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Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Scribners
Year: 1964
Description: First printing / first edition of Hemingway's memoir of Paris in the 20s ("If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast"). NOT price clipped ($4.95). Original NY Times Book Review laid in 5/10/64.
Year: 1969
Description: Subtitle: ...and four unpublished stories of the Spanish Civil War . First edition, first printing with Scribner's A. very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy.
Year: 1972
Description: First American printing. Clean, tight and square with no markings. Price intact jacket ($7.95) with only a tiny bit of edgewear .
Author: Inez Hogan
Publisher: E.P. Dutton
Year: 1943
Description: Stated 2nd printing of the 7th book in the Nicodemus series. In a very good price unclipped dust jacket ($1.00), with chips and one tear along the edges. Clean and unmarked.
Author: James Joyce
Publisher: New Directions
Year: 1944
Description: "Stephen Hero is an early version of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist of a Young Man, probably completed in1906." In worn dust jacket, still unclipped ($3.50).
Author: Josephine Lawrence
Publisher: Barse & Co.
Year: 1928
Description: Full title: The Toyland Series - Set number 1: Dollville Railroad, The Policeman Cat, The Unhappy Paper Doll. Scarce, highly sought after, extremely unusual with original dust box and dust jackets. The illustrator, Joseph C. Claghorn, was acclaimed for his work on this popular series.
Author: Howard Pyle
Publisher: Scribner's
Year: 1904
Description: Full title: The story of King Arthur and his Knights. Magnificently illustrated with 35 full-page drawings by the noted American illustrator / author, Howard Pyle. Early edition.
Author: (Ernest Hemingway)
Year: 1927
Description: Full title: Scribner's Magazine - March 1927. Features "Killers", an early short story by Hemingway. Cover is detached but still in good condition.
Author: James T. Farrell
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Year: 1933
Description: Farrell's second novel. Inscribed by the author "To Cap Pearce Jim Farrell", in price unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket. Working-class life in Chicago gets a gritty, hardboiled treatment from the author of the Studs Lonigan trilogy.
Author: George Moore
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Year: 1932
Description: "An English story", in finely bound leather.
Author: Neville Goddard
Publisher: Goddard Publications
Description: Rare early copy in original green cloth with worn dust cover. Neville was a pioneer of the New Thought philosophy. Publicity pamphlet for Neville laid in.
Author: Francis Stuart
Publisher: Collins
Year: 1937
Description: Notable Irish writer. Bound in brown cloth. Binding is tight and contents are clean.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher: Heinemann
Year: 1938
Description: Autobiographical ramblings. Black cloth with gilt titles. Minor chipping to dust jacket spine, but original price of 10s / 6d intact.
Author: Leonardo Sciascia
Publisher: Alfred Knopf
Year: 1966
Description: A tale of forgery, Sicilian politics in 1782, and the nature of reality. Near fine decorated brown boards with quarter blue cloth, in a price clipped very good dust jacket.
Author: Martha Gellhorn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Year: 1958
Description: Martha Gellhorn was Ernest Hemingway's wife and a ground breaking journalist in her own right. Stated 1st printing with possible signature by author on front cover. Minor tears and foxing to dust jacket.
Author: John O'Hara
Publisher: Random House
Year: 1960
Description: (3 volume set / signed). A collection of short stories in three volumes in a slipcase. Individual volumes are: "The Girl on the Baggage Trunk," "Imagine Kissing Peter," and "We're Friends Again." Signed on a tipped-in sheet in the first volume.
Author: Philip Kerby
Publisher: Payton & Clarke
Description: Stated first printing. A Western journalist's view of life in Shanghai in the 1920's. Previous owners' inscriptions on first end page. Dust jacket is torn and chipped.
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Year: 1937 (1945)
Description: Stated 11th edition of the 1937 original publication, also illustrated by Helen Sewell and Mildred Boyle. This copy was printed in January 1945 as indicated by Harper's code "A-U". Crayon marking on one illustration.
Year: 1940 (1945)
Description: Stated 7th edition of the 1940 original publication, also illustrated by Helen Sewell and Mildred Boyle. This copy was printed in May 1945, indicated by Harper's code "E-U".
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Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.
Year: 1856
Description: Full title: The Token; A Gift for all Seasons. Variety of stories, articles and poems by various authors. Covers have elaborate gilt stamping and all edges gilt.
Author: Kay Nielsen, illus.
Publisher: George H. Doran
Year: c 1925
Description: Full title: East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon: Old Tales From The North. Collection of Northern European fairy tales with b&w illustrations and beautiful color plates by Kay Nielsen. Heavily worn, hinges split, some pages loose, but still a complete copy.
Author: Walter Farley
Year: 1949
Description: Stated First Printing of the 4th book of the Black Stallion series. A very nice copy.
Author: Robb White
Publisher: Doubleday
Year: 1953
Description: Scarce title, in even scarcer dust jacket. True story of a couple settling in the Virgin Islands.
Author: Sherwood Anderson
Year: 1936
Description: First printing with Scribners "A" and seal. A later but important work for Anderson, a Depression novel firmly in the proletarian mode. Set in the mountains of Tennessee among textile workers and moonshiners. Chips along edges of dust jacket.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publisher: James Pott & Co.
Year: 1901
Description: Full title: Beautiful Thoughts from Thomas Carlyle. In green boards with gilt titles and decoration to upper board and spine. Selections of Carlyle's writing.
Author: S.S. Van Dine
Description: A mystery only solvable by the skillful detective, Philo Vance, and his "unique psychological methods of deduction." Basis for the Paramount Picture starring William Powell. 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1st state, with 1928 in Roman numerals on title page (MCMXXVIII) and "copyright 1928" on copyright page with Scribner's seal.
Publisher: George Newnes, Limited
Year: 1893
Description: Full title: The Strand Magazine - An Illustrated Monthly - Vol. VI. July to December 1893. A very good copy in its sought-after original blue cloth decorated boards. One of the first popular illustrated monthlies, best known for introducing Sherlock Holmes to the public. Contains July - Dec 1893 issues, with the 20th-24th stories of A Conan Doyle's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes."
Description: Full title: The Strand Magazine - An Illustrated Monthly - Vol. V January to June 1893. An early rebound version. One of the first popular illustrated monthlies, best known for introducing Sherlock Holmes to the public. Contains July - Dec 1892 issues, with the 14th-19th stories of A Conan Doyle's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes."
Author: Thomas Stark King
Publisher: Crosby & Ainsworth
Year: 1864
Description: Full title: The White Hills; Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry. An early guide to the area around Mt. Washington. Includes "60 engravings by Andrew from drawings by Wheelock"
Author: John M. Synge
Publisher: Dolmen Press (Dublin)
Year: 1961
Description: Full title: Translations, edited from the Original Manuscripts by Robin Skelton (#158/750). Translations by Synge of manuscripts authored by Petrarch, Villon, and others. Limited edition, #158 of 750. In its original cardboard slipcase.
Author: Richard Grayson
Publisher: Victor Gollancz
Year: 1982
Description: Murder mystery for single malt scotch lovers. Stunning near fine dust jacket over vibrant red cloth boards.
Author: Ivan Turgenev
Publisher: The MacMillan Company
Year: 1906
Description: Full title: A Sportsman's Sketches: The Novels of Ivan Turgenev (2 volumes). In 2 Volumes. Half leather with blue cloth and raised spine. Collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev translated from Russian which was his first major writing to gain him recognition. A handsome set.
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.
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