A Boy's Own Story by White, Edmund - 1982

[4]+392+[2] pages with a frontispiece from a painting by William Van Dresser. Small Octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth illustrated in black,cream and orange, lettered in cream and gilt. (BAL 11966) (Sisson & Martens pg 87) First edition.A tale about a love triangle on a large ranch. Though not published until the year of London's death, he had written this during his bad year of 1913. He spent much of that year visiting a dentist, finally having all of his upper teeth pulled to halt the pyorrhea raging in his gums; at about the same time, his Wolf House burned down two weeks before its completion; and his kidney problems continued to worsen, exacerbated by his drinking and his insistence upon eating raw fish and duck. [The novel] was meant to exalt the splendor of Wolf House and scientific farming and sex." "It is all sex from start to finish", he wrote to the editor of Cosmopolitan, "in which no sexual adventure is actually achieved or comes within a million miles of… Read More

New York: John Furman, 1800. Hardcover. Near Fine. Translated by William Roscoe. "Re-printed for William Cobbett." 30, 44, 34 p.; 14 cm. (18mo). Signatures: A-I6. Contemporary binding: half speckled calf with marbled paper over boards. Gilt rules on spine; black morocco spine label with gilt-tooled title: The Nurse. All page edges speckled. English translation only, from Roscoe's bilingual edition of 1798. Includes Roscoe's introduction on the life and works of Tansillo, largely adapted from G.A. Ranza's Italian edition of 1767, with Latin passages from book 12 of the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius. Evans, 38604. In Near Fine Condition: corners rubbed; pages are clean and tight. An attractive early 19th-century binding.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1885. Hardcover. Good+. 340pp; Half-leather with maroon cloth, raised bands, gilt lettering to spine, wear to corners of boards, front hinge starting, toning to endpapers, foxing to a few pages, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good+ condition. Collection of roadside songs of Tuscany translated and illustrated by Francesca Alexander and edited by John Ruskin. In ten parts with 20 illustrations.

Baltimore, MD: The Xavier Press, 1995. cloth, gilt-stamped spine and front cover, decorated endpapers. Miniature Books. miniature book (7.1 x 5.5 cm). cloth, gilt-stamped spine and front cover, decorated endpapers. (iv), 24, (2) pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies (Bradbury Xavier Press 10). Frontispiece tipped in portrait of Poe. Tipped-in illustrations, and U.S. postage stamp in text. Blade of grass, encased in plastic, from Poe's original grave in pocket on back pastedown.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1993. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Tan cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Random House (1967).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xvi, 428 pp. Dust jacket has a short tear and a lightly faded spine. The price is intact. An attractive copy of this Pulitzer Prize winning novel.

Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1969. Signed by Jim Harrison and Dan Gerber. First edition / First printing. (Softcover edition) Illustrated wrappers. Fine.

MODERN LIBRARY NY, with #165 Twice on Spine DJ in Red, 1929 FRONT DJ Shows man at door Holding candle with bizarre reflection on door as he opens it & is titled in Red ,J Inner FlapPrice Clip but 95 Cents INTACT, Illustrated Green & White Rockwell Kent RUNNING streamer MAN Endpapers are an aqua blue color Former Owner Inscription, HBDJ, with top edge stained blue. .1929, STATED 1st Modern Library Edition on copyright pg, 1st Edition THUS, NF+/VG-, AS-IS,. Jacket Priced 95 cents with 159 title listed on rear panel with pre Zip code Coupon . Small 4 1/2 X 6 3/4 in. Blue BALLOON flexible Cloth cvr with Gold Gilt man running with Streamer on Front Light WearCloth cvr , . 12mo., xii, 492 pg NO ADS IN BACK., DJ FOXED, Lightly Frayed with TINY holes at DJ Fold & EXTREMITiES Is Titled in Red on Front DJ, ; Titled & Grape Vine design Decorated Gold Gilt on Cvr SPINE, Interior nice clean light wear Fox, Spine DJ end Tiny chips Tears, Jacket has some chipping along rear top edges and… Read More

New York: William Morrow & Company, 2004. Signed on the half-title page by Neal Stephenson. First edition / First printing. Brown paper spine,ochre paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. This copy has been stored lying flat on a shelf since publication, and has no sagging of the text block, endemic to the majority of copies of this heavy, oversize book. An exceptionally beautiful copy. Note: extra shipping applies to this title. Winner of the 2005 Locus Award.

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