Garden, City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 256 pages. Amis' wildly popular and biting first novel. A well received book that was a Burgess 99 novel. The basis for the John Boulting directed movie as well as several other adaptations. A tight near fine copy in cloth boards with some toning to the endpapers and in a very good plus dust jacket with a couple of small edge chips, some light soiling to the rear panel and some other minor wear. Still a very pleasing copy with the Edward Gorey illustrated dust jacket that is much more evocative then the plain yellow dust jacket for the British edition. Item #205994 More

Price: $650.00

Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press - TriQuarterly, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 371 pages. Edited by Alfred Appel, Jr. and Charles Newman. Includes contributions by Appel, Robert Alter, Dabney Stuart Vladislav Khodasevich, Nina Berberova, Morris Bishop, Stanley Elkin, Saul Steinberg, Richard Howard, John Updike, Richard Stern, and numerous others. Also features over 25 black and white images. A clean near fine copy in cloth boards in a very near fine dust jacket. A much nicer than usual copy. Item #171281 More

Price: $50.00

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. A review copy with slip laid in. A look at Shakespeare. A near fine copy in a lightly soiled near fine dust jacket. Item #107436 More

Price: $15.00

Amador City, CA: Quintessence Publications, 1977. First edition. Oblong hardcover. Number 514 of 900 copies from a total edition of 1000. Attractively printed examination of the writings of Robinson Jeffers with several tipped in illustrations and a numbered broadside. A near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear. Item #147552 More

Price: $60.00

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1945. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. An early look at the works of Virginia Woolf. A very near fine copy with some offsetting to the front endpapers in a very near fine dust jacket that has some very minor wear. A very fresh copy. Item #123360 More

Price: $50.00

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1917. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 184 pages. A relatively early critical appraisal of author Lord Edward John Moreton Dunsany. A near fine copy in red cloth boards with an attractive bookplate to the front pastedown, a gift inscription to the front free endpaper and some offsetting to the front endpapers as well. There is also some slight wear to the boards as well. No dust jacket. Despite the minor flaws a very nice copy. Item #193712 More

Price: $15.00

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980. First edition. Softcover. 406 pages. Uncorrected proof. A very good copy in wrappers with the title written on the spine, "400" written on the front cover and some other wear. Uncommon in this format. Item #203130 More

Price: $30.00

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 286 pages. A very good copy in cloth boards and with the small ownership signature of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Frank Bidart and with his marks to the margins of a few pages and in a very good plus dust jacket with some minor edge wear. Still, a nice copy with an interesting provenance. . Item #215225 More

Price: $20.00

London: The British Council by Longman Group Ltd., 1975. First edition. Softcover. 32 pages. Edited by Ian Scott-Kilvert. A clean near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Item #147348 More

Price: $15.00

New York: Summit Books, 1984. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. Burgess is the author of a wide ranging selection of books including the classic "Clockwork Orange." This book represents his picks for the best novels from 1939 and includes his comments about each book. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some slight toning to the edges. Item #180955 More

Price: $25.00

Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1962. First edition. Softcover. 48 pages. University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers Number 16. A close to near fine copy in stapled wrappers with a small abrasion to the front panel. Item #119957 More

Price: $15.00

New York: Siamese Banana Press, 1970. Softcover. 5 pages printed on only a single side. An examination of the portrayal of madness in French literature. A clean near fine copy in stapled wrappers with some very minor wear. A nice example of this mimeograph booklet. Item #175357 More

Price: $30.00

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 171 pages. Review copy with laid in slip. A critical look at the work of Robert Penn Warren. A fine copy in white cloth boards and in a fine dust jacket. Item #193806 More

Price: $20.00