Search Results: Literature from Old New York Book Shop

(Charleston, WV): University of Charleston, 1987. First Edition. Original wraps. Fine. 6p octavo. A fine copy in white printed wraps with string tie enclosed in white printed folder. Signed by Welty on the title page. scarce thus.

Ann Arbor, MI: Giniger , 1967. Facsimiles. Hardcover. Very good +. 2 Christmas Classics in publisher's slipcase. Very good + to near fine pair in red cloth. Gilt decorations on covers and spines are rubbed, box has shelf wear, light scuffing and rubbing. A Visit from St. Nicholas contains: facsimilies of the earliest printed newspaper and pamphlet versions and a holograph manuscript with a commentary by Clifton Fadiman. A Christmas Carol : Illustrations by John Leech, a facsimile of hte first edition with an introduction anda bibliographical note by Edgar Johnson.

New York: Viking Press, (1962). Republished edition. Hardcover. Very good/good +. 245p octavo A very good copy in a good+ dust jacket marred by a date written on the front cover in ink. Tiny label on the inside front cover.

(New York): New Directions, (1966). Fourth Printing. Original wraps. Very good. 238p octavo, A very good copy in black and white printed wraps. Slight crease to front cover. Inscribed by Williams "To Virginia love Tennessee" Virginia Spencer Carr wrote biographies of Carson McCuller, John Dod Passos and Paul Bowles and wanted to do one on Tennessee Williams but wasn't able to accomplish it.

Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1972. First Printing. Original Wraps. Very Good. Quarto. 167pp. very good in black printed wraps Inscribed by translator Earle Clowney Signed

Buenos Aires: Ediciones Dintel, 1961. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Octavo. 88pp + index. A very good copy in cream wraps

London, 1924. Very good. Published in "The Letters of Thomas Wolfe. Edited with an illustrated by Elizabeth Nowell (N.Y. Charles Scribner's Sons 1956), pp-71-73 Wolfe's letter primarily concerns an essay which he was drafting entitled "A Passage to England" that he hoped George William McCoy would publish in the Asheville Citizen Times. Wolfe was 24 at the time and he writes with all of the youthful, omnivorous enthusiasm that was so characteristic of him " I arrived in London on Wednesday after an amzaing voyage, and I am now lost in the beauty and mystery and fascination of this ancient and magnificent city..... George - I put it all on paper from day to day, I let nothing escape me, and even when the sea made me feel a bit sorry for myself I put it down....since coming to London I have walked the queer, blind, narrow, incredible, crooked streets of the city, looking at the people, hearing them talk, getting them. Late at night, early in the morning, when the streets are deserted, I… Read More

Toronto: Ganglia, (1967). First Edition. Original wraps. Fine. 1 page 8*x3 1/2" folded. Fine in blue printed wraps

Toronto, Canada, 1967. First Edition. Original wraps. Fine. Single sheet 8" x 3 1/2" folded a fine copy signed by Ondaatje.

Frankfurt am Main, Wien, Zurich: Buchergilde Gutenberg, (1962). Hardcover. Fine/very good. 396p octavo, illustrated. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket which has a closed tear on the front cover. Text entirely in German.

Indianapolis,IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1907). First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo, illustrated, a very good copy in green and white cloth. Non-authorial inscriptions on the front fly leaf from Le Aikman, a journalist at the Atlanta Constitution. Slightly cocked.

Indianapolis: Abe Martin Pub Co, (1909). First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Upaginated, 12mo illustrated. Text completely foxed and brittle but front fly leaf has a full page comic pen and ink illustration by Kin Hubbard signed 'Kin Hubbard Christmas 1909' The page is nearly detached. Book is scarce and very much so, signed. Indiana journalist and this his most famous work. Book is very good in brown printed boards.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. First Edition. Three-Quarter Leather. Very Good. Octavo. 219pp bound in 3/4 red morocco and marbled baords with original cloth bound in. red leather bookplate Nice!

New York: Random House, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 384p plus foldout map in rear, octavo. 1/300 numbered copies signed by William Faulkner This copy #185. A fine copin grean and white patterned boards and green cloth spine, top edge gilt. A fine copy

Scribner, 1996. First Edition, Limited. Hardcover. fine/near fine. 381p, octavo. Limited to 2500 copies signed by Proulx, this copy is number 568. A fine copy in a near fine jacket.

London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768. Second Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good. Octavo. 384p, half title Very good copy bound in full calf, repaired with recent boards keeping the original spine. foldout map very good with one closed tear.

(London): Windsor Press, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 23p quarto, 1/225 numbered copies this copy #114 signed by Henry Williamson

1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Boston . First edition, octavo. A very good copy in yellow and black patterned boards and black cloth spine. Wearing at the corners, spine dulled, Signed by Edman on the front fly leaf. Neat bookplate. Signed by Author(s)

New York: Simon and Schuster, (1971). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 313p octavo. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a closed tear at the base of the front panel and at the base of the spine. Warmly inscribed by Brown to an Atlanta newspaper reporter in 1973. Made into a movie.

New York: Delacorte, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 151pp A fine copy in like dust jacket. Signed by McClure on the title page