Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company / Crime Club, 1948. First American edition. 192 pp. Black cloth with orange lettering. Pages throroughly toned with age, foxing and spotting along edges and to endpapers, in Very Good dust jacket with dust-soiling and foxing along edges, a few small stains. The rare..... 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: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First edition. (First printing with title page dated 1914, "Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1914." on copyright page with no additional printings listed.) xviii, 246, [6, ads] pp. Publisher's boards with green cloth backstrip, paper title labels. A Very Good copy with light..... 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
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. First edition, first printing. Signed by Lois Lowry on the title page. Bound in publisher's black cloth with a Star of David stamped in blind on the front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light shelf wear to cloth and toned pages..... 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
New York: McClure, Phillips and Company, 1903. First edition. 334, [10]pp. Original salmon cloth decorated in black. Basically Very Good with a few stains to cloth, cocked and slightly concave spine, light wear. No jacket. Nina Baym in Women Writers of the American West calls this "a meditative novel about..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. First edition. (First printing with date, 1942, printed on title page.) x, 294 pp. Publisher's turquoise cloth lettered in black. Near Fine with former owner's name on front free endpaper, tiny scratch to cloth along top edge, in Very Good unclipped ($3.00) dust jacket, rubbed..... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company / The Crime Club, 1943. First edition. [xii], 271 pp. Publisher's gray cloth with crimson spine lettering. Near Fine with former owner's bookplate on paste down, in a Near Fine dust jacket with hardly any fading, a tiny pencil checkmark to spine panel, light..... More
New York: Random House, 1959. First edition. Inscribed by author to former owner on front free endpaper in the year of publication. [viii], 310 [1] pp. Original cloth and paper-covered boards, red topstain. Small abraded edge to front free endpaper, else Fine in Very Good+ Cosgrove-designed pictorial dust jacket with..... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1968. First hardcover edition, preceded by a 1968 mass market. Near fine with light bruising to spine ends, in a Near Fine un-clipped dust jacket with seven strips of brown paper tape reinforcements made to the blank verso, mainly at spine ends and ends of..... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1969. First edition, first printing. Signed by Anne McCaffrey on the title page. Near Fine with slight toning to edges, light wear to spine ends, previous owner bookplate to front free endpaper, and pages toned. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light shelf wear..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. 356 pp. First edition, first printing with dated title page. Bound in publisher's buff buckram cloth, with titles stamped in brown. Very Good with cloth lightly spine toned and soiled, pages toned. In a Very Good first state dust jacket, with publisher's price intact, faded..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First edition, later printing lacking the date on the title page. Bound in publisher's buff buckram cloth, with titles stamped in brown. Fine, with previous owner details to front free end paper and small stain to rear endsheets. A fantastic copy. 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
(No Place): (No Publisher), 1950. Signed final typescript of the short story "A Domestic Dilemma." Probably a setting copy of a short story differing from the final published version in a few instances. 19pp. inserted into plastic sleeves in a generic black binder, housed in a custom quarter green leather..... More
(No Place): (No Publisher), 1941. Final typescript, probably a setting copy, matching the text as it first appeared in the December 20, 1941 issue of The New Yorker. It was then included in the collection The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1951 and since then..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First British edition, first printing. Near fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Two tiny stains to cloth. Slight crease to front board; jacket has corresponding creasing, else fine. A very neat, clean copy of a childrens' book often found in bad shape. More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1949. First edition, first printing. Signed by Margaret Mead on the front free endpaper and inscribed to former owners. Near Fine with light soiling to cloth, light rubbing along bottom edges, pages lightly toned, else a lovely copy with sharp, bright gilt, in a...... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first printing, with "Published May, 1936" on the copyright page. Signed by Margaret Mitchell on the front free endpaper. Very Good, with a short tear to the cloth at the top of the spine, light general rubbing and light wear, and toning..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first printing, with "Published May, 1936" on the copyright page. Bound in publisher's grey cloth stamped in blue; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light edge wear, bumped corners and toning to the spine. Previous owner bookplate to front pastedown, pages..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first printing, with "Published May, 1936" on the copyright page. Bound in publisher's grey cloth stamped in blue; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with a short tear at the top of the spine and some wear at the bottom as well..... More
Boston: The Page Company, 1915. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's pale green ribbed cloth stamped in gilt and ruled in blind, with illustrated onlay to front boards. Good. Cloth heavily soiled, spine toned. Previous owner bookplate to front paste down. Pages toned and with a light perfume odor..... More
