AS I LAY DYING
First edition, second issue of Faulkner's best novel, with the original dust jacket in remarkably beautiful condition.
First edition, second issue of Faulkner's best novel, with the original dust jacket in remarkably beautiful condition.
First edition of Faulkner's first published novel, a post-WWI story of a wounded aviator's return to his Georgia home.
First trade edition, first binding of Faulkner's novel, two alternating narratives set in New Orleans, later published under the author's preferred title of IF I FORGET THEE, JERUSALEM.
First UK edition of Faulkner's novel, two alternating narratives set in New Orleans, later published under the author's preferred title of IF I FORGET THEE, JERUSALEM.
First edition of Beckett's three-act play, written in French just before the composition of WAITING FOR GODOT, posthumously published by permission of the Beckett estate in the English translation of Michael Brodsky.
First edition of this complete collection of Beckett's 25 short plays and playlets for stage, radio, and screen, from 1957's ALL THAT FALL to 1984's WHAT WHERE.
First edition of these previously uncollected critical writings, letters, and fragments, including Beckett's famous essay on FINNEGAN'S WAKE and a brutal assessment of Edouard Mörike that the latter was fortunately too long dead to be wounded by.
Limited fine press first edition of Bell's brief sketch of her sister's early years, written for the Memoir Club after Woolf's death.
Inscribed first US edition of Bowles's first novel, the grim and enduring twentieth-century classic of alienated Americans wandering through North Africa towards destruction.
First edition review copy of the poet's only novel, an intermittently autobiographical narrative examination of the cosmically irritating Insel, a parasitical painter based loosely on the German surrealist Richard Oelze.
First edition of Jane Bowles's only novel, one of the great masterpieces of the twentieth century.
First edition of Faulkner's Huxleyesque satire on sex, swamps, artists, and boats, featuring an ungenerous portrayal of Sherwood Anderson as "Dawson Fairchild, the novelist, resembling a benevolent walrus."
Limited first English-language edition of Green's Poe-like nested narrative of a student's psychological disintegration.
First edition of Faulkner's seventh novel, a naturalistic treatment of Southern racial paranoia and transgressive violence.
First UK edition of Toklas's memoir in cookbook form of her life with Gertrude Stein, written in Paris during the author's three-month convalescence to recall old dishes and days "hovering dream-like in invalid memory."
Signed limited first edition of the author's own translation of his short novel.
First edition of this important landmark of lesbian literature.
First edition of one of Stein's best and most important works.
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.
Complete run of this multidisciplinary surrealist journal, a short-lived little magazine and luxurious treasure-house of a disintegrating avant-garde.
First UK edition of this pair of pieces that partly form the enormous puzzle that is FINNEGANS WAKE, in lovely condition.
Ninth printing of James Joyce's masterpiece, one of the great works of literature in English.
The iconic modernist book, signed by Matisse — one of the great editions of one of the great books.
Farewell issue of the celebrated Modernist journal.
'Exiles' Number' of the celebrated Modernist journal, featuring one of the best known graphic cover designs of the lit mag's run.