Search Results: Titles starting with W from Biblioctopus

London: Heinemann, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 1st edition. This copy's ads parallel publication day, listing no books published after 1898. They signal 1 of 5 binding states, the others being copies with no ads, 2 different 32 page catalogs, and one of 16 pages dated 1897 which is early, but maybe too early, so not proof of the 1st binding as it may (logically) have been used after more current ads had been exhausted. Some rubbing, else near fine, with an unobtrusive owners stamp—scarce when it's so clean, the gray cloth notably prone to soiling. Custom quarter buffalo and handmade paper box. In only a dozen years the late Victorian reader got Haggard's King Solomon's Mines (1885), Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde (1886), Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (1887), Wilde's Dorian Gray (1890), Kipling's Jungle Book (1895), Stoker's Dracula (1897), and Wells' Time Machine (1895), Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), Invisible Man (1897) and then, War of the Worlds. All were instantly identified as literary… Read More

New York: Grove Press, 1959. Wrappers. Very good. Uncorrected, publisher's working proofs for the 1st U. S. edition of Beckett's 2nd novel. Unbound, uncut sheets, folded and sewn, an in-house product, not some advance copy. Old and intriguing pencil and ink corrections that look like publisher's work towards a future edition. Small chips and tears to the first and last leaves else very good, and clearly rare. Watt is a willing servant, but his unexplored capacity bumps up against unexplained need.

London: John Murray, 1823. First Edition. Wrappers. Very good. 1st edition, 2nd issue, with imprint at foot of p. 188. Brown paper wrappers, with paper backing added later. Some bumps and rubbing, else very good.

Philadelphia: H.C. Carey, 1823. First Edition. Boards. Good. 1st American edition. Original printed boards, spine with small chips, abrasion to back cover else a good copy.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 1st edition of his first book (500 printed). Contemporary signed presentation copy inscribed by Crane (in ink), "For John Wolcott in memoriam the Cleveland days ‘where cuckoos clucked to finches' Hart Crane." The quote is from Crane's poem, For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen, page 37 of this book (I found no other copy of White Buildings inscribed with a quotation). Very good in a 1st printing dustjacket, the spine faded and one fold strengthened, else very good. Rare, one of only 2 inscribed copies sold at auction in the last 40 years, the other in a defective jacket. Cancelled title page with Allan Tate's name correctly spelled, but only review copies had the uncorrected state so our copy is not a 2nd issue since it exactly replicates the book as it was for sale on the day it was published, and Crane's own copy was also in this state. The line "Where cuckoos clucked to finches" appears in the penultimate stanza… Read More

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 1st edition. The title page is a cancel, with Allen Tate's name (who wrote the Foreword) spelled correctly. One of Crane's own copies of his first book (the only one that's ever surfaced, and the only one that's likely to) with his bookplate and his ownership signature (in ink) "Hart Crane, Aug ‘31" (he drowned in 1932). This copy should not be confused with 1st editions that just have his bookplate for evidence of ownership, as his family (with all the integrity of hyenas) sold bookplates after his death. Fine in a beautiful dustjacket with the spine faded half a shade else fine condition, quality that parts the clouds to let the Sun shine down, and quite a rare jacket in such condition. Since the title page was canceled immediately, Crane logically opted for author's copies with his friend Tate's name spelled properly. Heavy. Singular. Best copy in the world, so far.

New York: Macaulay, 1930. First Edition. fine/near fine. 1st edition. Fine in a near fine dustjacket, fresh as a fountain soda. Black cloth, one of 2 bindings with no priority, despite guesses from Bowden D7a, since both were sold on publication day. But only our jacket is the 1st printing, and it is notoriously rare (go find another) because it was replaced almost immediately with a meeker, plainer jacket. Witty essays on the future that are dryer than Lawrence of Arabia. They're aimed at sex, love, and 10 other, less alluring subjects, and though we have all heard words of love it also has softer sounds like snaps, buttons, hooks, belts, and zippers.

London: Hogarth Press, 1953. Uncorrected proof. Edited by Leonard Woolf. Unprinted red wrappers. Spine a little sunned, and top corner a little bumped, still near fine. Scarce in this format.