Catholic Anthology 1914-1915 by Ezra Pound (ed.) - 1915

Cleveland: The J. B. Savage Company, 1938. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine. Exceptionally scarce First Issue with F. A. I. banner end papers, one of fewer than 100 copies from a limited edition of 1000 copies, of which this is number 116. (Hemingway so disliked the original orange end papers showing soldiers advancing beneath the flag of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica, or F. A. I, one of the pro-Republican belligerents in the Spanish Civil War, that after an estimated 50 to 100 copies were bound (so reported by the publisher in a letter to Hanneman) the endpapers were changed to plain.) Illustrated by Frederick K. Russell, with introduction by Jasper Wood. Small, slim 8vo: 60pp, with 7 full-page original charcoal drawings. Publisher's tan linen cloth, front cover lettered in black and decorated in orange, spine lettered in black, printed throughout in black on tan Linweave paper, absent the original glassine jacket (fresh one added). A superlative copy, covers and spine almost pristine… Read More

New York:: Scribner's,, 1937.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with just a hint of wear to the head of the spine. To Have and Have Not was Hemingway's second novel set in the United States, after The Torrents of Spring. Written sporadically between 1935 and 1937, and revised as he traveled back and forth from Spain during the Spanish Civil War, To Have and Have Not portrays Key West and Cuba in the 1930s, and provides a social commentary on that time and place. Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers describes the novel as heavily influenced by the Marxist ideology Hemingway was exposed to by his support of the Republican faction in the Spanish Civil War while he was writing it. The novel had its origins in two short stories published earlier in periodicals by Hemingway ("One Trip Across" and "The Tradesman's Return") which make up the opening chapters, and a novella, written later, which makes up about two-thirds of the book. The narrative is… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's beige cloth stamped in dark blue. Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear and toning to blank verso. A stunning copy. One would be hard-pressed to find a nicer example of this notoriously fragile dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth with title label to spine. Very Good+ with fading to spine, light softening to spine ends, pages toned. In a Very Good first issue dust jacket with a blank verso and publisher's original price of $2.75 intact; Rubbing and wear mainly at extremities, light chipping at spine ends. A nice example of the wartime production.

New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing; one of 650 copies of the first issue. Bound in publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with slight lean and fading to spine. Remnants of dust jacket tipped in and partially removed at front paste down; front and rear free endpapers offset and with light tape ghosts. Pages toned. Steinbeck's second book, of which only 1,650 copies were bound and 650 of those sold. The remainder were sold to Robert O. Ballou in 1932. Goldstone & Payne A2a.

London : Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1928 Limited edition, 1 of 55 signed and numbered copies, this being number 11; rebound in custom quarter leather marbled boards, ribbed spine and gilt-lettered, xxvi, 84pp. printed on Millbourn, hand-made paper, no dust wrapper issued for this signed edition [Gallup B7a]. Signed by T. S. Eliot. Small stain to front endpaper and light rubbing to corners of boards and spine ends, else book in fine condition.

London : The Aquila Press, 1930 First printing of the first edition, limited edition of 150 copies; publisher's copy; original orange and cream patterned boards, 4to, unpaginated, issued without dust jacket. Contains poems, "Simultaneous" and "In Provins." Crease to top, outer corner, slight tanning to spine, minimal wear, else book in fine condition.

New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2000 First printing of the first American edition. Signed by Paul McCartney directly on the half-title page. Light shelf wear else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1947 First printing of the first edition. Inscribed and signed by Robert Frost to poet, teacher, and friend, Samuel French: "To Samuel [French] Morse / from his fellow in the art / Robert Frost / in great hopes for us all." Light rubbing to board ends and faint toning to page margins, else book in fine condition; light toning to jacket spine and cover margins, trace of shelf wear, else dust jacket in fine condition. Among his many lifetime achievements, Frost was a four time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1977. First printing of the stated first edition, first issue with the publisher's code "R49" printed in the gutter of p. 447; in original first issue dust jacket. Basis for the 1980 Stanley Kubrick adaptation starring Jack Nicholson. Book with light rubbing to spine ends and a tiny crimp to the bottom front corner, else in fine condition; dust jacket with faint toning to spine and flap margins, faint crimping to upper spine end, very faint crease to upper front corner, and light wear to extremities, primarily at the edge of bottom spine, else fine. an exceptional copy indeed.