Chicago: Real Detective Tales, Inc., 1925. First Edition. Quarto (bedsheet, 28.25cm); original pictorial wrappers; 96pp; illus. Light edge wear, some small stress creases and tiny tears across spine, and a 1.5" closed tear extending from upper rear joint into rear wrapper; text is lightly tanned but not brittle; Very Good..... More
[Glendale, CA: Roy A. Squires, 1971]. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue, one of 485 copies (this being copy no.102). Slim octavo (25cm); letterpress printed string-tied wrappers, a variant tied with goldenrod string and title printed in dark brown on front wrapper; [16]pp. Inscribed by the author on the first..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue, one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.86. Octavo (24cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and American flag-patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [8],9-115,[5]pp. A fresh, Fine copy..... More
Hollywood, CA: Michael Montfort Photography, 1980. Original double-weight photographic portrait, measuring 27.5cm x 35.5cm (ca.10.75" x 14"). With Montfort's studio stamp on verso, captioned by him in pencil directly above: "Main Station, Mannheim, Waiting for Christoph." Inscribed by the subject at lower right corner to his friend and long-time publisher..... More
Los Angeles: Laugh Literary, 1969-1971. First Editions. Three slim octavo issues (21.5cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled; 32pp per issue; illus. Issue no.1 shows some dust-soil and a few tiny stains to wrappers; contents clean; Very Good+. Issue no.2 shows a touch of oxidation to staples, with no.3 showing a hint..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1932. Limited Edition. An attractive production of Carroll's beloved novel, signed by the woman who was the inspiration for the main character. Lovett 90a; Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, No.36. One of 1,500 numbered copies signed by typographer..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2004. Limited Edition. One of an unspecified number of copies specially bound and signed by the author on a preliminary leaf. Octavo (24.5cm); full maroon leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; silk endpapers; all edges gilt; xiv,[3],4-465,[1]pp. A Fine..... More
Paris: Gallimard, 1964. First French Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy with publisher's "Service de Presse" punch to lower margin of rear wrapper. Octavo; publisher's plain beige wrappers, printed in black and red; 195pp, [10]. Inscribed by Cioran (in French) on the half-title page. A fresh, Fine copy. A rare..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1923. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, first state, with no "g" in "go" on p.221, line 2. Octavo (20.25cm); black cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [6],7-317,[3]pp. Pictorial peacock-themed bookplate mounted to front pastedown, previous owner's circular stamp neatly abraded at..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.25cm); red paper-covered boards and navy blue cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in metallic red on spine and in metallic blue on front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; [vi],[2],3-388,[6]pp. Signed by the author on the title page, and inscribed by him..... More
New York: Bantam Books / Timescape Books / Arbor House, 1981-1985. First Editions. A late, detailed series of novels in which a group of religious seekers forms to explore the revelatory visions of Dick's alter ego, Horselover Fat, who has achieved "miraculous enlightenment courtesy of the godlike Vast Active Living..... More
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1932. First Edition. Faulkner's seventh novel, set in the American South during the days of Prohibition and Jim Crow, exploring themes of race, class, sex, and faith. "At its base, this is a simple, small-town idyll, but in execution it becomes a complex..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. First American Edition. Finney's first novel, centered around five young people with various talents who come together to perform a casino heist. Basis for the 1955 Phil Karlson film starring Guy Madison, Kim Novak, and Brian Keith, and an inspiration for 'Ocean's Eleven'..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972. First American Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy, with publisher's typed slip and promotional photograph of the author laid in. Octavo (21.75cm); turquoise cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in silver and dark green on spine and front panel; decorative endpapers; dustjacket; [x],[2],3-146,[4]pp..... More
New York: The Ecco Press, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); white paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and publisher's logo embossed onto front cover; dustjacket; x,[2],3-61,[1]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced..... More
New York: The Ecco Press, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); cream paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and publisher's logo embossed onto front cover; dustjacket; [xii],[3],4-134,[6]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. A few very faint surface scuffs to..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1950. First UK Edition. First hardcover edition, and the first time Greene's novelization of his famous screenplay saw print. "Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime – and..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1936. First Edition. Greene's seventh novel, published in the UK under the title A Gun for Sale. "A hired gunman (English underprivileged youth) murders a socialist minister on the Continent and almost plunges Europe into war. Insp. Mather trails him, but M.'s own..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); publisher's original laminated white card wrappers, printed in black; xxxii,220,[2]pp. A Fine copy. Heaney's Whitbread Award-winning translation of the epic Anglo-Saxon hero poem – one of the Nobel Laureate's greatest achievements. The first print run for..... More
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1930. First Edition. Grim underworld novel centered around 20 year-old Harry Pyler, a bank robber and embezzeler convicted and sentenced to hard labor. Upon escaping from prison, he refuses to reform his old ways, joins up with a gang of bank robbers, and..... More
Indianapolis: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1936. First Edition. Canadian Issue, with "Printed In Canada" printed along the upper margin of the front wrapper. Quarto (25cm); original pictorial pulp wrappers; pp.385-512; illus. Light wear to extremities, hint of tanning to text edges, with some trivial dust-soil and a few tiny tears..... More
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company / Tower Books, 1943. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); dark sage green paper-covered boards, with titling and publisher's logo stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-317,[3]pp. Inscribed by Karloff on the front endpaper: "To Don / with every good wish /..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1955. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19.25cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [vi],194pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "Andie Anderson / All good wishes / Gerald Kersh / May '65." Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped..... More
New York: Thomas Seltzer, Inc., 1922. First American Edition. The author's seventh novel, the concluding volume in his trilogy which began with The Rainbow and Sons and Lovers. Lawrence's text in this edition differs significantly from that published by Martin Secker, who excised several passages and entire pages of text..... More
Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960. First Edition. The author's first published book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961 and basis for Robert Mulligan's Oscar-winning 1962 film starring Gregory Peck. First Printing, one of ca.5,000 copies. Octavo (20.75cm); brown paper over light green cloth, with..... More