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
![No Villain Need Be [Limited Edition, Signed]. Vardis FISHER](/pictures/medium/34211.jpg?v=1529353758)
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
![No Villain Need Be [Limited Edition, Signed]. Vardis FISHER](/pictures/medium/34212.jpg?v=1529353758)
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
![We Are Betrayed [Limited Edition, Signed]. Vardis FISHER](/pictures/medium/23078.jpg?v=1529353378)
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, [1935]. First Edition. Limited to 75 copies of which this is no. 60. Octavo (19.75cm.); original black pictorial morocco embossed in gilt, top edge gilt; [8],369pp. Extremities a bit rubbed, leather rather dried, textblock lightly foxed throughout, else Very Good. Signed by the author on colophon..... More
![We Are Betrayed [Limited Edition, Signed]. Vardis FISHER](/pictures/medium/34210.jpg?v=1529353758)
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, [1935]. First Edition. Limited to 75 copies of which this is no. 17. Octavo (19.75cm.); original black pictorial morocco embossed in gilt, top edge gilt; [8],369pp. Extremities rather rubbed, especially at fore-edge corners, leather rather dried, else Very Good. Signed by the author on colophon. The..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First Edition. First Printing with Scribner's seal on title page verso. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's dark green buckram, gilt=lettered spine; [8],305pp. Some general shelf wear, corners very slightly frayed, front hinge cracked but still holding, attractive contemporary bookplate designed by A.A. Blum and belonging to..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1940. First Edition. Octavo. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 306pp. Light foxing to endpapers, else a tight, Near Fine copy in lightly edge-rubbed jacket, unclipped, with some foxing visible on lighter portions. A "Harper Find" novel. Depression-era novel in which a...... More
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1985 [but 1986]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; [8],216pp. Fine. African American jazz musician and Vietnam War veteran's first novel, about three black soldiers dishonorably discharged after serving in Vietnam. More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1903. First Edition. The career of a professional thief and safe-cracker in New York, culminating with his renunciation of the criminal life. In Hubin. A very sharp copy. HANNA 3811. SMITH F-200. Octavo. Publisher's pictorial cloth; 370pp; illus. Touch of rubbing to pictorial elements and to..... More
London: Michael Joseph, [1954]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in grey decorative dust jacket; 240pp. Spine cocked, a couple tiny soil spots to upper panel, some insect damage flap folds, brief damping to bottom edge of rear panel, else a Very Good, presentable copy. Short story collection drawn from..... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1907. First Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's dark green gilt-lettered cloth; [8],360pp. Board extremities a bit rubbed and worn with brief exposure at corners, light foxing throughout textblock, dampstain along fore-edge of front pastedown not affecting binding or facing leaf; Near Very Good and..... More
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[Cambridge? Harvard Press, 1932?]. First Edition. Limited to 100 copies of which this is no. 80 (or 88?). 16mo (15.25cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; [8]pp. Fine. "Of this first edition one hundred copies have been issued by the Harvard Press for private distribution by Harvey Taylor." Limited and signed by Taylor on..... More
Paris: Calmann-Lévy Éditeurs, [1948]. First Thus. Small octavo (18.5cm.); original white wrappers printed in blue and grey; 791pp. Some general shelf-wear, spine quite toned, minor dust-soil, else Near Very Good and sound. Complete series of the author's four social novels comprising his Histoire Contemporaine, originally published between 1897 and 1901..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1932. First English Language Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket printed in red; v,[1],351pp. Some closed tears and small chips to jacket extremities, general dust-soil, dollar price cancel to front jacket flap (original price clipped), else a Very Good or better copy..... More
![City Block [Limited Edition]. Waldo FRANK](/pictures/medium/25637.jpg?v=1529353465)
Darien, CT: Waldo Frank, 1922. First, Limited Edition. Frank's kaleidoscopic, loosely-structured fictional portrait of a New York neighborhood, constructed as a series of interrelated short-stories. A sadly overlooked New York novel by one of the more intriguing members of the Greenwich Village left-wing intelligentsia of the Teens and Twenties. HANNA..... More
New York: Stein and Day, [1975]. First American Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; [2],271pp. Some general shelf-wear to jacket extremities, minor chipping to spine ends, light dust-soil, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Jacket is, however, about 1/3 cm. shorter than textblock. British..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1965. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; 411pp. Some light wear and scuffing to jacket extremities, shallow crease to front flap, else Fine in Very Good jacket. Bildungsroman of a young man and his sexual awakening, beginning at a...... More
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, 1936. First Edition. Excellent copy of the Oklahoma author's first book, a highly autobiographical novel depicting the coming of age of a young man in a Kansas Mennonite community. Friesen broke sharply from his own religious upbringing; during work on the Oklahoma Writers Project (where..... More
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, 1936. First, Limited Edition. Excellent copy of the rare De Luxe Edition of the Oklahoma author's first book, a highly autobiographical novel depicting the coming of age of a young man in a Kansas Mennonite community. Friesen broke sharply from his own religious upbringing; during..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, [1957]. First American Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 239pp. Jacket spine panel slightly toned, a hint of dust-soil to rear panel and top textblock edge, else Near Fine. Satirical novel depicting the power struggles within the upper management of a local..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896. First Edition. Future war fantasy in which, "...the American Navy intervenes on the British side, Russian revolutionaries capture the Tsar, the Indian Army storms across Persia to attack Russia, and the new Thomson Electric Rifle gives the British troops a devastating secret weapon" (Clarke..... More
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922. First American Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's green decorative cloth embossed in blind and gilt; [2],302pp. Bottom corners bumped, spine gilt quite dulled, else a Very Good or better copy. Novel of post-WW1 Great Britain by the editor of the Daily Mirror and the Daily Herald..... More
