THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM.
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1949. First edition. A fine, bright copy, lacking dust jacket. Item #51740 More
NOVEL
NEVER COME MORNING.
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
TAKE ME BACK.
New York: The Dial Press, (1981). First edition. SIGNED by author on half-title page, and inscribed with quote from opening paragraph, "like a sleepy dauphin." Very good with remainder spray on bottom page edges, thin black ink line on top page edges (tucked along the top of the spine), and..... Item #50157 More
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... Item #50762 More
THE UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC.: J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
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
PEOPLE ON THE EARTH.
New York: Random House, (1937). First edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED twice on front endpaper. Very good with light soiling to edges and endpapers a little darkened but otherwise only minimal wear. In a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with light soiling, a tanned spine, a few tears repaired with tape..... Item #51500 More
WHERE THE RED VOLLEYS POURED.
New York: G.W. Dillingham Co., (1907). First edition. Illustrated by Charles Grunwald. A novel of the Civil War. 8vo gilt-stamped red cloth boards; top edge gray. Interesting, presumed book-club copy with "This was written by a friend of mine and if you don't like it you are to be sure..... Item #55414 More
JUSTINE.
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
THE LIFE OF GOD: (As Told by Himself).
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1996). First edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in dust jacket. Item #51005 More
THE YOUNG LOVELL: A Romance.
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
TWO-AND-TWENTY.
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1931. First U.S. edition. From the novelist best known for his Horatio Hornblower series, the story of a pugilist-poet who foregoes his medical studies only to take them up again on the verge of literary fame. Very good to near fine with few creases..... Item #71779 More
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The story's source are his grandfather's letters to loved ones. The book and pictorial dust jacket are in fine condition. Item #46790 More
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA: A Novel.
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 extending to last several pages otherwise near fine. Item #50511 More
UNDER GREEN APPLE BOUGHS.
George Plank. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. First edition. Illustrated by George Plank. The story of making a home out of a dilapidated weekend cottage. Near fine in good to very good price-clipped dust jacket with light chipping to spine ends and corners, spine a bit tanned and..... Item #54479 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
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
STAR SPANGLED VIRGIN.
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
MANDOA, MANDOA! A Comedy of Irrelevance.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1933. First edition. Early proof. Very good in plain wraps with pictorial dust jacket attached at spine, as issued. Spine is somewhat sloped and dust jacket is lightly soiled, with some rubbing and closed tears along the edges. EARLY PROOF COPY. Item #51653 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 KLANSMAN.
New York: Delcorte Press, (1967). First edition. Proof or advance reading copy in unprinted pale gray paperwraps (not the advance copy issued in printed wraps for distribution at the 1967 ABA convention). Very good or better with spine and edges toned and just a touch of light soiling, Item #51681 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 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 UNCONSOLED.
New York: Knopf, 1995. First U.S. edition. Uncorrected proof in white paperwraps. Near fine. Item #50302 More