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

New York: Random House, [1991].. Cloth and boards. First edition. About fine in dust jacket with tiny edge tear. ... more information

New York: Random House, [1991].. Cloth and boards. First edition. About fine in dust jacket. ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946.. Three volumes. Large octavo. Cream polished buckram, stamped in gilt, gilt leather labels, t.e.g. Illustrations. Pictorial color endsheets. An unusually fine set, in the original plain paper wrappers with diecut spines with film overlays. The box is complete, but worn, with old tape mends to two joints. First illustrated edition, limited issue. Illustrations by Reginald Marsh. One of 365 numbered sets, specially bound, and signed by Dos Passos and Marsh. ... more information

[New York]: U.S. Camera, [1950].. Quarto. Cloth. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Some hand-smudges to front endsheet otherwise a very good copy, in somewhat nicked, chipped and edgeworn dust jacket. First edition. From the library of novelist/photographer Carl Van Vechten, with his pictorial bookplate. A distinguished year including Duncan's and Smith's photographs of the Korean conflict. ... more information

Frankfort, KY: Gnomon Press, [1980].. Plain wrappers. First edition. About fine in pictorial dust jacket. ... more information

Boston: Little, Brown, [1943].. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed (first name only) by the author to "Lefty" (i.e. Wilmarth S. Lewis). Author's compliments card pasted to front pastedown and offset opposite, Lewis's small bookplate (with tiny deaccession stamp), a couple ring marks to upper board, otherwise a good copy in chipped and worn dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1940.. Square. octavo. Cloth. Photographs. Drawings and decorations. Foreword by Leland P. Lovette. First trade edition, designed and illustrated by the author, and printed at the Ward Ritchie Press. Very good in good dust jacket (several small chips and closed tears at edges). ... more information

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1944.. xii,235,[1]pp. Cloth. First edition. Author's compliments plate to front pastedown, small bookplate (with tiny release stamp) of Wilmarth S. Lewis, else fine in a lightly soiled dust jacket with 1" tear to lower fore corner of upper panel and moderate shelf wear. ... more information

[London: Faber & Faber, 1929].. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, trade issue. Drawings by Diana Murphy. Ariel Poem 21. Yellow wrappers faintly dust darkened at edges, else about fine. ... more information

København: Forlagt af Universitetboghandler G.E.C. Gad, 1895.. Two volumes. Richly and ornately gilt pictorial medium blue cloth, marbled endsheets and edges. First edition in this format, with a foreword by Vilh. Anderson. A very attractive period Danish trade binding. ... more information

Leipzig: Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1784-5.. xlii,394,[13];xl,520,[14];xviii,518,[6];xxxii,500,18pp. Four volumes. Small octavo. Contemporary pastepaper boards, manuscript spine labels. Engraved title vignettes. Some browning, boards rubbed and lightly chipped at extremities, early ownership signatures, but a good set. First ordinary edition of the author's most widely popular work. In translation, as SOLITUDE, it was reprinted an extraordinary number of times of England and in the U.S. in the following... more information

Paris: Galerie Denise Rene, Decembre 1968.. Oblong small quarto. Photographs. First edition. Wrappers a trifle rubbed, else very good. ... more information

[München & Wien]: Carl Hanser Verlag, [1991].. Cloth. Portrait. Illustrated with color photographs by Peter-Andreas Hassiepen. First edition in German of "Fundamenta degli Incurabili," translated by Jörg Trobitius, and the first edition with the photographs. Fine in dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Norton, [1958].. Cloth. First edition. Tiny hemisphere clipped from edge of front jacket flap about an inch below the price, otherwise an unusually fine copy in jacket of a dreadfully common book when in lesser condition. ... more information

Edinburgh: Allan Donaldson, 1962.. Printed wrappers. First edition, trade issue. Glossy wrappers rubbed, some heavy pencil marginalia, but a good copy. ... more information

New York: Issued for Subscribers Only by Boni & Liveright, 1926.. Large octavo. Vegetable parchment and boards. Engraved plate by Stephen Gooden. First U.S. edition. One of 1250 numbered copies, signed by the author. Former owner's bookplate on pastedown, otherwise fine in dust jacket and lightly rubbed half morocco slipcase. ... more information

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926.. Polished buckram. Engraving. First edition. One of of 1250 numbered copies printed on japon vellum and signed by the author. The preliminary illustration is an original copperplate engraving by Stephen Gooden. Cloth slightly darkened and smudged, otherwise a very good copy. GILCHER A51a. ... more information

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926.. Polished buckram. Engraving. Cloth darkened, spotted and marked, a bit of toning to the edges of the text block, but a good, sound copy. First edition. One of 1250 numbered copies printed on japon vellum and signed by the author. The preliminary illustration is an original copperplate engraving by Stephen Gooden. This copy bears Moore's inscription: "To Virginia Crawford from her old friend George Moore July 8th 1926." The recipient was indeed an old friend, ... more information

[Hamden, CT]: The Appledore Private Press, 1895.. [8]pp. 12mo. Unprinted stiff wrappers. Trace of foxing, else near fine. First separate edition of this poem, printed by Linton at his handpress in an unspecified but small number of copies. Not in Ransom. NCBEL III:533. ... more information

New York: Dutton, 1930.. Quarto. Half gilt lettered parchment and gold- finish foil over boards. Frontis and plates. Spine slightly darkened, boards a bit rubbed, as usual, some marginal smudges to a few terminal leaves, otherwise a very good copy, internally largely unopened, in somewhat battered gilt lettered board slipcase and remnants of the glassine wrapper. First edition, limited issue. One of 115 numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by John and Ruth Vassos. Illustrated with twenty-two of Vass... more information