Literature from Carnegie Hill Books

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. First edition. Octavo. 201 pp; frontispiece b/w photo of Norman Douglas, two additional b/w photos; appendix; index. Gilt-lettered cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, solid, unmarked copy, top corners gently bumped; unclipped jacket with minor edgewear, light hand soiling to spine. LAID IN: typed letter signed (TLS) from Cecil Woolf, dated June 15, 1954, replying… Read more about this item

NY: Grove Weidenfeld, 1988. Fourth printing. Octavo. 238 pp. Illustrated paperback. VG, a clean copy; edges show light wear. Satori is an autobiographical saga in which the protagonist goes to France to seek the origins of his surname. Satori is Japanese for "sudden awakening" or simply "kick in the eye." Kerouac's last novel, Pic, set in 1948, is narrated by… Read more about this item

NY: Modern Library, 1922. Modern Library #109. Octavo. 491 pp. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, former owner name stamp on half title page, else an unmarked copy, binding bright & solid; price-clipped jacket has small loss at top right corner, spine faded, minimal edgewear, back cover lightly soiled.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971. Second edition, revised. Octavo. 432 pp. Red cloth with gilt-lettered spine with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, top corner bumped, not affecting text block; price-clipped jacket shows light soil.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Austin: Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 1971. Oblong octavo. 120 pp; b/w illustrations; index. Blue cloth with red lettering. VG, a clean, unmarked copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1876. Later printing. Octavo. 303 pp; illustrated with b/w engravings and engraved frontispiece and title page with tissue guards. Blindstamped green cloth with gilt titles and decoration on spine. G+ Binding fairly worn around spine tips, corners and front hinge, cloth splits on front and rear hinges, although not completely. Binding remains firm and tight, frontispiece… Read more about this item

London: Nonesuch Press, 1943. Octavo. 150 pp; color illustrations by Hermine David. One-quarter cloth with patterned boards, no slipcase. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, spine gilt lettering dulled. Translated from the French by H. Ashton. Introduction by Jean Cocteau.. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Hermine David.

London: Collins, 1964. Octavo. 255 pp. Gilt-lettered blue cloth, no jacket. VG. Historical novel set in the time of the Punic wars, as two Greeks traders negotiate their businesses deals and survive the conflicts between the Carthaginians and the Romans.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Contact Publications, 1948. Quarto. xlvii, 80 pp; mostly b/w illustrations, with some color ads. Thin paper-covered boards, no jacket. VG, a clean, unmarked copy. bottom 1/2 in. of spine missing, with 1/2 in. splits to sides of backstrip. A delicate book. The Contact book was published every 2 or 3 months, with a different theme. This issue deals with… Read more about this item

Paris: Buchet/Chastel, 1962. Reprint of the 1956 Guilde Du Livre edition. Octavo. 165 pp; text in French. Paperback. VG, minor rubs and light soiling to covers, pages somewhat toned, some pages uncut. A very nice copy.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. First edition. Square octavo. 302 pp; illustrated chapter titles and b/w photographs throughout. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG. Jacket has light soiling & a closed tear on back panel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First edition. Octavo. 360 pp. Publisher's purple cloth with unclipped dustjacket. VG in G+ to VG- jacket. Jacket has light edgewear and a 1/3 inch chip to top edge of front cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+.

London: Heinemann, 1986. Second printing. Octavo. 255 pp. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering in dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, jacket price clipped, else a clean, unmarked copy.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First edition. Octavo. xix, 407 pp; b/w photographs; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Letters written over the course of three decades shed light on Williams' works, his friends and colleagues, and his dependency on alcohol and drugs.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1992. First printing, first American edition. Octavo. 344 pp; b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, tiny tear to jacket along spine on back cover; jacket not price clipped. A collection of newly recovered letters examines the enduring friendship between Evelyn Waugh and Lady Diana Cooper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.… Read more about this item

NY: Columbia University Press, 1995. First American edition, first printing. Octavo. 234 pp; 18 b/w illustrations; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. A memoir of the circle of intellectuals in early 20th-century London known as the Bloomsbury group. The author writes candid portraits of his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell (Virginia Woolf's sister), Vanessa's lover Duncan Grant, and… Read more about this item

NY: Viking, 2000. First American edition. Small octavo. 195 pp; 10 b/w illustrations. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. The author, son of British writers Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, threads his personal reminiscences through the narrative of her life. His biography probes her stance on women's issues and the nature of war.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.… Read more about this item

NY: E.P. Dutton, 1956. Second printing. Small octavo. 128 pp. Blue green cloth with gilt lettered-spine in dustjacket. VG/VG, interior clean & tight, no marks; jacket has short edge tears & chipping at top & bottom of spine; not price-clipped.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY / London: The Century Co., 1930. First printing. Twelvemo. x, 212 pp; 4 illustrations by Arthur William Brown. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, jacket soiled with some loss at top of spine & price-clipped; book is in very good condition. Byrne's tale of love and gambling set on the Riviera. In this book the Irish novelist is a bright, hard,… Read more about this item

NY: Westvaco, 1986. Limited edition. Octavo. 343 pp; 44 reproductions of sleel engravings by F.O.C. Darley. Dark green cloth in illustrated slipcase. Top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers. VG/VG. Privately published by Westvaco, Christmas 1986.. Hard Cover. Very Good.