New York: Harper & Brothers, (1942). First edition. INSCRIBED BY ALGREN, "For Jimmy Cannon, Who knows it's from the depths the stars shine clearest, God bless his Merry Christmas. Nelson Algren, '57." Journalist Jimmy Cannon (1909-1973) was inducted to the International Boxing Hall of Fame for his coverage of the..... Item #54153 More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1917). First edition. Good condition with cloth binding lightly rubbed and soiled. Spine faded and spine ends and the bottom corner of the front board bumped slightly. Rear endpapers have offset. Endpaper split at front hinge. Inside clean. Lacking dust jacket... Item #51855 More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First edition. Fine in a near fine, lightly tanned dust jacket with just two shallow chips to head of spine and one to the top right corner. A very nice copy. Item #51488 More

New York: Random House, (1965). First edition. His second novel. About a fantasy baseball league powered by the roll of the dice. 8vo silver-stamped quarter red cloth, tan paper boards stamped in red; top edge blue. Page top and board edges faintly foxed, flattened crease in paper on front board..... Item #54065 More

London: Secker & Warburg, (1972). First UK edition. Near fine with light rub mark to the front board. In a near fine, lightly rubbed, price-clipped dust jacket with reddish-pink coloring fading on the spine and light wear to the spine ends and corners. Item #51494 More

New York: E. P. Dutton, Inc., 1957. First U.S. edition. The first volume in his "Alexandria Quartet." Very good with previous owner's name on front endpaper and two small nicks to the rear board, near the spine. Spine has been lightly rubbed. Inside clean. No dust jacket... Item #51819 More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1913. First edition. Not published in the U.S. 32 pages of publisher's ads at rear, as called for [Harvey, A41]. In his entry for this book, Harvey quotes a letter from Ford effusing over YOUNG LOVELL as "a pretty big and serious historical work, rather like..... Item #53757 More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First edition. Scarce uncorrected proof; in blue, printed paperwraps. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, one of the surprise hits at the time. Made into a film in 2005. Crease to back cover, otherwise fine. Item #50511 More

London: William Heinemann, (1951). First edition. Semi-autobiographical novel set in London at the end of WWII. Basis for the 1955 movie starring Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson and the one in 1999 starring Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore. Endpapers, half-title and last blank darkened, as usually seen, otherwise near fine..... Item #54165 More

(New York): Delacorte Press, (1981). First edition. Near fine with light foxing to the outside edges of the text block (inside clean) and light fading to edges; in a near fine dust jacket with a few tiny chips and creases. Item #51474 More

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

Nadejen, Theodore. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1939). First edition. Very good with light soiling on the cloth binding along the hinge in front and back; and offsets at the endpaper hinges, which appears to be from the glue used on the pastedown. In a very good dust jacket that..... Item #51503 More