First Lesson by Aston, James (White, T. H.) - 1933

Santa Barbara, CA: Unicorn Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1971. Limited Signed Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A few thin, dark marks to the paper of the back cover. Slightest bumps to the lower tips of the covers.; This poem is written in Levine's characteristic style of short, declarative phrasing and the lines speak in the voice of a child, the voice of an adult, and the voice of the wall, all presumed to be in Spain. The dedication references the girl Pili, the author's wife, and Spain, for which he had a long-standing fascination. Prior to his 2011 appointment as Poet Laureate of the United States, Philip Levine won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the National Book Award, the Ruth Lily Prize in Poetry and the Wallace Stevens Award. The author was also named Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Copy 43 of an edition of 50, numbered in yellow ink and signed in black by Levine. From a total edition of 750, the 50 numbered and signed copes are specially bound in… Read More

First edition 1st printing, Near Fine unread book with slight shelf wear bottom edges, soft spine ends, small spot front page edges, and several very slight glue spots on the front quarter cloth, apparently from binding; in a Near Fine jacket with wear and slight color loss at spine ends and corners, white flaps slightly age yellowed. This copy of her second novel has been signed by Walker on the title page.

298 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in green cloth with dark green lettering to cover and spine in original pictorial jacket. (First's January 2003 pg 45) First American edition. The Luck of the Bodkins first published in the United Kingdom on October 11, 1935 by Herbert Jenkins, and in the United States on January 3, 1936 by Little, Brown and Company. The two editions are significantly different, though the plot remains the same. The novel was serialized in Passing Show magazine (UK) from 21 September to 23 November 1935, and this version was published as the UK edition. For its US magazine appearance, in the Red Book, between August 1935 and January 1936, Wodehouse re-wrote the story, reducing its length, and this became the US book edition. The story concerns the complicated love life of amiable young Drone Monty Bodkin, the nephew of Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, who had previously appeared in Heavy Weather (1933), when he was employed as the latest in the long line of Lord Emsworth's… Read More

Fine minus, unread book with touch of shelf wear and slight pushing at bottom of spine, there is a small sticker from John Cole’s Book and Craft Shop, La Jolla, California on bottom of back paste-down, at spine; in a Very Good jacket that has light edge and corner wear, touch of color loss spine ends and corners, rubbing to both panels, with several light overwrite impressions. Blurbed by Larry McMurtry on front jacket panel, but with his name misspelled. This copy has been signed by Abbey on the front end page. Essays beyond the city walls, mostly about deserts.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First U.S. trade edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

London: Oxford University Press 1963 - 1965. (Hardcover set) 427, 475, 511, 560, 404pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Frontispieces, plates, appendices, index of correspondents, general index. An ex-library set. The inner hinges of vol. 1 and the back inner hinges of vols. 2&3 are cracked. The spines are lightly faded except for the area where the labels have been skilfully removed. Letters of Jonathan Swift. Edited by Harold Williams. (Sets, Biography, Sets).

Very Good to Near Fine book, spine ends soft with slight soiling, light soiling or rubbing to bottom page edges, small, light spot to top edge stain; in a Very Good, price-clipped, jacket that has edge and corner wear, couple of small chips, color loss at spine ends and corners, spine is sun yellowed, as are edges of the white flaps. This was Gaines’ first book. This copy has been inscribed and signed by Gaines on fly leaf and dated March 12, 1974 – San Francisco.

London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1902. First edition thus. First illustrated edition, Maxfield Parrish (illustrator). Published London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1902, first printing. 8vo., 228pp. plus 5 pp. publishers ads. 10 full page plates by Parrish, printed in gravure, with texted tissue guards. Original olive green cloth with five-color pictorial cover design by Parrish, top edge gilting, pictorial endpapers, some pages uncut. Slight dulling to the spine titles, else near fine. An attractive example. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Parrish, Maxfield. 8vo.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart 1961, 1st edition. (Hardcover) 99pp. Very good plus in very good dust jacket. There is a previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper, the dust jacket is lightly worn around the edges and the right edge of the front panel cut-out has a closed tear and a chip missing. Photos available on request. Illustrations by Frank Newfeld. (Poetry--Canada, Poetry--Canada).

Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International, 1989. First U.S. Edition, First printing. Translated from the original Japanese publication of "Hitsuji o meguru boken" by Alfred Birnbaum. A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami's international reputation. It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of… Read More