THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. VI, No. 6
October, 1919
Issue of the celebrated Modernist journal, with work by Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and others.
Jazz Age
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THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. V, No. 7
November, 1918
Ezra Pound-centric issue of the celebrated Modernist journal.
THE NEGRO CARAVAN: Writings by American Negroes
(1941)
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.
THE WONDER STICK
1929
First edition of Coblentz's first novel, an illustrated prehistoric science fiction adventure.
THE SOUND AND THE FURY
1931
First UK edition of Faulkner's second book to be published in England – emblematic of his rapidly-growing influence.
THE WALLS OF JERICHO
1928
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.
ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN
1926
First edition, a beautiful copy with college humor-laced provenance from the year of publication.
THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED
1922
Rare first printing of Fitzgerald's second novel, a sharply satirical portrait of a Jazz Age couple very like the Fitzgeralds.
THE GREAT GATSBY
1925
First edition, first printing of the famed novel exploring the poisons laced into the American dream.
SAMPLES
(1927)
First printing of this anthology of the leading lights of the Jazz Age, published to benefit the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind.
THE MALTESE FALCON
1930
First edition in book form of the hard-boiled classic, in which private detective Sam Spade chases a valuable artifact with the femme fatale Brigid O'Shaughnessy, rarely found with the original dust jacket (here professionally restored).
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
1929
First printing of Hemingway's tragedy of ill-fated love amidst the fighting of World War I.
DODSWORTH
(1929)
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.
ELMER GANTRY
(1927)
First edition of this scathing satire of fundamentalist Christianity in US America, with printed presentation slip signed by Lewis tipped onto the front endpaper.
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
1925
Inscribed first issue of the famous bestseller of the Jazz Age, chronicling the high life of a Hollywood flapper's trip to Europe.
BANJO: A Story without a Plot
1929
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.
THE LUCK OF BLIND GULCH
1925
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.
THUNDER ON THE LEFT
(1925)
Later Grosset and Dunlap printing of this Jazz Age Morley novel in an uncommon, lovely Art Deco dust jacket.
LOVEY CHILDS: A Philadelphian's Story
(1969)
Exceptionally clean first edition, first printing of O'Hara's novel about two women in love, set in the 1920s.
MOCKINGBIRD
(1981)
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.
FIVE TALES
1924
First US edition of these bleak posthumously published stories by the Belgian Symbolist poet and anarchist, illustrated with Masereel's stark woodcuts.
THE CHILDREN
1928
First printing, first state, of this Jazz-Age assessment of Modernism through the lens of the most famous woman author of the era, in the scarce original dust jacket.
THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON
1922
First printing of the Jazz-Age novel published at the peak of Wharton's career, skillfully assessing the effects of gender roles in high society.
HEAVENLY DISCOURSE
(1942)
WWII-era printing of these leftist and anti-world-war satirical dialogues, with notable attacks on Anthony Comstock, Prohibition, evangelist Billy Sunday, and imperialism and censorship in all their guises.
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