New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905. First Edition. First Printing, in the second state binding, with Chesnutt's name spelled correctly along the lower front cover. Octavo (20.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; x,294pp. Gentle sunning to spine, light wear to spine ends..... More

New York: Pollard & Moss, 1889. Reprint. Novel of two sisters from a prosperous rural British family and the struggles they face when their fortunes change. First serialized in The Cornhill Magazine, edited by William Makepeace Thackeray. Quite scarce in any edition: OCLC lists Iowa's copy only of this imprint;..... More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1955]. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original simulated cloth in teal pictorial dust jacket; [10],276pp. Minor shelf wear with very tiny loss to spine crown, else Very Good to Near Fine. Fictional account of the sports business as seen through the eyes of a minor league..... More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1935. First Edition. Late novel by Bacheller, a journalist and author best-known for founding the first modern newspaper syndicate in the United States. A sweeping panorama of American life, centered around several characters from Bacheller's previous novels and covering the era of mass-production, with..... More

New York: Viking Press, 1953. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; gray and black cloth, titles decoratively stamped in orange on spine and front cover; 536pp. Mild bumps to board corners, else tight and Fine. In the original Robert Hallock designed dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.50 on front flap), gently rubbed overall..... More

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1903. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's pictorial blue cloth, with designs stamped in gilt, white, and green; 342pp. Slight wear to cloth, with a few scratches and spots of soil to cover, but still a well-preserved copy, with pictorial elements bright and clean; Very..... More

Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1899. First Edition. First printing, with no printing statement on verso of title page. Octavo (21cm). Publisher's embossed red cloth, titled in gilt with applied photo-pictorial cover illustration; 288pp; illus. Old ink-stains to cloth on front cover and spine; ink inscriptions to endpapers; still a tight..... More

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1889. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); maroon cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; brown topstain; blue clay-coated endpapers; [ii],[2],3-289,[xiii]pp. Lightly spine-tanned, with slight loss to cloth of cloth, shelf-wear and -soil, and light rubbing to board edges; Good. Historical fiction set during the Civil..... More

New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1931. First Edition. Novel featuring a small-town Y.M.C.A. leader and municipal reformer who is corrupted by the forces he seeks to destroy. Set in a fictional middle-western town in the midst of bootleg wars, bombings, and general violence. HANNA 435. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm);..... More

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934. First Edition. Superb copy of this novel by the native New Hampshire author, telling the story of "a New England village dictator as seen by four of his fellow citizens." HANNA 470. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in black on..... More

New York: Comet Press Books / Milestone Book, 1959. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; [6],277pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and worn with shallow loss at spine foot touching text without loss of sense, the whole rather dust-soiled, especially on rear panel; Near Fine in..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1932. First Edition. The career of an American jazz pianist, from his roots in a small-time dance band to fame and fortune on the scale of Gershwin and Ziegfeld. Basis for the 1941 movie Dance Hall, starring Carole Landis and Cesar Romero. For Burnett, an..... 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