Essays from Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1912. Later printing. SIGNED by Maurice Maeterlinck on the title page. Ten essays reflecting the Belgian writer's interest in mysticism and symbolism, with chapters on silence, morality, women, inner beauty, etc. Introduction by A.B. Walkley, translated by Alfred Sutro. This edition in English was published in 1912, one year after Maeterlinck (1862-1949) won the… Read more about this item

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm), 252, [6] pages, in blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine, in an unclipped, printed dust jacket. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title: "To Virginia Elliott / With best wishes / Dan Wakefield." Snapshots and vignettes from 1968… Read more about this item

New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1965. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 215 x 145 mm), 371, [1] pages, in gray cloth, titles to spine, in a pictorial dust jacket. Essays by the French philosopher on André Gide, Albert Camus, Paul Nizan, Alberto Giacometti, Nathalie Sarraute, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Renaissance painting, Translated from the French… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, [1973]. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 6 inches; 210 x 150 mm), xix, 419 pages, in red cloth, titles to spine, light blue top stain. With a dust jacket (hard cover). SIGNED by Truman Capote on the front end paper. A collection of Capote's essays, travel réportage, as well as short sketches of such… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1920. First Edition, First Printing. 16mo (6 7/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 173 x 110 mm), xviii, [2], 155, [1] pages, in publisher's original blue cloth, with gilt lettering on the spine and lacking the rare dust jacket. T.S. Eliot's essays on a variety of topics, including Christopher Marlowe, Hamlet, poetic drama, Dante, Ben… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. A collection of essays written between 1945 and 1964, focusing on literature and folklore, especially the African-American experience. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo, xxiii, 317, [2] pages. CONDITION: Small tear in cloth near bottom of front board where it meets the spine, a bit of rubbing to front board, some soiling to top edge. The… Read more about this item

Small Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 inches; 235 x 155 mm), 244 pages, quarter cloth over boards, in an unclipped, printed dust jacket. SIGNED by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. In this collection of essays, she writes about various aspects of her life as a public figure, as an anti-apartheid activist, as a member of the African National Congress, and… Read more about this item

New York: International Publishers, 1948. First Edition. With a dust jacket. Octavo, 64 pages. This slim volume features blunt, disparaging assessments of Sartre, Mauriac, Malraux, and Koestler from a Communist perspective. Example: "The big bourgeoisie in decay delights in the erotic obsessions of a Henry Miller or the intellectual fornications of a Jean-Paul Sartre." (Page 61). Actually, you can tell… Read more about this item