New York: Dial Press, 1947. First Edition. Bright copy of the author's uncommon first book, winner of the Avery Hopwood prize for 1946. Eckert went on to pen a few Crime Club mysteries in the Fifties, under the name Josephine Eckert Gill. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 246pp. Text evenly age-toned..... More
New York: Harold Vinal, 1927. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial tan dust jacket, maroon topstain; [2],184pp. Dampstaining to bottom half of jacket spine, a few miniscule chips to jacket extremities, else Fine in Very Good jacket. Novel set in the author's home state of Virginia. More
New York: Harold Vinal, 1927. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial tan dust jacket, maroon topstain; [2],184pp. Dampstaining to jacket spine bleeding into upper panel, bottom and top fore-edge corners briefly dampstained as well, small tear at bottom corner of rear panel, corners gently bumped, else Near Very..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1970. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 106pp. Fine, apparently unread copy, free of markings or significant wear. A collection of four short stories; the Nigerian author's third book. More
New York: Polyglot Library, [1960]. First English Language Edition. Translation of Ehrenburg's novel Burnaya Zhizn' Lazika Roitschwantza, suppressed by Soviet censorship at the time of this publication. The work was written while Ehrenburg was a refugee from the Russian revolution, though he would eventually go on to become a leading..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1940. First Edition. One of a stream of American anti-fascist novels to appear during the late thirties, this one set in a fictional state (clearly fashioned on Mississippi) where a fascist group has taken power. Blotner: "...Intended as a warning that a European-style dicatorship could..... More
New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Ellison's first novel, a picaresque romance of a young, starving artist on the road in the Great Depression. Ellison (1908-1981) would publish one more well-received novel ("The Dam," 1941), then went on to a long and distinguished career as a magazine editor and..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. First American Edition. A semi-autobiographical novel of the First World War. The author, an Oxford don, had a long and distinguished career as an historian of modern Europe. This appears to have been his only work of fiction. Octavo. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. First Edition. Endore's first novel, billed as "a novel of vicarious adventure," is a Bleiler-listed fantasy, framed as a novel-within-a-novel, in which the young male protagonist escapes his dreary reality by mental travel through time and space. Of all Endore's novels, this is perhaps..... More
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[New York]: Creative Age Press, [1950]. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket by Pete Hollander; [6],272pp. Some general minor shelf wear to jacket extremities, including a few tiny chips, else Fine in Very Good or better jacket. Signed by the author on front free endpaper..... More
Paris: Présence Africaine, 1966. First Edition. 12mo. Printed card wrappers; 111pp. Fine, unmarked and apparently unread copy. Text entirely in French. A novel of modern Africa by the francophone Camerounian author. More
New York: G.W. Carleton & Co, 1877. First American Edition. A novel of Jewish life in London by the extraordinarily prolific Farjeon, who published more than sixty novels between 1868 and his death in 1903, a number of which were on Jewish themes. The London edition was published the same..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial cloth boards; dustjacket; orange top-stain; 343pp. Small eraser smudge and monogram stamp on front endpaper, else a fine, tight copy with unfaded top-stain, in the pictorial dustwrapper which is crisp and unclipped, very Near Fine. Novel of the women's..... More
New York: Vanguard Press, 1946. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket; [8],367pp. Tiny chips along jacket extremities, spine and flap edges a bit toned, else Near Fine. Novel recounting the travails of a struggling Chicago Irish author in New York City. The sequel "A Road..... More
New York: Vanguard Press, [1941]. First Edition. Thick octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket, grey topstain; [8],429pp. Shallow chips at jacket spine crown, tiny ownership rubberstamp to front flap, rear endpapers quite heavily toned from previously removed newsclippings, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. "Of an..... More
New York: Vanguard Press, 1933. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in black and tan decorative dust jacket, red topstain; [10],364pp. Dampstaining to bottom edge of jacket only showing through to rear panel with some bleeding to endpapers; spine toned with shallow loss to spine head. Still, a Very Good..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1941. First Edition. HANNA 1158. COAN p.58. Depression novel of Mississippi tenant farmers on relief. The author was William Faulkner's younger brother. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 300pp. Light soil; small ownership signature; endpapers toned; still a tight, Near Fine copy in a nice example..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1941. Advance Reading Copy. HANNA 1158. COAN p.58. Depression novel of Mississippi tenant farmers on relief. The author was William Faulkner's younger brother. Scarce ARC. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers; 300pp. Advance copy for reviewers, with publisher's complimentary slip tipped in at title page. Touch..... More
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, [1926, but ca. 1950s]. New Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 319pp. Jacket spine faded else Near Fine. Edition statement from upper jacket flap. Later edition of Faulkner's first novel, describing the life of a mutilated WWI veteran. COAN, p. 123;..... More
New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Excellent copy of Fearing's uncommon first novel (following three volumes of poetry), a real-life account of professional life in an American hospital. Precedes his best-known book, "The Big Clock," by seven years. Octavo. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front..... More
New York: Hillman-Curl, [1935]. First Edition. Novel set on the Mormon pioneer trail, the route used by members of the Church from 1846 to 1868, stretching from Nauvoo, IL, to Salt Lake City. Deals with the hero's crisis of faith after seeing his sweetheart married to another man in polygamy..... More
Los Angeles: 1931. First Edition. Film program for the 1931 premiere of Seed at the Fox Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles. The film, directed by John M. Stahl, was based on the 1930 novel by Charles G. Norris, dealing with the decline of an American family, notably, a promising..... More
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Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1936. First Edition. Limited to 75 copies of which this is no. 23. Octavo (19.75cm.); publisher's full black gilt-embossed morocco, top edge gilt; [8],387pp. Just a hint of rubbing at spine ends, else Fine. Signed by the author on colophon. The last volume of the Vridar..... More
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Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1936. First Edition. Limited to 75 copies of which this is no. 35. Octavo (19.75cm.); publisher's full black gilt-embossed morocco, top edge gilt; [8],387pp. Just a hint of rubbing at spine ends, slight discoloration to rear cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. Signed by the..... More
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, [1935]. First Trade Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket; [8],369pp. A few shallow chips to jacket extremities, spine quite brittle with long vertical splitting measuring approx. 5.5" with coin-sized loss at crown affecting text; cloth a bit soiled, else Near Fine in..... More
