New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition. Hemingway's 1940 novel, the story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. Basis for Sam Wood's Oscar-winning adaptation, starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Hanneman 18a. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm);..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition. Hemingway's 1940 novel, the story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. Basis for Sam Wood's Oscar-winning adaptation, starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Hanneman 18a. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm);..... More
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1937. First Edition. The final volume in Fuchs's Williamsburg Trilogy, published by Vanguard between 1934-37, which together paint a witty, sad, and faithful picture of Jewish Brooklyn during the early 1930s. The story is centered around a soda parlor in Neptune Beach (a fictitious version..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition. Cain's first novel, in which "an itinerant worker and the young wife of the Greek owner of a roadside lunchroom near Los Angeles plot her husband's murder. The first attempt fails; the second succeeds. What follows is guilt, suspicion, betrayal, their own..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition. Cain's first novel, and one of the defining works of crime fiction to come out of the Depression. "An itinerant worker and the young wife of the Greek owner of a roadside lunchroom near Los Angeles plot her husband's murder. The first..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1953. First Edition. Bradbury's best-known work, based on his 1951 short story "The Fireman." "Totalitarian state outlaws virtually all books, especially the classics; an underground form of people who memorize great books to preserve them for posterity. The plot revolves around a "fireman's" conversion from..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1989. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (21cm); pictorial card wrappers; [viii],[2],3-481,[7]pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Marcie / All best wishes! / Dan Simmons." Trivial surface wear to wrappers, else Fine, with the spine unbroken. A well-preserved copy of Simmons's Hugo..... More
New York: Esquire, 1992. Slim quarto (27.5cm); pictorial wraps, side-stapled; pp.121-136; with one vignette and two full-page color illustrations by Marshall Arisman. A Fine copy of this offprint, containing an advance excerpt of McCarthy's National Book Award-winning novel All the Pretty Horses, published in the March, 1992 issue of Esquire..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First Edition. A presentable copy of Dreiser's most enduring novel, in which a young man makes a tragic and ill-fated attempt to break from his lower-class background. Fleeing Kansas City from a crime he didn't commit, he settles in a fictional New York town..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. First American Edition. Orwell's towering work of dystopian fiction, the vocabulary of which has become a part of the fabric of our culture. "The title marks the triumph of the totalitarian state. Three superpowers divide the world and conduct sham wars. Newspeak is..... More