THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED
Rare first printing of Fitzgerald's second novel, a sharply satirical portrait of a Jazz Age couple very like the Fitzgeralds.
Rare first printing of Fitzgerald's second novel, a sharply satirical portrait of a Jazz Age couple very like the Fitzgeralds.
Complete run of Eugene and Maria Jolas's landmark literary journal, which — along with Margaret Anderson's THE LITTLE REVIEW — was one of the primary vehicles of Modernist and experimental writing.
First edition, a beautiful copy with college humor-laced provenance from the year of publication.
First edition, first printing of the famed novel exploring the poisons laced into the American dream.
First edition of this scathing satire of fundamentalist Christianity in US America, with printed presentation slip signed by Lewis tipped onto the front endpaper.
First edition, first printing of the acclaimed tragedy of ill-fated love amidst the fighting of World War I.
Inscribed first issue of the famous bestseller of the Jazz Age, chronicling the high life of a Hollywood flapper's trip to Europe.
First UK edition of Faulkner's second book to be published in England – emblematic of his rapidly-growing influence.
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.
Inscribed early printing of the first photoplay edition, with the jacket design featuring a scene from the film starring Jim Pierce — who later became Burroughs's son-in-law.
First UK edition of Faulkner's first published novel, a post-WWI story of a wounded aviator's return to his Georgia home.
First edition of Faulkner's first published novel, a post-WWI story of a wounded aviator's return to his Georgia home.
First photoplay edition, with a new jacket design featuring a scene from the film starring Jim Pierce — who later became Burroughs's son-in-law.
First edition of this novel-slash-travelogue, the story of a husband and wife drifting apart during a European grand tour – adapted into an Oscar-nominated film in 1936.
First printing of this anthology of works by Black Americans, from the 18th-century poetry of Phillis Wheatley to the 20th-century essays of Alain Locke and much in between.
First edition of this Harlem Renaissance classic, depicting the inter- and intra-racial conflicts of the Black community in Harlem with a dash of satire.
First edition of one of Stein's best and most important works.
Ezra Pound-centric issue of the celebrated Modernist journal.
Scarce uncorrected proof (stated) of this bleak future fiction from the author of cult classics QUEEN'S GAMBIT and THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH.
First printing of this anthology of the leading lights of the Jazz Age, published to benefit the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind.
First printing of the second novel by one of the most prominent members of the Harlem Renaissance, adapted into the 1937 J. Elder Wills musical film BIG FELLA starring Paul Robeson and Elisabeth Welch.
First edition of this popular western, in which a Missouri farmer migrates to California during the gold rush, by a pseudonymous J. Allan Dunn, prolific and genre-crossing king of the early pulps.
Later Grosset and Dunlap printing of this Jazz Age Morley novel in an uncommon, lovely Art Deco dust jacket.
First printing of the first US paperback edition, a bleak future fiction from the author of cult classics QUEEN'S GAMBIT and THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH.
First US edition of these bleak posthumously published stories by the Belgian Symbolist poet and anarchist, illustrated with Masereel's stark woodcuts.