Bound in contemporary calf, rebacked.
Published pseudonymously. Parke's major original effort (present here with its own title page) is Virginia: a Pastoral Drama, on the Birth-Day of an Illustrious Personage and the Return of Peace, February 11, 1784. The "personage," of course, is George Washington, to whom the volume is dedicated. With the text in the scarce enlarged state. Gift of Joseph G. E. Hopkins.
3 volumes.
Rebound in half brown morocco and cloth boards.
The "American gentleman" was Washington Irving, whose efforts at translation were assisted by Peter Irving and George Caines. Purchase (1939).
2 volumes.
In the original paper boards.
Published anonymously. Provenance undetermined, but in the collection prior to 1970.
Unbound, stitched as issued.
The future novelist's pseudonymously published tract against free trade. Provenance undetermined, but in the collection prior to 1970.
Original cloth-backed boards, paper label on spine.
Lacking pagination on the verso of the third leaf of the preliminaries, a state not noticed by BAL. Purchase (Levy).
Original embossed cloth.
Purchase (Levy).
Original wrappers (upper panel supplied in photocopy).
Published anonymously. Purchase (Levy).
Original gilt-stamped cloth.
Published anonymously. With copyright notice and running head on page 9 in the later forms. Purchase (Detroit).
Original gilt-stamped cloth.
The so-called "second issue," in binding variant C as listed by BAL. Purchase (Levy).
Original gilt-stamped cloth.
Presentation copy, inscribed by Thoreau on the front free endleaf: "Rev. O. A. Brownson with the Regards of the author," not dated. Top edges of text block remain unopened after page 272. Purchase (Detroit).
Original gilt-stamped cloth.
Published anonymously. Gift of Maurice Adelman, Jr.
Original gilt-stamped cloth.
The binding in the state with upright capitals in the spine imprint, but, unusually, with the binder's ticket of George W. Alexander of New York at end. Gift of Eugene and Sandy Pearlman Meyer.
Original gilt-stamped cloth.
Two copies, one with an integral title leaf and one with a cancel, representing two of the three known colors of the binding. All copies have the misprint "Lillies" for "Lilies" on the spine. Gift of Edith S. Mayfield.
Original gilt-stamped cloth.
In the earliest state of the binding, with the Osgood imprint at the foot of the spine. Gift of Eugene Meyer and Deborah Meyer DeWan.
Original decorated cloth.
Third state, with reviews of this title on page [233]. Gift of Mrs. William Zimmerman.
Original decorated cloth.
Published anonymously. In the first state of the binding (later bindings put the author's name on the spine). Provenance undetermined, but in the collection prior to 1970.
Original boards with paper labels.
Purchase.
Original boards and paper labels.
Gift of Maurice Adelman, Jr.
Original decorated cloth.
First state of the binding, with the publisher's imprint on the spine. Gift of Eugene Meyer and Deborah Meyer DeWan.
Original half cloth and boards.
Gift of Edith S. Mayfield.
Original cloth with printed paper onlay.
Gift of Gerard Previn Meyer.
Original cloth.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Randolph Biddle.
Original printed wrappers.
Inscribed on the first (blank) leaf: "With the wish that good may come to Mr. James P. J. Murphy, -- and much happiness. Marianne Moore / February 4 1951," and with some minor pen corrections by her in the text. Purchase (Murphy).
Original cloth.
Earliest state of the text, with the word "shit" not obliterated in the bottom line of page 219. Gift of Eugene Meyer and Deborah Meyer DeWan.
Original half cloth and boards, in dust jacket.
Inscribed on the front free endleaf: "For Gerard Previn Meyer / Louise Bogan -- January 25, 1945." Gift of Eugene Meyer and Deborah Meyer DeWan.
Original half cloth and printed boards, in dust jacket.
In the earliest of three binding variants. Inscribed on the half-title: "For James P. J. Murphy Wallace Stevens March 3, 1954 (This is a 1st Edition)." Purchase (Murphy).
Original boards.
Signed by Adams on the front free endpaper and dated October 3, 1966. Gift of Eugene Meyer and Deborah Meyer DeWan.
Original half cloth and boards.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Randolph Biddle.
Original half cloth and boards, in dust jacket.
Second state of the title, with Tate's first name spelled correctly. Together with a corrected typescript of "Voyages IV" (printed on pages 53-54). Gifts of Bernard M. Wagner.
Original half cloth and boards, in first state dust jacket.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Randolph Biddle.
Copy #648 of 1,100. Original cloth.
Inscribed on the dedication leaf: "For Mary -- although I didn't write it -- because it is mine Helen Caldwell." But further inscribed on the front free endpaper: "for John S. Mayfield in spite of Virgil Steed, John S. Sumner, Ralph Ingalls, and many others. yours in crime Erskine Caldwell / Portland, Maine 2/21/30." Together with a publisher's dummy for the book, in a smaller format, only the first few pages printed. Gifts of Edith S. Mayfield.
Original half cloth and boards.
Gift of Gerard Previn Meyer.
Original half cloth and boards.
Presentation copy. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Murray L. Marshall a brother Craftsman and friendly editor / Jesse Stuart." Together with a typescript of "My Mountain Home" (printed on page 50) and a typed letter to Marshall requesting permission to use three poems published in Marshall's magazine, Sonnet Sequences, in Harvest of Youth. Gifts of Hazel Marshall Seebode.
Copy #99 of 409, signed. Original cloth, in slipcase.
The "special edition," printed from the author/artist's original wood engraved blocks. The ordinary trade edition published in 1929 (a copy of which is also at Georgetown) was produced from electrotypes. Purchase.
Original cloth, in dust jacket.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Randolph Biddle.
Original cloth.
Presentation copy. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To My Godmother [Mrs. Osgood Mason] -- Who is one of the low-flying angels, and her harp sings silver in the wind breezes. She puts music into mud-sills, and wings onto clods. She is a battle-axe in the time of trouble and a shelter in the time of storm. With Devotion, Zora / Longwood, Fla. May 18, 1934, when Godmother is 80 years old." Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Randolph Biddle.
Original cloth.
Gift of Gerard Previn Meyer.
Original cloth, in dust jacket.
Signed by the author on a blank leaf at the front. Gift of Eugene Meyer and Deborah Meyer DeWan.
Original self-wrappers.
Inscribed on the upper cover: "for the University of Detroit Library December 1961 / Brother Antoninus (William Everson)." Purchase (Detroit).
Original cloth, in dust jacket.
In the first state dust jacket. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Major L. A. Codd from Margaret Mitchell." Bequest of Gertrude Jane Codd.
Original cloth, in dust jacket.
Gift of Eugene Meyer and Deborah Meyer DeWan.
One of 1,000 copies. Original cloth, in dust jacket.
Gift of Eugene Meyer and Deborah Meyer DeWan.
Original wrappers.
Advance reading copy, the cover blurb comparing Chandler to Dashiell Hammett and James M. Cain. Gift of Eugene and Sandy Pearlman Meyer.
Original cloth.
Gift of Gerard Previn Meyer.
One of 250 copies. Original boards.
Purchase (Detroit).
Original wrappers.
Bequest of Gertrude Jane Cobb.
Original cloth, in dust jacket.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "'I love to see, in golden matchlight, / intimate contours of a face / like discovered innocence / in dusty annals of disgrace.' Denise Levertov Inscribed for James P. J. Murphy." Purchase (Murphy).
Original cloth, in dust jacket.
Review copy, publisher's slip laid in. Gift of Gerard Previn Meyer.
Original cloth, in dust jacket.
Gift of Eugene Meyer and Deborah Meyer DeWan.
Original cloth, in dust jacket.
Gift of Gerard Previn Meyer.
Original cloth, in dust jacket.
Gift of Shirley Pearlman Leva.
Original cloth, in dust jacket.
Gift of Shirley Pearlman Leva.
Original cloth, in dust jacket.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For James P. J. Murphy with best wishes Wm Styron New York February 1952." Purchase (Murphy).
Original cloth.
Gift of Eugene Meyer and Deborah Meyer DeWan.
Original cloth, in dust jacket.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "'After supper that Chrismas eve the children gathered round Rachel at the kitchen table and she told them the Christmas legend and they listened gravely because it was their own story . . . .' Davis Grubb -- Christmas, 1955. -- For James Murphy --" Purchase (Murphy).
Original cloth, in dust jacket.
Review copy, publisher's slip laid in. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "With cordial good wishes Anthony Hecht." Gift of Gerard Previn Meyer.
Original cloth, in dust jacket.
Bequest of Riley Hughes.
Original cloth, in dust jacket.
Bequest of Roland N. Harman.
Original cloth, in dust jacket.
Gift of Philip I. Herzbrun.
Original half cloth and boards, in dust jacket.
Distortions. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1976. Original half cloth and boards, in dust jacket.
A novel and a volume of short stories, respectively, the author's first two books published on the same day. Bequest of Roland N. Harman.
Original cloth, in dust jacket.
Inscribed on the half-title: "To Fr Ron Murphy SJ Regards to a Master Teacher Tom Clancy 3/22/85." Gift of Fr. Murphy.
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