Modern Fiction
Blood and Sand: A Novel
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., [1913]. First English Language Edition. Bullfighting novel and basis for the 1922 Fred Niblo film featuring Rudolph Valentino, remade in 1941 by Rouben Mamoulian starring Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth. Octavo (20.5cm.); original red pictorial cloth, upper cover and spine embossed in gilt;..... More
The Ninth Configuration
New York: Harper and Row, 1978. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Black cloth over black paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 135pp. Fine copy, in the original dustwrapper, price clipped, mildliy toned on lighter portions; Near Fine. A Gothic thriller by the author of The Exorcist. More
Parted Lovers
Aboso, Ghana: Benibengor Book Agency, 1972. Third Edition. Brief parable detailing the anguish that can be experienced by parted lovers. Blay (b. 1911) is regarded as a pioneer of popular writing in Ghana, his dozens of self-published works spanning the colonial and post-colonial periods. Octavo (20cm); thick pink printed wrappers..... More
Stubborn Girl (& Other Stories)
Aboso, Ghana: Benibengor Book Agency, 1968. Second Edition. Short-story collection, first published in 1958. Collects "Stubborn Girl," "Mark of Providence," "Wasted Labour," and "No Smooth Course." Blay (b. 1911) is regarded as a pioneer of popular writing in Ghana, his dozens of self-published works spanning the colonial and post-colonial periods..... More
Jack of Eagles
New York: Greenberg, 1952. First Edition. Blish's first novel, overly melodramatic with poor characterization, but an important earlt study of scientifically based psi powers. danny Caiden develops a range of "wild talents' including telepathy, teleportation and telekinesis, which disrupts his life. On the run from thr FBI, criminals and a...... More
The Canceled Czech [Signed, Limited]
New York: Armchair Detective Library, 1994. First Thus. First Printng. Signed, Ltd. 1 of 26 lettered copies, this being "I"; Octavo (23.5cm); maroon boards embossed in gilt on cover and spine; author's photo on cover; maroon slipcase; lacking ductjacket, as issued. 186pp.; Fine in a Fine DJ/slipcase. Book #2 of..... More
Ehrengraf for the Defense [Signed]
Royal Oak: ASAP, 1994. First, Limited Edition. First Printing. Signed, Limited Edition #29 of 250; Octavo (24cm.); dark gray illustrated (front and rear) boards, stamped in silver on cover and spine; photograph frontis (tipped-in) of author; publisher's clear plastic jacket; 167pp. Fine condition in a Fine, clear acrylic slipcase. Lawrence..... More
Mona [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications / Gold Medal Books, 1961. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [6],7-159,[1]pp ads. Bookplate signed by the author is loosely laid in. Shallow loss to crown, light wear to extremities, with a small scratch to uper right..... More
The Specialists [Signed, Limited, Lettered Copy]
Aliso Viejo: James Cahill, 1996. First, Limited Edition. First Printing. Signed, limited to 200 copies, this being letter "R" of 26 lettered, specially bound copies. Octavo (22.5cm); black cloth stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 160pp; (4)pp. A Fine copy in publisher's slipcase. "The Specialists are five ex-soldiers, all trained..... More
The Specialists [Signed, Limited]
Aliso Viejo: James Cahill, 1996. First, Limited Edition. First Printing. Signed, limited to 200 copies, this being #125. Octavo (22.5cm); black cloth stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 160pp.,(4); a Fine copy. Still sealed in shrinkwrap. "The Specialists are five ex-soldiers, all trained in jungle warfare, each with a deadly..... More
You Could Call It Murder [Signed]
[Woodstock, VT]: Foul Play Press Book / Countryman Press, 1987. First Edition Thus. Reissue of Block's novel Markham, first published in 1961 by Belmont Books. Octavo (17.75cm); illustrated card wrappers; [4],5-140,[4]pp. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Tiny stains to lower edge of textblock, small spot to right..... More
The Tomcat's Wife and Other Stories
New York: Harper Collins, 1991. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 209pp. Presentation copy, inscribed on title page to fellow Minnesota poet John Calvin Rezmerski and his wife Lorna: "For Lorna and John / with love to you. I am so glad of our life together all these years, like..... More
Curling: A Novel
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. First Edition. Second novel by Boles (1943-2012), a Chicago-born African American author. "Mr. Boles concerns himself with the intellectual Negro's dilemma; those who are not obsessed by racism, yet whose color shadows their life in social situations, in psychological relationships. His hero here, Chelsea M...... More
Chariot in the Sky: A Story of the Jubilee Singers
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1951. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); tan cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xvi,238pp, illustrated throughout by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. Light wear to spine ends, corners gently bumped; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50) with moderate..... More
The Adventures of a Young Outlaw
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 311pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly edgeworn dustwrapper with a few tiny nicks to extremities, Very Good. A seldom-encountered novel and the author's only work in the Western genre. Bontly was a gifted if..... More
Lady Help
London: William Heinemann Ltd, [1933]. First U.K. Edition. British translation of the 1930 Norwegian novel Vi som gâr kjøkkenveien. The book was adapted into the 1934 Walt Disney picture "Servants' Entrance," known for being one of the earliest examples of combining live action with animation. OCLC locates 4 copies of..... More
King's Highway [Inscribed]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. First Edition. Final book in the author's Starforth Trilogy, the story of the early formation of the southern states of America - with a short incursion into Canada - and a great deal about the Indians. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); navy blue cloth, with..... More
This Craft of Verse
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. First Edition. Collects the Charles Elliot Norton lectures, delivered at Harvard between 1967-68. Octavo; orange paper and rust-colored cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [6],154pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket. More
Extraordinary Tales
New York: Herder & Herder, 1971. First English Language Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 144pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly rubbed but unclipped dustwrapper (priced $5.50 on front flap). From the library of Puerto Rican poet, essayist and educator Robert [aka Roberto] Márquez, with his ownership signature..... More
Discussion
[Paris]: Gallimard, [1966]. First French Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); original yellow card wrappers, French flaps; 172pp. General shelf-wear to wrapper extremities, some minor foxing, spine slightly cracked, else Near Very Good and sound. Forms part of the series La Croix du Sud. From the Library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn..... More
Twenty Four Conversations with Borges. Including a Section of Poems
New York: Grove Press, 1984. First Edition. Inscribed by translator Nicomedes Suarez Arauz to playwright Don Petersen, with two lengthy holograph letters from Arauz to Petersen laid in, thanking him for his role in the publication of the book. The cloth edition is scarce. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 157pp. Fine..... More
Borges and His Fiction: A Guide to His Mind and Art
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. First Edition. Wrappered issue (simultaneously issued in cloth). Octavo; pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 292pp. Mild sunning to covers, else Near Fine. Inscribed by the author to a colleague on front endpaper. More
Ville Cruelle
Paris: Présence Africaine, [1971]. 12mo (17.25cm.); original yellow and red pictorial card wrappers; 223pp. Fine. Cameroonian author's first novel, originally published pseudonymously in 1954. Bildungsroman set in pre-independent Cameroon, originally published as a means of communicating the author's ideas regarding the colonial presence in Africa with minimal consideration to style..... More
The Kingfisher
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1922. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Olive-green cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; 347pp. Very Good, with slight rubbing to gilt on spine; in the original pictorial dustwrapper, priced "$2.00 net" on spine, lightly rubbed overall and with some small nicks at extremities, Very Good..... More