CRISE, Stelio [JAMES JOYCE]

Epiphanies & Phadographs: Joyce E Trieste; Con Un Album Joyciano

Milan, All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1967. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps. Copy #249 of 1000 printed by the Stamperia Valdonega di Verona. Text in Italian. Illustrated with many photographs including some of Joyce's handwriting. About Fine with wraparound band .

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Book number: 014838

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Limited, Modern Firsts, James Joyce, Illustrated Books, Irish Literature, Italian Modern First Editions Illustrated Books Irish Literature Literature: English

CROWE, Cameron

Fast Times at Ridgemont High. A True Story

New York, Simon & Schuster, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards in the first issue dustwrapper. Author's first book, made into a popular film with the screenplay also written by Crowe and starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Forest Whitaker. Slight soiling to topped bulked text edge. About Fine in a Fine, bright white dustwrapper. Scarce in this condition .

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Book number: 020525

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Movie Fiction, First Books, First Book, Modern Firsts, Rock and Roll Modern First Editions First Book Literature: American Movie Fiction

CSOORI, Sandor

Memory of Snow

Great Barrington, Penmaen Press, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. One of 200 case-bound copies (of a total edition of 750) illustrated by Michael McCurdy with a wood-engraved portrait of Csoori on the dustwrapper cover and the title page. The poet's first book in English, translated by Nicholas Kolumban. Ill.: Michael McCurdy. Covers soiled, otherwise Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 000970

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: First Books, Penmaen Press, Fine Press, Modern Firsts, Hungarian Literature, Limited, Modern First Editions Michael McCurdy Modern First Editions Modern Poetry First Book Hungarian Literature

CUNARD, Nancy

Grand Man: Memories of Norman Douglas

London, Secker & Warburg, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. An affectionate and highly personal recollection of one individualist of another. With extracts from his Letters, appreciations by Kenneth Macpherson, Harold Acton, Arthur Johnson, Charles Duff, and Victor Cunard, and a biographical note by Cecil Woolf. Illustrated with photographs. Owner initials on front pastedown beneath dustwrapper flap. Near Fine in a lightly worn, Near Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 017108

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Memoirs, Books on Books, Literature: English Literature: American Book Collecting Reference Autobiography

CUNNINGHAM, Michael

Golden States

New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. (1984). First Edition. Hardcover. Pulitzer Prize winner's first book. Very small stain at the base of the rear panel of the dustwrapper. Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 007105

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, First Book First Book Gay Literature Literature: American First Books

D., H. [Hilda DOOLITTLE]

Collected Poems of H. D

New York, Liveright Publishing Company, (1940). First Edition. Hardcover. First published in 1925, this is the Sixth Printing, though the uncommon dustwrapper states "Sixth Edition" on the spine. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with a darkened spine and a few small tears .

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Book number: 021283

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry Modern First Editions Modern Poetry Literature: American

DAHLBERG, Edward

Because I Was Flesh

New York, New Directions, 1964. First Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected Proof in printed white wraps. Wonderful book about growing up as the son of a lady barber in Kansas. Fine, with reply card laid in .

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Book number: 006820

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Kansas, Modern Firsts, Jewish Literature, Biography, Americana, Uncorrected Proof, Modern First Editions Modern First Editions Jewish Literature Uncorrected Proof Literature: American

DAHLBERG, Edward

Bottom Dogs

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. Dahlberg's first book, a novel of a boy horribly representative of the bottom-dog strata of America. With a 10-page introduction by D. H. Lawrence. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with dampstaining to the spine, mostly at the foot which is visible primarily internally, and minor chipping .

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Book number: 020453

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, First Book, First Books, Modern Firsts, Radical Literature Modern First Editions First Book Literature: American Radical Literature

DAHLBERG, Edward

Do These Bones Live

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1941). First Edition. Dahlberg's unique takes on Thoreau, Melville, etc. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with minor edgewear and a couple of closed tears .

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Book number: 000344

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Thoreau, Melville, Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts Literary Criticism Literature: American Essays Jewish Literature

DAVIES, Robertson

World of Wonders

New York, THe Viking Press, (1976). First Edition. Wraps. Advance Reading Copy of the First American Edition in printed orange wraps. Spine slightly sunned; textblock cocked. Very Good .

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Book number: 001635

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Advance Reading Copy, Robertson Davies, Canadian Literature, Modern Firsts Modern First Editions Literature: American Advance Reading Copy Canadian Literature

DAVISON, Peter

Walking the Boundaries. Poems 1957 - 1974

New York, Atheneum, [1974]. First American Edition. Softcover. Galleys consisting of 7" x 9" loose sheets stapled in the upper left corner. An uncommon format, likely existing in just a handful of copies, this from the library of poet William Meredith, though there are no ownership notations. Near Fine .

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Book number: 018046

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry, Association Copy, Galleys Literature: American Modern Poetry Modern First Editions Advance Review Copy

DEIGHTON, Len

London Match

New York, (Alfred A. Knopf), (1986). First American Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected proof in green wraps of this final volume that began with BERLIN GAME. Publisher's material taped to the front cover and stapled to the inside front cover. Fine .

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Book number: 019112

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Uncorrected Proof, Spy Novels, Thrillers Modern First Editions Literature: American Uncorrected Proof Spy Novels

DeLILLO, Don

End Zone

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Increasingly scarce second book. About Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with typical light edgewear and rubbing and some staining internally .

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Book number: 008489

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions Fiction Literary Firsts Literature: American Modern First Editions

DeLILLO, Don

The Names

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight dustspotting to the top bulked edge of text. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 002775

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions Modern First Editions Literature: American Modern Firsts

VAN DINE, S. S

The Bishop Murder Case. A Philo Vance Story

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the fourth Philo Vance mystery. Bookplate on front pastedown with date in ink below it: May 1929. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with a small chip to the head of the spine and rubbing to the rear panel .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 020464

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Detective Fiction, Mysteries, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Haycraft-Queen Mysteries Literature: American Modern First Editions Detective Fiction