£50
Modern Firsts. Calvino (Italo) & Weaver (William, translator), Invisible Cities, first English edition, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1974, half-title, original publisher's dustjacket designed by Arnold Skolnick, minor wear, now preserved under a wrapper, grey cloth, 8vo; Nabokov (Vladimir), PniN, first edition, fourth impression, London: Heinemann, 1969, half-title, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Faczynski, black cloth, 8vo; Waugh (Evelyn), Brideshead Revisited, third edition, London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1945, half-title, original red cloth only, 8vo; Olsen (Tillie), Tell Me A Riddle, first UK edition, Faber, 1964, OK ex-library copy, dj, hb, 8vo; Whitman (Walt), Drum-Taps, first edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1915, half-title, original cloth over pictorial papered boards, square 8vo; Vale (Edmund), Roc: A Dog's-Eye View of War, first edition, London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1930, original cloth, 8vo; Wright's Lawd Today, first edition, London: Anthony Blond, 1965, dj, hb, 8vo; Sinclair's White Chappell, first trade edition, Uppingham: Goldmark, 1987, dj, hb, loosely-inserted prospectus, 8vo; Kenneth Grahame; Jules Verne, (10)
Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
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