AMONG THE GINZBURGS.
Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, (1996). First edition. SIGNED on the title page. Fine in dust jacket. Item #51024 More
NOVEL
ANGEL.
New York: George H. Doran, (1926). First edition. "The Carolina Edition" in marbled paper boards with cloth spine. Number 29 of an unspecified number of SIGNED copies. Very good with some wear to the corners, spine lightly soiled, and faint evidence of perhaps a sticker removed from bottom of the..... Item #50684 More
THE BEAR COMES HOME.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1997). First edition. Advance reading copy, near fine in glossy, pictorial paperwraps. Item #51159 More
BEAT THE DEVIL.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1951). First edition. A REVIEW COPY with slip laid in. Helvick was the pseudonym of Claud Cockburn, a noted British radical journalist. Born in Peking, China, in 1904, he was the scion of an aristocratic family--one of his ancestors was the British commander who ordered..... Item #51502 More
BEAUTY'S PUNISHMENT: The Further Erotic Adventures of Sleeping Beauty.
New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc., (1984). First edition. Fine in dust jacket with the barest wear. Item #50280 More
BIDDY BROGAN'S BOY.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First edition. The final novel from the Irish-American raconteur, INSCRIBED on front endpaper, "To Comet Brooks/ a lover of Books/ and my friend/ Jim Tully" and with Brook's attractive silver bookplate with long quote from Thomas Wolfe's OF TIME AND THE RIVER on front..... Item #54186 More
THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER.
New York: Putnam's Sons, (2001). First edition. SIGNED by Tan with a quote from the book, "The things I know are true." Labeled "uncorrected proof" on front cover but appears to be an advance reading copy. Near fine in pictorial paperwraps with publicity sticker on front cover. Item #46993 More
BRIGHT CENTER OF HEAVEN.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934. First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. About very good with cloth binding lightly rubbed and soiled, spine ends and corners rubbed, spine slightly faded and bumped on ends, small tear in cloth at top of spine, rear endpaper lightly soiled, and a few small..... Item #51856 More
THE COTTON PICKERS.
London: Robert Hale, (1956). First edition in English, preceding the U.S. by 13 years. Originally published in Germany in 1926. Translated by Eleanor Brockett. His second book. Set in Mexico, as were so many of his books. Bright and fine with just a touch of spotting to page edges; in..... Item #54060 More
THE COVERED BRIDGE.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., (1950). First edition. First novel from this author of non-fiction, mysteries, and magazine articles. Near fine in pictorial, lightly shelf-worn dust jacket. Item #47505 More
DODSWORTH.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1929). First UK edition. First binding in blue. Very good or better with light wear on spine ends and corners. Book plate on front pastedown. Lacking dust jacket. Item #50131 More
THE FIELD OF VISION.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1956). First edition. His National Book Award-winning novel. Cartoonist Claude Smith's copy with his notes on the book dated 1981, 1986 and 1994 laid in. It was clearly a favorite of his. Near fine in good only price-clipped dust jacket with 2" chip to..... Item #52997 More
FLESH AND BLOOD.
New York: Olympia Press, (1969). First edition. Review slip laid-in. Near fine in dust jacket which is somewhat rubbed but has only minimal wear to spine ends and corners. Item #51054 More
THE FOURTH HAND.
New York: Random House, (2001). First edition. Uncorrected proof, near fine or better in glossy white paperwraps with Random House logo patterned across. Item #50520 More
THE GENIUS AND THE GODDESS.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1955). First U.S. edition. Small manufacturing fault on inner hinge where paper is lifed, less than a quarter inch, otherwise very good in dust jacket with a few small chips and aged on back white portion. Item #54723 More
THE GRAVE OF THE TWIN HILLS.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1960). First edition. INSCRIBED opposite the title page. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. About a WW11 vet returning to Japan. Very good with spine ends lightly bumped and pages aged along the edges. In a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light soiling, spine faded..... Item #51243 More
THE GREEN KNIGHT.
(New York): Viking, (1994). First U.S. edition. Uncorrected proof, near fine in green, printed paperwraps. Item #50435 More
GUBERNATOR.
([Warsaw], Poland): Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, (1960). First Polish edition, with a prologue by Bronislaw Zielinski. Paperwraps, in dust jacket. Reprinted in 1962 in boards, and then again in 1964 in two volumes (Grimshaw J22a). This appears to have been Warren's personal copy, with "1st printing--20,000" apparently in Warren's hand. We..... Item #47587 More
THE HILLS BEYOND.
New York: Harper & Bros. (1941). First edition. Very good with one small white mark on the front board, lettering on the front rubbed, and spine ends lightly bumped. In very good dust jacket with creasing and chipping along the edges, and closed tears along the flap creases... Item #50963 More
HUNKY.
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1929. First edition. Dust jacket art from a wood-cut by Karl S. Woerner. Decorative endpapers in block print design. Page edges rough cut with top stained green. Touch of foxing to top edge, name on frontispiece in pencil, spine lightly bumped, otherwise near fine in very..... Item #47330 More
I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1937. First edition. Became the basis for a musical of the same name. Good condition with significant fading to the spine and top edges. Spine ends bumped and rubbed, with a few small tears in the cloth binding at the top and bottom of the..... Item #51907 More
INHERITANCE OF NIGHT: Early Drafts of LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS.
Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1993. First edition. SIGNED by author. Preface by Styron and introduction by James L.W. West III. Red cloth covered boards with spine lettering in gold. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #54396 More
THE INK TRUCK.
New York: The Dial Press, 1969. First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Fine in black cloth with one tiny spot on the front cover and two small spots of soiling on the rear endpapers, but inside otherwise clean. In a very good dust jacket that is somewhat rubbed and soiled..... Item #51526 More
THE IRON MOUNTAIN.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1942). First edition. Very good in a vibrant green cloth binding with rubbing to the corners and some fraying to the cloth, exposing the boards slightly; spine ends are also rubbed and gently bumped; endpapers show some offset from the glue used in binding but..... Item #51222 More