Search Results: English and American literature from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

New York: The Macaulay Company, 1927. First edition. 61 2 in. x 91 2 in. xvi + 842 pp. Dark green cloth, very good in dust jacket. A collection of original essays, stories, and poems by 72 writers of the 1920s. Contributors include Robert Penn Warren, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill, and Gertrude Stein.

New York: National Book Committee, 1971. First edition. 3 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, mimeographed, stapled. Fine. Press release, which is the first printing of White's remarks. Not in Hall.

New York: Scribner's, 1950. First American edition. Black cloth. Slight spotting, else fine with the cloth fresh and spine gilt bright, in first issue dust jacket which has slight edge wear.

Taipei: Jin Shan Publishing Co, 1969. Taiwan piracy edition, printed on cheap paper and much thinner than the authorized editions. Burgundy cloth. Mark to top edge, else a fine copy in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Juliar J40.1.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. Fourth printing. Black cloth. Fine, in a dust jacket with short tears to the top edge, repaired with tape internally. cf. Juliar A40.1.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. First edition. Proof copy of the first edition. Mustard-colored printed wrappers, spine slightly faded but an excellent copy of this scarce, bulky, and fragile item, not likely to survive beyond a single reading. Juliar describes two copies, the second identical to the first, only lacking the preliminary page which surely fell out. Juliar E40.1.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. First edition, second issue (as always, with half-title bound after the title page), of Cather's first novel. Original purple cloth, gilt stamped, with initial "S" on the front cover. A very fine copy in the very rare and fragile typographic dust jacket, split along front hinge fold but intact. The acidic jacket flaps have lightly stained the facing endpapers. This is Crane's jacket "A" issued upon publication on April 20, 1912, and used only briefly. It would shortly - before the end of the month - be replaced by a pictorial jacket. Crane A5.a.i.

New York: The John Day Company, 1933. First edition. Printed wrappers, edges of wrappers browned, a very good copy. A review copy, with publisher's slip. Hall A6 records no publication information, so our slip dated May 22, 1933, adds useful information.

London: Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition. Variant binding with the cream card wrappers, without the drawing by Vanessa Bell and utilizing different typefaces. Possibly a proof copy (cf. note to Woolmer 61). 23 pp. Fine copy. The Hogarth Essays, No. XII. Woolmer 61.

London: Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition. Variant binding with the cream card wrappers, without the drawing by Vanessa Bell and utilizing different typefaces. Possibly a proof copy (cf. note to Woolmer 61). 23 pp. Near-fine copy, annotated in pencil by the scholar W.E.D. Allen, with his 1925 signature. The Hogarth Essays, No. XII. Woolmer 61.

London: Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition. Pale green paper boards printed with a design by Vanessa Bell. 23 pp. A very good copy with moderate toning and wear, partial split to front joint. The Hogarth Essays, No. XII. Woolmer 61.

London: Hogarth Press, 1926. First edition. One of 1,000 copies, 400 of which were later pulped. Pale blue stiff wrappers. 33 pp. A good copy, spine chipped and split, leaves toned. The Hogarth Essays (First Series), No. 18. Woolmer 92.

Tangier/New York, 1988. First edition. Nos. 1-6, 9-60, original wrappers, very good and fine copies.

London: Hogarth Press, 1927. First edition. One of 1,000 copies, 500 of which were later pulped. Printed light green paper over boards, 74, [2, ads] pp. A very good copy, lightly toned and worn, bump to crown of spine. Translation and Preface by Roger Fry. The Hogarth Essays, Second Series, No. 7. Woolmer 146.

Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1903. First edition of Cather's first book. Original boards, cover and spine labels. Boards darkened and marked, spine label chipped, nevertheless an attractive copy, preserved in a cloth case. Inscribed twice by Cather: On the front cover "For Albert Donovan from his friend Willa Siebert Cather," similarly on the front endpaper, with the addition of the date, Christmas 1912. Bookplate of Sherrill Bigelow. Crane A1.a.

Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1903. First edition. Original boards, cover and spine labels. Slight wear to the top end of the spine, small chip missing from the label, split in front hinge over paper; otherwise a very good copy. Crane A1.a. First edition of Cather's first book, published at her own expense. Accompanied by the rare (one of two examples known to us) "Literary Note," a slip measuring 7-1/8 in. x 3-1/2 in. written by Cather as a promotional piece for April Twilights. Joan Crane, in her "Willa Cather: A Bibliography" (1982),p. 5, cities American Book Prices Current for 1930, noting a copy of April Twilights with a tipped-in "Literary Note", and concluding, although never seeing it, that it was "an announcement flyer for the book in the form of an advertisement and order form issued by the publisher...." In 1997 we discovered this example of what was then the only known surviving example of this note, and identified it as being of Cather's authorship, it was acquired by… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1924. First English edition (American sheets of A2.b.ii). Original light blue-grey cloth, very good. From the 390 sets of sheets of the American trade second printing, supplied to Heinemann with their imprint on the title page, and bound in England. Book label of the English art historian John Gere. Crane A2.a.i.(e).

London: Hogarth Press, 1930. First edition. Green paper boards, title label, spine slightly faded, otherwise fine condition. Signed by the author. Woolmer 230.

New York: Scribner's, 1909. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, a fine copy in dust jacket. The jacket lacks a one-inch chip at the base of the spine, and shows breaks on the folds, otherwise it is in very good condition. First edition of Wharton's first collection of poetry (after the juvenilia of Verses). Garrison A 17.a.1.

London: Hogarth Press, 1924. First edition. Printed cream wrappers. 20 pp. Light toning and soil, occasional foxing and pencil underlining, a good copy. The Hogarth Essays (First Series), No. 2. Woolmer 45.