$450
MODERN COLLECTIBLE FIRST EDITION BOOKS, TEN:Including Truman Capote, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S: A short novel and three stories, 1958, "First Printing", Random House, in original mustard cloth covers (chipped and torn), Capote portrait drawing, illustrated dust wrapper; Edward Gorey, THE UNSTRUNG HARP, or MR. EARBRASS WRITES A NOVEL, 1953, "1st Ed", Gorey art illustrated paper board covers in good condition but edge worn and chipped, identical dust wrapper, and THE HAPLESS CHILD, 1961, Ivan Obolewsky Inc., 1961, purple paper and Gorey art illustrated wraps, unpaginated, price of $1.75 on front; Elizabeth Bowen, A WORLD OF LOVE, 1955, "1st Ed." in green cloth covers but chipped and torn, Salter Art, Illustrated dust wrapper, 244 pages, and THE LAST SEPTEMBER, 1952, "1st Borzoi Ed", in brown cloth and gilt cover in like spine sunned, dust wrapper; William Faulkner, THE TOWN, 1957, "First Printing", Random House in maroon and gilt type covers, in like dust wrapper, 371 pages; Shirley Ann Grail, THE HARD BLUE SKY, 1958, 1st ed., 1/4 khaki cloth, 3/4 maroon cloth covers in good but torn, black & white author portrait, illustrated, dust wrapper, 466 pages; Jan de Hartog, THE INSPECTOR, 1960, "1st Ed.", Atheneum in blue cloth and gilt type covers in lik Bill English art cover, dust wrapper; Mark Harris, BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY, 1956, "1st Ed.", Alfred A. Knopf, in 1/4 green cloth and 3/4 light brown paper over board covers, moderately worn, Salter art, dust wrapper; James T Read more…
Auctioneer:
Dumouchelle Art Galleries
Date:
2005-12-10
