Category: Fiction

The Temptation Of Don Volpi [Inscribed Association Copy]

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 ’Loss of R...
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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 stand-in...
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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 or ...
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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 with se...
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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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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 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 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 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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The Abysmal Brute

By: Jack London

Price: $425.00

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: $75.00

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 hou...
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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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CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., : 1897

Seller ID: cr220617a

Condition: Very Good

With illustrations by I.W. Taber. 8vo. Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt, a.e.g.
viii, 245, [1], [2, ads] pp.

First UK edition of this nautical adventure story, written while Kipling lived in Vermont. 21 black-and-white illustrations. [2] pages of ads to rear. Richards, A103; Stewart 160; Livingston 136; Martindell 68

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Condition: VG; Book lightly cocked (as often found); high points in gilt illustration on spine lightly rubbed. Owner's inked signature inside fep; very light spotting foxing to half-title and end papers.
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The Green House

By: Llosa, Mario Vargas

Price: $75.00

Publisher: NY, Harper & Row : 1968

Seller ID: g1007

1st ed., in d/w. Fine copy of Llosa's second novel in d/w with 1/2" open tear on front top edge.
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Tomorrow I Die

By: Mickey Spillane

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Mysterious Press : 1984

Seller ID: k190126b

Condition: Fine

Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies signed by the author, this being copy J. Octavo burgundy cloth in pictorial dust jacket, slipcase; xv,[1],234pp. Signed on the colophon page, as normal, but with an added signature on the title page and an author’s inscription on the half-title. A pristine copy.
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Three Famous English Romances: The Gallant Atchievements Of Robin Hood; The Famous History Of Fryer Bacon: The Romance Of Robert The Devil

By: Nelson, Harold

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Otto Schulze and Co : 1913

Seller ID: k190126h

Condition: Good

1st ed. 4to, red cloth with gilt decorations and titles, 156 pp. Illustrated with wood enravings and ornamentation. 3 volumes in one. Original publisher’s catalog entry clipped and pasted to front flyleaf. CONDITION: Good; rubbed at corners and spine ends, front hinge lightly cracked. Light foxing to bottom of first several pages and occasional page edges; otherwise a clean copy with very good-near fine appearance internally.
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A Clark City Press Reader/Spring 1993. "Red and Blue Days / Writings on the American West" [signed copy]

By: Peter Matthiessen

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Livingston [Montana]: Clark City Press : 1993

Seller ID: s180624f

Condition: Fine.

5"x9" stapled wrappers, 34 pp.. Publishers announcement containing selections from forthcoming works, including an excerpt from Matthiessen's anticipated book Red and Blue Days/Writings on the American West. The book was never published, leaving this excerpt as the only published survivor. Fine.
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Category: Fiction