Literature & Poetry from Respublica Books LLC

N.P.: Possibly printed by Charlotte Selver in New York, 1940. Small octavo. Paper wrappers, 8.25 x 5.25 inches, 17 pp. Original wrappers, cover design by Eric Carle, with chipping and loss to wrappers, particularly to upper-right of front wrapper (appx 2 x 3 inches); tape repairs to closed tears to front wrapper; faint toning to title page with light… Read more about this item

New York: New Masses, Inc, 1931. Magazine. Stapled wraps, 11.75 x 8.75 inches, 31 pp. Toning to wrappers and leaves with minor creasing and wear, but otherwise very well-preserved. An exceptional example of this rare volume. Very good-plus.. Exceptional and bright edition of the December 1931 volume of New Masses magazine (Volume 7, Number 7), featuring original works… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First edition, first printing. Folio. Original brown cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Minor edgewear to dust jacket, else fine in a fine dust jacket. Increasingly uncommon with dust jacket in this condition.. Gnoli, Domenico. Beautiful first edition of Domenico Gnoli's (1933-1970) modern fairy tale about a melancholy prince who discovers how… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1959. First Random House edition. Octavo. Original blue cloth decorated in black with gilt lettering and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Creasing to board edges with some rubbing to cloth; minor edgewear and scuffing to dust jacket. Near-fine.. Bright first Random House edition of Ayn Rand's (1905-1982) debut novel about life in post-revolutionary Russia. First… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987. First US edition, first printing. Octavo. Original red cloth over boards with gilt title to spine; original dust jacket (not price-clipped). Fine in fine dust jacket.. Fine first edition of Seamus Heaney's (1939-2013) collection of poems focusing on mortality, loss, and the self in society. Heaney was an internationally renowned Irish poet,… Read more about this item

New York: Fleet Publishing Company, 1962. First edition. Octavo. Original blue cloth and dust jacket. Price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and short, internally mended tear at bottom edge of rear panel. Minor scuffing to page block. Fine in very good-plus dust jacket.. A bright copy of Russell Kirk's (1918-1994) collection of traditional ghost stories. In addition to… Read more about this item

Helen Hayes Theatre, 1940. Original script. Script, 9 x 11 inches, 32 pp. Bound in original boards. Mild wear to boards, especially at head and base of spine. Slight toning to page borders (not affecting text) and minor smudging to certain pages from prior use. Pencil marks and notations throughout, including corrections and strike outs, possibly made in connection… Read more about this item

Urbana, Illinois: Accent: A Quarterly of New Literature, 1946. Printed wrappers, 6 x 9 inches, 64 pp. Light bump to corner, else fine.. A fine copy of this rare literary magazine containing Flannery O'Connor's (1925-1964) first published short story "The Geranium." O'Connor was a prolific American short story writer, novelist, and essayist, and is counted among the greatest… Read more about this item

London: The Cresset Press, 1953. First edition. Octavo. Original green cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped); chipping to head and tail of dust jacket, and one-inch closed tear at spine, otherwise moderate edgewear. Near-fine in a very good-plus dust jacket.. A bright copy of this collection of fables from the British archeologist, poet, and essayist Jacquetta Hawkes (1910-1996).… Read more about this item

New York: Bantam Books, Inc, 1981. First edition, advance uncorrected page proofs, with accompanying ephemera. Octavo. Original mauve wrappers with publisher's sticker to top front cover. This copy includes the original publisher's letter and a stand-alone map of the Drinkwater family tree, each folded as initially enclosed by the publisher, together with a postcard with Lippincott artwork. Creasing to… Read more about this item

Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, 1978. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's brown cloth in original dust jacket (not price-clipped). Sunning to spine and front panel; edgewear and rubbing. Boldly inscribed by Toledano to Karl and Therese Hess on front flyleaf: "For Karl & Therese / As always / In Friendship / Ralph de Toledano." Fine in very good dust jacket.… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1957. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Original green cloth over boards with gilt titling and dust jacket (not price-clipped) with $6.95 price and 10/57 on front inside flap and publisher's full address to rear inside flap. Superb first printing in a bright dust jacket, minor edgewear to dust jacket at spine and folds, with slight… Read more about this item

Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1960. First edition. Octavo. Orange wrappers. Sunning to spine with scattered rubbing and spotting to text block. Author's name sticker to front cover verso. Very good-plus.. Marion Montgomery's (1925-2011) personal copy of his first book of poetry. Montgomery was an American poet, novelist, educator, and critic and, like his personal friend and… Read more about this item

New York: The American Spectator Publishing Company, 1933. Newspaper, 8.75 x 11.25 inches. Folded newsprint with expected toning and brittle folds, but largely free of material chips and tears. Each issue includes the original wrap-around band. Near-fine.. An excellent collection of the first seven issues of The American Spectator founded by George Jean Nathan, Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Boyd,… Read more about this item

Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1920. First edition, first printing. One of only 400 printed. Octavo. Original blue paper boards with buff linen spine. All edges untrimmed. In the original plain tan dust jacket, preserved in glassine wrap, with chipping to dust jacket (particularly to spine). Preserved in a custom clamshell box. A brilliant first printing of this monumental work… Read more about this item

London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First edition, first printing with "First published 1949" on copyright page. Octavo. First edition rebound in modern red morocco with skull buttons and "Winston Smith" lettered in white to left breast with on-laid fake eye to chest with blind-stamped lines; title and name lettered in white on spine; front and rear free endpapers and… Read more about this item

New York: The Foundation for Cultural Review, Inc, 1982. Magazine. Stapled wraps, 7 x 10 inches. Toning with a slight crease to bottom-right cover corner, else fine.. A bright and original first issue of The New Criterion. The New York-based monthly literary magazine was founded by Hilton Kramer (1928-2012) in 1982 to speak plainly and vigorously about the… Read more about this item

New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1967. First edition. Octavo. Original cloth over boards and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Flatsigned by Peter Viereck on half-title page. Minor edgewear to dust jacket, else fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed first edition of Peter Viereck's (1916-2006) New and Selected Poems, 1932-1967, a poetry collection that assembles his trademark boldness, energy,… Read more about this item