New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First American edition. Inscribed by Ambler to Norman Nolan on page facing title page at the Mystery Writers of America awards (Ambler won the Grand Master award) in New York, April 25, 1975. From the Otto Penzler Collection of Mystery Fiction. [xiv], 281, [1]..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1933. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth binding stamped in orange and green. Fine, with faint touches of edge wear to cloth, in a unclipped dust jacket with a small chip to the crown and a faint patch of rubbing to the..... More
New York: Random House, 1958. First edition, first printing. Signed by Truman Capote on the front free end paper. Bound in publisher's canary yellow cloth with gilt titles blocked in black on the spine. Near Fine with spine stamping rubbed, backstrip faintly creased and pages toned. In a Near Fine..... More
Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou, 1978. First edition, first printing. A fantastic association copy, signed by Jim Carrol, inscribed to poets Ted Berrigan and his wife Alice Notley on the half-title page, "To Ted + Alice, 'I'll be right there'... All my love, Jim 10/7/78." Berrigan was a central figure in the..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. Uncorrected galley proofs of the first edition. 136 unbound sheets printed on rectos only plus one final blank sheet; without illustrations. Textual pages dated 23.11.87 at tops; question marks in the heading of the Contents page indicate no printer had been appointed yet; chapter pages on..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First edition, first printing, first state with "fool Red Cross woman" on page 9. Signed by Ken Kesey on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine lettered in yellow. Near Fine with toning to pages. In a Very Good first state..... More