Cloth slightly mottled at spine; jacket with some toning and minor dust-soiling, a few small closed tears, otherwise very good.
Jacket artwork by Wilkies.
£125
London, Lovat Dickson, 1934.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
A New York novel “throwing against a typically frivolous party background some of the most serious emotional problems which confront the modern sophisticate” (jacket blurb).
In stock
Cloth slightly mottled at spine; jacket with some toning and minor dust-soiling, a few small closed tears, otherwise very good.
Jacket artwork by Wilkies.
American Literature
New York, A New Directions Books, 1959.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $3.25.
This play centers on Chance Wayne, a drifter and aspiring actor who returns to his hometown with faded movie star Alexandra Del Lago.
American Literature
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1958.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d.
The first UK edition of Capote's famous novella, filled out famously for the film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard.
American Literature
London, John Calder, 1964.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 42s.
A very good example of the first UK edition of Burroughs' counter-culture classic.
American Literature
London, Gollancz, 1951.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 9/6.
The first appearance in book form of Langston's character of "Simple", first created for his Chicago Defender column in 1943.
American Literature
New York, Macmillan, 1914.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original decorative pale blue cloth lettered in white.
A collection of short stories from the author of The Call of the Wild.