New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth stamped in blue; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with fading to spine. Cloth lightly foxed and soiled, corners bumped. Previous owner notation effaced from the front paste down, and clipping from the absent..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1933. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards; lacking the dust jacket. Signed by both Marjorie Flack and Kurt Weise on the title page. Near Fine with light rubbing to edges and rear cover. The story of a domesticated Chinese duck lost..... More
New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with lean and light sunning to spine, pages toned. In a Very Good dust jacket, rubbed at the extremities with wear at the head, foxing and light staining..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1963. First edition. [viii], 275 pp. Publisher's tan cloth with red and black stamping. A few marginal checkmarks in ink, else Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket with light wear and toning. The phrase "the banality of evil" entered American intellectual culture with this work..... More
Portland, OR: L.M. Berry, 1977. First edition. 96 pp. Stapled white wraps, purple contents. Near Fine with light toning and wear. A rare volume of Portland, Oregon Black Power poetry, only two institutional copies located in a recent OCLC search. The poets use pen names throughout the work, writing in..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company / Crime Club, 1951. First edition. 189 pp. Light brown cloth with navy lettering.Very Good with foxing to edges, toned contents, a little musty, in an attractive dust jacket with nibbling along top edge of front flap, light foxing. A rare mystery by the..... More
New York: Doubleday and Company / Crime Club, 1954. First edition. 190 pp. Blue cloth with pale blue lettering. Very Good+ with toned contents, offsetting to endpapers , in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, lightly foxed and toned, small nick in front gutter, but unfaded and bright. A rare mystery..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1945. First edition. [x], 205 pp. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in crimson. Near Fine with small stains to bottom tips, in a Near Fine unclipped, bright dust jacket with a small tear in the bottom corner of the back panel, small closed tear, tiny..... More
New York: Phoenix Press, 1942. First edition. 254 pp. x, [2], (11)-254 pp. Original red cloth with black spine lettering. Near Fine with slight lean to spine, top edge dust-soiled, offsetting to endpapers, in Near Fine unsunned dust jacket. Very uncommon in collectible condition as most Phoenix Press titles were..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First edition. (First printing with title page dated "1940.") [iv], 356 pp. Bound in publisher's buff buckram cloth, with titles stamped in crimson. A Fine copy, with bright unmarked contents, sharp lettering. An excellent example of the author's debut novel, widely regarded as her best..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1950. First edition. [viii], 299 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth, lacking the dust jacket. First edition. Very Good with sunned spine and edges of front board, stains to front board, internally clean and bright. Lacking dust jacket. The Talented Mr. Ripley author's first novel..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Octavia E. Butler on the title page. Near Fine with bruising to base of spine. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear and two horizontal lines of offsetting across the entirety..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. First edition stated, first printing with "I-P" code on copyright page. Publisher's beige cloth binding stamped in darker brown, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good, with lean to spine and previous owner bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise a rather nice copy of the beloved..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth. Near Fine with minor wear, in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with a small chip at the foot of the spine, trivial edge wear and light soiling. Uncommon in such nice condition..... More
London: The Readers Library Publishing Company, 1927. First edition in English. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Good, with darkening and wear to covers. Binding is a little wonky with glue repairs evident and original glue a little brittle and dried out. Pages toned, previous owner name to..... More
New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1949. First edition. [vi], 218 pp. Publisher's illustrated boards. Very Good+ with small tear at head, light wear, a little sunning to spine. No dust jacket, but boards mimic the publisher's typical jacket design so it's possible it was not issued with one. The..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company / The Crime Club, 1941. First edition. [vi], 298 pp. Publisher's red cloth with black lettering. Near Fine with offsetting to endpapers, bookplate on paste down, in pictorial dust jacket with a tiny chip at head, a few tiny puckers to gutter, still..... More
New York: Julian Messner Inc, 1943. First edition. 213 pp. Publisher's orange cloth with black lettering on spine. A Near Fine copy with former owner's bookplate on paste down, tiny bump to back board but very clean and sharp, in a Near Fine dust jacket with light shelf wear, faint..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company / Crime Club, 1952. First edition. 194 pp. Original cloth. Very Good with well-toned contents, light foxing to edges and endpapers, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with foxing to flaps and verso. An uncommon Gothic mystery set in New England. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. First edition. [vi], 279 pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering, red topstain. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with foxing along top of flaps and verso, bright and unfaded, unclipped. A rare novel by a New York author who..... More
London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1971. First British edition. Signed by Joan Didion on title page. [vi], 214 pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in dust jacket, Very Good+ or better with a tiny closed tear on the top of front panel, a little shelfworn but unfaded. A...... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1913. First edition, first printing. [iv], 311, [1], 31 pp. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with rubbing and dulling to spine; foxing to edges and, sporadically, to contents. Gift inscription dated Nov 1913 on paste down. A few corner-creased pages. The first..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921. First edition, first printing. Signed by Zona Gale on front free endpaper with a length inscription to writer and historian H. Ogden Wintermute at his hometown, "'And when shall we / be touched with light / To know the things that are...' [signed] Zona..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1950. First edition. [viii], 248 pp. Black cloth lettered in white.A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, lightly rubbed, bright, attractive, and unclipped. The author's second mystery with elements of horror fiction, titled The Hollow House for its UK release. A beautiful example..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1929. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's cinnamon-colored cloth with spine lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Cloth lightly stained, soiled and darkened. Offsetting to endsheets and toning to pages. More