Jade: and Other Stories by Wiley, Hugh - 1922: Autographed by Author

W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. London. No date. Circa 1920. Collins King's Classics edition. 8vo. Inscribed by Symons on the front free endpaper " To Dora Gordine from Arthur Symons November 14: 1928(?)". A very good tidy copy in publishers beige cloth with dark green label, lettered and with wavy line border, all in gilt, to the spine. Top edge gilt. Dora Gordine was a noted Estonian Sculptor who regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy and Leicester Galleries in London as well as shows at The Fine Art Society & The London Jewish Museum of Art. Symons was a great champion of her work. Reviewing one of her Leicester Galleries exhibitions in a 1938 edition of the Spectator, Symons wrote; 'Her profound sense of pure form in sculpture, heedless alike of realism and of exaggerated abstraction, is united with the subtlest delicacy of modelling, and these qualities combine to endow her bronzes with an abnormal power, an almost uncanny life, which only the sculpture of the greatest civilisations of the past has… Read More

New York Macmillan, 1951, hardcover. Published 1951, this is seventh printing 1955. -- SIGNED, inscribed to [name] with a personal note by the author on July 6, 1960. Laid in is the program "The Many Faces of Art" at The Brooklyn Unitarian on the same date at which Marianne Moore gave a reading. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good minus (spine tips rubbed; endsheets discoiored; no jacket).

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Signed on the title page by James Welch. First edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in a dust jacket with minor wear, else fine. The jacket is much more attractive than usual for this book. The scarcest of Welch's novels, especially in nice condition.

Koln: Konemann Verlag / Aperture, 1999. Signed by the legendary photographer Eikoh Hosoe and dated 9.26.05 on the half title page. First Konemann edition / First printing. Black cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Princeton Princeton University Press, 1948, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. -- Folded Merry Christmas 1959 postcard addressed to Mr & Mrs Louis B. Cox, Dublin, Ireland, is laid in: written and SIGNED by the author, "Love to all the Coxes" followed by a 17-line poem, An Old Field Mowed etc. in the author's hand. This poem was published in The New Yorker September 30 1961. -- Also laid in is a photocopy, 4 pages of a diary in Meredith's hand, containing: a poem-in-progress, mention of poetry by and conversations with fellow naval officer and poet Louis Coxe (whose ownership is in this book), Pacific war patrol on ship and shore, one date is 10-xi-44. -- Hardcover, pretty printed boards. Condition: near fine (endsheets bit discolored; no jacket).

Signed in Red Ink, SIGNATURE GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC, Back of Card which is small than regular postcard has Scuffing & small Residue, VG+ Condition, also has in white a Facsimile of Her Signature on the Card. Signed by Author. Unbound.

Duell Sloan and Pearce,, 1963 HBDJ, 1963, Stated 1st Edition, 1st Printing, ,VG+/VG, Red Tweed cloth Hardcoverlettered in Black on Spine Cvr light wear , Interior nice tight clean light FOX, Wear, 152 pgs, DJ light rub, wear ,Light Fox back DJ tiny chips tears edges Extremities DJ, DJ spine ENDS tiny Chips Tears , DJ small mended tears edges, 8vo Book Condition: Very Good+. 5.5x8", DJ Protected Clear Mylar. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Léon Arnoult: La Variabilité du Gout dans les Arts. Les phases ornamentales de la mode (The variability of taste in the arts. The ornamental phases of fashion). Printed and published by Devambez "À l'enseigne du masque d'Or". Paris, 1921. ARNOULT Léon - William ABLETT (1877-1937 illustrator). Preowned, Signed. A l'Enseigne du Masque d'Or, chez Devambez, 1921, in-4°, 87 pp + 7 plate illustrations, printed in 303 numbered copies. Sewn, original printed stiff wrapper over blind wrapper. Printed wrapper, interior fine, uncut and unopened copy. Two of the illustrations are mixed technique plates by William Ablett, one is signed in pencil by the artist: a circular engraving with a lithographic image printed on it and heightened with gold. Editorial paperback, Jacket with title to the framed flat, beautiful allegorical friezes, endpapers, eyelet, cover page with the same frieze (antique collection stamp). The quantity of circulation - 303 copies justified, and numbering - №120, a preface paper,… Read More

New York: Pantheon, 1999. Signed on the title page and dated Nov. 4, 1999 by the author. First edition / First printing. Black paper spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Winner of the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

SIGNED BY JOAN and not inscribed to anyone. An attractive 2nd printing with clean text (appears unread) and lovely boards; approaches near-fine. DJ has wear along the edges and price is clipped, but still quite appealing with a new mylar cover. Expedited shipping is welcome; signed by author.