FABRE'S BOOK OF INSECTS
by Stawell, Mrs. Rodolph; Fabre, Jean-Henri; Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander; Detmold, E. J.
New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1937. Fine in very good plus dust jacket.. New edition, sixth printing of this beautiful and popular entomological work, featuring engaging writing and beautiful illustrations. Based on Jean-Henri Fabre's French entomological work of 1879, this edition of FABRE'S BOOK OF INSECTS features soft-focus, Art Nouveau-esque insect illustrations by E. J. Detmold. 10'' x 7.5''. Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering and embellishment. Original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Green topstain. Tipped in... Read More
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THE DOGS BODIES PORTFOLIO
by Steadman, Ralph
London: Abelard-Schuman, 2000. First edition. About fine in fine portfolio.. Signed limited special edition of this booklet of humorous dog art, housed in an attractive portfolio with original silkscreen. Most widely known for his collaborations with Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman's artistic style is immediately recognizable. This attractive portfolio, assembled in 2000, presents a work published in the year of his "big break" (RalphSteadman.com) - 1970 was the year of his infamous Kentucky Derby coverage, and his first... Read More
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WHEN YOU REACH ME
by Stead, Rebecca
New York: Wendy Lamb Books, 2009. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing of this Newbery Medal-winning tale of time travel, mystery, and friendship in 1970s New York. Drawing inspiration from A WRINKLE IN TIME, Rebecca Stead's WHEN YOU REACH ME errs on the side of a touch of magic rather than outright fantasy. It earned Stead the 2010 Newbery Medal, and critical acclaim. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original red and white boards. Original unclipped ($15.99) color... Read More
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STAR
by Steel, Danielle
New York: Delacorte Press, 1989. Very good.. Advance review copy of this 25th novel by the world's best-selling living author, the basis for a 1993 made-for-television movie starring Jennie Garth at the height of her celebrity. 9'' x 5.75''. Original grey wrappers with raised gilt lettering. 447, [1] pages. Bookplate mounted to inside front cover, with "Danielle Steel / Star" printed in gold and the author's signature in blue ink. Publication date hand-corrected from February to March 1989.... Read More
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THE POTTER'S HOUSE
by Stegner, Wallace
Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1938. Fine.. Limited first edition of Wallace Stegner's second book, a novella about a deaf potter's crumbling life - a scarce title in remarkably lovely condition. Wallace Stegner, "The Dean of Western Writers," boasted many of the highest accolades a writer could earn: a National Book Award, a Pulitzer, two Guggenheim fellowships, the Little Brown Prize, and many others. He spent the latter half of his career teaching in addition to publishing award-winning... Read More
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ROTTEN ISLAND
by Steig, William
Boston: David R. Godine, 1984. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed reissue, the first with this title, of this tale of an island full of horrible animals where a beautiful flower unexpectedly sprouts one day, first published as THE BAD ISLAND in 1969. William Steig has the distinction of being nominated twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Award - once as an artist, and once as an author. He has also earned a Caldecott Medal, and the... Read More
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THE TOY BROTHER
by Steig, William
New York: HarperCollins, 1996. First printing. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. First edition of this hilarious story of an alchemist's child who gets into his father's lab, and finds himself miniaturized after drinking a strange potion. William Steig has the distinction of being nominated twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Award - once as an artist, and once as an author. He has also earned a Caldecott Medal, and the adoration of children and adults for his... Read More
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DRAWINGS
by Steig, William; Ross, Lillian
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket.. First printing of this collection of highlights celebrating Steig's 50-year relationship with THE NEW YORKER, featuring some of his best-known comics and illustrations for the periodical. William Steig has the distinction of being nominated twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Award - once as an artist, and once as an author. He has also earned a Caldecott Medal, and the adoration of... Read More
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ALPHA BETA CHOWDER
by Steig, William; Steig, Jeanne
New York: Michael di Capua Books / HarperCollins, 1992. Fine in near fine jacket.. First printing of this charming and outlandish alphabet of rhymes, including such delights as an abhorrent axolotl, gruesome Gilbert, and more. William Steig has the distinction of being nominated twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Award - once as an artist, and once as an author. He has also earned a Caldecott Medal, and the adoration of children and adults for his beloved SHREK!... Read More
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AMOS & BORIS
by Steig, William
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971. Near fine in very good dust jacket.. First printing of this story of an unlikely pair of friends - a mouse and a whale - who are always there to help each other. William Steig has the distinction of being nominated twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Award - once as an artist, and once as an author. He has also earned a Caldecott Medal, and the adoration of children and... Read More
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USEFUL KNOWLEDGE
by Stein, Gertrude
New York: Payson & Clarke, 1928. First printing. Very good minus in very good minus jacket.. First edition of Stein's collection of experimental portraits and linguistic investigations - in the uncommon original jacket. Representing her mature period of radical innovation, USEFUL KNOWLEDGE exemplifies Stein's practice of "prolonged" or "continuous present" writing which aimed to capture the essence of experience - rather than its mere description. In addition, the book was in many ways a direct challenge to critics... Read More
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DIX PORTRAITS
by Stein, Gertrude; Thomson, Virgil; de Massot, Pierre
Paris: Editions de la Montagne, 1930. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First trade edition of Stein's ten prose portraits, one of 400 numbered copies issued without lithographs. Stein's artist subjects include Guillaume Apollinaire, Christian Bérard, Eugene Berman, Bernard Faÿ, Georges Hugnet, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie, Pavel Tchelitchew, Kristians Tonny, and Virgil Thomson, who would adapt Stein's methods to another medium and produce dozens of his own musical portraits over the coming decades. A well-preserved copy with... Read More
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HAVE THEY ATTACKED MARY. HE GIGGLED. (A Political Caricature)
by Stein, Gertrude
[West Chester, PA]: [Printed by Horace F. Temple], 1917. First printing. Very good.. First separate and first complete edition of Stein's poem, partially a portrait of art critic Henry McBride, originally printed in Vanity Fair with 35 lines omitted - one of just 200 copies. Said to be a "portrait" of McBride, through whose influence the poem was first published in VANITY FAIR, the pamphlet's title-page footnote corrects that misapprehension: "It is in fact a genre picture and... Read More
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MORCEAUX CHOISIS DE LA FABRICATION DES AMERICAINS
by Stein, Gertrude; Hugnet, Georges
Paris: Éditions de la Montagne, 1929. First printing. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. Limited first French edition of these excerpts from Stein's expatriate classic MAKING OF AMERICANS - translated by Surrealist George Hugnet alongside Stein, and prefaced by his note disavowing knowledge of the English language. A translation of Stein's great modernist novel for her French associates, produced in collaboration with Hugnet. In addition to these selections, Hugnet co-translated Stein's DIX PORTRAITS, one of which was... Read More
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BREWSIE ET WILLIE [Brewsie and Willie]
by Stein, Gertrude; Schwab, Raymond
Paris: Paul Morihien Éditeur, 1947. Very good.. First French trade edition of Stein's postwar novella-in-dialogue between a pair of befuddled American GIs, translated and introduced by poet and scholar Raymond Schwab. 7.25'' x 4.5''. Original cream wrappers. Lacking glassine. 137, [3] pages. Light edgewear, small tape repair to chipped spine. Light toning and soil to wrappers. 200F price printed on rear wrapper.
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OPERAS AND PLAYS
by Stein, Gertrude
Paris: Plain Edition, 1932. Overall very good.. Association first edition, inscribed by Alice Toklas to author Elizabeth Sprigge, who would publish one of the earliest formal biographies of Stein in 1957 - and which Toklas repudiated. After Stein's death, Alice Toklas stewarded Stein's posthumous literary reputation, both assisting editors of new editions of Stein's texts and providing assistance (or obstacles, as the case may be) to biographers. At the time of this book's inscription, novelist Elizabeth Sprigge was... Read More
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THE MAKING OF AMERICANS: Being a History of a Family's Progress
by Stein, Gertrude
(Paris): (Contact Editions / Three Mountains Press), 1925. First printing. Very good plus.. First edition, in the rare original wrappers, of Stein's magnum opus, an influential Modernist epic. A metafictional account of the Hersland and Dehning families, Stein's AMERICANS was originally written (as the cover notes) in the first decade of the twentieth century. Told in Stein's characteristically repetitive style, the book was too radical for readers at the time, and wasn't published in any form until almost... Read More
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HOW TO WRITE
by Stein, Gertrude
Paris: Plain Editions, 1931. First printing. Very good.. First edition of one of Stein's best and most important works. Third title from Alice Toklas' imprint, which she founded to publish Stein's writings. Printed by the Darantiere Press. 6.5'' x 4''. Publisher's light-gray paper covered boards over gray paper spine with printed paper spine label. 395 pages. One of 1000 copies. Boards slightly bowed. Some moderate toning. Else clean and sound.
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THREE LIVES
by Stein, Gertrude
London: John Rodker, 1927. Very good minus in good jacket.. Third UK printing of Stein's masterpiece of modernism and first published book - stories of three working-class Baltimorean women. By the time her first book was completed, Stein was well educated, well-traveled, and well connected in the art world, sitting for a Picasso portrait in 1906 even as she composed THREE LIVES with self-consciously painterly technique. Though retrospectively classed as one of her most accessible works,... Read More
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LUCY CHURCH AMIABLY
by Stein, Gertrude
Paris: Imprimerie Union / (Plain Edition), 1930. First printing. Very good.. First edition of this first book from Stein's Plain Edition, inscribed by Alice Toklas to author Elizabeth Sprigge, who would publish one of the earliest formal biographies of Stein - and which Toklas repudiated. After Stein's death, Alice Toklas stewarded Stein's posthumous literary reputation, both assisting editors of new editions of Stein's texts and providing assistance (or obstacles, as the case may be) to biographers. At the... Read More
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GEOGRAPHY AND PLAYS
by Stein, Gertrude; Anderson, Sherwood
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1922. First printing. Very good minus.. First edition, in first state binding, of this collection of plays and portraits of people & places by Stein - with an admiring introduction by Sherwood Anderson. 7.5'' x 5''. Original blue cloth spine with light gray paper covered boards and printed spine label. Lacking dust jacket. 417, [1] pages. Moderate wear and soil to boards and top edge of text block. Spine toned.
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LUCY CHURCH AMIABLY
by Stein, Gertrude
New York: Something Else Press, 1969. First printing. Near fine.. First softcover (simultaneous with hardcover) US edition of one of Stein's most under-appreciated books. LUCY CHURCH AMIABLY was the first of the books Stein published herself, frustrated as she was by a lack of a regular outlet for her work. It was available only in that edition until this Something Else Press edition. 7'' x 5''. Original pictorial wrappers. 240 pages. Touches of shelfwear. Else bright and sharp.... Read More
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RED PONY
by Steinbeck, John
New York: Covici Friede, 1937. Near fine.. Signed limited first edition, this the scarce "lettered" issue meant for private distribution to friends. In addition to being lettered instead of numbered, this issue is printed on Marais handmade paper (watermarked) while the numbered copies are on La Garde paper. The limited edition originally sold for $10.00 - a large sum for the time, but sold out. The story features young Jody Tiflin and his life on his father's northern... Read More
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STEINBECK COUNTRY: In Dubious Homage
by [Steinbeck, John]; Messner, Mike
Salinas, CA: Mike Messner, 1979. Near fine.. First edition of this privately published essay on the occasion of "John Steinbeck Week" in Salinas, California, February 24 through March 4, 1979. From the introduction: "The intention of the author is to increase public awareness of the historical relationship between John Steinbeck and the politics of agriculture in California and the Salinas Valley." Scarce. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original stapled wrappers. 28 pages. Mild handling wear. Else unmarked, clean.
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GRAPES OF WRATH
by Steinbeck, John
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First printing. Near fine.. First edition of the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning novel that made Steinbeck a household name. GRAPES OF WRATH has been generations of students' introduction to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Steinbeck's extensive use of symbolism and Biblical motifs also makes it an excellent exercise in literary criticism for both high schoolers and hardcore academics, all pulled together with exceptionally lyrical prose. GRAPES OF... Read More
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