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$20.00London: Faber and Faber (1966). First edition. 291 pp w/index. Small ownership label inside front board, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with a short tear and wear to crown.$45.00Salem: Salem House (1983). First edition 224 pp w/index. Near fine in very near fine dust jacket.$35.00London: Viking (1996). First edition. xiv + 297 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated with colour photographs by Mariantonietta Peru.$15.00NY: Bloomsbury (2004). First US edition. 244 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket.$25.00London: John Murray (1990). First edition. 148 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.$350.00Cambridge: Constable & Company/Houghton Mifflin, 1928. First edition. lxii + 347 pp w/appendix & xvii +373 pp w/notes. Two volumes, both fine in very good plus dust jackets with a chip to the middle of the spine on volume one. T.e.g. Frontispieces and nine plates. One of 1000 copies. Edited with a biographical Introduction by Guy Chapman. Beckford’s DREAMS, WAKING THOUGHTS AND INCIDENTS, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF EUROPE (first published in 1783, but almost entirely suppressed, together with his travel diaries of Spain and Portugal (first published in 1834).$250.00London: Architectural Press, 1937. First edition. 31 pp. Near fine in wrappers and integral illustrated dust jacket. Eighteen b&w photographs illustrate this essay on the destruction of London’s architectural heritage. The first issue, which includes the telephone number for the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London.$12.50NY: Bloomsbury (2001). First US edition. 248 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.$25.00NY: Summit (1980). First US edition. 155 pp. Two small marks to front free endpaper, else near fine in near fine dust jacket.$20.00London: Jonathan Cape (1989). First edition. 367 pp w/bibliographic note. Small ink mark to fore-edge, else fine in fine dust jacket.$25.00London: Jonathan Cape (1989). First edition. 367 pp w/bibliographic note. Very near fine in like dust jacket with light wear along the top edge of the rear panel. Chatwin’s own selections from his stories, profiles, and travelogues.$350.00[Andoversford]: Whittington Press (1984). First edition. Small 4to. x + [50 pp]. Fine in full canvas with printed spine and inset cover label. Illustrated with fifty wood-engravings by Craig, with one fold-out plate. One of 300 (of 350) numbered copies on Zerkall mould-made paper SIGNED by Craig.$20.00London: Viking (1996). Second printing. 374 pp w/index. Near fine in fine dust jacket.$35.00London: HarperCollins (1998). First edition. 385 pp w/index. Pages lightly toned, else very near fine in like dust jacket.$35.00NY: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan (1974). First US edition. 270 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with one small chip at lower edge of front flap.$20.00Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum (2002). First edition. 32mo. [62 pp]. Fine in fine very near fine dust jacket with a single tiny closed edge tear. Illustrated.$225.00NY: Century, 1913. First edition. 526 pp. Bookplate inside front cover, corners bumped, front hinge starting; in all very good in full red cloth with gold stamping. No dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Dreiser, “To A.B. Hoskall and family from Theodore Dreiser N.Y. Dec 9 - 1913.”$17.50NY: Arcade/Little, Brown (1990). First US edition. xiv + 210 pp w/notes and sources & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated with color photographs by Harry Peccinotti.$125.00NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce (1943). First edition. xvii + 404 pp w/index. Top edge lightly foxed, else near fine in very good only dust jacket with heavy wear and chipping to flap folds and crown. INSCRIBED by Frank to Clifford Odets, “To Clifford Odets / with love / - his brother / Waldo Frank.” Odets has added his initials to the same page. Both men were members of the League of American writers, Frank being a cofounder.
$45.00London: Hutchinson (2003). First edition. xx + 363 pp w/chronology & list for further reading. Slight lean to spine, else fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Gimlette on the title page. The first of his highly-regarded travel books.$40.00London: Harvill/HarperCollins (1992). First edition. 278 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.$500.00NY: Viking (1939). First US edition. 279 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light edge wear, a half-inch chip to base of spine, and some shallow chipping to crown. Clifford Odets’ copy, with his embossed stamp, “CLIFFORD ODETS / NEW YORK CITY” on the first leaf.$45.00London: Eyre & Spottiswoode (1950). Third edition. 289 pp. Fine in very good plus, deeply price-clipped dust jacket with sunned spine. Greene contributes a brief introductory note, specific to this edition.$20.00NY: Schocken (1985). First US edition. vii + 184 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with two sticker shadows to front flap. Translated by Ewald Osers.$20.00NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1983). Uncorrected proof. 319 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers with a light bump to base of spine.$125.00London & NY: Abelard-Schuman (1962). First US edition. 160 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with the printed UK price clipped from the base of the front flap. Dated (December 1967) and INSCRIBED by Hine.$25.00NY: Holt (1988). First edition. 388 pp w/appendix. Very near fine in like dust jacket.
$45.00Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1987. First edition. xi + 267 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. The first of three volumes of selected essays by Holmes, featuring his long series on Vietnam, “Walking Away from the War.”$75.00NY: Random House (1949). First US edition. xi + 217 pp. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to crown. Frontispiece and photographs by William Caskey.$27.50NY: Random House (1949). First US edition. xi + 217 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with light wear to extrems. Frontispiece and photographs by William Caskey.$200.00Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1954. First edition. 56 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase. Illustrated with wood engravings by Paul Landacre. Foreword by Robinson Jeffers. One of 300 copies.$45.00University Park & London: Pennsylvania State University Press (1987). First edition. 206 pp w/index. Small 'review copy' stamp on top edge, else fine in fine dust jacket. Review slip laid in.