[Rarebooks] Edmund Wilson Collection

[Austin's Antiquarian Book]

EDMUND WILSON LIST

A baker's dozen of Bunny Wilson titles. All in jacket or original  
wrappers, all first editions and all offered as a lot postpaid. @$595.00

Wilson, Edmund. I THOUGHT OF DAISY. New York: Charles Scribner’s  
Sons, 1929. First edition. Octavo. Blue cloth in dust jacket. 311pp.  
A good or better copy in a toned dust jacket with a chip at spine  
top. Author’s first novel.

Wilson, Edmund. TRAVELS IN TWO DEMOCRACIES. New York: Harcourt, Brace  
and Company, (1936). First edition. Octavo. Cream cloth in dust  
jacket. viii, 325pp. A very good copy in a dust jacket with a faded  
spine panel and a chip at spine top and top front right corner.

Wilson, Edmund. THIS ROOM & THIS GIN & THESE SANDWICHES. New York:  
The New Republic, 1937. First edition. Octavo. Original printed paper  
wrappers. 298pp. plus an ad leaf. Very good. Spine is chipped, but  
all text is present. Previous owner’s name and address on the front  
free fly leaf. Three plays; “The Crime in the Whistler Room”; “A  
Winter In Beech Street”; “Beppo and Beth”.

Wilson, Edmund. THE BOYS IN THE BACK ROOM; NOTES ON CALIFORNIA  
NOVELISTS. San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1941. Limited edition,  
1/1500 copies. Octavo. Black cloth and decorated green patterned  
boards with paper spine label in dust jacket. 72pp. plus colophon. A  
very good copy in a dust jacket with a chip at spine top and top  
front edge.

Wilson, Edmund. NOTE-BOOKS OF NIGHT. London: Secker & Warburg, 1945.  
First English edition. Octavo. Black cloth in dust jacket. 87pp. A  
very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Spine panel of jacket  
slightly toned. Wilson discusses James M. Cain, John O’Hara, John  
Steinbeck, Hans Otto Storm, William Saroyan and with mentions of F.  
Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West. Wilson’s premise is that these  
writers have all been influenced by Ernest Hemingway and California.

Wilson, Edmund. THE LITTLE BLUE LIGHT. New York: Farrar, Straus and  
Company, (1950). First edition. Octavo. Blue cloth in dust jacket.  
163pp. A very good copy in a dust jacket with wear at spine top and  
top front edge.

Wilson, Edmund, (Editor). THE SHOCK OF RECOGNITION; THE DEVELOPMENT  
OF LITERATURE IN THE UNITED STATES RECORDED BY THE MEN WHO MADE IT.  
New York: Modern Library, (1955). First Modern Library edition.  
Octavo. Gray cloth in dust jacket. xvii, 1290pp. Illustrated by  
Robert F. Hallock. A very good copy in dust jacket. A Modern Library  
Giant.

Wilson, Edmund. UPSTATE; RECORDS AND RECOLLECTIONS OF NORTHERN NEW  
YORK. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1971). First edition.  
Octavo. Blue cloth in dust jacket. 386pp. Illustrated. A very good  
copy in dust jacket.

Wilson, Edmund. A WINDOW ON RUSSIA; FOR USE OF FOREIGN READERS. New  
York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1972). First edition. Octavo. Red  
cloth in dust jacket. 200pp. A very good copy in dust jacket.

Wilson, Edmund. THE TWENTIES; FROM NOTEBOOKS AND DIARIES OF THE  
PERIOD. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1975). First edition.  
Octavo. Gray cloth in dust jacket. xlix, 557pp. with index.  
Illustrated. Edited with an introduction by Leon Edel. A very good  
copy in dust jacket.

Wilson, Edmund. THE THIRTIES; FROM NOTEBOOKS AND DIARIES OF THE  
PERIOD. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1980). First edition.  
Octavo. Blue cloth in dust jacket. xxxii, 753pp. with index.  
Illustrated. Edited with an introduction by Leon Edel. A very good  
copy in dust jacket.

Wilson, Edmund. THE FORTIES; FROM NOTEBOOKS AND DIARIES OF THE  
PERIOD. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1983). First edition.  
Octavo. Burgundy cloth in dust jacket. xxviii, 369pp. with index.  
Illustrated. Edited with an introduction by Leon Edel. A very good  
copy in dust jacket.

Wilson, Edmund. THE FIFTIES; FROM NOTEBOOKS AND DIARIES OF THE  
PERIOD. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1986). First edition.  
Octavo. Green cloth in dust jacket. xxxii, 663pp. with index.  
Illustrated. Edited with an introduction by Leon Edel. A very good  
copy in dust jacket.