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Washington DC: Counterpoint, 1995. First printing. 8vo, pp. xvii. 318. Chronology, index. Illustrated with photographs. Bottom edge slightly soiled, o/tw a nice copy in little soiled dj. A biography of H. G. Wells.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1984. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 253. Chronology, index. Illustrated wtih photographs. Cover and edges somewhat soiled, cover chipped, o/w a VG tight copy. A memoir of Wells' many affairs.

NY: Atheneum, 1969. Second printing. 8vo, pp. 330. Biblliography, index. Illustrated with two portraits. Edges somewhat soiled, owner's name and address on flyleaf, o/w a VG tight copy in somewhat chipped and soiled dj.

NY: Schirmer. Large 8vo, pp. 167. Paper wraps. Cover slightly worn and soiled, interior clean and tight. Vocal score; contains all the dialogue.

NY: American Theatre press, 1976. 8vo, pages not numbered. Illustrated. Signed on cover by Rachel Roberts, one of the female leads. Paper wraps. Little yellowed, o/w a nice copy. Another copy, signed on front by Jean Marsh, another lead. Nice. Another copy, signed on front by Celeste Holm. Nice.

NY: American Theatre Press, 1976. 8vo, pages not numbered. Paper wraps. Illustrated. Slip laid in noting a change in casting. Signed on front by June Havoc. Nice.

NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979. First printing. 8vo, pp. 617. Edited and with an introduction by Sally Fitzgerald. A nice copy in sllightly chipped and yellowed dj. Farmer A8.I.a.1.

NY: Redfield, 1855. First US Edn. 8vo, pp. 402. Bound in brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, a very good tight copy. This is a collection of sketches and essays having to do with the social relations of the sexes. Chapters include Adonis at Home and Abroad, Hats, Wigs and their Wearers, Touching Tailors, Beau Nash, Beau Brummel, etc.

Grimsby, Ont: Grimsby Public Library and Art Gallery. Large 4to, pp. not numbered. With 81 reproductions in black and white, and short essays by C. R. Blackstock, Dennis Burton, Berners Jackson, and Richard Williams. (Burton essay laid in.) Published to accompany an exhibition. Paper wraps. VG.

NY: Horace Liveright, 1929. First Edition. Alexander King. Limited large paper copy, 591/775 copies signed by the author. Large 8vo, pp. 114. Bound in paste paper backed by cloth and some soiled illustrated dj (worn at extremities, split along rear hinge). A very good copy in original, very worn, box.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Editions Henri Deschamps, 1953. L Merelus. 4to, pp. 207. In French and English. Photographs by the author. Drawings by L. Merelus. Endpaper map. Cover rather faded, o/w VG. A book of photographs, a few in color, of Haiti, with short commentary.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1984. First Edition. Reinord Von Whitt-Pritchette. Large 8vo, pp. 566 plus 5 maps. AEG. Limited edition signed by the author, published by special arrangement with Doubleday and Andre Deutsch. Leatherette, stamped in gilt. A nice copy. A novel.

NY: Knopf, 2001. Second printing before publication. 8vo, pp. 211. A nice copy in little scuffed dj. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press, 1977. First edn. 8vo, pp. 64. Designed by Martino Mardersteig, this is limited to 400 copies printed from Centaur type by Stamperia Valdonega, Vernoa. Very lightly soiled printed wraps, a ncie copy. Laid-in is a 1-1/4 page typed review by poet Paul Metcalf.

Baton Rouge LA: Louisiana State University, 2006. First printing. 8vo, pp. viii, 62. Paper wraps. Cover slightly scuffed, o/w abut as new.

Cambridge, MA: Pym-Randall Press. First edn. 1/425 copies. 8vo, pp. 35. Paper wraps. VG. Poems.

NY. 4to, pp. 69. In hard binder. VG. Photo copy sheets.

NY: Norton, 1980. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 64. Front flyleaf missing, o/w a nice copy in dj.

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1822. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 112, with publisher's catalogue tipped to the front, untrimmed in original printed wraps. Spine chipped, ties loose. A good copy of a fragile item. Some foxing. CBEL III, 370; Todd & Bowden158Aa; Ruff 171, (the advertisements are not called for). Scott wrote Halidon Hill as a result of a request from Joanna Baillie for a contribution to a poetical miscellany she was then editing. However, Scott's intended short work grew far too large for the original purpose and was substituted by another work. Constable 'without seeing the MS., forthwith tendered £1000 for the copyright - the same sum that had appeared almost irrationally munificent when offered in 1807 for the embryo Marmion' [Lockhart].

NY: New Directions, 1966. Fifth printing. 8vo, pp. not numbered. Paper wraps. A collection of Patchen's picture poems.Cover sllightly creased, o/w a VG tight copy.