New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Rupert Pole, the husband of Anais Nin (1903-77), as well as her literary executor, on the half-title..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Rupert Pole, the husband of Anais Nin (1903-77), as well as her literary executor, on the half-title..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. Hardcover. Third printing. Inscribed by Anais Nin on the front flyleaf. The fifth of seven, this volume describes Nin's first trip to Acapulco, the beginning of her double life..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. One of the most important works of modern female erotica. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a...... More
Brooklyn, New York: NEON, 1956. Wraps. Sorrentino (1929–2006) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, professor, and editor. In 1956, he founded the literary magazine Neon with fellow students from Brooklyn College..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated by Willard Manus on the front flyleaf. Octavo: 250 p. Original purple paper-covered boards over a blue cloth spine, with white and orange..... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, translated from the French by Edwin Granberry. This psychological study of a marriage won for Lacretelle (1888-1985) the Prix du Roman of the French..... More
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, translated from the French by W.J. Strachan. A classic of postwar French literature, the novel portrays the hatred between a mother and her children..... More
New York: Liveright, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. The most important first-hand account of the life and character of Fyodor Dostoevsky. The great Russian novelist's second wife, Anna Dostoevsky kept a diary and notes during their..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English, translated from the Russian by John Cournos. The first novel in a trilogy concerning a poet who attempts to secede..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English, translated from the Russian by Z. Vengerova. Loosely autobiographical novel by the revolutionary who violently opposed both the imperial and the..... More
Praha or Prague: Ceskoslovensky Spisovatel, 1961. Hardcover. The second edition of Kundera's second book, heavily revised from the original 1955 text. Michelle Woods, in Translating Milan Kundera: Topics in Translation 30 (Multilingual Matters, 2006), says..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin. A novel of adventure, risk, and romantic extravagance laid in Southern France during the plague year..... More
London: Hutchinson, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English, translated from the French by Mervyn Savill. A picaresque tale set in "a 'tween war Parisian society", this was the author's first full-length novel..... More
Gary Snyder (b.1930) began his career in the 1950s as a noted member of the Beat Generation, though he has since explored a wide range of social and spiritual matters in both poetry and prose..... More
Two letters and three autographs from Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920), a best-selling English novelist who wrote under her married name (Mrs. Humphrey Ward), worked to improve education for the poor, and was the founding President..... More
Five autograph letters signed by Lady Louisa Lamb (1849-1927) of Beauport, Sussex, to publisher William Tinsley concerning her little-known contributions to Tinsley’s Magazine in the late 1870s. Lamb was the sister-in-law of another famous Victorian..... More
London: Trianon Press, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. This is number 112 of 250 copies signed by Robert Graves and James Metcalf. This copy is additionally signed and inscribed by the book’s designer, Arnold Fawcus, on..... More
London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English. Critical study of the Russian genius, based on a series of six lectures Gide delivered in 1922. Harry..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition, pairing a title page cancel with the British sheets. The title novella and ten short stories by the Symbolist poet, novelist, playwright..... More
New York: Viking, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page, with a Harvard Book Store "Signed by the Author" label affixed to the front panel of..... More
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1983-1991. First Edition. Hardcover. The complete six volume set. Irish writer, poet, and lyricist Thomas Moore (1779-1852) recorded his daily activities from 1818 to 1847 when failing health prevented his..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, first printing. Signed by Haruki Murakami above his ink stamp on a prefatory blank leaf. The perennial Nobel Prize favorite's 12th work of..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. "...garners well over a thousand English references to Cervantes and his works, thus providing the fullest and most intriguing early English picture ever made of the writings..... More