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$35.00Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press (1995). First edition. 342 pp w/notes & bibliography. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a light sticker shadow to spine. Promotional and review slip laid in.$25.00NY: Simon & Schuster (1953). First US edition. 86 pp w/index. Near fine in very good dust jacket with overall edgewear and several short tears.$25.00Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. First edition. ix + 435 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Edited by Thomas Gaiton Marullo, with his introduction and notes. “A Portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning Writer and of Russians in Exile, Drawn from Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs.”$17.50Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. First edition. x + 246 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a smudge to the front flap, and some light tanning to spine.$20.00Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. First edition. 246 pp w/notes & index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.$20.00NY: Random House (1986). First edition. 214 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.$15.00NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1996. First US edition, May 1996. Fine in fine dust jacket.$25.00Gainesville: University Press of Florida (1998). First US edition. 250 pp w/bibliography. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translations by Linda Britt. Promotional flyer laid in.
$150.00NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1942). First US edition. 40 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with light toning to extrems. Printed dedication to Leonard Woolf. The Rede Lecture, delivered in Cambridge on 29 May 1941. Kirkpatrick A24b.$25.00NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1978. First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.$17.50NY: Knopf, 1973. First edition. 436 pp. Two small return stampst to bottom edge, else near fine in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket with a closed tear to the crown of spine. Translated from the Spanish by Frances Partridge. The seven writers are: Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Angel Asturias, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Marquez, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante.$17.50Portland: Breitenbush Books (1988). First edition. 173 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Interviews with Kay Boyle, William S. Burroughs, Wendell Berry, Joseph Campbell, Douglas Adams, Bary Moser, Robert Creeley, Bernard MacLaverty, Margaret Drabble, Farley Mowat, Alastair Reid, John Nicols, Raymond Carver, Michael Dorris, and Louise Erdrich.$45.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition. 59 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine acetate dust jacket. One of 750 trade hardcover copies.
$40.00Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1980. First trade edition. 272 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Edited with an introduction and notes by Evelyn J. Hinz and John J. Teunissen. Miller died two days before the first copies of this book came back from the bindery. He began to write it in 1932. Promotional materials laid in.$25.00San Francisco: City Lights (nd). First printing of this edition (originally published in 1947). 119 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers.$20.00Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii (1979). First edition. 366 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Review slip laid in.$30.00NY: Viking (1984). First edition. xviii + 414 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with sunning to spine, overall edge wear, and a short closed tear. Introduction by Frank Kermode. Rebecca West, Stephen Spender, Tennessee Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, Bernard Malamud, William Goyen, Kurt Vonnegut, Nadine Gordimer, James Merrill, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and John Gardner.![Frederick William Rolfe ‘Baron Corvo.’ Born in London, July 1860 Died in Venice, October 1913 [Cover title].](https://www.detritus.com/wp-content/uploads/81340.jpg)
$125.00(np): Privately Printed for A.T.B. (1926). First edition. Small folding card (5 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches, closed). Fine. One of 50 copies. On the verso of the cover are four lines by William Blake, opposite a photographic portrait of Rolfe, dated c. 1890. Together with a similar memorial for the 50th anniversary of his death, with the caption title, “Reprinted from The Times / October 25, 1963 / in Memoriam,” with a six line tribute to Rolfe. One the verso is printed, “One of fifty-three copies printed / for friends of Corvo in February 1964.” For the pair:$20.00Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986. First edition. 153 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Whole chapters on George Crabbe, Jane Austen, William Cobbett, John Clare, and William Wordsworth. Review slip laid in.$27.50NY: Norton (1980). First edition. 265 pp. Top edge foxed, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with light edge-wear. Review slip, promotional flyer, and a photograph of Sternberg laid in. Contributions by Anne Tyler, Joan Didion, Alice Walker, Erica Jong, Maxine Hong Kingston, Muriel Rukeyser, and many others.$25.00Woodside: Occasional Works, 1984. First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 200 copies printed for Marjorie G. Stern for the joint 1984 Roxburghe-Zamorano clubs meeting in San Francisco. Designed and printed letterpress by Ann Rosener.$20.00University: University of Alabama Press (1971). Second printing. 191 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.$35.00NY & Tokyo: Weatherhill (1996). First edition. 189 pp w/notes. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Foreword by Donald Keene. Dated (June 16, 1998) and INSCRIBED by Shields.$20.00Oxford & Bloomington: James Currey/Indiana University Press (1997). First edition. xii + 325 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.$40.00London: Henry Southeran Ltd (1982). First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Issued on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the book’s publication. Illustrated.$25.00West Los Angeles: Grover Jones Press (1961). First edition. 112 + [16 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 750 copies.$20.00Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. First edition. xiii + 185 pp w/index. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued.$35.00Paris: Centre Culturel Americain [1959]. Ten mimeographed leaves, stapled upper left. Fine. Produced for distribution at this 1959 exhibition. Text in French. Catalogue of American writers who parked in Paris during the 20s, from Margaret Anderson to Thomas Wolfe.$20.00NY & London: Twayne/Prentice Hall (1998). First edition. xx + 185 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket.$15.00Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (1995). First edition. 203 pp w/selected bibliography. Fine in full red cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Introduction by Barone. Twelve essays.$75.00London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson (2011). First edition. 377 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
$35.00Hayes: Bran’s Head Books (1976). First trade paperback printing. 76 + [24 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Illustrated by Carol Gregory. Contributions by Aldiss, Pringle, Moorcock, Watson, and Peter Linnett. The volume concludes with a bibliography by John Carnell, with an introduction by Ballard.