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"When two such brilliantly ebullient intellects get together by mail, they charge the air with all sorts of pyrotechnics": First Edition of The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: 1940-1971
NABOKOV, Vladimir and Edmund Wilson. Edited.
The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: 1940-1971.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979.
First edition of this annotated compendium of the Nabokov-Wilson letters. Octaovo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 89093
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“To expect the universe to be benevolent was like imagining one could always win at a game of pure chance:" First Edition of Arthur C. Clarke's The Songs of Distant Earth
CLARKE, Arthur C.
The Songs of Distant Earth.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1986.
First edition of the author's first book after '2010: Odyssey Two.' Octavo, original blue half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Michael Whelan. Jacket design by Anthony C. Russo.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 145176
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First Edition of George Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart: a Political Extravaganza
SHAW, George Bernard.
The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza.
London: Constable and Company, 1930.
First edition of this classic play by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 138394
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"It was as a writer of short-stories that Kipling first established his fame": First edition of Walter Morris Hart's Kipling: The Story-Writer
HART, Walter Morris. [Rudyard Kipling].
Kipling: The Story-Writer.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1918.
First edition of Walter Morris Hart's survey of the Kipling's short stories. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 125277
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"I was wide awake, packed and ready to go at dawn": Eric Ambler's The Night-Comers
AMBLER, Eric.
The Night-Comers.
London: Heinemann, 1965.
Early printing of Ambler's inventively thrilling novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Brian Russell.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 126375
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Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, Anna Christie, The First Man
O'NEILL, Eugene.
The Hairy Ape and Other Plays.
London: Johnathan Cape, 1930.
Early printing of this collection of three plays by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 111321
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First Edition of Lawrence Durrell's The Best of Antrobus
DURRELL, Lawrence.
The Best of Antrobus.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1974.
First edition of the best twenty Antrobus stories from Lawrence Durrell's three paperbacks. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated with drawings by Nicolas Bently. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 145171
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First Edition of Lawrence Durrell's Sauve Qui Peut
DURRELL, Lawrence.
Sauve Qui Peut.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1966.
First edition of the third collection of Durrell's 'Antrobus' comedic short stories. Octavo, original pink cloth, illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. Near fine in a good dust jacket with a small segment clipped from the front panel of the dust jacket.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 145175
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First Edition of Christopher Isherwood's Down There On a Visit
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.
Down There On a Visit.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.
First edition of this novel from the author of Goodbye Berlin and what many consider his finest novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 112391
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First Edition of James Jones' A Touch of Danger
JONES, James.
A Touch of Danger.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1973.
First edition of this work by the author of From Here to Eternity. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 145719
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First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov: A Tribute
QUENNELL, Peter.
Vladimir Nabokov: A Tribute.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1980.
First edition of this tribute to Nabokov. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Edited by Peter Quennell. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 36337
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Isaac Bashevis Singer's The King of the Fields
SINGER, Isaac Bashevis.
The King of the Fields.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988.
Early printing of Singer's masterful historical novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Alcorn. Author photograph by Nancy Crampton.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 126208
