BUCHAN, Susan [Baroness Tweedsmuir, 1883-1977]; Vanessa Bell (Illustrates)

Funeral March of a Marionette: Charlotte of Albany

London, Hogarth Press, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression ("First published 1935" on copyright page), one of only 1500 copies, of this odd and unexpected life of Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany (1753-1789), illegitimate daughter of the Jacobite pretender Prince Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie"), his only child to survive infancy. Small, slim 8vo; [10],11-96pp, with portrait frontispiece and two full-page illustrations. Publisher's black cloth, spine gilt; blue dust jacket, designed by Vanessa Bell, printed in red and priced 4s/6d. An excellent copy, square, tight and bright (apparently unread); Fine jacket, spine just barely toned. Scarce in such superb condition. Woolmer 360. Charlotte Stuart's mother was Clementina Walkinshaw, mistress to the Prince from 1752 until 1760. After years of abuse, Clementina left Charles, taking Charlotte with her. Father and daughter were finally reconciled in 1784, when he legitimized her and created her Duchess of Albany. She left her own three illegitimate children with her mother, and became her father's care-giver and companion in the last years of his life, dying less than two years after him. Buchan was wife of the author (The Thirty-Nine Steps) and Governor General of Canada, John Buchan. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine.

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BURGESS, Anthony (1917-1993)

[the Long Day Wanes : A Malayan Trilogy, Comprising] Time for a Tiger; [with] the Enemy in the Blanket; [and with] Beds in the East

London, William Heinemann [through 1959], 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impressions of the author's first published fiction. Crown 8vo (196 x 128mm): [8],214; [6],221,[1]; [6],237,[1]pp. Original publisher's French blue (first and third installments) and navy blue cloth, spines lettered in gold or silver; illustrated dust jackets by R. F. Micklewright and John Rowland, priced 13s / 6d and15s. Tiger: lightly faded to spine and spine panel, dust-soiled top edge, about Fine. Enemy: bookstore ink stamp to fly-leaf, else Fine. Beds: very tightly bound, apparently unread. A gorgeous set. In 1954, Burgess left England for Malaya as an education commissioner in the British Colonial Service. The Long Day Wanes, his early trilogy, uses the experiences of a young British teacher to illustrate the decline of British imperial prestige and the conflicts between European values and local traditions and practices. "The trilogy is remarkable for its portrayal of the cultural melange of Malaya in the years immediately before independence. Burgess avoids the trap of portraying the colony solely from the colonist's point of view, and offers instead an informed, insider's impression of the final days of British rule in Malaya, interwoven with the lives of a large cast of colonials, Tamils and Chinese, that is remarkable both in terms of its authenticity and its narrative skill." (Literary Encyclopedia) The Long Day Wanes, the trilogy's American title, chosen by Burgess, is taken from Tennyson's poem Ulysses: "The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: / The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep / Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, / 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine-/Fine-.

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BURROUGHS, William S. (1914-1997); William Lee

[Beats] [Junkie] Junky [Signed Uncorrected Proof]

New York, Penguin Books, 1977. Stiff Wrappers. Rare unrevised proof, signed by Burroughs on title-page, of the "first complete and unexpurgated edition" (cover) of this classic novel of addiction. Laid in is the original printed invitation to the publication party at Gotham Book Mart to meet the author. With an Introduction by Allen Ginsberg, recounting his role in the original paperback publication. Small 8vo: xvi,166pp (final published edition was xviii,158pp). Publisher's original printed buff textured wrappers perfectly bound ("Galley: no. 38, Pub. date: 3/77, Price: 1.95t"). A pristine copy, bright, tight, and square copy. From the Donald Kaufmann Collection of Modern Literature, sold at Heritage Auctions, Lot 45345, March 8, 2017. The first complete and unexpurgated edition, originally published as Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict (1953) under the pen name William Lee. Publication of Junkie, Burroughs's first book, marked one of the opening salvos of the Beat Generation's most prolific periods, with provocative content that pushed the limits of acceptability in 1950s America in its presentation of the taboo subjects of homosexuality and addiction. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine .

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BURROUGHS, William S. (1914-1997)

[Red Night Trilogy, Comprising] Cities of the Red Night, [Together with] the Place of Dead Roads, [and with] the Western Lands [All Signed]

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston / Viking [through 1987], 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes, all First Printings and all signed (but not inscribed) by Burroughs on title pages. Demy 8vo (228 x 150mm): xviii (including frontispiece and title page),332; [12],306, with double-page map; [12],258pp. Red Night: Publisher's beige paper-covered boards initialed in blind, terracotta cloth spine stamped in gold, illustrated end papers; pictorial wraparound dust jacket (detail from painting by Pieter Brueghel), priced-clipped but with correct 0381 publisher's code on front flap. Fine and unread. Dead Roads: Publisher's brown cloth, upper covers blind-stamped with author's name, spine lettered in bronze, illustrated wraparound dust jacket priced $15.95. Fine and unread. Western Lands: Publisher's black paper-covered boards, marine blue cloth spine lettered in bronze and black, illustrated end papers and title page; wraparound illustrated dust jacket priced $18.95. About Fine (top edge stained, spine lettering lightly rubbed). The writing of Cities of the Red Night, first installment of this trilogy, coincided with Burrough's move from Manhattan's Bowery to Lawrence, Kansas, in 1981. The trilogy "proposes a revisionary history of the Americas that would avoid the horrors of colonialism, slavery and despotism. The first volume rewrites history to make gay pirates founders of pan-American communes that become havens for nonconformists from all over the world. In the sequels, libertarian gunslingers attempt to prevent the formation of despotic centralised governments (The Place of Dead Roads) and independent secret agencies struggle to protect individual freedom from the depredations of global corporations (The Western Lands). Fragments [of The Western Lands] are autobiographical, and show the aging writer's anxieties about his own mortality." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine-/Fine.

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[BUSWELL, Leslie, 1890-1964]

[First World War] [Ambulance No. 10] with the American Ambulance Field Service in France : Personal Letters of a Driver at the Front [Association Copy]

[Cambridge, Mass.], Printed only for private distribution [Houghton Mifflin], 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce privately printed issue of these letters from a First World War ambulance driver sent from the front. Crown 8vo (180 x 115mm): xvi,129,[1]pp, with photographic frontispiece, tissue-guarded title page, 14 photographs and numerous line drawings in text. Publisher's red cloth-backed grey paper-covered boards printed in red, paper label to spine titled in black, fore- and bottom edges edges untrimmed. Pepperrell family armorial book plate to front paste-down, tiny pencil name of A. P. Andrew (A. Piatt Andrew of Gloucester, Mass, one of the ambulance drivers listed on p. 125) to fly-leaf. Two light marks to covers, else Fine. A trade edition appeared in January, 1916, identifying the author as Leslie Buswell. More commonly encountered in that edition, under the title Ambulance No. 10. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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CAIN, James M[allahan]. (1892-1977)

Love's Lovely Counterfeit

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated) of Cain fifth novel. 8vo: [8],218,[2]pp. Publisher's ruby red cloth, spine and covers stamped in black, top edge stained matching red, other edges rough-trimmed; illustrated dust jacket by Bob Smith, priced $2.00. A superlative example (probably unread), slight fading to top edge, paste-downs stained from binder's glue, else virtually pristine, as is the jacket. A gangster-thriller, tough-guy novel, peopled with hoods, corrupt cops, and crime lords. Written during Cain's Hollywood period (and basis for the film noir "Slightly Scarlet," with John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, and Arlene Dahl), it was one of his first commercial misses, although it's been called "perhaps his most underrated work," which "displays Cain's storytelling at its best." (enotes) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine-/Fine.

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CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987)

American Earth

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this important debut, copies of which in a dust jacket this fine are seldom seen. 8vo: x,314pp. Publisher's tan cloth, lettering and decor stamped in forest green on spine and front cover, illustrated dust jacket priced $2.50. Trivial offsetting from jacket design onto spine cloth, else a Fine, fresh copy in an about Fine jacket with a few tiny nicks at crown. Hanna 563. Flora and Bain, pp. 89, 94. Caldwell's first commercially published book (his third overall). The legendary Maxwell Perkins (Fitzgerald's editor at Scribner's) helped to edit this collection of new and previously published stories of rural life, in the deep South and in Maine, with a third section made up of a long, modernist, autobiographical prose poem called The Sacrilege of Allen Kent. The book was well-received critically (according to Flora and Bain, "Although all of Caldwell's story collections contain interesting pieces, nowhere does he surpass the achievement of American Earth."), and Perkins urged Caldwell to try writing a novel focusing on the rural South, which Caldwell knew best. Caldwell traveled to Wrens, Georgia, and found inspiration helping his father deliver food and medical supplies to the poor tenant farmers and sharecroppers there. The result was Tobacco Road. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine/Fine-.

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CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987)

God's Little Acre

New York, Viking Press, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of Caldwell's finest novel, combining a powerful story with social protest and experimental narrative techniques. First Edition (so stated). 8vo (189 x 130mm): [6],303,[1]pp. Publisher's black cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in gold and green, top edge stained gold, other edges rough-trimmed,title page in maroon and black; Illustrated dust jacket priced $2.50. About Fine, with just a hint of fraying to spine ends, but square and tightly bound, the pages virtually pristine, without a trace of foxing. The lightly toned and dust-soiled dust jacket presents as Near Fine or better after skillful restoration to spine crown (not involving lettering or design). Blanck, p. 94 (erroneously reporting "first edition so stated on copyright page"). Coan, p.56. Hanna 564. The author's sequel (of sorts) to Tobacco Road, critiquing sharecropping and cotton farming while investigating the textile mill as an alternative for Southern workers, bringing Caldwell notoriety and fame (total worldwide sales have been estimated at more than 14 million copies, making it one of the best-selling novels of all time). "Both books were set among the poor whites of [Caldwell's] southern childhood, and both displayed a mixture of muckraking anger and grotesque sexual behavior that upset southern loyalists and northern moralists alike. Despite or because of this. God's Little Acre, after a highly publicized obscenity trial, became one of Caldwell's perennial bestsellers." (ANB). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine-/Near Fine+.

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CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987)

A Message for Genevieve. A Brief Story [Signed]

Mount Vernon, Maine, [Privately Printed] at the Old Colony Press, 1933. Limited Edition. Stiff Wrappers. No. 71 of 100 copies signed by Caldwell on half-title page and by the illustrator, Alfred Morang, in pencil on frontispiece below image. Slim foolscap 8vo (170 x 102mm): [4],11,[1] pp. Staple-bound stiff pink-brown wrappers printed black, owner's signature in pencil to front inside cover. Faint tide mark along lower edge of text block, also faintly visible on back wrapper, else Near Fine or better. Blanck, p. 95. A single short story, in which love is lost. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987)

Southways

New York, Viking Press, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this collection of 16 short stories abiout Gerogia poor whites from the author of "Tobacco Road." 8vo: 206pp. Publisher's coarsely woven slate blue cloth, spine and upper cover ruled in red and lettered in black, top edge stained slate gray, others untrimmed, price-clipped illustrated dust jacket. About Fine (probably unread), spine lightly faded, else square, tight and bright; about Fine jacket minutely rubbed at spine tips. Coan, p. 43. Hanna 568. Agnew, p. 35. Short stories about poor whites in Georgia. In 1936, Caldwell began a collaboration with photographer Margaret Bourke-White that bore fruit in the 1937 book You Have Seen Their Faces. "During their month-long, thirty-five-hundred mile driving trip through the South, the two began an affair that would last on-and-off for several years, with the two occasionally living together. Caldwell's wife, Helen, who continued to live in Maine with the children, would take her fhusband back whenever Bourke-White rejected him. In 1938, Helen finally filed for divorce. She retained custody of their three children and lived the rest of her life in Maine. Caldwell and Bourke-White became a celebrity couple, hounded by photographers and gossiped about in the papers. Perhaps because of the distractions of this relationship, his 1938 collection of short stories, Southways, was not of the same quality as his earlier work and was panned by critics." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine-/Fine-.

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CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987)

Tenant Farmer [Signed]

New York, Phalanx Press, 1935. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Caldwell's scalding indictment of tenant farming and sharecropping in the Depression-era South, reserving especial contempt for Eugene Talmadge, then governor of Georgia. Signed by Caldwell on the title page. Slim 8vo (195 x 135mm): 30,[2]pp. Drab green stapled wrappers, upper cover lettered in orange. Previous owner's name to inside front cover, else a handsome example with only very light wear to extremities. Somewhat scarce (according to Blanck, "Said to be but 1,500 copies in the first printing). Blanck, p.95. Appears as "Southern Tenant Farmers" in the author's first collection of nonfiction pieces, Some American People. First in a planned series of political pamphlets by prominent authors to be commissioned by this radical publisher, but apparently no others were published. Caldwell concludes: "The landowner-tenant system should not be permitted to exist. No other system has yet appeared on the scene to take its place, and until it does, the demoralizing spectacle of seeing thousands of men, women, and children, both black and white, being cheated and squeezed and crucified by a profit system that should have no foothold in modern civilization—until a better system arrives, the present one should make the American people hang their heads in shame." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987)

We Are the Living

New York, Viking Press, 1933. First Printing. Hardcover. First Trade Edition (following a limited edition of 250 copies) of Caldwell's second collection of stories. 8vo: viii,264pp. Publisher's ivory cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in brown and forest green, top edge stained brown; illustrated dust jacket, by Alfred Maurer, priced $2.50; original wraparound promotional band with several closed tears. An excellent copy, top stain slightly faded, mild sunning to upper board top edge, else Fine, square and tight, and probably unread; Near Fine or better jacket, lightly edge-worn, spine and flap folds moderately sunned, as is promotional band. Coan, p. 43. Flora and Bain, p. 94. In the wake of Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, as Caldwell's popularity grew, he became more successful at selling short fiction to popular magazines of the day. Capitalizing on that popularity, Viking collected in this volume twenty short stories, ranging in setting from North to South and "mostly concerned with the sexual impulses of the characters." (Coan) It was published to "overwhelmingly positive reviews" (Literary Encyclopedia), and according to Flora and Bain, "Although all of his [Caldwell's] story collections contain interesting pieces, nowhere does he surpass the achievement of . We Are the Living . " (Flora and Bain) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine/Fine-.

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CALVINO, Italo (1923-1985)

The Path to the Nest of Spiders

Boston, Beacon Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (no additional printings noted) of the author's first novel, translated into English by Archibald Colquhoun. 8vo: [6],145,[1]pp. Publisher's coarsely woven sea-green cloth, spine lettered in black, fore-edge untrimmed; illustrated dust jacket priced $3.50. Fine (hint of rubbing to spine ends); about Fine jacket (spine panel very lightly faded and rubbed). First published, in 1947, in Italian (Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno), narrating an episode of the Italian Resistance from a child's point of view. Calvino witnessed the Second World War up close. Mussolini's first military operation was to invade the French Riviera adjacent to San Remo, where the college-bound Italo lived with his parents on the Ligurian coast, home to Calvinos for generations. His university career was interrupted by the collapse of Fascism, in 1943, and the ensuing civil war—the "Resistance"—between the partisans and the Fascist Salò Republic, the puppet state created by German forces in the north of Italy. Calvino's engagement as a partisan marked him deeply, and he emerged from the experience as a committed Communist intellectual. Nest of Spioders received considerable critical acclaim and sold remarkably well for a work written by a virtually unknown writer. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine-.

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CARSWELL, Catherine (1879 to 1946)

The Camomile. An Invention [John K. Martin's Copy]

New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1922. First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition of this semi-autobiographical novel charting the tensions between a young woman's aims as a writer and the expectation that she conform to the conventional role of a doctor's wife. Crown 8vo (187 x 129mm): [4],319,[1]pp. Publisher's forest green cloth lettered in lime green; illustrated dust jacket (flap corners clipped). Discrete book label to rear paste-down of John K. Martin, founder of Black Sparrow Press, best known as publisher of Charles Bukowski's work. A presentable copy of this scarce edition, complete with nicked and dust-soiled jacket. Recently reprinted in the Virago Modern Classics series, when this gifted Glaswegian writer (author of notorious biographies of Robert Bruns and D. H. Lawrence) was rediscovered as an important feminist novelist. The title is taken from Henry IV, Part I: "The camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Very Good+/Very Good.

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CHATWIN, Bruce (1940-1989)

In Patagonia

London, Jonathan Cape, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. An exceptional first impression ("First published 1977), first issue (map endpapers.), without even a degree of fading to the dust jacket spine panel's fugitive colors, of Chatwin's first book. 8vo: [4],204pp, with map frontispiece, and 14 full- and half-page photographs; pictorial dust jacket, priced £4.95. Publisher's navy blue cloth-effect paper-covered boards; jacket with wrap-around photogaph of the Moreno glacier. Fine, tight, and virtually pristine (white speck to rear cover, hint of lightening to spine). The author's "autobiografictional" travelogue, which "both records and imagines the fulfilment of one of Bruce Chatwin's childhood fascinations, namely to retrace the travel adventures of his grandmother's uncle, Charley Milward, seadog, entrepreneur, and globetrotting family legend, who had died in Punta Arenas, Chile. While the narrative, in a staccato series of short sections (numbered from 1 to 97), meanders about in time and space, mixing fiction and fact, the reader encounters the Patagonian present of Chatwin's own visit: Welsh villages complete with gardens and tea-rooms, gauchos, a French soprano, a young pianist who asks complicated questions about Liszt, an elderly German yearning back to the times of Mad King Ludwig, a would-be miner from Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco . The fabulously self-absorbed travelogue launched Chatwin's successful writing career and won him the Hawthornden prize as well as the E. M. Forster award." (The Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine/Fine.

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