London: Peter Owen Limited, 1970. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo (20 x 13 cm). 157 pp. Introduction by Rhys Davies. Yellow cloth covers with gilt titles to spine. Wear to head/tail of spine. Text block tight and unmarked. Price clipped DJ in Mylar. More about Julia and the Bazooka; and other stories
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960. Fifth Impression. Hardcover. 8vo (21 x 14 cm). 296 pp. Brown paper covers with green cloth spine. "Fifth Impression" to copyright page. Text block tight and unmarked. Gilt titles to spine. Price-clipped DJ with "Fifth Printing" to tail of front flap. In Mylar. More about To Kill A Mockingbird
New York: Random House, 1946. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo (21 x 13 cm). 165, [Alice's name poem-2 unopened leafs] pp. 150 pp. Striped paper covers with color illustrations to uppers. Red/blue (faded) spines with gilt titles. Text blocks tight and unmarked. Good slipcase with label and tape repair to upper..... More about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (2 Volumes
London: Penguin Books, 2004. Hardcover. 4to (9-1/2" x 6"). British edition with ephemera from the publisher thanking Leslie Aldridge Westoff for their use of her photograph of Wodehouse on the cover of that edition. Westoff was the ex wife of author and critic John W. Aldridge. In Mylar. More about Wodehouse a life
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1961. Third printing. Hardcover. 8vo (21 x 14 cm). 241 pp. Orange/black (circle) covers with gilt titles to upper and spine. Yellow stain to top edge. Wear to head/tail of spine, edges and corners. Text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped DJ ($4.00) with clear plastic..... More about Clock without Hands
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo (22 x 15 cm). 85 pp. Tan cloth covers with brown titles to upper and spine. Text block tight and unmarked. W10 8 7 on copyright page. Tan DJ ($7.95) with white title block and white titles to upper, light brown..... More about Reflections in a Golden Eye
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (21 x 13 cm). 183 pp. Matching years on title page and copyright page. Brown/tan covers with with black/yellow decoration to upper and lower. Black titles to upper and spine. Spine faded. Text block tight and unmarked. No DJ, in..... More about Reflections in a Golden Eye
New York: New Directions, 1950. The New Classics Series. Hardcover. 12mo (19 x 13 cm). [8], ix-xxi, 183 pp. Tan cloth covers with black titles to spine. Introduction by Tennessee Williams. Text block tight and unmarked. Price-clipped DJ in Mylar. More about Reflections in a Golden Eye; Introduction by Tennessee Williams
New York: Atheneum, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). 309pp. Inscribed on free endpaper to John W. Aldridge (critic and fellow author) and his wife Leslie. Unclipped DJ, spine faded, corners worn and head/tail of spine have several 1/16" tears, in Mylar. More about The Schatten Affair
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo (21 x 14 cm). 251 pp. Black covers with purple/yellow tittles to spine. Wear to head/tail of spine, 1cm dent to tail of upper cover. Typo with tyring on line 25, page 125; rest of text block tight and..... More about A Good Man Is Hard To Find
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (21 x 14 cm). 237 pp. Green paper covers, blue cloth spine with silver and gold gilt titles. Top edge light orange. Corners light wear, text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped DJ with 2 x 2.5 cm piece missing..... More about Mystery and Manners
New York: Warner, 1981. First printing. Paperback. 16mo (&" x 4"). 686pp. Slight age browning to paper. Inscribed association copy to Leslie Westoff (ex wife of author and critic John W. Aldridge). In Mylar. More about Bellefleur
London: Collins' Clear-Type Press. Soft cover. 16mo (16 x 10cm). 640 pp. Blue leatherette covers with gilt tiles to spine top edge blue. PO bookplate to front free endpaper and bookseller sticker to rear paste-down endpaper. Wear to head of spine, blue ribbon. Text block tight and unmarked. In VG..... More about The Diary of Samuel Pepys
London: Macmillan, 1901. Library of British Classics. Hardcover. 8vo. (1), viii, (2), 445, (1) pp. Contemporary tree calf with inner and outer dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges and spine with five bands. Gilt shield on covers. Wear to head with 1/4" nick and 3/8" nick to tail joint of spine..... More about The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"I). [6], 250, [2] pp. Inscribed on free endpaper to Leslie Westoff (ex wife of author and critic John W. Aldridge), rest of text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped DJ in Mylar. More about The Maze
New York: Grove Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (21 x 14 cm). 130 pp. Orange paper covers with green cloth spine. Yellow palm tree to upper and white titles to spine. PO inscription (1953) to free endpaper. Text block tight and unmarked. More about The Palm Wine Drinkard
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941. Reprint. Hardcover. 12mo (19 x 13). 289 pp. Dark gray cloth covers with gilt titles to spine. Text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped ($3.00) DJ with reference on back flap to her "1944 award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters". In..... More about A Curtain of Green; And Other Stories
New York: Random House, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (21 x 15 cm). 355 pp. Green paper covers with dark green cloth spine. Gilt EW on upper, gilt tiles to spine. Signed by author on title page, rest of text block tight and unmarked. 98765432 First Edition on title page..... More about The Eye Of The Story; Selected Essays & Reviews
Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 4to (26 x 19 cm). 40 pp. 208/350. Signed by author on colophon. Red cloth covers with gilt design to upper. Text block tight and unmarked. More about Ida M'Toy
New York: Viking, 1977. Hardcover. 8v0 (8-1/2' x 5-1/2"). 174pp. Half bound in red leather with marbled boards. Signed by Author "I would like to doff my hat to all my husbands" - Leslie Westoff (ex wife of author and critic John W. Aldridge). Light foxing to edges, rest of..... More about The Second Time Around
New York: Summer Garden Editions, 1997. Mikhail Magaril. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Narrow Folio (44cm x 15cm). 36pp. #5/50 Black/yellow cloth spine/covers. Grey cloth slipcase with light shelf wear. Signed in pencil by Mikhail Magaril (artist) and Morris Jacobs, rest of text block tight and unmarked. More about The Happy Prince
Garden City: Doubleday, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 6"). Vol I, 568pp. Vol. II 602pp. Green cloth covers with gilt titles to upper cover, upper edges gilt, spine faded, Text blocks tight and unmarked. More about The Grenville Diary Vols I & II
Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1900? Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (8-1/2" x 6"). Various paginations. Half-bound in brown leather and cloth, silk endpapers, T.e.g.,uncut, shelf wear to heads/tails and corners of most volumes. Number 56 of 1,000 copies on Japanese vellum. Text blocks tight and unmarked. From the Rougon- Macquart series of..... More about The Works of Zola (10 of 12 Volumes