Literary First Editions
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PYNCHON, THOMAS The Crying of Lot 49. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966. 8vo, yellow cloth over gray boards, in dust jacket. First edition of Pynchon’s second novel. Dust jacket price-clipped with light wear and small chip to edge; otherwise a fine copy. Property of a Gentleman, Racine, Wisconsin $200-400 45
ROBERTS, KENNETH Northwest Passage. New York: Doubleday Doran, 1937. 2 vols. 8vo, red cloth, dust jackets, uncut, in publisher’s slipcase with pastedown label, map endpapers, top edges gilt. First edition. One of 1,050 limited copies signed by the author to limitation page. Jackets chipped with some soiling concentrated at spine; otherwise a fine set. Together with Oliver Wiswell. By Kenneth Roberts. New York: Doubleday Doran, 1940. 2 vols. 8vo, brown cloth. First edition. One of 1,050 copies signed by the author. Lacking dust jackets; otherwise fine. $200-400 46
STEIN, GERTRUDE Before the Flowers of Friendship Have Faded. Written on a Poem by Georges Hugnet. Paris: (Durand), n.d. Folio, loose as issued in original thick paper folder with original tissue wraps. First edition. Presentation copy, number XVIII of eighteen copies (from a total of 120) printed on Antique Montval paper for the author and signed by her to the limitation page, this one presented to Francis Lowe. Browning to tissue wraps with some chipping at extremities; otherwise very fine. $800-1,200 47
TWAIN, MARK The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1894. 8vo, original red decorative cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover. Illustrated with frontispiece photograph of Twain with facsimile signature and with tissue guard. First American edition. Marginal drawings throughout. Spine ends frayed; rubbing to boards; hinges starting; some age-darkening to extremities of pages; otherwise fine. $200-400 48
WALL, BERNHARDT Man’s Best Friend: A Plea to a Jury. By the Honourable Graham Vest, senator from Missouri. Etched by Bernhardt Wall. New York, 1920. Thin 4to, marbled paper over green leatherette boards, pastedown label to front cover. First edition. One of 125 copies. Signed in pencil by Wall on title page and inscribed “special copy no. 11 of 14.” With original signed cartoon pencil sketch of dog to f.f.e.p., with “Gee, Wall, must like dogs some. I like him for that,” in a bubble quote above the dog. With copperplate mounted inside front cover corresponding to the etching within the book. Head and foot of backstrip bumped; otherwise a fine copy. Rare. $300-500 14
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