CUT THIN TO WIN
New York: William Morrow, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. A Donald Lam - Bertha Cool mystery. 192 pp. A bright, lovely copy. More
Modern First Edition
The Town
New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. Second binding, with top edges stained green and orange cloth stamped in black and green; plain white end papers; with the error on page 327, line 8 repeated on line 10. Dust jacket with the price of $3.95 and... More
The Town
New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. First trade edition first printing, third binding, with variant threaded gray end papers; gray cloth stamped in black and green; with the error on page 327, line 8 is repeated on line 10. Dust jacket with price of... More
GO DOWN, MOSES and Other Stories
New York: Random House, 1942. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. First printing, 383pp., bound in black cloth, title and author name gilt to upper board with a red rule, spine lettered and ruled in gilt and red top edge stained red, some staining to covers, previous owner's... More
INTRUDER IN THE DUST
New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. 247pp., original black cloth lettered in blue and gilt; a lovely copy in an about fine dust jacket, with a 1/8" closed tear at top of rear panel. More
THE REIVERS
New York; (1962): Random House. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. First printing, 305pp., bound in red cloth, spine lettering gilt, top edge stained red but faded, neat owner's name - a very good copy in very good, unclipped, lightly rubbed dust jacket with minor wear to spine... More
THE WILD PALMS
New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Original Wraps. Octavo. Advance reading copy, First printing. 339pp. Bound in original wraps designed like the first trade edition dust jacket, separation to flaps at folds but not detached and with old dried tape residue, edges and spine rubbed showing some wear to... More
CHESS CAMEOS a Treatise on the Two-move Problem
Philadelphia: David McKay Co., 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. 12mo. 90pp., which includes a short bibliography, index and a list of composers of the moves; errata tipped in, bound in blue cloth, lettered in back, spine lettering black; a fine copy in plain printed very good dust... More
SARATOGA TRUNK
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc., 1941. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. 352pp. Bound in blue cloth stamped in blind, spine gilt over white. A fine copy in a nearly fine, unclipped pictorial dust jacket. More
ICE PALACE
New York: Doubleday & Co., 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY EDNA FERBER. 411pp., bound in black cloth, spine lettering blue and silver, top edge blue. A very nice copy in unclipped dust jacket; near fine in... More
Time and Again
New York (1970): Simon & Schuster. First Edition. first printing with no book club statement on front flap and with price of $795; top edges stained yellow, and with "20497" at lower right of rear panel of dust jacket, small fold corner of rear flap; neat owner name on FEP... More
THE SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS ARBITER (Manuscript)
1922. Hard Cover. Folio. Original typed manuscript from the library of publisher Edwin Newberry Durland with his bookplate, of which is an original hand drawn sketch to be used for the printing of his bookplate. THE SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS ARBITER. A Complete and Unexpurgated Translation , in Which are Incorporated... More
IN TRAGIC LIFE
Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. 464 pp. Bound in black cloth, upper board stamped in silver, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. A fine copy in a fine unclipped dust jacket. An outstanding example of a 1932 dust jacket. A.... More
PASSIONS SPIN THE PLOT
Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. 428pp., bound in red cloth stamped in gilt, spine gilt; in unclipped pictorial dust jacket with very minor edge wear. An attractive copy of Fisher's second work of his tetralogy. More
All the Sad Young Men
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover. Small Octavo. Bound in original green cloth, 267 pages. Latter Issue. A very good- copy, with very light wear, several light areas on front panel. Internally clean and bright. Bookplate. Long tear pages 31-32. More
TURKEY REMAINS and How to Inter Them with Numerous Scarce Recipes
Toronto: Cooper & Beatty, Limited, 1956. First Edition. Original Wraps. 8vo. Issued as a Christmas Keepsake with recipes that are from the note-books of Fitzgerald, , [vi], 5(1)pp., bound in salmon pictorial wraps, laid into original white card cover lettered and decorated in blue, green and black. A fine copy. More
CAPTAIN HORNBLOWER RN
London: MIchael Joseph, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. A trilogy of stories comprising Hornblower and the Hotspur, The Happy Return and A Ship of the line. 608pp. Bound in blue cloth, spine lettering gilt. A fine copy in a near fine clipped pictorial dust jacket. More
HORNBLOWER AND THE HOTSPUR
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. 344pp. Bound in light blue cloth, spine lettering gilt. A fine copy in a near fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket. More
THE HORNBLOWER COMPANION
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Quarto. An atlas and personal commentary on the writing of the Hornblower Saga, with illustrations and maps by Samuel Bryant, 149pp., bound in pictorial burgundy cloth depicting the H.M.S. Lydia Frigate, spine lettering gilt; a fine..... More
THE SKY AND THE FOREST
London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. First issue, with period at end of page 210. 219pp. Bound in brick cloth. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear and a few short tape mends to underside. More
FLYING COLOURS Including a Ship of the Line
London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. Published one day prior to the first separate trade edition of A Ship of the Line. SIGNED BY C. S. FORESTER ON A SPECIAL BOOKPLATE DESIGNED ESPECIALLY FOR THE BOOK SOCIETY BY REX WHISTLER. The Book Society also published this... More
The Collector
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. 305 pp. More
Essay on Silence
N.P. (1905): Roycrofters. First Edition. 16mo, quarter leather over decorative boards, spine printed in gilt. The entire text is blank, since it is an "Essay on Silence." Near fine. More