[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Robert Graves, Aldous Huxley, a Lolita, a Woolf, and a Whitman

[Michael John Thompson]

A few new arrivals. Prices in US $, post extra. Terms as usual.


1...... GRAVES, Robert.  JOHN KEMP'S WAGER. A Ballad Opera.  Oxford: 
Basil Blackwell, Publisher to the Shakespeare Head Press of 
Stratford-upon-Avon. 1925.  First edition. Octavo, original printed 
patterned boards with vellum spine. Printed at the Shakespeare Head 
Press on Kelmscott hand-made paper. One of 100 numbered copies signed 
by Graves, this being copy # 85. Corners worn, stains along top edge, 
spine panel with a 3/4 inch ragged tear; a good copy, internally 
fresh and fine, unopened.  $250.00

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2...... HUXLEY, Aldous.  MUSIC AT NIGHT AND OTHER ESSAYS.  New York: 
The Fountain Press. 1931.  First edition. Octavo, original marbled 
paper boards with black cloth spine, printed paper label on spine. 
One of 842 numbered copies signed by Huxley, this being copy # 257. 
Spine label tanned and with a tiny chip, corners a touch worn, a 
clean, very good copy.  $75.00

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3...... NABOKOV, Vladimir.  LOLITA.  New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 
[1955].  Second impression of the first American edition. Octavo, 
original gray patterned boards, black cloth spine stamped in copper 
and gold. 319 pp. About a fine copy, very fresh, top page edges still 
a bright red, in a nice clean dust jacket, price corner ($5.00) 
intact, hint of fraying to bottom of spine (a hint!), The only major 
problem is that there is an old piece of sellotape along the inside 
edge of the front flap fold, which has darkened a bit and has some 
show-through.  $75.00

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4...... WHITMAN, Walt.  THE HALF-BREED And Other Stories by Walt 
Whitman. Now First Collected by Thomas Ollive Mabbott. Woodcuts by 
Allen Lewis.  New York: Columbia University Press. 1927.  First 
edition. Small quarto, original patterned paper covered boards, cloth 
spine with printed title label. 129 pp. Nicely printed & bound, with 
gorgeous woodcuts throughout. Cover title reads: Short Stories by 
Walt Whitman. A near fine copy. The colophon states that there were 
only 155 copies printed on hand-made paper, but this is a trade 
edition, issued simultaneously with the limited edition. Most copies 
which we see on-line are misdescribed as part of the limited edition 
of 155, but they aren't.  $75.00

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5...... WOOLF, Virginia.  A WRITER'S DIARY. Being Extracts from the 
Diary of Virginia Woolf. Edited by Leonard Woolf.  New York: 
Harcourt, Brace and Company. [1954].  First American edition. Octavo, 
original orange cloth, silver titles to spine. 356 pp., Index. 
Bookplate on inner front cover (University of Nevada Library gift 
label), a very good, clean copy in the original dust jacket, minor 
chip at spine base, some scratches and a short closed tear. From the 
University of Nevada British and American Literature collection, now 
deaccessioned.  $30.00

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