The Sheltering Sky.
First US edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, "Paul Bowles. Tangier, April 1985." American-born Bowles moved to Tangier in 1947, where he lived until his death in 1999....
View ArticleA House of Pomegranates.
Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, pictorial title block gilt to front board copied from the original, decorative...
View ArticleSeen in the Hadhramaut.
Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in terracotta morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. The post Seen in the Hadhramaut. appeared first on...
View ArticleThe Secret Pilgrim.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, blue endpapers. With the dust jacket. An excellent bright copy in the slightly creased jacket. The post The Secret Pilgrim. appeared first on Peter...
View ArticleMy Uncle Oswald.
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine gently cocked, extremities a touch bumped, light spotting to top edge. An very good copy in a lightly rubbed and bumped...
View ArticleHawk on the Wind.
First edition, first printing, the publisher's copy inscribed to him by Derleth with a quotation, "For Bill McElwee - 'The reaches of my heart are: / tree, petal like snow - / and man below ... ' Best...
View ArticleHere on a Darkling Plain.
First edition, first printing, the publisher's copy inscribed to him by Derleth with no less than four autograph poems, each signed, and additionally inscribed twice by a "Helene" designating this a...
View ArticleHere on a Darkling Plain.
First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed with an original poem to the publisher's wife, with the inscription on the front free endpaper reading "To Laura McElwee, Cordially, August...
View ArticleWind in the Elms.
First edition, first printing, the publisher's copy, number 1 of 25 copies signed by the poet, additionally inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Bill McElwee, our fourth venture together - with...
View ArticleDark Odyssey.
First edition, first printing, number 44 of 400 copies, inscribed on the front free endpaper by both author and the artist, "For Bill McElwee - who knows the good ones - Donald Wandrei" and "For Bill...
View ArticlePlace of Hawks.
First edition, first printing, presentation copy of the first book in the Sac Prairie saga, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For William J. McElmee, the dark colours from a Sac Prairie Mosaic,...
View ArticleThe Rim of the Unknown.
First edition, first printing, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For Franklin Rosemont, with warmest regards, Frank Belknap Long." The recipient was an American poet, artist and leftist historian,...
View ArticleThe Web of Easter Island.
First edition, first printing, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "sincerely, Donald Wandrei." Wandrei was the co-founder of Arkham House. This is one of 3,000 copies. The post The Web of Easter...
View ArticleSea Poems, chosen by…
First edition, first impression, inscribed on the front free endpaper by the editor Myfanwy Piper, "Villiers David from Myfanwy Piper Feb 1945". An art critic and opera librettist, Myfanwy Piper had...
View ArticleTraveller’s Verse.
First edition, first impression, signed by Bawden on the top forecorner of the front free endpaper (suggestive, though not definitely so, of an ownership inscription). This anthology of travellers'...
View ArticleA Generation Missing.
First edition, first printing, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To A. S. Irene-Reeves from the author" and additionally signed on the title page. The first impression of this memoir of the First...
View ArticlePoems.
First edition, first impression, inscribed by Rosenberg's bereaved youngest sister on the front free endpaper, "With all good wishes from Annie Wymick (sister of Isaac Rosenberg)". Rosenberg was a...
View Article[The Sherston Trilogy:] Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man; Memoirs of an Infantry...
First editions, signed limited issues, of the complete Sherston Trilogy. Each title was issued as a deluxe edition on handmade paper, numbered and signed by Sassoon, but with different limitations...
View ArticleIn Excelsis.
First edition, first impression, signed limited issue, number 8 of 100 copies signed by the author. With the very scarce dust jacket. In Excelsis is Lord Alfred Douglas's sonnet sequence written while...
View ArticleA Mad Lady’s Garland.
First edition, first impression, of these poems by Ruth Pitter (1897-1992), with, laid in, an excellent correspondence between Pitter and the poet and aesthete Stephen Tennant. Pitter's is a long typed...
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