Search Results: Titles starting with V from Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA

Philadelphia & NY: Lippincott, (1963).. Advance reading copy.. 492 pp. Light tanning to spine, else near fine in printed wrappers. Pynchon’s first book.

Munich: (np), 1959.. First edition.. 79 pp. Light patch of toning to rear cover, else fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Edward Gorey. One of 300 copies. INSCRIBED by Lurie, “for Tony - also a gifted actor - / director - producer - and playwright - / Alison.” Lurie’s first book, a memoir of Bunny Lang.

NY: Olihant Press, 1975.. First edition. 8vo. Stitched wrappers. 1/100 copies printed on Artlaid paper. Near fine.

NY: The Viking Press, 1966.. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. viii + 69 pp. Very good in a very good, price clipped jacket.

London: Trigram Press, 1971.. Fine edition. 8vo. Wrappers. Fine.

San Francisco: David Magee Antiquarian Books , (1969-1970).. 4to. Three volumes, cloth-backed decorated paper boards, spine labels, illustrated. Spines slightly faded, else fine. Prefaces by Gordon N. Ray, Robert Lee Wolff, and Robert F. Metzdorf. Printed at the press of Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. First edition of a great modern American book catalogue, written with scholarship and verve. It still delights and instructs. Of 625 copies printed, this is one of 125 hardbound. The collection was sold en bloc to Brigham Young University.

NY: Random House, 1935.. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very good in a good plus jacket with wear and chips at the edges.

New Rochelle: The Elizabeth Press, 1970.. First edition. 8vo. Printed wrappers. 64 pp. 1/400 copies. This copy is inscribed by Enslin to poet Clayton Eshleman. Fine.

New Rochelle: The Elizabeth Press, 1973.. First edition. Tall 8vo. Printed boards in publisher's cardstock slipcase. 64 pp. 1/400 copies. Fine.

New Rochelle: The Elizabeth Press, 1970.. First edition. 8vo. Printed wrappers. 64 pp. 1/400 copies. This copy is signed by Enslin. Fine.

London: William Heinemann, , 1935.. First edition.. 8vo. Cloth. Very good, lacking jacket.

Crete: The Best Cellar Press, 1978.. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated wrappers. This copy is inscribed by Kuzma to E.V. Griffith. Near fine.

Chicago: The Swallow Press, 1969.. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very good (mild foxing) in a very good jacket.

London: George Allen, , 1911.. First separate UK edition.. 67 pp. Light foxing to the fore-edge and preliminaries, else fine; an unusually crisp copy, with the spine still snowy white. First separate British edition (originally published in FROM ADAM'S PEAK TO ELEPHANTA, 1892), with a new Preface by the author. Attractive bookplate of Ileene Knox.

NY: Village Voice, (1981-1996).. 1, 6, 66, 72, 77, 79, 83-89, 91-94, 96,101, 10-108, 111-123, 125-137, 144-147.. Fifty-four folio issues, all near fine or better in stapled wrappers. For the lot:

(np): VLS, (nd).. Advance excerpt.. 35 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Stories and excerpts by Aimee Bender, Julian Dibbell, Nathan Englander, Daniel Mendelsohn, Stacey Richter, Carl Hancock Rux, Le Thi Diem Thuy, and Colson Whitehead.

London: Latimer Press, 1970.. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in a fine jacket.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1968.. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. A review copy with slip laid in. Near fine in a very good jacket.

London: Latimer Press, , 1970.. First edition. . 8vo. Cloth. 59 pp. Fine in a near fine jacket with a tiny tear.

NY: VVV, (1942-1944).. Four numbers in three issues (2/3 being a double) in wrappers. Droplet mark to the front cover, of #1, with sunned spine, #2/3 near fine with original chicken wire replaced, #4 has a small droplet mark on rear cover and light wear to yapp bottom edge, else very near fine. Housed in a custom clamshell box by Peggy Gotthold at Foolscap Press. Covers by Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and Matta, respectively. A major Surrealist vehicle presenting work by the usual suspects (Breton and Ernst were editorial advisors), but still: WCW, Caillois, Lévi-Strauss, Aimé Césaire, Leonora Carrington, Valentine Penrose, Arthur Cravan, Robert Motherwell, Irving Penn, Picasso, Tanguy, and that’s just the first issue. For the run: