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"May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books." -Thomas Carlyle
Welcome to my virtual book collection. Since collecting actual books is somewhat cost-prohibitive, I've begun to amass all of the books I would love to have if I had the means. Some are new, lots are old, all are unique or beautiful or unusual or in some other way have captured my fancy. Enjoy browsing!
Special Collections: Fine Bindings ~ Fairies and Fairy Tales ~ Terror and Madness ~ Poetry ~ Food, Drink and Apothecary ~ Science Fiction ~ Illuminations, Lettering and Hand-Coloring ~ Magic ~ Supernatural and Occult ~ Alchemy ~ Science and Technical ~ Maritime ~ Costumes ~ Humor ~ Children's books ~ Legend of King Arthur ~ Americana ~ 18th Century ~ 19th Century Authors and illustrators: Edgar Allan Poe ~ Jules Verne ~ Edmund Dulac ~ Kay Nielsen ~ Arthur Rackham ~ Edward Gorey ~ Charles Dickens ~ H.P. Lovecraft ~ William Hope Hodgson ~ Mark Twain ~ Lewis Carroll ~ Salvador Dali ~ George Cruikshank ~ Emily Dickinson ~ Geoffrey Chaucer ~ H.G. Wells
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926.
First edition, first printing, with “stoppped” on page 181, black cloth, lacking dust jacket, 8vo, (bumped, light chipping and shelf wear, front endpaper spotted, overall toning, spine darkening).
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“‘Listen, Robert, going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.’”
- Chapter 2, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
Princeton & London, Limited Editions Club of Princeton Univ. Press, 1942
Introduction by Sinclair Lewis. Illustrated with lithographic images by Lynd Ward. 10x6¾, duo-tone cloth, spine stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, publisher’s slipcase. No. 1254 of an unspecified number of copies (approximately 1500), designed by Elmer Adler and P.J. Conkwright.
Signed by the artist, Lynd Ward, in the colophon.
In Our Time
Ernest Hemingway. New York, Boni & Liveright, 1925. First Edition.
Black cloth, with geometric design stamped in gilt, lettered in gilt. Hemingway’s first book published in the United States, of which only 1335 copies were printed.
Today is Friday Ernest Hemingway. Englewood: The As Stable Publications, 1926.
Original wrappers with front cover illustration after Jean Cocteau; custom cloth and plexiglass slipcase. Very soft crease to lower wrapper.
First edition, limited edition, no 7 of 260 copies for sale from a total edition of 300. This short play was collected the following year in Men Without Women. Hemingway wrote in a letter to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Scribner’s that he had an ulterior motive in allowing this early separate publication: he was laying a trap for the literary pirate, Samuel Roth.



