Recent Arrivals from Clay's Books

From the Estate of Barbara Walters. Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe, Random House, New York, 1944. Introduction by Hervey Allen; full-page illustrations from wood-engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Green cloth boards with gilt decorative spine titles. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 562 pages. Pages are clean, bright without no marks, tears or folds. Comes with (damaged) slipcase.

From the Estate of Barbara Walters. Emmaus PA, Story Classics (Rodale Press), 1949, 1st edition, limited to 3000 copies this being number 56 hardcover, black cloth spine with light gray boards and gilt lettering, housed in simple publishers (damaged) slip-case. Comes with The Limited Edition Members newsletter announcing the printing, and an advance notice.

From the Estate of Barbara Walters. Number 399 of 1000 copies. Signed by the artist. SlipcaseIllustrated by Andre Durenceau. Pp.[x]+430(last colophon), coloured frontispiece and 7 plates, black & white title page vignette and headpiece illustrations, the title printed in brown; roy. 8vo; red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; t.e.g., others uncut and largely unopened, Doubleday Limited Editions series, being… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1989. Limited First Edition, signed by the author on front page. 323 pages. In Like New condition. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover.Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990,[1] the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award… Read more about this item

From the Estate of Barbara Walters. Spoon River Anthology. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1942. Spoon River Anthology (1915) is a collection of short free verse poems by Edgar Lee Masters. The poems collectively narrate the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the Spoon River, which ran near Masters's home town of Lewistown,… Read more about this item

From the Estate of Barbara Walters. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Number 900 of 1500. Signed by the illustrator, Miguel Covarrubias, at the limitations page.Batouala is a 1921 novel by French writer René Maran, which follows an African chieftain named Batouala over a few days of his life. The novel won the Prix Goncourt, one of France's highest literary… Read more about this item

From the Estate of Barbara Walters.

From the Estate of Barbara Walters. Largely unopened. Slipcase included

From the Estate of Barbara Walters. First Edition, First Printing. The Annotated Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances Complete (Three Volume Set in Slipcase) Hardcover December 12, 1978. Perfect condition. Beautifully illustrated comlete works. Largely unopened.

From the Estate of Barbara Walters. Complete Anderson in 6 volumes, limited edition. Number 516 of 1500, Signed by Illustrators, Jean Hersholt and Fritz Kredel. In Beautiful slip case. Like new, mostly unopened.

From the Estate of Barbara Walters. slipcase damaged, Contents in fine condition. Largely unopened.

From the estate of Barbara Walters.74, [1] pp. Quarter calf over black silver-flecked boards, spine lettered in blind, with the gold slip case. Illustrated with wood engravings by Gustav Wolf and a textual note by Alfred Y. Fisher. An elaborate edition and an early production of the press, the first Cummington book to be chosen by the American Institute of… Read more about this item

From the Estate of Barbara Walters Heritage Press The Book Of Ruth 1947 - Illustrated By Arthur Szyk. This book is in beautiful condition. Printed on double pages. The beautiful gold slipcase has slight wear wear. Included Heritage Club Sandglass newsletter about the edition. The Book of Job is also available in another listing of mine.

From the Estate of Barbara Walters. Illustrated and signed by Rockwell Kent. Limited edition #1353 of 1470 sold out copies. With description from bookseller Ursus Rare Books Ltd.Candide, satirical novel published in 1759 that is the best-known work by Voltaire. It is a savage denunciation of metaphysical optimism as espoused by the German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz that reveals a… Read more about this item

From the Estate of Barbara Walters. 2 volumes with Slipcase. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. [12], 3-532, [4]; [6], 533-1067, [3] pp. Blue cloth with a paper label on each spine printed in navy blue; grey toptains. Signed by Carl Sandburg on the limitation page of volume one. 1,000 copies of this edition were printed on rag paper. This set… Read more about this item

From the Estate of Barbara Walters. In Excellent shape with some light wear to the board/spine joint.First Navarre Society Edition. Two Volumes, With 32 Portraits. Near Fine, Contents Clean And Unmarked, No Names Or Bookplates Or Stains, Slight Rubbing At Corners. A Very Detailed, Clear Summary Of The Life Of A Woman Who Was, In A Word, Non-Essential, And Associated… Read more about this item

From the Estate of Barbara Walters.Whistle (1978), a novel by James Jones, tells the story of four wounded South Pacific veterans brought back by hospital ship to the United States during World War II. Much of the story takes place in a veterans hospital in the fictional city of Luxor, Tennessee (based on the city of Memphis). Whistle forms the… Read more about this item

From the Estate of Barbara Walters. 215pp Limited edition of 3,000 copies; this copy is no. 253. Five stories by Gogol plus a chapter about the author and the book by Edward J. Fluck. Illus. by Philip Evergood. The stories in this volume were selected by J. I. Rodale. Slip case is faded and has some wear.

From the Estate of Barbara Walters. Beautifully Illustrated with artwork and drawings throughout. Minor tear to the cover of the orange cloth on the spine. The front board has separated slightly from the spine.

From the Estate of Barbara Walters. Limited Edition.Large 8vo. [2], 1-122 [6] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. With pictures by E. McKnight Kauffer. Number 72 of 1650 copies produced. Some fading to the spine and a small spot of discoloration on the back board.