New York: The Dial Press, Inc., 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-484, [4] pp. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. White cloth with brown lettering on the spine. Fairbanks and Engeldinger 9. Baldwin's novel focused on an actor who contemplates his role in a...... More
London: Hamish Hamilton (1958), 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], 7-207, [1] pp. Red-orange cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of 12s.6d. on the front flap. Ahearn APG 019b. Hubin 153. The UK edition precedes the US edition. First issue, as per Ahearn. Near Fine with offsetting..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers; Harcourt, Brace and Company [1932] [1936], 1930; 1932; 1936. First edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo. [4], v-vii, [5], 1-426, [2]; [4], v-viii, [2], 3-,473 [3]; [4], v-viii, [2], 3-561, [7] pp. Quarter purple cloth over orange, black, blue, and gold patterned paper boards, spine..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company [1950], 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-499, [5] pp. Red cloth with Kerouac's initials in gold on the front board, and gold lettering on the spine; grey topstain. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. Ahearn APG 001b. A presentable copy of..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-265, [11] pp. Quarter white cloth over navy paper boards with a gold decoration on the front board and gold lettering on the spine. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $11.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A...... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 401, [7], [5] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Bound in dark blue cloth with orange lettering and blocking on the front board and the spine. First state of the text as per Pastore, 111. A satirical novel about..... More
Palo Alto, CA: Kodansha International Ltd. (1970), 1970. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-159, [1] pp. Bound in grey cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. Translated by Makiko Yamamoto and Paul C. Blum. The first printing of the first edition..... More
London: Printed for James Wallis by Thomas Davison, 1805. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xliv, [1], 2-368; [1], 2-432 pp. Early twentieth-century full calf with twin gilt rules on each board, gilt decorations to the boards' edges and turn-ins and the spines in six compartments with gilt lettering..... More
London: Hutchinson (1964), 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [10], 11-511, [1] pp. Bound in burgundy cloth with swastika device stamped in black on the front board, four horizontal black bars and lettering in gilt on the spine, maps on endpapers and pastedowns. Price of 21s net on the front..... More
New York: Random House [1954], 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 4-90, [4] pp. Green cloth with red and black lettering on the front board and spine; grey topstain. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Wallace A38. A nice collection of poems by one of..... More