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The Temptation Of Don Volpi [Inscribed Association Copy]

By: Alfred Hayes

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Atheneum, New York: 1960

Seller ID: k190126s

Condition: Fine

8vo, ¼ cloth, maroon boards. Stated First Edition. Alfred Hayes was a British-born screenwriter, television writer, and novelist. He wrote the screenplays for Clash by Night [ Fritz Lang], Island in the Sun, and was a co-writer on Roberto Rossellini's Paisan in 1946 for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He received another nomination for the film Teresa in 1951. In television he wrote for the Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Mannix, Logan’sRun, and Nero Wolfe. This copy is inscribed on the front end paper to Hollywood film producer/director Jerry Wald. “It isn’t any shorter than ’...
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Entirely Surrounded. [Inscribed Association Copy]

By: BRACKETT, Charles

Price: $500.00

Publisher: NY, Alfred A. Knopf: 1934

Seller ID: k210115i

Binding: Yellow cloth

Condition: Good

1st ed., 8vo, yellow cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 247 [1] pp. Charles Brackett practiced law for several years before being hired as drama critic at The New Yorker, on the strength of his short stories for The Saturday Evening Post and his second novel, Week-End. He left New York to work as a Hollywood screenwriter, and had his greatest success in a long-running collaboration with Billy Wilder, including Ninotchka, The Lost Weekend and Sunset Blvd. “Entirely Surrounded” is a humorous novel about nineteen-thirties New Yorkers who holiday in Vermont. Many of the characters are stan...
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The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern

By: Braun, Lilian Jackson

Price: $325.00

Publisher: Dutton: 1967

Seller ID: k191109a

Condition: Near Fine

1st edition in dustjacket. A nice association copy inscribed by Braun to her sister Florence, with the stamped paw print of cat KoKo. Near fine: some age-toning to top edge; lightly cocked to right; otherwise fine. Dustjacket is very good; has some light edge wear and age-toning. Not price-clipped.
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The Wapshot Chronicle

By: Cheever, John

Price: $155.00

Publisher: NY, Harper & Brothers: 1957

Seller ID: 042407b

1st ed., 8vo in price-clipped dustjacket. Cheever's debut novel. The book itself is fine. The dust jacket is very good with a 1/2" closed tear at bottom right of front and upper front at spine and light-wear elsewhere. Also a 2" square paper label announcing the book's selection for the 1958 National Book Award. The label could probably be removed but I have left it in place.
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Le Monde comme il est [The World As It Is]

By: CUSTINE, Astolphe (Marquis de)

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Brussells, Louis Hauman et Comp: 1836

Seller ID: k200801b

Binding: Marbled boards

Condition: Good

CUSTINE, Astolphe (Marquis de) Le Monde comme il est [The World As It Is] Brussells, Louis Hauman et Comp, 1836. 2 vols. 1st Belgian edition. 16mo. Half-leather, marbled boards. 4 raised bands, gilt titles on burgundy labels, marbled edges. 278 pp. 322 pp. First published in Paris in a larger format,1835.##### A dark comedy, quite popular in its time. The protagonist, Edmond d'Offlize, boasts that he can seduce a very rich heiress whose face is so ugly that it would be acceptable "only in the land of the frogs." A great muddle of ardor and manners ensues. The Marquis de Custine (1790-1857...
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Short story “Holiday” in The New Pearson’s Magazine July, 1923

By: Dashiel Hammett

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New Pearson's Magazine: 1923

Seller ID: k200225c

"Holiday", a 3-page short story, is one of Hammett’s earliest works of fiction. It is not a crime story, but a sensitive vignette, possibly autobiographical. War veteran Paul Hetherwick is a patient at Public Service Health Hospital in San Diego. He obtains a day pass, withdraws $100 from the bank, and catches a bus to Tijuana. He spends some time playing the ponies at the track and then drinking with a couple of bar girls. With economical, prose Hammett lets us know that in addition to his lung disease, Paul is suffering from a bad case of ennui; he doesn’t care whether his horses pay off...
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THE BLACK BOOK: (1st ed., 1st state; advance review copy)

By: Durrell, Lawrence

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Dutton, New York: 1960

Seller ID: k190721c

Condition: Fine

First U.S. edition; first state. His first major novel, originally published in Paris in 1936. Advance review copy with review slip dated "Sep 14 1960" laid in. Conforms to the first issue points identified by McBride's "Points Of Issue" (1996): Front flap states "Lawrence Durrell's Black Book is the first piece of work by a new English writer …" not "T.S. Eliot said…" - Also with the year 1936 x’d out on the copyright page and replaced by 1959. A fine copy in very good d/w; just a hint of rubbing to spine ends and corners. Jacket is not price-clipped but has wear to edges and corners w...
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All Grass Isn't Green / a Donald Lam/Bertha Cool Mystery

By: Fair, A.A. (Erle Stanley Gardner)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: William Morrow: 1970

Seller ID: k190817d

Condition: Fine

1st ed., 8vo, black boards. A fine, virtually pristine copy with some very light wear to bottom edge of spine only. In fine d/w with mylar protected jacket -- not price-clipped.
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Hubert's Arthur. Being certain curious documents found among the literary remains of Mr N. C., here produced.

By: Frederick Rolfe Baron Corvo

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Cassell, London: 1935

Seller ID: k190126t

Condition: Fine

8vo, red cloth dustjacket, 453 pp. an alternative retelling of English history from the point of view of Hubert de Burgh. In Hubert's narrative, which begins with an account of the struggle for succession in the wake of King Richard Lionheart's death, young Duke Arthur of Brittany does not die at the hands of King John, but instead ascends to the throne. Hubert relates Arthur's adventures as he combats the wily John, fights in the Crusades, and wages battle against the treacherous Simon de Montfort, before facing perhaps his greatest challenge when his reign is threatened by the crucifixions...
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The Case of the Irate Witness; a Perry Mason Mystery and Other Stories.

By: Gardner, Erle Stanley

Price: $250.00

Publisher: William Morrow: 1975

Seller ID: k190817a

Condition: Fine

1st ed., 8vo, black boards, white titles. Published posthumously, an unusually scarce Gardner title -- especially in this condition. The title story is the only short story Gardner wrote featuring his most famous character Perry Mason. Other: The Jeweled Butterfly, Something Like a Pelican, and A Man is Missing) A fine, as-new copy in fine, mylar protected jacket -- not price-clipped.
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The Case of the Postponed Murder a Perry Mason Mystery / A New Perry Mason Novel

By: Gardner, Erle Stanley

Price: $65.00

Publisher: William Morrow: 1973

Seller ID: k190817b

Condition: Fine

William Morrow and Company, New York, 1973. 1st ed., 8vo, black boards, gilt titles. A fine, pristine copy in fine, mylar protected jacket -- not price-clipped.
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The Case of the Nervous Accomplice / A Perry Mason Mystery

By: Gardner, Erle Stanley

Price: $75.00

Publisher: William Morrow: 1955

Seller ID: k190817c

Condition: Fine

1st Edition. 8vo, green boards, black titles. A fine, virtually pristine copy with just a hint of wear at bottom edge of spine. In near-fine d/w with 1/4” closed ear at upper right front; ½” closed tear at lower front flap, slight surface wear.
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The Bay Psalm Book Murder [inscribed with added ALS]

By: Harriss, Will

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Walker and Company: 1983

Seller ID: 121310

Fine, nearly new copy in fine d/w, inscribed by author Harriss on the front endpaper. Accompanied by three signed letters, 1984-1985 by Harris to former Los Angeles book dealer Joan Perkal. One letter on Harris’s embossed stationary is typed, two are holographic. Also a fourth signed penciled note. All commenting on books he purchased or is trying to obtain.
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Men without Women

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: $55.00

Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons: 1928

Seller ID: m200628a

First Edition. 2nd Printing. (1928 on title page; Scribner’s logo on the copyright page with 1927 date and no further printings noted. Broken "3" on page 3. Bound in black cloth with gold paper labels on front and spine. Lacking the dustjacket. ##### Condition: Good; light wear to covers; very slightly cocked; bookplate and owner ink-stamp on front pastedown. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
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The Abysmal Brute

By: Jack London

Price: $600.00

Publisher: The Century Company: 1913

Seller ID: cr200613d

Condition: Near Fine

1st ed, second state.12mo. "Published, May, 1913" and "1913" printed at foot of title page.1 page undated ads at back. Original light green cloth decorated in dark green and black, in dust jacket. First Edition of London's prizefighting tale. frontispiece by Gordon Grant. This copy is in the second binding state, which is identical in design to the first except for the colors. Sisson & Martens p. 70; Blanck 11945. Near fine; a clean tight copy with just some dust discoloration on top edge. In very good d/w with just a few small edge and corner nicks. Bookstore ink-stamp on back end-paper.
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The Road Through the Wall

By: Jackson, Shirley

Price: $275.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus and Company: 1948

Seller ID: 121301

Condition: Near Fine

First edition (with stylized FS to the copyright page.) Pages browned as usual, else fine in good, price-clipped dustwrapper with very minor edgewear and large tear to rear panel. Where the original price was clipped, there is a small rubber-stamped $3.00 price. Uncertain if this was a publisher repricing or a bookstore. A particularly bright copy of the author's first book.
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Sleepwalk [Limited, signed hardbound edition]

By: John Saul

Price: $185.00

Publisher: Bantam Books [John Saul]: 1990

Seller ID: s180315c

Condition: Fine.

1st ed., a special hardcover edition limited to 50 numbered and signed presentation copies designed and bound by the author. 4to, blue cloth, gilt titles. This is copy no. 6, presented to George Christy -- book reviewer for the Hollywood Reporter. This was the thriller-horror author’s thirteenth book. “Borrego, New Mexico. A peaceful little desert town. Except for one thing. Somebody here hates teenagers. Hates them. These troublemakers, these rebels, have to be controlled. Silenced. Forever. Now he has discovered an insidious way to strike back at them. In their sleep. In their waking...
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Abaft the Funnel

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: $130.00

Publisher: NY, B. W. Dodge & Company: 1909

Seller ID: cr201010a

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

8vo, 1st American ed., third issue of the unauthorized edition; in pictorial blue cloth with red printed titling. 360 pp. This pirated edition by Dodge predates the authorized Doubleday edition by two months. Dodge published only one edition, but with three binding variants. The third issue was the first to include a dustjacket, although Richards believes. A fine copy except for prior owner's inked signature on fep. In VG d/w. Collects many pieces that were originally printed in the Civil and Military Gazette and Turnovers. [Martindell 112; Livingston 328, Richards A227]
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TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH [Inscribed Copy]

By: Lay, Beirne Jr. and Bartlett, Sy

Price: $450.00

Publisher: New York & London, Harper & Brothers: 1948

Seller ID: k210109c

Condition: Good-

8vo, Maroon boards with gold titles. 1st edition, with both the 1948 copyright date and the publication code C-X commonly accepted as the first printing even though not bearing Harper’s usual notice. The source for the noted film starring Gregory Peck and NBC television series. Personal inscription on the half-title by the author “To Nora Macdonald, who attacks from nine o’clock early and always accomplishes her mission…” We have been unable to identify her. CONDITION: Good-. Text block is very good-near fine overall, but lacking the front end paper. Covers clean and br...
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The Assassin

By: Liam O'Flaherty

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London: 1928

Seller ID: k190126a

Condition: Very good

Novel based on the assassination of the Irish government minister Kevin O'Higgins in 1927.CONDITION: Very good. A bright, crisp copy overall; some toning to end papers, half-title and title pages -- the latter lightly so. Dust jacket is good only; chipped corners, nicks and cracks at spine ends; price clipped; toning to interior flaps.
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Category: Fiction