This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/17/2023
[LITERATURE]. A large group of 43 first trade editions in 47 volumes, including:
Kenilworth by Scott (first edition, 2nd issue, 3 volumes in modern morocco); Hiroshima by Hersey; Christmas Holiday (first American edition), Cakes and Ale (first U.K. edition) by Maugham; Clash by Night by Odets; Whistle Down the Wind by Bell (first American edition); Butterflies Are Free by Gershe; The Woman in the Dunes (first American edition) by Abe; Cavalcade by Coward; Original Plays by Gilbert (no jacket); The Monkey Wrench Gang by Abbey; Johnny Get Your Gun by Ball; The Ugly American by Lederer & Burdick; Written on the Wind by Wilder; Frankie and Johnny by Huston; Last and First Men by Stapledon; Fat City (2 copies) by Gardner; Across the River and Into the Trees by Hemingway; Farmer by Harrison; No More Gas; The Hurricane; Men Without Country by Nordhoff & Hall; A Death in the Family by Agee (2 copies: a first trade edition, and an unsigned Franklin Library edition); Artist of the Floating World (2 copies, a first American edition and the first U.K. edition); The Land of Mist by Doyle (no jacket); The Stray Lamb, Biltmore Oswald by Smith; Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It by West; Merrily We Roll Along by Kaufman & Hart; Triumph Over Pain by Miller; I’ll Never Go There Anymore by Weidman; The Dark Tower by Woolcott & Kaufman; The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy by Kay (3 volumes); The Gay Place by Brammer; Moulin Rouge by La Mure; Titus Groan by Peake; A Good Woman; The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg by Bromfield; King Rat by Clavell.
All 8vo, all in original cloth and dust jackets (unless noted), condition generally a very good or better.