No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

New York:: Random House,, 1938.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with a small chip to the bottom edge of the front panel and a touch of wear to the spine. Otherwise a very collectible copy of this classic memoir of author Dinesen's life in Africa. Dinesen gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes--and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.

New York : Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1957. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine Dust Jacket. 244 Pp. Red Cloth Spine Over Patterned Boards. Stated First Printing. Book Is Near Fine, Slight Rubbing At Corners And At Ends Of Spine. Dj Not Price Clipped ($3.50), Minute Losses At Upper Corners, Spine And Top Edges A Little Browned. Signed By The Author In Green Ink In Both English And Chinese, And Additionally Inscribed Above In Blue Ink By Lee To His San Francisco Friend The Actress Marjorie Lord ( Mrs. Randolph Hale), "To Marjorie Lord With [Chinese Character]".

Side and lower edges are untrimmed. Dust jacket is lightly soiled and sunned to degrees, heavier on the folds. Additional photos upon request.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1972. First Edition. 8vo. 286pp. Publisher's original tan cloth titled in gilt to the spine, in a very good, clean, and sharp example of the dustjacket, some minor edgewear, and a little spotting to the top edge and the inside flap, but essentially a near fine copy of an outstanding book. Inscribed by the author to the title page:"To Lisa - Best Wishes, Angela"The recipient is Lisa Tuttle, award winning science fiction author who very much shared Carter's desire for feminist interrogation of existing tropes, or the practice of asking "New questions of old texts", a direct quote from Tuttle, in the service of a kind of feminist revisionist mythology, the practice of which Angela Carter all but perfected in works like The Bloody Chamber, and The Magic Toyshop. A nice association in lovely condition.

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 published by Random House in 1959 following the commercial success of Rand's 1957 best-seller Atlas Shrugged, We the Living tells the story of Kira Argounova, a fierce and independent spirit who struggles against the collectivism of Soviet Russia during the early 1920s. The novel was first completed in 1934 but, despite H. L. Mencken's support, failed to attract a publisher until 1935 when Macmillan agreed to publish the work. Macmillan's agreement to publish Rand's novel purportedly sparked debate within the publisher's editorial ranks, with certain communist-sympathetic editors objecting to its publication. We the… Read More

New York:: Viking,, 1964.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with a previous owner inscription on the flyleaf in a Near Fine, price-clipped 1st issue dust jacket with light edgewear to the spine. This is the quintessential Northwest novel in its depiction of the Oregon landscape and its influence on the lives independent loggers who resist the imposition of unions on their lives. Using a variety of voices and multiple points of view, Kesey has created one of the richest story-telling experiences ever.

New York::: Scribners,,, 1964... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine price clipped dust jacket. with a thin printing abrasion to the rear panel. A Moveable Feast is a memoir by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years as an expatriate writer in Paris in the 1920s. The book describes Hemingway's apprenticeship as a young writer while he was married to his first wife, Hadley. Other people featured in the book include Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, Evan Shipman, Hilaire Belloc, Pascin, John Dos Passos, Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and Hermann von Wedderkop. The book was not published during Hemingway's lifetime, but edited from his manuscripts and notes by his fourth wife and widow, Mary Hemingway. It was published posthumously in 1964, three years after Hemingway's death.

1906 1st ed Orange Fairy Book Andrew Lang Fairy Tales Ugly Duckling Magic Mirror

"Once upon a time…"

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are a series of children stories that were published in a collection of "colors." The collection includes nearly 800 stories both true and fiction. The Orange Fairy Book consists of 33 tales from various European traditions such as Jutland, Rhodesia, and Uganda from Africa. The most famous story from this volume is without question "The Ugly Duckling." This famous tale was originally written by Hans Christian Andersen and tells the story of a homely little bird who suffers abuse from others around him. It has been adapted by multiple media outlets such as opera, film, and theatre!
Item number: #16381
Price: $599
LANG, Andrew
The Orange Fairy Book. Edited by Andrew Lang. With numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford.
London; New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906. First edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o xiii, [1], 358
o 58 illustrations
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Andre Deutsch, United Kingdom, 1970. First Edition. Hardback. Collectable - Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. ~~Missing dust-jacket~~VG- 1st printing 1st UK edition Andre Deutsch hardback, missing the jacket. Corners just a little pushed, some light spotting along top edge of pages, minor spine lean from previous usage, area of surface wear to lower rear of board due to previous shop sticker removal, tight and unmarked. Size: 130\nx 190mm. 240 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Fiction. ISBN: 0233956506. ISBN/EAN: 9780233956503. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 083563.. 9780233956503

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1934. First US edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. A near fine copy in blue cloth with dark blue titles and designs on spine and front cover Light fading at edges Inscribed by Author to Edith Keay Fowler on ffep No other marks or damage at all Unclipped DJ has some small chips at top edge but is otherwise in excellent condition and is now in a plastic protective wrapper Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (1892 â€" 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer She was a successful novelist, poet, and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist She published more than a dozen collections of poetry during her lifetime and 13 novels She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf She also had a longstanding column in The Observer (1946â€"1961) and… Read More