Clayton Fine Books

Adam and Eve in Collier's (November 26, 1927)

Erskine, John · 1927

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Near Fine First Edition New York 0 Near fine in original wrappers with minor wear along the spine where disbound. Complete issue.

Letter from Harvard in London Magazine (March, 1955)

Hall, Donald. · 1955

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Near Fine First Edition Chatto & Windus London 0 Fine. Minor wear to this issue.

The Importance of Being Oscar: The Life and Wit of Oscar Wilde

Nicholls, Mark · 1980

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Near Fine Very Good St. Martin's Press New York 0 Near fine (light bumping to board and spine extremities) in very good dust jacket with light wear to edges and light rubbing.

The Burr-Hamilton duel and the death of Alexander Hamilton in The Repertory [Boston] July 24, 1804

Hamilton, Alexander · 1804

$520.00 (€471.79 | £393.60 | ¥83,037)

Near Fine First Edition The Repertory 0 Complete original four-page newspaper, approximately 20" x 12". in near fine condition with some brief loss in two areas that affects tiny portions of the text and nearly separate at the spinefold. Also, hrief handwriting in ink to top o...

Angela's Ashes (broadside)

McCourt, Frank · 1998

$90.00 (€81.66 | £68.12 | ¥14,372)

As New 1st Edition Twenty-Third Avenue Books and First Choice Books 0 As new broadside with illustration of young child in two colors. Overall size is 13" x 20". Signed by McCourt. Number 8 of 200 signed with Arabic numerals (50 signed with Roman numerals). Size of drawing is ...

The Power of Silence: Exploration of Muteness in Jerzy Kosinski's 'The Painted Bird' and Ken Kesey's 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

Sen, Hasine · 2018

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New Peter Lang Berlin 112 New condition but book has the flaw of the interior being attached to the boards upside down and in reverse order. All pages present and easy to read, just have to turn the book so pages are upright.

Lincoln in the Bardo

Saunders, George · 2017

$275.00 (€249.51 | £208.15 | ¥43,914)

Fine Fine First Edition 1st Printing Random House New York 0 As new in as new dust jacket. Signed and dated by Saunders in black and red ink on the title-page with a small drawing by Saunders. Laid in is an admissions ticket to Saunder's signing, soon after its release 2017, a...

Broadside extra of the Federal Intelligencer and Baltimore Daily Gazette (April 4, 1795)

1795

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,170)

Fine First Edition Baltimore 0 Uncommon broadside issued by he Federal Intelligencer and Baltimore Daily Gazette. Aside from two small ads, the broadside is devoted to the successful invasion of Grenada including a number of eyewitness reports and documents. This item is rathe...

Talking It over

Barnes, Julian · 1991

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Fine Fine First Edition Knopf New York 0 Fine in dust jacket. Review copy with author's photo laid in. Signed by Barnes on the title-page.

The Midwives Bill in The Nation (August 37, 1910)

Webb, Beatrice · 1910

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Near Fine First Edition Nation London 0 Near fine in wrappers with minor foxing. George Bernard Shaw also contributes to this issue.

The Mistakes of The Copyright Bill in The Nation (August 27, 1910)

Shaw, George Bernard · 1910

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Near Fine First Edition Nation London 0 Near fine in wrappers with minor foxing. Beatrice Webb also contributes to this issue.

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, consisting of original pieces and selections from performances of merit, foreign and domestic. Volume II (First Edition 1791)

Anderson, James (editor) · 1791

$130.00 (€117.95 | £98.40 | ¥20,759)

Good 1st Edition 0 Good in full leather binding with front board and fly page present but detached. Back board separated (held on by one string) and back end paper detached but present. Mild wear to tips of boards. The rest of the binding is firm. The pages, although faded fr...

Four essays on George Washington in Century (May, 1890)

(Washington, George) Cleveland, Edith Robertson, William Armstrong, Edmund Law Rogers, and Charles Henry Hart · 1890

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Fine First Edition Century 0 Fine in original wrappers. with a small pencil erasure on the rear panel. The four essays on Washington are "Archibald Robertson and His Portraits of the Washingtons," "Some New Washington Relics: I. From the Collection of Mrs. B.W. Kennon," "Some ...

Carlyle's Frederick the Great in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (July, 1865).

(Carlyle, Thomas) · 1865

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Fine First Edition 0 Long essay on Carlyle's Frederick the Great. American edition of Blackwood's. Fine condition.

Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, From the Most Eminent Poets. Volume VI (Book 11: Larger Poems [The Rape of the Lock, The Deserted Village, etc.] and Book 12: Larger Poems)

Pope, Alexander; Oliver Goldsmith and other major English poets · 1826

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Very Good Wells and Lilly Boston 0 Original three-quarter leather and marbled paper boards with shelfwear and rubbing on the panels. 19th-century bookplate. Light foxing. Uncommon.

Speech to the Great War Meeting in Washington in Harper's Weekly (August 23, 1862)

Lincoln, Abraham · 1862

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Near Fine First Edition Harper & Bros New York 0 Complete original disbound issue in near fine condition with some marginal discolorations. A full-page illustration of the assembled Great War Meeting on the Capitol steps appears on the front-page of this issue.

The Other Robert Frost in New Republic (November 29, 1947)

(Frost, Robert) Jarrell, Randall · 1947

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Near Fine First Edition New York 0 Near fine in original wrappers with toning at the extremities.

In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991

N. Scott Momaday · 1992

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,170)

Fine Fine slipcase First Edition St Martins Pr New York 0 Fine in fine slipcase, both covered in burgundy faux leather. Momaday's signature below tipped-in color painting by him. Very attractive edition. Rare collector's item.

Byron: The Making of a Comic Poet in New York Review of Books (August 18, 1966)

Auden, W.H. · 0

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

As New First Edition 0 Fine in original wrappers.

What Luck! An Autobiogrraphy (commplete seialization in three issues) in Atlantic (April, May, and June, 1939)

Milne, A.A. · 1939

$99.00 (€89.82 | £74.94 | ¥15,809)

Very Good First Edition Boston 0 Complete serialization in three issues. All three are very good in original wrappers.