Search Results: Titles starting with P from Robert Dagg Rare Books

[Boston:: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. The first edition in cloth, one of 700 coies made up from the French sheets (printed at Dijon by Maurice Darantiere--who was the printer for Ulysses). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket minutely faded at spine panel.

New York: Vintage Books, [1972]. FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION.. inscribed on flyleaf by the editor and Stevens' daughter to the scholar Dan Woodward: "I may turn by back on the Blue Boy -- but never on Dan Woodward -- Love, Holly. 4/14/75." Woodward was director of the Huntington Library, home to Stevens' archive and the famous Gainsborough painting. A fine tight copy in wrappers.

New York: William Morrow & Company, [1944].. FIRST EDITION. Rear board with some faint dampstaining to upper margin. Penny-sized area of sticker residue to front flyleaf. A very good copy otherwise in a jacket that would be near fine but for a clipped front flap.

Paris: Gallimard, [1958]. FIRST FRENCH EDITION.. One of only 70 numbered copies printed on velin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre. Clean near fine copy in wrappers with uncut pages and square spine. In original glassine. Pulitzer Prize winner.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1937. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. Some fading to blue cloth at spine and extremities as usual. Near fine copy in a beautiful bright dust jacket with some minor restoration at edges.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1937. FIRST EDITION. Endpapers somewhat browned at gutters. Very good copy in a fine bright dust jacket. 394-page biography of the noted Irish statesman.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket, slightly faded at the spine (but not as badly as is often the case with this green dust jacket). An important, if fictionalized, account of the New York literary world at the time

New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1929. FIRST EDITION. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with some minor restoration at corners. A novel of the of ex-patriot life set in Italy.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1932. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very fine copy in an equally fine dust jacket complete with glassine overwrapper. A nostalgic look at covered bridges, meeting houses, bonnets and brandied peaches. Fully illustrated.

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1979]. FIRST EDITION. Inscribed in the year of publication by Kosinski with a small self-portrait sketch. Fine book in a very good dust jacket with several abrasions to rear panel.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1932.. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Paper-covered boards rather shelf-worn at tips and edges. Otherwise a very good book in a very good to near fine dust jacket with a small chip at top edge of front flap and some other minor wear. The 7th and final novel in the series.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1938. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Publisher's file copy with Gollancz rubber stamps on title page and front pastedown. Page edges foxed. Cloth bright. Near fine book in a very good to near fine dust jacket slightly browned at spine panel. Scarce.

New York: The Viking Press, 1935. FIRST EDITION. Lower corner of page 115 chipped. Else a near fine copy in a crisp near fine dust jacket with a few minor nick at edges. Nice copy of the author's first and only book. Paths of Glory was filmed after Cobb's death by Stanley Kubrik in 1957 starring Kirk Douglas and is generally considered one of the finest anti-war films ever produced.

New York: The Viking Press, 1935. FIRST EDITION. Lower corner of page 115 chipped. Else a near fine copy in a crisp very good dust jacket with a few minor nick at edges. Nice copy of the author's first and only book. Paths of Glory was filmed after Cobb's death by Stanley Kubrik in 1957 starring Kirk Douglas and is generally considered one of the finest anti-war films ever produced.

Edited by H.S. Reid and Vera Brittain. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a couple minor closed tears.

New York: The Viking Press, 1947. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Near fine book in a near fine dust jacket (first state with Steinbeck looking toward the spine of the book on rear panel) with some minor restoration at spine ends. Spine panel of jacket slightly faded as usual.

Philadelphia:: J. B. Lippincott Co, [1936]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. First American trade edition with these illustrations, originally published in the UK by Harrap. Frontispiece and one coloured plate with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text by Rackham. Orange cloth, gilt-stamped. Near fine book in a bright, crisp near fine dust jacket with a number of short closed tears. Nice copy of this edition.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a fine bright dust jacket. with two punctures in front panel and front flap. The third Penrod book.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. First issue binding with publisher's name at base of spine in black lettering. Some light rubbing to white printing on front and spine. Else a clean, near fine copy, lacking the rare dust jacket, of the second Penrod book, by far the scarcest of the three volumes.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket (few tiny nicks at edges). The author's autobiography.