New Haven: Yale Publishing Company, 1908. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo; blue cloth gilt; xii,192pp. Titling just a shade dulled on spine, else a tight, clean, Near Fine copy, lacking the dustwrapper. First book publication of Sinclair Lewis [as "H.S. Lewis"], following numerous magazine appearances. Edited (and with a...... More

New York: Atheneum, 1980. First Thus. First printing of the Singer translation. Octavo (24cm); blue cloth over blue textured paper-covered boards; dustjacket, [xvi],427pp. Tight, clean, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $14.95 on front flap); slightly rolled and rubbed at upper margin, with mild toning to extremities;..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. First Edition. First printing. "Presentation Edition;" no. 503 of 600 copies signed by Rawlings on a special tipped-in leaf. Octavo. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 227pp. A square, tight copy with a touch of fraying at base of spine; endpapers slightly darkened; Very Good. In..... More

New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, [1943]. First Edition. First Printing. Digest-sized octavo (19cm); original pictorial card wrappers; 126,[2]pp. Light wear to extremities, subtle tanning to text edges, with a few very faint creases to wrappers; Very Good+ or slightly better. Digest consisting of two hard-boiled stories ("The Big Knockover" and..... More

London: Collins Crime Club, 1976. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (21.5cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [7],8-224pp. Forward lean, scattered soil to lower right edge of textblock, with a small stain to rear endpaper; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped, spine-sunned, and lightly edgeworn; Very..... More

New York: Published and for sale at 5 Beekman Street, 1860. First Edition. 12mo. 20th-c. binding of tan calf over paper-covered boards; marbled page edges; 95,[1]pp. About fine and complete; the pamphlet appears to have been offered without cover wrappers (in any case, not noted by Blanck). Uncommon first edition..... More

New York: Macmillan, 1911. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Publisher's gilt-stamped, pale blue-green ribbed cloth with applied color-pictorial panel to front cover; top edge gilt; xiv,340,[6]pp; color frontispiece, 1 inserted photographic plate and 119 photographic text illustrations (halftones). A tight, VG copy, slighly rubbed at board edges and corners, text..... More

London: William Jackson (Books) Ltd, 1930. First, Limited Edition. No. 477 of 550 signed copies. Issued as Number Two of the Furnival Books, printed at the Chiswick Press. Tall octavo. Original maroon buckram, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 42pp. A few very faint freckles of foxing to..... More

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1950]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 309pp. Tight, square, Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00 at base of front flap), very clean and well-preserved, Near Fine. Postwar novel set in the hills of California's Mother Lode country, featuring a cast of..... More

N.p. [Cleveland?]: Hal Lebovitz, 1948. First Edition. First printing. 12mo. Staple-bound, pictorial paper wrappers; 96pp; illus. Usual tanning to text, but an especially bright, clean copy, Near Fine and unusual thus. "As told to" memoir by the legendary Cleveland Indians pitcher, who began his career in the majors at the..... More

Royal Oak, MI & Mission Viejo, CA: A.S.A.P., 1999. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 10 copies specially bound and marked "P.C." on the colophon, and signed by Phillips, Barre, and illustrator Phil Parks. Quarto (26.25cm); full dark blue leather grained cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine, and..... More

London: Rebman Limited, 1906. Translated from the Fifth German edition. Octavo (20cm). Light green cloth, titled in gilt on red spine panel; xii,370pp. Contemporary ownership inscription to title page, later owner's stamp to front pastedown, and occasional pencil annotations in what appears to be Greek. Sound but rubbed, with small..... More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1959. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); dark red paper-covered boards, with titling and publisher's logo stamped in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [viii],247,[1]pp. A few pinpoint rubbed spots to spine ends, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced..... More