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London: George Bell and Sons, 1889. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Two volumes. Gilt cloth. First edition. Edited by Annie Raine Eillis. Spine ends somewhat worn and frayed, small snag in spine of first volume, and a larger one on the spine of the second. A good reading or working set. Shipping will be a bit more than the rate for one book. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 30 of 125 copies, signed and numbered by the author. Design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small, independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House, Inc, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Gilt red cloth. First U.S. edition. Fine, in very lightly edgeworn pictorial dust jacket designed by Jeanyee Wong.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1959. First edition. Near fine./Very good.. Black cloth, gilt stamped spine. A near fine copy in a very good, only minimally rubbed, price-clipped typographic dust jacket.   First U.S. edition, first printing. Eliot's last play, drafted originally in 1955 but not completed until three years later, and first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1958. The cast of the original production is included at the conclusion of the play. Lord Claverton, an eminent former cabinet minister and banker, is helped to confront his past by the love of his daughter, Antigone. Critics wrote, at the time of its first performances, that the dialogue, the love scenes in particular, contain some of Eliot's most tender and expressive writing for the theatre. The play is dedicated to his second wife, Esmé Valerie Fletcher, 38 years his junior and his former secretary at Faber & Faber, whom he married in 1959.

New York / London: Crosby Gaige / Chatto & Windus, 1928. First edition. Near fine.. Black cloth spine, stamped in gilt, floral decorated boards. Frontispiece portrait and five full-page plates. Signed by Strachey on the verso of of the first tipped-in flyleaf, as was the convention. Bookplate of the Hogarth Press /Bloomsbury Group collector William Beekman affixed to front pastedown,  small early New York bookshop label to the rear pastedown, else a very near fine, unmarked copy, without a dust jacket, as issued. First, Limited edition, No. 384 of a total of 1060 numbered and signed copies, 1000 of which were made available for sale and distribution in America. Lytton Strachey was a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group, having asked for Virginia Woolf's hand in marriage - a bold move he instantly regretted. Woolf, then Virginia Stephen, accepted, to Strachey's horror, and he withdrew his proposal. Woolf graciously agreed to it, saying she was not in love with him. Strachey then urged his… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Gilt cloth and decorated boards. Frontispiece portrait, illustrated with line cuts, two halftones, and facsimiles. About fine in a very good dust jacket with a thin abrasion to upper panel.   First edition. "Letters published here for the first time tell the story of a love which was the climax of the poet's emotional life" -- from the dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Northampton: The Hampshire Bookshop, 1930. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Plain, pale green wraps, printed silver foil label. First edition. Facsimile and decorations. One of 450 unnumbered copies, from a total edition of 500. All leaves unopened, untouched, a fine copy. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Northampton, MA: Hampshire Bookshop, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Graves, Louise B.:. Gilt cloth and boards. First edition. Illustrations by Louise B. Graves, a second cousin of Emily Dickinson. Edited by Helen H. Arnold. Tiny spot on front pastedown, else fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Erté [pseud. Roman Petrovich Tyrtov].. Salmon cloth, stamped in gilt. 48pp. Seventeen two-color illustrations by Erté, who also designed the jacket. Facetious inscription on front flyleaf, "1982 / To Esmeralda / with love, / Ermyntrude. / (forever)." There is also a gift note enclosed, "To Michael / Merry Christmas ? Fritz," which was to Michael Holroyd, who wrote the introduction. About fine, in a very good dust jacket with a rub at the spine. First edition. Anthony Blond, Ltd., [London: 1969]. Lytton Strachey's posthumously published entertainment, written for the private relish of his circle, is reported to have reduced the Bloomsbury set to heaps of giggles. Esmeralda is the country girl and Ermyntrude lives in London. Two Edwardian teenagers, who resolve to discover for themselves the forbidden mysteries of life and sex, believe they devise a code in their correspondence for male and female body parts -- bow-wows and pussies -- and while the country girl investigates among deans, generals,… Read More

London: The Hogarth Press, 1927. First edition. Very good.. Gilt cloth. Bookplate scar on front pastedown, otherwise a very good copy, without the uncommon dust jacket. First edition. Essays concerning Jonson, Hazlitt, Stevenson, Butler, and Conrad, among others. According to Woolmer, one of 1520 copies printed, of which 350 copies were later pulped; according to Luedeking & Edmonds, only 1000 copies were printed. WOOLMER 153. L&E A24a.