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Lawrence, D[avid] H[erbert]. D. H. LAWRENCE'S UNPUBLISHED FOREWORD TO "WOMEN IN LOVE" 1919. San Francisco: Gelber, Lilienthal, 1936. First edition. 4to. One of 100 copies (of a total edition of 103) printed by the Grabhorn Press -- Roberts A74. An essay ostensibly intended as a preface to the 1920 American edition of "Women In Love" but not published at that time. Hardcover. Fine.
$3,000.00
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Lewis, Sinclair. BABBITT. New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1922]. First edition, first issue. Small 8vo. Laid into this copy is a brief ALS from Lewis: "Feb 14, 1922. Dear Mrs. Powell, I'm sorry but I have no bookplate. Yours is utterly charming. Sincerely yours, Sinclair Lewis." A highspot of 20th Century American literature that is seldom seen in collector's condition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket of this quintessentially eponymous novel with minor repairs to the spine by a master paper conservator.
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Lewis, Sinclair. DODSWORTH. New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1929]. First edition. 8vo. Walter Huston memorably conveyed the world-weariness of the title character in the 1936 William Wyler movie. Laid into this copy is a 1946 TLS from Huston to Laurence Olivier in which he thanks Olivier for "inviting me to the showing of 'Henry V.' It took great courage to make this picture and Shakespeare as interpreted in this production will be understood by the masses. It is as modern as today's newspaper; a truly great achievement beyond criticism; the finest acting I have ever seen in any picture." Hardcover. A fine, fresh copy in a fine, first issue dust jacket. Housed in a custom-made clamshell box.
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Lewis, Sinclair. THE MAN WHO KNEW COOLIDGE. New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1928]. First edition. 8vo. Hardcover. A fine copy in an especially fine dust jacket with just a bit of niggling wear at the spine.
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London, Jack. THE SON OF THE WOLF: Tales Of The Far North. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. First edition of the author's first book. 8vo. Illustrated. This copy is in the slate gray binding stamped in silver -- Woodbridge 1 (no priority). The nine stories collected here first appeared in such popular magazines as the "Overland Monthly" and the "Atlantic Monthly." Laid into this copy is a printed, cancelled check dated December 31, 1906, from the Central Bank of Oakland, filled in and boldly signed by London. The check is made out to cash and is in the amount of $100, a not inconsiderable sum for those days. Hardcover. Exceptionally fine.
$3,500.00
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[London, Jack]. GOLD: A Forest Play by Frederick S. Myrtle. San Francisco: Bohemian Club, 1916. First edition. 8vo. With seven tipped-in color plates by Maynard Dixon. This copy is signed by London on the front free endpaper and by four other Bohemian Club members. London was admitted to this exclusive club in 1914 and died just two months following the publication of "Gold." Inquiries of London experts have produced no other instance of Jack London's having signed a Bohemian Grove play. Hardcover. A bright, near fine copy with two small smudge marks on the front cover.
$2,500.00
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Lowell, Robert. DAY BY DAY. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1977]. Uncorrected proofs. 8vo. Advance review copy with publisher's slip and publicity letter laid in. The letter notes: "In the poems 'Morning After Dining With A Friend' and 'Since 1939' there have been revisions." A comparison of proofs to finished book confirms that Lowell reworked both poems substantially. Pictorial wrappers. Just about fine, scarce, and textually significant._[along with]_A copy of the first edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
$750.00
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