LUK THE PRODIGAL SON by WYCLIFFE JOHN:

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1972. Decorative label signed by Robertson Davies laid in. First edition / First printing. Bright orange cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket, with a short closed tear to the top front panel light creases, and wear primarily to the rear top corner of the spine. An exceptional copy of both the book and the fragile dust jacket. Second book in the Deptford Trilogy.

New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1982. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the front free endpaper. First trade edition / First printing. Blue cloth. Near fine, slight fading to top and bottom board edges, in fine dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Row, 1969. Stated First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. 8vo. Gray cloth, with red spine lettering. Red top stain. Gray end papers. 534 pages. No names or marks. Illustrated dust-jacket (with "$8.95" price intact) is chipped, with small, closed tears at top of both the front and rear panels.

NY: Basic Books, 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed copy of this first collected edition of Fuchs' enduring novels about life in Depression-era Brooklyn, "Summer in Williamsburg," "Homage to Blenholt," and "Low Company," originally published in 1934, 1936, and 1937, respectively. Fuchs has lovingly inscribed this copy to Susan Foster, a long-time personal assistant to film and literary mega-agent Irving Paul Lazar, and later Frank Sinatra. The nature of Fuchs and Foster's acquaintance is unknown, though it seems safe to assume that they might have met during Fuchs' long tenure as a Hollywood scriptwriter. His inscription, "From one Brighton Beachcomber to another," also leaves open the possibility that the two had known each other growing up in Brooklyn. Inscribed by Fuchs and signed as "Dan" on the front free endpaper. Octavo (5.75 x 8.25 in.); vii, 380, 301, 314pp.; red cloth boards, gold lettering on spine,… Read More

First Edition; Numbered Issue. One of 140 copies printed on Fedrigoni Vellum (a 190gram, smooth and elegant Italian paper) and handstiched and handbound in hardcovers featuring the red and black letterpress printed paper designed by Elisabeth Hyder and black head- and tail bands. The front cover is impressed with a letterpress printed label. This issue is our 'standard': a collectible, modestly priced finepress first edition. Fine/New.

Random House, New York, 1972; First Edition; 8vo, 365 pages. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket that has not been price-clipped. No chips, creases, tears, ownership signatures, or any other markings of any kind. A sound and attractive copy of Irving’s second book.

1901 EXQUISITE Italian Novels Facetious Nights Straparola + Pecorone Fiorentino

A rare, early 20th-century printing of two famous Italian novels translated into English by William G. Waters. Printed by the Society of Bibliophiles in London, this seven volume set features "The Facetious Nights of Straparola" by Giovanni Francesco Straparola and 'Il Pecorone' by Giovanni Fiorentino. Both of these works are notable for being written in the style of the famed work 'Decameron' by Giovanni Boccaccio.

Item number: #7179
Price: $499
WATERS, William G. [English transl.]
The Italian novelists
London : Privately printed for members of the Society of bibliophiles, 1901.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o 7 volumes
§ 1-4. "The Facetious Nights of Straparola"
§ 5-7. "The Pecorone of Ser Giovanni"
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Language: English
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Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~8.5in X 6in (21.5cm x 15cm)
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988. Signed on half-title with the place noted as Webster Groves and dated 15 September 88. Early signature with full first name. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth spine, light gray-blue paper-covered boards. Near fine in price-clipped, fine dust jacket. The author's first book. Franzen grew up in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis. This book was published in September of 1988.

Jonathan Cape, London, 1926. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 284pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gold-stamped decoration to the upper board. With decorated endpapers, a title page decoration, a frontispiece and twelve Henderson tailpiece decorations. Top edge lightly dust marked and spotted, others untrimmed. A narrow strip of browning to the free endpapers and a touch of soiling to the pastedowns. A very good copy in the most uncommon dust wrapper which reproduces a larger version of the frontispiece design; the wrapper is price-clipped, tanned at the spine panel, a little marked, spotted and stained in places with a tiny sliver of loss from the head of the spine panel, just a fraction of further loss from the tail and several more millimetres of loss from the corner tips and upper edge. A historical novel by the honorary Inkling, retelling 'The Tale of Styrbjörn the Swedish Champion', written between his… Read More

Beautiful Condition: Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First US edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dustjacket. Overall, this is a beautiful, clean copy of the 1928 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama - Very light wear to the dust jacket tips and crown of the spine.