New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1945). First edition. Very good or better with slight fading to cloth and light offset to the endpapers. In a very good dust jacket, aged and faded along the spine, with shallow chipping at spine ends and corners and otherwise light wear to the edges..... Item #51040 More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1963). First edition. Fine in a very good or better dust jacket with light rubbing very slight soiling and a few small closed tears (not immediately noticeable), Item #28899 More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1975. First edition. Minor rubbing to spine ends, otherwise fine in dust jacket with light soiling, shallow chip to bottom of spine and light edgewear. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Item #34602 More
Cambridge, et al: Granta Publications, 1980 to 2014. First edition of the "new series" issues 2 - 126 lacking issues 3, 13, 14, 20, 49, 63, 104, and with 4th edition of issue 1 published May, 1994 (originally published 1979) and 2nd edition of "The Granta Book of Family." In..... Item #54388 More
London: The Bodley Head, (1967). First edition. Short stories. Fine in very good to near fine dust jacket very slightly toned at spine, with staining to verso and a little to upper edge rear panel where there's one short closed tear. Item #54200 More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. First edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper, where the previous owner has also made notations (at the bottom). Printed photo of the author affixed at front, creating offset to front endpaper, and notation -- which appears to be in the..... Item #51434 More
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London: R. Ackermann, 1831 and 1832. First edition of each of the two volumes. The first volume, published in 1831, contains 31 stories and poems and is illustrated with 50 engraved plates and numerous vignettes from designs by T. Rowlandson. The second volume, published in 1832, contains 21 (different) short..... Item #54541 More
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. First edition, first printing with 4 pages of publisher's ads dated January 1852 inserted at front. The final collection of stories to be released in his lifetime. Fifteen stories, with the first three being first appearances--the title story, "Main-Street" and "The Great Stone Face."..... Item #53954 More
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New York: Viking Press, 1941. First edition of the book which is near fine in a very good dust jacket darkened on spine and edges. Promotional letter laid in from Kroch's & Brentano's with sales pitch for A CHILD OF THE CENTURY, Hecht's 1954 autobiography which Adolph Kroch calls "the..... Item #55558 More
Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., (1924). First edition. Edited by Edward J. O'Brien. Dedicated to and includes "My Old Man," Hemingway's first book appearance in the U.S.; also includes short stories by Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Edna Ferber, et al. First issue with Hemingway misspelled "Hemenway." Spine somewhat faded and..... Item #54870 More
Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., (1924). First edition. Edited by Edward J. O'Brien. Includes "My Old Man," Hemingway's first book appearance in the U.S.,as well as short stories by Sherwood Anderson, Dreiser, Ferber, et al. First issue (only) with Hemingway misspelled "Hemenway" throughout. Near fine copy with barest wear on..... Item #55182 More
(New York: Hearst Magazines Inc., 1939). First edition. March 1939 issue featuring the first appearance of Hemingway's short story, "Nobody Ever Dies!" Very good with a few chips and tears to the edge of the cover, wear to the spine ends, and light soiling on the back, but the inside..... Item #51408 More
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1933. First edition. His third collection of stories, fourteen in total with nine being published for the first time. About very good with spine ends bumped, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, gold spine label somewhat dulled and a little askew but label on front still..... Item #51885 More
New York: Penguin Press, 2005. First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, a book of short stories. The first story, "The Minor Wars," was expanded into the novel, THE DESCENDENTS, which was the basis for the Academy Award-winning movie of the same name starring George Clooney. Fine in dust jacket. Both this..... Item #50225 More
London: Heinemann, (1981). First edition. A book of short stories. Very good to fine in dust jacket with blue on spine a bit faded. Item #54459 More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1922. First edition of this early collection of five short stories. Small stain to page fore edges, head of spine crimped, otherwise near fine in about very good dust jacket with spine ends and corners chipped and rubbing to spine title (taking out "RT" AND "L"..... Item #55190 More
New York: Viking Press, (1968). First edition. Posthumous collection edited by her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman. From the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his penciled notations on rear endpaper and contents page and corresponding passages lightly marked in pencil in margins. Page edges moderately foxed otherwise..... Item #54982 More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First edition. Short, offbeat stories illustrated with drawings by David Bromige. Number Number 24 of 200 numbered copies SIGNED BY JAFFE (of 226 total). Lower corners gently bumped still fine in original acetate. Item #54880 More
Laguna Beach, Ca: Laguna Verde Press, 1993. First edition. One of 40 copies. (Colophon's printed statement says "fifty" but publisher has lined that out and written in "40 survived.") Association copy INSCRIBED "For Allen Mears/ and his outstanding/ Jeffers collection./ Ward Ritchie" The book contains two articles, bound so they..... Item #55855 More
New York: Harper & Row, (1979). First U.S. edition. Near fine in very good to near fine price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing to head of spine and corners and one small tear. Item #45590 More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1926. First edition. Collects 14 stories and 21 poems. 8vo gilt-stamped red cloth; top edge gilt. Near fine in dust jacket tanned at spine and with few shallow chips but otherwise near fine. Item #53990 More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1917. First edition. First issue binding with publisher's name at foot of spine measuring over one inch; in second issue dust jacket. Fourteen stories and 14 poems. First appearances for two of the stories and most of the poems. Page fore edges lightly foxed otherwise near..... Item #53934 More
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932. First U.S. edition, published a few weeks after the UK. Short stories and poems. First appearances for 3 of the stories and 19 of the poems. Near fine in about very good dust jacket with rear panel lightly soiled and pair of..... Item #53939 More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1896. First edition. Seven previously collected stories illustrated with 21 full-page illustrations. 12mo gilt-stamped polished blue cloth; black coated endpapers; all edges gilt. Very good or better with few light scrapes to verso rear endpaper, rear corners crimped, spine a bit toned and spine ends lightly..... Item #53955 More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933. First edition, preceding the UK and French editions. Issued in two parts on March 1 and March 15, 1933, respectively, in an edition of only 75 copies each. Part 1 only. [Richards A412]. A childhood recollection of his trip with his father..... Item #53959 More