Grove Press Hardcover Editions
Titles to the Grove Press hardbound editions are arranged chronologically in sections of five years from 1951 to 1971. PLease note that confusion between copyright dates and publishing dates often makes such chronological classification difficult.. Please click on a title to enlarge it.
Titles 1949 - 1955
... Crashaw By Richard Crashaw First Grove Press Edition 1949 NOTE: This is the first title published by Grove Press. One of only three publications that pre-dates Rosset's involvement and eventual purchase of the company from Robert Phelps and John Balcomb. The other two being, "The Confidence Man" and "The Selected Writings of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn". NOT a Roy Kuhlman cover. I have inserted it here for comparison's sake.
By Herman Melville Grove Press First Edition 1949 NOTE: This is the second title published by Grove Press. One of only three publications that pre-dates Rosset's involvement and eventual purchase of the company from Phelp's and Balcomb. The other two being, "The Verse in English of Richard Crashaw" and "The Selected Writings of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn". NOT a Roy Kuhlman cover. I have inserted it here for comparison's sake.
... Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn By Aphra Behn Grove Press First Edition 1950 NOTE: One of the first three titles published by Phelps and Balcomb before Barney Rosset's involvement in the company. NOT a Roy Kuhlman design.
... Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn By Aphra Behn Grove Press First Edition 1950 NOTE: One of the first three titles published by Phelps and Balcomb before Barney Rosset's involvement in the company. NOT a Roy Kuhlman design. This cover was actually designed by John Balcomb's (one of the two original owners of Grove Press) wife Cynthia Balcomb.
By Matthew Lewis Grove Press First Edition 1952 Possible cover design by Barney Rosset
By George Lillo First Grove Press Edition 1952 NOTE: The eighth title published by Grove Press -with Rosset now part of the company and soon to be sole owner. NOT a Roy Kuhlman cover.
... the Letters of Stendhal By (Stendhal) Marie-Henri Beyle Grove Press 1952
By Henry James First Grove Press Edition 1952 Note: Both the hardbound edition and the trade paperback edition (E131) have the same cover design. The hardbound edition's cover design was monochromatic in shades of gray)
By Philip Spencer First Grove Press Edition 1952
By Gino Severini Translated by Bernard Wall Grove Press First Edition 1952
By Emmanuel Mounier Grove Press First Edition estimated 1952 (no pictures of the book or actual title having been forthcoming as of yet, this date is established by the rights purchase coinciding with Stendhal's letters)
... of His Poems By John Skelton Grove Press First Edition 1950 (This date is most probably the copyright date and not the Grove publishing date. Grove only published three books before 1951it seems and then returned to market, with Rosset at the helm with the 1952 publication of the Monk). Dangerously pieced together opinion, not fact. Possible DJ design by Barney Rosset
Translated by John Mavrogordato First Grove Press Edition 1953 Possible DJ design by Barney Rosset
Translated by John Mavrogordato First Grove Press Edition 1953 FULL jacket design: (purchase pending, courtesy wellerbookworks.com) Possible DJ design by Barney Rosset
By Raymond Radiguet Grove Press First Edition 1953
By Raymond Radiguet Grove Press First Edition 1953
Selections From His Writings Compiled by Simone De Beauvoir Grove Press First Edition 1953
FULL Jacket design by Roy Kuhlman Selections From His Writings Compiled by Simone De Beauvoir Grove Press First Edition 1953
First Grove Press Edition 1953
By Wallace Fowlie Grove Press First Edition 1953
By Henry James Grove Press First Edition 1953 (also Evergreen Original 5 trade paperback edition with same design as dust jacket)
By Giovanni Verga Translated by Eric Mosbacher Grove Press First Edition 1953
By Giovanni Verga Translated by Eric Mosbacher Grove Press First Edition 1953
By David Magarshack Grove Press First Edition 1953
By Giovanni Verga Translated by G.H. Lawrence Grove Press First edition 1953
... in Tanganyika By H. Cory Grove Press First Edition 1953
Edited by Christopher Lazare Grove Press First Edition estimated 1953 Copyright date 1946.
By Alfred De Vigny Grove Press First Edition 1953
By Simone DeBeauvoir Grove Press First Edition 1953
By G.R. Levy Grove Press First Edition 1953
... Antoine Bibesco Translated by Gerard Hopkins Grove Press 1953
By Eugene Fromentin Grove Press First Edition Estimated publication date 1953 Original copyright date 1948
By W.G. Archer Grove Press First Edition Copyright Date 1940 Publishing Date estimated 1953
By Kay Cicellis Grove Press First Edition 1953
By A.M. Hocart First Grove Press Edition 1953
By Zong In Sob Grove Press First edition 1953
By Amos Tutuola Grove Press First Edition 1953
By Marius Bewley Grove Press First Edition 1954
Chapman Mortimer Grove Press First Edition 1954
By George Washington Harris Grove Press First Edition 1954
By David Magarshack Grove Press First Edition 1954
... Other Stories By Vernon Lee Grove Press First Edition 1954
... and Other Discoveries 1720 to 1798 By Honda Tashiaki Edited by Donald Keene
By Barbara Howes Grove Press First Edition 1954
The Maids and Deathwatch By Jean Genet Grove Press First Edition 1954 The first of Grove's publications for Off-Broadway Tempo Theatre. Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" would follow later the same year.
By Samuel Beckett Grove Press First Edition 1954
By Samuel Beckett Grove Press First Edition 1954
By Samuel Beckett Grove Press First Edition 1954
Charhadi, Driss ben Hamed Grove Press First Edition 1954
By Amos Tutuola First Grove Press Edition 1954 NOTE: Nigerian writer and autodidact, Amos Tutuola was Grove Press' first living author. The Palm Wine Drinkard was his first book.
By John Logan First Grove Press Edition 1955 (only 250 copies issued signed by author -this edition is signed and number "6")
By Marya Zaturenska Grove Press First Edition 1954
By Edmond and Jules De Goncourt Grove Press First Edition 1955
By Edmond and Jules De Goncourt Grove Press First Edition 1955 FULL Dust Jacket design by Roy Kuhlman
By W.S. Graham Grove Press First Edition 1955
By W.S. Graham Grove Press First Edition 1955 FULL dust jacket
By Marcel Adema Translated by Denise Folliot Grove Press First Edition 1955
An Introduction For Western Readers Edited By Donald Keene
Volume One Earliest Era to Mid-Nineteenth Century Edited by Donald Keene Grove Press First Edition 1955
Edited by Donald Keene Two Volumes Complete in One Grove Press First Edition 1955
By Samuel Beckett Grove Press First Edition 1955 Evergreen Trade Paperback E18 identical to the Hardbound Edition pictured above
By Giovanni Verga Translated by D.H. Lawrence Grove Press First Edition 1955
By Giovanni Verga Translated by D.H. Lawrence Grove Press First Edition 1955
By Valery Larbaud Grove Press First Edition 1955
By Ben Belitt Grove Press First Edition 1955
Titles 1956 - 1960
By Chester Kallman Grove Press First Edition 1956
By Nicolas Monjo Grove Press First Edition FULL jacket design. Uncredited -possible early Kuhlman?
1896 to Present Day Edited and compiled by Donald Keene Grove Press First Edition 1956
By Waverly Root Grove Press First Edition 1956
By Andre Hodeir Grove Press First Edition 1956
By Samuel Beckett First Grove Press Edition 1957
By Samuel Beckett Grove Press First Edition 1957
By Samuel Beckett First Grove Press Edition 1957
By Jean Genet Grove Press First Edition 1957
By Jack Kerouac Grove Press First Edition 1958
By Irene Nicholson Grove Press First Edition 1959 Designer unknown at present -do you know?
Molloy Malone Dies The Unnamable By Samuel Beckett Grove Press First edition 1959
(242 Choruses) By Jack Kerouac Grove Press First Edition 1959
By Juan Ruflo Grove Press First Edition 1959
By Gottfried Keller Grove Press First edition 1960
Edited by Donald Allen First Grove Press Edition 1960
By F. Vigdorova Grove Press First Edition 1960
Titles 1961 - 1965
By Andre Hodeir Grove Press First Edition 1961
By Henry Miller First Grove Press Edition 1961
By Harold Pinter Grove Press First Edition 1961
By H.D. Hilda Dolittle Grove Press First Edition 1961
Edited by Eric Bentley Grove Press First Edition 1961
... Misunderstanding By Robert Gover Grove Press First Edition 1962 First issued dust jacket
... Misunderstanding By Robert Gover Grove Press First Edition 1962 Second issued dust jacket
Stairway to the Sea by Thomas Jones This Night in Sodom by Charles Reiter Custom by John Schultz Grove Press First Edition 1962
Edited by Harold Clurman Grove Press First Edition 1962
By Edward Field Grove Press First Edition 1963
A Seventeenth Century Erotic Moral Novel By Li Yu First Grove Press Edition 1963
A Seventeenth Century Erotic Moral Novel By Li Yu First Grove Press Edition 1963
By William S. Burroughs Grove Press First Edition 1964 Picture of this title from the site of: RareBookCellar.com (Check them out -they're great!)
By Jean Genet With an Introduction by Jean Paul Sartre Grove Press First Edition 1964
By Jorge Semprun Grove Press First Edition 1964
By the Marquis De Sade Justine Philosophy in the Bedroom Other writings Grove Press First Edition 1965
By Jean Harlow Grove Press First edition 1965
By Esther and William Menaker Grove Press First Edition 1965
By Albertine Sarrazin Grove Press First Edition 1965
By Laszlo Nemeth Grove Press First Edition 1965
By Friedrich Durrenmatt Grove Press First Edition 1965 Picture of this title from the site of: RareBookCellar.com (Check them out -they're great!)
By Anthony Heckstall Smith Grove Press First Edition 1965
Titles 1966 - 1970
By Samuel Warner Grove Press First Edition 1966
By Jack Kerouac First Grove Press Edition 1966
By Jean Genet Grove Press First Edition 1966 GP 357
A Novel by Lars Gorling Grove Press First Edition 1966
Four Attempts to Describe a Love Story By Juan Goytisolo Grove Press First Edition 1966 Picture of this title courtesy: www.RareBookCellar.com
By Gore Vidal and the Original, Romulus the Great By Friedrich Durrenmatt Grove Press First Edition 1966
By Robert Pinget Grove Press First Edition 1966
By Blaise Cendrars Grove Press First Edition 1966
Volumes I - V Grove Press First Edition 1966
A Study of Samuel Beckett By Michael Robinson Grove Press First edition 1967
By Marcello Craveri Grove Press First Edition 1967 FULL jacket design
By Albertine Sarrazin Grove Press First edition 1967
The Untold Story of Richard Speck By Jack Altman & Marvin Ziporyn Grove Press First Edition 1967 Picture of this title from the website of : RareBookCellar.com
By Mikhail Bulgakov Grove Press First edition 1967
By William S. Burroughs Grove Press First edition 1967
By Raymond De Becker Grove Press First Edition 1967
By the Marquis De Sade Grove Press First edition 1968
... and Other stories Grove Press First edition 1968
Eric Thackery and Anthony Earnshaw Grove Press First Edition 1968
Eric Thackery and Anthony Earnshaw Grove Press First Edition 1968 FULL jacket design
A History of Black Writing By Janheinz Jahn Grove Press First Edition 1968
A Study of His Poems, Plays & Novels By Richard N. Coe Grove Press First Trade Edition 1968
Pier Paolo Pasolini Grove Press First Edition 1968
By Kim Philby Grove Press 1968
By Vilgot Sjoman Grove Press First Edition 1968 Design: Kuhlman Associates
A Play by Rolf Hochhuth Grove Press First Edition 1968
Or Early Experiences Anonymous Grove Press First edition 1968
By Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues Grove Press First Edition 1969
By Sandrine Forge Grove Press First edition 1969
Poems 1958 - 1967 By Pablo Neruda Grove Press First Edition 1969
By Jim Haskins Grove Press First Edition 1969 Kuhlman Associates
The Arkansas Prison Scandal By Thomas Murton Grove Press First Edition 1969
By Floyd Salas Grove Press First Edition 1969
Interviews with William S. Burroughs By Daniel Odier Grove Press First edition 1969
By Julien Mitchell Grove Press First Edition 1969
By Jan Cremer Grove Press First edition 1969 Picture of this title from the website of : RareBookCellar.com
15 Erotic Tales Anonymous Grove Press First edition 1969
A Play by Jules Feiffer Grove Press First Edition 1969 Designer : unknown at present
The Political Prisoner By Howard Levy & David Miller Grove Press First Edition 1970
By Gerhardt Zwerenz Grove Press First edition 1970