New York: Hyperion, 1994. First Edition. The Edgar Award-winning author's seventh Dave Robicheax novel. Limited Issue, one of 1,525 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.113. Octavo; black cloth, with titles and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; publisher's black, gilt-stamped slipcase;..... More

Richmond: George M. West, 1856. First Edition. 12mo (17cm). Publisher's blind-embossed cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; xii,[13]-321pp. Small loss to cloth at crown of spine; scattered internal foxing and an inconspicuous lean to the text block; still a tight, Very Good copy. Contemporary ownership inscription in..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879. First Edition. An attractive copy of the author's first book, a collection of seven stories centering on Creole culture in New Orleans, which were first published in the pages of Scribner's Monthly. BAL 2330; WRIGHT III, 871. First state, lacking the publisher's ads at..... More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955. First Edition. "Gretta is the girl who gets her man -- any man to shield her against loneliness and insecurity and who wins his submissive admiration with her seductive tricks. When she marries Kenworthy, a dermatologist, the clinic's doctors and their wives are estranged..... More

New York: The Viking Press, 1935. First, Limited Edition. Caldwell's fifth novel, concerning the "exploits of a traveling revivalist in a small Georgia town" (HANNA 565). A trade edition was subsequently published by Viking in 1938. One of 1475 numbered copies, this being copy no.229. Octavo (22.25cm); coarse red cloth..... More

New York: Viking Press, 1938. First Edition. Caldwell's fourth collection of stories, continuing his preoccupation with the Southern underclass milieu established in Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre. A lovely copy, uncommon thus. Octavo (19.5cm). Blue cloth boards, lettered in red and blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; blue..... More

New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, 1948. First edition. Octavo. Red cloth; dustjacket; 254pp. Fine and unmarked. In crisp original dustjacket, price-clipped, else very Near Fine. HANNA 569, "..misfortunes of a poor white family in Georgia." More

Mount Vernon: Old Colony Press, 1933. First, Limited Edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Caldwell and illustrator Alfred Morang. Slim octavo (17cm); light brown stapled wrappers, with titles printed in black on front cover; [4], 11, [1]pp; illus. A few faint stress creases, else a Fine copy of..... More

New York: Heron Press Incorporated, 1929. First Edition. A significant association copy of Caldwell's first book. Johns (1904-1970) was at this time the editor of Pagany, a short-lived but influential experimental magazine in which Caldwell succeeded in placing a number of early stories. Caldwell's and Johns's correspondence, held at the..... More

New York: Random House, 1951. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); first binding in rough beige cloth, with titles stamped in brown, green, and black on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket; [viii],181,[7]pp. Textblock sagging slightly, light wear to extremities, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, edgeworn and a bit spine-sunned, with..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First Edition. Re-issue of Cather's first book, a collection of poems originally published in 1903. This edition eliminated 13 of the original poems, and added 13 new ones. The author's first limited edition. CRANE A2.a. Limited Issue, one of 450 numbered copies signed by..... More

New York: Viking Press, 1932. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); maroon cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black and gilt on spine and front panel; peach topstain; dustjacket; 298pp. Gently nudged and faded at spine ends, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly worn at joints and extremities..... More

Chicago: Way Williams, 1897. First Edition. 12mo (18cm). Blue cloth stamped in green and silver, top edge gilt; plain endpapers; [viii],416pp; frontispiece. Bright, straight, and sound, lightly rubbed and bumped at extremities, title on spine lightly rubbed, with remnants of adhesive at base of spine, internally clean: Very Good or..... More