New York: Random House, (1982). First edition with complete number line. Strange creatures--"Hunches"--help a boy decide between different courses of action. Few faint creases to endpapers otherwise fine in pictorial boards with base of spine and lower corners. Issued without dust jacket. Item #46508 More
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., [1951]. First U.S. edition. Copyright page indicates the publication date was 1934 but the rear flap of the dust jacket is headed "Concerning the Reissue of The Flowering Thorn" and the rear panel "Novels of" lists "Lise Lillywhite," which was published in 1951. Spine lettering..... Item #53592 More
![Item #72043 THE VERMILION BIRD; [California poetry anthology]. Rena Sheffield, George Sterling...](/pictures/thumb/72043.jpg?v=1678577288)
Redlands, Calif: Valley Press, (1937). First edition. Collects poems with Californian themes. SIGNED BY THE EDITOR, who also contributes 2 of her own poems. "This anthology, compiled as a tribute to the State of California, is a permanent contribution to its literary history" (from the dust jacket flap). Includes Jeffers'..... Item #72043 More
London: William Heinemann, 1907. First UK edition, from the U.S. sheets. Illustrated with photographs and a political cartoon. Brick red cloth lettered in black on front and spine. About very good with front hinge tight but showing two short splits, spine ends and corners softened and a little rubbed, few..... Item #54997 More
(New York): Dell, (1974). First edition of each of these three volumes, paperback originals. ALL THREE SIGNED BY SMITH ON TITLE PAGE, uncommon thus. Volumes 1, 3, and 4, respectively in Smith's 6-volume series featuring Francis Xavier Killy, lay brother of the Militia Christi working for the Holy Office of..... Item #56069 More
George Shanks. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931. First edition. Illustrated by George Shanks. Good to very good with inner hinges just beginning, spine toned, covers lightly soiled, spine ends beginning to wear, etc. Lacking dust jacket. Relatively scarce. Item #51970 More
![Item #72022 AUTUMN VARIATIONS; [Association copy inscribed to Anthony Hecht]. W. D. Snodgrass](/pictures/thumb/72022.jpg?v=1667242273)
(New York): Nadja, (1990). First edition. Number 97 of 100 SIGNED numbered copies bound in handmade paper wrappers from a total edition of 126. ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED TO PRIZE-WINNING POET LAUREATE ANTHONY HECHT on notched blank page opposite the title page, "for/ Tony/ with gratitude and admiration,/ De." 12mo handsewn plain..... Item #72022 More
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First edition. His last novel, set in New England. The title is a reference to the first two lines of Shakespeare's Richard III. Light foxing to endpapers and board edges slightly sunned otherwise near fine in very good dust jacket a little darkened on..... Item #55249 More
New York: Random House, (1945). First edition. "Every American should find fascination in the discovery of the strange circumstances by which names long familiar came into being"--from the jacket flap. Fine in a bright, very good dust jacket with rubbing and skinning on spine ends and touch of other very..... Item #54478 More
Clifton, NJ: James T. White & Co., (1974). First edition of his first published play. Includes "Night Rainbows," an afterword. The play is based on a true incident early in the last century, about a priest accused of killing a nun, and was the basis for the film of the..... Item #40895 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First edition of the author's first book. Winner of the William Faulkner Award for best first novel of the year as well as a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. Also, the basis of a 1970 film WUSA, starring Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward. Small name on..... Item #33903 More
(London): Longmans, (1960). First edition. The author's first novel. Centered on a professional footballer playing for a local Rugby League team. Basis for the 1963 film of the same name with screenplay by Storey and starring Richard Harris, who received an Oscar nomination for his first starring role. Near fine..... Item #54091 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1890. First edition. Complete in two volumes. By the American ex-pat sculptor perhaps most famous for his works “Cleopatra” (described in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s THE MARBLE FAUN) and “Angel of Grief” sculpted for the grave of his wife in Rome and replicated elsewhere. CONVERSATIONS IN A STUDIO collects..... Item #71947 More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921. First edition. In variant gilt-stamped green leather gift binding. Octavo, top edge gilt, anchor-and-dolphin device on spine and front cover. Spine a little rumpled still very good to near fine. Scarce in the publisher's leather binding. Item #55541 More
London: T. Bensley for J. White, 1801. First edition. Illustrated with frontis and 39 hand-colored engraved plates by Strutt. Bound by Morrell for John Wanamaker. Quarto full red morocco with sides elaborately tooled in blind and ruled in gilt; 5 spine panels within raised bands tooled in blind and stamped..... Item #56139 More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, (1973). First edition. INSCRIBED, "For the Laites with thanks and warmest good wishes. Theodore Sturgeon / April 1973." About fine with just the barest rubbing on corners; in a near fine dust jacket with light soiling, a few spots of creasing, most noticeably on..... Item #51499 More
No-place: No-publisher, 1962. On approximately 8.125 x 10.75" off-white cardstock with image covering lower third. Dated "Nov 11. 62" at top right and boldly inscribed, "Brad: 'Believe it or not'...this is Staggs recipe for longevity. Abstain from tea, coffee, alcohol, and sex (after 39) ... stay on a strict diet..... Item #72052 More
Prairie City: The Press of James A. Decker, (1942). First edition. Collects stories and poems from 1941 appearances in “little” magazines which Swallows describes in his introduction as often short-lived and with low circulations but important for their embrace of new authors and experimental fiction. Contains a number of first..... Item #71943 More
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, (1959). First edition. Very good or better in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with very minor wear on corners and spine ends and few tears. Item #52053 More
New York: Greenberg, (1946). First edition. Edited by the publisher, David B. Greenberg, with an introduction by Louis Bromfield. Includes Jim Thompson's "Mr. Simpson Makes a Sale" from his second novel, HEED THE THUNDER, published by Greenberg the same year. Also includes William Saroyan, Leo Tolstoi, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, E...... Item #51531 More
![Item #54075 DER BUSCH [The Bush]. B. Traven](/pictures/thumb/54075.jpg?v=1551394843)
Berlin: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1928. First edition. First issue with all signature numbers present [Treverton 984]. German text. His fourth book and first book of short stories. 16mo orange cloth boards lettered in black on front and spine; top edge black. Spine ends a little worn with touch of soiling and..... Item #54075 More
![Item #54536 DIE TROZA [Trozas]. B. Traven](/pictures/thumb/54536.jpg?v=1549070272)
Zurich and Prague: Buchergilde Gutenberg, (1936). First edition. First issue: p.108:3 ending with "zu" and incorrect font for subchaper 5 p.146 [Treverton 745]. Text in German. The fourth of his six Jungle Novels. Light blue cloth stamped in red on front and spine; page top edge red. Very good or..... Item #54536 More
![Item #54540 DIE WEISS ROSE [The White Rose]. B. Traven](/pictures/thumb/54540.jpg?v=1549070273)
Berlin: Buchergilde Gutenberg, (1929). First edition. Treverton's first issue with "DISTURP" in English line p.61 and initial "S" p.109 inverted. Frankly, the only reason we can tell the "S" is inverted is we have two copies -- the first issue and the second (with "DISTURB" and "S" the right way..... Item #54540 More
New York: Knopf, 1952. First edition. The fifth of his six "Jungle Novels." Set in the slave-labor mahogany camps of tropical Mexico at the beginning of the Mexican Revolution. Fine in fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing and inconspicuous tear to front flap fold. Item #54005 More
(New York): Bernard Geis, (1960). First edition. SIGNED BY TRUMAN on the half-title page. Large 8vo gilt-stamped quarter white cloth over blue cloth boards stamped in red, black, and blue on spine; top edge red; 315 pages. Very good or better with light soiling to spine cloth, board edges a...... Item #71949 More