20th Century First Editions
A collection of 9 books
£375
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
Dresser, Theodore Jennie Gerhardt. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1911. First edition, first issue, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt (possibly variant binding); Thompson, Maurice Alice of Old Vincennes. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, [1900]. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, author's advance compliments slip to paste-down endpaper; Wiggin, Kate Douglas Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. First edition, later state, original green cloth, neat ownership inscription to free-endpaper; Tomlinson, H.M. Illusion: 1915. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1929. 8vo, number 294 of 525 signed copies, original quarter cloth over boards; O'Hara, John A Rage to Live. New York: Random House, [1949]. First printing, 8vo, original 'presentation edition' black cloth gilt; [Idem] Elizabeth Appleton. New York: Random House, [1963]. First printing, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket not price-clipped; Updike, John The Music School. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First edition, first state, dust-jacket not price-clipped; Updike, John Bech: A Book. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First edition, 8vo, dust-jacket not price-clipped; Purdy, James The Nephew. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, [1960]. First printing, 8vo, dust-jacket price-clipped (9)