New York: Dial Press, 1946. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 272pp. Jacket extremities chipped and worn, bottom inch of spine starting to separate, a numer of shallow closed tears and tiny losses at edges, red portion of spine quite sunned, brief residue from previously removed..... More

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); beige paper-covered boards and brown cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in copper on spine and front cover; xviii,218,[4]pp. Publisher's ISBN sticker on rear cover, else Fine. First printing of one of Chesnutt's "white-life" novels, which were left behind in..... More

[Fredericksburg, VA]: Studies in Black Literature, 1977. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); original mustard printed staplebound wrappers; 26pp.; text in double columns. Some creasing to extremities from handling, else Very Good and sound. Includes D.H. Melhem's essay "Gwendolyn Brooks: The Heroic Voice of Prophecy." More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [8],382,[1]pp. Corners a bit bumped, else Near Fine; lacking dust jacket. Fictional account of an English woman who leaves her comfortable middle class life to join the work force, starting as a private secretary. More

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1941]. First American Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket, black topstain; [6],434pp. Minor chipping to jacket extremities, small hole to upper panel touching one letter, gift inscription to front free endpaper, else Very Good overall. One of the Peruvian author's most widely..... More

New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1923. First Edition. Anderson's second collection of short stories, all set in the American midwest. Includes the long stories "Unused," "The Man Who Became A Woman" and "A Chicago Hamlet;" the last of these is an extract from Anderson's unpublished early novel "An Ohio Pagan." HANNA..... More

New York: Thomas Yoseloff, [1956]. First edition, octavo (21.5cm.); original blue-green cloth, spine lettered in red, in pictorial dust jacket; 366pp. Spine toned, shallow tears along jacket edges not affecting text; Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. A collection of short stories by "the foremost interpreter in fiction of Jewish..... More

New York: The Century Company, 1914. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt and brown; plain endpapers; [vi],340pp. Straight and sound, unfaded, but with discoloration to front, foxing to endleaves and edges of textblock (not affecting pages), minor fingersoil: Good or better. "A self-made man..... More

New York: Random House, 1958. First Edition. A hard-boiled novel of the New York waterfront, in the vein of Appel's 1930s proletarian crime novels such as Brain Guy and Powerhouse. Like the Shahns, Appel and his wife were charter residents of Jersey Homesteads (later Roosevelt), New Jersey and the four..... 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

Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; [8],243pp. Spine a bit cocked, jacket extremities rubbed and a bit ragged with several short closed tears and subsequent creasing. Still, Very Good or better in Near Very Good jacket. "A Houghton Mifflin Fellowship..... More

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1983]. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original boards in pictorial dust jacket; [4],236pp. A couple of soil spots to spine, else Fine. More