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Thursday, October 18, 2007

new arrivals in bookshop

Recently acquired:
King's Blood Royal, Sinclair Lewis. Signed limited edition (of 1050). Random House 1947. $175 in publisher's slipcase.
The Hairy Ape, Eugene O'neill. Signed limited edition of 750 copies. Horace Liveright, 1929. Illustrated by Alexander King. $300 in dust jacket and slipcase.
Radford's Details of Building Construction. 1911, Arts and Crafts era. One of a number of architectural plan and detail drawing books published by the Radford Architectural Company of Chicago. $175
Edgar Allan Poe Letters in the Valentine Museum. Lippincott, 1925. Limited edition of 1550 copies. 31 letters written by Poe reproduced in facsimile, transcribed, and with commentary by Mary Newton Stanard. The discovery of these letters primarily to his foster father John Allan shed new light on Poe's earliest years as a student and his relationship with Allan. $100.

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