London, England, UK: Routledge & Kegan Paul LTD, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. “The two poets whose correspondence forms this book, Thomas Sturge Moore (1870-1944) and William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), met through a third poet, Laurence Binyon, two years before the new century and formed a friendship that lasted until Yeats died. Looking back through the years, Sturge Moore wrote of the first meeting and the dual effect Yeats had on..... More

London, England, UK: John Stockdale, 1811. First Edition Thus. Hardcovers. This 4-volume set from publisher John Stockdale (1750-1814) in London, England was likely the last production of his career after compiling the works of great writers like William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). Contemporaries of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson (1572-1637), Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) & John Fletcher (1579-1625) were playwrights in the Elizabethan era, a renaissance of English theatre. Jonson popularized..... More

New York, NY: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "When the Dial Award (1925) for distinguished service to American letters was given to E.E. Cummings it paid recognition to one of the most astonishing careers in American literature. Within a brief five years E.E. Cummings has won ranking among the foremost living poets. By his daring inventiveness which made mere typography an instrument of real literary power he..... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. "This terrifying first novel by a young American is the story of a boy who recoils from everything, has no positive feeling of respect or affection or relationship of any sort. He is representative, horribly representative, of the bottom-dog strata of America, wherein men and women drift, with no will to live or even to exist, but with merely..... More

Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1995. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by editor James L.W. West III to George Bornstein & Jane York Bornstein. "F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise was the opening statement of his literary career. Published originally in 1920, the novel captures the rhythm and feel of the guady postwar decade that was to follow in America. This Side of Paradise made Fitzgerald simultaneously famous and..... More

Seattle, WA: Wood Works, 2000. Limited First Softcover Edition. Sewn Wrappers in Over-Wrap. "Juan Ramon Jimenez's Naked Woman is a classic celebration of love, conveyed upon breaking waves of passion and despair, with evocative, shadowy asides that draw us close to the excited, humbled poet, till we share his perceptions, his agony and joy." (from back cover) A stately, passionate four-part masterpiece of poetry by Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958), the..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. "I have collected in this volume practically all the verses and chapter-headings scattered through my books, with the exception of the Jungle Books and the Just So Stories. In several cases where only a few lines of verse were originally used I have given in full the song, etc., from which they were taken." (author's Preface) A compilation of..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. "D.H. Lawrence stands in the first rank of letter writers; his drive and vitality, his overflow of creative energy, is expressed as forcefully in his correspondence as in his many volumes of prose and poetry. Diana Trilling...offers here a major selection of his letters. She has restored many names and references deleted from earlier collections, and in her..... More

New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. "At last here is the definitive biography of W. Somerset Maugham, one of the most remarkable and secretive literary figures of the twentieth century. Ted Morgan has penetrated the barriers which for years prevented the creation of a full portrait of this paradoxical writer- barriers set up by Maugham himself, who asked friends to destroy his correspondence, and who instructed..... More

Paris, France: Obelisk Press, 1937. Limited First Edition. Unbound Signatures in Wrappers. Signed by Henry Miller. "Night. A tropical garden filled with pebbled paths. In the center of the garden a small pond out of which rises a huge bowl filled with gleaming gold-fish. The heavy white face of Alraune hovers over the garden like a mask. The face grows larger and larger until it fills the screen. Her mouth..... More

New York, NY: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. "(Re: All God's Chillun Got Wings) Two months before its announced premiere at the Provincetown Playhouse, Eugene O'Neill's latest work found itself already the most talked of play of the present season. Its theme- the demoralizing consequences of the marriage of a white and a black- has aroused the ire of a multitude of citizens who, completely overlooking the formality..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is a companion volume to the Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth which was published in 1967. It contains all of the poet's long poems...Among the finest of Rexroth's shorter poems are the contemplative lyrics; it now becomes clear as we can read the long poems together and in sequence that he is a philosophical poet of consequence who..... More

Paris, France: Transatlantic Review, 1924. First Printing. Sewn Binding. The celebrated first number of the venerable literary journal edited & with contributions by Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939, here also referred to as Ford Madox Hueffer), the canonical British writer. With poetry including four poems by E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) & two Cantos by Ezra Pound (1885-1972); prose including "The Nature of a Crime," a collaboration between Ford/Hueffer & the great Polish-British..... More