Special Editions and Rare Finds
"A Vision of Thoreau is the third in a series and will be followed by volumes on Mark Twain, Emerson and Melville. All the woodcuts have been printed from the original blocks on hand-made Goyu paper from Japan. This edition has been limited to five hundred thirty copies, printed at the Spiral Press, New York, April 1965. This copy, here signed by the artist, is number 335."
Original decorative boards with black trees on green paper; binding tight; text clean and bright; pages uncut. VG
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) was an Irish-British novelist and short story writer, known for her depictions of life during wartime. In A World of Love, an uneasy group of relations are living under one roof at Montefort, a decaying manor in the Irish countryside. When twenty-year-old Jane finds in the attic a packet of love letters written years ago by Guy, her mother’s one-time fiance who died in World War I, the discovery has explosive repercussions. It is not clear to whom the letters are addressed, and their appearance begins to lay bare the strange and unspoken connections between the adults now living in the house. Soon, a girl on the brink of womanhood, a mother haunted by love lost, and a ruined matchmaker with her own claim on the dead wage a battle that makes the ghostly Guy as real a presence in Montefort as any of the living.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. 1st edition. Dust jacket in protective cover; spine edges chipped; corners chipped; top of flaps tanned; green cloth with red and blue design and lettering on cover and spine; deckled edges; binding tight; text clean and bright. VG/G+
Bascom Books, NY, 1973. Signed by author. VG/VG
1st edition, 3rd printing. Inscribed by author on ffep; dust jacket protected. Newbery Honor sticker on front cover; binding good; text clean. VG/VG
CD Publications, 1992. Signed edition limited to 750 copies, of which this is number 247. Black cloth slipcase; dust jacket protected; maroon cloth; binding tight; text clean and bright. VG/VG
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916; Star and Garter Edition; no dust jacket; tan cloth over gray boards with title in paper label inset on cover and spine; spine frayed and soiled; corners bumped and frayed; hinges weak; frontispiece with tissue guard; illustrated throughout with ink drawings and with full-page tipped-in plates with tissue guards. G
Mycroft & Moran, 1968. 1st edition; pamphlet; top corner bent. G+
NY: Viking Press, 1953. 1st edition; signed by author on ffep; dust jacket protected; covers lightly soiled, edges worn with creases and tears, tape repair to verso; black and gray cloth covers; spine toned; binding good; text clean. G/G