TOUCHSTONE (1900, a novella). The seven items in CRUCIAL INSTANCES are so clearly inferior to the best of THE GREATER INCLINATION that it has even been speculated that Edith Wharton had written them some years earlier and had dragged them out of her drawer in the winter of 1901 to meet contractual obligations. In fact, they were all written... after THE TOUCHSTONE -- in 1900 and 1901 [Lewis]. This copy is in grey-green paper-covered boards, elaborately gilt, while others are in red cloth; there is no priority, but it is much tougher to find these paper-covered copies in decent shape. This is a bright, close-to-fine copy, with very little of the edge-wear… Read More
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MADAME DE TREYMES
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MADAME DE TREYMES

by Wharton, Edith

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1907. Wenzell, A. B.. With Illustrations. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Original greyish-brown cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this novella, illustrated with two color plates by Alonzo Kimball. As Fanny Frisbie [the protagonist] in her New York days, she had been lively, dashing, and free-spirited. Now, married to a dissolute French nobleman and hemmed in by the invincible forces of the Faubourg aristocracy, she has become a very different person... If there is a gain in refinement, there is a loss in resilience and spontaneity... Edith Wharton seems to have been suggesting that the psychic imprisonment of women could occur anywhere and even under the most gracious of conditions [Lewis]. This is a close-to-fine copy, very slightly rubbed at the corners; a few leaves were roughly opened. Garrison A13.I.a, binding A ("priority undetermined"). Provenance: the front endpaper bears the signature of "Beatrice Olga Simpson | Briarcliff | New York | 1917": a Californian who lived in… Read More
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THE TOUCHSTONE
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THE TOUCHSTONE

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1900. [her first novel] New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original dark grey-green paper-covered boards with spine decorated in gilt. First Edition of Edith Wharton's first novel (actually a novella). This was her fourth book overall, preceded by VERSES (1878), THE DECORATION OF HOUSES (1897) and THE GREATER INCLINATION (short stories - 1899); about six months later this was published in England as A GIFT FROM THE GRAVE, because the American title had already been used by another English author. THE TOUCHSTONE showed the influence of Henry James both in its form as a novelette and in its occupation with ethical values. It is concerned with a man torn between his desire to obtain money to marry the woman he loves, and his reluctance to sell the love letters written to him by a celebrated woman [OCAL]. This is a fine, bright copy of this handsome book (printed at the Merrymount Press); there is a 1900 signature on the front endpaper. Since these early Wharton books were bound… Read More
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CAMDEN'S COMPLIMENT TO WALT WHITMAN

CAMDEN'S COMPLIMENT TO WALT WHITMAN

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1889. May 31, 1889. Notes, Addresses, Letters, Telegrams. Edited by Horace L. Traubel. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1889. Original maroon cloth. First Edition of this group of writings, by Whitman and others, upon the occasion of the "Complimentary Dinner" held in his honor in Camden on May 31, 1889 -- his 70th birthday (he would have only two more). The three Whitman pieces making their first appearance here are his own lengthy "Autobiographic Note" (page 4), his brief response at the dinner (page 5), and Whitman's own advertisement for his books (complete with mailing address for sending funds "to W.W.'s order" (page 74). Quoting about half of his response: My friends, though announc'd to give an address, there is no such intention... I have obeyed the command to come and look at you, for a minute, and show myself; which is probably the best I can do... All I have felt the imperative conviction to say I have already printed in my books of poems or prose... And so, hail and farewell. Deeply… Read More
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RAVENNA. Newdigate Prize Poem
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RAVENNA. Newdigate Prize Poem

by Wilde, Oscar

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1878. [the fine Bradley Martin copy] Recited in The Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878. Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878. Original grey printed wrappers. First Edition of Oscar Wilde's first book, the Newdigate Prize-winning poem that he wrote while a student at Magdalen College. To quote from Pearson: He [Wilde] left Oxford in a blaze of glory. The subject for the Newdigate Prize Poem that year was Ravenna, and it so happened that he had visited the place on his way to Greece [the year before], noting it as a theme for poetic treatment. He could therefore put in bits of local colour which the other competitors had to glean from books. He won the prize, as John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold had done before him, and declaimed the poem in the Sheldonian Theatre on June 26, 1878... When the Professor of Poetry, J.C. Shairp, whose duty it was to suggest textual improvements to the winner of the Newdigate, advised certain alterations, Wilde listened with due courtesy, took careful notes of every suggestion,… Read More
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A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
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by Wilde, Oscar

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1894. Shannon, Charles. London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head, 1894. 16 pp ads dated March 1894. Original violet cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of Wilde's satirical play about upper-class social scandal, which consisted of 500 copies (so stated -- half as many copies as the following year's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST). Wilde wrote this play for production by Herbert Beerbohm Tree (Max's elder brother), of the Theatre Royal in Haymarket, where it opened on 19 April 1893. The sophisticated Lord Illingworth has appointed young Gerald Arbuthnot to be his Secretary, but Gerald's mother, "a woman of no importance," guards a long-concealed secret that prompts her to advise her son to decline the appointment -- but is reluctant to say why... Mason quotes an April 1893 theatrical review: "...the scene between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Arbuthnot at the end of the second act of this play [pp 76-82] is the most virile and intelligent -- yes, I mean it, the most intelligent -- piece of… Read More
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CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

by Williams, Tennessee

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1955. (New York:) A New Directions Book, (1955). Original light brown cloth lettered in black, with dust jacket. First Edition, first issue, of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a dying southern patriarch, Big Daddy Pollitt, and the greed of his would-be heirs -- spiced up by the presence of Maggie the Cat. In March 1955 the play, directed by Elia Kazan, opened starring Barbara Bel Geddes, Ben Gazzara and Burl Ives; three years later came the film (minus the homosexual overtones due to the Hays Code) -- starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman and Burl Ives (for which the latter won an Oscar). This copy is of the first state, without mention of The New York Times on the copyright page and without mention of Lucinda Ballard and Joseph Mielzinger on p. xii. The volume is in fine, clean condition, and the $3.00-priced jacket is close to fine as well (just a little rubbing at the top of its spine).
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