London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1939. First edition. 320 pp. Red cloth with black lettering on spine; lacking the dust jacket. Good, with spine cloth faded, a few small stains and light fraying to cloth, slight cock to spine. Light pencil gift inscription to fep "In commemoration of the Great..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1938. First edition, first impression. 320 pp. Original blue cloth with black lettering. Good only, lacking original jacket. Scratched area on spine, faint soiling to cloth. Slight lean. Some erasures and worn spots on endpapers, small ink notation "p. 17" on front paste down. An..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. First American edition. 316 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket. Name written on paste down. Jacket chipped and creased at head and tail, date written on verso in pencil, but spine panel unsunned and bright with not much rubbing along..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition. Publisher's original orange cloth stamped in blue; lacking a dust jacket. Good, with light staining, edge wear and fading to cloth. Previous owner bookplate, wear and staining to front endpapers. Inked date written on rear paste down. Pages are lightly toned, with..... More
San Francisco: Freeman Cooper & Company, 1972. First edition, first printing. A work by various authors, notable for containing the first publication of the paper by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge entitled "Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternative to Phyletic Gradualism." Near Fine with rubber stamp and notation from printer on..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. First American Edition, First Printing. First issue with "aind" on page 14. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth stamped in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with some rubbing, darkening and light scuffing to cloth, and pages toned. A lovely copy. More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944. First edition. 244 pp. Original red cloth stamped in black. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket, lightly worn with closed tear in top of back panel, presents very well. Boards rubbed along bottom edge, bookplate on front free endpaper, very slight musty smell..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. First edition. 233 pp. Green cloth with crimson lettering. Near Fine in original dust jacket, unclipped ($3.00), chipped at extremities, else Very Good with spine panel dulled, tape shadow on back panel upper corner. Best-known as the basis of Jules Dassin's film noir Thieves'..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. First British edition. Good, with a significant lean to the spine. Boards lightly scuffed and shelf worn. Page block lightly dust soiled and a bit foxed; pages sporadically soiled and with several short edge tears. A nice copy, lacking the dust jacket. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1950. First edition. Bound in publisher's cloth, lacking the dust jacket. Good+. Spine faded. Cloth mottled, scuffed at rear and worn at corners and spine ends. A solid first of The Talented Mr. Ripley author's first novel, which was the basis of the classic..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1929. First American edition, first printing. Near Fine, with spine cloth faintly sunned. Previous owner name in pen on front free end paper which bleeds onto the front flap of the dust jacket. In a Very Good unclipped first printing dust jacket with soiling, chipping..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1896. First American edition. Good, with lean to spine, cloth frayed at ends, board exposed with color retouched, two small spots to edge of page block, one plate partially loose and partially torn. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. First edition. 176 pp. Off-white cloth with black lettering. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. Tips worn and previous owner's bookplate on paste down. Jacket missing chip at front panel bottom left corner extending to the tail of the spine, head chip, spine sunned, rubbed..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition, second issue with "stopped" spelled correctly on page 181. Good, with binding shaken and stitching stitching tender, some hinges slightly exposed. Cloth shows rubbing and edge wear. Title label on spine is worn down its center, with a strip at the top..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919. First American edition, first issue binding with Maugham's name spelled correctly. Very Good. Lean to spine. Fraying at corners, chipping at spine ends. Remnants of once-affixed news clippings to front and rear endpapers with associated toning. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1951. First edition. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Light bruising to spine ends, small scuff to edge of page block also slightly affecting jacket. Dust jacket shows light edge wear and chipping to the top end of the spine. Adapted into a...... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1941. First edition. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in white and black. Good, with darkening and a lean to the spine, wear to cloth with light staining from an old-style dust jacket protector (affecting end sheets as well), creases to page corners, slightly exposed..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1898. First edition, colonial issue. [Not listed in Currey.] Four pages of ads including paste down at front, 303 pp. with eleven pages of ads at rear including ad endpapers. Red cloth with black lettering. Good. Spine sunned, cloth worn at tips and a bit stained..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. First edition. Signed by Milton Friedman and his wife Rose on half title and inscribed to former owner, an Arizona developer whose stamp is on the front free endpaper. xii, 660 pp. Crimson cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Paperclip impression to prelims..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First American edition. viii, 334 pp. Original royal blue cloth with green and gilt stamping. A Fine copy in the rare original dust jacket, which has done its job well, keeping the cloth bright and attractive. Jacket spine panel slightly toned, rubbing along edges..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948. First edition. [vi], 343 pp. Original pale blue cloth with navy stamping. Near Fine with spine a little toned, boards a little bumped, in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket; droplet stains to spine panel, which is also toned; light wear and toning. The British..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First American edition. (Sheets printed in the UK, so presumably following the Chatto & Windus edition that same year.) [viii], 286 pp. with fold-out facsimile letter plate at rear. Original blue cloth with cream title stamping. Cloth head and upper tips slightly chewed, else..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1918. Advance reading copy, issued to reviewers before publication of the first edition, with publisher's slips pasted onto paste down and title page. Publication date of May 9, 1918 written on slips. vi, 363, [1], [6, ads] pp. Original blue ribbed cloth lettered in..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's original white fleur-de-lis patterned cloth. Near Fine with light toning to pages, in a Good unclipped dust jacket with soiling, toning, wear at extremities, tape to rear flap fold on front side, and to all borders..... More
New York: Macfadden Books, 1963. First edition. 192 pp. Wraps. A Very Good+ copy with uncreased spine, small closed tear in bottom of front wrap. An account of unusual and fringe sexuality published in the tamer half of the '60s. Reputedly avant garde composer and musician Tony Conrad found a...... More