BEATTIE, Ann

Chilly Scenes of Winter

Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1976. First Edition. hardcover. Author's first book issued simultaneously with DISTORTIONS. Covers slightly bowed and discoloration to the spine of the book. Very Good or better in a Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 014582

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Southern Literature, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Anne Beattie, First Book, First Books First Book Modern First Editions Literature: American Women's Literature

BEATTIE, Ann

Falling in Place

New York, Random House, (1980). First Edition. hardcover. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper in Charlottesville in 1986. In addition, laid in is a piece of paper on which is written, "This a great novel." Beattie has responded by writing below "Yes No Maybe Other," each with a box next to it. She has checked the box "Maybe" and written "Thank you, though--/--Ann. Slight spotting to the bulked top edge of the text. Near Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 018925

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Southern Literature, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Anne Beattie Modern First Editions Inscribed Literature: American Women's Literature

BEATTIE, William

Switzerland. Illustrated in a Series of Views Taken on the Spot and Expressly for This Work by W.H. Bartlett

London, George Virtue, 1836. First Edition. hardcover. Two quarto (8-1/4" x 11") volumes bound in plum embossed cloth with polished green calf leather spines and corners, matching morocco spine labels. Illustrated with engraved title pages in each volume, 106 steel-engraved plates after Bartlett, and a folding lithograph map of Switzerland. Most plates free from foxing, a few with moderate to heavy foxing. Some rubbing to the leather but bindings solid and rather attractive. Very Good .

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Book number: 017260

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Mountains, Alps, Switzerland Steel Engravings Travel Illustrated Books W. H. Bartlett

BECKETT, Samuel

All That Fall

New York, Grove Press, (1957). First Edition. cloth. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with light edgewear .

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Book number: 014823

Catalogue: Modern Firsts

Keywords: Plays, Drama Nobel Prize Samuel Beckett Irish Literature Theater

BECKETT, Samuel

Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates

Paris, Europa Press, 1935. First Edition. wraps. Original tan wraps with front cover lettered in black. One of only 250 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and one of Beckett's retained copies. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page to Richard Seaver, chief editor of Grove Press, and his wife Jeannette: "For/Dick & Jeannette/with love from Sam/Sept. 88." Seaver was one of three young publishers who created Merlin Press in the early 1950s as a vehicle to publish and promote Beckett. Outstanding Association copy. Near Fine and scarce when signed .

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Book number: 014826

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Association Copy, Inscribed, Modern Firsts, Samuel Beckett, Limited, Nobel Prize Modern First Editions Literature: English Irish Literature Association Copy

BECKETT, Samuel

Murphy [Publisher's Copy]

New York, Grove Press, [1957]. First American Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Beckett's first published novel, first published in England in 1938. Copy #22 of only 100 numbered copies SIGNED by the author and specially bound in gilt-stamped brown cloth and tan boards. Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset's copy with the following in his hand on the front endpaper: "publisher's copy/Barney Rosset - GROVE PRESS." Rosset introduced American readers to numerous significant writers, including Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and Stoppard. He led a successful legal battle to publish the uncensored version of D. H. Lawrence's novel LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER, and later was the American publisher of Henry Miller's controversial novel TROPIC OF CANCER. The right to publish and distribute Miller's novel in the United States was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1964, in a landmark ruling for free speech and the First Amendment. Near Fine without dustwrapper, as issued .

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Book number: 014825

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Nobel Prize, Signed, Association Copy, Fiction, Modern Firsts, Samuel Beckett, Limited Association Copy Literature: English Irish Literature Modern First Editions

BECKETT, Samuel

The North

London, Enitharmon Press, 1972. First Edition. wraps. Folio (11-3/4" x 15") in wraps, loosely housed as issued in a paper folder, cloth chemise, and slipcase. Text printed by Will and Sebastian Carter on paper made by J. Barcham Green. Of a total of 137 numbered copies illustrated with 3 original etchings by Avigdor Arikha, each signed in pencil by the artist, this is copy #121 and is one of only 12 "Ad personam" copies. Rather than being signed on the colophon page as with the regular copies, this is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front of the folder: "for Herbert Myron/from his friend/Sam. Beckett/Paris May/1973." The text of THE NORTH comprises the penultimate paragraph of THE LOST ONES with minor variants from the full edition in English. Ill.: Avigdor Arikha. Fine Herbert Myron, a professor of French at Boston University, was a friend who had a lengthy correspondence with Beckett. Myron introduced Beckett to Lawrence Harvey who wrote SAMUEL BECKETT: POET AND CRITIC, focusing on Beckett's least known writings.

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Book number: 018362

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Association Copy, Inscribed, Modern Firsts, Samuel Beckett, Limited, Nobel Prize, Avigdor Arikha Avigdor Arikha Modern First Editions Literature: English Irish Literature Limited

BECKFORD, William

Vathek, an Arabian Tale

[New York], Limited Editions Club, 1945. Hardcover. Duodecimo (4" x 6") bound in full orange morocco gilt-stamped with a design by Valenti Angelo. Each page of text features decorative borders by Angelo, and there are 16 full-page miniatures printed in colors and hand-illuminated in gold by Angelo as well. Copy #329 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Ill.: Valenti Angelo. Spine mildly and evenly darkened. About Fine, lacking the chemise and slipcase .

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Book number: 018225

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Illuminated, Limited Editions Club, 18th Century British Literature, Color Plate Books, Fine Press, Illustrated Books, Signed, Valenti Angelo, Hand-colored Valenti Angelo Illustrated Books Limited Editions Club Hand-colored Signed

BECKFORD, William

Vathek, an Arabian Tale

[New York], Limited Editions Club, 1945. Hardcover. Duodecimo (4" x 6") bound in full orange morocco gilt-stamped with a design by Valenti Angelo. Each page of text features decorative borders by Angelo, and there are 16 full-page miniatures printed in colors and hand-illuminated in gold by Angelo as well. Copy #845 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Ill.: Valenti Angelo. About Fine, lacking the chemise, in a Very Good slipcase with a split at one edge .

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Book number: 018870

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Illuminated, Limited Editions Club, 18th Century British Literature, Color Plate Books, Fine Press, Illustrated Books, Signed, Valenti Angelo, Hand-colored Valenti Angelo Illustrated Books Limited Editions Club Hand-colored Signed

BEDFORD, Arthur

The Scripture Chronology Demonstrated by Astronomical Calculations, and Also by the Year of Jubilee, and the Sabbatical Year Among the Jews: Or, an Account of Time from the Creation of the World, to the Destruction of Jerusalem; As It May Be Proved by the Writings of the Old and New Testament

London, James and John Knapton et. al. 1730. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (10-1/2" x 17") bound in contemporary calf with the spine leather lacking and the front board detached; [ii], vi, [iv], 774, [24] pages. Complete with table of contents, list of subscribers, index, 13 maps, and 8 plates, 6 of which are folding. Most of the maps are of the Holy Land. The plates depict the Tower of Babel, Solomon's Temple, etc. Title page soiled, laid down with minor marginal losses; some quires heavily foxed or stained but most of text and plates clean with a closed tear about 3 inches to one plate with no loss. Early signature of Benjamin Hale on the front pastedown. Leather very dry, front board and endpaper detached, the spine leather lacking but the text block solid. Good overall .

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Book number: 019964

Catalogue: Holy Land

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Judaica, Maps, Holy Land, Religion, 18th Century Judaica Illustrated Books Religion 18th Century

BEDIER, Joseph

Le Roman de Tristan Et Iseut L'édition d'Art

Paris, L'Édition D'Art, (1928). Hardcover. Bound in light brown boards with black stamping with the original wraps bound in (7" x 9-3/4") by Mercier, the front board neatly detached. Illustrated from watercolors by Robert Engels. Ill.: Robert Engels. Near Fine but for the front cover which is neatly detached .

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Book number: 021677

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Medieval Literature, Love Stories, Robert Engels, Color Plates, Ancient Literature Robert Engels Illustrated Books French Literature Romance Color Plates

BEDIER, Joseph

The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Octavo (7-5/8" x 10") bound in quarter red morocco leather, gold-stamped, with mould-made Italian paper sides printed in gold with a design by Adrian Wilson. This great medieval love story is translated by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld with an introduction by Padraic Colum. Copy #887 of 1500 illustrated with color plates by Serge Ivanoff and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Ill.: Serge Ivanoff. Close to Fine in glassine and a close to Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 018904

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Limited Editions Club, Illustrated Books, Medieval Literature, Love Stories, Serge Ivanoff, Color Plates, Ancient Literature, French Literature Serge Ivanoff Signed Illustrated Books Limited Editions Club Color Plates

BEEBE, William & THANE, Elswyth

Archive of 24 Christmas and New Year Greeting Cards

Letter. Mostly undated though a few are dated from 1933 to 1950. Size ranges from about 4" x 5" to 6" x 11" with some printed on stiff, heavy stock. All of the cards feature personal covers from photographs to drawings with subject matter including fish and birds, Beebe's famous bathysphere, home views, etc. many with a humorous slant. Seventeen of the 24 cards are SIGNED as "Will" often with additional handwritten greetings. There are also 9 cards from Mrs. William Beebe, the author Elswyth Thane, SIGNED just by her and likely dating from after her husband's death in 1962. There are also 3 cards SIGNED by Jocelyn Crane, Beebe's research assistant. All of the cards were sent to Faith Dennis. Near Fine William Beebe (1877-1962) was a naturalist, oceanographer, ornithologist, and an executive of the New York Zoological Society. With Otis Barton, he was the first to use the bathysphere, a deep-sea diving device, using it to set a dive record of 3,028 feet in 1934 that was not broken until 1949. Beebe wrote over 800 articles and 24 books on natural history. His wife, Elswyth Thane, was a romance novelist. Jocelyn Crane was William Beebe's research assistant and former assistant director (1952-1962) and director (1963-1966) of the New York Zoological Society.

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Book number: 015468

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Natural History, Environmental LIterature, Exploration, Deep Sea Exploration, Christmas Signed Environmental LIterature Exploration Deep Sea Exploration

BEER, Patricia

Spanish Balcony

London, Poem of the Month Club, 1973. First Edition. Broadside. An 11" x 15" broadside SIGNED by the poet. Fine .

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Book number: 009352

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Modern Firsts Modern Poetry Broadsides 20th Century British Literature

BEERBOHM, Max

Lytton Strachey

Cambridge, University Press, 1943. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps; 27 pages. The Rede Lecture for 1943, a critical remembrance of Strachey. Owner signature, bookplate. Very Good .

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Book number: 007373

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Essay, Modern First Editions, Max Beerbohm, Modern Firsts Modern First Editions Modern Firsts Literature: English Biography