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Author: Wymond Carey
Publisher: Putnam
Year: 1906
Description: Subtitle: A romance of the great Swedish war. 1st edition/ early printing of this rare book. A historical novel set at the turn of the 17th/18th century.
Author: Truman Capote
Publisher: Random house
Year: 1966
Description: STATED FIRST PRINTING. This First issue dustjacket has the "1/66" code on the front flap and "Publishers of the American College Dictionary and the Modern Library" on the rear flap. This ORIGINAL price not clipped dustjacket is rich in color with minor wear to the edges. A very nice copy.
Author: Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher: Knopf
Year: 1959
Description: Stated First American edition. A beautiful, deeply -moving, dramatic novel set in modern Japan.
Author: Alistair Cooke
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Year: 1952
Description: Stated first edition in an unclipped dust jacket with wonderful period illustrations by Marc Simont. 3 tales of Christmas Eve, first broadcast by Cooke on his BBC program.
Author: William Faulkner
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Year: 1929
Description: Grosset & Dunlap's first edition, printed shortly after Harcourt, Brace's publication. Faulkner's 3rd novel, and the first to be set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha county.
Author: Adolf Hitler
Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock
Year: 1939
Description: Presumed First Reynal & Hitchcock Edition, with no later editions indicated on copyright page. Published by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Mass. Staining to edge of jacket and text, as well as some crinkling of pages due to water stain.
Author: Neil Shute
Publisher: Heinemann
Year: 1950
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1950 with correct red cloth and vignette to the front board, and with the rich red top stain. Chipped, but unclipped price jacket (10s6d). Listed in BBC's 2003 Big Read of 200 best novels.
Author: Leonardo Sciascia
Publisher: Orion Press
Year: 1969
Description: Full title: Salt in the Wound (followed by Death of the Inquisitor). First Edition in English. Two stories by one of Italy's finest writers in unclipped ($6.00) dust jacket.
Author: Sherwood Anderson
Publisher: B.W. Huebsch (NY)
Year: 1920
Description: 1st edition of Anderson's 5th work. In tattered dust jacket.
Year: 1923
Description: Signed by Sherwood Anderson on half title page. 1st edition with first edition dust jacket.
Publisher: Horace Liveright (NY)
Year: 1931
Description: 1st edition in good dust jacket with chips and one tear. This work "observes how modern industry ... have usurped the strength of man and rendered him impotent. It is to women that he attributes ... The dominating voice in the affairs of the future". Striking thoughts from 87 years ago..
Author: John O'Hara
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace
Year: 1934
Description: Stated first edition with the publisher's errata slip laid-in. O'Hara's first novel of tragic self-destruction.
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: American Publishing Company
Year: 1875
Description: Original decorative blue cloth with black and gold gilt on front cover and spine. First Edition, second state. Filled with charming illustrations. An early collection of Twain's shorter pieces "Now First Published in Complete Form." A landmark of American literature.
Author: Sean O'Faolain
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Year: 1933
Description: 1st edition, author's 2nd novel. Dark green cloth, yellow harp decoration to front board. Unclipped dust jacket (7s6d), with harp in design by 'A.M.'.
Author: O.E. Rolvaag
Publisher: Harper & Bros.
Year: 1927
Description: True first edition / first printing, with correct "C-B" code (March 1927) on copyright page under "First Edition". The classic first volume of a trilogy on Norwegian immigrants in South Dakota.
Author: Liam O'Flaherty
Publisher: Gollancz
Year: 1937
Description: Presentable copy of O'Flaherty's masterpiece, uncommon in First Edition.
Author: Edgar Allen Poe
Publisher: Porter & Coates (Phila.)
Year: 1881
Description: 1st edition of this Edgar A. Poe poem, which was not published until after his death. Lovely beveled boards with gold and silver stamped flowers framing an angel underneath a bell. Illustrated with 22 b/w engravings. Fine condition.
Author: Irving Wallace
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Year: 1960
Description: Stated First edition / First Printing. Wallace's 5th published work. We are also offering a large selection of other First Printing editions by Wallace and other mid/late 20th century at $3-4 each (can be found in "old and interesting" section of sale in auditorium.
Author: Joseph Auslander
Publisher: Doubleday, Page
Description: Full title: The Winged Horse: The Story of The Poets and Their Poetry (signed). Stated first edition signed by the author on the back of the front free endpaper. A history of poetry with decorations by Paul Honore.
Publisher: John Lane
Year: 1917
Description: First edition of Anderson's second book.
Publisher: Boni and Liveright
Year: 1926
Description: First edition of Anderson's fictional account of Edgar Moorehead's childhood. Nicknamed Tar-heel or Tar, because of his father's North Carolina origin.
Publisher: Scribners
Description: Full title: Sherwood Anderson's Plays - Winesburg and Others. 1st printing / 1st Edition No ink names, tears, chips, etc. Dust jacket is price-unclipped ($2.50) . 4 plays included in this book, including "Winesburg"
Author: James Hanley
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Year: 1935
Description: A semi-autobiographical novel about a working class Irish family in Liverpool. A first edition of 2600 copies in an unclipped (10s 6d) dust jacket.
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Year: 1916
Description: First Edition, FIRST PRINTING with "The War! The War" on page 173. 32 pencil and charcoal sketches by Franklin Booth who accompanied Dreiser on the automobile trip to the author's first home in Indiana that is described here. With scarce dust jacket. Previous owner's name appears on end page and title page.
Author: Brinsley MacNamara
Publisher: Brentano's
Year: 1919
Description: Full title: The Valley Of The Squinting Windows. First US edition of Brinsley MacNamara's first published novel. A very controversial story of an Irish priest that enraged his local community that the book was publicly burned, its author humiliated and his father, the local schoolteacher, boycotted and driven into exile.
Author: George Moore
Publisher: William Heinemann
Year: 1905
Description: First edition with the two page dedicatory letter in French to Edouard DuJardin. Lake was considered the first great modern Irish novelist, and whose work influenced James Joyce. A story of a priest in love.
Author: Giovanni Verga
Year: 1928
Description: Full title: Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories (intro by D.H. Lawrence). First edition in original dustjacket with chips on edge of jacket, and tear along spine. Nine short stories including the most well known title story, which was used as the basis for Mascagni's opera. Translated by with introduction from D.H.Lawrence.
Author: Arthur J. Rees
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Description: First US edition. Early sci-fi. "A novel of the weird and uncanny set largely on the Cornish moors."
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: Doubleday & Co.
Year: 1975
Description: First edition. SIGNED by Tennessee Williams on first end page. "To Margery & Elliott Bonne Chance! Tennessee 1980".
Author: Raymond Carver
Publisher: Alfred Knopf
Year: 1983
Description: First Edition. Uncorrected proof in pale blue wrappers of this early story collection with publisher's information sheet stapled to the inside front cover. Carver's breakthrough title.
Author: Arthur Weigall
Publisher: G.P. Putnams
Description: First American edition. 17 illustrations and frontispiece with original tissue guard.
Author: Lucius Beebe
Publisher: Appleton Century
Description: First edition of in-depth profile of Boston from the author of the legendary "Stork Club Bar Book". In scarce original dust jacket.
Author: Ralph Nader
Publisher: Grossman
Year: 1965
Description: A book which resulted in monumental changes for the automobile industry. Nader's groundbreaking work was considered among the top 50 journalistic efforts of the 20th century. 1st edition / 2nd printing in worn but complete dust jacket.
Author: Fridtjof Nansen
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Year: 1897
Description: Full tite: Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Fram" 1893-96 and of a 15 Months' Sleigh Journey. First edition - nice copy. COMPLETE with 4 maps in 2 pockets of the first volume. 16 colored plates, and more than 100 b/w photos and plates. A history of the Norwegian Polar Expedition which reached the highest latitude of all explorations to date.
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Description: First edition, 1st printing? with Harper code I-O on copyright page (October 1939). Illustrated by Helen Sewell & Mildred Boyle. 5th fifth in the Little House series; this won the Newbery Honor award in 1940. A worn copy.
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Scribner, Armstrong
Year: 1874
Description: Full title: Meridiana, or adventures in South Africa. First American edition. First state showing only two other titles by Verne on verso of title page: "Journey to the Moon" and "Journey to the Centre of the Earth". Binding is tight.
Author: John Steinbeck
Publisher: The Viking Press
Year: 1947
Description: Unclipped ($2.75) dust jacket has mild wear with slight losses. A solid first edition copy.
Author: Aldous Huxley
Description: First edition of Huxley's first collection of non-fiction. Green cloth with spine label.
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
Year: 1936
Description: Stated first edition. Worn but complete copy of very collectible book.
Author: Ralph Robey
Description: First edition of harsh critique of Roosevelt's New Deal by a contributor to the Washington Post. As noted on the scarce jacket "Recovery was under way before Roosevelt started… More billions of public money cnnot prime the recovery pump." Thankfully Rovey was not an economic advisor to FDR..
Author: J.M. Barrie
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Year: 1902
Description: Full title: The Little White Bird or Adventures in Kensington Gardens. Peter Pan's first appearance. First US edition in very good condition. Dark green cloth binding, ruled and titled in gilt, with a gilt illustration of an English garden on the front board.
Author: John Fowles
Publisher: Little, Brown
Year: 1985
Description: Stated first edition in fine condition/ unclipped dj signed and dated by author on title page. A novel set in England in the 1730's.
Publisher: Kodansha
Description: Full title: House of the Sleeping Beauties and other stories. Scarce stated first edition and "First translation of the Nobel Prize-winning author's finest work." Kawabata was the first Japanese author to win the nobel Prize. 2nd printing in unclipped jacket with price Y1300 / $5.95
Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Boston)
Year: 1896
Description: 1st edition, 2nd printing, of the author's most widely-known work, with the extra blank following the ad leaf and date in roman numerals on title page) . After the October 1st printing of 2524 copies had been exhausted, the publisher printed an additional 984 copies from Dec 5-11, just in time for Christmas.
Author: Damon Kinght
Year: 1961
Description: 1st edition of the author's first collection of science fiction. The first story in this collection was made into the classic Twilight Zone episode, "To Serve Man".
Author: Ernest Poole
Publisher: Macmillan
Year: 1930
Description: First printing identified "Published March, 1930" on copyright page. Poole won the first Pulitzer Prize for The Family in 1918. Extremely scarce in the original dustjacket printed on metallic silver coated paper, with classic Art Deco design.
Publisher: John Lane Company
Year: 1918
Description: The first edition of Anderson's poetry collection. Signed by author. Scarce in dust jacket. Textured yellow boards with the title, author, and an ear of corn in gilt embossed in a dark framed background on the front cover. A clean and tight copy.
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Year: 1994
Description: Inscribed and dated (1994) by Lowry. First edition / later printing with Newbury medallion on the dust jacket cover.
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