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[New York]: Pantheon, 1958. Cloth and boards. First edition (preceding the British printing). Photos by Islay de Courcy Lyon of the present day (1958) Paestum. With a gift inscription from novelist Francis Parkinson Keyes to a friend with whom she apparently spent a day in Paestum (Italy). Very good in lightly foxed and frayed dust jacket. Bryher (1894 - 1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman, who supported many artists, writers, and friends from a fortune derived from the Ellerman ship enterprises.  She was a major figure of the international set in Paris in the 1920s, her friends being the usual suspects. With her lover Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) and the Scottish writer Kenneth Macpherson, she launched the film magazine Close Up, which introduced Sergei Eisenstein's work to British viewers. From her home in Switzerland, she helped to evacuate Jews from Nazi Germany, and then became a popular historical novelist, as exemplified by… Read More

Tavistock Square, London: The Hogarth Press, 1934. Green cloth, titled in black. 86 pp. Second edition. Translated from the Russian by D. H. Lawrence (whose name was left off the first edition of 1922, corrected by an errata sheet), S. S. Koteliansky & Leonard Woolf. The first edition consisted of 1000 copies, the second of 1200. This copy, which was purchased for £250 by its previous owner, is enhanced by a gift inscription from Samuel Solomonovich "Kot" Koteliansky to Lady Ottoline Morrell in blue ink on the half title, "Ottoline / with affectionate admiration / Kot / I.III.34. Minor spotting on boards, horizontal crease on spine, else a very good copy without the dust jacket.  Lady Ottoline Morrell was an aristocrat and society maven closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group and was friend and patron to many of its members, which included Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant, Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, among many others. The last two, Lawrence and… Read More

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, [1986]. Blue cloth, gilt title. First edition, trade issue. Private detective Blue is hired to watch a man named Black by a jealous husband named White, and in the process becomes deeply enmeshed in a claustrophobic nightmare. Fine, in an equally fine dust jacket.

Norfolk: New Directions, 1938. First edition. Fine./Good.. Gilt red cloth. Minor darkening at edges of cloth, tiny rub to lower edge, otherwise fine in good, moderately chipped dust jacket with mends on verso.  First edition, limited to 500 copies printed at the Rydal Press. Accompanied by a 6pp. clean typescript of one of the constituent poems, "A Comeallye for Robert Carlton Brown," dated "(1930)" in typescript and signed by Boyle at the conclusion.

New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1932. First American Edition, first printing. Near fine. Octavo. Publisher's dark blue diagonal fine rib cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt to upper board and spine. Lovely creme yellow endsheets. 432 pp., printing code "(I)" on page 432, as called for. Dust jacket: wove paper, front and spine with black background, back and flaps with white background; front: two lines in white, drawing printed in black, white, and moderate greenish blue, of a country home and garden; both bindings and dust jacket "A" of two variants (which have no priority), as noted in Garrison. Near fine, in an about fine dust jacket with a few tiny chips at spine edge and at top and bottom.  "An Appreciation of Edith Wharton," by William Lyon Phelps occupies the entirety of the lower panel of the dust jacket. Welcome to the Gilded Age of New York! The Gods Arrive is the continued story of a pair of lovers introduced in Wharton's Hudson River Bracketed: one a troubled writer,… Read More

London: Duckworth, 1929. Black cloth, lettered in red to upper panel and spine. 7.5" by 5". Frontispiece portrait of Sitwell by Pavel Tchelitchew. About fine, in lightly spotted pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Sitwell's long poem of 500-plus lines combines both dense and obscure language with a bleak picture of modern London. Gold Coast Customs is set first in the African region of its title but the setting shifts to include the customs of London of the 1920s. Sitwell leans heavily on the erroneous descriptions of Hegel in his Philosophy of History, wherein he discusses as fact that "the devouring of flesh is altogether consonant with the general principles of the African race." Sitwell provides a note at the head of her poem and a set of notes at the conclusion to provide an explanation of the "customs" of a continent set both geographically remote from her contemporary London and in time as "In Ashantee, a hundred years ago, ...." The dust jacket image is identified in the notes as "King… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, 1985. Fine./Fine.. Teal blue gilt cloth. First edition. Murdoch's twenty-second novel. Fine, in a fine dust jacket designed by Tom Phillips, who painted the portrait of Murdoch hanging in the National Portrait Gallery.

London: Cassell & Company, Ltd, 1957. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Gilt black cloth. Photographs. First British printing of the second edition, newly revised, with a prologue and epilogue. About fine in near very good dust jacket with some small chips, a quarter-sized coffee spot, and a faint doodle on the rear panel.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1958. Octavo. Sky-blue cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt. 240pp. 8 ⅝ x 5 ½ in. All edges trimmed. Editorial note by Leonard Woolf. White dust jacket printed in black and sky-blue, designed by Vanessa Bell with her initials and date in the design. Slight offsetting to endpapers, edges dust-speckled, else a near fine copy in an unmarked, unclipped dust jacket with a lightly toned spine, else about fine. Formerly in the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American animator, illustrator, children's-book author, graphic novelist and celebrated editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions. First edition, first impression; published 16 June 1958, 6000 copies printed at 8s. The essays include: "The Narrow Bridge of Art," "Hours in a Library," "Impassioned Prose," "Life and the Novelist," "On Rereading Meredith," "The Anatomy of Fiction," "Gothic Romance," "The Supernatural in Fiction," "Henry James's… Read More

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1991. About fine. Quarto. Paper over boards. Later printing. All illustrations and mechanicals by the author. About fine in a near fine dust jacket whose only flaw is that it is price clipped. I suspect Sabine.  The final line of this romantic, mysterious correspondence states, "These postcards and letters were found pinned to the ceiling of the otherwise empty studio of Griffin Moss. Griffin Moss is missing.

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Black textured cloth over boards, white titles. First UK edition. Occasional very light pencil annotations in the poetry section, yet a very good copy in a glossy black illustrated dust jacket with minimum edgewear.