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Cary, Joyce. THE AFRICAN WITCH.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1936. First edition of his third book, a novel set in West Africa. Small tasteful bookplate on front pastedown under flap, of "Claude" (Smith) a cartoonist for The New Yorker, Playboy, et al. Top front cover a little bumped, otherwise the black cloth and spine gilt lettering is near fine, in a very good or better typical yellow, lightly soiled, Gollancz dust jacket with one small closed tear.

[Book #35502] Price: $100.00
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Cary, Joyce. THE AFRICAN WITCH.

London, Victor Gollancz, 1936. First edition of his third book. A novel set in Nigeria, where Cary was stationed during WWII. SIGNED BY CARY on title page. Very good in aged but complete, about very good dust jacket with Cape Town bookseller circular sticker/label on spine.

[Book #54215] Price: $250.00
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Cary, Joyce. AISSA SAVED.

London: Ernest Benn Ltd. (1932). First edition. Author's very scarce second book. Light edge rubbing, otherwise near fine, lacking dust jacket, but scarce either way.

[Book #29673] Price: $200.00
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Cary, Joyce. AN AMERICAN VISITOR.

London: Ernest Benn Ltd. (1933). First edition. Page edges very faintly foxed and light unavoidable offset to endpapers, still near fine lacking dust jacket.

[Book #29331] Price: $125.00
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Cary, Joyce. EXCEPT THE LORD.

London: Michael Joseph Ltd. (1953). First edition. Slight foxing on page edges and a touch on dust jacket folds, otherwise fine in dust jacket. A nice bright copy.

[Book #40692] Price: $50.00
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Cary, Joyce. A FEARFUL JOY.

London: Michael Joseph, (1949). First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket and Book Society wrap-around band.

[Book #54219] Price: $125.00
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Cary, Joyce. THE HORSE'S MOUTH.

London: Michael Joseph Ltd. (1944). First edition. The third volume in his trilogy (first two volumes were HERSELF SURPRISED, 1941, and TO BE A PILGRIM, 1942). HORSE'S MOUTH follows the adventures of Gulley Jimson, an artist who exploits his friends and acquaintances to earn a quid. Made into a 1958 movie with script by Cary and Alec Guinness, starring Guinness and Kay Walsh. Very good in red cloth; in dust jacket with long tears along front spine fold and front flap fold backed with tape, front panel a little wrinkled and few small chips and closed tears. Still, a presentable example of this scarce jacket.

[Book #49668] Price: $200.00
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Cary, Joyce. THE HORSE'S MOUTH.

London: Michael Joseph, (1944). First edition of one of his most famous works, a comic novel of Britain during World War II. Basis for the 1956 film of the same name with screenplay by Alec Guinness and starring Guinness and Kay Walsh. Fine in fine dust jacket showing only the barest aging and wear. A remarkably nice copy of this poorly produced book and quite scarce thus.

[Book #54207] Price: $750.00
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Cary, Joyce. MARCHING SOLDIER.

London: Michael Joseph, (1945). First edition. A long poem on the tragedy of war. Near fine in price-clipped, near fine dust jacket.

[Book #54163] Price: $40.00
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Cary, Joyce. NOT HONOUR MORE.

London: Michael Joseph, (1955). First edition. A few of the first pages uncut, faint unavoidable offset on endpapers and corners lightly bumped. In a near fine bright dust jacket with a minimal amount of shelfwear to the edges and just a touch of soiling to the white back panel.

[Book #50762] Price: $50.00
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Cary, Joyce. POWER IN MEN.

London: Nicholson & Watson, 1939. First edition. First trade edition preceded by the Liberal Book Club edition but seemingly scarcer [Meriwether 6]. Light red flexible cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine, top edge red. Small news clipping and previous collector's notations on front pastedown (mostly under the flap) otherwise near fine. In bright dust jacket tanned at spine with minor wear to spine ends and shallow chip at bottom of the unprinted rear panel.

[Book #54164] Price: $150.00
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Cary, Joyce. PRISONER OF GRACE.

London, Michael Joseph, (1952). First edition. From the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his penciled notations on rear endpaper and corresponding passages marked in pencil in margins. Near fine with gilt spine lettering a little rubbed. In very good, price-clipped dust jacket with few small chips and tears and 1/4" tear at head of spine (not affecting lettering).

[Book #54214] Price: $100.00
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Casey, John. AN AMERICAN ROMANCE.

New York: Atheneum, 1977. First edition. Association copy. From the library of Doris Grumbach with her initials on front endpaper. INSCRIBED and SIGNED to Grumbach from John Casey on the title page. Review copy with slip and publisher's letter offering praise from author Brendan Gill laid in. Near fine with page edges lightly soiled; in dust jacket with one closed tear and light soiling.

[Book #29423] Price: $125.00
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Casey, John. TESTIMONY AND DEMEANOR.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First edition. Fine in dust jacket.

[Book #27790] Price: $60.00
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Casolaro, Daniel. THE ICE KING.

Ardmore: Whitmore Publishing, (1981). First edition of his only book, a novel about mountain climbing. Full-page, intimate INSCRIPTION: "To a beautiful girl - - -." The author was an American freelance writer who came to public attention in 1991 when he was found dead, his wrists slashed 10-12 times, in a bathtub in a room in the Sheraton Hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia. A note was found, and the medical examiner ruled the death a suicide. However, his death became controversial because his working notes suggested he had traveled to Martinsburg to meet a source in connection with a story he had dubbed "the Octopus," which centered around a sprawling conspiracy theory involving an international cabal. Fine in dust jacket with few small chips on corners. Unaccountably scarce--and we would guess rare signed.

[Book #47198] Price: $450.00
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Cather, Willa. APG 127.3 (2011) Author Price Guide. (Dickerson: Quill & Brush, 2004). Includes a facsimile of the author's signature; a brief biographical sketch; a list of the author's first editions (American and British) current to the date of publication of the guide, with entries for limited and trade editions; number of copies (if available); how to identify the first edition; and estimated values with and without the dustwrapper (if applicable). Issued as a PDF file. Click HERE for a complete list of our individual Author Price Guides or for information about ordering the complete set on CD.
[Book #22754] Price: $11.50
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Cather, Willa. LUCY GAYHEART.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First edition. Cloth at spine slightly faded and spine label lightly tanned, otherwise near fine in very good or better, lightly edge worn and rubbed dust jacket with small scrape on spine.

[Book #28096] Price: $150.00
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Cather, Willa. LUCY GAYHEART.

New York: Knopf, 1935. First edition. Number 404 of 749 SIGNED, numbered copies. Blue cloth spine faded to tan, otherwise near fine in original paper-covered slipcase which is lightly aged but still very good. Lacking the dust jacket. PRINTER'S PROOF FOR PAGES 181 to 183 SHOWING SLIGHT VARIATION IN TEXT laid in (7 x 25"). Variations occur at page 183, lines 6 to 10.

[Book #53725] Price: $350.00
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Cather, Willa. OBSCURE DESTINIES.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First edition. "Three New Stories of the West," each one dealing with the death of a main character. Octavo, light green cloth boards; pale blue labels on front and spine printed in black and orange. Pale yellow dust jacket printed in dark red and blue. Dust jacket price clipped, as issued. Cloth at spine faded though label still bright, touch of minor foxing to pastedowns, otherwise crisp and near fine in near fine dust jacket with spine a little tanned and touch of minor soiling and wear.

[Book #54180] Price: $200.00
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Cather, Willa. THE PROFESSOR'S HOUSE.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1925). First edition. Bound in orange linen cloth with blue cloth spine. Spine faded (you can barely see lettering), with some wear on corners and spine ends. Minor chip on the bottom right hand corner of page 27. Lacking dust jacket.

[Book #52218] Price: $45.00
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Cather, Willa. SHADOWS ON THE ROCK.

New York: Knopf, 1931. First edition. Less fading than usual on the spine, otherwise fine in dust jacket with spine faded from pale green to tan but red lettering still clear; and shallow chip and horizontal tear to head of spine. Old photo copy of publisher's announcement laid in.

[Book #29420] Price: $200.00
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Cather, Willa.. APRIL TWILIGHTS.

Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1903. First edition of her first book; a "vanity press" production of thirty-six poems. Cather reportedly destoryed what remained of the edition in 1908. INSCRIBED, "Mr. J. W. Rankin / From an old friend / Willa Silbert Cather / New York / May Second / 1914." Cather moved to Pittsburgh in 1896 and taught at Central High School for one year. Rankin also taught there, and we assume that is where they formed their friendship. (She moved on to Alleghany High School in 1897 where she taught English and Latin, and became the head of the English department. She left Pittsburgh in 1906.) Recased with the original paper-covering laid down and with the original printed labels retained. Both labels are darkened, the front appears to have had the lettering touched up, and the spine label has been mounted upside-down (with the lettering running down instead of up) and slightly beneath its original location. Not ideal but quite scarce inscribed. HER SCARCE FIRST BOOK, INSCRIBED.

[Book #54535] Price: $3,500.00
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[Cather, Willa]. MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. (1914). First edition of Willa Cather's ghostwritten account of S.S. McClure's rise from his Northern Ireland childhood to founder of McClure's Magazine. First printing with "September 1914" on copyright page (the second printing, due to a printer's error, is dated "May 1914"). Second issue, with corrected p.239 tipped in [Crane A7a]. Spine ends a little tender, minor cover wear, and gilt stamping on spine faded, otherwise very good to fine, lacking dust jacket.

[Book #21225] Price: $100.00
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WAITING FOR THE MORNING TRAIN: An American Boyhood. Bruce Catton.

Catton, Bruce. WAITING FOR THE MORNING TRAIN: An American Boyhood.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1972. Frist edition. INSCRIBED, "To the McCormicks with best wishes. Bruce Catton." Perhaps the long-time Doubleday editor, Ken McCormick? Catton, who is best known for his books on the American Civil War, won a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1954 for A STILLNESS AT APPOMATTOX, his study of the final campaign of the war in Virginia. Small, light erasure mark on dark red front endpaper, otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket with one tiny closed tear.

[Book #54624] Price: $100.00
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