LITERATURE from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

New York: Scribner's, 1902. First edition, second printing. Two volumes, original red cloth, gilt. Very good copy with names written on endpapers . The second printing carries the Manhattan Press imprint on copyright page as its sole identifier.

New York: Targ Editions, 1980. Marbled boards, cloth back, plain jacket; as new. First edition, one of 350 copies, signed by Williams. The dialogue imagines a conversation between Hart Crane and hs mother.

Berkeley, 1978. First edition. Boards, in slightly faded jacket. Inscribed by Parkinson to James D. Hart, one of the book's two dedicatees.

New York: Liveright, 1933. First edition. Large 8vo, dark maroon cloth stamped in gold, with blind-stamped rule on front cover, pp. xxxiv, 179. Inscribed from the book's editor Waldo Frank to his lover, novelist Evelyn Scott. Edges and crners a bit rubbed; gilt lettering in spine faded; otherwise very good. [Schwartz & Schweik A 4.1].

New York: Liveright, 1933. First edition. Large 8vo, dark maroon cloth stamped in gold, with blind-stamped rule on front cover, pp. xxxiv, 179. Spine gilt lettering is dull, text lightly tanned at edges. 157 pages of poems, including twelve previously uncollected poems. The personal reading copy of Crane scholar John H. Birss, with numerous tipped or laid-in clippings and… Read more about this item

Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. First edition. Evans, Walker. Quarto, original white printed wrappers. Expert restoration to the paper on the spine, otherwise a bright, fresh copy with all tissue guards present; original glassine replaced; enclosed in a new slipcase. Copy number 30 of only 50 copies printed on Japan Vellum, signed by Crane. There were an additional… Read more about this item

New York: Liveright, 1946. Black & Gold Edition, July, 1946. Black & Gold Edition, first impression, with black coated endpapers and blue strips on the spine. 5 3/4 in. x 8 3/4 in., frontispiece portrait by Siqueiros, xxxiii, Walker Evans photo-portrait at p. 58, a few ink notations at pp.128-129. Black cloth with decorations in gold & blue, gilt… Read more about this item

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed decorative boards. Spine stamping dulled, tips somewhat rubbed, otherwise near fine in a custom quarter-morocco slipcase. First edition of Crane's first book, one of 500 copies printed, the second issue with the corrected title page spelling Allen Tate's name correctly tipped in as a cancel. A significant association copy,… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, 1899. First edition. Original crimsion cloth, gilt. Faded, usual light browning, a very good copy. Signed on the front endpaper by Butler's friend Jessie Bovill, and with her bookplate (as Jessie A. Grosvenor). See Festing Jones's "Samuel Butler: Author of Erewhon, (1835-1902), a Memoir," for comments on the relationship.

London: Fifield, 1899. First edition, later issue with cancel title. Original green cloth, gilt. Very good.

Printed by Lowe Bros, 1916. First edition. Original printed self-wrappers, stitched within a slate-grey paper wrapper (made from a Colnaghi catalogue cover), on which Waley has written in red the three Chinese characters "Ku Shih Chi". With some pencilled corrections of misprints in the author's hand. A fine copy, signed much later by Waley on the title page. Waley's… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co, 1852. Second edition, second printing. Miller, Alfred Jacob. Large 8vo, 5 chromolithograph plates (4 by Alfred Jacob Miller), 1 steel-engraved plate, numerous wood-engraved illustrations, original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers panelled in blind. First published in 1851, that edition notable as the first American work to contain chromolithographic illustrations, this second Lippincott… Read more about this item

Paris: Gallimard, 1961. First edition. Original white cloth, clear plastic jacket. 9-1/2 in. x 11-1/14 in. First printing, May 1961, one of 3000 numbered copies (this is one of 250 hors-commerce). Design by Robert Massin. Fine condition. Presentation copy from Queneau to Anne and Georges-Emmanuel Clancier. Anne Clancier was a doctor, a psychiatrist, and an analyst. She published several… Read more about this item

Lincoln: Junior Class of the University of Nebraska, 1894. First edition. Original decorated cloth, lightly marked and soiled, hinges cracked but cords sound. Cather was on the editorial staff, and the yearbook includes a poem "Anacreon," and a short story, "The Fear that Walks by Noonday," by her.

London: Cassell, 1936. First English edition. Blue cloth, fine in dust jacket (spine slightly faded). Cloth case. Crane A21.a.i.(e).

Lincoln: Junior Class of the University of Nebraska, 1894. First edition. Original decorated cloth, a very fine copy, rare in this condition. Cather was on the editorial staff, and the yearbook includes a poem "Anacreon," and a short story, "The Fear that Walks by Noonday," by her.

New York: Knopf, 1933. First separate edition. Boards, a variant binding, not noted by Crane. Both the boards and the dust jacket are printed in dark brown, quite different from the usual light brown. Fine in dust jacket. Crane A161.

New York: Stokes, 1914. First edition. Frontispiece portrait of McClure by Arnold Genthe, and other illustrations. Original red cloth, with pictorial cover label,spine dull, else very good. Crane A7.a.i. First edition, first printing, this copy from the second issue with "September, 1914" on the copyright page (like the first issue) but the extra line 13 on page 239 has… Read more about this item

[Burlingame, California ], 1955. Printed wrappers, fine. First separate edition of chapter 9 from Death Comes for the Archbishop, printed by Lawton Kennedy as a keepsake. One of the rare (we know of only two) cancelled copies with the publisher's name misprinted on the cover ("Irving L. Robbins" instead of "Irving W. Robbins"), with an inked note "cancelled copy"… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1926. First edition. Wrappers, stapled, 16 pp., near-fine. Although unsigned, the biographical sketch was written by Cather herself. Crane DD Appendix 2.