Titles starting with A from William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972.. Cloth. First edition. Boards mildly bowed, lettering a bit dull, otherwise very good in a near very good, lightly rubbed dust jacket with a short closed tear at the corner of the upper panel and an old price sticker on the front flap. ... more information

Garden City: Doubleday, 1969.. Cloth. First U.S. edition. Top edge lightly foxed, ink name and date, else very good in dust jacket with a few small spots on the upper panel. ... more information

[Stuttgart]: Editions Hansjorg Mayer, 1966.. Folded folio broadside. Issued as "futura 5." Inscribed and signed by Zukofsky in the year of publication, with several corrections in his hand, as usual. Tanned and worn at the folds, adhesion loss of paper at the corners, affecting the bibliography, still a good copy. ... more information

[New York]: Interim Books, 1963.. Tall, narrow quarto. Printed wrappers. First edition. One of twenty-five numbered copies signed by the author (of 250). Very good. ... more information

Preston, Lancashire: Akros Publications, August 1966.. Printed wrappers. Edited by Duncan Glen. About fine. This was Glen's copy, and bears MacDiarmid's month of publication presentation inscription to him, "with every high regard." ... more information

Various places. 1930s through 1960s.. Forty-five items. Various sizes and formats, including broadsides, programs, leaflets, etc., some illustrated with photographs, others decorated. Printed and mimeographed. Good to fine. An unusual and informative collection of programs, announcements, and advertising material relating to theatrical and musical productions of works by, or adapted from work by, Langston Hughes, in a variety of venues, including major and little theatres, poetry and music festivals, commun... more information

Np. [ca. 1969].. Stapled printed wrappers. An author's separate (not offprint) inscribed and signed by Martin to Norman Holmes Pearson. Near fine. ... more information

Beverly Hills: International Film Productions, 18 April - 21 June 1983.. [2],121;[2],122-218b;[2],219-319;[2],320-491 leaves, with variations in collation due to lettered inserts and revision spanning leaves. Four volumes. Quarto. Photographically duplicated typescript, printed on rectos only of multi-colored stock. Bradbound in pictorial wrappers. One brad missing, white wrappers a bit tanned at edges, very good. Revised drafts of the constituent scripts for this original 1985 mini-series, written by Burge... more information

Austin: University of Texas Press, [1969].. Large octavo. Gilt blue cloth. Portrait. First edition. Foreword and design by Merle Armitage. About fine in soiled and smudged yellow dust jacket with a 2cm closed tear in the upper panel. ... more information

[London]: Printed for the National Anti-Vivisection Society, 1903 [i.e. 1904].. Printed wrappers. Illustrations. A fine copy. Half morocco slipcase and chemise, bearing the bookplate of the James S. Copley collection. First separate edition, printed from the plates of the 1903 Christmas Number of HARPER'S, and preceding the U.S. book edition. BAL 3479. ... more information

New York: Privately Printed, 1906].. Flexible boards, printed paper label, top edge not gilt. Very good. Inscribed by the author: "To my Sunday school teacher and dear friend John K. Bangs with love and Merry Christmas from Julia E. Ford." The somewhat embryonic form of this copy, issued without a title-leaf and with a variant binding, suggests preliminary, even more "private" status, than do the ordinary copies of this book. ... more information

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1936.. Portrait. Cloth. First edition. Literary ownership signature, covers slightly bowed, very good. CARTER 49. ... more information

Hurst, Berks: The Peacocks Press, 1955.. Large octavo. Cloth. First edition, ordinary issue. One of 350 copies on Barcham Green Medway paper, from a total edition of 360 copies. Light rubbing at tips, a few pencil underscores, else a very good or better copy, with the prospectus laid in. ... more information

Hurst, Berks: The Peacocks Press, 1955.. Large octavo. Cloth. First edition, ordinary issue. One of 350 copies on Barcham Green Medway paper, from a total edition of 360 copies. Fine in lightly frayed glassine dust jacket. ... more information

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.. Cloth boards, lettered in gilt. First edition. Fine in near fine, price- clipped dust jacket. ... more information

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.. Cloth boards. First edition. Warmly inscribed by the author to Wilmarth S. Lewis, with the latter's small bookplate (bearing a tiny release stamp). Fine in very good dust jacket. ... more information

[Np]: Bart-Palevsky Productions, [nd. but ca. 1970s].. [1],132 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript, printed on rectos only of blue stock. Bradbound in hot-stamped wrappers. Title hand- lettered on spine. Very good or better. An unspecified draft of this unproduced adaptation to the screen of Hemingway's novel. Petitclerc wrote the script for the 1977 adaptation of ISLANDS IN THE STREAM. ... more information

[Beverly Hills]: Twentieth Century-Fox, 5 June 1963.. [1],159 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript, printed on rectos only, bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Large overlap edges of wrappers a bit frayed and torn, internally fine. Denoted a "first draft" of Johnson's adaptation to the screen of Hughes's classic novel of the corruptibility of "innocent" children extracted by events from their normal environment. This would appear to be an exceptionally early form ... more information

Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Company, February & July 1901.. Two issues. Folio. Pictorial wrappers. Heavily illustrated. Spine of first volume slightly split toward crown, modest dust soiling, but unusually nice copies. The first appearances of these two contributions by Wright to the "New Series of Model Suburban Homes of Moderate Cost" (#s 5 and 9 in the series - Wright's sole contributions to the series). These plans were represented in the MOMA Retrospective as" revolutionizing... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978.. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the author's second novel. Cream wrappers lightly dust smudged, fore-edges curled, adhesive shadows at lower edge, edges dust marked; a good copy. Publisher's promotional sheet laid in. ... more information