All Quiet on the Western Front. Boston: Little, Brown, 1929

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of one of the best-selling and most influential war novels ever published. All Quiet on the Western Front, first published in German in 1929, the year of this English translation, sold 2.5 million copies in twenty-two languages within eighteen months of its initial newspaper serialization. The 1930 film adaptation won two Academy Awards.

$750

“William Wilson” in The Gift for 1840. Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1840 [1839]

FIRST EDITION. Contains the first printing of “William Wilson.”  This allegorical tale of the soul’s encounter with the spectre conscience is deeply autobiographical. William Wilson shares Poe’s birthday, and the setting for the story recalls elements from Poe’s childhood school days in England as well as his university days at Charlottesville. This autobiographical tale of doubleness, which Robertson describes as “in my opinion the most profound expression of psychological introspection ever formulated,” holds important clues to Poe’s development as a child and young man.

$600

OLD PLAYS; being a continuation of Dodsley’s collection, with notes, critical and explanatory. London: Rodwell and Martin, 1816

Contains the following:  Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Lust’s Dominion; John Lyly, Mother Bombie, Endymion, and Midas; Middleton, Women Beware Women, A Trick to Catch the Old One, The Spanish Gypsy, The Changeling, More Dissemblers Besides Women; Dekker, Wonder of a Kingdom, Old Fortunatus; Rowley, A New Wonder, a Woman Never Vext; Webster, Appius and Virginia; Chapman, May Day, Monsieur D’Olive, Bussy D’Ambois; Webster and Rowley, Thracian Wonder; Marston’s Antonio and Mellida, What you Will, and Parasitaster: or, the Fawn; Heywood, The English Traveller, The Royal King and Loyal Subject, A Challenge for Beauty.  According to the title-page, this is a continuation of Dodsley’s Collection of Old Plays (1744).

$500

“Eulalie – A Song” in American Review. New York,

First printing.

$400

The Works. London: Tonson et al., 1766

This handsome edition includes The Ambitious Step-Mother, Tamerlane, The Fair Penitent, Ulysses, The Royal Convert, Jane Shore, Jane Gray, and various poems.

$250

The Works. London, 1768

$175

The Psychological Portrait: Marcel Sternberger’s Revelations in Photography. Foreword by Phillip Prodger.. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2016

First edition, one of 100 copies of the Deluxe Estate Edition, signed and numbered by the author and accompanied by your choice of one of four 8 x 10 inch archival pigment photographs (Einstein, Freud, Shaw, or Kahlo).

$165

Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922

FIRST EDITION, one of 100 numbered copies signed by Joyce, the most sought-after book of 20th-century literature.

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