Small mark to title-page, ink ownership markings to front pastedown; corners a little bumped; minor marking and tanning visible to lower jacket panel.
Jacket artwork by Val Biro.
£95
London, W.H. Allen, 1976.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original brown boards. Dust-jacket, priced £3.50.
In stock
Small mark to title-page, ink ownership markings to front pastedown; corners a little bumped; minor marking and tanning visible to lower jacket panel.
Jacket artwork by Val Biro.
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.
American Literature
London, Chatto & Windus, 1951.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket.
The US author's debut novel, and the most well regarded and critically acclaimed of his works, winner of the 1967 William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel.
American Literature
A cycle of the Southern Hills
London, Methuen, 1930.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
The first UK edition of an important work on the Appalachians, a series of dialect sketches focusing on a single Southern community that was praised for its realism. The author, who co-created the 1920s little magazine The Modern Review, died in a car accident in 1931, after attending a 'bootlegger' near Cherokee. Scarce especially in a jacket.
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
An essay toward an autobiography of a race concept
New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1940.
First edition. 8vo. Original dark orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $3.00.
An important work, regarded in part as one of the first scientific treatises in the field of American sociology. The title refers to his hope that African Americans were passing out of the darkness of racism into an era of greater equality.