The Double Life of Stephen Crane
Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A. Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. 294 pps with index, illustrations. Biography of famed American writer. Near fine, tight copy in crisp dust jacket.
Literature
Hemingway: The Writer's Art of Self-Defense
Minneapolis: Univ. Of Minnesota Press, 1969. First. Hard Cover. First edition. Cloth, 202 pp. with index. A fine, fvresh copy in bright, crisp dust jacket with a trace of rubbing and some light spine fade. One of the more sought after volumes of Hemingway literary criticism, an analysis of five.....
Sean O'Casey
Lewisburg, PA: Associated Univ Pr, 1971. First. Hardcover. First printing. Slim octavo. Part of the Bucknell University Press Irish Writers Series. Fine in fine, bright, crisp dust jacket.
Essays and Speeches of Frank Bergen 2 Volumes
Privately Printed, 1931. Hardcover. First edition. Very good, first edition Hardcover without dustwrappers. 2 Volume set. 1 of 300 copies and Inscribed by the author. The books have shelf rub of spine ends and cover corners. The books have gold gilt top foredges. Nice clean text in both volumes.
Oepipus At Thebes: Sophocles Tragic Hero and His Time
New Haven: Yale, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in black cloth. First printing. 280 pp. with index, bibliography. Fine, classic professor's bookplate front pastedown and blindstamp on title page. In near fine dust jacket, a bit foxed at the rear fold and rear panel. A scolarly study of the play.....
Hemingway and the Sun Set
Washington DC: MCR/Microcard Editions, 1972. presumed first edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition. Hardcover in bright orange cloth lettered in gilt. 279 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Separates the fact from the fiction surrounding Hemingway's characters in The Sun Also Rises, using interviews of still-living prototypes, relatives, friends from.....
Alfie Darling: A Novel
Simon And Schuster, 1970. First American edition. Unknown. First American edition. Fine, tight example, bit of foxing to the outer edge of the text block, in generally fine dust jacket with miniscule wear at the top edge of the spine. Hardcover. 347 pp. Naughton's unforgettable heroes of one of the.....
Human Interest Stories as told by an Employing Printer, Nathan Bilstein
Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1926. Limited ed. Hardcover. One of 250 copies only. Slim 12mo. in art deco design paper covered boards with multi-clored stripes and paper title label. 25 pp. A fine, fresh example. Collection of short anecdotes by a noted Baltimore fine press publisher.A lovely little production.
Elizabeth Barret Browning
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. The inspiring life story of the infamous female poet. Fine, tight copy, with off setting to endpapers and a couple foxed spots on edge of title page in very good dust jacket with edgewear and internal repair.
Claire Ambler (1/500 only signed by Tarkington and the publishers)
New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1928. Limited ed. Hardcover. One of 500 copies only signed by Tarkington, F.N. Doubleday and George H. Doran on an inserted blank; the page is imprinted "To Commemorate The Founding of Doubleday, Doran & Company, Incorporated, By The Union Of Doubleday, Page & Co. And George.....
The Hypochondriack: Volume I and II:Being the Seventy Essays by the celebrated biographer, James Boswell, appearing in the London Magazine, from November, 1777, to August, 1783, and here first Reprinted
CA: Stanford, 1928. Hardcover. First edition. Spines faded and some scuffing to the boards. Volume I missing headband. Lacking the slipcase. Included two page folded promotion for this title from Stanford University Press.
The Origin of The Dutch; with A Sketch of Their Language and Literature....
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1846. Second. Hard Cover. Slim octavo in paper covered boards, green cloth spine lettered in gilt. 33 pp. plus 3 pps. publisher's ads. Hand colored folding map frontis "A Map of European Languages". The second edition. Tight, internally clean example. Boards evenly soiled with.....
A Noble Profession
New York: Vanguard Press, 1960. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition, translated from the original French. Hardcover. 255 pp. Fine in very good dust jacket with moderate edgewear. Novel of the psychological anatomy of a spy--a man, originally an author, for whom World War II is a chance to.....
Tiger Eye (in original dust jacket)
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. Reissue. Hardcover. Hardcover in bright orange cloth. 294 pp. plus publisher's ads at rear. Reissue. Tight, bright example, ownership name front free endpaper. In the original dust jacket with bold illustration of the title character, very good, modest wear at the extremities. Western story.....
The Writer : Voliem 50, Number 7, July 1937
Boston: The Writer, Inc, 1937. Wraps. Printed wrappers. Very good, light crease down the center. Magazine with article, reviews, etc. by profesional wriets for professional writers. Contributors to this inssue include Allan Nevins, Edward J. O'Brien, John Gallishaw, etc.
The Writer: Volume 50, Number 10, October 1937
Boston: The Writer Inc, 1937. Wraps. Printed wrappers. Very good, small sticker front covera nd light center crease. Magazine for profesional writers by professional writes. Contributors to this issue include Maguerite Steen, HolmesAlwexandee, etc.
The Writer: Volume 51, Number 3, March 1938
Boston: The Writer, Inc., 1938. Wraps. Printed wrappers. Very good, small sticker and small ink notation on front cover. Magazine for professional writers by professional writers. Contributors to this issue include Mignon G. Eberhardt,
The Writer : Vol. 50. Number 6, June 1937
Boston: The Writer, Inc., 1937. Wraps. Printed wrappers. Very good, small sticker front cover and crease down the center. Collection of articles, reviews, etc. for professional writers by professional writers. This issue icludes contributions by MacKinlay Kantor, Van Wyck Mason, and others.
Nothing Ever Breaks Except The Heart
Garden City: Doubleday, 1966. First. Hard Cover. First edition (stated). Cloth, 357 pps. Collection of Boyle's sensitive, beautifully wrought short stories, set in Lisbon, Manhattan, Austria and West Germany. Fine in dust jacket with some modest foxing to the front panel, original price clipped but secondary price intact on the.....
Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"
Woodstock, IL: Dramatic Publishing Co., 1986. First edition thus. Softcover. First edition thus. Printed softcovers. 96 pp. Scarce dramatized version of Bradbury's classic science fiction tal. A fine example, covers just a touch toned.
Typed Letter Signed to a Boston Bookseller regarding Purchase of Books about the Brontes
1948. manuscript. Typed letter dated 1948, signed in full in ink. Braithwaite writes to a Boston bookseller regarding the purchase of books about Charlotte Bronte and the Bronte sisters (for which he apparently included a check for $3.25). He also inquires about three other Bronte-related works for which he is.....
The King Was In His Counting House: A Comedy of Common-Sense
New York: Farrar Rinehart, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Firts edition. Hardcover in light grass gree cloth. 301 pp. A tight example, fading about the edges of the boards. Indust jacket with some even soiling and wear about the edges.
Vengeance Trail
New York: Pocket Books, 1954. First edition. Softcover. Color illustrated softcovers. First Pocket edition (dated Novenber 1953 on copyright page). Vintage Western adventure novel. Very good, light tidemarking lower corner and top edge of text block.
East and West Poems
Boston: Osgood, 1871. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Bevelled boards in brick colored cloth (also seen in green) stamped in gilt. 171 pp. A tight, gnerally fine example, spine a touch darkened, remnants of an old bookplate front pastedown, single ownership name first interior blank.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Scholastic Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Firts edition/ printing. As new in dust jacket but with a small ownership signature front pastedown hidden by the jacket flap. Hardcover. 533 pp. with 284 pp. of original drawings. Boldly inventive young adult novel. "Orphan, clok keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the.....